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Jolie Rouge

03-10-2002, 12:42 AM

Inside the Teenage Brain

"Teenage brain" may seem like a self-contradiction to parents freaking out over their teens' unpredictable mood swings. PBS' Frontline comes to the rescue with Inside the Teenage Brain, giving a scientific basis for what kids and parents may already know: Sometimes, teens are nuts.

Neuroscience has shown that the brain does go whack during puberty, and now scientists can map changes in pre-teen and teenage brains for evidence that remarkable growth continues for decades. There's help here besides just info: Do Your Teens Seem Like Aliens? gives advice, counsel, even quizzes for parents; researchers talk about teens' need for sleep; forums and interviews with experts guide you through the turmoil inside your kids' gray matter.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/
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Feeling Gamey

It's hard to compete in the game of online games, with so many
sophisticated entertainments at your fingertips. Take a break at Orisinal Games, with its simple games on a beautifully designed site where thevnavigation is as uncluttered as the challenges.

Help a little girl catch a falling star or a frog jump from lily pad to lily pad or, if you're feeling aggressive, go Snow Bowling where you release giant snowballs at passing skaters. That's about as violent as it gets. With about two dozen games to choose from, it's like video gaming on Prozac, and if you get bored try Experiments and Miscellaneous where you can go fly a kite or just watch the rain fall.
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
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Planet Quest
Life, the universe and everything pretty much sums up what the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory and Cal Tech offer at Planet Quest. Earth, the solar system, stars and galaxies and where we're headed, planet-wise, are all covered on this comprehensive site about space and beyond.

Central to it all is the future, perhaps even a new earth. NASA plans a series of missions to find new worlds using the most sensitive instruments ever built, including the Terrestrial Planet Finder, studying all aspects of planets outside our solar system. With fantastic images in the Multimedia Gallery, Educator Resources and links to sites like NASA's Origins Program.

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Banished Words of 2002

New words come, go and accumulate, many of them meaningless, useless or just plain annoying. For 27 years, Lake Superior State University has been banishing them, and the university has just released its Banished Words of 2002. Blow a kiss good-bye to "synergy" and "reality TV" - at least for the "foreseeable future."

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current/default.html
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ANIMEtion

At ANIMEtion, discover Japanese animation, known as "anime," the highly stylized, colorful and wildly popular art form based on myth and traditional Japanese dramatic arts that is nothing like the cartoons of your youth, appearing today in many contemporary genres, from fantasy to soap opera- style romance.

http://www.animetion.com
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The Online Experience Music Project

Seattle has long been THE scene for alternative music, so it is a natural home to the real-life and online Experience Music Project, an interactive music museum that explores and celebrates musical diversity. Blues, jazz, hip-hop, funk, punk, rock 'n roll, even country are here in all their glory.

Music makers from Exene to Quincy Jones, Patti Smith to Billy Bragg, talk freely about their influences, false starts and big scores at Explore, with interviews and audio and video clips about musical milestones, movements and the people on stage and behind the scenes. At Creating, novices and pro's can check out cool gear and techniques, music theory and lingo-even the business of music-making.

http://www.emplive.com/
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One Man's Eye

The eye at One Man's Eye, a site offering an eclectic collection of mostly 20th century photographic images, belongs to Alan Siegel, an astute and sensitive collector of photographs for more than 30 years.

The result is an exhibit as interesting and idiosyncratic as the art of the photograph itself, with rarely seen and vintage images on view. In Portraits, visitors enjoy Bert Stern's powerful images of Marilyn Monroe at her last sitting before her death. In Flowers, see roses by Mapplethorpe and lilies by Imogen Cunningham, plus a hundred little lights from the biggest stars of photography: Weegee, Man Ray and Ansel Adams.

http://www.onemanseye.com/
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LibrarySpot

Anyone who has ever conducted research online should make their way through the stacks to the Library Spot, a "vertical portal" that helps users sidestep information overload to access the best library and reference materials on the web today.

Internet info-seekers will find this award-winning site an invaluable
resource for online research. More than just a vast collection of URLs, each site featured is selected for exceptional quality, content and usefulness by an editorial team. The result is a guide to a vast diversity of material: historical, grammatical, statistical, even image libraries, plus links to other library sites and a Reading Room for newspapers, journals and magazines.

http://www.libraryspot.com/
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SUBSCRIBERS' SITES - Many subscribers have fascinating on-line
projects. This weekly section will introduce you to some of these sites.

~Scottish Clan Tartan, Celtic, Scottish, Irish desktop themes, screensavers
etc.
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~The Game of Living - a motivational and philosophical daily message.
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~TrixiePixGraphics.Com - Resources for the Discriminating Prankster.
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~International Full Size Jeep Association
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Let me know if you find something you like ....

PrettyPointStar

03-10-2002, 02:39 AM

{{{Jolie Rouge}}} Thanks Sweetie Those were cool. :D

djeff70

03-10-2002, 07:36 AM

Jolie thx for the teen link.I need all the info I can get.....

picklepuss

03-10-2002, 11:53 AM

OK bonniejeanne,I went over there and murdered Ruthie of Seventh Heaven and Brenda of Six feet Under.I hate them both.:D

Jolie Rouge

03-15-2002, 09:48 PM

Museum of Hoaxes
Easily fooled? In 1835 you might have been suckered into believing there is life on the moon. Today, you might stop using antiperspirant for fear of getting breast cancer. At the Museum of Hoaxes, suckers are in good company as they trace the history of hoaxes as far back as 756 AD.

The site creator adheres to the 1808 definition of a hoax as
"contriving wonderful stories for the publick," ruling out practical jokes but not scams. Great hoaxes can astonish and amuse us, but nasty ones can cause serious damage. Search hoaxes by century or by category, from anthropology (the Patagonian giants) to zoology (the jackaloupe), or check out sub-species like urban legends and April Fool's pranks.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
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Medicine and Madison Avenue

Bob Dole promoting Viagra may not be much different today than singer Rudy Vallee advertising Fleischmann's yeast as a way to "Put yourself across" in 1930. At Medicine and Madison Avenue, the relationship between medicine and advertising is explored through images and info for 600 health-related newspaper and magazine ads from 1910 through the 1950s.

Judging from the ads, body odor seems to be a timeless worry. The site lets users search by product, then delivers the ad image, date, company, target audience and publication that each ad appeared in, plus 35 historical documents about the influence of health-related ads, with teacher and student guides for the classroom.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/
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A Clown for Our Time

The clown who offered breakfast in bed for 400,000 at Woodstock in 1969 is still going strong, even though he's well past the "don't trust anyone over 30" mark. Hugh Romney, aka Wavy Gravy, is A Clown for Our Time, still operating slightly out-of-time at a Berkeley offshoot of the entertainment / activist commune known as the Hog Farm.

Today, Mr. Gravy runs Camp Winnarainbow, a performing arts program for children held every summer at the famous Hog Farm, and organizes rock concerts to raise money for environmental, political and charitable causes. Here, visitors can browse photos, read articles and bios, see awards or even book the famous clown, who Lenny Bruce once dubbed "a perfect entertainer."

http://www.wavygravy.net/
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How To Be Funny

It's strange how unfunny jokes become if they have to be explained, but How To Be Funny takes on the challenge anyway, with tips like "If nobody gets hurt, it ain't funny" and other sad but true guidelines for jokesters.

http://rinkworks.com/funny/
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Odd Couples

Dogs chase cats, birds eat worms, chickens stand on goats, and horses dine with bunnies … right? Strange couplings in the animal world are the subject of this site where the photos and the motivation are equally amazing.

http://www.greenapple.com/%7Ejorp/amzanim/oddcombo.htm
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Reverse Speech

Bands from the Beatles to Judas Priest have been accused of sneaking secret messages into lyrics. Maybe they were just raising consciousness. That, at least, is the idea behind Reverse Speech, where speech is reversed, slowed down and reinterpreted to reveal deeper truths.

When Neil Armstrong said "That's one small step for man," his brain was thinking "Man will space walk," says the site's creator, who claims that the brain generates unconscious messages that can be heard by reversing a recording of normal speech. Overt and covert speech both form communication --- and silly us for paying attention only to the former. Visitors can listen to the evidence via RealPlayer or check out ways to use the theory on the job and at home.

http://www.reversespeech.com/
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Red Flags

Tired of today's dumb-and-dumber style of broadcast journalism, or newspapers that read like thought-free zones? Red Flags raises the flag on issues the public ought to be paying a bit more attention to, reading behind the headlines and listening past the sound-bites on medical, scientific, environmental, artistic and political issues.

Visitors can read columnists like Barbara Lewis and Mark Elliot opine about such heady ideas as freedom or alcoholism research, debate with other thinkers in Weekly Controversy, keep an eye out for media censorship or subscribe to a weekly e-newsletter for trends and hot spots. At Rumbles, step behind-the-scenes to hear the latest controversies in medicine, science, politics and the arts - then use your head and make up your own mind.

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Cool Chemistry Movies

Forget Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe, the hot stars of these flicks are sodium iodide and magnesium. While everyone else is hyping Oscar-time, the creative types at the Journal of Chemical Education deliver 16 films of dramatic chemical reactions, from the colors of elements in a flame to the classic nitrous acid test.

Gasp as a piece of sodium metal is placed in a flask containing chlorine gas! Weep as the reaction is initiated by a drop of water! Hang onto your seat as the dangerous reaction explodes in living color! The movies are part of a Chemistry Comes Alive CD-ROM series compressed into sample QuickTime movies that do make chemistry come alive -- if not to a theater near you.

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/jcesoft/cca/cca0/sampmovs.htm
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Find Your Fate - The ultimate guide to Astrology, Numerology, Dream Analysis and more.
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~Corgi And Corgi-Mix Dog Rescue.
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~Poetry, windchimes, aroma oils and good feelings.
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~My Search Guru - Connecting Your Site to the Web.
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~Free In NYC: Everything Free & Hip in New York City.
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~The Sheila Casey Mysteries by Jean L. Hohnstein
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~Angel Eyez~

03-15-2002, 10:09 PM

(((((hugs))))) Hope you are feeling better soon!

I like www.flipside.com they have lots and lots of games and you can play for prizes!...also if you have a Yahoo! name the games in there are fun plus you can chat to people at the same time

And if youre bored and need an e-pal email me amy667788@yahoo.com

janelle

03-16-2002, 10:38 AM

You can watch movies online.

http://www.cinemanow.com/

Read about computer stupidities.

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

Learn about Peter Sellers.

http://members.aol.com/damsel16/Sellers1.html

Gets some good clean fun.

http://www.slonet.org/~tellswor/

Read something humorous.

http://humor.miningco.com/mlibrary.htm?COB=home&PID=2742

See Saturday Night Live.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/index.html

Learn about Steve Martin.

http://www.stevemartin.net/

Find out the ending of movies--if you wanna.

http://www.themoviespoiler.com/

Learn about Bob and Ray. You may not know of them but I think they are hilarious.

http://www.bobandray.com/

Get more laughs--not sure about these--enter with care.

http://www.laugh.com/default_1.asp

Find out about all those urban legends.

http://4urbanlegends.4anything.com/

Well, that's a start for helping to keep you from being bored. Hope it helps.

jeeves

03-18-2002, 01:41 PM

:p :D :p
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
What a great collection of sites!!!!!! I have been having such fun visiting all these sites. It's really amazing all the great stuff there is on the web!:p

jeeves

03-18-2002, 01:57 PM

bonniejeanne,
I love www.whowouldyoukill.com ! I watch tons of TV and now whenever some character is driving me crazy I just go and kill them off. Ahhh, then I feel soooooo much better!;)

Jolie Rouge

03-24-2002, 10:50 PM

Hello Jeeves - are you feeling okay ?
Here are a few more offerings for you ...

Desktop Adventures
Couch potatoes can ease into action at Adventure TV, where visitors virtually experience wildlife, indigenous cultures and worldwide adventure gathered from broadcast media around the globe, re-packaged and handed over to web surfers. Mountain bike through India, hunt with Australian bushmen or dive the Great Barrier Reef by viewing streaming video of mountains, deserts, jungles and snow. Or just click on a map to pick the region you want to visit and see new videos from Africa to Southeast Asia. Videos are gathered from tour companies, tourism groups and independent adventure shows, so the fare is varied and constantly refreshed, making a quick get-away as easy as it gets.
http://www.adventuretv.com/
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Biographies R Us
Anyone who has graduated from high school and thinks back on all the biographies s/he has had to research and write will appreciate what Biographies R Us could mean to a kid. With 350 personalities, from I.M. Pei to Osama bin Laden, in categories from Architect to Terrorist, the site deserves its name. It's a famous people mall.
The material is a snap to use: searchable by name, category or life span, each biography includes a chronology, achievements, contributions, famous quotations and a picture. A search by life span using the dates 1800 to 1850, for example, shows that Nietzsche and Alexander Graham Bell were contemporaries, and then hooks you up. Plus new biographies are added weekly.

http://www.top-biography.com/navigation%20menu/
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Information Retrieval
It's tough enough to keep up with everyday news. Imagine being a surgeon, engineer or mathematician trying to keep track of advances in your field. And as a consumer, you want your surgeon or attorney to know everything, right now. At Info Retrieve, professionals get help digesting their ever-expanding fields of knowledge.
Billed as the "definitive research portal," the site finds and delivers published materials in a wide range of categories, from the arts to physics. The one-stop journal shopping site is a vast and diverse virtual library, gathering both electronic info sources. The site also offers an alert service with tables of contents of journals the user selects and stores in a profile, and pay-per-view content for in-depth searches.

http://www4.infotrieve.com/
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Women Who Rock
Elvis and Jerry Lee gained worldwide fame, but Wanda, Lorrie, Janis and Brenda Lee - the queens of rockabilly - could growl, sass and strut their stuff like the kings. Welcome to the Club, the online version of the PBS documentary, puts the four women on center stage, along with their sometimes raunchy, always aggressive, vocal and personal styles.
Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Janis Martin, and Lorrie Collins sang of parties, hot rods, love and angst on stages from country fairs to honky-tonks, and all survived hard knocks to become the rockin' grandmothers to today's grrrl power bands. Here, the women discuss their passion for the music, the highs and lows of their careers and personal lives, and share the defiance and exuberance that made them icons.

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/welcometotheclub/
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Techniques of Wildlife Painting
How many of us have come upon a wildlife scene and wished we could paint it to preserve the glory that a snapshot just doesn't capture? At Techniques of Wildlife Painting, visitors learn principles of balance, contrast, movement and proportion for putting nature on canvas. Under the virtual tutelage of renowned landscape artist Carl Rungius, who died in 1959, and other wildlife artists, the Natural Museum of Wildlife Art has created this site as part homage, part lesson, part beginner's art studio. Making the most of the interactive capabilities of the Internet, learners go through through animated art principles, an interactive Composition Gallery and a Critique Gallery where they can show their completed work for feedback.

http://www.wildlifeart.org/Rungius/index.html
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New Web Pick
To experience the web's most avante garde design work, skip Lycos and the conventional portals and go to New Web Pick, featuring personal and professional web sites by mostly young Japanese artists.
Representing the choices of the site creators and fans of outstanding designs in artistic expression, the portfolios here are geared to art lovers who crave graphic image and sound rather than ease of delivery or broad appeal. Select from such categories as animation, audio, Flash, experimental or just "very cool" sites, then sit back, click around and see the beautiful, often astounding work that technology and creativity inspire.

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Life Magazine: Cover Search
No one has captured American life better in photos than the venerable Life Magazine, launched by Henry Luce in 1936 to "see life, see the world." Since then, the magazine has given us an unparalleled photographic history, and you can view the best at Life Magazine: Cover Search. Search all covers from 1936 to 1972, the years when Life was published as a weekly magazine, with four covers throughout its history featured daily: March 18th for example, offers a 1940s chorus girl and a 1966 Barbra Streisand cover. Search by specific day, month and year or by topic, or browse the 60 "classic" or "wacky" covers, like a 1937 Eisenstaedt photo of a young woman kissing a courthouse colonnade for a feature story on Reno divorces.

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Book-A-Minute
So many books, so little time. Those who have already multi-tasked themselves out of their book group may find a solution at Book-A-Minute, where readers can digest an entire season of Oprah picks on your lunch break. As the name suggests, the site condenses books of sll kinds into a script-like format anyone can read in under a minute. The oft-dreaded text Beowulf, for example, becomes five quick lines that pretty much capture the main plot points, if not the poetry, of the original. Books are grouped by Science Fiction/Fantasy, Bedtime, and Classics and occasionally readers are allowed to vote - very quickly - for their favorites.

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Cool Flash Games
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There, that should help....
Post any new stuff you have found too !

picklepuss

03-25-2002, 09:13 AM

www.rolist.com

You can find tons of Freebies here among other things.Just type what you're looking for in the box.

tonieb

03-26-2002, 03:13 AM

Originally posted by picklepuss
OK bonniejeanne,I went over there and murdered Ruthie of Seventh Heaven and Brenda of Six feet Under.I hate them both.:D

Awwww! Why Ruthie, she is such a sweetie. I dont like the middle daughter, she is so annoying.

picklepuss

03-26-2002, 07:55 AM

Ruthie a sweetie!?OMG I hate her,she talks back and she's just a fresh little thing.Mary kind of annoys me too,she's also kind of mouthy.I do like Simon,he's a sweet kid.:)

jeeves

03-26-2002, 03:04 PM

:p
Jolie Rouge, I'm actually doing really well. With all these great sites I'm not bored anymore! I really appreciate all the effort everyone has gone to to list all these sites!!!!!!

Here are a few that I have found:

Silly Quotes (can you believe that people say/write these things?!)

http://www.sillyquotes.com/

The largest list of oxymorons (contradictory words) ever collected online.

http://www.oxymoronlist.com/

This page has quite a few columns written by Dave Barry (humorist).

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/

Thanks again for all the great sites! I shall never be bored again!!!
:D :p ;)

DeeTee

03-26-2002, 09:18 PM

Have you been to:
JolenesTrailerPark.com (http://)

klid

03-26-2002, 09:27 PM

A cool site is
www.bigbigsavings.com

Queensown

03-26-2002, 09:31 PM

Here's a couple that are on my favorite lists:

Amazon.com (Don't underestimate the amount of fun you can have here, I love to read reviews of movies, books etc)

Play pictionary online (This is SO cool!) http://www.isketch.net

Read walkthroughs and strategy guides for video games (From 8bit nintendo to Playstation 2!) http://www.gamefaqs.com

Learn how to draw cartoon dolls http://ver.rubberhouse.net

jenisurfr

03-26-2002, 09:47 PM

Edited. I'm sorry, but links to porn are not acceptable on BBS.

Katt

Jolie Rouge

03-27-2002, 10:37 AM

Did someone say "dolls" ?

Queensown :
Learn how to draw cartoon dolls ...

These have all been posted here at BBS at some point. I tried to credit
the original poster. I hope all the links are still active.
(I was looking for something to occupy my daughter on a car trip)

Tonya_01 :
WWII paper dolls to print Paper doll to print and cut out
http://www.costumes.org/pages/maryofthewacs.htm

jalex :
Free Paper dolls from americangirl.com
TAKE NOTE! To use the Web Paper Dolls, you now need the 7.0 version (or higher) of the Shockwave plug-in for your browser. To print out the dolls, you will need the Adobe Acrobat plug-in for your browser.
You can make your own doll (pic of your daughter)

http://www.americangirl.com/ag/feat...doll/index.html

Printable SHIRLEY Temple Paper Doll And Outfits -Cute !
http://www.foxhome.com/shirley/html/doll/doll.html

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freebiesplease
Free paper toys,models,origami,dolls
Great site for kids! My printer hates it though!LOL

http://www.spacestation42.com/toys.html

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s&ksmom
check out
http://www.dltk-kids.com
cute printable and easy to make kids crafts. My kids love the toilet
paper dolls. Has all the "latest" toon caracters that kids love.

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Ziggywag

Parts of this site were posted over a month ago but there is more to it than just coloring and paper dolls. There are lots of Berenstain Bear activities for kiddies. Check it out.

http://www.berenstainbears.com/

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DestinysGrandma
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedF...3076/paper.html

http://www.ulster.net/~spider/dolls.htm
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Here is the basic list of categories the site offers you:
I did look around before posting this in case they were not good craft
projects but I was impressed, they are nice craft projects for the kids to do. I did not find a free gift or anything but this might be helpful to some of you.
http://www.freekidscrafts.com/catagories.htm
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Rainshower
This is my first freebie post forgive me if i mess up. This site has many clikable links for printable paper dolls, and their accesories. Good for the little ones. http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/paper_dolls.htm

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Bamagrl
Printable Barbie Stuff....Stationary, Paper dolls, etc.
My Daughter loves this stuff.
http://www.barbie.com/activities/print/
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Peanutie
Free Paper dolls sites for the kiddies
http://www.kidsdomain.com/kids/links/Paper_Dolls.html
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Bluesugar69
Canon Print Planet
Pinwheels, play money, paper dolls, masks, bookmarks, stickers, games,
mazes, and much much more to download and print.
http://www.thebigfreez.com/FreezFra...LinkID_CPP.html
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And this was my own post :

Do You Like Paperdolls ? Lots to choose from....
http://www.ameritech.net/users/macler/paperdolls.html
Marilee's Paperdoll Page
My Own Printable Paperdolls - Animal & Toy Printable Paperdolls Links
Children Printable Paperdolls Links - Paperdoll Page II - Teenager
Printable Paperdoll Links - Adult Printable Paperdoll Links - printable Paper Houses & Furnishings - Printing Advice
Paperdoll Page III - Online Dolls - Misc. Paperdoll Sites - Paperdoll
Computer Programs - Die Cut Paperdolls - Origami Paperdolls - Books On
Paperdolls
****** My Own Printable Paperdolls - She's made three paper dolls with
outfits that you can print for a young daughter or young friend to play with. These dolls are for personal use only, and may not be published or sold.
She has : a Frrog -Gale lady frog paperdoll plus wedding gown &
more. Also Frog-Lee plus wedding suit.
She has paperdolls for the
Bearenstein Bears, Raggedy Ann & Andy , My Little Pony, Mermaids, teddy bears, gingerbread people and MANY more.
She has Victoria Paperdolls,
paperdolls of every ethnic variation, toddlers, children, animals, you
name it !
A baby-doll paperdoll with christening outfit by Lucinda Durbin.
From the U.S. Historical Society. Renoir's Young John - a boy
paperdoll with his horse on wheels "Goldie" plus a riding outfit, from
the U.S. Historical Society. (Also Camille, Suzanne, and Marie in period clothes); : Lucinda Durbin's baby angels paperdoll with 3 outfits each;
A 16th century boy and girl paperdoll with costumes; Costume Gallery's girl paperdoll and 5 historic costumes: Daisy Duke, Marlo Thomas, Laura Ingalls, Marsha Brady, Hippie... You must go see ! ANd if that is not enough....|
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Jolie Rouge

04-28-2002, 10:18 PM

Jeeves ~ you still around ?

Piano Graphique

Visitors to Piano Graphique can reward themselves for working at their computer all day by tapping out a musical interlude without ever leaving the keyboard. The interactive Wave site lets users finger their own keyboard to play sophisticated music with orchestral effects or rap scratching, and get matching visuals to boot. First, choose from one of 5 "pianos," ranging from Angular Entropy, a space/fantasy-style, to Rude Boy, with its hip-hop range. Then wait for the keyboard to load and press keys to create the tune, play loops and chords and follow simple instructions to make jacket sleeves for each tune you create.

http://www.pianographique.com/

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Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

Illumination is the pen-work, colored inks, decorated letters, borders and frames applied to the spaces left blank in medieval manuscripts. At Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, scholars and the public can view the saints, fabulous animals and themes of civilization depicted in these glorious works, thanks to The Netherlands' Koninklijke Bibliotheek. With 500 illuminated manuscripts containing some 8,000 images, the site offers a vast collection. Clicking on an image in the Gallery takes visitors to an enlargement or to more images of a similar theme: church and society, feasts and holidays, history, the Bible and more. Beginners can start with a guided tour of the collection with links to the database of miniatures, initials and border decorations.

http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/

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No Rules Street Photography

Point-and-shoot photography without regard to exposure, focus or light is featured at No Rules Street Photography, a collection of images snapped in New York and L.A. by Nitsa, a photographer who is unschooled and doesn't care to be. Forget the rules, all who enter here. Non-photography, says Nitsa, is about energy without concern for excellence, about making pictures free of filters, lenses and f-stop calculations but loaded with enthusiasm to record "the natural pace of street life," including interiors and exteriors at night, near the water, in black and white, in color and enhanced with PhotoShop. A refreshing break for professional photographers and inspiration for beginners who long to color outside the lines.

http://www.skylightweb.com/imagine/

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Etiquette Hell

Rude behavior is a competitive playing field these days, and top players are honored at Etiquette Hell, featuring "Bridezilla" and tacky wedding toasts, the faux pas of the year, embarrassing funeral brouhahas and everyday boors like the guy who lives next door and parks his boat on your lawn.

http://www.etiquettehell.com/

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Needlepoint Museum

A homespun version of string theory -- that needlepoint is an astonishing thing -- is proven at The Needlepoint Museum, where the greatest mystery is why someone would labor tediously for hours to create these goofy cast-offs, like a snail taking shelter from a rainstorm under a red spotted mushroom. But is it art?

http://www.hoopla.org/Cabinet/NeedlepointSplash.html

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Sail Away

When the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in England in September 2001, ends in Ocean Race follows the crews through sweltering doldrums and oceans frozen with icebergs with audio, video and up-to-the minute news from the high seas. In 1973, when fewer than 10 private yachts had so much as rounded Cape Horn in one piece, sailing enthusiasts created the Mt. Everest of sailing races with support from the Royal Navy. Here, visitors can see shots from the high seas in the Gallery, check out the teams, the ports -from Cape Town to Rio - and the play-by-play action.

http://www.volvooceanrace.org/homepage.html

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Hubble: A View to the Edge of Space

Imagine going from Los Angeles to New York in 10 minutes-you could if you were traveling at the speed of Hubble, the extraordinary space telescope launched in 1989 that is providing scientists and the rest of us an unparalleled eye on the cosmos. Visitors can see what the astronomers see in space, peer inside life at Mission Control, view stunning color photos, see how NASA's image processors transform raw data to create the images, tour the telescope inside and out and read the vast stores of information the Hubble is sending back as it continuously orbits Earth, looking forward and backward into time to forever alter how we think about the universe and our place in it.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/hubble/

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Cooking: Italian Style

Any word association game that starts with the word "Italian" has got to end with the response "food!" Miloni Online translates into "millions," as in recipes, ideas, wines, events, tips, culinary secrets, ingredients and cooking classes for Italian cuisine, surely one of the world's favorite ways to eat. Recipes from Almond Cake to Zucchini Loaf are organized by cookbook and ingredient. The food section leaps way beyond pasta to include spices, honey, even truffles; the wine section is organized by type, grape and producer and includes tasting tips. A special Sicilian section describes confections, citrus fruits and cheeses. Available in English and Italian, from the Italian Culinary Institute.

http://www.milioni.com/

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If Walls Could Talk

One house, five families, 200 years of history are detailed at The
Smithsonian's Within These Walls, telling in words, photos and music the story of a Massachusetts house through the families who called it home. History comes to life through family stories as it follows the Choates, a wealthy colonial family in the late 18th century through the Scott family, renters who planted a victory garden in the 1940s. As fascinating as the family stories are the clues: lace-making bobbins from the Civil War, a piano used for anti-sl***** sing-alongs in the mid-1800s, a washboard used by early 19th century immigrants. Be a House Detective gives tips and clues that historians use, encouraging site visitors to uncover the history of their own homes.

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/house/

ENJOY !

Queensown

04-28-2002, 10:36 PM

Jolie - I just re-found this post and saw all the doll links! Those are great! I'm a doll addict! LOL 22 years old and I still ask for barbies, etc for Christmas =)

THANKS! :D

jeeves

04-28-2002, 11:55 PM

Thanks for all the great sites! I'm having fun visiting them, although I still haven't visited them all yet! Thank you again for all the time you spent listing the sites!!!!!!!:p

Jolie Rouge

05-05-2002, 09:52 PM

The Spam Letters
For passive-aggressive behavior with a twist, visit The Spam Letters, where no letter is left unanswered. The site creator replies to spam mail he receives in hopes of annoying the sender, getting a response or, if he hits the jackpot, starting an often hysterical spam-relationship with those who wantonly submit resumes, export garments or hype natural alternatives to Viagra.

Whether he's got a mean streak or just got mad as hell and wasn't going to take it anymore, Jonathan Land has created a very funny place to vent vicariously. Letters are presented in several categories, from "Sex" to "Completely Ridiculous," and visitors can follow the entire string, suggest a category or visit the Novelty Shop to buy Spam Letter mugs and boxer shorts.

http://www.thespamletters.com/

New Web Pick
Experience the web's most avante garde design work by skipping conventional portals heavy on commercial web sites and going directly to New Web Pick, which focuses on personal and professional sites by young graphic artists worldwide, from Japan to Italy.

Portfolios of new sites, new designers, animation, audio, companies, experimental work and Flash change weekly or bi-weekly and are geared to art lovers who crave graphic image and sound rather than ease of delivery or broad appeal. Best bet is to click around and see the beautiful, often astounding, work that technology and creativity inspire.

http://www.newwebpick.com/

Historic Hotels Of America
Reserve your place in history with a trip to Historic Hotels of America, sponsored by the National Trust, the organization dedicated to preserving historic buildings that has helped save some 89,000 hotels, homes and other structures throughout the US.
Travelers seeking ambiance and history, rather than just a coffeemaker in the bathroom, can plan a stay at the stunning Ahwanee Lodge in Yosemite National Park or a garden party at Woodrow Wilson House, a study tour, a maritime tour or any of dozens of fascinating tour packages. The site offers 21 historic sites this spring, including those with arts and crafts festivals, workshops, concerts and garden events.

http://www.nationaltrust.org/historic_hotels/index.asp

The Covers Project

Chain, chain, chain …. the songs recorded by musicians other than the original artist are chained together in The Covers Project, like the Kevin Bacon game but with songs and artists, connecting a database of over 10,000 to see how long a chain can be created, the record holder now at 54 songs-long and rising. Add your songs to the chain to help it grow.

http://covers.wiw.org/

FOUND Magazine

Pity the poor lost-and-found item that never gets retrieved: photos, notes, ticket stubs, empty wallets - they all find a home at FOUND Magazine, where misplaced stuff goes on display to give visitors a vicarious peek at their owner's life.

http://www.foundmagazine.com/

Amusing Dogs

The Institute of Official Cheer has created yet another site that will bring a smile to your face. Dateline Kennel is a collection of cute and comic photos of man's best friend from the 50's and 60's. Be sure to check out Future Dog, a time traveling scottish terrier complete with cape and a mock time machine.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/dogs/index.html

Bad Movie Portal

Bad movies are like car accidents that seduce us to stare, fascinated by someone else's big fat mistake and the spilled blood that results. Bad Movies.org was designed by a former Marine tough guy with an obsession for the bizarre, obscene, scary and laughable - movies you wouldn't watch unless your life depended on it.

At the portal, visitors will find reviews of such B (C or D)-movies as "The Cars That Ate Paris" and the Japanese animation "Fist of the North Star," with martial arts masters and exploding people. Chat with other fans on the message board or find that one horrendous movie you've been seeking to prove to yourself it wasn't just a bad dream.

http://www.badmovies.org/

Slang, Jargon and Dialects

Self-expression goes academic at Slang, Jargon and Dialects, a scholarly site created to study how social change is reflected by new lexical items (words) found in the vast vocabulary that is American English.

With links to articles like "31 Ways To Annoy a Yankee" (call their men "boys"), plenty of William Safire columns, examples of jargon from 1940s railroad lingo to hash house slang, off-color British slang, sports jargon, cyberslang and more, visitors will be able to speak the native tongue no matter where in the US they find themselves. There are five links just for teen slang, from "The 411 on Silicon Valley Teen Slang" to "What's the Dealio" in NYC.

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US8/SPEC/

Higher Learning Portal

If you've ever gone through the process of selecting a college to attend, you know what an overwhelming task it can be. Scholarships, entrance essays, grants, dorms, fraternities and meal plans are just a few of the many factors to consider when researching a choice for higher education.

If someone you know is planning on going to an institution of higher learning in the US, Embark.com is the site for you. Broken down into 5 manageable steps including Research, Prepare, Apply, Finance and Get Ready, this site neatly combines a wealth of information while providing a structure to an otherwise chaotic process.

http://www.embark.com/

AndyCo

What started out as another design portfolio got a little out of hand, morphing into AndyCo, a company that's been around for more than 100 years (not really), founded by the current owner's grandpa (not really) selling anything you could possible want or need (not really), where the "customer is everything" (nope).

Created by designer and marketer Andrew Stoller, AndyCo is the non-existent, illusionary but remarkably dead-on multinational corporation that is a bit like Dilbert with all the details filled in: from R&D on its satellite built on the frame of a '77 Ford Mustang II to flyers in the Employee Lounge for the 3rd Annual Employee Family Fun Day.

http://www.andyco.com/

Jeff Bridges: Artist

Minimalist design works for actor Jeff Bridges at his personal web site, Jeff Bridges.com, where simple line drawings and scrawled handwritten notes serve for imagery and text, with little scribbled circles acting as navigation buttons.

Bridges' music, journal, filmography, photo gallery and interviews are offered here, including a message board and a miscellany category called "Stuff" that includes doodles and links. Much of the content is devoted to the End Hunger Network that Bridges helped create in 1983, which has since shifted to ending hunger in the US, not through charity but through government leadership.

http://www.jeffbridges.com/

Jolie Rouge

05-10-2002, 10:49 PM

Encyclopedia of 'Toons Bugs, Bullwinkle and Betty Boop - and their distinctive voices - seem almost like family, and like family they don't ever go away, rediscovered by each new generation. Every member of the species resides in Don Markstein's toonopedia, a comprehensive "toonological" source for cartoons of every genre and media, from comic books to T.V. 'Toons are both the characters and the stories, and here visitors will also find the real live people and companies - from Marvel to Disney - who make the 'toons, plus histories of heroes as famous as Superman or as obscure as Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld. Today in Toons highlights a daily 'toon-related event, like May 5, 1967, the premiere of R. Crumb's Mr. Natural.

http://www.toonopedia.com/

Art History Timeline Which came first, the Maori carvings of Easter Island or Olmec hieroglyphics? At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History, more than 20,000 years of art marches on, from prehistoric times to the present, to give online visitors an invaluable tool for studying art, archaeology, anthropology and history. Organized by geography, the timeline lets visitors click on a period from 20,000 BC to 1400 AD, then on art icons scattered on a map of continents to get overviews and key art events of the period, all linked to the Met's vast collection. Still a work in progress, more stages will be added, plus an index, glossaries and multimedia elements to enhance the content now available.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

Food Reference Only a real food nut would know a 4-letter word for a large, sweet, juicy hybrid of tangerine and grapefruit -the answer to 5 Across in the Culinary Crossword Puzzle, one of many activities at the Food Reference Web Site. People hooked on cuisine will find more than just recipes and articles, including trivia, cooks' tips, quotes, humor, even poems. There are recipes, of course, from ancient, classic and modern, plus articles on diverse food stuff from agar to TV dinners, food facts (jelly doughnuts have fewer calories and less fat than plain donuts with a hole in the center) and a weekly newsletter. Foodaholics need never leave their computers to feast on food info - except, of course, to eat.

http://www.foodreference.com/

The Four Word Film Review Cut to the chase at The Four Word Film Review where the long-awaited feature "Spiderman" is summed up as "Red guy jumps around" and the Denzel Washington tear-jerker "John Q" earns a crisp "Poor man's Capra … pass." Good reviews, no nonsense.

http://www.fwfr.com/main.asp

Stars on TV Can't get enough of Alan Thicke? Stars on TV makes it easy to find your fave actor, actress, director or genre with TV listings for over 4,100 stars and hundreds of directors each month. Search by name and get the program title, synopsis, date, time and channel on which s/he appears. Dreamy Alan Thicke is actually on 3 times in May!

http://www.tv-now.com/stars/stars.html

You're the General The Web is different than TV - and PBS gets it, especially at American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant, an online partner to its film biography of the Civil War general and controversial president. PBS gathered the stories, pictures, facts, interviews, maps and dramatic footage not used in its film to create this interactive broadband experience.

Considered either a hero or a butcher, Grant was a brilliant military strategist whose presidency teemed with racial conflicts and scandals. Students of history who can't sit through even the most compelling documentary can take a journey into Grant's childhood frontier, play general as war rages and young soldiers are sacrificed, and make production decisions in visual, audio, and editorial labs, just like a big-time TV producer.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/index.html

Movie Extra Confessions That random college guy who walked past Alyssa Milano in an episode of TV's "Charmed" may not be a big-time celebrity, but he does have the goods - and spills them at The Adventures of Dan: Movie Extra Extraordinaire. The self-proclaimed Living Prop offers first-hand accounts straight from the set, thanks to his yearlong career as a speechless, clueless background actor. With sometimes goofy, always good-natured journal entries that chronicle his adventures in Hollywood on the sets of movies like "The Faculty" and TV shows like "X-Files," and tips on how to get walk-on work yourself ("… for the love of God, don't park anywhere except the street!"), the site is a kick for either actor wannabes or celebrity hounds.

http://www.adventuresofdan.com/

Teach With Movies If you can't beat 'em, teach 'em -- and provide the popcorn. That could be the motto for Teach With Movies, where parents and teachers are encouraged to use film to give lessons about the achievements of civilization, music, dance, drama, literature and ethics to 6 - 15 year-olds. Find films by cultural heritage, minimum age, title, character development or keyword search, then access learning guides that describe the film's benefits, signal potential problems, offer discussion questions and bridges to reading and other projects. A list of films not appropriate for teaching is also given.

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/index.html

The Chronicles of George Pity the poor office workers who took their computer problems to the dim-witted star of The Chronicles of George. The help-desk operator from hell is featured here by a co-worker who, while working side-by-side with the hapless George (not his real name), was so appalled by the mangled help-desk tickets George wrote that he used them to create a web site straight out of Dilbert. Visitors can read along as workers do battle with their "anti-Norton virus service," and report laptops that groan "like they are diening." Visitors who recognize George as one of their own can share their office frustrations at George Forums.

http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/

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A deviation of a hair's breadth at the center
Leads to an error of a hundred miles at the rim.
When the effort is so slight,
Why should you hesitate to set things right?

TAO

eeigh33

05-11-2002, 05:29 PM

i am bumping this one because i plan to visit more of these sites. some of them are rather interesting.

Jolie Rouge

05-16-2002, 09:02 PM

Language Guide Visitors won't learn how to scribble a love note in Spanish at Omniglot: A Guide to Writing Systems, but they can ask how to decipher a piece of Urdu writing. A language guide to over 200 writing systems, the site derives its name from the Latin for "all" and the Greek for "tongue." An alphabetical index takes visitors through the A to Z of written language -- from abkhaz, spoken by 300,000 Turks and Russians, to zhuyin zimu, a phonetic writing system of sounds in Mandarin. With links to obscure fonts, online dictionaries and language courses, the site focuses on visible symbols that represent units of language and the rules governing each.

http://www.omniglot.com/

Who Was Herblock? Joseph McCarthy shaved twice daily just to erase the image Herb Block, aka Herblock, had indelibly created in the American public's mind. For nearly a century, the legendary political cartoonist used pen and ink to expose bigotry, political arrogance and social injustice. Last year, the Library of Congress celebrated him with Herb Block's History, the first exhibit of his original drawings in 50 years, now available online. Awarded four Pulitzer Prizes and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Block exposed clear-cutting of US forests as early as 1929 and the Watergate gang throughout the 1970s. Sections show how Block shined his light on 12 presidents, desecration of the environment, gun control, urban decay, race riots and tobacco smoking before - and better than - anyone else.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/

Battle for the Holy Land

Making sense of the violence between Israelis and Palestinians, PBS' Frontline goes behind the lines to help visitors understand at Battle for the Holy Land, explained through trips to refugee camps, exclusive interviews, and video excerpts and transcripts of the TV program.

