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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #333 1/13/5 |
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Welcome to the 333rd 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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Make sure you are Flash-ready, follow the brief instructions and start walking. Each room reveals itself as a unique step within a digitised urban maze. Visitors have to use their mouse to find the hidden entrance to the next room. A very cool experience and a great example of young artists are using the web as a canvas to create. Eye Witness to History History buffs, parents, teachers and students will love this website, which provides educational, eyewitness accounts of important moments throughout history. From the Ancient World all the way up to the 20th Century, the words of witnesses provide more unique, deeper insights into past events than any textbook could hope to. At EyeWitnessToHistory.Com, you can experience historic events through the words of those who were actually there. Read about the suicide of Socrates (as told by Plato), enjoy the experience of dining with Attila The Hun (as told by a Roman envoy Priscus), and relive the horrifying account of the morning an atomic bomb irradiated the Japanese city of Hiroshima (as told by a survivor who was just one mile from the bomb's epicentre). This is an entertaining and moving online experience. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ Best of Photojournalism 2004 Designed by photojournalists for photojournalists, the National Press Photographer Awards judge some of the most stunning and shocking photos taken and published each year. View the best of this past year's competition, which is a collection of both beautiful and brutal global imagery. Nominated and judged by photojournalists and photo and web editors, the NPPA awards are divided up into a diverse group of categories. Individual photographers are honoured, as well as individual photos and larger bodies of work. Browse the nominees of cool categories that range from "Best Magazine Photographer of the Year" to "Sports Portfolio of the Year" to best "Nature and Environment Picture Story". http://www.nppa.org/competitions/best_of_still_photojournalism/2004/
Rock On, Rock On: The Balancing Art of Bill Dan By its very nature, art has no boundaries. Check out the work of Bill Dan, a San Francisco-based sculpture whose work literally 'rocks'.
The truth hurts. Remember the good ol' days when smoking a cigarette was considered sexy and sophisticated, before the villainous emphysema and lungcancer made their debut? Return to the age of innocence at Truth in Advertising for a gallery of cigarette ads from the 1940s and 50s depicting the beautiful people, including Santa Claus, enjoying a relaxing smoke. So if you can no longer indulge in the pleasures of smoking, bask in the memory of a care-free smoke. http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/
Despite the growth of the Internet and cable news networks, many of us still like to get our news from good old-fashioned newspapers. Find the right paper for you at this useful site, which has reviews on newspapers from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and everything in between. http://www.newspaperindex.com/ Enjoy the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: cooltricks-join-request@list.adventive.com All About Snow While nature provides us with incomparable, spontaneous beauty, it is often something that we, in the midst of our busy modern lives, take for granted. Check out this cool site to learn everything there is to know about one of nature's everyday miracles, snow. All About Snow will teach you everything there is to know about that beautiful white substance that falls from the clouds every winter. Find out why snow is white, the scientific construction of a snowflake, and read a long list of fascinating snow facts. http://nsidc.org/snow/index.html Angry Alien Productions Welcome to Angry Alien Productions, a cool animation site focused around bunny rabbits. Jennifer Shiman's ingenious cartoons use bunnies to re-enact thirty-second, hilarious versions of famous films. Make sure your computer is flash-ready and jump right into Angry Alien's great toons. Don't miss the bunnies' funny but slightly gruesome re-enactments of "Titanic", "The Shining", and "Jaws". Visitors can also go the Angry Alien Store to buy cool products and support this independent, ad-free animation website. I Need Coffee Whether it's a simple cup of Joe, an exotic blend, or a complex and expensive Starbucks concoction you prefer, you are just one of millions of dedicated coffee drinkers. INeedCoffee.com is an open, free forum for coffee lovers to share and learn about the joys of their morning cup. You will find tons of cool features on the site. There are articles on the politics of coffee growing, useful roasting and brewing tips, info on the history and agriculture of coffee, and more eccentric topics such as comics and café culture. For the truly dedicated, check out the section on "Coffee Poetry".
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Just who is better behind the wheel of a car, men or women? Do your part to attempt to answer this long-debated question by playing this fun, online video game called "Parking Battle of the Sexes". Choose your appropriate gender and get ready to park!! Using the arrow buttons on your keyboard put your parking skills to the test with three challenges including parallel parking and other difficult challenges that involve manuevering your virtual vehicle into tight spaces. http://adverts.freeloader.com/zurich/ The Incredible Internet Guy For those of us who spend limited time online, the Internet can often feel like a vast and confusing sea of information. If you tend to have a hard time finding what you are looking for, perhaps you need an able guide to steer you along the innumerable paths that make up cyberspace. The self-proclaimed "Incredible Internet Guy" is such a guide. Every week he chooses a new topic (Downloading Music, Health and Nutrition, Stopping Spam, etc.), and offers a long list of relevant websites for you to explore and learn from. This is a great tool for anyone who is relatively inexperienced at web surfing. http://www.incredibleinternetguy.com/ 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 ctt@net-market.com ~ The Philosophy of Being Cool ~ Rana Doyle's AIDS / LIFECYLE Home Page ~ Download New Business Videos
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