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The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter #352 5/26/5 |
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Welcome to the 352nd 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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The female identity has been explored, displayed and analyzed exhaustively, in everything from modern fashion magazines to museum collections. At Picturing Women, it is not only the female form but her persona that bears analysis, and it's a fascinating look-see, showing how women have been figured, fashioned, turned into portraits and postcards. From January until May of 2004, the Picturing Women project presents, interprets, and teaches through an exhibition exploring historical and contemporary representations of women as they are shown in words and pictorial narrative. The exhibition is
structured around four thematic frames: Figuring, Fashioning, Portraying,
and Telling and is curated by a Visiting Fellow at Bryn Mawr's Center
for Visual Culture, Curator of Picturing Women juxtaposes historical works
with 20th- and 21st-century art to promote dialogue on female identity.
The site is the online partner to the exhibit's 200 works spanning the
15th through the 21st centuries, and http://www.picturingwomen.org/ Single Man's Guide to TV Dinners Hard-working bachelors must be selective when it comes to their evening meals. After all, not all TV dinners are created equal. This simple, light-hearted sight has reviewed the endless 'freezer fare' at your local supermarket in an effort to help single men make the right frozen food decisions. With a hobbyist's enthusiasm, Ray Cole, the site's editor, writes amusing yet elegant reviews of the jewels and duds of the frozen food section. While highly recommending Hot Pockets new 'Baked not Fried' Pepperoni and Sausage Pizza Snacks, his evolved frozen palate does not go so easy on other, inferior microwave meals such as the lovable Green Giant's Breakfast Patties. American Sign Language Tutorials This browser website was created by Michigan State University to demonstrate their award-winning software 'Personal Communicator'. It is an amazing reference guide that uses still photos and QuickTime movies to demonstrate words in American Sign Language. There are over a thousand words and phrases on the site, so you can learn how to sign everything from 'A Lot' to 'Zoom'. The browser is a reference tool, but cannot effectively be used as way to learn sign language. There are links to online schools that teach courses in sign as well as a CD-ROM version of the browser available for purchase. http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm SHORT TAKES Chinese Symbols There are over 80,000 recorded Chinese symbols, from the Zodiac to the Animal Kingdom to those found in traditional Tattoo Art. This easy-to-use site lists the more popular and interesting symbols of the Chinese dictionary by their symbolic meaning, beginning with "aardvark" and ending with "zoo". http://www.chinese-symbols.com/
The Knighthood of Buh announces official No Pants Day, which falls on May 7th, 2004! An underground holiday that aims to put some pizzazz into your otherwise humdrum life, worshippers are required to go about their day normally save for a lack of pants (this includes shorts, skirts, or any other outerwear). Yes, underwear is highly recommended.
Many of us who were born in this country take for granted just how coveted U.S. citizenship and the opportunities and freedoms it provides is. See if your memory, knowledge and patriotism still hold up by taking a version of the real test. http://www.herald-sun.com/votebook/citizenship/citstart.html Enjoy the newsletter? Tell your friends to subscribe by sending an email to: cooltricks-join-request@list.adventive.com Math in our Daily Lives Those who understand compound interest are destined to collect it. Those who don't, are doomed to pay it. "What is compound interest, and why is it so important?" is but one of the fascinating topics covered in +Plus ezine. Created to increase public awareness about the importance of math in everyday life, the current issue features articles on the secret life of fractions and fractal expressionism. It is one of the most interesting sites we have recently reviewed. Mac Folklore Mac Heads will enjoy Mac Folk Lore, devoted to collective historical storytelling about the Mac, with sets of related stories describing events from multiple perspectives, as groups of people recount their shared history through interlinked anecdotes. The stories are indexed by their characters and the topics they cover, and may be sorted by various criteria. Readers can rate the stories, and add comments, or other stories. While the full Folk
Lore site is in active development, it currently only supports this single
project about the development of the original Macintosh and allows anyone
with an opinion to comment on a story, or to submit a story of their own
with the theory that the truth will emerge through the intersection of
multiple perspectives, with many relatively short anecdotes rather than
a monolithic narrative, and Interlinked anecdotes that may be stitched
into the greater tapestry. The ball gets Godchecker - Your Guide To The Gods This is perhaps the holiest site on the World Wide Web. Godchecker.com takes a light-hearted but educational look at the literally thousands of Gods that have been worshipped by Earth's people over the past few millennia. You'll find lots of information on popular Immortals from Greek, Roman and Norse religions, as well as on lesser-known Omniscient Observers from ancient African, Chinese and Incan cultures. In addition to a wealth of historical information, visitors will find some great features such as the Offerings section that has modern-day tales of mythology and the God Shop, where you can purchase such sacred souvenirs as cups, hats and refrigerator magnets.
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We've all heard of metal-heads, those devoted to the head-banging, brain-smashing, eardrum bursting musical genre known as metal; so is a Chile-Head obsessed with chilies? You bet. There's more to becoming a chilehead than just eating red hot chile peppers to until heart burn engulfs your body, yes, There is knowledge, even fascinating details of why chile peppers are so addicting, how to roast them properly, how to say the word "chile" in several different languages, and mouth-watering recipes. Hidden Lives Revealed A unique resource for those interested in British Social history, this website is a visual archive of Britain's poor and disadvantaged children in the years of 1881-1918. "Hidden Lives Revealed" focuses on the 22,500 that were children cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society throughout the United Kingdom at the turn of the century. Visitors to the site will find over 150 case files, still kept anonymous, from Victorian and Edwardian times. These files provide a fascinating insight into some of the forgotten lives of the past century, as well as into the lives of those who so selflessly cared for them. http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/ 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 ~ IXUZ Travel: Online Travel Photo Album
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