On the Ground interviews the Israeli chief of staff and Palestinian militia leaders; The Cycle of Violence traces key events since September 2000; Can Anything End This Crisis? gives commentary on the conflict and an overview of proposals for resuming talks; and The Combatants profiles political and militant groups on both sides. Throughout, visitors can join discussions about what is stacking up as the most perilous conflict of our time.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/holy/

Paper Plate Education If it can't be explained with a paper plate, maybe you don't want to know it. At Paper Plate Education, complex notions are simplified in hands-on activities that use common paper plates to teach science, math, history, geography and more, from using the arcs on the plate to show the altitude of a star to launching a paper plate from a phonograph to make an alien spacecraft.

http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/

Life, According to the Soaps You can learn a lot about life from the soaps: Do not walk too fast while feigning blindness. Do not get too close to people in comas or they might choke you to death. If you've got to fix your Harley, you might as well take off your shirt and do it by the pool. Learn it all at Life, According to the Soaps.

http://www.qis.net/~jimjr/life86.htm

Turntablism 101 Want to master Hamster Style or Tear Scratch? Check out scratchdj.com to learn how to scratch when you don't itch - that is, "turntabling," the art of manipulating previously existing phonograph recordings to produce new, musically creative combinations of sounds using turntables and a mixer.

http://www.scratchdj.com/terminology.shtml

Better or Worse? Does it seem like politicians are sleazier, cars used to have real style and the last great athlete is already dead? At Interesting Ideas, the relative decline of civilization is explored, along with other rambling ideas.
The site is a collection of ponderings, beginning with an exploration of whether or not the good old days really are long gone. A list of 101 things that are better today, from ever-ready fresh food to the decline of corporal punishment, is followed by another list of stuff that sucks, like gas-powered leaf blowers. Other theses are found in the Idea Barn and outright complaints about modern times find voice in Rants.

http://www.interestingideas.com/ii/better1.htm

Wacky Uses Well-known products, little-known uses. That's the basis of Wacky Uses, a site explaining how to use household products in ways you'd never imagine. Polish jewelry with Alka-Seltzer, apply vinegar to soothe sunburn pain, clean hubcaps with Efferdent. Talk about multi-tasking! Besides how to use and abuse popular products, the site also offers weird facts about classics like Slinky - used by scientists to understand the supercoiling of DNA molecules - and the lost history of products like the Frisbee - which started out as a pie tin in the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The site also offers books with experiments and additional uses and message boards where visitors add their own two cents.

http://www.wackyuses.com/

Cyber Hitchhiker's Guide If the names Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox make you break into a grin, you're a hitchhiker - and you know a towel is the most useful thing in the universe. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Guide, or h2g2, is the online trip-tych to the wacky world of the late Doug Adam's beloved book and BBC radio and TV series by the same name. With video clips of the televised series, quizzes by Deep Thought the super computer, the Vogon Poetry Generator and lore about the critical towel, tea and mice, hitchhiker fans will find everything they need to revisit the galaxy again and again, including, of course, The Answer - to life, the universe and everything,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/

Happiness Database You could get happy by packing up your cares and woes, or you could start a more deliberate study by visiting The World Database of Happiness, a registry of scientific research on "the subjective appreciation of life." The database consists of the Bibliography of Happiness (yes, there is one, with 3,422 titles), plus catalogues of Happiness Queries, Happiness in Nations, Happiness Correlates and a Directory of Happiness Investigators. What to do with it all? Study! In addition to pointing you in the right direction, the site helps you hard copies of papers, books and searches.

http://www.eur.nl/fsw/research/happiness/index.htm

coupongal

05-16-2002, 10:19 PM

Hmmmm..jeeves...thought WE were supposed to ask YOU, since you are supposed to be a fountain of knowledge!:D
Hope you are doing better now.
Here's a link...don't THINK it's been listed, but I'm going back in a little while here, and check out some more of these great links that have been posted!;)

http://www2.station.sony.com/en

STARR986

05-16-2002, 11:47 PM

I HOPE YOU GET BETTER SOON!HERE'S SOME SITES:
WWW.GAMESVILLE.COM
WWW.MINICLIP.COM
WWW.IWON.COM
WWW.DEBSFUNPAGES.COM
WWW.YAHOO.COM
WWW.MTV.COM
WWW.GROUPLOTTO.COM

harlow

05-17-2002, 08:06 AM

for twisted humor go to www.somethingawful.com

Jolie Rouge

05-19-2002, 09:33 PM

Trash 4 Sale

Auction sites are among the most popular destinations offering everything imaginable for the right price. But as tales of the substantial profits made through these auctions have spread, a few overzealous merchants are putting some fairly unusual items on the block. DisturbingAuctions.com is a bizarre and sometime highly entertaining auction. Browsing through categories like Emotionally Scarring Toys, Figurines, or Home Furnishing will return haunting or humorous items (depending on your perspective) as the "Dean Martin Hand Puppet", the "Disembodied Farrah Fawcett Heads", or the "Deer Butt" (found under home furnishings). Caveat Emptor!

http://www.disturbingauctions.com/

Fixing Appliances

If your dishwasher is leaking, or the baking element burns out in your stove, check out the Repair Clinic. This useful site provides consumers with helpful information for every major household appliance including troubleshooting, maintenance tips, answers to common questions and a diagnostic section.

http://www.repairclinic.com/

The Egg: The Art Show

Exploring the role of art in America is the focus of ~ egg ~, a fascinating series. Sponsored in part by PBS, this site is the online sidekick to the television program, complete with streaming video and audio clips and interviews of artists featured on the TV show. Examples of artistic expression are on display, from Willie Easton's innovative Gospel music to more recent video pieces on cool topics like 'Flight' and 'How to be Happy.' Also offered: a slew of articles on art, a warehouse of information about artists and upcoming events across the country called 'See and Do USA' and a very active open forum, 'Egg on the Arts.'

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/egg/

Scribbling Women

The nineteenth century revealed a literary movement among female authors in America, producing work from such heralded writers as Willa Cather and Ann Petry. Thanks to The Public Media Foundation, we can now experience dramatizations of these inspired works through national radio broadcasts. ScribblingWomen.org is the website supporting this dramatic effort. The site features several novels that have been converted into radio plays for the visitors enjoyment. Each play is accompanied by photographs, lesson
plans, synopsis' and literary interpretations.

http://www.scribblingwomen.org

Useless Knowledge

'If it isn't here, it isn't trivia' is the slogan of UselessKnowledge.com, a website that prides itself as the definitive source of trivia and useless information on the Web. There are enough bizarre facts on the site to keep you busy for hours, not to mention how popular you'll be at parties. There are many cool features including 'Fact of the Day', 'Word of the Day', 'Useless Riddle', and 'World of Trivia'. Visitors will find answers to some of life's most crucial questions, like 'Where is the world's only concierge?' and 'What is a booger made of?'

http://www.uselessknowledge.com/

Closer to the Truth

According to John Locke, consciousness is "the perception of what passes in a man's own mind." Others regard it as a kind of substance, or "mental stuff," quite different from the texture of the physical world and that which separates mankind from lower forms of life.
Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate consciousness and other fundamental issues of our time. Visitors can read through great articles and online transcripts, participate in unique 'hyper-forum discussions', or simply browse the Video Archive. There is also a cool section called 'Daily News' that is constantly updated with stories and articles about interesting, often eccentric topics affecting people today.

www.closertotruth.com

Lost in Translation

While it has not been perfected, translation software has made considerable progress. Grammatical, slang-free text is almost translatable into a foreign language and back to English (note the word 'almost'). Visitors will have a blast experimenting with the unperfected Systran translation software. The bizarre translations are hilarious and unpredictable, as noted in the list of 'Classic Examples'. Just enter a sentence and hit 'Babelize'.

http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/

Pets Welcome Here

People love their pets, sometimes so much that they can't bear to go on vacation without taking them. Whether you're planning a road trip or your Honeymoon, if Fido is coming along for the ride you'll need to find pet-friendly place to stay. PetsWelcome.com should be every animal lover's first step in planning his or her holiday vacation. The site lists thousands of hotels, motels, beaches, campgrounds, and ski resorts that accommodate our furry friends. There is also helpful information on air travel and international laws regarding pets.

http://www.petswelcome.com/

Extraterrestrial Real Estate

If you're thinking about retiring but can't afford to stake your claim in some beautiful, exotic locale, you may want to consider an exciting alternative…The Moon. In 1980, a gentleman by the name of Dennis Hope managed to acquire, through some ingenious legal loophole, rights to the lunar surface and the surfaces of all other planets in our solar system (with the notable exception of Earth).

Welcome to the Lunar Embassy, the first and only company in the world that is legally licensed to sell 'extraterrestrial real estate'. The site, despite its sense of humor, is quite legitimate, has thousands of 'landowners', and has been recognized by television and Internet media organizations.

Visitors will learn about the legal nature of their purchase, the company's immediate plans for lunar development, and will be given the opportunity to purchase acres of land on the Moon, Venus, Mars, and IO, one of Jupiter's many moons. If all that doesn't convince you, then the prices will (One lunar acre goes for about $15.99 US).

http://www.lunarembassy.com/

The Symphony: An Interactive Guide

While classical music is popular all over the world, many listeners are uneducated about the rich processes behind the creation of the music. This is a great site for anyone who loves classical music but often feels lost when it comes to understanding the nature, form and history of the symphonies they listen to. This website offers an interactive tour through the many aspects of the symphony. Visitors will learn about the history of the music, the life and work of many famous and talented composers, and the many components that make up an orchestra. Listen to clips of symphonies listed on the site, take a 'crash course in symphonic form', or go on a 'quick-tour' of the history and development of classical music. And you don't even have to dress up!!

http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/index.html

Talk Surgery

Despite its many critics, plastic surgery continues to gain popularity both in the United States and in many countries around the globe. From breast augmentation to liposuction to cosmetic dentistry, more and more Americans are choosing to spend thousands of dollars in an effort to make themselves 'more beautiful'. Talksurgery.com is a great site to visit for anyone who is considering undergoing plastic surgery. There are 'personal stories' from people who have had a variety of different procedures, technical information on many types of surgery, and even a 'Doctor Locator' that will help patients find the right doctor for their needs.

http://www.talksurgery.com/

smartkarie

05-20-2002, 12:12 AM

Don't know if someone's posted this yet, but www.snopes.com . It is the URBAN LEGEND site (whoooooooo)! Fun...

K

Dolly<3

05-20-2002, 03:23 AM

Have you signed up for a "cool sites" type email newsletter? If so, I want to join! :)

meema

05-20-2002, 09:17 AM

wow there are so many good sites here. i need to have my daughter see them. jeeves i hope you feel better. i have been in that place and back again. :)

Jolie Rouge

05-20-2002, 10:58 AM

originally posted by EyeMandy : Have you signed up for a "cool sites" type email newsletter?

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Jolie Rouge

05-20-2002, 10:16 PM

My computer is being a pain - it will NOT let me click links to sites with a lot of animations or stuff. I found this page with multiple links : http://channels.netscape.com/ns/atplay/paranormal.jsp

Could somebody hit these & post the info ?

Paranormal Trivia What is the date of the Roswell crash, and how did Freud explain ghosts? Find the answer to these and other questions when you take this fun quiz. I'd LOVE to see this !

Not to mention -
Plots & Conspiracies - Just when you thought everything was safe, you discover that things are not always as they seem. Do you believe what they tell you? Should you?

05-21-2002, 08:04 AM

I haven't laughed so hard in ages! This site was sooo funny! If anyone hasn't gone to it yet the address again is:

http://www.thespamletters.com/

This guy has some sick humor so if you're easily offended I would stay away...if you're not easily offended PLEASE go and take a look!

Jolie Rouge

05-27-2002, 08:22 AM

Atomic Time Utility (free) These days every second counts, and the nifty little utility available free at World Time Server keeps your computer on time, all the time. The Atomic Clock Sync (ACS) utility will automatically check users' PC time settings with the greatest accuracy available today, thanks to its connection to a time server operated by the very precise folks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

A main screen displays the current Universal Time upon which all locations worldwide base their time (AKA, Greenwich Mean Time), then lets you choose to make adjustments. Your actual current time is not shown in ACS but in its usual position in the lower right corner of your Windows display.

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/

:D

Airline Meals Travelers who are chow-hounds might want to book an inter-Malaysian flight from Kota Kinabalu to Kuala Lumpur, judging from the full spread pictured at Airline Meals.Net, devoted to photos of in-flight airline meals. Even if you don't fly, browsing the photos is a cultural excursion as you see fold-down trays of sake and sushi on Japan Air Lines and herring salad on Scandinavian Airlines. The site creator started photographing his airline meals when he flew to Greece and thought his parents might like to see what their boy was fed. Now it's a potluck, with others sending in their airline food photos to create a visual feast of more than a hundred meals on some 50 airlines.

http://www.airlinemeals.net/

:)

Hotel Rate Search Engine Take a machete to the dense growth of hotel travel sites at Travelaxe, a free hotel search engine that compares prices posted on other travel sites, side-by-side. Once downloaded, the application searches hotel pricing and availability listed at 16 popular travel web sites. Recently launched, the site offers Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, *** New Orleans***, Orlando and Reno, with more destinations ahead. Once you select yours, the cheapest rates - and the savings you can pocket - are highlighted. Then make your choice, and the tool delivers you to the booking page to complete the reservation. Last minute trips, no minimum-night stays, check-in any day of the week and coupons for more deals give this travel tool a sharper edge.

http://www.travelaxe.com

:rolleyes:

Logical Fallacies Maybe false logic is better than none at all but you'd be wise to learn to spot non sequiturs, slippery slopes, equivocations and post hoc reasoning at Stephen's Guide to Logical Fallacies, where you can analyze precisely why the other guy's argument just doesn't add up.

http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm

:cool:

The Missing Link Yahoo Internet Life "Surf Guru" Charles Pappas helps find answers to questions political (What dictatorships are supported by mutual funds?), personal (Who's the creep living down the street?) and private (And how much did he pay for his house?) at his weekly Missing Link column found at Alexa, along with fun stuff like urban legends and censored cartoons.

http://www.alexa.com

:p

Old Time Radio The image of a family with chairs pulled up around a big walnut radio case, listening to the Great Gildersleeve, remains an appealing bit of Americana. So there's a nice ironic beauty in Old Time Radio, where 21st century families can listen to those old radio programs via their computers.

"Broadcast" features mystery, drama serials and comedy programs updated daily with 12 hours of new programming from over 32,000 shows. "Jive" plays crooners, Big Band, blues and swing from the 20s through the 60s. "Features" delivers special treats, like recordings of rehearsal sessions and uncensored bloopers by Bing Crosby, Orson Welles and others. Now if you could only get the whole family to gather 'round the monitor.

http://www.otrnow.com/otrnow/index.htm

;)

The World's Ugliest Buildings With a name like the Millennium Dome and a $1.25 billion price tag, it would be hard not to hate London's entry in The World's Ugliest Buildings listing posted at Forbes.com. But the dome is, regrettably, not alone. Even architects as revered as Frank Gehry make boo-boos, like the Experience Music Project in Seattle (reminiscent of the birthmark on Gorbachev's head). And when architecture goes wrong, erasing it isn't an option. See the building bloopers here.

http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/03/0503home.html

:)

Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World Humans can recognize 10,000 smells (and half of them are probably in your teenage son's bedroom), distinguish between the touch of a feather and a leaf, and hear how full a glass of water is as liquid is poured. At Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute explains how we do it. "It's All in the Brain" shows the brain at work via visual illusion games. "Breaking the Code of Color" explains color-blindness and other perceptions of hue, and several articles dissect such odd sensory conditions as a woman who cannot see motion and a man who could identify "smell-faces" far more complex and distinctive than "sight-faces."

http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

:p

Your Childhood is Here If the stress and responsibility of adult life is getting you down, perhaps its time for you to feel like a kid again. Nostalgia becomes humor at Yesterdayland.com, and anyone born in the last seventy years will get a kick out of the content on this website. 'Dedicated to the preservation of our pop culture', Yesterdayland is definitely a tour down the many memory lanes of childhood, from the TV shows we used to watch to the video games we used to spend all of our quarters on. Many of the sections are formatted into timelines, by decade, and include subjects such as Fashion, Saturday Mornings, Primetime Television, Movies, Lunchboxes, and Pop Music. There are featured articles and current news stories and updates on personalities from the past, as well as My Yesterdayland, where you can create your own user identification. Ahh, the good old days…

http://www.yesterdayland.com/

:cool:

Useless Information Forgotten geniuses, a pudding lover, Teflon and contact lenses for chickens are some of the topics that fuel the flame for an Albany, New York science teacher with an odd sense of humor. He shares his passion for fascinating bits of obscurity at Useless Information, "stuff you never needed to know but your life would be incomplete without." How a melted candy bar and egg on the face led to the invention of the microwave oven, a history of the pink flamingo, and the origins of Band-Aids are a few of the featured stories. Links to other useless books and information and useless web sites let visitors drown in the obscure and the arcane.

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/index.html

:o

Doctor Who After 39 years on earth - well, in England anyway -- perhaps it's time you discovered Dr. Who, a cult-popular BBC series that simply won't go away and, in fact, gets more popular with time. Makes sense, since it's about time-travel. Start at Doctor Who.com, the official web site. Travelling in their time and space machine, the Doctor and company began their adventures on November 23, 1963, by traveling back 100,000 years to help cavemen discover fire. With eight doctors in the interim, there's plenty of material to catch up on, including storylines, special effects, music, monsters (like Davros, part-man and part-machine) and videos, DVDs and CDs to order. In England, Dr. Who is his own cottage industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/

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05-27-2002, 01:49 PM

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immortal_amaranth

05-27-2002, 02:04 PM

www.yesterdayland.com

http://www.gocornerstore.com/Main.html

Jolie Rouge

06-02-2002, 12:39 PM

Jeeves - you certainly are popular ! :)

Web Sites for Dummies
Cynics say that those who can't, teach. But at Creating a Web Site, Jessett.com has created a step by step guide that is a model of the common sense design, clean graphics and intuitive navigability it preaches. The site teaches everything beginners - and many pros - need to create a web site: good working practices, samples of exemplary sites, quick reference cards on html tags, hex color charts, css style sheets and more. Also included is sound advice like "Good design is virtually invisible," straight talk like three very specific reasons to avoid using frames, and tutorials on how to use Dreamweaver, the most popular WYSIWYG editor, and how to submit your completed site to search engines.

http://www.jessett.com/

Spider-Man Stuff
The opposite of arachnophobia may be Spidermania, now gripping the nation with the release of the long-awaited film. Get manic with everyone's favorite super spider at Weird Marvel Collectibles where Spider-Man's image graces 18 pages worth of odd collectibles, from toilet paper comic-strips to shaving kits and TV trays.

http://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/Weird/weird.html

Lightning Stalker

A guy who runs toward lightening instead of away from it has to have a story to tell, and David O. Stillings, the Lightning Stalker, tells his in photographs of lightening storms he has shot over the last 20 years as he searches for the ultimate storm. With videos of his adventures, cool storm facts and storm poetry inspired by all that energy he's witnessed.

http://www.lightningstalker.com/

Antique Illness
Hypochondriacs who have run through 20th century aches and pains can dabble in the ailments of the 1800s at Interactive Antique Illness, where visitors are given a pain in the belly and choices: Visit the doc - and which one? Accept Doc Smith's diagnosis and choose the bloodletting, or opt for magnesium sulfate? Along the way, visitors learn about 19th century medicine and its practitioners as they risk making the wrong choice and bringing down the curtain on their virtual self.

http://www.imss.org/intro.htm

Wrecked Exotics

The folks at Wrecked Exotics may have uncovered the great equalizer: the fender bender. There's something about seeing a Lamborghini Diablo with its front end smashed up around its 32-bit microprocessor engine management system that brings a smug smile to the face of even the nicest Nissan Sentra driver. Make no mistake, even the best cars go bad - Ferraris, Dodge Vipers, Bugattis and Jags. Here visitors can see photos of them all, post-collision, dangling from the back of tow trucks or squinting out from under an 18-wheeler. It's disturbing, pleasant and a little terrifying: You gotta wonder what the heck got a hold of that Hummer and hope it doesn't find you and your VW.

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/

Pinhole Spy Cameras
Wannabe spooks can join up at Pinhole Spy Camera, where the effects are high-end but the equipment is very low-tech. Duct tape, one screw, some aluminum foil and a needle will get you started, but the site's visuals and audio create enough ambiance to make Maxwell Smart feel at home. Your first mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a pinhole camera following the simple instructions and blueprints. Next, visit Cameras, where the inventory -- from the OTC (oatmeal tin can) to WC (wooden camera) - is rated on Stealth, Image Quality and Field Performance. Then check out the Gallery to see images your fellow operatives have snagged before meeting Jackie Oh, The Beachcomber and the rest of your quirky cohorts.

http://pinholespy.com/

Philosophy in Cyberspace
Actualists hold the view that there neither are, nor could have been, any objects that don't exist. At Philosophy in Cyberspace, there appears to be no philosophy topic that doesn't exist - at least as a link from this extraordinarily comprehensive collection of resources on the search for wisdom or, more specifically, understanding logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics and epistemology. Five sections categorize the site into branches of philosophy, text sources
like books and journals, organizations, forums and miscellaneous links (even philosophy humor). Within each section is a plethora of
sub-categories, like aesthetics or existentialism, each leading the user to still more links to individual philosophers, newsgroups and electronic journals.

http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/%7Edey/phil/

The E-Zine for Oppressed Sysadmins

If you always pay extra for software to be delivered next-day air or start shopping online for a new hard drive when your current free space is edging near 200 megs, you've found a home at The Network Administrator. Dedicated to computer professionals, the site plays it straight with articles on the coming clone wars, commentary on whether Linux will be "the bridge that unites us," and lots of discussions about certification. News Line offers current computer-related headlines, and users are invited to submit Bug Reports on software goofs. Sysadmins do have a sense of humor: Just for Laughs includes a Tech Support FAQ for Etch-a-Sketch (How to delete a document on my Etch-a-Sketch? Pick it up and shake it.)

http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/

Codes and Ciphers

Many WWII historians would argue that British cryptanalysts' ability to crack German communications changed the course of the war and gave an invaluable advantage to the Allied forces. Bletchley Park, the base of operations for the Allied code breaking, was recently restored and transformed into a museum. This online exhibition contains a detailed introduction to the Enigma machine and how it decoded all of the German Ciphers along with many other cryptanalyst breakthroughs that were kept secret until the early 70's. If you love brain teazers and puzzles, you've met your match with this site.

http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/

CDC Travelers' Health

Avoid bringing home an unwanted memento from your summer travels by paying a visit to Travelers' Health, created by the National Center for Infectious Diseases, before you board that airliner or cruise ship. The site offers current info on disease outbreaks, specific diseases that affect travelers and vaccination recommendations to match your itinerary. Just click on the map and see outbreaks, numbers of cases and special health concerns in the region. Precise information like the inspection scores earned by cruise ships and public health guidelines for airline-exposure to meningococcal disease assure travelers that they're getting info from those who know it best: the CDC.

http://www.cdc.gov/travel/

American Mile Markers

Just when you thought you had seen it all in travel sites, Photographer/engineer Matt Frondorf introduces us to his 35mm mile marker approach to traveling cross country. Taken on the Road is Matt's journey from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge. But unlike your typical road trip, in true engineer fashion, Matt painstakingly plotted out as straight a line as possible for his route while taking photos precisely at each one mile increment. The result is an unusual chronicle of what would otherwise be an average cross country trip.

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/onTheRoad

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Jolie Rouge

06-10-2002, 12:00 PM

PDN Photo Annual 2002
Every year yields memorable images, but perhaps none so sharply as the past 12 months. The 2002 PDN Photography Annual celebrates the best of them, capturing all the horror, joy, pain and beauty caught the moment it was expressed. In 8 categories, from advertising to student work, see burning buildings and raves, pastry shops and immigrants. Browse by winners, like the presidential moments caught by Christopher Morris, or scroll through the categories to view intimate personal photos, experimental web sites or edgy takes in the corporate world. This year, viewers are invited to vote for their favorite in each category, and prints of winners are also available
for purchase.

http://journale.com/photoannualsite/intro.html

Projections: A Futurist at the Movies
From Blade Runner to Star Wars, Hollywood loves to depict the future. But how well do they do it? At Projections, a professional futurist sits behind the popcorn bag to rate films on futurism, entertainment and the plausibility of their visions of tomorrowland. Not film criticism, the site ignores fantasy, magic, religion and parodies to examine coming attractions from alien contact to time travel as shown at your local multiplex. Tips on how to do a bad job of cinematic predicting - like tinkering with just one aspect of the future or hyping technology by compressing the time from invention to market - reveal the academic approach here.

http://www.futuristmovies.com/

Guide to Star Wars Costuming
Even a Star Wars hater - surely there must be a few - has to be amazed at the extraordinarily elaborate costuming to be seen at The Padawan's Guide to Episode II Costuming, where clothing from both Episodes I and II - from Jedi accessories to Queen Jamillia's celebration gown - is on display along with commentary.

http://www.padawansguide.com/

Foam PC
NeuHausPlatz Computer Systems offers the first case-less PC whose parts are held together by great globs of polyurethane foam. Described by its creator as a "misshapen sheep," it works fine, weighs less than 7 kg, costs about $40 and -- while Bill Gates may walk on water -- this PC floats.

http://www.g-news.ch/articles/nhp200nc/

Food Worker Rants
Pity the poor waiter. Or fear him. Servers may be at the bottom of the food chain, but their position right next to the food you eat gives them awesome power. At The Stained Apron, read how they can avenge themselves against diners who are rude, fail to control bratty kids and obnoxious boyfriends, or who don't tip enough. No, 10% is not enough. Dedicated to venting the frustrations of food service workers and to educating the dining public, the site offers advice on how to be a good customer and stories that tell why it's a good idea to be kind to the waitperson. Bodily fluids finding their way into
your dessert is a very persuasive lesson in etiquette.

http://www.stainedapron.com/ Learn why you should *always* tip :)

Smithsonian Jazz
Live It, Love It, Learn It is the riff at Smithsonian Jazz, committed to preserving and perpetuating jazz as an American national treasure through collections, exhibitions, performances, recordings, publications, oral histories and educational programs. The full range of jazz is presented, from Latin to the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, now in its eleventh season. Take an interactive Duke Ellington class, hook up with the online world of jazz or browse the research collection. Check out exhibits at the National Museum of American History, like Louis Armstrong's first cornet, or search Media Mix for access to the Smithsonian's database of jazz items: documents, music, manuscripts, photographs, films, recordings and artifacts.

http://www.jazzsmithsonian.org/

Misheard Lyrics and Song Parodies
While Ozzy Osbourne has made the incomprehensible suddenly fashionable, amiright.com makes fun of garbled lyrics, as well as silly band names and songs just begging to be parodied. With more than 1500 misheard lyrics and over 100 parodies, Ozzy would be right at home. The Stones' 60s tune "As Tears Go By" intentionally becomes the parody "You'll Hear Bush Lie," but some of the unintentional goofs are best. Other features are real lyrics that are funny, repetitive, mis-rhymed or just plain ridiculous, like America's "cause there ain't no one for to give ya no pain." Viewers are invited to submit their own parodies and misquotes, and new entries are added almost daily.

http://www.amiright.com/

Book Crossing
They release condors and gray wolves into the wild, so why not really good books? If you've enjoyed a good read lately and want to share it, first register it at Book Crossing, which promotes a kind of captive breeding and release program for books.

After registering the book on the site, slap on a label carrying a unique Book Crossing Identification Number, then leave it lying around or lend it to a friend. Then sit back and track its movements from random reader to reader as they check in at Book Crossing and you get an email about the book's progress.

http://www.bookcrossing.com

Tiny Useful Windows Apps
They're tiny, they're useful and they're applications for Windows - enough said. At Tiny Apps.org find immensely useful applications no bigger than 1.5 Mb, like PopKi, weighing in at just 337kb, which eliminates those awful pop-up windows. More abound, from a Notepad replacement to full operating systems, all small enough to fit on a floppy.

http://www.tinyapps.org/

The Combovers Experience

You've got to dig pretty deep to find something Homer Simpson and Al Gore have in common, but it's exposed at The Combovers Experience, where women's shameless vanity pales in comparison to a practice that is strictly male. Five photo galleries show off men's compulsion to force the few survivors of male pattern baldness to lie down in directions they do not wish to go. The site's creator - who probably has a head of hair like a lion - tells us the style has actually been patented and is the subject of at least one play and a song. Meanwhile, browse the photos while you count your blessings, and your remaining strands. respect and admiration dedicated to this hair style.
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06-11-2002, 06:54 AM

:eek:
That one is kinda funny!!!:Dwww.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com

Jolie Rouge

06-17-2002, 10:48 PM

The Living Internet

Newbies to the Internet and old hands who think they know the neighborhood will both learn more about the massive village that is the World Wide Web at The Living Internet. Inspired by the power of the Web during the 1989 Tiananmen Square rebellion, the site's founder created a comprehensive reference work, with more than 2,000 intra-site links and 2,000 external links.

From basics like how the Internet works and why it matters to more complex topics like MUDs and Usenet groups, the site is ad-free and as easy to use as the topic is complicated. Become an expert searcher, use net-related tricks and meet the people responsible for all that is wonderful about the Web.

http://www.livinginternet.com

Comics on the Web

From Alley Oop to the Wizard of Id, offbeat strips like Reality Check and comic heroines like Agnes, Comics.com is the place to curl up and read the funny papers. Select from the classics, brand new strips or editorial cartoons, then click on the 30-day calendar for the day's strip you wish to see.

Read the comic and get the chuckle, then follow links about the characters, email the strip to a friend, read about and contact the artist and get recommendations ala Amazon ("If you love this comic, you may like …"). Select strips by name or by editorial cartoonist, send e-cards or just read the comic of the day.

http://www.comics.com/

Sound Portraits

Stories of beauty, dignity and meaning bubble out of flophouse hotel managers, aged Yiddish theater actors, death row executioners and 14-year-old boys in the Chicago projects at Sound Portraits, the online home of the remarkable program heard on National Public Radio.

Those portrayed tell their own stories in their own voices, often given tape recorders and microphones, and the results are as intimate as a conversation. Listen to the stories or read the transcripts, explore notes from the producers and follow up on the lives you've learned to care about through news on what became of the subjects once the tapes were turned off.

http://www.soundportraits.org/

Look-A-Likes

The UK's self-proclaimed "Number One Celebrity Look-A-Like Agency" makes it possible for you to rent anyone from John Cleese to Posh Spice to join your graduation party or corporate soiree. Their Prince Charles, perhaps even better than real, is "superb for mingling in any company, entertaining and amusing guests as he goes."

http://www.toplookalikes.com/

Broke Scholar

Get a really good summer job really fast to earn the $40,000 you need for your first year of college, or -- just for back-up -- visit BrokeScholar, a free scholarship search engine of financial aid and scholarships via a 900,000 item database. Search for the one for you by keyword, create application letters and your own deadline calendar. But get that job, too.

http://scholarships.brokescholar.com/

A Game of Words and Whimsy

"We all hocked our socks to buy telecom stocks, whose worth is now all but trans-Lucent." That's the sort of rhyme that charms those obsessed with riddles, anagrams and brain teasers at Says You!, the online version of the game of wit from WGBH public radio and NPR, where words are the playground equipment.

On air, hosts Tony Kahn and Barry Nolan and their celebrity panelists take on challenges in front of a live audience. Online, you can join in. Send your answer to the current question via e-mail, or submit a question to the program, then listen to hear how the experts do. If your entry is used, you receive a Pitifully Underpriced Prize Package.

http://www.wgbh.org/radio/saysyou/

Museum of Hoaxes

The flimflam man may be as old as civilization, and at the Museum of Hoaxes our capacity for being seduced by a good sting is recorded as far back as 756 AD. In the 9th century you may have wondered if Pope John was really Pope Joan, and in 1661 the ghostly drummer of Tedworth may have sent chills down your spine.

Today, the Internet has given hoaxers an all new way to circulate their myths around the globe in quick time. Whether wonderful stories or nasty frauds, it's hard not to admire a really good hoax. Here you can search hoaxes by century or by category, check out UFO stories and April Fool's pranks or report your favorite hoax as fact or fake.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/index.html

The Shadow Knows

With one click, visitors to The Shadow Real Audio Radio Theater can hear the still creepy laugh and the immortal line, "Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men …" as prelude to a real episode of one of the most popular and enduring radio series, The Shadow.

One of the oldest old-time radio sites at the ripe age of five years, Shadow Radio offers "Today's Drama," regularly updated, downloadable from 14.4 to 28.8 modems as originally broadcast, like "Aboard the Steamship Amazon," from July 1938. With links to other old time radio sites and enthusiasts, the site offers episodes to be downloaded for later enjoyment or played instantly via Real Audio.

http://www.shadowradio.org/

Bound for Glory: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie

"Woody is just Woody … he is just a voice and a guitar." With these words by John Steinbeck, another generation is introduced to America's most beloved folk singer at Bound for Glory: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie.

Created by the Museum of Musical Instruments, the site is the first virtual documentary exhibition devoted to Woody Guthrie. Through history, music, photographs, essays, poems, letters and drawings the man and his times are recalled. Click on Dust Bowl Blues, for example, and see photos like the portrait of the 1938 Corncob Trio of which Woody was a member, and listen to the music and interviews that capture the joy, the sorrow and the spirit of America that is Woody's legacy.

http://www.themomi.org/museum/Guthrie/index2.html

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MistyWolf

06-17-2002, 11:05 PM

http://www.pogo.com .. have fun cause this site is addicting if you like games.

jeeves

06-18-2002, 01:03 AM

Wow! I have not been on the internet much lately and for some reason I did not get an email saying that there were new replies in this thread so was I ever surprised to see all the great new posts!!!!! Thank you all so much. I'm doing much, much better. Having all these great sites to explore really makes the days go by much faster!

Jolie Rouge -
You have the most amazingly eclectic collection of sites! There's no chance I'll ever be bored again anytime soon. My mother was able to use the appliance repair site to fix her own dishwasher and save a bunch of money. Thanks.:D Thank you so much for putting so much effort into listing all those fun sites.

Now for a site I love:

Jeeves And Wooster at the Hat Sharpening Shop

http://www.hatsharpening.com/j&w/index.html

"This site dedicated to the stories of P.G. Wodehouse, television adaptations and period music!" It has a lot of information about the BBC's Jeeves and Wooster productions (shown on PBS in the USA). You can even download all of the music from the rare CD soundtrack to the show. They also have some screen shots from the show which you can use as wallpaper. Cheerio!

janelle

06-18-2002, 10:50 AM

that's for sure Jeeves. Jolie is amazing, my favorites runnith over.:D

Jolie Rouge

06-29-2002, 11:11 PM

Entering the Twilight Zone : Nobody before or since could introduce a story like Rod Serling, who from 1959 to 1964 escorted TV viewers into the "land that lies between science and superstition, between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his "knowledge." That land was the matchless Twilight Zone, and you can visit it again at The Fifth Dimension, a comprehensive guide to all 156 Zone episodes. Each TZ show was a tightly written, moodily shot, intense little drama. Visitors get all those inventive Serling intros, summaries of each show with complete dialogue, episode snapshots, downloadable music files of the haunting theme and audio of the offbeat Mr. Serling himself, being interviewed by Mike Wallace and others.

http://www.thetzsite.com/

Apple Online Museum : Satisfy your nostalgia for that old Apple IIGS you bought for something like $12,000 in the 1980s at The Apple Museum. Famously founded by two college drop-outs, Apple has ridden the highs and lows of the computer revolution and miraculously bounced back from the depths with its popular i-line product launch, memorable ads and a quirky charm that has made diehard MacHeads almost as loyal as DeadHeads. The museum has five sections: Apple History starts with Wozniak's birthday in 1950; specs and photos of 350 Apple products give away the internal code names used during development (that IIGS was called Rambo and was discontinued after 10,000 were distributed) and biographies hail history's most important Apple-achians.

http://www.theapplemuseum.com/

Animation Blast : Animation with attitude is the claim to fame of Animation Blast, an art-driven print magazine with news and commentary from artists and fans on animation artists and their art, rather than "cheesy TV cartoons from the 70s and 80s." Creator Amid Amidi offers his commentary and a sampler of the magazine's contents.

http://www.animationblast.com/

Goth Bowling : Everybody loves to bowl, even Goths, but they'd rather do it in dreary alleys with poor lighting. At Goth Bowl, anti-cheerleaders take a long trip down the gutter to rate the best of the worst, some two dozen alleys across four states, on their most deliciously sinister qualities.

http://www.gothbowl.com/

Public Lettering : Take a London stroll at Public Lettering: A Walk in Central London and shun the legendary palaces and veering taxi cabs to note the sans serif typeface on Parson's Library or the failure of shadow and scale in the interior lettering of the British Museum. Phil Baines, curator of the Central Lettering Record of Saint Martin's College of Art & Design, recreates his student tour to examine site-specific lettering in great detail. Ignoring advertising and corporate identities, the tour examines the quality of Michael Harvey's work at the National Gallery, the disappointingly trendy signage at King's Cross Station, the "sympathetic execution" on Smith and Son's Umbrellas and directional signage throughout Central London.

http://www.publiclettering.org.uk/

Infrared Zoo : Saying someone is "so hot" isn't far from the truth, as visitors to the Infrared Zoo will discover. From Caltech and NASA, the site teaches kids and adults about infrared light, the heat radiated by all living creatures. Scientists use infrared to see animals in a different light that reveals the distinction between warm- and cold-blooded animals: emus, barely visible by daylight, literally glow under infrared, but the cold-blooded caterpillar is a dark blob. In the Hide and Seek game, find animals hidden in the dark by moving the cursor, then click to learn more. An education page has infrared tutorials, more activities and games and an Ask the Astronomer section.

http://sirtf.caltech.edu/Education/Zoo/zoo.html

Occultopedia : Halloween starts in July for visitors to Occultopedia, an A to Z encyclopedia of the meaning and current knowledge of the practices of the occult sciences.
Cyber "pilgrims" are invited to be enlightened on topics as diverse as halomancy, a method of interpreting random patterns using salt, and Reiki, a laying on of hands that involves manipulating unseen energy that flows through living bodies. Links connect visitors to related audio, video and books, and updates are posted by date. The March 2002 update, for example, describes Golem, a statue produced from clay which, according to Jewish lore, is brought to life when certain holy words are spoken by a wise Rabbi. Oy vay!

http://www.occultopedia.com/welcome.htm

Fantastic Art Prints : "Pass through paradise in a dream" at The Art of Jeffrey K. Bedrick, exhibiting the artist's take on mythical romanticism, a style that grew from the Northern California Visionaries school, whose work focused on spiritual and utopian visions. Part fine art, part commercial art, Bedrick's eclectic body of work spans 20 years and virtually every medium: film, television, stage, prints, even computer games and puzzles. Galleries include Mythology & Fantasy, Pop Icons with vivid color-imbued images of Josephine Baker and John Lee Hooker, and 3D Art for Digital Media, with works created for a virtual natural history museum set in the Amazon Rainforest.

http://jeffreykbedrick.com/prints.htm

Wrestling Museum : If you recall the Fabulous Moolah, the Professional Wrestling Online Museum will ring all your bells. Ms. Moolah reigned for 30 years as women's professional wrestling champ, and she and other heroes and villains, midgets and managers of professional wrestling are featured performers in this tour of the athletic entertainment's long and colorful history. Browse photos and bios of wrestlers from Gorgeous George to Stone Cold Steve Austin, listen to Andre the Giant and Mean Gene Okerland threaten their opponents, learn the stage names of wrestlers like Mark Callaway (AKA the Undertaker, AKA Master of Pain) - and if you think you've got the stuff, find an institution of higher learning, like Florida's SkullKrushers Wrestling School.

http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/

Osbournes Fun : Toy with America's favorite blankity-blank-blank family at MTV's The Osbournes, an animated site where you can send Ozzie, Sharon, their quirky offspring and even quirkier pets wandering through the house, then check the swear-o-meter, family photos, diaries and video clips.

http://www.mtv.co.uk/mtv.co.uk/en/dynamo/the_osbournes/microsite.htm

Iron Outlaw : Outlaw folk hero or merciless killer, Ned Kelly died 121 years ago but has never been more popular. At Ned Kelly: Australian Iron Outlaw, the history and legend of a man many countrymen consider a national hero are explored in depth.
Leader of the infamous Kelly Gang of the late 1880s, Ned was a bushworker turned horse and cattle wrestler in the social war between settlers and squatters. Resurrected by a new exhibit at the Old Melbourne Gaol, movies and a TV drama, Ned embodies the frontier spirit for many Aussies. Here, fans can read the history, see Ned's famous battle "armour," read about the trial that led to his execution and examine his gang's weapons.

http://www.ironoutlaw.com/index.html

If there is light in the soul,
there will be beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,
there will be harmony in the house.

If there is harmony in the house,
there will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.

~~ Chinese Proverb

Lasher

06-29-2002, 11:32 PM

www.Ishouldbeworking.com

shark bait
and milk can toss are my favorite

Jolie Rouge

07-05-2002, 09:54 PM

:)

:D

;)

:p

:cool:

:rolleyes:

Powers of Ten

View the grand and the mundane at Molecular Expressions, where thousands of full color photomicrographs reveal pesticides, birthstones, cocktails, even baptismal water in images shot by super-powered microscopes non-scientists can only dream of using.

Until now.

Electron and confocal microscopy are usually used to point-and-click heady stuff like proteins and DNA in the lab, but here the shutter bugs take a much wider view. See the Milky Way at 10 million light years from earth or the nucleus and subatomic particles of an ordinary leaf. Besides extraordinary galleries, the site offers a primer to understanding Java microscopy and screen savers and wallpapers if you get hooked.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

How Not to Drive

A trip to How Not To Drive is like an Italian version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. The Dyseducational Road movie is by Bruno Bozzetto, the animator who's been making animation shorts and features since the 50s, including Allegro Non Troppo, known as the Italian Fantasia.

