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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #315 9/9/4 |
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Welcome to the 315th issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
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Living Room Candidate
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With Election Day approaching, television viewers are seeing more and more harsh political ads everyday. Presidential campaign commercials have been around almost as long as televisions have, and the old ones are far more interesting to watch than the current smear adverts being run by Bush and Kerry. The
American Museum of the Moving Image presents "The Living Room Candidate",
a retrospective of Presidential Election Ads from 1952-2004. Using Real
Player, visitors can view these fascinating ads and read their original
transcripts, both of which provide a timely bit of perspective on our
nation's long presidential history of Democrat vs. Republican. Especially
noteworthy on the site are the ads from the 1968 http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us Mind Bluff It is true that a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Keep your noggin in top form at the online mental gymnasium MindBluff.com. This site is an immediate bookmark for anyone who has a lot of free time, a hungry mind and easy access to the Internet. The arsenal of mind puzzles, mental tests, optical illusions, puzzles and adventure games is sure to provide endless hours of cerebral entertainment. Don't miss the more advanced exercises in the sections "Mind and Body Fun", "Genius Teasers" and "Optical Illusions". Golden Age Cartoons While the Internet Age has brought us an amazing new genre of cool comic animation, there will always be a place in our hearts for the legendary characters of cartoon yore. Revisit some of your closest childhood friends such as Felix the Cat, Sylvester and Tweety, Woody Woodpecker and many other characters from the Golden Age of Hollywood Cartoons. The
Golden Age Cartoon website was created as a tribute to the original hand-drawn
characters, comic stories and covers of yesteryear. Check out the Golden
Age Funnies section where you can see classic cartoon comics in their
original format, including 1940's renderings of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny
and the rest of the Warner Bros. Gang. There are several other cool features
such as the "Cartune Encyclopedia", http://www.goldenagecartoons.com/
Can't Find on Google Google has become a browser staple, a verb, a publicly traded company and a popular resource for 'anything'. Check out this cool site that logs all of the information that exists outside the reach of the mother of all search engines. http://www.cantfindongoogle.com/
This collection of queries and advice for soon-to-be mothers and fathers is hilarious proof that parents just don't understand. Even funnier than the original topics is the site's sarcastic commentary. Just count your blessings your parents didn't name you 'Fancy". http://www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/index.html
This is a beautiful and inspiring way to start each morning. Everyday receive a different image or photograph of the infinite cosmos along with a fascinating explanation written by professional astronomer. Don't miss "Earth at Night", as well as the many breath-taking pictures in the site's archive. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040822.html Enjoy
the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: Derelict London Come and see the many hidden and lesser-known sides of the great capital of the United Kingdom. Amateur photographer Paul Talling exposes London's dark underbelly with over 750 images captured over the course of a year he spent "wandering" the city. His stark, urban images are grouped into specific categories such as "People", "Pubs", "Graffiti", "Pools", "Shops", etc. While you won't see Big Ben or Bond Street, you will see enough of London on this site to leave you feeling as if you've just been there. The site does an excellent job of finding the soul of the city most double-decker tourist buses can't find. http://www.derelictlondon.com/ That was Spinal Tap For years the film "Spinal Tap" has entertained and inspired its countless cult following. Now, thanks to one dedicated "Taphead", there is a website where the many fans fueled by "Tapmania" can come together. There are some truly unique features on SpinalTapFan.com, the most obvious of which is the 40,000 word-strong "Enormous A-Zed Guide". In addition to the tome, there are also archives of past articles, a section dedicated to the band's "discography", and even an online shop where you can support the site by purchasing Spinal Tap paraphernalia. This is the ultimate fan site for the ultimate cult film! Stick Figure Ninja An extremely talented graphic artist, Flash programmer and animator, Gareth Forman is the creator of the popular "Stick Figure Ninja" series. His newly renovated website contains a wealth of his graphic work, animation, original Stick Figure Ninja skits and a whole lot more. Scroll through the Animation section to see some hilarious work, view original "Ninja" skits such as "Climber" and "Runner", or check out his "Pictures" that will simultaneously inspire your imagination and bend your perception. Don't miss the "Series" part of the site, particularly Gareth's ongoing take on Kenny Loggins. http://www.stickfigureninja.com/ **********Advertisement**************
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Win the ongoing battle between food and money at CheapCooking.com. This useful website will help you trim down your grocery bill while providing starving students and frugal food lovers with great recipes and cooking tips. A homegrown
website with a generous and pragmatic spirit, Cheap Cooking makes it easy
to rearrange your life so that you can stop eating away all your profits
at expensive restaurants and over-priced take out and start saving! The
site's creator, Ellen Furlazzo, provides users with yummy recipes, practical
shopping and food storage tips, and even an "E-cookbook". For
a small fee you can purchase her new "E-book", with a healthy
portion of the profits going to "Operation Dignity", a charity Voices of Civil Rights While the Civil Rights Movement had extraordinary leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, like most moments in history it was made possible not by an individual person, but by the thousands of people whose endless efforts and unheard actions will be felt across generations to come. "Voices of Civil Rights" gives an opportunity for the many anonymous activists of that remarkable era of strife and change to share their stories and memories. Brought to us by both the Library of Congress and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, this website was built as a living memorial to those who walked, shouted, struggled and fought tirelessly for equality during the Civil Rights Movement. Go to the "The Voices" to read the moving stories of ordinary people who experienced and participated in this important period in modern history. http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/ SUBSCRIBERS' SITES - Many of our subscribers have fascinating on-line projects. This weekly section will introduce you to some of these sites. Please let me know about your project so that I might mention it in this section. Write me at info@tricksandtrinkets.com ~ John's Messages: Sermons and Articles ~ Bicycle Across Africa for Kevin Bowser Scholarship Fund ~ Alan Kash - Musician ~ John
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than being aware of that, the mind, out of habit, is usually Obviously
one aspect of the survival of the organism is seeing what is I am
not saying this is wrong except that at this point, where you are, This
precious lifetime, which could end in an instant and will What divine good luck. In
this moment there is more to be grateful for than there is to fix. ~ Gangaji oooO--------(
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