Bozetto's belief that animated films can help viewers understand difficult topics leads straight to this site, an experiment with 2D computer animation full of images and music that are pure Italian slapstick. But the message is clear in any language. A series of giant NO and YES symbols preface colorful block-images of how to stop, signal and steer clear of oncoming traffic - and the dire consequences if you goof.

http://hellsgate.online.ee/%7Emait/fahrschule.swf

Celebrate Something Bizarre

If Groundhog Day has lost its zing, visit Celebrate Something Bizarre and anticipate the uproarious fun of Ladle Day on June 23rd or the delightful Hatchetfish Day on July 10th. And if you've had it up to here with the hearts and flowers of that other February 14th event, grab the closest reptile and celebrate Horned Lizard Day instead.

http://alum.wpi.edu/~wes/holiday.htm

Chicken Challenge [/I]

As humiliating as it would be to admit a chicken had beaten you at a simple child's game, you just might win the $10,000 prize at the Chicken Challenge, where it's just you, the poultry and a game of Tic Tac Toe.
Visitors to the Tropicana in Las Vegas take the challenge daily, and five of those wily coyotes have actually won against the "specially trained" chicken.

http://www.vegas4visitors.com/column/gingerpho.htm

An American's Guide to Canada

Americans tend to be a bit smug about the Great White North, viewing it as a vast wasteland of hockey players, beer drinkers and people who go "eh?" At An American's Guide to Canada, an American emigrant shares her view of the country as an endearing, civilized and charming place.

An entire section is devoted to Really Big Roadside Attractions like great big pineapples, bison and fish you'll see plunked into the middle of otherwise normal towns. How To Tell You're In Canada tells you milk comes in plastic bags and What Every Canadian Knows describes purple Thrill Gum that tastes like soap. Topics like Canadianisms, How To Immigrate, True Facts and Academia round out the lesson plan.

http://emily.icomm.ca/

Animal Self-Medication

Animals, it seems, are taking healing into their own, uh, hands. We all know dogs who nosh on grass occasionally, but now scientists think they may do so because of zoopharmacognosy -- animal knowledge of drugs. Animal Self-Medication is a mostly scientific site devoted to studies of animals' attempts to heal thyself.

Many species appear to use plants, soils, insects and fungi as both
preventive and curative "medicines." Animals of all types appear to
interact with nature's pharmacy, from geophagy (earth-eating) by gorillas to "anting" by birds who use natural acids from ants in a feathered form of Nix. Dirt as Medicine, Insects as Medicine and Plants as Medicine are explored along with folklore, current research and discoveries.

http://www.animalselfmedication.com/

Who Lives Here?

The simple message of Who Lives Here? is that we're all residents in
Apartment Earth, so be nice and get to know your neighbor. An ideal world perhaps, but if it can be realized it might start right here.

Visitors are invited to send photos of their living spaces and tell a
little about themselves, or just meet the other residents. Enter Room 20, for example, and Londoner Nic Tinworth introduces you to his cat and his girlfriend. Step into Room 9 and Falcon shows off the Tokyo flat he shares with his girlfriend. A message board lets residents trade cultures and ideals and, like no apartment manager you've ever known, this one says only, "We always have vacancy for you and your friends."

http://www.wholiveshere.com/

The Science of Superheroes

The thrill of watching Spider Man skitter up a wall might fade when you know our hero is secreting sticky silk onto his feet to move across surfaces, but that's what you get at The Science of Superheroes, where the BBC explains how Spidey, Wonder Woman and others perform their super stunts.

The Hulk, for example, is driven by fury and a heavy dose of testosterone, and Wonder Woman's lie-detecting lasso leads to an explanation of how polygraph tests work. Besides the lessons, there are super hero facts, games to play, interviews with super-creator Stan Lee and a chance to vote on your favorite.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/superheroes/index.shtml

Lonesome Dove Online Exhibit

Taking Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove to film was a risky venture. But the classic begat a classic, the 1989 mini-series archived at the Lonesome Dove Online Exhibit, where visitors can view production material like call sheets and shooting schedules, photos from the set, the writers' annotated copies of the novel and the script, costume research, story boards and set drawings.

http://www.library.swt.edu/swwc/ld/ldexhibit1.html

The Art of James Bond

It's "Art, Bond Art" at The Art of James Bond, where the artwork that has promoted the impeccable 007 image through 50 years and 20 movies is on display. Concept Art shows rare artwork not widely seen since its creation, like the ad campaign for Dr. No that was later adapted into poster art. Fans can also view Playboy Art, including many magazine covers, and Paperback Art, showing the first pictorial image of Bond (based on a photo of Richard Conte). Special tributes to the designers, production artists, and comic book artists who put indelible marks on the Bond image are all given their due, together with the history behind the art, the artists and the famous Bond trademarks.

http://www.artofjamesbond.com/

Not Your Mother's Goldfish

Leave it to Ringo Starr to plant images of lush seascapes in the mind of a tone deaf prepubescent boy and turn him into Crazyfish, the artist who heard about "an octopus' garden in the shade" and turned to creating whimsical hand-sculptured, hand -painted sea creatures, on display at Not Your Mother's Goldfish.

The sculptures are all Crazyfish, made from low-fired white clay from North Carolina that is fired, dried and underglazed before being released to bring "joy and merriment to the world." Wildfish, Snook, Clayfish, Queen Angel and others are on view with careful descriptions of the processes that brought each to life, notes on the artist and ordering information.

http://members.aol.com/sculpturedfish/aboutartist.htm

The drunk falls from the cart but is not hurt.

You throw hesitation aside but look stupid.

To be truly uninhibited is a rare grace.

~TAO~

Jolie Rouge

07-13-2002, 10:31 PM

Flash Miniature Golf

Those clever boys at Harvard have found a way to burn piles of tuition dollars under cover of their mouse and monitor, as they try to beat par at the Mini Putt, an addictive Flash miniature golf game residing on the Harvard University server. The course is simple and the play is solitary - no chance of accidentally clubbing an 8-year old on this virtual course -- but mini-putt conventions like a windmill hole are honored, and you get a full 18-hole play. Dotted lines help players gauge angles and stroke power, and a sunk ball gives a satisfying rattle as it circles the cup rim. A scorecard shows par for each hole and keeps track of your progress.

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7epyang/flash/miniputt.swf

Infinite Wheel

Play games and music at Infinite Wheel, a dub selector site that lets visitors digitally create music loops as they play 7 different games. Select a bouncing animated icon to enter games like Echo Chamber and Little Axe, then choose breaks, loops and stops to record and replay your creation. Dub selector 2 is a screen of singing daisies, and selector 5 delivers a reggae Pac Man-like gobbler. The site also links to other offbeat sites like Planet Dirt and the charming Mrs. Miniver, a "coolhunter" of international renown who can spot trends at 30 paces. Right now, she loves henna and lavender hedges.

http://www.infinitewheel.com/infinite_wheel.html

Teaching with Historic Places

The mind-numbing drill of memorizing dates is banished at Teaching With Historic Places, where history students read letters from Civil War soldiers to understand the Battle of Gettysburg or design and market a new car after studying Thomas Edison's "Invention Factory."

Ancient ruins, Presidents' homes, main streets and battlefields are brought to the classroom via real properties listed in the National Park Service's registry of historic places, using primary source material to enliven social studies, geography, civics and other subjects. A rich mine for teachers, the site offers free downloadable lesson plans, teachers' guides, worksheets and tips on how to lead students to unearth local history in their own communities.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/

The Skeptic's Dictionary

Disbelievers will find a home at the Skeptic's Dictionary, a comprehensive critical survey of questionable therapies, eccentric beliefs and dangerous delusions, from werewolves to Yeti, urine therapy to unicorns.

http://skepdic.com/

Famous Monkeys Through History

Gordo, Able and Baker stand in history beside Neil, Buzz and Alan - though the former may drag their knuckles on the ground. Famous Monkeys Through History celebrates the first three apes in space and other super-smart, super-famous or just super-lucky primates - like Hinko, the rare Japanese Macaque who lives with Cameron Diaz.

http://www.ape-o-naut.org/famous/

The Hip Surgery Music Guide

Commuters who find themselves veering toward an oncoming semi when the car radio plays Sheryl Crow's Soak Up the Sun for the 6th time in an hour might want to get some preventive surgery at the Hip Surgery Music Guide.

Innovative, unconventional and downright bizarre artists and their performances -- spoken word discs, comedy albums, novelty music, celebrity and exploitation releases -- take center stage. The site includes discographies and links to buying in-print albums (and track listings for out-of-print recordings) of such artists as the Bonzo Dada Dog Band, England's answer to Frank Zappa, and the dark and twisted Ween, whose psychedelic sea chanteys have earned a cult following.

http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/

Matthias the Tinkerer

Step into the world of a 21st century Tom Edison, who invents pipe organs, marble machines and other contraptions in a snow-covered inventor's workshop deep in the woods, paints and photographs the forest scenes around his workshop and has a day job as manager of firmware development for portable digital radio products.

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/index.html

National Security Archive

Seekers of the unvarnished truth about international affairs might want to start at the National Security Archive, founded in 1985 by journalists, scholars and a public interest law firm who used the Freedom of Information Act to acquire what has grown into the world's largest non-governmental library of declassified documents.

Using the latest digital indexing technology, the holdings include more than 2 million pages in over 200 collections, easily searchable by keyword. The physical archive in DC handles more than 2,500 info requests yearly, but the web site makes it easy to get the inside scoop on US decision-making from original documents, read news on such past policies as our inaction during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, or join the Archive e-mail list.

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/

Postcard Tour

Today we carry PDFs and cell phones, but whether on a road trip upstate or a world tour, what traveler can resist buying a handful of postcards to send to the folks back home? America As It Was: A Tour of the USA in Vintage Postcards captures such old-time vistas as Hollywood Boulevard in the 20s, Colorado's Pikes Peak Highway in 1939, and 1908 Baton Rouge. ;) Like an early 20th century cross-country road trip, the collections from genealogical societies, universities, libraries and private collectors invite you to click on a state and city, from Birmingham, Alabama to Laramie, Wyoming, to view postcards as if you'd saved every "Wish you were here" card you and your family had ever received.

http://patsabin.com/VintagePostcards/

Cat and Girl

"If selling babies is wrong, I don't want to be right," says Cat, co-star of the weekly comic strip Cat and Girl. This is no Garfield, but a funny and strangely sweet weekly walk on the wry side with a girl and her cat, who stumble through life with the help of their friendly neighbor, Death - who has his own comic strip.

Called by creator Dorothy Gambrell a "metastatic cultural force," new strips appear each Monday but visitors can view all past strips on the site. Odd cat and girl gear is also for sale on the site, including stapled-together packets of photocopied comic strips and a homemade Chinese version, "printed red on yellow paper, and generally very confusing."

http://www.catandgirl.com/

Robert's Rules of Order

"Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty." Thus spake General Henry M. Robert, whose name has become synonymous with the orderly, if complicated, conduct of public meetings, reproduced at Bartleby.com's Robert's Rules of Order.

In 1876, Robert set out to bring order to the universe - starting with the American Congress - and published his Pocket Manual of Rules of Order. It stuck, and here visitors can find the complete rules and a subject index to learn, finally, what the heck a quorum is.

http://www.bartleby.com/176/

~Bible Scramble Game
http://www.biblescramble.com

~TV Classics
Retro TV for Me.
http://www.tvclassics.com

Jolie Rouge

07-13-2002, 10:34 PM

"Success is the ability to go from failure to
failure without losing your enthusiasm. "

~~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Jolie Rouge

07-17-2002, 11:34 AM

bumping for Italy :)

Jolie Rouge

07-17-2002, 11:54 AM

Captorquewrench

freebiequeen & freebfreak - if you like castle of spirits try

www.theshadowlands.net

non-paranormally speaking,

I also like

www.worstoftheweb.com

www.weirdlinks.com

I have a lot of free time here......

Lasher

http://www.themagicforest.com/
it's were the gnomes live, hehehehe

oh and
www.ishouldbeworking.com

www.shockwave.com .... love, gutterball

Juliegirl78
All depends on what you're interested in...

www.bigideafun.com

www.mlb.com

search.ebay.com

www.grassrootsmusic.com

www.isketch.net

greetings.yahoo.com

www.mysmilies.com

www.mostoverplayed.com

us.imdb.com

Freebiequeen1234
i like ghost stories and creepy pictures...try www.castleofspirits.com if you like that sort of stuff!

Ckerr4
well, I decided to take a chance, so here's some that I like:

Wordsworth Books weekly quiz
Amnesty International
Ask Jeeves - my favorite search engine
How far is it? (distances between places)
Graceful Bee (scrapbooking site)
Highlander website
The Frog Store

Princess of Power #1 :
For you
http://www.netlingo.com/ and

http://www.krbctv.com/diw_archive/ and

http://www.ripoffreport.com/default.asp and

http://www.ipl.org/div/news/ and

http://www.todayinhistory.com/index.php and

http://www.frugalhomemaker.com/ and

http://www.copykat.com/asp/recipes.asp and

http://www.recipegoldmine.com/ and

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/ and

http://www.yearoundgardener.com/links.html

andhttp://www.pioneerthinking.com/tk-giftbaskets.html

Well there is enough to keep you from being bored! Enjoy!!!

Jolie Rouge

07-27-2002, 10:44 PM

Street Games

We all know the Boomers have trouble growing-up. More power to them. At Streetplay.com, the spirit of play - or rather, hanging out with friends and having a great time sans coach, schedule, and equipment - is celebrated in grand style.

Stick ball, box ball, slap ball, punch ball - all the balls are here, with rule sheets listing essentials of the games. A Playful World shows kids at play and the games they invent in streets, deserts and forests. The Gallery offers images of skateboarding before it went pro and Cineplex has videos of people like Streetplay's Hula Hoop goddess. With plenty of contests and readers' memories awash with popping cigars and fake I.D.s, the site is unadulterated enjoyment - for adults.

http://streetplay.com/

SMS Translations

Instantly translate those long, verbose sentences into the economy required of cell phone and instant messaging services at Transl8it.com, where visitors type their message in English, click the transl8it button and see the short form. It's EZ az pie.

http://www.transl8it.com/

News Context

Between immigration and stem cell research, it's not easy being an informed voter these days. Get help at NewsBatch.com, where an administrative law judge has taken on the education of the citizenry to fill the knowledge gap with summaries of key policy topics.

The site includes illustrations with linked charts and maps: immigration, for example, links users to a pie chart that shows preferential job categories and a graph of immigration patterns since 1820. References to key Congressional votes and how similar issues are tackled by other nations help give the broad view. Based on news and research materials and government statistical sources, the site is a boon to students as well as responsible voters.

http://www.newsbatch.com/

What's That Stuff?

Quick, what's spreadable at 70 F, contains 44 to 60% moisture and has at least 20% milkfat? Gee whiz, it's Cheese Whiz! What's That Stuff? the web site by the geniuses at Chemical & Engineering News, chops away at ignorance to reveal the contents and processes of familiar products, from self-tanners to Spandex.

In consumer-friendly style, the site explains chemiluminescent products, known to your kids as those cool light sticks that glow in the dark, and the source of that new car smell --- alkanes, benzenes, aldehydes and ketones. The explanations are simple and thorough, and when your kid asks how come Silly Putty can snap, stretch and bounce, a quick trip to the site will make you look like the genius.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html

Time Travel Fund

Invest in the future … of time travel. At the Time Travel Fund, your small donation today earns piles of interest for the next few hundred years until time travel is perfected and your investment buys you a ticket into that future. Huh? Figure it out: A buck today at 5% interest yields $30 billion in 500 years - and by then you'll be able to afford the trip forward.

http://www.timetravelfund.com/

Best of History Websites

Good history info on the web is as vast as history itself, so visitors will find a trip to Best of History Web Sites useful preparation for the tour. A portal created for students, history educators and history buffs, the site rates all the other history sites to make it easier to find the most useful and accurate among them.

Created by a former Harvard prof and current history teacher, the site has reviewed links to over 700 of the most stimulating history-related web sites, with a focus on those offering multimedia technologies. Categories cover pre-history to 20th century, links send you to lesson plans and multimedia resources, and a special section on technology rates articles that help integrate computers into the classroom.

http://www.besthistorysites.net/

Boombox Museum

Few electronic appliances have been as reviled and as cherished as the big and booming metallic rectangle known as the boombox. The history of the device born in the mid-70s as the hybrid offspring of bulky high-performance stereo systems and tiny AM-FM transistor radios is featured at The BoomBox Museum.

Technical descriptions and photos - including its scenes as a star player in several mid-80s movies - show the evolution of the boombox from the Marantz Superscope of 1976, a $200 marvel of technology with no style whatsoever, to Panasonic's slick crown jewel, the RX-5050. The portable entertainment center, an icon of mid 80s break dancing and street life, got bigger, heavier and louder before fading from view in the late 80s.

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/

Matt McClintock's Home

Matt McClintock is methodically creating a structured, visual record of everything in his house. And he means everything: cat carriers in the basement, Clorox in the laundry room, a wooden paper cutter in the living room are all carefully photographed and documented at Mc.Clintock.com.

It feels a lot like you've entered his front door to stroll the room, open closets and handle his stuff. The photos and line drawings join unpretentious text, like his Clorox-inspired paean to his grandfather. Matt could get a lot more done around the place if he didn't document it all, but he's leaving the future a one-of-a-kind chronicle of the life of the common man in 2002.

http://mc.clintock.com/

The Eighties Club

Feed your insatiable thirst for nostalgia at The 80s Club, a vast web site about the decade that gave birth to USA Today, MTV and yuppies. The approach is more serious than most nostalgia fad sites - the content here is well-researched and entertaining, focusing on politics as well as pop culture.

Material Things is an online encyclopedia of essays about 80s politics, sports, crime, culture, even natural disasters. Tales from the Eighties offers book excerpts of momentous events like "Rather in Tiananmen Square," or mundane moments like "The Madonna/Pepsi Controversy." The Star Corner has bios of celebs who found fame in the decade, and The Daily News is the start of a compilation of headlines, month-by-month, for the entire decade.

http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/index.htm

Spam Map

Unsolicited commercial e-mail, AKA spam mail, is invasive, vast and sneaky - and spammers are an incestuous bunch, cooperating with each other to blanket the Internet with junk. The Spamdemic Map shows how the viral infection that is spam spreads from victim to victim in fascinating, frightening detail.

http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/index.html

Late Night with Conan Clips

Fans of the redhead with the big head can savor their favorite bits at the Late Night with Conan O'Brien Video Archive, a fan site featuring 88 video clips of the late night talk show host and low key goofball.

Watch performances of the fan-fave Christmas 2000 Song, Awesome Dave's Counting Channel and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog as he stands in line with Star Wars geeks and appears on Hollywood Squares. Video clips are MPEG and Real Video files viewable via Windows Media Player and RealVideo Player. Created by a Conan fan, the site also offers a chat room for other Conanoids and Conan FAQs.

http://conanvideos.jt.org/ I *HATE* Conan .....

The mind that turns ever outward
Will have no end to craving.
Only the mind turned inward
Will find a still-point of peace.

~~~ TAO

Char

08-05-2002, 01:01 AM

:D WOW :D
I am certainly finding some cool link here ! Most everything is represented ! Except maybe... hmmmmm ' death' ??? I mean this is the best possible way ! LOL

Welcome to the Death ClockTM, the Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away... second by second. Like the hourglass of the Net, the Death Clock will remind you just how short life is.

http://www.deathclock.com

"Ever wonder how long you'll live? If you're the quiet, boring type, you might just live to 100. On the other hand, if you're like us, maybe you should be dead already.
"In the spirit of the original SparkPurity Test, this one will tell you how numbered your days are. And don't lie, 'cause we're watching you."

http://test.thespark.com/deathtest/

And, for dozens & dozens, bunches & bunches of free flash games ( all on 1 page to choose !) check out http://www.miniclip.com/Independents.htm

Jolie Rouge

08-05-2002, 10:36 PM

All Nature
Backyard wanderers and global adventurers will find world-class nature content, from amphibians to wildflowers, at eNature.com, recently voted best education web site of 2002 at the Sixth Annual Webby Awards. At eNature, flora and fauna are up close and personal through local field guides, endangered species lists and an online backyard habitat planner that lets users organize and preserve their own observations in the neighborhood. For a global view, find more than 5,000 North American species with full-color photos and comprehensive descriptions of birds, mammals, butterflies, wildflowers, native plants, trees, even insects. A library of 500 bird calls lets you identify what you hear overhead, and a column of expert answers makes the tough calls.

http://www.enature.com/

Urban Exploration
The urban landscape makes for exotic meanderings as you explore a ship canal in Canada or a factory in France at Zone Tour, the Database of Urban Exploration. A sort of parallel universe for the life we live above ground, the site guides visitors through the underpinnings of civilization with audio and video clips of factories, quarries, abandoned buildings, attics and construction sites. Searchable by city or type of landscape, the site lets visitors push past the "No Entry" signs to wander under sidewalks or stroll rooftops and examine the function, urban archaeology and architecture that gives a new perspective on places foreign and familiar.

http://www.zone-tour.com/

Haunted Sanatorium
In 1906, tuberculosis hit the US hard, with 3000 cases reported in Newark, New Jersey alone, giving birth to the Essex Mountain Sanatorium, a rambling state of the art facility atop a lonely mountain. The Essex Mountain Sanatorium web site explores the haunting presence that remained when the sanatorium was abruptly abandoned in 1977 leaving shadowy buildings and all their memories - and perhaps a ghost or two - sealed inside. The remaining "haunted place of death and suffering" is explored through photos snapped in the mysterious fog and debris of dim hallways, apparitions in windows, artifacts and frightful stories from people who visited on a dare and left fast, thoroughly freaked out.

http://www.mountainsanatorium.net/

The Word Spy

Invented, abused, exiled and ignored, it's not easy being a word.
At Logophilia's Word Spy, new words and phrases like "thumbable" and "drunken trees" that have wandered into popular usage are welcomed and introduced around.

http://www.logophilia.com/

Drought Monitor

It's been a long season without rain, and you can see how long and how severe the dry spell is anywhere in the US at Drought Monitor, where colors from pale yellow to deep red show dry conditions at a glance, with notes on how agriculture, water tables and fire are affected.

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/index.html

Challenge of the Superfriends
Before "Friends," there was "Superfriends," a short-lived cartoon series of 16 episodes created in 1978 by Hanna-Barbera, featuring characters from DC Comics. At Challenge of the Superfriends, find episode lists, video and audio clips, bios of the heroes and villains, voice cast, music and other news of the series that has never been released on home video.
http://members.aol.com/SprFriends/
I remember watching this show - LOL

All Too Flat

The genesis of All Too Flat is a Monty Python joke about halibut, which pretty much sets the tone for this off-the-wall humor site for those whose sense of humor runs toward the quirky and the geeky. Two cheerful self-proclaimed nerds share their pranks, jokes and rants about the Bible, scientists and bananas via Funny Stuff, Serious Stuff and Geeky Stuff. ATF's collection includes an Ask the Fish column, scientist trading cards and hot videos of geeks gone wild at Mardi Gras. Fans who get hooked and want to share the fun can join chats, post messages, submit their own gags and shop The Store for the usual t-shirts and mugs carrying the very unusual ATF logo.

http://www.alltooflat.com/

Journal of Applied Treknology

Trekkies are a serious bunch, and at The Journal of Applied Treknology they invite engineers and the lay public to peruse starship technology so innovative that designs of the 23rd century are considered historical nostalgia. Created by the Advanced Starship Design Bureau, the site is intent on developing consistent designs for space hardware that have been extrapolated from fragmentary specs given in Star Trek episodes or in official technical manuals. Visitors should catch up first in the archive showing designs from the past - that would be the 21st to the 23rd century - before viewing designs for starships, auxiliary spacecraft, propulsion, power generation, weapons, computers, communication, medical technology and ship systems in the 24th century.

http://www.treknology.org/

Famous Trials

TV's Law and Order might have gotten you addicted to legal drama, but for the real story visit the University of Missouri Law School's Famous Trials, where genuine star litigators, evidence, testimony and drama from the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" trial to the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial are on display. Collected by a law school professor, the content includes original works, government records and other info that makes legal history live again. The 1969 Trial of the Chicago Seven, for example, offers chronology, YIPPIE posters, audio clips, trial transcripts and first person accounts. For those with a really harsh jones, see specialty sections on Searching for Law's Heroes, Searching for Evil, and Guilty or Not Guilty?

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Decameron Web

Storytelling is more than boy meets girl, and few collections have had a more lasting impact on the discussion of Western values than the 100 stories of Boccaccio's Decameron, 10 days with 10 young people escaping the Plague in mid-14th century Florence. The Decameron Web from Brown University is a "hypermedia archive" of the seminal work. Search the English or Italian text of the work or explore the origins, causes and effects of the Plague that killed half the population of Italy and thousands more worldwide. Scholars and students can zero in on the arts, literature, history and social themes Decameron captured, with special sections of activities for students and teachers.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml

World Facts

Luxembourg is the richest country in the world and Finland is the cleanest - and has the most cellphones. Aneki.com is a one-stop site for fast answers to basic questions about any country in the world, with continental and world rankings in dozens of categories. Tons of interesting facts are assembled here for use by trivia fans, research paper writers, journalists or people who need to square a bet. We've got the most billionaires, for example, but we're not even in the top 20 for life expectancy. Search by categories like economic, social, technological or environmental, or by continent. A nifty World Almanac lets you choose a country and a fact, like population or climate, for an instant answer.

http://www.aneki.com/

The mind that turns forever outward
Will have no end to craving.
Only the mind turned inward
Will find a still-point of peace.

~~ Zen Saying

Thank you Char - I felt like I have single-handedly highjacked Jeeves' thread ! LOL :) I *love* the tests at The Spark !

Jolie Rouge

08-09-2002, 02:27 PM

Childhood Mementos
Cereal boxes, Halloween make-up, and ticket stubs from theme parks are the stuff of childhood memories, gathered here at Tick Tock Toys, "a cavalcade of images and ideas" from personal collections.
None of the items can be purchased - the point is simply to show it off and provoke fond memories. Candy, cookie and pudding boxes are part of the vast Kids' Food Gallery. Household products include a 1967 box of Lux detergent with a coupon for a 15" Beatles' inflatable toy. Cereal boxes remind visitors of the formidable Frankenberry, a strawberry-flavored cereal with marshmallow bits. And proof that McDonald's didn't invent fast food giveaways - a 1970s Bob's Big Boy hand puppet.

http://theimaginaryworld.com/page4.html

Ring of Art
Recreate the pleasure of strolling a gallery, wine glass in hand, moving from canvas to canvas and making perceptive comments- without the wine - at The Artring. The online German gallery of painting and photography ranges from the naive Sicilian landscapes of Aurelio Pernice to the "womanlines" purity of photographer Fabrizio Viscardi. Visitors are invited to probe the pieces, read about the artist's work and then send him/her an e-mail with praise, criticism or queries. The emphasis is on communication, both from and to the creators, with the art acting as the channel.

http://www.artring.co.uk/

Weegee's World

You may not recognize his name but you can't have missed his photos.

Weegee, whose work and world are celebrated at Weegee's World, was the ultimate photographer of crime, news, fashion, celebrity - in short, of American life in the 20th century. A consultant on Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" in 1958 and a Vogue photographer in the 1940s, Weegee was born just as the 20th century began. Though he died in 1968, visitors can hear audio clips of the master telling how he got the pictures and the jobs. Naked City, Weegee's book of images of New York, gave the world indelible images of Harlem, Jerry Lewis at his zaniest and Jayne Mansfield at her bustiest, all on view.

http://www.icp.org/weegee/weegee.html

Hello Dr. Kitty
Characters from Hello Kitty walk visitors through questions like "Which mushroom is poisonous?" to reveal how stressed you are and how you handle it at the Hello Kitty Psychological Test. What possessed the folks at Sanrio to branch off into psychology is a mystery, but maybe those little girls carrying pink plastic umbrellas and lime green toothbrush holders are showing signs of anxiety.

http://www.sanriotown.com/psycho/psycho6/psycho6_us.htm

Internet Movie Awards

Attention spans on the Internet can't retain info about films they saw way back in January, so it makes sense that Internet Movie Awards.com lets visitors vote for the best films, filmmakers, and performers of 2001 six months into the year. Nominees for the 2002.1 awards are films released between January 1st and June 30th. In 6 months, you can vote for the best of the second half at the 2002.2 awards.

http://www.internetmovieawards.com/

Henry and Kathleen See Europe
At Leafpile, Henry and Kathleen see the world as a great big pile of leaves to leap into, and you're invited to join the earnest romp. Kathleen is a photographer and Henry a writer so their submersion into the world, especially European peasantry life, is rich and articulate. As the couple share their trip across Europe and beyond, Kathleen points her lens right into the faces of Transylvanian peasantry and sun-lit Egyptian pyramids. The Best of Leafpile offers travelogue highlights, like graphic images of slaughter-time on the Romanian farm and picnic-like scenes of the High Crosses of Ireland. Henry's Reading Room offers fantasy fare by Henry, who plans to be a screenwriter and children's book author, fueled by their travels.

http://www.leafpile.com/

Conspiracy Central
Give yourself a reason to be paranoid at AboveTopSecret.com, a comprehensive offering of more than 100 news articles and theories designed to expose worldwide secret government and military efforts to control, well, everything. Besides the usual conspiracy topics like UFOs and Area 51, specialty topics like global electronic surveillance, neuronal chips and supercomputers that manipulate human "emotion signature clusters" are exposed. A lively chat room and message board with 23 active forums, a news portal called X-gate where users can post stories, and coverage of a dozen or more topics from aerospace technology to weather modification will keep you up all night worrying.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/

History Buff
Nothing makes events more real than reading about them in the newspaper - even when the news and the paper are 400 years old. Perhaps more so. At The History Buff, the drama returns to faceless names and meaningless dates via news coverage from the 16th to the 20th century. Nearly 20 years ago, site creator Rick Brown began publishing his Collectible Newspapers journal, the source of the material here. Visit the Presidential Library for coverage of inaugural speeches, discover how major events have been covered differently by audio and print news media, learn about newspaper collecting or play interactive quizzes to find out if you're a bonafide history buff.

http://www.historybuff.com/

Eating Utensils
"Why should a person need a fork when God had given him hands?" So said Englishmen when first presented with the fork, considered an effeminate and ridiculous device. At the Academy of Sciences' History of Eating Utensils, 1,700 cutlery items are presented, evidence of mankind's persistent attempt to improve upon - in porcelain, wood and pewter - the human hand.
The site documents the history and evolution of forks, spoons, chopsticks, knives, tableware and portable eating sets. The Greeks invented kitchen forks to carve and serve meat, and spoons have been with us since Paleolithic times. Portable Cutlery includes gorgeous Japanese travel chopstick/ knife sets - and not a "spork" in the whole bunch.

http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/index.html

Redneck Neighbor
Redneck Neighbor is a personal web page about every suburbanite's worst nightmare, the clutzy,noisy, tasteless neighbor whose failed building projects become part of the local scenery. Scroll through story after story about loud parties and feeble - even fraudulent - attempts at home improvement, crowned by a Jesus statue atop the mailbox.

http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm

Barthelme Portal

An admirer of the American short story writer, novelist, editor, journalist and teacher Donald Barthelme has scoured the Web for all online sources of Bathelme's work and presents it on this web site, called simply Donald Barthelme. Readers can enjoy great chunks of stories and non-stories from this wry, funny writer who has written for the New Yorker and earned both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Award. His sharp, caustic work appears with just the barest of commentary. Like the writer, who relied on language more than plot line to make the point, Barthelme's words speak for themselves.

http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/

The mind that turns ever outward
Will have no end to craving.
Only the mind turned inward
Will find a still-point of peace.

~~ Zen saying

janelle

08-09-2002, 03:32 PM

I think BBS is still having trouble. The addys I click on won't go through. I think they are good addys just something wrong with the links from BBS?

Moonmama

08-09-2002, 04:02 PM

Bumping so I can find it again! Merci' Beaucoup, Jolie Rouge!:cool: I hope you're feeling better Jeeves!:)

Jolie Rouge

08-16-2002, 10:04 PM

The Lost Art of the Short Story
While serious readers and writers bemoan the long, slow decline of the short story, Short Stories at East of the Web lifts the perfect literary form to the top. Writers get exposure for their work and readers a source of high quality reading material, whether sci-fi, hyper-fiction, romance, humor, crime or non-fiction. The Story of the Day or the Month, the Top Six and winners of sponsored competitions can be browsed by category, title, author or keyword and then read online, printed or downloaded for reading offline or on handheld devices. Click on an author's name to see all of his or her stories, further information and links, or register for your own bookshelf to store favorite tales to read later.

http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

The Smithsonian's Favorite Things

Seen from a museum curator's perspective, 600 years of human activity could look a lot like a giant jigsaw puzzle, much like History Wired, created by the Smithsonian Institute. Nearly a dozen categories offer 450 objects representing "a few" of the Smith's favorite things, from arts, politics, people, sports, business and more.
From a Hell's Angels jacket to a phrenology head, the objects are part of an experimental program that leads visitors on a virtual tour of selected items from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History.
Many of the artifacts are not on public exhibit, so for a private tour of public history, click on each one for a deeper look at its history, context and meaning.

http://historywired.si.edu/

This is WAY COOL !

Digital Ballparks

Baseball fans who lament the loss of the grand old ballparks of yesteryear and make pilgrimages to Wrigley Field can view all the fields of dreams at Digital Ballparks, an online baseball stadium museum. From San Francisco's 3Com Stadium (please, it will always be Candlestick) to Muzzy Field in Bristol, Connecticut, or Cardines Field in Rhode Island built in 1889 to the Toronto Blue Jay's Skydome, the site offers photos and more photos, with very little text to interrupt the experience. See Single A, Double A, Triple A and independent ballparks, including some demolished or in their pre-renovation state of cherished disrepair.

http://www.digitalballparks.com/

Drive-ins

Families, teens and lovers lucky enough to live in the 50s knew the pleasure of sitting in a car, windows fogged, watching a first-run movie on a giant screen in front of you and the other hundred or so cars parked around you. That pleasure is recreated at Drive-in Movies.com, dedicated to the culture, history, preservation and promotion of drive-in theatres. Today, multiplexes multiply as screens shrink, so a trip to one of the few remaining drive-ins should be made quickly - before they're gone forever. In 4 of the 50 states, they already are. All remaining drive-in theatres in the other 46 states are indexed and listed here, with location, phone number and photos.

http://www.driveinmovie.com/

Brunswick's Virtual Bowling

Who says bowling is boring? Pick up the Zone, Rhino or Quantum bowling ball and step up to take your shot at Brunswick's Cosmic Web Bowling, where balls wobble, curve, leap or slow to a crawl and each successive game is played on a different lane, dry or soiled, so that no two games are alike.

http://www.brunswickbowling.com/html/game.html

Cricklers

Crossword puzzles, addictive though they are, can be a big pain - either too hard or too easy, matching clues to numbers, thinking up obscure words that no one ever uses. Chronic puzzlers might want to try out Cricklers.com, where the crossword puzzle is reinvented for the computer age. Cricklers, say inventors Michael and Barbara Crick, are more adaptable, becoming easier or harder with the skill of the solver. Words are chosen by the puzzle creator, then the computer fits them into a puzzle with clues, plus online creative accessories like fonts, colors, pictures animations, sounds and music. Feed your addiction with News puzzles; WordZap, a dictionary game; Enigma, a classic quotation cipher, or any number of word games.

http://crickler.com/

The Food Timeline

Ever try to explain to a kid what a "paw-paw" is and why anyone would put it in his pocket? Who invented the potato chip, or what pioneers snacked on along those long drives westward? Even simple olive oil, called "liquid gold" by Homer, is enshrined at the Food Timeline, where the history, ingredients, recipes and uses of food of every kind becomes a social study. From a prehistoric diet puzzle to what's for breakfast in 2002, the Culinary Timeline covers the customs, manners and menus from 17,000 BC to future trends in dining. Besides learning about food history, visitors will find old time recipes to make with modern ingredients and plenty of teaching resources and activities.

http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html

Truth or Fiction?

The search for truth is made easier at Truth Or Fiction, where visitors get help separating rumor from warning, hoaxes from serious pleas, urban legends from history among all those stories whirling across the Web. Is Liz Claiborne a Satan worshipper, and did a US Federal Court rule that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional? No, and yes. The Truth Or Fiction staff does the grunt work, researching and classifying each e-rumor in a dozen or more categories. A claim of Truth means that reliable sources will vouch for it. Fiction means that reliable sources will swear it's false. But as any seeker knows, truth is a moving target, so other stories are classified to cover the full range in between.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/

Crop Circle Cereal

Crop circles may be one of the world's great unsolved mysteries, but a close second has to be if the creators of Crop Circle Cereal are serious about this marketing plan to launch a new breakfast cereal made from wheat grown in fields where crop circles have appeared. See all the ideas from the creative boys -- the box, sample ad spots, collectible cards and alien space music. Venture capitalists: the line starts over there, in the back 40.

http://www.cropcirclecereal.com/ :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Airport Nap Guide
When long security lines or holiday traffic leave you stranded in the airport, travelers with low budgets and low energy who eye the chairs, floors and luggage carrels can find help at Sleeping in Airports, where the best and worst airports for sleepers are recommended, along with tips on sleeping safe and comfy when you're grounded.

http://www.sleepinginairports.net/

The Italians

Sixteenth century portraits, 17th century allegories and 18th century landscapes, all masterpieces of the Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque and Rococo eras of Italian painting are on exhibit at The Italians, Three Centuries of Italian Art.

The overview of 300 years of Italian painting is showing now through October at the National Gallery of Australia. Online visitors can see the exhibit online, viewing more than 100 works from public and private collections arranged by the Italian government as its major international cultural promotion in the visual arts for 2002. Click on images arranged in chronological order to see larger views and simple descriptions.

http://www.theitalians.com.au/theitalians/Default.cfm

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From a bud, only a promise.
Then a gentle opening:
Rich blooming, bursting fragrance,
The fulfillment of the center.

~~ Zen saying

Jolie Rouge

08-22-2002, 02:15 PM

Book Crossing
They release condors and gray wolves into the wild, so why not really good books? If you've enjoyed a good read lately and want to share it, first register it at Book Crossing, which promotes a kind of captive breeding and release program for books.

After registering the book on the site, slap on a label carrying a unique Book Crossing Identification Number, then leave it lying around or lend it to a friend. Then sit back and track its movements from random reader to reader as they check in at Book Crossing and you get an email about the book's progress.

http://www.bookcrossing.com

Jolie Rouge

08-22-2002, 09:06 PM

Saltenias, anyone?

Subscriber Martha needed a useable recipe for Saltenias, a Bolivian dish. This fun topic led to this site, a recipe "hash" of its own under a general appetizer theme. Fun browsing, especially if you're looking for quick, easy hors d'oeuvres. Oh, yes, if you want Saltenias, it's close to the bottom.
http://www.gazetteonline.com/special/holiday/app2001.htm

Political Soup

Yes, there is such a thing as Senate Bean Soup. Thanks, Ken, for the inquiry. This link takes you right to our beloved Senate's site. Scroll down three screens for the recipe. http://www.senate.gov/learning/learn_faq.html#history

Thai Tea Time
Subscriber Janice wrote looking for a recipe for Thai Ice Tea.
This was a learning experience for me, and I found that no two recipes are the same. I did find one - a massive "make ahead" batch, with exciting seasonings - I just had to include. (Make sure you have room in the fridge.)
http://www.blueray.com/thaitea/recipes.html

Jolie Rouge

08-25-2002, 09:24 PM

World Myths

How it all began according to cultures from the African Zulu to the Southwestern Navajo is the core lesson at The Big Myth, an experimental learning program of Flash animation designed for use in European primary schools. Comparing world creation mythologies, the site shares creation myths the world over, with overviews of each culture's history, religion, society and politics. Teachers have their own section with links, guides and a discussion forum, while students can invent an imaginary culture and submit their own myths, then visit the Gallery of Myths to see postings - like the 13-year-old whose invented culture is peopled by folks who believe they live inside a giant intestine, or the mom whose world view depends on
fresh-baked cookies.

http://www.bigmyth.com/

History Through Deaf Eyes

Imagine a world without voices, barking dogs, airplanes roaring overhead or traffic rumbling on the ground. Many Americans need not use their imaginations, and to record their experience, Gallaudet University has created History Through Deaf Eyes, a social history of deaf Americans, using objects and images collected by individuals, organizations and schools for deaf students.

An online version of a traveling exhibit, the site shares family life, education, work and how the deaf adapt to new technologies to communicate. Identity is central, and the site works hard to make the deaf experience meaningful to hearing Americans by highlighting American Sign Language, and the visual, literary and performing arts that express the deaf world - now being revolutionized by the Internet.

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/deafeyes/

Art Theft - World's Most Wanted Art

Short of putting Picassos on a milk carton, Art Theft may be the best source for recovering stolen art, where the world's largest directory of purloined paintings is maintained, along with resources for art recovery and links to related websites worldwide.

http://www.saztv.com/

Dome-O-Rama!

Turn it upside down, shake and set it upright to watch the snow whirl around dolphins in Newport Beach, sunken ships in Cape Cod and 60s peace signs in Cleveland. Snow domes, AKA snow globes, have moved from high kitsch to high collectible, celebrated at Dome-O-Rama.
Every household has at least one snow dome on a shelf or closet somewhere, but not all domes are the same. Classic molded domes with a minimum of Lucite are ranked tops, but visitors can pick their favorites at this collection categorized by shape - large, small, Popsicle-style or pedestal - or learn how best to photograph, care for, clean and trade the souvenirs.

http://www.domeorama.com/

How to Fry an Egg on a Computer

Computers can do just about anything these days -- even cook up breakfast, a theory proven at Trubador, where step-by- step descriptions show visitors how to fry an egg on their PC using only coins and foil. **Now try to get your frying pan to send spam**

http://www.handyscripts.co.uk/trubador_egg.htm

Viewing Japanese Prints

For more than 300 years, Japanese artists have created beautiful, complex and enduring works of art in the colorful and varied tradition of woodblock printmaking. At Viewing Japanese Prints, visitors get a lesson in appreciating 17th to 19th century Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), 20th century Shin hanga ("new prints"), Sosaku hanga ("creative prints") and contemporary Kindai hanga.

The illustrations include a demo of how successive applications of inked woodblocks upon a sheet of mulberry paper produce a brocade print, and special topics explore themes that reflect the social, political and cultural history the prints document - like shinju, the celebrated real-life double suicides dramatized on kabuki and puppet stages.

http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/%7Efiorillo/

The Memory Hole

The American memory is notoriously short-circuited, and while The Memory Hole can't cure us of our occasional national Alzheimer's moments, it does try to protect info that is in danger of being lost, intentionally or not.

Masses of info are preserved and disseminated here: corporate memos, maps, patents, court documents, eyewitness reports, Congressional testimony and a vast store of governmental and non-governmental reports. Among recent postings: the members of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; media "ground rules" for covering Afghanistan which, if broken, can cost journalists their press credentials; a list of 599 ingredients added to cigarettes -- and the classic one-minute speeches of recently expelled US Rep. James Traficant.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Leave it to Hollywood to defy natural law - and leave it to physicists to lock 'em up for the crime, if only virtually. At Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, visitors learn why bullets don't create bright flashes when they strike metal, why people can't jump through windows unharmed, and why it's very unlucky (and unlikely)that a car will explode on impact.

Mathematical equations disprove laser security systems with visible lasers that heroes can tiptoe over, and calculations of momentum, mass and velocity shatter the myth of shattered glass. The site also ranks popular movies from GP, for "good physics," to XP, for "physics from an unknown universe" and offers teachers activities to take the magic of Hollywood into the classroom for a closer look.

http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html

Genius' Scrapbook

Your scrapbook may be crammed with ticket stubs and ancient love notes, but then you're no genius. Stephen Wolfram is, and average Joes like us can see what he saves at The Stephen Wolfram Scrapbook, where one of the world's most original scientists opens the pages of his virtual albums for a peek. Wolfram, an innovator in computing technology, published his first scientific paper at the age of 15 and earned his Ph.D. from Caltech by age 20. So don't expect to see movie stubs. Click on the scrapbook pages to see research notes, his Caltech ID card, a mathematical log of outgoing emails, even a few baby photos - maybe just to prove he really is one of us.

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/scrapbook/

Classic Nickelodeon

Hard to believe, but the network that created second- and even third-generation Mr. Ed fans has gotten old enough to become nostalgia itself, as the early days of Nickelodeon are lovingly recalled at the Classic Nick Homepage.

Inspired by a small channel called "Nick's Flicks" 25 years ago, today's Nick evolved from the Pinwheel Network, renamed in 1981 to Nickelodeon and picking up a Peabody Award the next year. Reminisce with fans about old faves like "You Can't Do That On Television," download theme songs from "Mapletown," "Pinwheel" and other classics, read episode guides, join the Classic Nick online community or take the Classic Nick Trivia Quiz.

http://www.johnsrealmonline.com/classicnick/index.html

Jolie Rouge

08-25-2002, 09:26 PM

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One side of a ridge is cold and foggy,
The other is hot and dry.
Just by choosing where you stand,
You alter your destiny.

~TAO

Jolie Rouge

08-28-2002, 10:31 PM

Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when founder Michael Hart was given an unexpected gift. As a joke, the computer operators at the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois gave him a computer account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it. Read on to find out how Hart's "fortune" turned into one of the Net's greatest treasures.

--------------- HART'S DECLARATION -----------------

After receiving this unexpected gift, Michael thought for an hour or so and decided that the greatest value created by computers would not be computing, but rather the storage and retrieval of the information that was stored in our libraries. And he also devised a clever plan to repay his hundred-million dollar "debt".

Hart proceeded to type in the "Declaration of Independence", and Project Gutenberg was born. Today there over three thousand public domain works available through Project Gutenberg. Due to copyright issues, you won't see the latest best-sellers or modern computer books in the PG library, but you will find:

* Classics from the start of this century and previous centuries from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante

* Well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice in Wonderland

* The Bible and other religious documents, along with references such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, a set of encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.

Hart's philosophy was that anything entered into a computer can be reproduced indefinitely. And theoretically, anyone in the world can have a copy of a book that has been entered into a computer.

In an effort to make the Project Gutenberg "Etexts" as widely usable as possible, they are available in ASCII, or plain text format. Thus, people with most any type of computer - DOS, Apple, Atari, Mac, Windows, UNIX or mainframe can read the Etexts without any special software.

This is a great philosophy! I'm so sick of receiving documents that require me to download and install a software package just to read them. All too often, those bulky Acrobat, Word, RichText, PostScript, or PowerPoint documents have little added value over a simple text file. To make things worse, they're not searchable by standard utilities that don't understand all those proprietary formats. (And for all the same reasons, we publish TOURBUS in plain ASCII format.)

------- HART SPEAKS ON ACCESSIBILITY -------

"The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search. Alice in Wonderland, the Bible, Shakespeare, the Koran and many others will be with us as long as civilization... an operating system, a program, a markup system... will not."

Project Gutenberg's team of volunteers is close to producing their 3500th Etext, and they are working toward a goal of having 6300 Etexts online by August of 2004. Some of their efforts have been hampered though, by legislation that has extended copyrights in several countries from 50 to 70 years after the author's death. You can read more about copyright issues on the PG site.

Here's a sample of one book that caught my eye while browsing:

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."

-- From Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

------------ Getting Involved -----------

Project Gutenberg is a volunteer organization funded by private donations and a grant from Carnegie Mellon University. If you'd like to help in the work of preserving and distributing public domain literature (and doing something personal to make the Internet a richer resource) you can get involved in a variety of ways.

Volunteers are needed to locate and scan texts, do editing, proofreading and other jobs. And since the funds to continue this work are always scarce, monetary donations are always welcome. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, you can do so by check, money order, credit card or Paypal. For details, see:

http://promo.net/pg/donation.html

Do something nice for your brain - unplug the television tonight and pay a visit to Project Gutenberg, then search for your favorite classic by author or title and curl up with a nice electronic book.

http://www.gutenberg.net

Have a good read, I'll see you next time! Do feel free to pass along any issue of Tourbus, and tell your friends to visit the Tourbus website to see the archives, or play Warp the Busdriver (or his poor dog)! --Bob Rankin

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janelle

08-28-2002, 11:21 PM

http://www.bored.com/main.html

What better web site to go to when you are bored?

Jolie Rouge

08-30-2002, 08:43 PM

Galileo's Struggle

Imagine being the guy who had to convince the world that it was not the center of the universe. Three hundred years ago that was the battle, documented at Galileo's Struggle, the companion web site to the two-hour NOVA special based on the bestseller, "Galileo's Daughter." Considered the father of modern science, Galileo infuriated the Church with his astonishing notion that the Earth, like other common planets, revolved around the sun, contradicting both the Bible and common sense. Learn about the thinker's intellectually heroic life and his place in science. An interactive section lets visitors test his theories via experiments with inclines, pendulums and falling objects - a test that even Aristotle failed.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/

Grand Illusions

Remember Monty Hall and his now famous Three-Door Dilemma? TV game contestants had a chance at a fabulous prize if only they could choose the right door. At Grand Illusions, inquiring minds learn the mathematical solutions to such puzzles and experiment with dozens of fascinating optical illusions. See Jesus, try out a trick best played on a group of drunken scientists, or take the brain teaser that Microsoft allegedly uses to test job applicants. At the Grand Illusion Shop, visitors can buy classic illusions and scientific toys almost impossible to find elsewhere, like the amazing melting spoon or Juno's Spinner, a polyhedron that strangely morphs between two shapes.

http://www.grand-illusions.com/index.htm

Computer Stupidities

The biggest bug in any computer sits on the chair right in front of the keyboard...that's right, you. The mistakes users and experts alike make with hardware, software and usage are gathered, grouped and exposed at Computer Stupidities, where anyone with a mouse will feel right at home.

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

Word Oddities and Trivia

Word Oddities and Trivia gives word-freaks 19 pages of random word facts, like the three 7-letter words that can be played on a musical instrument and a whole page of words beginning with the letter Z.

http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html

W. J. Sidis Archives

The child prodigy William J. Sidis may have burnt-out early, but here admirers have gathered his contributions to cosmology, Native American history and two books' worth of theory and thought, inviting others to
contribute to the search for his lost manuscripts.

http://www.sidis.net/

Grammar and Language Courses

If you think the irregular verbs and quirky spelling of English are tough, try learning Estonian. It has one present tense, three pasts and no future. According toYourDictionary.com's Grammar and Language Courses, it's one of the world's most difficult languages to master.

To start the lesson, or to learn Akkudian, Finnish or Mayan for that matter, scroll through the list of over 100 languages, click on your choice, and be taken directly to online lessons with audio clips for pronunciation and practice, find off-line resources on CD ROM and in books and related links to foreign language newspapers, radio stations and dictionaries.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars.html

Movie Spoilers

Don't tell me how it ends! If you're the type who closes your eyes, stuffs your ears and hums loudly during movie trailers, Movie Spoilers is not the ticket for you. On the other hand, moviegoers sick of dropping $8 or more for a clunker need never be disappointed again. Detailed plot lines, scene-by-scene action, even direct quotes from in-release movies like Signs and The Master of Disguise are here, submitted by regular people who have no compunction whatever about revealing the ending. Over a hundred spoiled movies take up residence, so visitors can also catch up on movies that flew under their radar or, if they just can't not tell, submit their own spoiler.

http://www.themoviespoiler.com/

Mystery Portal

Mystery fanatics with investigation notes of their own or oft-told family tales that make little ones duck their head under the covers at night can share their creepiest suspicions with others at the Mystery Portal. Haunted Britain, UFOs, crop circles, ghosts of all kinds and even haunted airfields are fodder for the fans of mystery who gather here to read the features, updates, articles and reader submissions. From UFO photographs to legendary "earth mysteries," like the shape-changing fearsome demon dog of English folklore, the offerings are detailed and often accompanied by first-person notes and evidence.

http://www.mysterymag.com/

The Virtual Cave

Nature has an astounding way of using its own power to relentlessly whack away at its own creations to recreate them. Witness The Virtual Cave, where visitors explore solution caves dissolved from solid rock, sea caves carved by the ocean, erosional caves made by particles whipped by wind and water, and lava tube caves formed by flowing lava. The amazing variety of caves is explored in words and images without risk of violating the caver's motto to "Take nothing but pictures and leave no trace of your visit." If the keyboard isn't tactile enough for you, links to the US Show Caves Directory and the National Speleological Society can guide you to safe and respectful visits to real live caves.

http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/

The Great Seal

Imagine the mother of all branding campaigns - coming up with a logo and a slogan to symbolize a feisty new nation intent on cornering the market on democracy. Great Seal.com tells the story of the six-year effort by the Founding Fathers to create a public identity for the USA. Talk about brainstorming. Old Ben Franklin liked the idea of Moses extending his hand over the sea to overwhelm Pharaoh as a pillar of fire from the clouds shined on Moses to show he acted at God's own command. Learn the whole story of how America's symbolic mission statement came to be, from the other preliminary designs to the significance of the Seal's symbolic elements and Latin mottoes.

http://www.greatseal.com/

~My Deer Garden ~ Deer Resistant Garden Design
www.mydeergarden.com

Clouds appear free of care
and carefree drift away.
But the carefree mind is not to be "found" -
To find it, first stop looking around.

~~ Wan An-shih
(1021-1086)

the fugative

08-30-2002, 08:54 PM

:p

http://www.goblertoys.com/

;)

Jolie Rouge

09-04-2002, 10:14 PM

TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Ah Bartleby!

Today is the first day of school for my teenage daughters, which means I have the rare opportunity to use my computer for seven glorious hours in a row. It's amazing how quiet the neighborhood gets after the Big Yellow Vacuum Cleaner passes through. :-) In today's TOURBUS, we're going to visit Bartleby. If you read, write or research, you won't want to miss it.

------------ AH, BARTELBY! ------------

After last week's article on Project Gutenberg, I was reminded by a couple of TOURBUS readers that I should also have mentioned Bartleby.com, a complementary site offering both contemporary and classic Reference works, along with a library of Verse, Fiction and Nonfiction. So let's dive right in...

------------ THE REFERENCE SECTION ---------------

* THE COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA (6th edition, 2001) purports to be the most up-to-date encyclopedia available. It contains over 50,000 articles, 40,000 bibliographic citations, and 80,000 cross-references. On the off chance that you were trying to remember the name of Michael Jackson's 1995 album that critics described as "petty, maudlin, and paranoid" -- it's in there. Use the alphabetic index or search for the object of your inquiring.

http://www.bartleby.com/65

* THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY (4th edition, 2000) is not your typical online dictionary. In addition to the 90,000 definitions you'd expect, the AHD has 70,000 audio word pronunciations, and 900 full-page color illustrations.

http://www.bartleby.com/61

* STRUNK'S ELEMENTS OF STYLE - In 1918, William Strunk became the Emily Post of English composition with the publication of "The Elements of Style". This guide focuses on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. Words Often Misspelled should be required reading, while the Words And Expressions Commonly Misused chapter explains why it's certainly very important for the student body to avoid a literal flood of words when less would oftentimes be as good or better. As to whether brevity is truly the soul of wit, many truly clever people claim this viewpoint, but others believe that long-winded exposition is an important factor in effective communication.

http://www.bartleby.com/141

* THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY (6th edition, 2001) compiled by renowned historian Peter Stearns is a comprehensive chronology spanning the millenia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.
But what's this? No mention of Middle Earth, or the impact of Dwarves on modern mining technology. Hmmm...

http://www.bartleby.com/67

* ROGET’S II: THE NEW THESAURUS (3rd edition, 1995) picks up where the 1922 edition left off. Search or browse over 35,000 synonyms with succinct word definitions.

www.bartleby.com/62

* QUOTATIONS - Use this page at Bartleby to search Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, The Columbia World of Quotations, and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations all at once!

www.bartleby.com/quotations

* GRAY'S Anatomy of the Human Body (20th edition) featuring 1,247 vibrant engravings from the classic 1918 publication.

www.bartleby.com/107

* ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER contains the orderly rules of reason used by deliberative assemblies. Anyone second the motion?

<www.bartleby.com/176

----- THE LITERATURE SECTIONS -----

* The VERSE section includes anthologies such as "The Oxford Book of English Verse" and "Yale Book of American Verse" as well as volumes of works by Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Keats, and many others.

www.bartleby.com/verse

* The FICTION section starts with The Harvard Classics and The Harvard Shelf of Fiction, which offer a combined 70 volumes that cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century. You'll also find selected works of Aesop, Christie, Melville, Stevenson, Wells and many others. Top it off with The Oxford Shakespeare - 37 plays and 154 sonnets.

www.bartleby.com/fiction

* The NON-FICTION section contains some of the seminal works in history, from John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" to Booker T. Washington's "Up from Sl*****" and Albert Einstein's "Relativity."
The nonfiction section also includes the complete inaugural addresses of every US President from George Washington onward.

www.bartleby.com/nonfiction

That's all for now. Do feel free to pass along any issue of Tourbus, and tell your friends to visit the Tourbus website to see the archives, or play Warp the Busdriver (and his poor dog).
--Bob Rankin

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Jolie Rouge

09-05-2002, 09:55 PM

Pork Barrel This past weekend I prepared a pork tenderloin by simply slicing it into medallions and marinating it in a good Teriyaki sauce for a couple of hours. Grilled, these juicy meat delicacies disappeared from the table, and I was reminded just how appealing a good pork recipe can be. These sources offer some of the best recipes around.

Other White Meat A snazzy site packed with recipes and anything else you would want to know about pork. The intro is cute. I'm heading for the Braised El Paso Sirloin Chops.
http://www.otherwhitemeat.com/

Barbecue is Good Lots of recipes including pork, poultry and beef, with emphasis on grilling and barbecuing. Fruited Pork Chops?
http://www.cookiesbbq.com/recipes.html

For all the best resources on Gourmet Cooking on a Budget, visit:
http://wz.com/food/GourmetCookOnBudget.html

"Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs." --Mark Twain

Jolie Rouge

09-06-2002, 08:48 PM

Puppets Against Brisk

The puppets don't ask much, only that they be restored to their rightful place as product endorsers - in particular, of Lipton Brisk Tea. But their firing as spokespuppets has radicalized the Latex warriors, and they've created Puppets Against Brisk to promote their cause. Through documentaries with celebrity defenders, behind-the-scenes interviews at campaign headquarters and a look at the Brisk commercial that sealed their fate, the Brisk puppets make their case public and solicit your support for their inalienable right to be hawk tea. Visitors moved to champion the cause can send e-mails to friends or vote to bring back the puppets and win a puppet version of themselves.

http://www.liptonbrisk.com

EphemeraNow.com

Those pining for their old '58 Chevy Impala, or media types searching for the right image, can find satisfaction at Ephemera Now, where illustrated ads of mid-century America are available to browse or buy. The site sells high-quality scans of color illustrations in the public domain, plus some original ads from vintage periodicals. The emphasis is on autos but other items, notably Coke, are offered too. In the Cars section, see the fabulous wings on that 1958 Impala. In Wagons, view the classic "Woody," a '48 Packard Eight Sedan or, in Trucks, a '58 Ford Ranchero with gleaming white and leather seats. Classic Ads show DuPont and Westinghouse appliances that promised American women "a zillion carefree hours."

http://www.ephemeranow.com/

Filmmaking Portal

After watching "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," many a budding filmmaker may be caught thinking "Hey, I could do that!" While making movies isn't as easy as it looks, Filmmaking.com can give you a jump-start.
Loaded with tips, advice, and hardcore resources - like a database of dealmakers and links to practical info like how to register your script with the Writers' Guild - the site covers filmmaking from start to finish. Learn about preparing for the shoot, equipment, editing and post production, tips on distribution, talent databases and concise outlines on how to be a director or a writer. More than 100 new filmmakers' home pages are here, too, so you can check out the competition.

http://www.filmmaking.com/

IdiomSite

Quit your lollygagging and head over to IdiomSite to learn the origins of those timeworn phrases we all toss around without thinking. Idiom is a way of speaking that comes natural to the natives - so natural that we rarely consider how the meaning of phrases like "kick the bucket" must drive non-native speakers stark raving nuts.

http://www.idiomsite.com/

The Brady Bunch Hour

The Brady Bunch, like fine wine and cheese, apparently gets better with age. The 1970s hyper-hygienic Bradys are more popular than ever today and this is the Second Rising. The Brady Bunch Hour is about the First Rising in 1976 when ABC's Fred Silverman resurrected the family to create a variety special that led to 8 additional hour-long shows. The premise: Dad Mike quits his job to move the family to a beach house so they can star in their own TV variety show. Don't ask. Know only that fans of "The Brady Bunch Hour" can visit the site to read cast memories, study episode guides, memorize the minutiae (who played Jan?) and follow links in the infinite Brady saga.

http://www.bradyhour.com/

Game Studies

Gaming isn't just fun and, well, games at Game Studies, the international online journal of computer game research that approaches games as a rich cultural genre ripe for scholarly review. An academic channel for ideas and theories about gaming, the site offers in-depth articles, from interviews with a creator of the popular Sims (as in simulation) series to studies of the proper categorization of game genres.

http://www.gamestudies.org/

Ancient Scripts

Putting pen to paper seems old-fashioned in these days of e-mail and online banking, when one rarely even has to sign a check anymore. But writing remains a useful invention, even if we don't use it to count sheep or reinforce allegiance to the king as did the ancient scribes. How and why some 70 writing systems evolved is described at Ancient Scripts. Many advanced cultures got along fine without writing - notably, the Incas -- but civilization's writing systems, from Arabic to Zapotec, are illustrated, described and cross-referenced here. Scripts are listed alphabetically and classified by how they work, their relationship to others and region.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/

Online Classics

The screen you're looking at right now is the front door to your own classic library collection of 651 books and 906 short stories, available in unabridged editions with just a click. ClassicReader is a marvelous resource for readers who never got around to Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" or have yet to discover P.G. Wodehouse.
With seven categories of literature, from fiction to drama, new titles are added regularly. You won't find Stephen King or Tom Clancy because all books published on the site are out-of-copyright, but you will find Virginia Woolf, Balzac, Tolstoy - enough reading to hide out on a desert island for years, if only your ISP would accommodate you.

http://www.classicreader.com/

World's Front Pages

What in the world is going on today? See the headlines Parisians are reading over their morning coffee, or what the big news is in Beirut at the Newseum's special section, Today's Front Pages, where you can read today's paper today, all over the world. Read headline news according to Le Figaro, The Jerusalem Post, or Die Welt. Front pages of 118 newspapers from 28 countries are presented, in the same edition as your own New York Times or Arizona Republic. Just select a continent, from Asia to Oceania, and click on your choice from the 79 US newspapers, 20 European and handful of South American and Asian
publications. Our small world is shrinking.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

The Pop vs. Soda Page

You reach for a pop, she grabs a soda and the guy next door has a quick coke. At the Pop vs. Soda Page, a Cal Tech scholar is plotting regional variations in the use of terms to describe carbonated soft drinks, and you're invited to complete a survey. Consider it your contribution to a better understanding of American dialect, then treat yourself to a frosty tonic.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/ :rolleyes:

Murphy Laws Site

Do you believe that if anything can go wrong, it will, or that as soon as your spouse wins the lottery, you'll be left hanging? If so, you'll recognize the rhyme and reason at the Murphy Laws Site, where every law under Captain Edward Murphy's name resides.

War laws ("A chest wound is Nature's way of telling you to slow down"), sewing laws ("If you need 6 buttons, you'll only find 5"), and even commerce laws ("After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before") are among the 20 or so categories. If your life seems regulated by Murphy's Laws, send your experiences to Real Life Examples.

http://www.murphys-laws.com/

One side of a ridge is cold and foggy,
The other is hot and dry.
Just by choosing where you stand,
You alter your destiny.

~~ TAO

Jolie Rouge

09-09-2002, 10:27 PM

Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon

Did you know the average actor has less then 3 degrees of separation
from Kevin Bacon. You can enter in any actor and this site will
show you how many degrees of separation they have with a Kevin Bacon
movie. Kevin Bacon's prolificacy continues to be a source of
amusement and fascination for millions of Americans.

www.colonize.com/c.php3?i=cs,0616,o3&e=103952

Dribble Glass

The goofball geniuses behind this site believe that we all should
"drink deeply from the dribble glass of life". In other words: let's
learn how to laugh at ourselves, already! They certainly practice what they preach, what with their phony billboards and their photographs of hilarious real-life screw-ups. The Jokes section also proves that fact is sometimes funnier than fiction with: "Bad Translations," "Advice from Kids" and "Actual Headlines". If you're looking for something interactive, play "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" ... for people with attention deficit disorder. You can even make personalized greeting cards with their funniest photographs. Surely a must-see site! Check it out here:

http://www.colonize.com/c.php3?i=cs,0707,o3&e=103952

AOL Users:
<a href=" http://www.colonize.com/c.php3?i=cs,0707,o3&e=103952 ">
Drink Up</a>

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STICK MAN MURDER MYSTERY

The Stick Man Murder Mystery is a game where you play the part of a homicide detective in a city named "Stickville". A murder has taken place and it's up to you to find the killer. Click on objects to examine them, click on doors to open them, grab the occasional donut, collect evidence and use deductive reasoning to solve the crime. When you think you have enough evidence to convict a suspect, go to the
Chief's office and tell him your story.

http://members.fortunecity.com/kinsellasmmm/

Jolie Rouge

09-10-2002, 09:26 PM

TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
Coffee Break Arcade / Acme License Maker

TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.coffeebreakarcade.com/
http://www.acme.com/licensemaker/

Howdy, y'all, and greetings once again from deep behind the orange curtain in beautiful Irvine, California, a large, chiefly aquatic African herbivorous mammal having thick, dark, almost hairless skin, short legs with four toes, and a broad, wide-mouthed muzzle.

Long-time readers will remember that my undergraduate career was just that: a career. There are many reasons why it took me 13 years to get my bachelors degree, the most significant being that I discovered the Internet sometime between my third and fourth senior year.

At that time -- the early 1990's -- the most compelling thing to do on the Internet was to login to MUDs like Foothills, the precursor to today's chat rooms and AOL Instant Messenger. I'll admit it: I was addicted to the Internet. And admitting my addiction was the first step to my recovery (the other steps being gluttony, sloth, avarice, Harpo, Groucho, sleepy, sneezy, and Doc).

As a recovering Internet addict [HA! HA! HA! "Recovering!?"], let me share with you the following warning: if you would like to remain an active, contributing member of society, do *NOT* visit today's first TOURBUS stop. Today's first TOURBUS stop is the Internet equivalent of crack cocaine. For all that is holy, TURN AWAY NOW!

No, really....

I meant it.

Okay......

You've been warned.

--------------- Coffee Break Arcade ---------------

Spend any amount of time on the Internet and you are bound to run into a bunch of web sites that offer free Java and Flash games. One site lets you race slot cars, another lets you play blackjack, and yet another even lets you play whiffle ball online [yes, folks, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you no longer have to exert yourself with such strenuous, real-world activities as whiffle ball.]

The games are cool, but the problem is keeping up with all of the free online games that are available. That's where Coffee Break Arcade comes in.

Coffee Break Arcade, at www.coffeebreakarcade.com/ gives you links to over 100 free online games grouped into six different categories: classic games, cool games, sports games, shooting games, racing games, and casino games.

In other words, there goes your free time.

[I warned you.]

Just go to the Coffee Break Arcade web site, click on the type of game you'd like to play, and up pops a mind-numbingly large collection of links to free online games from all around the world. For example, click on "Classic Games" and up pops links to board games like backgammon, checkers, and chess; card games like hearts, spades, and solitaire; maze games like Pac Man, umm ... well, that's really the only maze game I recognize. Classic games also include four pinball games, 36 puzzle games, six trivia games (including "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" and "Win Ben Stein's Money"), and a bunch more.

And that's just the classic games category! There are five other categories to explore.

If you're looking for a way to kill some time at work or at home, Coffee Break Arcade is the time sponge you've been looking for.

------------- Acme License Maker -------------

And, as long as you're killing time, you'll probably want to spend some time at the Acme License [Plate] Maker at www.acme.com/licensemaker/ as well. Choose a US state or Canadian province from one of the two pull-down lists, key in the letters you want (like "NETSQRL"), choose the plate's year, and click on the "Make License" button. A few seconds later you'll see a jpeg image of your new license plate.

There's no redeeming social value. It's just fun. :)

That's it for today! Today's post is a tad bit short, but only because I want to get out of your way and let you play.

Have a safe and happy week, and we'll talk again soon!

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Jolie Rouge

09-13-2002, 06:43 PM

Sole Mates - The Century in Shoes
Women and shoes are like men and sports - an undeniable attraction that is against nature to resist. While Elvis' blue suedes are mentioned, the history of shoes traced by Solemates: The Century in Shoes resonates most with the female of the species. See shoe styles from the 1900s through 1990s via Dial a Decade, revealing 1910s Eastern-style jeweled slippers and the 1970s famously chunky platforms, along with style commentary, "all the rage" fashions, shoe ads and video clips by decade. Special features include an interview with sandal maker Gaza Bowen and articles on dangerous shoes and ruby slippers. Stylish and rich, the site is a place to put up your feet and surround yourself in footwear.

http://www.centuryinshoes.com/

Steal It Back

Property rooms are where cops keep stolen stuff after the trials are over and the bad guys are locked up. Some of it might be yours. At Steal It Back.com, you can get help recovering your property or bid on unclaimed items via an online auction site run by former police officers. The 24/7 marketplace offers recovered cars, bikes, electronics, even collectibles-with photos and detailed descriptions, plus all the usual bidding info. The bonus: each item is tracked by case number, so visitors who have had property stolen can register it on the site, which will search its database and return the goods to your local PD - and eventually to you.

http://www.stealitback.com/

Kermitage.com

It's not easy being green, but someone had to hold together the crazy cast of characters on The Muppets Show, and fans of "Kermie" can see how it was done at Kermitage.com, named for Jim Hensen's endearing green frog -- the very first Muppet. The site offers a comprehensive character list and five-season episode guide covering 1976 through 1981. The alphabetical index leads visitors to characters from Abe, the tap-dancing pig, to the wacky Zucchini Brothers, with links to the Muppets' big-name guest stars, from Milton Berle to Alice Cooper. Episode guides offer story lines, characters and stars for each episode - no video links yet, but more goodies are coming, including news, photos and collectibles.

http://www.kermitage.com/

Net Lingo

The Internet has given us not just new knowledge but also a new language, and if you aren't fluent in "ad clicks" or "cleansed data" you could fall behind without NetLingo, an online dictionary with thousands of words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World Wide Web.

http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm

Global Network of Dreams

If raising a child would be more appealing to you if the job were less, well, messy, you might like the idea of Gnod, an artificial intelligence system living at the Global Network of Dreams. Gnod isn't very cuddly, but s/he eagerly interacts with visitors in an information exchange that helps the little fella learn about the world and share its accumulated wisdom. Part search-engine, part experiment, Gnod visits the sites visitors direct him/her to, records the authors, music preferences, ideas and other thoughts that are fed to him/her, then gradually learns to better understand the world and its contents, including you and your favorite things.

http://www.gnod.net/

Classic 'Hulk'

The other loveable green creature for whom it was not easy being green was The Incredible Hulk, a scientist mutated by gamma radiation into a giant green beast who served time in comic books and both an animated and live-action TV series. At The Incredible Hulk Television Series Page, visitors can revisit the Hulk's screen history, see clips and photos from the series, talk with other Hulk fans and read interviews from the crew.

http://www.incrediblehulktvseries.com/

African Aperture

Open an aperture on Africa without even buying film at African Aperture, where the best photographers of Africana expose the environment, travel, culture and people their lenses have captured on this grand and diverse continent. Links to photo web sites, galleries and under-represented "local talent" working in Africa are offered, and visitors may submit their own sites or photos for review. The galleries offer stunning images like Robert Carr-Hartley's magnetic people or Philip Cartland's computer-manipulated "sketches." The site accepts up to 10 images from visitors who submit their own work for a rotating photo-essay, as well as special features and articles related to the site's themes.

http://www.africanaperture.com/

Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site

Today's audiences may think of Chevy Chase movies when National Lampoon is mentioned, but in the early 70s, Nat Lamp was best known as a humor magazine that pushed the limits of propriety and parody. Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site is an unauthorized guide to the magazine's golden age, from 1970 to 1975.

In addition to indexes and synopses of the issues during the mag's heyday, the site offers info about authors and artists, the radio show, records, books, posters and more --- it is, after all, a very large site. Links guide those not satisfied with excerpts to the real stuff. Caution: While the site is pretty tame, National Lampoon was sometimes offensive. That was, after all, the point.

http://www.marksverylarge.com/

The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
There's no such thing as the common flu in this age of hyper-complex health care, between the complicated demands of your HMO, the growing number of identified diseases or the expanding arsenal of treatments. Pity the poor health consumer - then send him or her to adam.com's Health Illustrated Encyclopedia. Health topics, drug info, dictionaries and directories are offered along with a searchable index of diseases from Aarskog Syndrome to Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome - or even the erstwhile common flu. Alternative names, illustrations, causes, prevention, symptoms, tests, treatment, prognosis and complications are given for each entry. The risk, of course, is that you'll suddenly suspect that tummy ache is something serious you never before knew existed.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp

The man who drew a moustache and goatee on the Mona Lisa and gave the work a title that, roughly translated, means "She has a hot *ss" is explored at the visually abundant Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp, an attempt to understand the experimental and brilliant painter, sculptor, author and inventor. Associated with dadaism, surrealism and other unconventional concepts but slave to none, Duchamp was among the first to insist that art was about ideas, not objects. His family life, student days and lifelong creations are traced through an interactive pictorial timeline that includes his "readymade" experiments, his "rotary demispheres" that probed optics and depth perception and his other boundary-stretching works that have helped merge the worlds of art and thought today.

http://www.understandingduchamp.com/

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

Love is a function of communication.

Health is a function of participation.

Self Expression is a function of responsibility.

~EST

Dragonfairie

09-13-2002, 07:07 PM

can't tell if it has been posted or not, but I think this one is pretty cool, http://www.maps.com/explore/viewer.html
see an aerial/sattelite view of your home or anyother place. It is pretty good, I live in the sticks and found my place.

Jolie Rouge

09-13-2002, 07:24 PM

Chinese!
Chinese cuisine makes use of ingredients and combinations new and exciting to those of us accustomed to Western-style fare.

These resources provide a basic yet delicious orientation to a Chinese meal.

Chinavista
A wealth of recipes organized by style and region. Under Shaanxi Dishes, how about Fragrant Pork Shreds? (Recipes use some metrics : 400g is just shy of a pound.)
http://www.chinavista.com/culture/cuisine/recipes.html

Recipes from the Far East
For a site that is modest, enthusiastic and brimming with inspiration, NiceMeal is a great place to start. How can something as simple as Shredded Beef with Tender Cabbage sound so good?
http://www.nicemeal.com/

"He that takes medicine and neglects diet,
wastes the skill of the physician."

--Chinese Proverb

Jolie Rouge

09-16-2002, 10:02 AM

Origins of Common Expressions

They're called idioms and you use them every day. But that doesn't mean that you know much about them. Let's start from the beginning: an idiom is a commonly used phrase such as "the whole nine yards" or "raining cats and dogs". As with all of the language we use, these phrases don't just appear out of nowhere. Although it's often hard to pinpoint who first uttered a now-famous phrase, there are long and colorful histories behind common English idioms. For example, "the whole nine yards" originally had little to do with football and "raining cats and dogs" may date all the way back to ancient mythology.
Click on the Word Archive link to the left of the screen and you'll find a huge list of possible idiom and word origins. Another great feature is the Word Forum, a bulletin board where you can post your own queries about word and phrase origins. It seems that many people actually get some sort of answer.

Check it out here:
http://www.colonize.com/c.php3?i=cs,06081,o3&e=103952

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Vector Park

Yet another game that I can't stop playing ... and it's so frustrating! Your task is to build the world's strangest mobile with bowling balls, submarines and bird houses. (This isn't the sort of thing you want to hang over a crib, okay?) As soon as you get everything in balance, a new piece drops down and you have to rearrange everything to make room for the newest addition. And because you're building your mobile over the open ocean (don't ask me why), stupid birds come and land on your work and tip the scales, making everything more difficult. There are advantages to the location, though. The sound of the waves are very relaxing. And here's a trick that took me far too long to discover: you can drain (by holding the mouse over the spout) and refill (by plunging
the whole thing under water) the water bucket to get the exact balance you need. Good luck.

Check it out here:
http://www.colonize.com/c.php3?i=cs,06111,o3&e=103952

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What's for Dinner? :

Ucook.com offers a solution to the relentless question, 'What's for dinner' from a growing database of more than 65,000 recipes. These recipes come from leading cookbooks, including Dinner in Minutes: Memorable Meals for Busy Cooks, Steven Raichlan's High-Flavor, Low-Fat Cooking and hundreds more. It also features an online food magazine with editorial content from noted chefs, cooking school graduates, experienced journalists on nutrition, food safety, and specialty cooking experts.

http://www.ucook.com/

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A Century of Physics :

What do the atomic bomb, the Apple Computer, microwave ovens, quasars, magnetic tape recordings, and FM radio have in common?

They were all breakthroughs in the science of Physics within the last century. These discoveries have forever changed our lives, and in recognition of this, the American Physical Society has created an interactive site devoted to sharing this knowledge. The site allows visitors to glide through specific events, concepts or individuals via the interactive timeline, alphabetical or event index. Click through physics factoids, animations, and associated images from the world of art and design, or read about innovators and theorists to understand how their work influences the way we perceive ourselves and our world. A great site! .

http://timeline.aps.org/APS/

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Jackie Kennedy's White House Tour :

In 1962, Jackie Kennedy conducted a tour of the White House which was aired nationally by CBS Television. Nearly 80 million Americans watched as Mrs. Kennedy led the tour through the East Room, State Dining Room, Red Room, and other rooms that she had spent months restoring and redecorating. This site presents part of that tour, complete with the questions by CBS reporter Charles Collingwood and the answers given by the First Lady.

http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/tour.htm

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Marcus Leatherdale Photography :

Marcus Leatherdale, a photographer known best for his portraits of celebrities done in New York in the 80s, has spent much of the last 7 years living in India. Based in a 200-year-old house in the old city of Benares, he began photographing the diverse and remarkable people there, from the sadhus (holy men) to celebrities, royalty to the Adivasi (tribals). It offers a remarkable journey into a world foreign to most westerners.

http://www.marcusleatherdale.com/home.html

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Fantastic Flash Format :

On occasion, we are blown away by the energy, content and style of someone's personal website. Skilla.com is the interactive portfolio of senior designer Bernard Magale (aka "Skilla") who uses variable scripting and Flash 4 programming to offer a unique surfing experience. His love for European design fueled the fire behind this latest version with sharp angles, bright colors, varied content and cool interactivity. Skilla works at Blastradius Design and has worked with such clients as Lego, Nike, Atlantic records, Macromedia.

http://www.skilla.com/

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Turning Imagination into Reality :

Are you a frustrated inventor in need of seeing your idea materialize? Or can you imagine what it would be like to have a real life action figure made to look like you? Check out Toybuilders.com They have perfected a technology they call "Rapid Prototyping" using CAD software that models pictures of any person or animal, to create a unique action figure. You also can design your own model airplane, custom board game pieces, dolls that look like you and just about anything you can imagine.

http://www****ybuilders.com/

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America's Story :

In a relative sense, America is a young nation; and in its youth, many tend to overlook its rich history and the colorful characters that have left their mark on its unique society. In hopes of generating a renewed interest in our nation's history, the Library of Congress has created a wildly entertaining site celebrating America's Story. Created with young people in mind, this site is filled with fascinating information that will hold the attention of both parents and children alike. Visitor's are invited to meet 'Amazing Americans', Jump Back in Time or Explore the States, which will send them on a historical journey like no other.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

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~ Organized 4 Life - Hints, secret tricks, and tips on cleaning and organizing.

<a href=" http://www.organized4life.com ">click here</a>

Banish uncertainty.
Affirm strength.
Hold resolve.
Expect Death.

~~~ TAO

KATinKY

09-17-2002, 06:24 PM

WoW, just when i was bored, i started searching bigbigsavings and found this post, what great work everyone did to share the web sites, now i have something to do. great work all and thanx for sharing it with us...

Jolie Rouge

09-19-2002, 08:36 PM

Breakfast at an inn is a treat, the kind of food that we remember
months later and wonder, "How did they make that?" Here are two sources that give the answer!

Inn Recipes
Visiting an inn is a special occasion, and these recipes are correspondingly united in the themes of comfort and indulgence. How about Cheese-Filled Breakfast Crepes?

http://www.innrecipes.com/breakfast.html

Bed and Breakfast Recipes
This site is loaded with breakfast recipes (and all kinds of others). I stopped at Lemon Ricotta Pancakes to try this weekend. There are dozens of pancake recipes alone.

http://www.bbonline.com/recipe/index.html

"My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop." --Winston S. Churchill

Jolie Rouge

09-19-2002, 08:46 PM

WinXP Hole / Torture a Spammer

Greetings, Riders of the World's Biggest Bus. Today I have some depressing news about yet another Windows security flaw, and some lighter fare to follow. Read on! I promise that you'll finish this
tour smarter and better looking than the average Internet user who
must walk the dusty roads of cyberspace alone.

--WARNING, DANGER: WINDOWS XP SECURITY HOLE--

Sigh... yet another serious security flaw has been discovered in Windows XP. A bug in the Help Center component of XP can be used to delete files or an entire directory from your hard drive. Even more troubling is the fact that this exploit requires no programming skills on the part of the attacker. A simple link placed on a web page or email can trigger the destructive action. For more details and a harmless self-test look here:

http://24.78.2.184/helpcenter.htm </A>

The good news is that there are two simple fixes for the problem.
You can install Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows XP by visiting:

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com </A>

Or you can delete this file from your hard drive:

C:\WINDOWS\PCHEALTH\HELPCTR\System\DFS\uplddrvinfo .htm

Please note that this problem affects only Windows XP users. Sometimes being on the bleeding edge of technology hurts. I still use Windows 98SE and I feel fine! Hopefully by the time I am forced to install XP it will be reasonably stable and secure.

----------OKAY ENOUGH OF THAT!--------

Patrick mentioned recently that he was sorry that so many TOURBUS issues are devoted to Internet security problems, rather than fun, interesting and useful websites. Me too. So I'm going to make up
for starting this issue on a somber tone. I hope the rest of today's TOURBUS will take your mind off your troubles and perhaps elicit a giggle.

SOMETHING FUN - Move over, Dancing Paul. George W is ready to boogie oogie oogie 'til he just cain't boogie no more. The Dancing Bush and Bush Aerobics sites use Macromedia Flash to animate the Commander in Chief.

http://www.miniclip.com/dancingbush.htm </A>

http://www.miniclip.com/bushaerobics.htm </A>

SOMETHING INTERESTING - Oh, the Humanities! Philosopher Francis Bacon died from catching a cold while trying to prove that refrigeration could prevent food spoilage. You too can become the life of the party, by filling your mind with interesting trivia. Trivia Portal is the world's largest trivia site with over 350,000 trivia questions, games and quizzes.

http://www.funtrivia.com

SOMETHING USEFUL - Did you know that 1 exajoule is equal to 239,005,736,137,667,296 thermochemical calories? That there are 3.26 light-years in a parsec? If you need to convert Distance, Temperature, Speed, Weight or almost any other type of measure into something else, OnlineConversion.com is the place to go.

http://www.onlineconversion.com

And if you need to convert an acronym into the phrase from which it was derived, look no further than AcronymSearch.com. There are over 40,000 acronyms and abbreviations in many categories such as computer, military, finance, accounting, sports and more.

http://www.acronymsearch.com

SOMETHING JUST PLAIN DISTURBING - If you *really* hate spam, you will really like the "Torture a Spammer" frustration relief game. First select the type of spam you dislike the most and then choose a way to torture the spammer (Boiling Oil, Flying Killer Monkeys, a Spam-alanche or the Explosive Offer).

http://torturegame4.emailsherpa.com

AlexST

09-20-2002, 11:44 PM

Just Know about two, three.

http://www.ohiocoupons.com

http://www.citiex.com

http://www.afunny.com

Jolie Rouge

09-23-2002, 10:48 PM

' 60s Odyssey

Communes, psychedelic buses, Woodstock and anti-war rallies - all the icons of the counterculture are faithfully recorded at A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law, 1965-1971, an exhibit sponsored by the National Museum of American History. Law's story is like thousands of others of the turbulent 60s, but she shot her photos from dead-center -- her home was "the Castle" in L.A., a can't-miss stopover for artists from Bob Dylan to Andy Warhol. The intimate photos, selected from a collection of 200 photographs donated to the Smithsonian, are accompanied by notes on the musical, political, spiritual and cultural scenes that emerged with each click.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/lisalaw/

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The American Highway Project

Americans adore their automobiles, creating a lifestyle of mobility and independence. At The American Highway Project, vanishing Americana - the motels, billboards, service stations, signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners - is being documented and preserved. Founder Edgar Praus, a photographer with a love of the American landscape, travels the backroads snapping the quaint roadside attractions before they disappear entirely beneath the Target/Home Depot/Wal-Mart strip malls that are fast taking over. Besides photos, the site brings news of current American Highway projects, a web journal along Route 66, a bookstore and resources for those inspired to trip backward through time.

http://www.highwayproject.org/

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Literary Traveler

Dylan Thomas' Wales and Kate Chopin's Grand Isle off the Louisiana shore evoke the pages of beloved books for avid readers. At the Literary Traveler, the literary imagination is explored through articles about writers, artists and the places that inspired them.

Launched in 1998 by a husband/wife team who met as English majors, the site is informed by her work at The Atlantic Monthly and his at Lycos, so it is both literary and user-friendly. Find topics via the Author's Index or Place Index, or scroll through back issues featuring Hemingway's Places and European Writers, with links to literary tours and cultural events, a book store and literary contests, like the summer essay.

http://www.literarytraveler.com/

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Palindrome List

Dad, Mom, Bob and Hannah have something special in common. They're all palindromes, words spelled the same forward and backward, and they can all be found here on the Palindrome List with lots of others, sorted alphabetically - even a palindrome that is 12 pages long!

http://www.palindromelist.com/

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Rent a Celebrity

At $100,000-plus per appearance, Adam Sandler is not your typical wedding singer, but you can find him or a cheaper act, like Cheap Trick at a mere $25,000, to rent at Clear Channel's Artist Availability web site where various artists, including many alternative bands, are priced out with notes on availability and contact info.

http://www.clearchannelcollegeentertainment.com

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Gallery of Regrettable Food

Wax nostalgic all you want about mom's famous meatloaf, but the Gallery of Regrettable Food records home-cooked meals as they really were in the 40s, 50s and 60s - and it's not a pretty sight. These photos right from the recipe books, menus and ads, may be the best explanation for why American families raced to embrace the cookie cutter sameness of fast food - at least it looks edible.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

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Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation

Jeff Miller, president of the Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation, journeys where no man has gone before to bring together two excellent condiments. It's not mustard and mayo that he dreams of uniting, but Leonard Nimoy and salsa. The site offers three Flash Macromedia games, each requiring players to hook up the spicy sauce and the reluctant Mr. Spock, photographic evidence of the Vulcan's obsessive avoidance of the relish and 50 or more salsa recipes visitors have submitted to tempt the stubborn but excellent Spock.
Foundation members, who claim Nimoy can reach infinite excellence if he would only eat salsa, meet three times yearly at a Florida Mexican restaurant to feast and plan how to achieve their mission.

http://www.lnsemsf.com/

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Totally off the Record

Like the legendary water cooler where workers trade gossip, Totally Off the Record is where people go to share weird stories about life on the job - like the temp who left half a million bucks on the front seat of her car while she ran into a store, or the realtor who witnessed a divorcee ramming her ex's car. Use the drop-down menu to select an occupation, from accounting to sports, then click and read the anonymously submitted tales and forward those you like to co-workers who can relate. A "Best of" section goes right to the cream of the crop of embarrassing, funny, shocking or inspiring stories, and if you've got a whopper of your own to share, send it in.

http://www****tallyofftherecord.com/

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Censorship Files

As long as there has been human expression, there have been attempts to suppress it. From the ex-communication of Arius in AD 321 to the banning of electronic games in Greece in July 2002, the File Room is a compendium of cultural censorship. Created by a group of artists, art students and teachers, the project began as an effort to gather case studies of censorship into a database to stimulate debate. Originally installed at the Chicago Cultural Center, the online site offers thoughtful definitions of censorship and resources and invites submissions. Visitors can search the archives by medium, like the visual arts or public speeches; by grounds, like explicit sexuality or racial, ethnic or religious factors; by continent or by date.

http://www.thefileroom.org/

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It Seems Like Yesterday

Our national obsession with the culture and style of the post-World War II generations gets another treatment at It Seems Like Yesterday, the online magazine based on the History Channel's documentary TV show of the same name. In four major sections - Baby Boom Generation, Youth Quake, The Atomic Age and The Disco Years - visitors are treated to age-appropriate postcards, photos, factoids and articles from the media of the day ("Who's Who Among Hippies, Yippies and Other Troublemakers" from a 1968 Maclean's Magazine piece), crosswords, chat and plenty of links in a light-hearted explosion of commentary and interactive trips down memory lane.

http://www.itseemslikeyesterday.com/

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Guinness World Records

From the most elastic man to the most pierced woman, why does this stuff fascinate us, even in the age of ho-hum? The drive to be the best at something - anything - thrives at Guinness World Records, where people balance hundreds of soccer balls on their heads and eat three-course meals in under 45 seconds just to say they can. The greatest feats of strength, skill and scientific ability wait to be outdone, and Guinness provides visitors the forms to make it official. What's better than reading about such feats? Watching them on video clips. It takes seeing to believe that one man can drag 20 freight cars filled with scrap iron 15 feet down a railroad track.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

Life is a rip-off when you expect to get what you want.

Life works when you choose what you got.

Actually what you got is what you chose.

To move on, choose it.

~Werner Erhard

Jolie Rouge

09-25-2002, 10:32 PM

TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Rider's Revenge #23

Hi all... it's time for another Rider's Revenge issue, where I share sites that your fellow Tourbus riders think are useful, fun, cool or otherwise worthy of attention. If you have a favorite site that's of interest to an international audience, send it along for the next Rider's Revenge!

EVER WANT TO BEAT YOUR CALCULATOR?

Betty (who has been a Tourbus Rider since 1996!) wrote to tell me about BEATCALC. No, it's not violence directed at our little plastic and silicon friends...

BEATCALC will wake up your brain on Monday morning with *free* instructions how to do math computations mentally faster than someone using a calculator. For example, learn how to square 65 or 95 mentally faster than a friend using a calculator. To subscribe to the free BEATCALC newsletter send e-mail request to BEATCALC@aol.com.

DISPOSABLE CREDIT CARDS

Murray from Ilinois wrote with some good advice:

Hey Bob, I really enjoy Tourbus and have been a rider for several years. I finally get to make a contribution. After reading today about Credit Card Safety, I thought I'd pass on a new technique being offered by at least 2 different credit card issuers. Both do the same thing and utilize the very same software. Discover and MBNA will issue you a one-time-only credit card number and you can even place a maximum amount and expiration date if you choose. I've been using this for some time and it works great.

For more information, check with your credit card issuer or visit one
of these sites:

www.discovercard.com

www.mbnashopsafe.com

BUG ZAPPER?

Judy from Egypt wrote to tell me that your PC may also function as a bug zapper...

Hi Bob. Thanks for the fabulously useful Tourbus which finds it's way to me on the Red Sea coast of Egypt!

I have been sent a site which you might like to pass on to the rest of the bus riders. It's from Thailand and is free software which is said to emit a frequency which paralyzes the wings of mosquitoes within 2 metres of the computer! Might be worth checking out.

http://www.thaiware.com/software/util/UL00608.htm

I downloaded the software, but didn't have any mosquitoes to test it on. If you have Windows 95/98/ME and it works for you, please drop me a note!

That's all for now, I'll see you next time! --Bob Rankin

Jolie Rouge

09-29-2002, 12:15 PM

c'mon guys - we are a pretty web-savy group. There have to be more sites to see and peeps willin' to share :

Total Posts: 93
Jolie Rouge 43
jeeves 6
picklepuss 4
janelle 4
PrettyPointStar 2
Queensown 2
jenisurfr 1
smartkarie 1
klid 1
missymommy 1
JULESP 1
Lasher 1
immortal_amaranth 1
STARR986 1
MistyWolf 1
AlexST 1
eeigh33 1
Ladytiger 1
DeeTee 1
*Mandy* 1
Char 1
KATinKY 1
Dragonfairie 1
poonie 1
badswife 1
bonniejeanne 1
harlow 1
VQ 1
tonieb 1
CHERNL 1
djeff70 1
~Angel Eyez~ 1
akfatbottomgirl 1
Moonmama 1
coupongal 1
the fugative 1
meema 1
BSB Nick lover 1

93 posts with 2645 views - at least some lurkers are l@@kin' :) :)

Jolie Rouge

09-29-2002, 12:17 PM

Gateway to Another Dimension

High-powered mind-warping multimedia by the Master of Digital Illusion promises to bliss you out at Virtual Om, where "psychoactive entertainment" from screensavers to soundtracks is handed out to visitors seeking an altered state of consciousness without leaving the keyboard. Screensavers like Scorpion Knight and Unicorn In Time can be downloaded for free, along with soundtracks of original music, and links billed as a gateway to the coolest, strangest, mind-blowing stuff online. Central to it all is the morphing digital art, like Launderette, set to mall music, and the odd Babymaker, "pregnant with sound." ****Some adult content and language.***

http://www.virtualom.com/

Jolie Rouge

09-29-2002, 12:20 PM

Guerrilla News Network

Music videos for people who think may sound like a contradiction, but before you decide check out Guerrilla News Network. The underground news group bares the underside of politics and society through programming that looks and sounds a lot like MTV but spotlights big issues, rather than big pop stars. In addition to News Videos and News Wire, major sections are Counter Intelligence, Special Report and Forums, all with a counter-culture take on issues from the war on terror to the war on drugs. Included are shrewd segments like Spin of the Week, which looks critically at political PR, and Guerrilla of the Week, featuring a small act of defiance with great consequences.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/

Plastic Fork Diaries

Kids and food, think of the implications. Then go to Plastic Fork Diaries from Maryland Public Television for an intimate look at life and lunch at Stockinda Middle School via six real kids - from Amber, who struggles with her mom's "skinny" obsession, to Oscar, who secretly likes sauerkraut. The kids - ages 11 to 13 - give access to their public and private lives via diaries, letters and notes as they relate to food, family dinners, hormonal rampages and everything in between. New episodes appear weekly, and visitors can catch up on past episodes, get recipes and food facts about items mentioned in the story, learn about the disgusting stuff inside us - like spit - and do cool things with food at 4U 2Do.

http://www.plasticforkdiaries.org/

Jolie Rouge

09-29-2002, 08:55 PM

Field Guide to North American Males

Oh, what good fun for boys and girls alike! It's just like a regular old field guide for birds or other wild things, except that the animal in this case is the very common North American Male. (No comment on whether or not these are wild species ... hee hee.)

Marjorie, our trusty guide, has identified a whopping 53 separate species of males, each with its very own scientific name. (Leerus oglus -- commonly known as the Bemuscled Construction Worker -- is my personal favorite.) There are also answers to lots of common questions such as "Why does my male play air guitar?"

And if you know of an as-yet-undiscovered species of male, please be a responsible citizen and submit your findings to the site. Cause this information is far too important to keep to yourself, doncha think?

Check it out here:

http://www.colonize.com/c.php3?i=cs,0926,o3&e=103952

Jolie Rouge

09-30-2002, 01:42 PM

Fat File Transfer
Like stuffing a crowded hotel elevator full of over-weight conventioneers, transferring files with loads of data, AKA fat files, is a risky business. At Fat File.com, members pay a small fee to instantly transfer and share mega- files like presentations, spreadsheets and graphics from their own computer - a special boon for those involved in desktop publishing, software development, web authoring or audio and video creation.

http://www.fatfile.com

Supernatural Crime

Mix the sexy dames and two-fisted action of hard-boiled pulp fiction with the drooling gargoyles of supernatural fantasy and you've got Supernatural Crime, a tribute to the Sunday funnies with a 21st century twist - original online weekly comic strips in full color.

Dozens of episodes of the four featured comics can be read online. The Fright Gallery features sensational full-color supernatural crime characters like Femme Noir and Brother Grim, and Bloody Pulp offers "two-fisted tales of twisted terror." If you get hooked, meet the creators and join the message boards to talk with other fans, or buy supernatural crime-wear at the online store.

http://www.supernaturalcrime.com/index.html

British Youth

Teddy boys, rude boys, mods, rockers and all British youth movements since are celebrated in words and images at Once Were Heroes, where visitors are invited to take a nostalgic step back through recent pop culture to peer at the styles and sub-cultures that spawned bands like Spandau Ballet, the Cramps and the glorious Sex Pistols.

http://www.yesterdayskids.co.uk/Page1.html

and just for JAYBIRD & her rottie ....

Dognose Heaven

Admirers of proboscis canis will find all the dog snoots they've ever dreamed of at Dognose Heaven, a tribute to "Nature's truest work of art/Cold, wet, beautiful …" Find big noses and small, flat, long, pink, brown and black from all breeds in photos so lifelike you can almost feel their cold wetness nuzzling your hand.

http://www.dognoses.com/

moocher

09-30-2002, 06:00 PM

AAaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.....................

I can't believe this!! LOL This is my first visit to this thread. I got here at uummmmmm...well, sometime very early this morning-and yes, I've had to take quite a few breaks-but I have been on this thread all day!!

Thank you Jolie! And all the others too! Jolie-you now have your own folder in my favorites list! And I'm only half way through the posts!

If you keep adding links, I'll try my best to add some too-they may not be as good-but I'll try!

I love this!

Jolie Rouge

09-30-2002, 09:38 PM

Atmospheric Optics

Stop and see - really see - the visual spectacle of everyday phenomenon like rain drops and dust at Atmospheric Optics, where nature's optical effects created by water, light and shadow are revealed in their stunning simplicity.

Ice haloes, water droplets, sun rays, shadows and - everyone's favorite - rainbows get both a photographic and scientific treatment, as visitors learn about the optics of how common ice crystals and rare coronas form, view stunning images of these marvelous events and learn where to find them outdoors. Links are offered for more exposure to phenomenon as diverse as nacreous clouds and green flash mirages.

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/phenom.htm

Vintage Ads

Two great urges of American culture - to sell and to buy - make up a decades-long love-hate relationship between consumers and those who hawk the goods we've learned to desperately need. At The Emergence of Advertising in America, more than 9,000 images and a massive database of info trace the history of advertising in the US, from 1850 to 1920.

Using sources from special collections libraries at Duke University, the site organizes ads by a timeline and by special categories, from tobacco to "Kodakiana," featuring some of the earliest Kodak print ads - a breakthrough in advertising media. For each ad, its title, date, company and product are listed with other info about the original source.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/

Pulp Zone

Who knows what evil lurks … Even though it was penned some 70 years ago, bet you know how that line ends! Pulp fiction, though hardly counted among the Classics, is certainly enduring. At the Pulp Zone, visitors are seduced into pulp - its lurid images and its mysterious heroes - in much the same way that readers were lured to buy the cheap pulp-wood books for vicarious thrills during hard times.

Dastardly deeds, fantastic villains and voyages to mysterious planets - plus that outrageous cover art - can be found on the site, where visitors browse Heroes, Stories, Letters, Writers and Artists to find their favorites, plus articles on pulp fiction and a handy bookshop with links to help you start your own collection.

http://www.ip.pt/pulp/

Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

~~ Leonard Cohen

Jolie Rouge

09-30-2002, 10:00 PM

wwwwoooooo-de-hhhhoooooooo-hhhhhooooooooooo

100 posts !

TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: THE HOLE IN YOUR OFFICE

In case you've been living in la-la land for the past decade or so, you already know that Microsoft Office is probably the most dangerous software you have on your computer -- unless you're running Outlook or Microsoft Internet Explorer, which sometimes give Office a good run for its money.

FINDING AND FIXING THE "HOLES" IN MS OFFICE

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The various versions of Office have accumulated a truly mind-boggling record of security holes and built-in susceptibility to viruses and exploits. Let me repeat that: BUILT-IN susceptibility to viruses and exploits. There are people at Microsoft who worked hard to make Office as vulnerable as it is.

Now if you expect a long rant here about Bill Gates being in league with Beelzebub, you've come to the wrong place. My rant isn't against anybody at Microsoft, it's against you! Let me explain. Say what you will about Microsoft, they're the most fanatically customer driven company that ever existed. If their customers want it, they get it. Year after year they've asked their customers (that's you and me) whether we valued convenience and features more than we value security. And every single time, we've said yes.

If you want to be able to put Excel spreadsheets inside your PowerPoint show, use Word to edit your email, or collaborate with other people on producing a document, the engineers at Microsoft had to open up a hole to let that happen. If it turns out that some villain discovers that hole and rides through it on horseback with a hundred of his friends, looting and pillaging everything in sight, whose fault is that? As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and they is us."

---ALICE AND BOB MAKE A BIG MESS OF THINGS---

Here's the latest exploit. You're Bob, and you're working on a Word document with Alice -- Alice and Bob are the two main characters everyone in security uses for their examples. If we could just find out who Alice and Bob are and keep them away from computers, life would be a lot simpler. ;-)

Alice emails you a Word document. Like a good careful Tourbus rider, you scan that document for viruses. It comes up clean. So you open it in Word, make a few corrections, and send it back to Alice. What you don't realize is that Alice has joined the Dark Side, and that along with your document, you've just emailed Alice your credit card information, your tax returns, and your love letters to Vanessa, the 19-year-old cheerleader you met in a chat room who is actually a 55-year-old septic tank cleaner named Gus.

Or perhaps Alice didn't send the letter at all. Maybe Mallory knows you and Alice are working on the document, has grabbed a copy (there are way too many ways that could happen), and sends it to you, pretending to be Alice.

Now, tell the truth, do you actually check every email address you send a reply to every single time? Didn't think so. Neither do I, though I try. And if "Alice" puts a note on the bottom saying she's working from home and she's changed her email address, Mallory's probably going to get that document along with the private files I didn't know I was sending.

---- WOODY TO THE RESCUE ----

You can find a more detailed explanation for how this exploit works at Woody's Office Watch. What's more, even though Microsoft hasn't written a patch yet that will plug this hole, Woody has. Now I know you're probably asking yourself, "How do I know that Woody isn't a villain? Can I trust his software on my machine?"

Well, even if you haven't heard of Woody, I have, and so have lots of subscribers to his wonderful mailing lists. I can't see into somebody's soul any better than the next guy, but I know he has an excellent reputation, he's been around for a long time, and he definitely has a lot to lose if he intentionally or unintentionally spreads malware. And his patch has been out long enough that if there was a problem with it, I'd have read about it on the security lists.

http://woodyswatch.com/office/archtemplate.asp?v7-n44

PLEASE REMAIN IN YOUR SEATS UNTIL THE BUS COMES TO A FULL STOP

As long as we're thinking about Office, we might as well see if we've got all of Microsoft's security patches for Office. If you haven't been keeping up with your Office security patches, or if you just inherited a computer from somebody and don't know whether they've kept up with the updates, or even if you're pretty sure you've got everything, but better safe than sorry, head to the Microsoft Office site:

http://office.microsoft.com

If you've got Office 2000 or Office XP, you're in luck. Click on Product Updates, click "Scan my computer to find out if I need any Office updates", and off you go. In fact, if you're a loyal Tourbus rider who visits Windows Update at least once a week, Windows Update should have discovered that you needed Office patches and installed them for you (if you've got Office 2000 or Office XP).

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

NOT ON THE BLEEDING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY? TOO BAD.

But what if you aren't running Office 2000 or XP? Then you've got a really unpleasant afternoon ahead of you. You'll have to go download and install the patches yourself. Click on Download Center, select the version of Office you have, and start reading and downloading. Some of the things you'll need, others are just nice to have. Alas, you've got to read the descriptions and decide for yourself.

Here's a hint that can save you some aggravation: if you install the patches in chronological order -- install the one with the earliest release date first, and so on -- it'll go a lot easier. You'll discover that some of the service packs (big collections of patches) will include some of the patches you already installed, but I don't know any way to tell for sure that you've installed all the patches you need unless you install all of them.

Note that the Office downloads page lists the patches in *reverse* chronological order, so you have to go to the end of the list and work backwards. You might want to take a chance and just install the service packs, but I've always figured, as long as I'm doing it, I might as well be thorough. I've installed a whole pile of Office updates on Windows 95, 98, and Me, and the worst that's ever happened is that the installer told me a particular patch had already been installed.

I know, you'll hate it, but I think you'll hate what happens if you don't install those security patches a lot worse. So grit your teeth and get to it. If you happen to notice that the security patches take up more space on your hard drive than the installation of Office did, well, you've got nobody to blame but yourself and your friends who told Microsoft that they wanted the features that opened up those holes.

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nite !

moocher

10-01-2002, 04:50 AM

Well, I posted this last night, but instead of adding it to this thread, I started a new one! Blonde moment-sorry!!

Something Wonderful
OK here's my first contribution!

I found this site about 4 years ago and wanted to use one of the fantastic pic's as my screen saver. I e-mailed the owner for permission and found out what a terrific person he is. I just love his work-it reminds me of victorian mixed with new age!

http://www.somethingwonderful.com/about.html

What is this site about?

This site is about me. It's about me in a good mood. It's about the artistic me. It's about making people go "wow! that's cool!" It's about ego and pride and a little bit of arrogance too, I suppose. But it's mostly about making people happy; making you happy. Yes. You. That's right. You reading this right now. I want to make you happy, darnit.

SomethingWonderful evolved from many stages of my artwork, and will keep evolving over the years - yea even unto the times when we all will wear silver suits and ray guns and own jet packs and live in a 3D virtual world. Yes, even then (I hope) SomethingWonderful will be around to make people smile. Of course, that is all happening on the stroke of midnight 01.01.00 when you either believe that doomsday is gonna hit, all the computers of the world are gonna click off and the nukes will blow up in response as planes dive down haplessly towards the earth. Or, you might be one of those that believe that the moment the clock strikes, we'll all be living like the Jetsons and will reach a higher level of Utopia never seen before.

Either way, I still plan for this site to be around.

Having reached 5000 subscribers, I find it a great idea to remodel again for potential new viewers.

This site began as a mock company I created to learn how to create a company web site. I decided to "market" my pictures. People liked it, friends thought it was a great name, and the design was pretty cool (hey..it was '97 - minimalist was cool back then ). After that, it went through some changes, more pictures and updates, a spinoff for the 'bad me' where I can rant and rave and not sully the happy-go-lucky karma of this site, and then finally it evolved into a presentation of me and my 3D artwork. That's what my subscribers come here to see.

So, if you don't understand something on here, that's okay - you don't have to. If you want to ask me a question, just email me. I answer all my email - in time.

Anything else you want to know? I can't think of what is left I haven't explained here or in other sections. Feel free to browse around.

- Traveling Uncle Nat.

moocher

10-01-2002, 08:02 PM

And here is one for today!!

http://www.searchsystems.net/

Welcome to the latest version of Search Systems at www.searchsystems.net. We were the first and continue to be the largest collection of free public records on the internet. The purpose of this site is to help you to find the public record information you need in order to make important decisions. To assist you, we've just added a link search feature at the top of the page. Help on how to use the Public Record Locator is available just below the box.

This site is free! There are some links on the site where the agency that provides the information does require payment. In those cases we've added a dollar sign to the link so that you'll know up front to expect a fee.

This has been one of my favorites for a long time!! All kinds of neat little stuff to do!

And while you're there check out the link towards the bottom of the page:

http://www.searchsystems.net/list.php?nid=153
Directory: Outer Space

Web Sites

Astronomy Picture of the Day
Biological Images of Earth
Current News from NASA
Earth Images
Earth Observatory Image of the Day
Earth Science Picture of the Day
Hubble Space Telescope Image Gallery
Image Collection (NASA - JSC)
Interactive Sky Chart
Mars Pathfinder Mission Pictures
NSSDC Photo Gallery
Natural Disaster Images from Space
Orbital Satellite Tracking
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Scientific Visualization Studio
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI@home)
Space Images Archive
Space Station Gallery

Jolie Rouge

10-01-2002, 08:59 PM

kewl ;)

2muchprincess

10-01-2002, 10:38 PM

this sounds stupid, but I love factmonster.com

I've also been sick, so I've taken to learning all the countries of the world, their main religion, and languages. It has lots of cool things on there.

ckerr4

10-02-2002, 12:02 AM

For researching family history if yo uknow your ancestors went through Ellis Island: http://www.ellisislandrecords.com/

For those with migraines: http://www.headaches.about.com/

Strange words: http://www.quinion.com/words/index.htm

moocher

10-02-2002, 05:12 PM

OK, here's a different one I think. It's all unusual museums on the net. I love the Lacey Back Buttons and Vintage Pic's Museums. Give it a try!

http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=museum;action=list

jfar

10-04-2002, 11:48 AM

Like to play scrabble? You can play against others at www.scrabbleon.org. They have easy directions to follow to download Networdz (scrabble board)and then you go into their chat room and get paired up with another player. You can even chat with them while you play. I've played and chatted with people from all over the world. I usually play this while I'm doing my email from Tasias.

Jolie Rouge

10-05-2002, 08:34 PM

Science of Cooking

If cooking is a science, even hard-boiling an egg requires closer study. At the Exploratorium's Accidental Scientist, visitors can cook to perfection while picking up the theory behind the art.

Loaded with recipes and activities about the science in the saucepan, the site gives special treatment to basics like bread, meat and candy, but also reveals the spice behind seasonings and the ancient mysteries of the culinary craft of pickling. Each section includes activities in Kitchen Lab, plus a chance to Share & Discuss or Ask the Inquisitive Cook if the poison sack in squid will kill you. Just in time for Thanksgiving, webcasts begin in November with Turkey Science.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/

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Why a Duck?

Marxists unite at Why a Duck, chockfull of trivia, news, games, postcards, memorabilia and photos created by a group of major Marx Brothers fans - everyone but Karl.

With a history of the brothers' careers and audio and video clips of the inimitable Groucho and his unbeatable gags and double entendres, the site stays current with news of upcoming TV broadcasts and events. Photos abound, from publicity and screen shots to photos of pets named after Marxian characters. Even good old-fashioned games like Hangman, Mad Libs and Concentration are played with a Marxist twist, and an astrologer offers natal charts to see if the stars can explain the antics of the zany boys.

http://www.whyaduck.com/index.htm

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Clarifying the Mid-East Muddle

Ignorance about the Middle East is rampant in the US but it might be time to start getting smart. Global Connections makes it easier, with a global perspective for teachers, students and the public seeking to understand.

But there's no understanding today - or tomorrow - without first getting the history, so explore the past 100 years of the multicultural, multi-ethnic region and its complex relationship with its neighbors and the West. A timeline traces events across themes like politics and religion, and teachers get special help via six "connecting questions" linked to activities for students. Communities Respond features case studies from US schools and other local groups showing how others have examined global events in the aftermath of September 11.

http://www.pbs.org/globalconnections/

Jolie Rouge

10-06-2002, 09:31 PM

Make It Stick

Whether you want to stick leather to metal or wood to glass, This To That tells you how to get the best bond just by selecting the two materials from the pull down menu, clicking on Let's Glue and seeing what will give the strongest adhesion, the least toxic, the fastest and more tips on making a connection that will last.

http://www.thistothat.com/

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Monty Python LEGOs

LEGOmaniacs learn how to make their creations defy gravity, stop motion and other special effects for their next film, or draw inspiration from LEGO-ized film clips of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spiderman and Jurassic Bark at the Lego Screening Room.

http://www.lego.com/eng/studios/screening/movie.asp?id=montypython

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Duct Tape Fashion

Nothing to wear? Please. If you've got duct tape, you've got a wardrobe. Whip up a stunning prom dress, sport coat, superhero costume -- even a wedding ensemble -- with that most versatile of all products. At the Duct Tape Fashion Gallery, see the teens who have designed, worn and allowed themselves to be photographed in duct tape wear to win college scholarships.

http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/fashion.html
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At Home Astronomy

Rockets away! Kids have been building backyard rockets since Sputnik, and at UC Berkeley's At Home Astronomy, families are shown how and why to make rockets, astrolabs and other fun space stuff with household items like balloons, string and straws.

Hands-on science experiments from the Center for Science Education include Shadow Dance, an experiment with shadows and light sources, and instructions on how to make a simple astrolab, which kids can use to measure altitude and the height of objects in the sky. Ten experiments include lists of what you need, what you should know, simple illustrations and links to other web sites to learn more.

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/

Jolie Rouge

10-06-2002, 09:47 PM

Pop History

History can seem like a blur of famous dates and infamous people. Digest it week-by-week at Pop History Now, unwinding each week's events from the end of WWII through the 90s, with headlines of the big news, but also the movies, music and television.

During the first week of August 1952, for example, Jordan's 17-year-old Hussein ascended to the throne, cartoonist Al Capp debuted his own TV show and "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" moved up the pop charts. The site is searchable by concept, keyword or date, and casual visitors get summaries. Register as a member to get full access to the weekly stories.

http://www.pophistorynow.com/

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A complete archive of previous Cool Tricks can be viewed at
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/archives.htm
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Matisse Picasso

Twin giants of modern art are stacked side-by-side for a close look at how opposites attract at Matisse Picasso, an online visit for those who can't make the major exhibition touring London, Paris and New York. In masterpieces by both artists that have never before been brought together, Matisse and Picasso are revealed anew in over 30 groupings that reveal their intense rivalry and innovation. Included are pairings of Picasso's Boy Leading a Horse and Matisse's Le Luxe 1, created within a year of each other, a fascinating sequence of paintings of women, still lifes and landscapes.

http://www.matissepicasso.com/

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Haunted Britain and Ireland

Haunted hotels, creepy castles and ghostly walks -- nobody does it better than the Brits and the Irish. Haunted Britain and Ireland guarantees active, if not live, ghosts, ghouls and goblins for visitors who yearn for a good scare on their next vacation. From the Golden Fleece in Yorkshire, an old coaching inn where at least 5 spirits reside, to Ballygally Castle Hotel in North Ireland where the departed Lady Isabel Shaw still knocks on guest room doors, visitors who want a vacation to shriek home about can book a room in frightening accommodations or reserve a stroll through spirited cities like Armagh, which sports "a generous helping of ghosts, gore and the grotesque."

http://www.afallon.com/

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Animal Painters

If art is communication, moles are the Oprah Winfreys of the animal kingdom. At The Museum of Non-Primate Art, the marks and sounds of non-primates are treated as aesthetic communication. Before deciding, consider the cross-sectioned tunneling patterns of the mole or the pyramidic dunghills of the stallion. Art or accident?

As in primate (that's us) art, fakes abound. Visitors to Why Cats Paint guess which painting is by an imposter (human or canine), apply to be a feline art critic or give their own cat a creative intelligence test. Dancing with Cats shows how and why to quickstep with your pussy, and in the East Wing, the splay, shplerter and schplutz patterns of wing spans are dissected for their role in bird performance art.

http://www.monpa.com/

Use a mirror
in difficult times:
You will see both
the cause and resolution.

~~ TAO

Jolie Rouge

10-06-2002, 10:14 PM

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Jolie Rouge

10-09-2002, 08:46 PM

Magazine Cuisine!

Magazines about food hold a special place in a cook's heart. Images both inspire and sometimes frustrate those of us with real-life kitchens and budgets. There are, however, several publications with sites that are both inspirational and practical...

Saveur
One of my favorite cooking magazines, the print edition is literature for the cook, providing not just recipes, but the culture and context behind the cuisine. Online Saveur brings efficient access to this depth and breadth. The recipe section, for example, not only offers key word and course searches, but a fascinating "culture" search tool. Shall we eat Egyptian tonight, honey?

http://www.saveur.com/

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Cucina Italiana
The English language section of this colorful Italian site offers keyword recipes, a "recipe of the day", and a useful "Cooking School" with advice on items from pastry to risotto. Database access requires (free) registration.

http://www.cucinait.com/World/Home_We.asp

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Epicurious

A discussion of basic web cooking sites would not be complete without mention of Epicurious. I've listed this on my home page for over a year, and with good reason. Thousands of recipes are listed from the pages of Bon Appetit and Gourmet, all accessible through a sophisticated database (hit the "advanced search" link on the home page). Try a search for recipes with your two favorite ingredients.

http://www.epicurious.com/

"...after eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate..." ~~ William Safire

moocher

10-10-2002, 01:18 AM

WOW!!! This thread is getting HUGE!!

http://www.wackyuses.com/index.html

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by just clicking on a product! Discover hundreds of little-known uses for well-known products,
by just clicking on a product!

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Paint Your House with Powdered Milk
Wash Your Hair with Whipped Cream
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ThriftyFun.com is dedicated to publishing information that will save you money and time. We offer numerous free, email newsletters as well as an interactive online format that allows everyone to contribute. Come join the discussion!

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moocher

10-10-2002, 03:52 PM

http://www.vday.org/index2.cfm?ArticleID=6

About V-Day
V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a palpable energy, a fierce catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sexual sl*****. V-Day provides funding to create and nurture innovative programs to stop the violence.

Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of "The Vagina Monologues" to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. V-Day itself stages large-scale benefits and promotes innovative gatherings and programs (The Afghan Women's Summit, The Stop Rape Contest, Indian Country Project, and more) to change social attitudes towards violence against women. In 2002, more than 800 V-Day benefit events were presented by local volunteer activists around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.

Jolie Rouge

10-12-2002, 11:59 AM

The Schøyen Collection

Visit your local book mall and pause among the shelves to honor the Australian Aborigines, who started it all 50,000 years ago with rock carvings, the first recorded forms of written communication. The Schøyen Collection, the world's largest private manuscript collection of the 20th century, presents more than 12,500 manuscripts spanning 5,000 years of scribbling.

Visitors will find descriptions and fascinating images of 222 manuscripts - representing less than 3 percent of the collection - on clay, metals, wood, bone, even glass. The Dead Sea Scrolls are here, as are works created by ancient "hoards," or tribal groups, as diverse as Hebrews and Buddhists. Sections include the Bible, History, Literature - like Sumerian epics on clay tablets - Paleography and Special Collections.

http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/

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Yoga With Cats

Kitty seeming a bit stressed lately? Spare your furniture and bliss out together at Yoga Kitty, a "practical guide" for people and pusses who seek to achieve physical, mental and spiritual ecstasy, without drugs or catnip.

In free instructional videos for clearing past karma, tapping electromagnetism and meditating, Yogi Karl and partner Yogi Ovaria -- the original Yogakitty -- show viewers how to adjust their shakras in seriocomic scenes that will have you cracking up even while the cat shreds another pillow. "Purr-fect Yoga" items are available in the online shop, like tee-shirts with the site's slogan: "Higher Consciousness, It's Not Just for Humans Anymore."

http://www.yogakitty.com/index.html

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Film Journal

Skulk down the seedy back alleys of film noir, meet the femmes fatales and the two-bit losers, as well as the cinematographers and directors, at Images, a journal of film and popular culture. Like the special feature that examines 10 of the greatest noirs, the site offers intelligent articles, video and interviews about movies, television and other popular visual arts.

In addition to reviews, the site has specialty areas like In Focus, where recently 30 of the most influential Westerns were explored. Features offer special bits like Billy Wilder and Samuel Fuller talking about film noir, articles about Italian Gothic Horror Cinema and a hard-core critical analyses, "Myth and Gender in Gone With the Wind."

http://www.imagesjournal.com/

Jolie Rouge

10-12-2002, 08:47 PM

Choose Your Own

Cap'n Wacky's Boatload of Fun brings back an old-time series, Choose Your Own Adventure books, for grown-ups who want a risk-free look at what happens when they come to the fork in the road as they climb the corporate ladder, fall in love or get married.

http://www.capnwacky.com/choose/

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Glass Eating

The kids at Harvard are at it again at the I Can Eat Glass Project, which is more like the I Can Say I Can Eat Glass in Swahili Project. The idea - besides avoiding studying - is to say the phrase in an indigenous language. So far, the site has recorded the phrase's utterance in dozens of tongues, from Afrikaans to Yiddish.

http://hcs.harvard.edu/%7Eigp/glass.html

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NewZoid

World news is mind-boggling but never more so than at NewZoid, where visitors can find all the news that never happened, doesn't make sense and isn't supposed to. The #1 and perhaps only source of false headlines since 2001, the site offers computer-generated headlines like "MSNBC Gets Spanked In Chinese Landslide" and lets visitors vote on their favorites.

http://www.newzoid.com/

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Dumb Warnings!

Thank god for package warnings or we'd all be going around witlessly dropping air conditioning units out windows or using blow dryers while we sleep. There's a reason for alerting consumers to the hazards of ironing clothes while wearing them - according to Dumb Warnings, it's to avoid pointless lawsuits.

Besides reproducing warnings we shouldn't need, the site links visitors to such related sites as Dumb Instructions, like the label on a Swedish chainsaw that instructs users not to try to stop the moving blade with one's genitals. The site creators will pay $20 for photo submissions of Dumb Warnings you uncover if you'll let them use the material for an upcoming book.

http://www.dumbwarnings.com/

Jolie Rouge

10-13-2002, 08:51 PM

Dinosaur Depot

Parents or teachers with kids who are crazy about dinosaurs will want to take the youngsters on a trip to The Jurassic Park Institute, created by people at Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures who must have teaching in their bones.

Keeping kids' interests and intellects center stage, DinoLab takes visitors into a research center to begin fieldwork in the Institute's virtual habitat, collect dinosaur eggs and study dinosaur parental behavior. Teacher resources abound, matched to the National Science Education curriculum. Dinopedia is an encyclopedia with a graphic timeline and user-friendly search tools for hard-to-pronounce dino names. DinoNews has science and entertainment news about recent finds and fun, and DinoGuides delivers the best dinosaur sites on the web.

http://www.jpinstitute.com/index.jsp

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Dark Alliance

Billed as "the web site that refused to die," Dark Alliance reproduces the award-winning online expose first published by the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, and then yanked by the editor. Journalist Gary Webb recreates the series here from a CD-ROM that was rescued from a batch made by the newspaper for distribution, then destroyed when things got sticky.

The series exposes a Bay Area drug ring that sold cocaine to LA street gangs and funneled the profits to Latin American guerrillas who, as the story goes, were run by the CIA. Heady stuff. "The Story Behind the Crack Explosion" details the opening of the first pipeline between Colombian cartels and LA's crack-infested neighborhoods.

http://home****tbi.com/%7Egary.webb/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html
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Theban Mapping Project

The Valley of the Kings, on the West Bank of the Nile, was the resting place of choice for ancient Egyptian rulers. Today it contains 62 discovered tombs, from a simple pit to one containing more than 121 chambers. The Theban Mapping Project, from the American University in Cairo, is creating a comprehensive database in hopes of out-running treasure-hunters, pollution, rising ground water and tourist hordes that threaten the area.

Visitors can use the interactive Atlas to explore each tomb in the Valley, study the database, view some 2,000 images, interact with models and measure, pan and zoom over 250 detailed maps and elevations. Search by graffiti, sarcophagi, decoration, condition and more, or take one of 65 narrated tours.

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

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Kinoko-ya

Hiroshi Takahashi is a kinoko-ya, a "mushroomer," but neither grows nor sells the fungi. Hiroshi just photographs them. Charmed by the beauty and diversity of wild edible mushrooms while munching one day, Hiroshi decided to start recording them. One thing led to another, and he ended up with photos of 121 species, on display at Kinoko-Ya, a simple site with a simply lovely subject: mushroom photography.

A site index leads visitors through the photos, from Naratake, the popular mushroom that grows wild in Japan, to a vivid yellow rain-soaked "tremella messenterica" that resembles underwater sea coral. In What's New, see a dozen or so recent photos, or follow links to sites with more mushroom info.

http://www.cx.sakura.ne.jp/~kinoko/01eng/0e_index.htm

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Worry is an addiction
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moocher

10-14-2002, 03:57 PM

http://www.god.org

Letters to God @ god.org

This is a different site. I was just making up different web site addies-yes, I was very bored that day! lol and I came across this site. You can write letters to God on this site-push the send button and they disappear. I have no idea where they go, but sometimes it makes me feel a lot better to do this!

Jolie Rouge

10-14-2002, 09:26 PM

----- Google News -----

Two incredibly cool and useful Web sites debuted recently, one that garnered a whole mess of media attention and one that, sadly, no one seemed to notice. The first site, the one that everyone was (and still is) talking about, is Google News at

http://news.google.com/

If you're familiar with other Google sites -- images.google.com, groups.google.com, catalogs.google.com, and so on - you're in for a bit of a surprise. Google's news site looks an awful lot like a portal. [GASP! Google ... has ... a ... PORTAL?!] In fact, my first reaction was that news.google.com looks an awful lot like Yahoo Full Coverage at

http://news.yahoo.com/fc

Like Full Coverage, Google News displays and categorizes headlines amassed from news sources all over the world. But, while Full Coverage is continuously updated by a team of people, Google News is updated by a highly skilled flock of pigeons. [Sorry. Old joke.]Actually, according to the About Google News page, Google News is "compiled solely by computer algorithms without any human intervention."

The site archives articles "from approximately 4,000 news sources worldwide," updates its collection of articles every 15 minutes, and automatically arranges those articles "to present the most relevant news first." Quotes from:

http://news.google.com/help/about_news_search.html

The Google News site is easy to both navigate and figure out, so much so that now that you have the URL I should probably just shut up and get out of your way. Let me add one thing, though: if you want to know a whole lot more about how Google News actually works, there is no better source that Chris Sherman's recent SearchDay article at

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd1002-google-news.html

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The second site to debut recently, albeit quietly, was MIT's OpenCourseWare site at

http://ocw.mit.edu

Back in April of 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]announced the ground-breaking and ambitious goal that, over the next ten years, MIT should make available online all of its course materials from every MIT undergraduate and graduate course. Syllabi. Course calendars. Lecture notes. Assignments. Exams. Everything.
Available to the entire online world. No charge.
Pretty amazing, isn't it?

The first phase of MIT's OpenCourseWare project debuted last week, giving the world access to MIT course materials from 32 courses in 17 different departments ranging from Aeronautics and Astronautics to Urban Studies and Planning. Materials from an additional 2,000 MIT courses will be added to the OpenCourseWare site over the next few years.

So, does this mean you can now get a free, online degree from MIT? Not on your life, Chester! While educators are encouraged to borrow MIT's course materials for their own curricula, and while everyone in the world is encouraged to use the OpenCourseWare site for self-study, MIT has absolutely no plans to offer credit for the online versions of their courses.

Besides, what makes MIT MIT isn't its course documents. Covalent bonding works the same in Cambridge as it does in Irvine, and the second derivative of 2 x squared is the same along the banks of the Charles River as it is at the confluence of the 5 and 405 freeways. What makes MIT MIT -- and what makes MIT worth $26K a year -- isn't it's course documents. It's its faculty. And THAT you can't put online.

Or, in the words of MIT spokesperson Jon Paul Potts in a recent CNET interview,

An MIT education happens in the classroom, by interacting with other students and with faculty, not by reading some Web pages or downloading some materials, or even watching a video lecture.

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-961563.html

Still, MIT's OpenCourseWare site is an amazing educational resource, one that will have an impact on educational institutions and learning organizations around the world.

And, between you and me, I think the OpenCourseWare site is a heck of a lot more exciting that Google News. :)

------ THE IG NOBEL AWARDS -----

Surely you've heard of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded for great achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace. But have you heard about the IG NOBEL Prize? The Igs, which honor individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced" are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and take a good-natured poke at some remarkably goofy things done in the name of science. This year's Ig Nobel Prizes, sponsored by the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research", were just awarded at a gala ceremony at Harvard University and included:

PHYSICS: Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay.

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint -- who gets it, when, what color, and how much.

CHEMISTRY: Theo Gray of Wolfram Research, for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a
four-legged periodic table table.

MATHEMATICS: Researchers at Kerala Agricultural University, India, for their analytical report "Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants."

HYGEINE: Eduardo Segura, of Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs. This report is in Spanish, so I can't tell if *dries* them after wash cycle. If so, I want one for my dog, "Stinky"!

You can read all about the IG NOBEL prizes, listen to highlights of the ceremony, and peruse the archives of past winners here:

http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html

---- THE STELLA AWARDS ----

If you've been online for more than, say, a week, you've probably had your share of e-mails filled with urban legends -- promises that Bill Gates will send you money if you forward a stupid e-mail, some guy in Africa has $200 million in cash for you (if you'll just send $15,000 in shipping costs), and a listing of the most outrageous lawsuits you've ever seen -- the "Stella Awards".

The problem with all of them is that they ARE urban legends -- none of them are true. The weird lawsuits in particular have caught people's attention: they're really going around a lot. Randy Cassingham, the guy that writes the weekly weird news journal "This is True", got really tired of the fake "Stella Awards" mails. "What's the point of arguing about a real problem with fake cases?" he asks. So he decided to DO something about it: he launched the True Stella Awards, and proves once again that "Truth is Stranger than Fiction". And thanks to Randy's wit, they're a lot more amusing, too. The site lists those popular-but-fake lawsuits (see the "bogus awards" page) and you can get a free e-mail subscription to the True Stella e-mails too. Highly recommended!

http://www.StellaAwards.com

flute

10-16-2002, 03:54 PM

http://lovethosekids.com/playgrnd/sandart.htm
:)

Jolie Rouge

10-25-2002, 09:56 AM

I Used To Believe

Remember when you used to believe in the Tooth Fairy, or that if you swallowed watermelon seeds a melon would grow in your belly? When the ridiculous suddenly dawns, say hello to adulthood. At www.iusedtobelieve.com, share those bittersweet moments when childhood beliefs melted into real life.

Common themes emerge as visitors submit entries, like a primal fear of toilets and invisible pals. In 20 or so categories, from animals to transport, the naivete of youth is revealed. Visitors are invited to send the figments of their own childhood imaginations to add to the 2,500 fantasies adults admit they once thought true.

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Birds of Prey

Holy Fists and Fishnets! Don't look for budgies at www.canarynoir.com 's Birdwatching, a web ring for fans of Gotham's favorite femme crime fighters, Oracle (nee Batgirl) and Black Canary. Although the two have certainly been around the comic block - Batgirl surfaced in 1967 and Black Canary in 1947 - they're totally 21st century girls, fierce and beautiful.

With a recently debuted new TV series on the WB, the four-year-old comic series now has a comprehensive web site with character biographies to help visitors sort through the allies and the bad guys, detailed notes to catch up on complicated storylines, a gallery of illustrations and costumes and a Canary-specific section.

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Strange Science

The rocky road to modern paleontology is littered with the remains of Cyclops and unicorns. But hey, everyone makes mistakes. At www.strangescience.net, kids can learn that first truths don't necessarily come right up out of the dirt with recovered dinosaur skeletons and fossils.

Besides a trip to the Goof Gallery, which shows the colossal boo-boos by colossal minds, visitors will find a timeline chronicling major events in paleontology and biology, biographies of the brilliant scientists whose persistence gave us what we know today about our roots, and resources for further learning, with old illustrations and straightforward info by an ordinary Joe who admits he just digs this stuff.

Jolie Rouge

10-26-2002, 08:06 PM

Origins of Writing

Pass your cursor over the spines of a dozen or so books to open a volume brimming with history, illustrations and photos about humankind's earliest scribbling, from 15th century Korean scripts to the oral history known as Cinderella. The Origins of Writing is a scholarly and beautifully designed class project created by anthropology students at Utah State University.

Learn how writing began in many cultures: the Gaelic Cycles, Olmec Scripts and King Sejong's new - for the 1400s - writing system for the Korean language, Han'gul. Click on Writing Systems for info about pictographs or Writing Mediums to see prose produced on oracle bones, silk and bamboo.

www.usu.edu/anthro/origins_of_writing/main.html

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Laugh Lab

Punch lines like "…go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you" are the sidesplitters at Laugh Lab, conducting unofficial research on what tickles funny bones the world over. The latest poll gives a top joke from six countries, including the US and Canada, who seem to like to poke fun at each other in a neighborly way. Visitors can rate posted jokes, submit their own or follow links to find out what makes kids laugh, why men and women find different jokes funny, what jokes reveal about how our brains work - all in an online research project full of giggles and guffaws.

www.laughlab.co.uk/topByCountry.html

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African Voices

Discover your connection to Africa, a place of striking diversity and global influence at African Voices, the online partner of a permanent exhibit by the Smithsonian Institution. The site explores the continent's peoples, cultures and history via artifacts and contemporary objects like sculptures, textiles and pottery, plus audio and video clips of oral traditions like proverbs, prayers and folk tales... History is traced from the Nile Valley through Colonialism and Africa Today. Themes explored include family, work and the natural environment with spotlights on the Kongo people of Central Africa and how wealth is created. Manifestations of the Spirit is a photo gallery of Afro-Brazilian "spirit" traditions, and a learning center directs visitors to more resources for study.

www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/

Jolie Rouge

10-29-2002, 09:57 AM

Make It Stick

Whether you want to stick leather to metal or wood to glass, www.thistothat.com/ tells you how to get the best bond just by selecting the two materials from the pull down menu, clicking on Let's Glue and seeing what will give the strongest adhesion, the least toxic, the fastest and more tips on making a connection that will last.

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Monty Python LEGOs

LEGOmaniacs learn how to make their creations defy gravity, stop motion and other special effects for their next film, or draw inspiration from LEGO-ized film clips of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spiderman and Jurassic Bark at the Lego Screening Room.

www.lego.com/eng/studios/screening/movie.asp?id=montypython

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Duct Tape Fashion

Nothing to wear? Please. If you've got duct tape, you've got a wardrobe. Whip up a stunning prom dress, sport coat, superhero costume -- even a wedding ensemble -- with that most versatile of all products. At the Duct Tape Fashion Gallery, www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/fashion.html see the teens who have designed, worn and allowed themselves to be photographed in duct tape wear to win college scholarships.

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A Brutally Honest Parent Blog

It may not be PC to admit you're not 100 percent goo-goo-eyed over your first born, but new parenthood can be a giant pain - and it stinks. At www.ironycentral.com/babymain.html A Story About the Baby, little Cordelia Vogel's brand new dad spills his guts about the joys of caring for Daddy's little girl.

Dad greeted his offspring with the words, "Hello, Cordelia. Welcome to the world. It's not going to get much better," and through 38 weeks of frank fatherhood (starting with Week One: "The Unbearable Grossness of Being,") he doesn't get a lot more cheerful. But when 9-month-old Cordelia expertly disses a smarmy street musician, he beams with fatherly pride.

Jolie Rouge

10-29-2002, 10:39 PM

Cosmic Baseball Association

With 381 strikeouts, musician and ace hurler Duke Ellington bests former per season leader Andrew Carnegie. Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of the Dharma Beats leads in batting with a powerful .392. Heads-up … it's www.cosmicbaseball.com/ brought to you by the quirky athletes of the Cosmic Baseball Association.

Since 1981 the CBA has been conjuring up fantasy teams of artists, financiers, supermodels, dead presidents and even a few former players, arranging fantasy games between teams of people like Lee Iacocca and Frank Zappa. A league of the imagination, the CBA sees the game as a "metaphor for the life of the mind" and the site as an art form. With News and Info on current standings, player listings, record-setters - even poetry.

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Missing Matter

Web surfers who ponder deep thoughts like the coming crisis of multi-threaded reality will find what's missing at www.missingmatter.net/ based on the theory of "dark matter," or the undetectable missing matter that remains after physicists calculate the mass of the universe. Here, the missing matter is undetected ideas.

Why go on and on about the same old ideas while the really new notions get ignored? Discuss dynamic music in video games or hear what people like artificial intelligence maestro Dr. Ian Lane Davis of Mad Doc Software have to say. With Features, Interviews and Reviews on topics from art and architecture to toys and texts, visitors can sign up and submit their own missing matter or just read along.

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Big Cartoon DataBase

With more than 42,000 cartoons, 2,000 series and 1,300 cartoon reviews, the Big Cartoon Database ( www.bcdb.com )can reasonably describe itself as the Net's largest searchable database of cartoons, episode guides and crew lists, covering cartoons from ten major studios, from Columbia to Warner.

The result is an easy way for cartoonies to look up info about cartoons, filmographies and episodes, with special features like Cartoon of the Moment (currently Patty Cake, Patty Cake, starring Hong Kong Phooey), reviews, a chance to vote for your favorite cartoon, and special search functions to quickly locate artwork or 'toons on video.

Jolie Rouge

10-30-2002, 10:29 PM

The Ig® Nobel Prize

It's October, time for the intellectual elite of the scientific and academic worlds to wait for an early morning phone call from Sweden, telling them that they are a 2002 Nobel Laureate. For others, the call comes from the Annals of Improbable Research, which each year at this time inflicts the Ig Nobel Prizes, online at Improbable.com.

Honoring achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced," the Iggies celebrate such work as a report on the courtship behavior of ostriches towards humans, this year's winner in biology. Read historical info on the awards or watch videos as the Japanese inventors of Bow-Lingual, a computer-based dog-to-human language translation device, accept their 2002 Iggie Peace Prize at ceremonies held at Harvard.

http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html

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Sherlock Holmes

Stop by 221 Baker Street.org to read the Sherlock Holmes "canon," 48 of the original 60 Holmes stories (4 were novels) written by Conan Doyle, many in Palm or Adobe PDF format for easy downloading, plus picture illustrations by Sydney Paget and links to Sherlock sound files.

http://221bakerstreet.org/

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Google Fight

The War of the Words is played out at Google Fight.com, where visitors type in two keywords to be searched by the master search engine to see which one gets the highest return. An interesting metaphor erupts, as Hell outdistances Paradise by about 4 million results.

www.googlefight.com/

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Belly Button Study

Someone is scrutinizing your navel at Belly Button Lint: The Hole Story, exposing more than you may want to know about the debris in belly buttons - its color, quantity, correlation to bodily hair and, of course, the cargo capacity of the innie vs. the outie.

www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/default.htm

Jolie Rouge

10-31-2002, 10:25 PM

The Helmet Project

For a different kind of hardhat, visit the Helmet Project, where football helmets from 1960 to the present are gathered, illustrated and recorded in detail by an avid headbanger who has reproduced the headgear worn by teams from professional football leagues to defunct college squads.

The site includes the shell and faceguard colors, plus decal logos of helmets worn by pros in the NFL, even the short-lived mid-70s World Football League and 2001's XFL, to teams of the NCAA and beyond. Historical sections show retrospectives like the Air Force's silver and blue lightening bolt that has only changed a smidgen since 1950.

www.nationalchamps.net/HelmetProject/

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Beneath Los Angeles

In the oddest way, people come to LA to see death. Celebrity gravesides are a star attraction in the city where the only permanent residents, it is said, are the dead ones. www.beneathlosangeles.com shows visitors the tombstones, grave markers and memorial plaques marking the final resting places of the "famous, infamous and just plain dead."

More than 200 of the Famous are here, from George and Gracie's touching double tombstone and its inscription "Together Again," to silent film star Clara Kimball Young. The Infamous section includes 150 or so markers, including the grave of scandal-rocked studio head David Begelman who committed suicide in 1995, and the entire Barrymore Dynasty.

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The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy

Noah Webster may not have anticipated 20th century soda wars, but he did have an ear for how we talk, and it's high time those snoots at Harvard and Yale took notice of a truly hefty linguistic controversy. At The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy, a Cal Tech scholar is studying how we order up that most American of icons - the carbonated beverage.

Based on a national map plotting our usage, "soda" appears strong on both coasts, "pop" leads in the heartland, but "coke" is spilling up from the south. View the map and the trends and complete a survey - more than 117,000 others have done so - then grab a root beer and toast your own contribution to academia.

www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

Jolie Rouge

11-01-2002, 02:39 PM

Tolkien Obsession

Need a good fantasy? Circle over to The One Ring.Net, "forged by and for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien," brimming with news of release dates, a frame-by-frame peek at the trailer for the next release and lots more.

Those who can't wait for the December release of The Two Towers, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, for their next glimpse of Gollum and gang can cool their heels at the Movie FAQ page, "Spy Reports," and more than 800 pages about cast and crew. Also, Gaming Havens, the definitive source for Middle Earth-themed gaming, fan chat and even a "newbie" section just in case there's anyone left on this earth who hasn't gone Tolkien.

www.theonering.net/movie/preview/ttt_093002_01.html
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His Life For Sale

Some people have yard sales when they feel the heavy weight of possessions bearing down on them. John Freyer, creator of All My Life For Sale.com, had a life sale. Deciding that all he really needed should fit in the trunk of his car, John invited friends over to tag the rest and, this being the 21st century, sell it all on eBay.

Now John's got a new book out and he's about to go visit the half-used box of taco shells, bottle of mouthwash, cowboy hat and laundered shirts he sold to purchasers around the globe. What was the last thing to sell? His domain name, which went to the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

http://www.allmylifeforsale.com/html/project/BookStuff.html

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Tis better to be Silent and thought a Fool,
than to SPEAK and remove all doubt.

~~~Chinese Proverb

Jolie Rouge

11-02-2002, 10:38 AM

This is a cute link I thought the kids would enjoy !

See Santa In His House!
www.santalive.com/

Sex in Our Century

If you'd like to bump those lingerie commercials to a pay-per-view channel, you might be a deserter from the sexual revolution - the great cultural shift that is traced from its stirrings in the 1950s to its climax in 2002 at Sex In our Century, from the TLC Channel.

View "social guidance" films of the 50s, take the Prude Test, or learn how pure those Puritans really were - a third of Puritan brides were pregnant by the time they were 'allowed' to say yes! Culture of Sex traces America's sexual history; Revolutionaries devotes a whole section to The Hef, AKA "the Founding Father of the sexual revolution," and the Birds and the Bees is a place to expose your own "myth-information" about s-e-x.

tlc.discovery.com/convergence/sex/sex.html

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Public Defenders

Justice in America hinges on a simple notion. Whether you've got brains, bucks or beauty - or none of the above - you're innocent until proven guilty. Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders tells the other side of law and order: how and why everyone in America deserves a fair shake.

Based on a KQED Public Television program, the site drops visitors into the "trench warfare" of jails and courtrooms through the eyes, words and moral dilemmas of six public defenders. Meet the rookie who just won't quit and the old sage who keeps his faith in social justice. With privileged client discussions, video and audio clips of the PDs in action, and must-have lessons on your own legal rights.

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/presumedguilty/

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Defective Yeti

Thirty-one year old Matthew Baldwin is a "pretty okay guy" who lives in Seattle, is married and has a bus pass and an uncanny ear for the odd snatch of conversation, sidewalk scenes and other debris of daily life. He shares them at Defective Yeti, a site of personal "musings."

The thoughts are random but not pointless, and sometimes they are near-poetry. Reviews and commentary are organized into Movies, Games, Books, Tools and Toys and News. Interesting captured-moments are found in Overheard, like "Lovely and The Punk," a short, short story about a chance encounter on a bus, and Ideas shares his brainstorms, like dropping flyers reading "USA: You Gotta Love It!" over hostile nations.

http://www.defectiveyeti.com/

{{gotta *love* that name !}}

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You just have to love beetle bailey:

http://www.beetlebailey.com/images/flag.swf

Gumball1960

11-02-2002, 04:31 PM

Jolie suggested I post this in here too... :p

This is really fun. You choose a catagory, then pick a picture to "paint". All the fun of painting without all the clean up afterwards. :D

http://www.segmation.com/SegPlayChoose.shtml#images

Jolie Rouge

11-02-2002, 04:45 PM

*T*Y* Gummie !

Ya'll *HAVE* to try this !

Jolie Rouge

11-03-2002, 09:43 PM

Name That Tune

You hear a song on the radio. You like it. You want it. Then you listen through 30 minutes of radio jock-talk to hear the title and the artist. Not any more. At www.Yes.net, just click the pull-down menus to locate the city, radio station, and play time to get the song title you heard. Then click Yes to buy it from your fave CD source, from Amazon to e-Bay. What a concept.

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Cobain's Journals

In the late 80's, Kurt Donald Cobain began his "Journals" just as he and bassist Krist Novoselic were trying to launch Nirvana. Cobain's eccentric spelling, grammar and angst are preserved in the excerpts printed at "If You Read You'll Judge," presented by MSNBC.com.

www.msnbc.com/news/823463.asp

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Seat Guru

These days, once you actually get on the plane it's extra nice to settle into a comfy seat. At www.SeatGURU.com, find the perfect mid-air perch by clicking on the carrier (United, Delta, American, US Airways or Continental) and the aircraft you're flying to view the seating chart, including seat numbers and ratings (Very Good, Be Aware!, Very Bad).

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Iraq Journal

Before we start dropping bombs on them, maybe we should get a look at who "they" are. That's the logic behind Iraq Journal, a news-based counterpoint to mainstream US media who have become cheerleaders in the game of war, according to independent journalist Jeremy Scahill.

Sponsored by Voices in the Wilderness and the Iraq Peace Team, the site is a forum giving access to international news reports that break ranks with much of what US citizens hear about Iraq and its people: photo albums of the "other" faces of Iraq; audio and text files of current charges and counter-charges; and alternative analyses from what may become ground zero in the next American war.

http://www.iraqjournal.org/

Gumball1960

11-04-2002, 01:09 PM

You can create wire frame models here that move and walk. Once you create a wire frame model (it’s a good idea to read the how to build your own section), you can save them, send them to the site, and they’ll put them in the SodaZoo.

Check out the SodaZoo to see what other constructions have been made, or you can check out their main page and the neat little wire guys that the site has already made. So try your hand at it and enjoy!

http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/

sunnydazed

11-04-2002, 03:44 PM

Thankyou everyone for your posts! I have kept very busy!

sunnydazed

11-05-2002, 02:41 PM

El bumpo

Jolie Rouge

11-05-2002, 02:48 PM

Sunnydazed - bored already ??

Okay .... today's offering ...

Bio Interactive

Visitors to Bio Interactive can dive head first into human biology and some of the most exciting and puzzling topics in human health today: biological clocks, infectious diseases, cardiology and neurobiology. At the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Virtual Museum, visitors explore the biological clocks and circadian rhythms that silently control when and how we wake and sleep, and experience the frightening, hopeful world of infectious diseases and efforts to custom-design drugs to fight these terrifying threats to human life. Vital Signs gets to the heart of it all with info about the cardiovascular system and how heart health keeps us ticking. Hearing and Seeing takes visitors into the nervous system of sensory perceptions, movement, even thought.

www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/museum/

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Treasures of Ancient Egypt

Walk - forever - like an Egyptian at Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, exploring the civilization that so stubbornly resisted the idea that life is fleeting that it created complex religions and devoted vast resources into a search for forever. Judging from our own continuing fascination with their remains, they succeeded. From an exhibit at the National Gallery ending in October 2002, the site lets modernists visit the afterlife of Egyptians who lived 3,000 years ago. In six sections, from Journey to the Afterworld to The Realm of the Gods, visit a full-scale reproduction of ancient tombs, view QuickTime videos of elaborate objects of entombment, and hear detailed narratives from Egyptologists.

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2002/egypt/index.htm

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Magdalene Institution

Back in 1812, the question "How to handle a woman?" was answered by the Glasgow Magdalene Asylum: Lock 'em up. Created in response to prostitution, venereal disease and general moral decline, the Asylum - closed in 1958 - is documented at the Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department web site. The site presents the fifth annual report by the Magdalene Institution describing how and why loose women - not just prostitutes, but also single moms, socialists, mill girls and girls dressed "immorally" - were incarcerated in the name of redemption and protection. Behind bars, the poor dears were taught self-sacrifice, duty, religion and appropriate class and gender roles. Don't believe it? See the paperwork, then be glad it's 2002.

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/nov2000.html

Gumball1960

11-06-2002, 11:21 AM

The Easter Egg Archive

This site has nothing to do with brightly colored edible eggs and everything to do with those little surprises that are programmed into software that you use on the computer. Their definition of an Easter egg is “any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are thousands of them, and they can be quite entertaining, if you know where to look.”

This site is an archive of different Easter eggs. I checked out their top 25 and was greatly surprised at some of them. I’d never even think to do some of things to find these critters. Ready to start your Easter egg hunt?

http://www.eeggs.com/

Gumball1960

11-07-2002, 01:35 PM

"From the comfort of your keyboard, browse the wonders of the underground! As a caver and photographer for over 30 years, I've collected images from caves all over the world. This site tells the story of caves in words and pictures: what's in them and how it got there. Because caves are so diverse, I've split them into four underground realms. Grab three sources of light, a helmet, some sturdy boots, and your mouse, and have fun exploring - there LOTS to see! Please treat all caves with respect as they are easily damaged. Our motto is: "cave softly." "

This place is realy interesting!! They have 4 different types of caves you can take a virtual tour of. Go spelunking without the worry of claustrophobia and bats! :D

http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/

jaybird

11-07-2002, 01:38 PM

http://www.vickysjokes.com/funny/bking.asp

After you survive this one, just keep clicking 'previous' or 'next.' Some pretty hilarious AND strange stuff here! ;)

Gumball1960

11-09-2002, 02:24 AM

Carthedral

"Bet your wondering what a carthedral is? Let me tell ya all about it, it is a car that is made up to look as much like a cathedral as it can be. Carthedral “...is a gothic cathedral built on a 1971 Cadillac hearse and modified with '59 Cadillac tail fins, a VW bug and sculpted with fiberglass over metal armatures.”

The pictures of this car are fantastic! I have never seen anything this neat. I’d love to drive this baby. Visit the gallery, and if you’re curious, the Frequently Asked Questions have some neat questions and answers."

http://www.carthedral.com/

Has anybody in California seen this thing in person??

Gumball1960

11-10-2002, 12:44 AM

The high score of the website’s owner is 2148 and the challenge is to see if you can beat that.

Controls for the game are really simple. Hold your left mouse button down to go up and release it to go down. It’s that simple.

The trick seems to be the longer you play, the better you get. So get playing!

http://www.seethru.co.uk/zine/south_coast/helicopter_game.htm

Gumball1960

11-10-2002, 01:04 AM

Want to learn more about the armies of the world? Well this is the place to do it. Choose the country's flag that you would like to learn about to begin your journey. After choosing a flag, you are whisked away to that country's army homepage.

This is a really great learning tool, especially for those of you who have kids in school. Check it out!

http://www.army.com/

Gumball1960

11-10-2002, 01:08 AM

Welcome to Suspicion of Murder. Here, you are the detective. This is a wonderful site for those of you who love solving mysteries. Play "Murder Without Escape" today. To do so, click on the words Start Playing.

This takes you to the first page of the mystery. Can you solve this murder before there are more victims? Challenge your wits and your survival skills in this daring game. It’s possible to score 102 points. Can you solve this mystery?

http://www.suspicion-of-murder.com/crime/e/book11.htm

Gumball1960

11-10-2002, 01:21 AM

So you buy a brand new board game and play it for several weeks, then like all new things it loses its appeal for awhile. Then suddenly you have a craving to play that board game again, except its been so long you don’t remember the rules and you just happened to lose the itty bitty sheet of paper tucked in the game that had the rules printed on it. Sigh. Whatever will you do?

Well never fear, there is a solution for those of you who lost the rules to that favorite game. It's called the Game Cabinet. Choose from an alphabetical list to find the rules to your game. Just click the name and you are whisked away to the page with the rules on it. Even better, they are all in an easy printable form to make printing out a copy for your board game as simple as hitting ctrl + p. Have fun!

http://www.centralconnector.com/GAMES/GameCab.html

Gumball1960

11-10-2002, 01:24 AM

Have you ever been curious about icebergs? Well I found a page that will help you learn the answers to those burning questions. You can choose a news section where you can learn about the iceberg discovered in 1999 and the tracking method they have that prevents disasters like say, Titanic.

Plus the picture on this site is really cool. It shows the iceberg above water and below, so as you know it’s time to check it out!

http://geocities.com/rop92027/iceberg.htm

Gumball1960

11-10-2002, 01:30 AM

You gotta check this one out, it's so weird it's fun. :D
It's a clock that follows your cursor around the screen
and it really tells the time too. It's an HTML code and
you have to see it to believe it.

http://boardwalk.50g.com/clock.html

Gumball1960

11-13-2002, 11:09 PM

Jolie said to add this in here too - so here it is.... :)

Snap Shotz

There are six different pictures and some of them are really hard. You have 45 seconds to find all the discrepancies. Click on the spot that’s different and it gets circled. Find all the differences and move on to the next picture. But, if you click on something that’s the same in both pictures you lose time and before you know it, boom baby, game over! Enjoy!

http://www.lilgames.com/snapshotz.shtml

sunnydazed

11-14-2002, 02:14 PM

Keeping bumped! (Selfishly motivated! Ha ha! )

Gumball1960

11-16-2002, 01:12 AM

Moo! You’ll hear lots of that when you're around cows, especially cows that are being milked! You can see that and more at the Milking Parlor that hosts a couple of web cams. Enter the milking parlor, see the cows being milked, or enter the Special Needs Barn and see those precious mama cows, or you can even see the Free Stall where you can see all the cows.

There is a lot of information on this site as well, which makes it very educational for your little ones. The site is joint effort between the Iowa Farmers Today, Northeast Iowa Community College and the Dairy Foundation to bring these cows live to you everyday.

Learn about the different parts of the Barns and what purposes they serve, see how some milking parlors are set up and for your best viewing pleasure click the link for continuous footage. You get to see new footage of the barns and the cows every 30 seconds.

http://dairycam.com/

Jolie Rouge

11-16-2002, 06:08 PM

Drive Me Insane

Control freaks will find an eager victim at Drive Me Insane, where Paul Mathis of Plano, Texas, invites you into his home via 6 web cams and an incredible number of contraptions to take charge of his house.

Watch Paul via web cam, or send him notes that he will play via a voice synthesizer - that you too can hear. Open pictures in the Gallery to see others who have visited, and just generally bug him by fiddling with his lamps, motion detectors and appliances he's rigged up for your entertainment. A Listen In link lets you receive live audio streams from Paul and anyone else who might be visiting, and a Doorbell link lets you see who has come to call.

http://www.drivemeinsane.com/

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Visual Thesaurus

The Visual Thesaurus isn't just another way to find the right word, it's a way to understand the English language in all its subtlety. Take the 16 different meanings of the deceptively simple word "train," for example, which appears surrounded by dozens of colored spheres. Each represents a related adjective, noun, verb or adverb linked to still more words that represent an entire galaxy of orbiting nuanced meanings.

The site uses a database developed by the Cognitive Science Lab of Princeton with more than 50,000 words and 40,000 phrases to plumb human psycholinguistic memory and create an architecture of language in a revealing spatial map of word associations.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp

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Shoot Bill O'Reilly Into the Sun

Conservative Fox News radio man Bill O'Reilly, known for sometimes playing fast and loose with facts, has been spoofed, admired and vilified. At nosbois.org, the National Organization To Send Bill O'Reilly Into the Sun has been organized to --- well, it's obvious, isn't it?

NOSBOIS members don't necessarily hate the star of the O'Reilly Factor. They would just prefer him launched in a rocket ship on a collision course with the center of the solar system -- and they're raising funds to send him. The group is still a tad short of the $2 billion goal, but visitors with no spare change to donate can post messages, send love/hate letters or read poignant pleas to Bill to consent to the trip.

http://www.nosbois.org/

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Math in Daily Life

If you think math is a four-letter word, check out Math in Daily Life, a web site that neatly answers the universal whine of math students: Why do I have to learn this stuff? If you ever need to buy a car (or insurance for it), follow a recipe, sail a boat, build a home, or bet on a horse race, you'll need math principles.

In short, the site walks visitors through common situations, from savings plans to cooking, to show how math can be helpful - even necessary - in daily life. From the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Annenberg Foundation, the site is designed for K-12 teachers but the average adult taxpayer will find it helpful too.

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/

Jolie Rouge

11-16-2002, 06:15 PM

Yahooligan's Top 10 Toys

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If you've been on our little bus of Internet happiness for a while, you will remember Yahooligans [http://www.yahooligans.com/], Yahoo's
wonderful web guide for kids. Recognizing that the holiday season is
just around the corner, our friends at Yahooligans recently conducted
a not-so-scientific survey of the kiddies asking them what toys they'd
like to receive for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa ("Kwanzukkahmas?"). A
list of the children's top 10 most wanted toys can be found at

www.yahooligans.com/promotions/toys2002/result.html

and you can see the complete list at

www.yahooligans.com/promotions/toys2002/votingresults.html

Before you rush out and buy all of the toys you see on this list, please remember that Yahooligans' list doesn't actually list the *BEST* toys out there, only the most popular ones -- the ones the kids *THINK* they want.

By way of comparison, each year Family Fun magazine invades elementary schools and after school facilities in the US, drops off a truckload of new toys, lets the kids play with the toys for a couple weeks, and then asks the children to review each toy. Family Fun's list of the *BEST*, kid-tested toys of 2002 will be out in a week or two ... and I'll fire off a copy of the list to you just as soon as I get it.

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A bunch of our TOURBUS riders are educators, many of who "compute with fruit." Well, if you are a K-12 classroom teacher in the United
States who uses a Mac, check out

www.apple.com/education/macosxforteachers/

And if you are a K-12 classroom teacher in that great, white, frozen moose preserve known as "Canada," check out

www.apple.com/ca/education/macosxforteachers/

[And, yes, I know that there is more to Canada than moose and snow. For example, Toronto also has mutant black squirrels the size of pumas!]

Between now and December 31, Apple wants to give every K-12 teacher in the United States and Canada a free copy of Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar." The Jaguar installation CD-ROM also includes a "Getting Started with Mac OS X" training CD filled with practice exercises, tips, and over 80 QuickTime movies. You also get 90 days of free telephone support from Apple.

Just click on the grey "Order Now" button in the upper right corner of the X for Teachers page to order the free CD-ROM.

To qualify for the "X for Teachers" program you must be a K-12 teacher at a recognized school (Public, Private, Catholic, Bureau of Indian Affairs) and you must agree to have software delivered to your school address. This offer is limited to eligible K-12 teachers and is not available to resellers, institutions, home schools, non-teacher K-12 school employees, preservice/student teachers, or higher education faculty (including college of education faculty).

Free PowerPoint Presentations

Talking about education, If you haven't raided my cache of free PowerPoint presentations in a while, you might want to take another look at

www.netsquirrel.com/classroom/

My Classroom Resources page now has nine different PowerPoint presentations you are free to steal:

1. Active Learning with Instant Messaging -- Threat or Menace?
2. Blindly Stumbling towards Technology Nirvana
3. Computer Care 101 -- Keeping Your Computer Healthy
4. Computer Care 102 -- Top 10 Troubleshooting Tips & Tricks
5. Designing Online Communities ... on a Shoestring Budget
6. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- How Internet Filters Work,
How They Don't Work, and How Students Bypass Them
7. Stop Searching and Start FINDING -- Strategies for Effective
Web Research
8. Web Page Design, Part One: People Actually Get PAID to Do
This?
9. Web Page Design, Part Two: Internet Graphics for the
Artistically Challenged

All of these PowerPoint presentations have been "zipped" to make them
easier for you to download. If you are unfamiliar with how to unzip a
file, take a look at

www.netsquirrel.com/classroom/zip.html

Finally, all of my free PowerPoint presentations are, obviously, Microsoft PowerPoint files. To view them, you'll need either a copy of Microsoft PowerPoint (which is part of Microsoft Office) or a copy of Microsoft's free PowerPoint viewer for the PC. Microsoft's PowerPoint viewer is intended only for those of you who don't already have Microsoft Office. You can download the viewer at

www.office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx

Mr. Bill also offers a free Microsoft PowerPoint viewer for Mac users who don't already own Microsoft Office for the Mac. You can find it at

www.microsoft.com/MAC/download/OFFICE98/powerpoint98viewer.asp

Gumball1960

11-16-2002, 10:11 PM

I can't remember who it was last week that wanted info on Medieval stuff, but here's the place
you should go if you ever need it again. :)

Welcome to the official website for
The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization
dedicated to researching and re-creating pre-17th-century European history.
All persons interested in such study are invited to use these pages to obtain
information about the SCA.

http://www.sca.org/

Jolie Rouge

11-17-2002, 02:08 PM

Guide to Buying RAM

Got RAM? Too much memory ain't enough, says the Guide To Buying Computer Memory from cnet.com, with tips on types of RAM, slots, how to install RAM modules and info on major memory suppliers.

www.computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1103-8-20088841-1.html?tag=ld

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Sign Spotting

Like litter on the highway, it's easy to breeze past a road sign without so much as a glance. Uh-oh … where'd that train come from!? Alter your view of the road with help from Monsieur Jean, who has gathered an international collection of road signs at elve.net, and you'll never fly past those Men at Work in Lithuania again.

www.elve.net/rcoulst.htm

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The Gallery of Unfortunate Cards

The gag gang at Cap'n Wacky.com has gathered the most unfortunate holiday cards into one big misbegotten gallery of insults, boo-boo's and plain bad taste, like the "Here's your birthday whipping" birthday card or the cheerful "Are we down-hearted?" wedding card.

www.capnwacky.com/cards/

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Grand Illusions

Grand Illusions.com challenges visitors to transport Bono, Edge and the U2 gang across a bridge with only one flashlight in time for heir concert, starting in just 17 minutes - a brainteaser allegedly given to prospective Microsoft employees. Apparently, geeks don't know that rock concerts rarely start on time.

The site offers a mixed and very full bag of brainteasers, scientific toys, visual effects and "even a little magic," from charming old-fashioned tricks like The Jolly Jug to the logic puzzle known as the "Monty Hall Problem." Buy rare illusion items in the Grand Illusion Shop, or read feature articles on cool mysteries like Napoleon's wallpaper and "life tiles," vast optical glass-tiled murals that appear to come to life.

www.grand-illusions.com/index.htm

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TV Program Facts & Trivia

It's just perfect to name this online guide to characters, places and things that have appeared on TV broadcasts in the US since 1940 after one of the goofiest TV shows of all time. TV Acres.com offers acres and acres of material, searchable alphabetically by topic or keyword, extracted from TV programs, books, magazines, web pages and people associated with the shows.

Covering both prime time and Saturday morning fare, the "ultimate" subject guide to TV facts offers an A to Z index of "things," from aardvarks to worms (including "Earthworm Jim," a 1995 superhero). Also featured is a TV Character of the Week and a network abbreviation guide for the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

http://www.tvacres.com/

Gumball1960

11-19-2002, 03:19 AM

Fun Bug

Ready to collect some Fun Bugs? I know you’ve got to be thinking what the heck is Fun Bug? It is a game site where you can earn cash and prizes for free. You get 7 fun bugs just for registering, but I bet you wanna know how you continue to earn them.

Simple. You play games, and you get bugs. You can refer friends and sample free offers to get fun bugs to. How do you win? Well the more fun bugs you have, the more contests you can enter.

Have fun with those bugs. :)

http://www.funbug.com/

moocher

11-19-2002, 07:11 PM

http://www.fbi.gov/chat/chatinfo.htm

FBI Chats began in August 2000 and has since developed into a weekly program run by the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs. Representatives from the FBI answer questions sent from the public via the Internet. The person or people answering questions are directly involved in work relating to the chat topic.

Chats typically take place on Thursday afternoons, from 1 - 2 pm, Eastern Time. At the conclusion of a chat, its transcript is placed on the FBI Chats archive page where it can be reviewed or printed.

http://www.casebook.org/index.html

Welcome to Casebook: Jack the Ripper, the world's largest public repository of Ripper-related information! If you are new to the case, we urge you to read our Frequently Asked Questions as well as the Casebook Mission Statement, before moving on to our comprehensive Introduction to the Case. Please feel free to send any questions or comments.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/

CONSPIRACY PLANET

THE ALTERNATIVE NEWS & HISTORY NETWORK

Your Antidote to Media Cartel Propaganda

http://www.conspiracydigest.com/

Jolie Rouge

11-19-2002, 09:14 PM

The America Project

America may be all about apple pie and baseball, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a more poignant, hopeful, dead-on narrative of what it's like to be living in the USA than the stories at The America Project.

The story of blues man Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his 57 offspring and the diary of a woman who nearly killed for her children are just two of the tales told via RealAudio, snippets of which radio listeners may have caught on NPR's This American Life and All Things Considered. Special reports are just as intriguing, like "Pray," an account of 6,000 Christians who are praying their way through the phone book, one name at a time.

http://www.theamericaproject.org/

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Invisible Library

Doug Adams, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Irving and Charles Dickens are among the writers with a penchant for referring to unwritten, unread, unpublished and unfound books within the pages of the books they actually do write. www.InvisibleLibrary.com lists these literary figments of authors' imaginations, the great unwritten tomes you may long to read in real-life. No such luck.

The catalog indexes all the "imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica" that writers refer to, searchable by author or title. Included are 18 pseudo books from Adams, author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," like the puzzling sequel "Fifty-three More Things To Do in Zero Gravity."

www.invisiblelibrary.com/

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Lost Liners

Long in awe of the splendor of the Lusitania, Mauritania and Normandie, the creator of www.LostLiners.com has turned a passion for ocean liners into an award-winning site on the golden age of ocean travel.

With statistics, photos and classifications of the great ships, the site features detailed narratives, like an in-depth exploration of the concept, construction and design of the ill-fated Titanic and stirring stories of its passengers and crew. For Those in Peril on the Sea, dedicated to the crew of the sunken Russian sub Kursk, attempts to uncover the truth behind many watery tragedies and the conspiracies of silence surrounding them. With desktop screensavers, media downloads and links to ocean liner chat groups.

www.lostliners.com

Jolie Rouge

11-22-2002, 10:50 PM

Three things are forever irretrievable.
A word said in haste,
an arrow shot into the sky,
and a missed opportunity.

Jolie Rouge

11-22-2002, 10:54 PM

Ninjai, The Little Ninja

A group of young stuntmen, window washers, surfers and animators make up the world-wide creative team that is the Ninjai Gang, creators of the Little Ninja, the childlike hero of an engaging action adventure series at www.Ninjai.com.

Each chapter unfolds on rice paper scrolls that launch Flash animations of the Little Ninja's journey of enlightenment through the Ancient World, where he battles demons with martial arts, slapstick and philosophy. The Japanese-stylized visuals look like art prints, yet the creators are serious game developers who have created a support network for other game creators to post their games online for an upcoming competition, help out with the series itself, critique chapters and contribute ideas.

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Manimals & Company

Amateurs who play with PhotoShop to posterize images of pals or remove red eye will want to check out a real PhotoShop artiste, illustrator Daniel Lee, whose uncanny human portraits with animal features are on view at www.DanielLee.com, his online portfolio.

Lee's composite digital images are no cartoons, but startling and powerful images. The Manimals series is a slightly disturbing metamorphosis of humans into the animals they just barely aren't. In the large mural "Nightlife," Lee has shot live models in a Soho restaurant whom he translates into creatures with peculiar but appropriate feline, canine and serpentine features. Originally a ten-minute long video, "Origin" shows stages of human evolution as a fish form subtly transforms into human.

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Politics: Open Secrets

In an age when it takes big bucks to run even a local school board campaign, figuring out who's giving what to whom is nearly impossible for Average Joe Citizen. Not any more. At www.OpenSecrets.org, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics yanks the complexities of campaign financing out into the open.

Track an industry among the 80 different profiles in the Industries section, check out your own backyard to learn who's contributing to local politicos, study Donor Dossiers for detailed figures on the 100 deepest pockets since '89, or search for an individual donor. Then become a quick study on campaign finance reform in News & Issues - you've only got two years till the presidential election.

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Useful Pennies

So how many is 300 billion? If it's pennies, lay them out on a carpet and they'd cover 14 square acres. Visualizing huge numbers can be tough, whether it's millions of miles or billions of bytes, so the MegaPenny Project helps by using the diminutive penny to visualize vast quantities.

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/one.asp

Gumball1960

11-23-2002, 01:52 PM

This is a music site for all of you. Well here is a pretty spiffy one. They are mostly (if not all) .wav files. To take a look around, choose a letter and use the drop down box to see if your artist is there.

There is also a Country Juke Box, a Gospel Juke Box, and for those Beatle Fans out there, the Full Albums. This is a very musical site. Enjoy.

http://mr.tunes.tripod.com/JB.html

sprintx

11-23-2002, 02:29 PM

Heres a cool site:

www.muffinfilms.com

Be sure to have the volume up and click each muffin in the pan :)

MOMMYOF2BOYZ

11-23-2002, 05:17 PM

www.spikything.com/games/crab-ball/

Jolie Rouge

11-23-2002, 10:14 PM

Odd Couples

Lions lie with lambs and iguanas romp with cats at Amazing Animals, where photos showing odd pairings of various creatures are submitted and posted in categories from Animal Humor to Pet/Owner Look-a-likes.

www.greenapple.com/%7Ejorp/amzanim/oddcombo.htm

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Saddam Hussein's E-Mail

Read Saddam's e-mail at Wired News' Dear Saddam, How Can I Help? Hundreds of messages are sent to Iraq's president, giving an uncensored look at global opinion as scores of people write to him each week at press@uruklink.net, the e-mail address listed on the official homepage of the Iraqi presidency .

www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,55967,00.html

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ImplosionWorld.com

Wow! What a blast! Implosion World.com is nothing more and nothing less than the latest in high-profile explosive demolition - at a safe distance.

Billed as a worldwide source for news on building blowdowns and structural blasting projects, Implosion World offers news, features, technical info and history of the science and art of demolition, even eyewitness accounts written by "recreational implosion followers" of great moments in wrecking. But the magnet is Cinema Explosif and its 24 screens of explosive cinematic adventures, award-winning photography of bridges, towers, stadiums, high rises, hospitals and hotels in glorious planned and purposeful collapse.

http://www.implosionworld.com/

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Civil War Medicine Museum

War is hell, few more hellish than the American Civil War. Imagine trying to be a healer among the bloodied young men on those battlefields. The Civil War Medicine Museum gives the imagination a helping hand by preserving and explaining the implements of healing during war.

In Collections, see prosthetic devices, dental tools, medicine bottles and panniers - the heavy chests used to carry medical supplies on campaigns, with a list of contents like Spanish flies and tincture of opium. Exhibits detail medical education, camp life and patient evacuation, all to explore the inventiveness of physicians, devotion of nurses and courage of patients in the War Between the States and appreciate their contributions to medical science today.

http://civilwarmed.org/

Jolie Rouge

11-23-2002, 10:16 PM

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If there is light in the soul,
there will be beauty in the person.

If there is beauty in the person,
there will be harmony in the house.

If there is harmony in the house,
there will be order in the nation.

If there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.

~~~ Chinese Proverb

Jolie Rouge

11-24-2002, 09:57 PM

Jazz History

Jam with the Smithsonian at Smithsonian Jaz, where one of America's national treasures is perpetuated through collections, exhibits, performances, recordings, oral histories, calendars of live events and educational programs.

Exhibits includes Louis Armstrong's first cornet at the National Museum of American History, where visitors can see other objects from the Ella and Duke Collections. Get an online peek of the changing Traveling Exhibit, now exploring the rhythms and traditions of Latin jazz, or catch a bit of history at This Day in Jazz. Take an interactive Duke Ellington class, browse the research collection or search Media Mix for access to the Smithsonian's database of jazzy documents, music, manuscripts, photographs, films, recordings and artifacts.

http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/

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French Comics

French culture is more likely to suggest Jean Paul Sartre or Renoir - not Madame Atomos or Supermatou, but even the French love their comic strips. At Cool French Comics.com, expand your franco-IQ with a trip through the history of French-language comics.

Comics in France were of three types: newspaper strips for the adult market, mainstream comics aimed at children and published in weekly magazines and the violent and fantastic fare translated from American, Italian and Spanish material. See a retrospective of 100 or so favorites, plus an illustrated timeline of the history of French pulp heroes, like
Fatala and Tigris, and a gallery of classic science fiction.

http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/

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Footnote TV

TV viewers fired up by the fast-paced drama of West Wing, heroics of JAG or satire of Jon Stewart's Daily Show can delve deeper into the ultimate reality show -- life -- by visiting Footnote TV.

Organized by issues, criminal and civil cases and resources like analyses of major speeches, the site lets visitors linger over real-life issues briefly raised in their favorite shows, episode by episode. Links for The West Wing, for example, give background on presidential health histories, and Sopranos episodes lead you to legal briefs on competency to stand trial. Issues raised on Law & Order, Saturday Night Live, even South Park are linked to articles that take visitors below the surface of the small screen.

http://www.newsaic.com/ftvindex.html

Jolie Rouge

11-24-2002, 10:06 PM

WHAT"S HOT ??? FamilyFun's 2002 T.O.Y. Awards

Before you head out to the mall and plop down hundreds of dollars on toys that your kids or grandkids will either break or discard out of boredom within the first 24 hours, I have a TOURBUS stop you MUST visit.

Each year since the early 1990's the folks at FamilyFun magazine assemble a panel of hundreds of children to torture test the latest toys. Early this summer elementary students in Kennebunk, Maine, were given the opportunity to play with 519 different toys from toy manufacturers around the world. The kids then voted on which toy they would like to take home with them.

Of the 519 toys the kids evaluated, only 71 were chosen as finalists.

Wait. There's more.

FamilyFun then invaded 18 different childcare centers around the US, dumped boxes of the finalist toys on the floor, stepped back, and watched the madness that ensued. The kids at the childcare centers played with the toys for three weeks and then voted for the toys that they loved the most.

The results of that voting appear in what is probably the best, most up-to-date toy-buying guide you will ever find: FamilyFun's 2002 Toy Awards article at

www.family.go.com/parties/holiday/s...002toy_main_sf/

[This is a Disney site, so expect to see a pop-under ad from our friends at the Holy Rodent Empire.]

The T.O.Y. Awards page is pretty self-explanatory. Besides showing you a list of the top ten toys, the page also shows you 18 different categories that cover both the type of toy and the age group for which that toy is appropriate. Looking for a game for a 3-4 year old or a radio-controlled toy for a 10-12 year old? FamilyFun's T.O.Y. Awards page is for you!

Each category of toy has a winner and three runners-up. Click on any of the award-winning toys are you are taken to a page that shows you
- A picture of that particular toy;
- The toy's manufacturer and suggested retail price;
- A one-paragraph description of what makes that toy so cool; and
- A telephone number you can call to locate a store in your area that carries that particular toy.

Neat, huh?

If you want to avoid the rush and ensure that you not only get the toys that you are looking for but also the toys that your kids will be playing with well into the new year, print out FamilyFun's 2002 T.O.Y. Awards page and take it with you to your nearest mom-and-pop toy store.

the fugative

11-24-2002, 10:45 PM

:p

BuzzPhraserTM
A TechnoLatin phrase generator by Doc Searls.

BuzzPhrases are built with TechnoLatin, a non-language that replaces plain English nouns with vague but precise-sounding substitutes. In TechnoLatin, a disk drive is a "data management solution." A phone is a "telecommunications device."

http://buzzphraser.com/

:D

Jolie Rouge

11-25-2002, 10:30 PM

Morphizm

Get yourself naked and put yourself on the chopping bloc. Morphizm.com is your axe. Sound scary? The site's theme is "Don't Fear Change. Change Fear," offering writers on global cultural life a stage where the scenery is anything from a baseball stadium to the killing fields.

Writers with something productive to say -notes or criticisms - can put it on the line here, from an expose of Elvis Schmiedekamp and company to an interview with Viggo Mortensen, Tolkien's Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings series. With recommendations on music and film, opinions on icons from Ozzy to Abercrombie & Fitch, new fiction and poetry, politics, race, scandal and sports - and none of it is run-of-the-mill.

www.morphizm.com/

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An American's Guide to Canada

Americans tend to be a bit smug about the Great White North, viewing it as a vast wasteland of hockey players, beer drinkers and people who go "eh?" At An American's Guide to Canada, an American emigrant shares her view of the country as an endearing, civilized and charming place.

An entire section is devoted to Really Big Roadside Attractions like great big pineapples, bison and fish you'll see plunked into the middle of otherwise normal towns. How To Tell You're In Canada tells you milk comes in plastic bags and What Every Canadian Knows describes purple Thrill Gum that tastes like soap. Topics like Canadianisms, How To Immigrate, True Facts and Academia round out the lesson plan.

www.emily.icomm.ca/
<a href=" http://emily.icomm.ca/ ">AOL click here</a>

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Laugh Lab

If laughter is the best medicine, why not check it out in the laboratory? At Laugh Lab, an online experiment is underway to discover what people think is funny. This month, it's a joke with the punch line, "OK, now what?"

The funniest jokes have 103 words, and ducks are the funniest joke animal. The lab has learned this much but seeks more answers, like what makes children laugh. Jokes are posted for visitors to read and rate, and each month the winners and losers are revealed and analyzed. The lab even subjected people in mid-joke to magnetic resonance imaging to identify the precise area of the brain involved in the joke response.

www.laughlab.co.uk/topByCountry.html

Gumball1960

11-26-2002, 01:22 AM

Don’t know what to get a loved one for the upcoming holidays? Want to make them something special, but you just don’t know what? Well, here at Crafty Gift Ideas, you may find a crafty gift that one of your loved ones will absolutely love.

Choose "Free Projects" in order to browse through many craft ideas. You can learn to make Trinket boxes, Crystal Wreaths, Fleece Throws, Decorative Outfits, and much, much more. You will also find very helpful craft supply store and crafty "free stuff" links. Who doesn’t love free stuff?

http://www.craftygiftideas.com/

Jolie Rouge

11-30-2002, 09:58 PM

THE SILLY FRIDGE - Play around with our magnets!
http://www.sillygirl.com/games.php?PSerial=383

STAN SKATES - Check out this cool boarder game!
http://www.sillygirl.com/games.php?PSerial=585

NAME THE CELEBRITY TATTOO
http://www.sillygirl.com/games.php?PSerial=77

WHO RAISED THE STAKES?
( Soccer snacks have gotten out of hand! )
http://www.sillygirl.com/words.php?PSerial=201

SANTA BALLS 2
- In Santa Balls 2, we've taken ball busting action to a whole
new level. There are all kinds of new surprises, crazy ball juggling action, plus a special guest appearance from Frank the Penguin.
http://www.sillygirl.com/games.php?PSerial=581

THE HOLIDAY ENDURANCE GAME
- Your nutty relatives have shown up on your doorsteps. Give 'em what they want, when they want it and get 'em out of the house before Mother¹s holiday dinner hits the table.
http://www.sillygirl.com/games.php?PSerial=580

Angelbabym

11-30-2002, 10:05 PM

www.musicvideos.com

watch free videos, nothing to download or pay

Jolie Rouge

12-02-2002, 11:56 AM

Bad Hemingway

"It was a dark cantina. The cantina was dark like the night that falls swiftly during wartime in the Sangre de Cristo mountains …"
and so goes another chapter at Bad Hemingway.com, where a group of struggling writers - you can join them - are faced with a blank page and the need to fill it with clipped sentences, run-on thoughts and the pointlessly rich descriptions that are Hemingway at both his best and his worst.

http://www.badhemingway.com/

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Choose Your Own Adventure

Even grown-ups need to escape into fantasy, and at Cap 'n Wacky's Choose Your Own Adventure, adults can start as a receptionist to see how far they climb up the corporate ladder, make eye contact with a babe at a party to see what develops, or say I Do and find out if you'd rather death does part you and your new mate.

http://www.capnwacky.com/choose/

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America's Richest: The Forbes Fictional Fifteen

From The Simpson's to The Great Gatsby, we Americans love our faux filthy rich. At Forbes.com's Fictional Fifteen, billionaire characters from Willie Wonka to Gordon Gekko are ranked. You won't *believe* who's number one.

http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional.html

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Historic Asylums

Magnificent buildings of brick and stone in incredible detail … American castles? No, mental institutions of the 19th century, also known as insane asylums. Historic Asylums.com catalogues America's historic state hospitals - many representing a barbaric period in mental health care, others more progressive.

Postcard images, historic and modern photos, architectural sketches and info on hospitals, whether still in use or long since demolished, are presented. Click on a US map to find a region, then click on an institution name. Camarillo State Hospital, for example, now the Cal State Channel Islands campus, once housed jazz great Charlie Parker and is said to be the inspiration for the 1976 Eagles hit "Hotel California."

http://www.historicasylums.com/

moocher

12-03-2002, 03:34 AM

http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html
Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character

Here are the rules: Pretend to be a dictator or television sitcom character. I'll try to guess who you are by asking simple yes/no questions. If you're not sure of the answer to a question, answer "No". If you forgot who you were pretending to be, go take a nap, you're obviously under too much stress. Also, drink plenty of fluids.

This site is great!! I was only able to stump it once with Gracie Allen from the Burns and Allen Show!

Jolie Rouge

12-04-2002, 07:52 AM

HIGHJACKED
THREAD
ALERT !!

CajunBlu
posted
A Terrific List to Keep

INFORMATION SEARCHING
AltaVista http://www.altavista.digital.com
Excite http://www.Excite.com
Hotbot http://www.Hotbot.com
InfoSeek http://www.Infoseek.com
Lycos http://www.Lycos.com
WebCrawler http://www.Webcrawler.com
Opentext http://www.Opentext.com
Netscape http://www.Netscape.com

COLLEGE PREPARATION
Sat, GRE, Tests http://www.petersons.com
College Board Online http://www.collegeboard.org
Comparing Schools http://www.collegeview.com

COOL WEB SITES
Gaze At The Future http://www.word.com
Techno-Rich-Fun http://www.cnet.com
For News Junkies http://www.pointcast.com
Nifty Ideas On Anything http://www.learn2.com
Stats, Scores, Stories http://www.espn.sportzone.com
Quirky Smart Site http://www.feedmag.com
Radio On Your PC http://www.audionet.com
Amusing Stock Ideas http://www.fool.com
Move Over Jeopardy http://www.berzerk.com
Decide What To Do http://www.citysearch.com
Jobs http://www.monster
Nearly Free Software http://www.shareware.com
Duh http://www.povmag.com

INCREDIBLY USEFUL SITES
All The Best Sites Of 1998 http://www.Yil.com/best98
How To Do Anything http://www.how2do.com
Useful Site Of The Day http://www.incrediblyuseful.com
Helpful House Hints http://www****dayshomeowner.com
http://www.learn2.com
Better Homes & Gardens http://www.bhlive.com/
Homesick Gourmet http://www.homesickgourmet.radish.ne
Martha Stewart http://www.marthastewart.com
Ticketmaster Online http://www.ticketmaster.com
Betty Crocker Recipe's http://www.bettycrocker.com
Birder Home Page http://www.birder.com
Auction Web Site http://www.ebay.com
Put Paragraphs In Jive http://www.jivenator@jiveon.com
Gifts http://www.giftinabasket.com
Do It Yourself http://www.housenet.com
Home Improvement http://www.bhglive.com/homeimp/docs
Restaurant Surveys http://www.zagat.com
City Guide Networks http://www.sidewalk.com
http://www.citysearch.com
http://www.yahoo.com/promotions/metros
Go Network http://www.go.com
New Stuff, Dirt Cheap http://www.andysgarage.com
Avoid Food Poisoning http://www.foodsafety.org

REFERENCE AND RESEARCH
Kennedy Space Center http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/ksc.html
NASA Home Page http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasa_homepage.html
Intelligence Resource http://www.fas.org/irp
Universe-Space Science http://www.windows.umich.edu
Research It http://www.iTools.com/research-it
UFO Black Vault http://www.blackvault.com/
Scientific Phenomena
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sfonline.htm

Websters Dictionary http://www.m-w.com
Old Farmers Almanac http://www.almanac.com
Atlas of the World http://cliffie.nosc.mil/~natlas/atlas
Ask A NASA Scientist
http://imagine.gfsc.nasa.gov/docs/a...astronomer.html
Britannica Online http://www.eb.com/
Britannica Internet Guide http://www.ebig.com
CIA World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publication...book/index.html
National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com
Better Business Bureau http://www.bbbonline.org
Internal Revenue Service http://www.irs.ustreas.gov
The Library of Congress http://www.icweb.loc.gov/homepage/ichp.html
UFOs And Strange Info http://www.sightings.com
Info On Year 2000 http://www.y2kchaos.com
Research Museums http://www.si.edu
Information Please http://www.infoplease.com
Consumers Digest http://www.consumersdigest.com
Park Locator by LL Bean http://www.llbean.com/parksearch

AUTOMOBILE PRICING
Edmonds http://www.edmund.com
Carsmart http://www.carsmart.com
Autovantage http://www.cuc.com/ctg/cgi-bin/auto/home
Carpoint http://www.carpoint.msn.com
Kelly Blue Book http://www.kbb.com
Auto-By-Tel http://www.autobytel.com/

MAPS AND DRIVING
Best Scenic Drives http://www.byways.org
Speedtraps http://www.nashville.net/speedtrap
Wacky Side Trips http://www.roadsideamerica.com
Best Greasy Spoon http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~goldberg/
Disney's Animal Park http://www.animalkingdom.com
http://www.mapsonus.com
http://www.mapquest.com
http://www.mapblast.com
http://www.proximus.com/yahoo

WEATHER
http://www.weather.com
http://www.doppler.net
Satellite Pictures of U.S. http://www.goes.noaa.gov

PEOPLE LOCATOR...YELLOW PAGES INFORMATION
Bigfoot Directory http://www.bigfoot.com
Bigfoot Advanced
http://www.bigfoot.com/run?FN=3DBFD_SEARCH_

ADVANCED
Hotmail http://www.hotmail.com
The Informant http://www.informant.dartmouth.edu
Net@ddress http://www.netaddress.usa.net
Look Up A Person http://www.theultimates.com
Finding People On The Net
http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/phone.html
People Search http://www.whowhere.com

CARDS OF ALL TYPES
http://www.marlo.com
http://www.cardcentral.net
http://www.greetingsonline.com
http://www.messagemates/index.asp?
http://www.mypostcards.com
http://www.hallmark.com
Valentine http://www.valentine.infospace.com
Greetings http://www.egreetings.com

FREEBIES AND AUCTIONS
Games,samples, Demos http://206.216.40.113/free_offer
All kinds of free stuff http://www.thefreesite.com
Game Demos http://www.dailydemo.com
http://www.webauction.com
http://www.webstakes.com
Games http://www.gamecenter.com

NEW ENGLAND, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Yankee Magazine http://www.Newengland.com
http://www.reckers.com/neweng.htm
http://www.visitnh.gov/
http://www.nh.com
http://www.Newengland.com

FLIGHTS AIRLINE TRAVEL
http://www.flifo.com
http://www.farefinder.com
http://www.travelocity.com
http://www.bestfares.com
http://www.reservationdesk.com
http://www.previewtravel.com
http://www.flightdiscount.com (Have to register)
http://www.biztravel.com
http://www.flymetrojet.com
http://www.Tvlink.com/welcome.htm
Flights And Trip Savings http://www.travelzoo.com
Ticket Auction http://www.priceline.com
Retime Flight Tracking
http://flight.thetrip.com/flightstatus
Check Before Leaving The House http://www.henricson.se/mats/upl

JOB HUNTING
http://www.monsterboard.com
http://www.headhunter.net
Government Jobs Anywhere http://www.ajb.dni.us/
http://www.careerpath.com/index.html
http://www.coolworks.com
http://www.carreers.org/
http://www.newspapers.com
Job Hunting http://www.dbm.com/jobguide
Research Employers http://www.hoovers.com

GENEALOGY
http://www.cindislist.com
http://www.First.com/fu/tmaps.html
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pubgenealogy/www/
http://www.connect-time.com/jan1998/Cover0.html
http://www.genealogy.org/~paf
National Gen Site http://www.ngsgenealogy.org

MEDICAL INFORMATION
Columbia Education
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/texts/guide
Mayo Health http://www.mayohealth.org
American Medical Assc http://www.ama-assn.org
Kiplinger http://www.kiplinger.com
Pub Med http://www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/pubmed
BH&G Cold and Flu Guide http://www.bhglive.com/health/coldflu.html
Family Medicine http://mir.med.ucalgary.ca:70/1/family
http://www.ncbi.nim.nih
http://www.bewell.com
http://www.intelihealth.com
Medical Search http://www.medscape.com
Drug Index http://www.rxlist.com

SENIOR SITES
Elderly Health Care http://www.wellweb.com/
Medicare http://www.seniorlaw.com/
Healthy Living, Love and Finances http://www.thirdage.com
Resources for Computer Training http://www.seniornet.org

Jolie Rouge

12-04-2002, 07:54 AM

WAIT ... THERE IS MORE ....

JOKES
Political Humor http://www.theonion.com
http://www.laugh-of-the-day.com
http://www.tcmr.com
E-Mail Jokes http://www.cris.com/~Dcashman/humor

LISTEN TO LIVE POLICE SCANNER AND FIRE REPORTS
http://www.policescanner.com/

CLASSMATES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
http://www.classmates.com
By registering you can look up others who have registered in any
school in the country. By subscribing, you can get information on same people. Great info on old friends.

STOCKS AND MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTING
http://www.stockstowatch.com
http://www.stockstowatch2.com
http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune
http://www.goodmoney.com
Co-Op America http://www.coopamericaorg
Highest CD rates http://www.bankrate.com
EE Bonds http://www.savingsbonds.gov
U.S. Treas. Securities http://www.Bonds-online.com
Stock Market news http://www.thestreet.com
Quicken Stock Search
http://www.quicken.com/investments/stocks/search

GARDENING
Problem Solving & Ortho http://www.gardening.com
The Garden Gate http://www.prairinet.org/ag/garden/homepage.htm
Virtual Garden http://www.pathfinder.com/vg
Earl The Yard-Care Answer Guy http://www.yardcare.com
The Armchair Gardener http://armchairgardener.com/
Gardenweb http://www.gardenweb.com

STORYBOOKS...WEB SITES FOR KIDS
Aesop's Fables Online http://www.pacificnet/~john/aesop
Bedtime Story's http://www.bedtime-story.com/bedtimestory
Go On A Dolphin Watch http://www.whro.org/vmsm/watch.html
The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/home.html
Dinosaur Society http://www.dinosociety.org
Joseph Wu's Origami http://www.datt.co.jp/origami
http://www.yahooligans.com
http://www.bess.com
Kids Hangout http://www.disney.com
Discovery News Online
http://www.discovery.com/area/discoverynews/news1.htm=l

NET BASICS
Learning The Net http://www.learnthenet.com
Internet Terms http://www.netlingo.com
Browsing The Web
http://www.members.iquest.net/~Mjdecap/beginrs.htm
Internet Reference http://www.refdesk.com/
Internet Service
http://www.pcworld.com/interactive/isps/.
Search The Web http://galaxy.einet.net/www/www.html

"Food, Glorious Food !"
Don't know what's for dinner ?

http://www.beeftips.com
http://www.food.epicurious.com
http://www.foodtv.com
http://www.kraftfoods.com
http://www.my-meals.com
http://www.pillsbury.com
http://www.recipeamerica.com
http://www.recipehound.com
http://www.recipeland.com
http://allrecipes.com

Mini

12-05-2002, 11:23 AM

BUMP!

sunnydazed

12-05-2002, 11:44 AM

Thanks for bumping! I had a tough time finding this thread because I had a brain poofer. Thanks! :)

Jolie Rouge

12-05-2002, 09:32 PM

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
--------------------------

A few months ago I received spam selling mortgages, so I forwarded it to the Federal Trade Commission at www.uce@ftc.gov, which I assumed is basically a black hole given the volume they receive. Imagine my suprise when I received an email from an FTC lawyer who's investigating it. Apparently they received numerous complaints about this particular spammer and are going after him.

So the moral to the story is, forward your spam to www.uce@ftc.gov -- someone actually sifts through it!

Gumball1960

12-05-2002, 11:51 PM

When I clicked on www.mastercook.com I got this:

"Our warmest thanks to all of our friends who helped make MasterCook.com a premiere online cooking resource. Although our content is no longer available online, we encourage you to visit the following links for SierraHome product information and MasterCook software support."

Jolie Rouge

12-06-2002, 07:39 AM

:( :( :(

Thanks Gummie - I will edit that link.

My 'puter is such a dinosaur it doesn't have enought ram to open some sites, so I didn't re-check all the link above.

Gumball1960

12-06-2002, 08:09 PM

When I tried www.foods.com and www.busycooks.com I got this:

"The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
------------------------------------------------
I've gotten that message for 2 days now too. The rest of the recipe sites work fine though. Thanks. :)

Jolie Rouge

12-06-2002, 09:18 PM

Thanks, Gummie ! I edited them out too ! See the above note ;)

In the meantime, try this one :

The Kitchen Link

Year-end is a delicious time to settle into the kitchen with family and food, and the Kitchen Link is a must-have connection. Called the Yahoo! of food sites, it's an enormous compendium of info about cooking, recipes, cookbooks and original content.

Users can browse 10,000 "hand-selected" recipes and links, find cookbooks, click through a huge list of hot topics like gingerbread-baking and candy-making or shop for everything from coupons to bake ware. Also, find local resources where good cooks can also be good neighbors to the homeless and hungry, providing you with all the ingredients to fill your home with good smells, good eats and good spirits this winter.

http://www.kitchenlink.com/

Spiritscalling

12-08-2002, 12:26 AM

:p
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART
During the civil war there was a couple that was just married , then he went off to fight that war and she was left at home waiting for his return . So they say she still waits .
Apparently the owner now days hears voices and sees images for quite a while . They say they claim they caught a photo of her . This is a wild one to find a ghost in a picture , it took me 30 seconds to find it , it just stands out ...Like those optical illusions , but consentrate around the table . Best not to focus just in one spot . Look around the table and the window . Click the link for the picture . Best to enlarge . For an added touch turn the volume way up ; its faint but you can actually pick out the ghost , so wait about 30 minutes .

Good luck in finding her .
http://home****tbi.com/~n9ivo/whatswrong.swf
______________________________

Move your curser over the eye and it will follow you .
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/eye.htm
And their site : http://www.arseiam.com/
______________________________

Next time you go to the beach besure and take Kenny ! http://www.vickysjokes.com/funny/mrbigtooth.asp

Gumball1960

12-08-2002, 12:50 AM

This is a site on simple and safe ways to clean. From
pots and pans to stain removers, you’ll find tips on
just about anything you want to clean safely.

Choose a topic or just go to the articles section and
browse through everything. Learn the 10 uses of baking
soda or how to make homemade cleaners. There are also
tips on what to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers.
Start browsing through the Christmas ideas!

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/cleaningsolutions.html

janelle

12-08-2002, 01:16 AM

Have we finished the internet yet??? LOL

Gumball1960

12-08-2002, 10:40 PM

Nope, not yet... :D

Have you ever wanted to be a frog, just sitting
around and eating flies for dinner? Well, of course
you didn’t – but hey guess what, now you can! With
this fun and fly filled day on a lily pad, you can
eat as many flies as you want.

Click on the Fly Eatin’ logo to enter and then be
prepared with your mouse to start clicking. You’ve
got to catch those flies to fill your belly. See how
many flies you can catch! Enjoy!

http://www.webforwards.com/fly_eatin.swf

Jolie Rouge

12-09-2002, 10:02 PM

Small Ball

When your hometown baseball team tanks it and you sit scratching yourself on the sofa thinking "I could do better than that!" take yourself to Small Ball.com to get your own team, train the bums, then challenge others. You -- coach, manager, and owner. At last.

Your Small Ball players develop under your nurturing wing, and games are played in public before an active community of other players. First download the Small Ball client, then follow three easy steps to the plate. Watch other teams, move your own team up through the leagues, trade tips in the owner's forum, even listen to a virtual sportscaster report on season highlights at Small Ball Radio.

http://www.smallball.com

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International Poetry

Enter the world of poetry at Poetry International.org, a worldwide forum of poetry news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussion - but mostly hundreds of poems by modern poets from Columbia, Greece, Croatia, Zimbabwe.

The emphasis is on poetry in translation, so 12 editors in 12 different countries maintain their own national domain and select a "Poet of the Quarter" to feature. Works are linked by related themes to encourage visitors to meander from page to page, country to country. The Poetry International Foundation provides poems from its archive, and a collection of video material is found in Camera Poetica. Also included: coverage of international poetry events, interviews and essays by leading poets.

http://www.poetryinternational.org/

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The Big Cartoon Database

With more than 42,000 cartoons, 2,000 series and 1,300 cartoon reviews, the Big Cartoon Database describes itself as the Internet's largest searchable database of cartoons, episode guides and crew lists, with cartoons from ten major studios, from Columbia to Warner.

The result is an easy way for 'toon fans to search out info about cartoons, filmographies and episodes, with special features like Cartoon of the Moment (currently,1986's Operation Total, starring Bananaman and General Blight), reviews, a chance to vote for your favorite cartoon, and special search functions to quickly locate artwork or cartoons on video.

http://www.bcdb.com/

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Viewing Japanese Prints

From samurai and courtesans to flappers in the Jazz Age, Japanese woodblock prints have captured Japanese cultural themes for centuries. At Viewing Japanese Prints, the roots and images of this ancient and complex traditional art form are preserved, shared and explained.

The work of three centuries of printmakers from the 17th to the 20th century are on display. The artists and prints of Ukiyo-e, called "Pictures of the Floating World"; Shin hanga, known as "new prints"; Sôsaku hanga, called creative prints; and Kindai hanga, or contemporary prints, are illustrated and discussed, as well as the enduring themes, genres and contexts that inspired the art.

http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/

janelle : Have we finished the internet yet??? LOL

We're workin' on it !! ;)

janelle

12-10-2002, 01:13 PM

LOL, my hubby asks me that and I tell him yes but now I can start over to see the new sites that have started up.

Gumball1960

12-13-2002, 04:39 AM

In theme of sand art and fireworks, here’s a customizable laser show for you to play with. Lots of swirling colors at different frequencies.

There are prearranged "shows" that you can change by altering the numbers on the right-hand side.

Play around with it and you can create your own by fiddling with the numbers. It's a nice time killer for the bored and a fun site for your kids, too. Enjoy!

http://www.pianoladynancy.com/lissajous/laser_show.htm

Gumball1960

12-13-2002, 04:42 AM

Need to know how much something is but the price is
in a foreign currency? Planning an international
vacation and need to know how much cash to take? Well,
never fear - just click on this link and convert it.
Enter the amount, choose the type of currency, and
then select the currency that you need it converted into.

For example, on December 11, 2002, $1.00 USA dollars was
1.56 Canadian Dollars (CAD) or 0.99 Euro Dollars (EUR).

Remember, values change several times a day so keep
checking before you head across the border! Have fun
with this easy way to convert your currency.

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Jolie Rouge

12-13-2002, 10:10 PM

TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Finding Your Roots

Alex Haley's quest to learn more about his family history resulted in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Roots. And the 1977 televised mini-series based on that book sparked a renewed interest in genealogy for many people.

Twenty-five years ago, learning about your ancestors was a tedious job. But now, personal computers and the Internet make the job MUCH easier. Today's TOURBUS will take you to the best starting points for genealogical research, tools, and software.

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CYNDI'S LIST
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A comprehensive index to over 178,000 genealogical resources on the Internet. You'll find a list of links that point you to genealogical research sites, all categorized & cross-referenced. It's like a "card catalog" to the genealogical collection in the immense library that is the Internet.

This site is particularly good, because it has links to genealogical resources in many different countries. Over 1000 new links are added each month!

www.CyndisList.com

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GENEALOGY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
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This site co-authored by TOURBUS rider John Fuller is similar to Cyndi's List though there are significant differences. The two main sections are web sites and genealogy mailing lists. The web section is extensive though it is somewhat modest related to Cyndi's List; however, the mailing list section is the premier site for such lists with over 25,000 entries and 100 or so added weekly.

www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html

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ROOTSWEB
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The oldest and one of the most extensive genealogy sites on the Internet ... and everything is free. It serves as host to many of the genweb sites (discussed next), thousands of mailing lists, census projects, Cyndi's List, GenConnect boards, has a large number of genealogy search engines, and much more.

www.rootsweb.com

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USGENWEB
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An outstanding project that has pages for each state and each county in each state with extensive links to applicable resources, query boards, surname lists, and most anything else imaginable. You can get to the county pages from the state pages, and to the state pages from the main page shown above. You can also get to the state pages using: www.usgenweb.org/xx where "xx" is the two-letter postal code for the state.

www.usgenweb.com

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WORLDGENWEB
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A project similar to USGENWEB that has sites for every country other than the US. This project is a bit younger than USGENWEB and there are some countries that still need coordinators; however, these are genenally countries that folks have never heard of :)

www.worldgenweb.org

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The Latter-Day Saints church site that allows you to access the top level documentation available from the LDS archives. Obviously it would be a huge job to put their millions of microfilm records online, but what they have available is an excellent starting point for anyone contemplating use of their resources.

www.familysearch.org

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ELLIS ISLAND
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While this site has been around for a while, it opened a brand new resource a couple of months ago. You can now enter the name of an ancestor and, if the ancestor came through Ellis Island, you can access his or her records in some detail. It was almost impossible to access the site when it first opened up due to the overload of queries, but things are a bit easier now.

www.ellisislandrecords.org

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OTHER GENEALOGY LINKS
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Here are some additional links you may find helpful if you're
interested in digging into your family history:

About.com Genealogy Site - http://genealogy.about.com </A>

Ancestry.com - http://www.ancestry.com </A>

Family Tree Maker - http://www.FamilyTreeMaker.com </A>

My thanks to John Fuller for providing some of the info for this issue. John adds: "I have barely touched the surface -- genealogy on the Internet is growing by leaps and bounds. While it will never replace tramping though cemeteries and recording tombstones or visiting libraries, genealogical societies, and vital records offices to gather information, it does provide a tool that can help those who are obsessed with the never ending search for their ancestors."

That's all for now, I'll see you next time! --Bob Rankin

Subscribe, Signoff, Archives, and More at the Tourbus Website - http://www****URBUS.com

janelle

12-14-2002, 12:47 PM

I can't put Ellis Island into my favorites. It won't work, have you noticed that?

Gumball1960

12-14-2002, 05:54 PM

It saved into my Favorites list OK. It's listed as American Family Immigration History Center. Maybe that's why you didn't see it.

Jolie Rouge

12-14-2002, 09:45 PM

THE BURGER KING SONG - Watch this soon-to-become-a-classic and see if you can get the song out of your head. By popular request!
http://www.sillygirl.com/cinema.php?PSerial=589

MOVIES THAT SUCK: VOLCANO or IT'S GONNA BLOW! THIS MOVIE, NOT THE VOLCANO - This week it's not just a movie review, it's also a crime confession!
http://www.sillygirl.com/words.php?PSerial=591

SKI JUMP - Help Santa down the hills in this fun new game!
http://www.sillygirl.com/games.php?PSerial=590

BABY FART - Stand back folks, this one's loaded!
http://www.sillygirl.com/cinema.php?PSerial=588

STRINGING THE LIGHTS - Ken gets a little carried away with the Christmas tree.
http://www.sillygirl.com/words.php?PSerial=201

Jolie Rouge

12-15-2002, 09:22 PM

Paper Veins Museum

Experimental artists and their fans who long for a home will find it at Paper Veins Museum of Art. Created in 1995 to showcase the interactive arts, the site features over 50 visual artists, filmmakers, writers and performers in a diverse collection of web projects and performance showcases.

Organized like a brick-and-mortar museum, Paper Veins holds a film room, a poetry room, four floors of exhibition space and, on the top floor, The Artists' Café where artists and their portfolios are profiled, including site creator Virgil Wong. Coming up: Artists will custom-code their own artificial intelligence personality for you to chat with online, with live and MPG-recorded experimental music performances. Note: Adult language and content.

http://www.paperveins.org/

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Quiet Times

On occasion, we are blown away by the energy, content and style of someone's personal website. This amazing site was designed by a San Francisco graphic designer/writer and employs a mixture of prose and visuals to convey a whim or a thought.

Quiet-foxes is the name of the magazine and Quiet-time is the graphic design company. Web designers: be sure to check out the various icons, backgrounds and banners on display.

http://www.quiet-time.com/

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Travel Your Dreams

Planning a visit to the birthplace of Don Juan and El Cid, or experiencing intriguing medieval walled villages tucked away in a spectacular European landscape? If you've been aching to travel, and haven't the slightest idea where to start, Karen Brown's Guides are just the ticket.

This site outlines delightful accommodations, sightseeing highlights and itineraries in regions considered of prime interest, allowing visitors to explore old towns and friendly villages with cozy cottages, quaint country inns and ancient castles.

http://www.karenbrown.com/

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Gobler Toys

Señor Sandwich is one of the first, and by no means the last, of the toys created by the imaginary Gobler Toys - that's imaginary, not imaginative. Nope, the toys don't really exist, but a catalogue, ads and an interview with Ira Gobler, the founder of Gobler Toys, make it all seem somehow real.

http://www.goblertoys.com/

Gumball1960

12-16-2002, 02:03 AM

Yup, you read that right... When you arrive at this site,
let the arrow line up so that you get a strike, and then
use your spacebar to bowl.

The goal is to squash as many cats as you can. You only
have ten frames. My highest score was 118. :)

Also, FYI, no cats were harmed in the making and bowling
of this game.

http://www.bravoz.com/cat/

Gumball1960

12-17-2002, 02:18 AM

This is a site for those of you who enjoy oldies music. At least 1900 full length,
real audio songs for your listening pleasure. You can even get Christmas
music here! Your choices are Classic Christmas, Country Christmas, and Doo Wop Christmas.

Or you can surf through the rest of the music where your choices are lot larger:

Oldies Diner
Oldies Mix
Oldies Café
Doo Wop
Beach Music
Swing
Disco Fever
Instrumental
Country
Reggae
And many more!

I hope you enjoy this site!

http://www.hhdarma.addr.com/index.html

Jolie Rouge

12-20-2002, 10:13 PM

NORAD TRACKS SANTA

With the Christmas holiday just around the corner, I thought it would be a good time to return our little bus of Internet happiness to a site we visit every December: NORAD Tracks Santa at

www.noradsanta.org/

Those of you who are fans of movies like Dr. Strangelove or War Games will remember that NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is the joint military organization responsible for aerospace warning and control of Canadian and United States airspace.

As one would expect in this time of heightened security, the soldiers at NORAD will be carefully tracking Santa as he makes his Christmas Eve journey around the world. And, thanks to the wonders of the Internet and some really special satellites, the NORAD Tracks Santa site can help you pinpoint not only Santa's location but also count how many cookies he's consumed along the way. The site also displays recently declassified photos of Santa's last trip, including fly-bys of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and (my personal favorite) the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.

This year's Santa tracking program is the 47th conducted by NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command. The tradition started when a department store invited kids to call a Santa hotline, but they accidentally gave out the number for CONAD's Operations Hotline. Fortunately, Colonel Harry Shoup was in the holiday spirit and children who called in were given an update on Santa's position.

The tradition continues today on the Web, and the NORAD Tracks Santa site is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese.

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Santa Tracker II

If FedEx can track your Amazon order, can it track a letter to Santa? And if so, would it arrive, when, and who would sign for it? Find out at "Is There a Santa Claus? Let's Ask Fed Ex," a personal web site that has not just the answers, but the tracking number, reference number, delivery date - and signature.

http://www.davidm.net/personal/fedex.html

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Support our Troops

On a more serious note, with over 300,000 American servicemembers -- and hundreds of thousands of coalition forces -- deployed overseas this holiday season, you may be wondering what you can do to send a little encouragement and holiday cheer to our troops. Well, wonder no longer. If you point your Web browser to

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2002/b12122002_bt632-02.html

you'll find a United States Department of Defense news release telling you how to donate calling cards to, send email greetings to, or sign a virtual thank you card for US servicemembers.

The Pentagon warns, and I want to repeat here, that you should *NOT* flood the military mail system with letters, cards, and gifts. Also,

Due to security concerns and transportation constraints, the Department cannot accept items to be mailed to " Any Servicemember ." Some people have tried to avoid this prohibition by sending large numbers of packages to an individual servicemember's address, which however well intentioned, clogs the mail and causes unneccessary delays.

If you want to contact a US servicemember, please do it through the Internet using one of the Web sites listed in the Department of Defense news release.

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Barney-Cam!

It should come as no surprise that for the past two years the White House has been closed to public tours. From what I have been told, the US Secret Service has closed the White House to everyone but school, military, and veterans groups ... and those groups can only get in if they're sponsored by a member of congress.

The extra security is understandable, but that isn't much consolation to the 125,000 people who visit the White House each December to see the Christmas decorations. That's where the Barney-cam comes in.

Barney, the Bush's black Scottish terrier, recently recorded a hounds-eye view tour of the White House Christmas decorations, and you can view the tour online at

www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/

Just click on the Barney Cam picture to launch the four and a half minute show. And if that link doesn't work (it didn't for me), you can launch the video automatically in Real Player by visiting

www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/media/20021212barney-xmas.v.ram

Jolie Rouge

12-23-2002, 04:59 PM

WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY
(suggested by Wayne Kiefer, Central Michigan University)
by H.E. Edens.

Find professional quality images of atmospheric optics, lightning, clouds, astronomy, and a miscellaneous category which includes ice & frost, precipitation, weather effects soil, diffraction phenomena, nocturnal phenomena, landscapes. The site lacks detailed descriptions of photographed phenomena but the images displayed are striking. (Audience: all).

http://www.weather-photography.com/index.php

CRISIS, DISASTER, AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
(suggested by Joseph Kerski, USGS)
by Martin P. Courtois and Claire B. Rubin of George Washington University

Find links and accompanying descriptions for emergency management, homeland security, health and medicine, terrorism, business continuity and recovery plans, and risk assessment and management. (Audience: high school and college )

http://www.ala.org/acrl/resnov02.html

JEFFERSON LAB GAMES AND PUZZLES
(suggested by Rurik Johnson, Plymouth, MN)
by Jefferson Labs.

Find a collection of on-line games for the retention of the elements and the periodic table. Examples includes element flash cards, hangman, matching and crossword puzzles. Other math and science games are also found at the site. (Audience: middle school and high school)

http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/elementgames.html

EPA'S ENVIRO-MAPPER
(suggested by Lynn Proenza, South Florida State University)
from EPA.

Enter a zip code and your selection area appears with information on toxic releases, water discharge, air emissions, superfund sites and more. Links exist for watershed health, reports on chemical-based releases within an area of choice, brown field development, and environmental monitoring in the New York City area in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (Audience: high school and up)

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/

EARLY CLASSICS IN BIOGEOGRAPHY, DISTRIBUTION, AND DIVERSITY STUDIES:
(suggested by Charles Smith, Western Kentucky University)
by Charles Smith, Western Kentucky University,

Find “a bibliography and full-text archive designed as a service to advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, history of science, and related studies. All items in the bibliography are primary sources and were published in 1950 or before. The subjects involved touch on fields ranging from ecology, conservation, systematics and physical geography, to evolutionary biology, cultural biogeography, paleobiology, and bioclimatology--but have in common a relevance to the study of geographical distribution and diversity.” (Audience: college)

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/biogeog/

NORAD TRACK SANTA
(suggested by Thomas Rohrer, Central Michigan University)
by North American Aerospace Defense Command,

Starting early on Dec. 24, skilled NORAD technicians will track Santa’s delivery route for gifts across the globe. Find wallpaper for computer screen backgrounds, music, and declassified pictures of Santa showing that he has changed little in appearance over the last four decades. (Audience: all)

http://www.noradsanta.org/english/home/index.html

These sites are archived at RESOURCES FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTION at www.personal.cmich.edu/~franc1m/homepage.htm the links are organized around the sequence of topics typically taught in an introductory earth science or physical geography class. Links are also, available for environmental science, earth science/geography education, career opportunities, and more. The sites selected are based on image quality, ease with which lesson plans can be developed, organization, authenticity, scope, and format. Please contact me at Mark.Francek@cmich.edu to remove yourself from the mailing list, add a new subscriber, or suggest a site to be listed.

Thank you,
Mark Francek
Professor of Geography and Earth Science
Academic Director-Woldt Residential College
Dow 285
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859

Gumball1960

12-24-2002, 07:44 AM

Well, we've had Cat Bowling and seen Elf Bowling.. so this is the next in line - a Cow Fling! :D

Can you make this cow land on the bullseye? Can you take the farmers flak if you don’t succeed? Are you willing to give cow flinging a try? Good. Then get ready to toss your cow.

You can play the classic version or the flash version. If you have flash I suggest that option since it's neater. The old classic version is a little harder too and lacks the fun of the farmer heckling you.

No cows were harmed in the making or flinging in this game.

http://www.flingthecow.com/flash/

Jolie Rouge

12-27-2002, 10:18 PM

comet posted this 12-26-2002 11:16 AM

"Planet X-Big News!!!-Scientist!!!"

The preface to: ´Planet-X, Comets and Earth Changes´
by Jim McCanney

For those that don´t know, Jim McCanney is an astrophysicist who taught at Cornell.

For those that DO know of him, his site has been updated! Last update 12-18-02 It includes new science lectures in rm format.

The December 12,2002 radio broadcast archive show is a fascinating lecture on scientific procedure by a solid scientist.

In that same lecture, he also says that when Planet X comes into our solar system it will become very bright as it discharges the solar capacitor creating a huge cometary tail.

http://www.jmccanneyscience.com/

´Planet-X, Comets and Earth Changes´
Synopsis:
200 pages hardbound
It will tell you what to look for as well as the wide range of earth-changes you may see or experience upon an encroaching Planet-X. Learn why it will ignite into a huge comet as it enters the solar system and the "actions-at-a-distance" that could drastically affect life on Earth. Learn why the information NASA will tell you is disinformation based on incorrect archaic astronomical theories. "A must for understanding future events."

Here is the preface for Jim McCanney´s book:

"When the land mass that is now called the United States of America was first explored in the 1800´s every naturalist that passed through this new land talked of the evidence ... the entire land had been
ravaged by a Great Flood.Alaska was no exception. This led scholars such as Ignatious Donnelly (Lieutenant Governor of the territory of Minnesota) to write his book "Atlantis the Antediluvian World." Raised in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, Donnelly was keenly aware
of the geophysical evidence that Earth had seen many radical changes that shaped its morphology.

It has been noted by many, that in the quest to tame this rugged land, man had destroyed most if not all of the remnants of the Great Flood by the year 1900. So today it is easy for some to ignore the words of those fore fathers who saw the massive destruction with
their own eyes, and to claim now that the Great Flood and these remnants never exested, or to minimize it as some smaller localized event.

When Aristotle´s uncle Solon traveled to Egypt, his intention was to research for the young Greek nation the history of the human race. Still in existance were the ancient priest cults who explained to him that there was a great worldwide cataclysm that devastated the entire Earth. They told of a massive war that was ongoing between the pre-catastrophe Greek ancestors and a powerful technologically advanced nation called Atlantis, whose population spanned the globe. They
stated that the Greeks were beginning to actually win in this war when the catastrophe hit ALL OF EARTH and the mighty nation of Atlantis sunk under the ocean in a single night.

It was clearly more than just a localized flood or a few days of heavy rain. The entire Earth was shaken to its knees. They additionally noted that the survivirs that generated the new Greek nation were but simple sheep herders who survived the devastation and Great Flood, living in caves in the mountains of what we now call Greece.

The Egyptian priest cults explained that their records went back 10,000 years and that evey time their society got up and running, they were crushed anew by one of these major events. These were not an average pestilence of famine, but a worldwide devastation that
sent them back to the cave ages.

Today we are finding the remnants of these ancient societies. There were huge cities in what we now call South America long before the so-called Ice Age or the alleged crossing of the Bearing Straight by early hunting tribes. What we are learning is that the history that is being taught as "standard knowledge" is totally wrong.

There is a tremendous effort in numerous sectors of modern society to keep the truth of our real past from being told. The seats of knowledge in our universities, certain religious centers and the governments of western society are doing their very best to prevent this information from reaching the general public. They fear that this knowledge will set people free from the domination they are currently under.

If this is your first introduction to this subject, I can only in tell you with certitude that this is one of the most complicated and far-reaching topics that you will ever encounter. Thousands of extremely talented scholars have spent their entire careers
researching in and around the subjects that are affected tby the topics covered in this book.

It affects every aspect of every discipline from astronomy and planetary geology to paleontology and biological evolution, from history of man and politics to the origins of religion. The "key" that this book offers is a sound scientific framework that gives a
form directionto understand our past, present and future. It is backed by a person who "has been there" and can stand up to the onslaughts of rooms full of angry resentful astronomers and pompous NASA space scientists.

It is not a "fluffy" book that simply repeats everything you ever wanted to know, but with no substance. This book gets into the details of how the solar system works and why you will see and experience certain phenomena ...the "Earth Changes." It also explains so the average person will fully understand not only the basic theory and principles, but the ramififcations for those basic concepts as the causes of Earth weather and Earth Changes.

It also clarifies some basic misconceptions propagated by well-intentioned people who do not have a scientific background (e.g. the causes of pole shifts and effects of magnetic fields, etc). This book is but a minimal summary of the very extensive work by the current author and is not meant to be viewed as an all-inclusive work. This book is published mainly to describe to the average person the simplified results of very complicated plasma physics and celestial
mechanics.

It can also be viewed by scientists as an introductory outline on which to build a new stucture and view of the solar system if they have the courage to shed the shroud of traditional astronomical theory. One last word of advise regarding those who will attempt to
defray the impact of this book. It is already known that the established scientific community is positioning itself to counter this book and the success I have had in communication these concepts to the public through international radio and other media.

Each person will have to decide for themselves who is telling the truth (and who has an ulterior motive for attacking this work). Once again it is best to take heed from the greatest source of all.

My response to them is taken from the same great man who spoke on a mound regarding the "End Day Prophesies," ... he said, "the learned and recognized scholars of the time will attempt to lead you astray."
And when asked how the common person will know who to believe, that man answered simply, ... "you will know the truth when you hear it, for the truth is written in every man´s heart.""

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This is Fascinating because it shows how Planet X would look like a huge comet inbound-which matches All the prophecies I know of -Nostradamus, Mother Shipton, St.Hildegard, John Leary, Sadie aramillo, J.N.S.R, Christine Gallagher,(Old and modern day prophets)and the list goes on. They All mention the word Comet.And now,the info you put here, and by a scientist to boot-says planet X will look
like a huge Comet,-incoming. This info was like getting the missing link.So now,we shall see what happens.

There are other scientists who speak of a Planet X scenario
1)Dr.John W. Hardy-Scientist
2)Dr.John Harris-Scientist
3)Dr.Courtenay Bartholomew-Scientist
4)Dr.Immaneul Velikovsky -Scientist
5)Sentinal-Scientist- at :www.cyberspaceorbit.com

Jolie Rouge

12-27-2002, 10:25 PM

World Stats

How much a nation spends on its military and how long its people live don't necessarily correlate. That's the kind of quick and easy info found at www.Aneki.com, a ready source of world rankings in many categories: economic, social, technological, academic - where visitors learn the richest, cleanest, most polluted, even most wired countries from facts gathered from UN agencies and the CIA's own World Fact Book.

What nation has the longest life expectancy? Not the US, which doesn't even make the top 20. On the other hand, the US is the hands-down winner in military spending, beating out first runner-up Japan by more than $233 billion. To live long, try Andorra, but not to prosper - guess you can't have everything.

http://www.aneki.com/

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Virtual Warfare

Longing for a day at the front? Command a Sherman tank in the last days of the Normandy Campaign at Armoured Warrior, a history lesson-adventure game from the Canadian War Museum based on the real experiences of Canadian tank crews fighting in North West Europe during WWII.

Players live through one day of despair, brutality and excitement, where your decisions at the end of each section lead you to the outcome - either continue the adventure or experience the fatal consequences for you and your crew. Unlike a real battle, you can start over if you do something stupid as you try to capture and hold a vital crossroads behind enemy lines, or just survive!

http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/armwar/enhance/home_frame_e.html

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Churches of London

Some 50 historical places of worship are tucked into the City of London, converted into offices or fallen to ruins, all of them leftovers of the 100 parish churches once within the city boundaries. www.CityofLondonChurches.com is a photographic record and celebration of those that remain.

Rich in world history but today visited only by film crews or solitary visitors seeking solace in the city's bustle, many of the surviving buildings were designed by Christopher Wren. Click on the index or on an area map to select among 56 different churches -- like Wren's pretty St. Mary at Hill, an old fisherman's church -- and see photos, read a brief history, get the building's address and note visiting hours.

http://www.cityoflondonchurches.com/

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Ghost Town Gallery

Desolate streets, forlorn warehouses, doors slamming in the wind -another abandoned dot.com paradise? Nope, www.GhostTownGallery.com features the long-deserted former boomtowns of the California Gold Rush, with names like Ragtown and Goldroad, the ones you see dotting the desert roads from Las Vegas to LA.

More than 1,300 images of 170 ghost towns in 8 states are here, all snapped by two Swiss tourists who got seriously hooked on one inspiring vacation to California. Find them by index or by a clickable map to guide those who want to seek out the real thing -even a Manhattan, Nevada, and a South Park, Colorado. Send virtual postcards, purchase photos and read about the boom-and-bust history that turned these cities to dust.

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/

Jolie Rouge

12-29-2002, 10:36 PM

Harper's Index

Forget the profound articles, great short fiction, and hilarious excerpts; the best part of Harper's magazine is definitely the Index. This is the list of statistics at the beginning of each edition that contains facts that will make your jaw drop and your eyes pop. Faithful readers of the incomparable index now can go online for their monthly fix of absurd stats. The site is regularly updated with the current edition, and has an archive of hundreds of previous indexes.

www.harpers.org/harpers-index/harpers-index.html

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Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of something specific (flying, insects, heights, etc.), then you may have what is commonly known as a phobia. Millions of people suffer from phobias, many of them severe enough to alter their lives.

Phobialist is a deviously entertaining website that focuses on the lighter side of these very serious problems. There are some truly bizarre listings on the site, including Zemmiphobia, fear of the 'great mole rat', or our favorite, Ergophobia, fear of work.

www.phobialist.com

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Practical Pet Care

Pets are an important part of our culture; loyal companions that enhance the quality of our lives with their love, character, and natural presence. While the average family pet is usually a cat or a dog, people around the world have opened their homes to more exotic animals as well.

The Practical Pet Care website is an online resource for pet owners to learn about the proper care of their animals. The site provides info on dogs, cats, rodents, fish, birds, lizards, snakes, spiders, and even crustaceans! Users can buy pet products, place ads in the 'Pet Yellow Pages', and send in pictures of their pet to be put on display in the Pet Gallery.

www.practical-pet-care.com/

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Internet Archive Movie Collection

A 16-minute film on a 1945 newspaper strike and a 1965 ad called "Parade of Homes" by the National Association of Home Builders - where do they find this stuff? At the Internet Archive Movie Collection, where 956 "ephemeral" films made by trade groups, industry, schools and governments have been digitized for public viewing for the first time.

These mini-movies, never intended for a long shelf-life, are the flotsam of daily life that becomes precious over time for what it reveals about ourselves. Yours to view free via RealPlayer, the large files require DSL speed or higher to download and save. Perhaps the closest ancestors to today's Internet - a rich stew of social and cultural junk that together becomes treasure.

www.archive.org/movies/

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Closer to the Truth

According to John Locke, consciousness is "the perception of what passes in a man's own mind." Others regard it as a kind of substance, or "mental stuff," quite different from the texture of the physical world and that which separates mankind from lower forms of life.

Closer to Truth brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate consciousness and other fundamental issues of our time. Visitors can read through great articles and online transcripts, participate in unique 'hyper-forum discussions', or simply browse the Video Archive. There is also a cool section called 'Daily News' that is constantly updated with stories and articles about interesting, often eccentric topics affecting people today.

www.closertotruth.com

You could labor ten years under a master
Trying to discern whether the teachings are true.
But all you might learn is this:
One must live one's own life.

~~~ TAO

Jolie Rouge

12-30-2002, 10:18 PM

Human Body Online

Nature is a genius inventor, having created many complex and beautiful things including unusual species and ecosystems. The human body is perhaps its most glorious achievement yet, though many of us have very little information about how our own bodies function.

Human Body Online is part of the BBC online network, a website that focuses on educating visitors about the structure and systems of the human body. The site uses a 'dummy' to demonstrate the various aspects of the body, such as 'Organ', 'Skeletal', 'Muscles', 'Nervous System', and 'Circulation'.

There are also links to related pages such as 'Health', where you can use the 'Life Calculator' to determine your current life expectancy.

www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/

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If you're not all right
the way you are
it takes a lot of effort
to get better.
Realize you're all right
the way you are,
and you'll get better
naturally.

~Werner Erhard

Adventure TV

Ease into those New Year's resolutions to see the world by video-sampling natural adventures, like a mountain bike trip through India or a dive tour of the Great Barrier Reef, at AdventureTV.com, where adventure travel starts virtual and then goes live.

Click on a map of mountains, jungles, deserts, water, snow or safaris to hit the beach in Belize, chart a cruise up the Amazon or tour caves in Borneo, and then view a video of the adventure. Next, use the Trip Finder to package your personal nature journey: select a destination, activity, price range, date, trip length and other preferences and get a low-price guarantee on the designer trip of your choice.

www.adventuretv.com/

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Not by Bread Alone

The French may get all the credit for cuisine, but the good old USA has a culinary heritage too. Learn all about it at Not By Bread Alone from the rare manuscripts collection at Cornell University.

From prohibition to processing, cookbooks to corpulence, the site explores influences on gastronomical America over the past 200 years via rare books, photographs and menus. Recipes from 1847 tell how to revive tainted meat, Boston Cooking School textbooks apply scientific principles to the American home and early kitchen gadgetry like the ice box, apple peelers and seeders attest to our long-held fascination with doodads.

www.rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/

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Alchemy Art

Magical, mystical alchemy sought to turn lead into gold, cure disease and prolong life in its early years as a medieval chemical science and philosophy. Whether art or science, its imagery still fascinates at the Alchemy Web Site's Galleries.

The 20 galleries feature alchemical emblems from woodcuts, engravings and hand-colored manuscript drawings that show alchemical symbols for substances, processes and equipment, from the time of the Egyptians through the 19th century. Some 60 or so articles are offered on the main site, with titles like "Alchemy, It's Not Just for the Middle Ages Anymore," discussion groups, even alchemical music via downloadable midi files.

www.levity.com/alchemy/galleries.html

chelle33 : holy smokes jolie - rest your arm now

I can't stop myself ...... ;)

Gumball1960

01-01-2003, 11:49 PM

Interested in different topics? Want to talk about them?
Read about them?

Well Arborwood might just be the place for you. With many
different forums and channels including:

Pets, Genealogy, Sports & Recreation, to name a few; you
won’t be bored.

You can get maps and directions, free e-mail, yellow pages,
and the ability to track a flight all at the tips of your
fingers. Enjoy this one.

http://arborwood.com/

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3-D Pool

Are you a pool player? Don’t have time to get down to the
pool hall or game room? Well here’s a way to get your cue
fix - play 3d pool. You have a choice between screen sizes
of 600X800, 1024X768, and 1280X1224.

Make your choice of screen size and then be ready to rack
up those balls. You get to play both players so you win
either way. Or you can play with someone else, hot seat as
they call it, and have a free pool tournament from the
convenience of your own home.

http://www.play3dpool.com/

Jolie Rouge

01-04-2003, 01:46 PM

Virtual Mars

Expand your universe at Explore Mars Now.org and join the international crew aboard Mission Diomedes, an ultra-realistic simulation of a 2-year, 5-1/2 month mission to search for evidence of life on the 4th planet from the sun.

Click on the Mars Base to enter the habitat, climb the stairs and enter the lab to move a Mars rock sample from the argon lock into the glovebox for examination. Need a bit of fresh air? Take the Rover on a spin over hostile Martian terrain - after a stop in the extra-vehicular activity preparation area for pre-breathing to ready your lungs for the pure oxygen your space suit contains. With enough techno-talk to satisfy the scientist in you, and gee-whiz gizmos to delight the kid.

http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

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Found Stuff

You remove lint from the dryer in a laundromat or swipe dust from the corners of a cabinet in your new home -- and your fingers curl around a bit of paper. An old love letter, a faded Polaroid, a receipt. The lost is found. At Found Magazine.com, get a discarded glimpse into someone else's life from the doodles, telephone bills and old postcards others have unearthed.

Find of the Week shows one special treasure weekly back to September 2001, like a note found stuck in the windshield wipers of a car in 1991 inviting the finder to go to room 509 in the hotel across the street to see a drunken nude guy. Treasures include notes, photos and audio finds, and visitors are invited to post their own discoveries.

http://www.foundmagazine.com/

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Comiclopedia

Think "Peanuts" and "The Far Side" define the full range of comics? Get educated in "sequential art" at Lambiek.net, the online site of what is likely the oldest and most famous antiquarian comic shop in the world.

Lambiek's Comiclopedia is a huge illustrated reference of more than 3,400 international comic artists, with biographies and samples of art in underground, alternative and mainstream comics. Check out François Avril's "Urban Landscapes," rooted in classical comics tradition but evolved to artful watercolors, or the Dutch team Windig and de Jong's series of "miniatures." Visit the galleries to see the world's comic artists inking out the boundaries between comics and conventional art, then visit the online store for unique books, posters and signed artwork.

http://www.lambiek.net/artists/index.htm

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The Color Test

It sounds easy, but when the logical left and random right sides of your brain battle out a puzzle together, worlds collide. The Color Test gives you 4 seconds to select the actual color of a word that names a color to discover how well your brain cooperates with itself.

http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/colortest.swf

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Dead Politicians

Despite reports of his political death by verbal suicide, Trent Lott of Pascagoula, Mississippi, is still among the living according to Political Graveyard.com, "the web site that tells where dead politicians are buried," indexing more than 100,000 living and dead politicians, judges and diplomats, offices they have held or sought, political party and dates and locations of births and deaths.

http://politicalgraveyard.com/

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Cooking by Numbers

Phooey on "helpful" cooking sites that tell how to whip up a gourmet dinner with just a few hundred dollars worth of ingredients and a warehouse of specialty cookware. Here's a site for the rest of us. Cooking By Numbers.com simply asks you to check off what you've already got in the fridge and cupboard - even if it's only garlic, cold cuts and a can of baked beans - and voila! you get a recipe to match your larder.

http://www.cookingbynumbers.com/

nanajoanie

01-04-2003, 06:17 PM

Just found this today http://funletters.net/ It's cute things to ad to your Outlook Express e-mail and it's free. Took me quite awhile to look at many of them. Didn't even see half of them. But cute.

Jolie Rouge

01-04-2003, 10:11 PM

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The drunk falls from the cart but is not hurt.
You throw hesitation aside but look stupid.
To be truly uninhibited is a rare grace.

Tao

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Reading this entire issue is like eating your oatmeal - it's just the right thing to do. So just read it. If you make it all the way to the end, you can snack on some cheezie goldfish. Oh, and passing this issue along to a few friends would be a great way to introduce them to TOURBUS!

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WHAT *IS* TOURBUS?
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TOURBUS is a free email newsletter published twice a week, and read by about 100,000 people in 130 countries around the globe. Your tour guides Bob Rankin and Patrick Crispen (also known as the "Click and Clack" of the online world) explain Internet technology in plain English, with a dash of humor. Since 1995, Tourbus riders have been getting the scoop on Search Engines, Spam, Viruses, Cookies, Urban Legends, and other topics. We also give you in-depth reviews of the most useful, fun and interesting sites on the Net.

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WHO ARE THESE CLICK AND CLACK GUYS?
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Bob Rankin, known as "Doctor Bob" in the online world, is a writer and computer programmer who enjoys exploring the Internet and sharing the fruit of his experience with others. Bob got a degree in Computer Science (RPI, 1984) and worked as a programmer at IBM for about 13 years, until one day he was possessed by an overwhelming desire to
work at home in his underwear. His writing has appeared in Yahoo Internet Life, Boardwatch Magazine, ComputerWorld, NetGuide, New York Newsday, and other publications. Bob is Geek in Charge of Technical
Stuff for FlowersFast.com and author of several computer books including "The No BS Guide to Red Hat Linux".

Patrick Douglas Crispen, known as "Patrick Douglas Crispen" in the online world, is author of the ROADMAP workshop, a Net tutorial that's been read by billions and billions. After spending many years as a professional college student at the University of Alabama, he graduated with a degree in Economics and then earned a Masters in
Educational Technology at Pepperdine. Much to the relief of his parents, Patrick is now gainfully EMPLOYED as an Academic Technology Consultant at Cal State Fullerton. Patrick also serves as Internet Mythologist for WGN Radio (AM 720) in Chicago.

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HOW DID I GET HERE?
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You should really be asking your mother that question. Oh, you mean how did you get on the Tourbus mailing list? Well that's easy... You asked for a subscription, then you confirmed that request. That's the ONLY way ANYONE can get this newsletter. We NEVER add anyone without their permission. Both Bob and Patrick are vehemently anti-spam and tend to get "edgy" when people suggest otherwise. So don't. Your e-mail address will not be revealed to anyone. We hate spam as much as you, so your e-mail address is safe with us. We don't sell or rent our mailing list to anyone - ever - really.

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HOW MUCH DOES TOURBUS COST?
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TOURBUS is absolutely free. All of the costs associated with keeping the TOURBUS on the road are paid by our sponsors. Each issue will contain short messages from our sponsors, like the ones you see above and below. So please visit our sponsors, buy lots of stuff from them, and tell them the TOURBUS brought you. :-)

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WHEN IS TOURBUS PUBLISHED?
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It's kind of hard to say. TOURBUS is, for the most part, distributed every Tuesday-ish and Thursday-ish.

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ISH?
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Well, sometimes we get 'em out on time, but more often than not, an issue is a day early or a day late. If you want to be technical (or at least statistical), you could say that TOURBUS has a probability distribution centered around Tuesday and Thursday, with a standard deviation of a day or two. :)

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IS THERE AN ARCHIVE OF PAST TOURBUS ISSUES?
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Yep! You can find several months of TOURBUS back issues on the TOURBUS website here:

Tourbus Website - http://www.tourbus.com

If you'd like to have the complete TOURBUS Archives (over 600 issues, dating back to 1995) on CDROM, then click here:

Tourbus Archives - http://www.tourbus.com/cdrom.htm

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HOW CAN MY FRIENDS SUBSCRIBE TO TOURBUS?
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Just tell 'em to visit the TOURBUS website at

Tourbus Website - http://www.tourbus.com

and fill in the form for a free subscription.

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THIS IS GETTING A BIT LONG - DO I HAVE TO KEEP READING?
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Yes. If you stop now, you'll miss out on the Cheezie Goldfish.

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WHAT IS THAT HIDEOUS JUMBLE AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH ISSUE?
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It's a bus - a TOURBUS actually. To get the most out of TOURBUS, you should use a monospace font like Courier. Most email programs let you change the inbox font, but one notable exception is AOL for Windows. You want help changing the font in your email program? I charge $200/hour and I'm slow. You're better off reading the Help screens,
trust me.

Someday we may offer an HTML version of TOURBUS which will solve this problem for most people. Then we'll be able to control the fonts from here, as well as add nifty graphics and lots of blinking gadgets and other annoying stuff to the TOURBUS mailings.

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WHY DO THE WEB LINKS IN TOURBUS LOOK SO FUNNY?
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When we put a website link in the TOURBUS newsletter, we want you to be able to just click and go directly to it. The format we normally use looks like this:

<A href="http://www.FlowersFast.com">
Flowers Fast - http://www.FlowersFast.com </A>

This allows 99.44% of our readers to get a clickable hotlink. Yes, we know that some people see TWO hotlinks, and some see the "raw" HTML codes, but this seems to work for almost all readers, and almost all email programs. If you don't like it, have another bowl of oatmeal.

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HOW DID THE TWO OF YOU MEET?
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Well, actually, we've never met. We've exchanged hundreds of e-mails and a couple dozen phone calls over the past few years. Bob thinks Patrick might have been the tall guy who put his seat ALL THE WAY BACK on that flight from Chicago to Philly, but he can't prove it.

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PATRICK KEEPS MENTIONING "SQUIRRELS" IN HIS TOURBUS POSTINGS.
WHAT'S THE STORY?
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The number one cause of power outages in the USA? The weather (electrical storms, snow, etc.). The number two cause? Squirrels! You don't believe it? Just go to the University of Alabama! It seems that the squirrels living in the trees on the campus of the University of Alabama have developed quite a taste for power lines... especially for the power lines leading into the University's mainframe computer center (if you are not electrically inclined, let me just add that energetic squirrels and power lines do not mix well).

Back when he was running the Roadmap workshop in 1994, Patrick was really concerned that if the University of Alabama's mainframe was taken down by a squirrel (which was a regular occurrence at the time) and he was not able to deliver that day's Roadmap lesson to the 64,000 people in the workshop, the participants would panic and mailbomb him with 64,000 "where is today's lesson?" messages.

By telling the subscribers up front to expect a squirrel attack, he kept himself from being mailbombed, elevated Alabama's squirrels to Net-legend status (people around the world were even rooting for the squirrels), and gained a really neat "trademark."

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WILL MICROSOFT REALLY PAY ME $243 TO FORWARD A SILLY CHAIN LETTER?
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No. We debunk a lot of urban legends, hoaxes and bogus virus warnings on TOURBUS, but I still get emails all the time asking if the FREE MONEY FROM BILL GATES, SICK CHILD or STOLEN KIDNEY stories are really true. Of course they're not. Please check the TOURBUS archives to get the scoop on these stories if you're ever tempted to write and ask. You can also check out Patrick's Urban Legend Combat Kit at

UL Combat Kit - http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit

And if you're as tired of these things as I am, and you want to read something REALLY FUNNY, I've got a couple of treats for you...

WARNING, DANGER! - http://www.tourbus.com/warning.htm

CHEEZIE GOLDFISH - http://www.tourbus.com/cheezie.htm

Jolie Rouge

01-05-2003, 10:30 PM

Fast Food Fever

Haute cuisine it is not, but fast food fans have taste, too. And there's no accounting for it. At Fast Food Fever, new dishes are cooked up by stuffing a handful of fries from one restaurant into a burrito from another and other taste-tested recipes that create a new breed of monsters from fast food heaven.

www.jaybrewer.net/fastfoodfever/

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Free Fall

Humpty Dumpty's got nothing on the free fallers whose stories made the Free Fall Research page by Green Harbor.com, most of them World War II airmen who fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute and survived to tell about it. With tips on how to survive a fall and stories from other lucky - or unlucky - survivors.

www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffresearch.html

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Internet Journal: First Monday

Those in the mood for deep thought will find a home at First Monday.org, an online peer-reviewed journal with such heady fare as an analysis of web accessibility in Ireland and post-human law in a "machinic world."

Since May 1996, the site has published 411 papers in 78 issues by 492 different authors from 30 countries, covering Internet and global information issues and book reviews. Read the current issue, explore the archives or submit your own thoughts for peer review and perhaps
acceptance. Articles analyze and review Internet policies and regulations; economic, technical and social factors; research and development of software and hardware; Internet use in specific communities; and Internet standards and content.

www.firstmonday.org/

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Discovering Music with the BBC

If you don't really "get" jazz, world music or classical music, leave it to the British to explain what makes great music great by tuning in to BBC Radio's Discovering Music, where each week a major musical masterpiece undergoes a thorough diagnosis.

Four musicologists are your guides through the series, which uses recorded examples to analyze context and content in a complete concert performance featured in the current week on BBC's Radio 3. Visitors may tune in, then re-experience the music with the help of new listening tools and new insights from your learned tutors. Visit the archive of past programs by clicking on a composer, reviewing play lists or, for the light-hearted, playing music games to enhance your music IQ.

www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/discover.shtml

Jolie Rouge

01-05-2003, 10:45 PM

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The mind that turns ever outward
Will have no end to craving.
Only the mind turned inward
Will find a still-point of peace.

~~ Tao

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Gumball1960

01-06-2003, 10:14 AM

Got this in my e-mail today so I'm copying it the way it was in there. :)

Dumb Laws

We all know they are out there, waiting, just waiting to get us. Have you ever been the victim of a dumb law? Well now you can find out about dumb laws from all over the world. Check out the dumb laws for my state, Ohio:

1.It is illegal to get a fish drunk.

2.The Ohio driver's education manual states that you must honk the horn whenever you pass another car.

3. It's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license!

4. You cannot eat a doughnut and walk backwards on a city street.

5. Throwing a snake at anyone is illegal.

Why don’t you check out and see what dumb laws will affect you. Remember if you visit Ohio, don’t get your fish drunk and let him throw snakes.

http://www.dumblaws.com/

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Here's some of the ones it listed for Indiana!

State Laws

One may not sniff glue.

A person must get a referral from a licensed physician if he or she wishes to see a hypnotist unless the desired procedure is to quit smoking or lose weight.

Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.

It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday.

Oral sex is illegal.

A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17.

It is against the law to pass a horse on the street.

It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks.

Liquor stores may not sell milk.

Grocery stores may not sell any type of cold liquor.

You can get out of paying for a dependent's medical care by praying for him/her.

One man may not back into a parking spot becasue it prevents police officers from seeing the license plate.

Smoking in the state legislature building is banned, except when the legislature is in session.

Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes.

Pedestrians crossing the highway at night are prohibited from wearing tail lights.

No one may catch a fish with his bare hands.

Men are prohibited from standing in a bar.

You are not allowed to carry a cocktail from the bar to a table. The waiter or waitress has to do it.

Drinks on the house are illegal.

Drinking from your own bottle in a bar can lead to your arrest.

You are required to pour your drink into a glass.

"Spiteful Gossip" and "talking behind a person's back" are illegal.
State government officials who engage in private duels can be dismissed from their post.

All males 18 to 50 years old must work six days a year on public roads.

Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to habitually kiss other humans.

Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide.

If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Certain Immoral Practices.

Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day.

A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming.

The value of Pi is 4, and not 3.1415.

It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public.

City Laws

AUBURN

It is illegal to bike, roller-skate, skateboard, or inline skate in a commercially zoned area. For these offesnses, there is a fine of no more than $5 or the impounding of one's bicycle for a period not to exceed 30 days.

BEECH GROVE

It is forbidden to eat watermelon in the park.

ELKHART

It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears.

EVANSVILLE

While driving on Main Street you may not have your lights on.

FORT WAYNE

You may not sell or play on a radio broadcast, the record "It`s In the Book".

GARY

Within four hours of eating garlic, a person may not enter a movie house, theater, or ride a public streetcar.

SOUTH BEND

It is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.

TERRE HAUTE

No one may spit on the sidewalk.

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Gumball1960

01-06-2003, 10:39 AM

Welcome to Dumb Warnings!

Welcome to Dumb Warnings, where you may see the consequences of numerous pointless lawsuits. This site is dedicated to helping companies fight this menace which is plaguing society today. In addition to Dumb Warnings, this site will also feature Dumb Instructions, Rules, and other information frequently placed on packages.

http://www.dumbwarnings.com/

Top Ten Funniest Warnings
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Below are the ten most funniest—or dumbest—warnings as selected by our visitors.

1 Unknown Air Conditioner
Caution: Avoid dropping air conditioners out of windows.
3769075% Appliances

2 Flying Goku
This label defies explanation. Take a look at the picture.
70% Toys

3 Life saving device
This is NOT a life saving device!!!
139% Appliances

4 Swedish Chainsaw
Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals.
73% Yard Care

5 Child-Sized Superman Costume
Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.
66% Clothes

6 Interstate 10, Near Phoenix, AZ
State Prison: Do Not Stop for Hitchhikers
778882% Signs

7 Various Computers
Keyboard not detected. Press F1 to continue
71% Electronics

8 Travelling Man Site, Gamer2Gamer Section
This is not a dating agency.
59% Web

9 Unknown Blow Dryer
Warning: Do not use while sleeping.
65% Appliances

10 Rowenta Iron
Warning: Never iron clothes on the body.
66% Appliances

Gumball1960

01-06-2003, 10:42 AM

Welcome to Dumb facts!

You have found Dumb Facts, the leading distributor of useless knowledge. We have amassed a very, very large collection of knowledge that most people couldn't care less about. But fortunately you do, and we appreciate that. So take a break from your busy schedule, and unwind with a couple stupid news items and strange grains of truth to brighten up your day.

Recently, a proud addition was made to Dumb Facts, Strange City Names! The list currently covers two countries and totals hundreds of actual city or town names. To access the list, please visit the government section of the directory.

http://www.dumbfacts.com/

Top Ten Dumb Facts
Below are the top ten funniest dumb facts as rated by our visitors.

1 Police in Hong Kong stopped a man because he seemed to be 'oddly shaped'. He was found to be wearing 18 bras and 45 pairs of ladies' panties.
68% Dumb Criminals

2 There is a lawsuit every 30 seconds in the U.S.
56% Dumb Lawsuits

3 More than 50% of time spent in U.S courtrooms is over automobile cases.
58% Dumb Lawsuits

4 The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
60% Collecting

5 The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States.
64% Books

6 The first novel ever written on a typewriter was "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
59% Books

7 It's estimated that more than 6 billion copies of The Bible have been printed.
59% Books

8 Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo".
60% Books

9 Julian Dicks has been everywhere today. It seems the Rangers have eleven Dicks out there! (Rangers vs. Hibernian)
64% Sports Commentators

10 All the fans are wearing yellow shorts, it's a fantastic kaleidoscope of color. (Soccer World Cup)
62% Sports Commentators

Gumball1960

01-06-2003, 10:51 AM

Welcome to Dumb Criminal Acts!

Welcome to the Dumb Criminals Acts library! Our goal is to build the largest database of stupid criminal acts on the Internet. While we realize that criminals aren't usually the brightest people, some just stand out, err... sink below, the rest. We are dedicated to publicizing their completely humiliating stories. We've just gone through a massive redesign, and soon will be rewriting all the stories to create near-masterpieces. Also new on Dumb Criminal Acts is the Random Criminal Machine—browse through a variety of criminal stories quickly and easily!

If you know of any stories of dumb criminals in your area, or anywhere else, be sure to tell us!

http://www.dumbcriminalacts.com/

Top Ten
Funniest Criminal Acts

1. Scream and Run
Grand Island, NY

Three women dresses in costumes similar to the ones worn in the movie Scream entered a deli in February 2002 with intentions to rob the restaurant. Wielding BB pistols, a steel mallet, a hacksaw, and a pry bar, they hit one of the patrons over the head who then fell to the floor. Another customer saw his chance and grabbed the steel mallet from the woman who wielded it, and then clambered her over the head with it, knocking her back into her comrades. After this, the three fled from the establishment towards their car which was parked a mere 200 feet away. In the process of driving away, one of the attempted robbers got her foot run over before proceeding down the street. Since their entrance and departure had caused such a stir, many patrons had left the deli to observe what kind of car the thieves were driving and to get their license plate number. The robbers were found and arrested shortly afterwards.
1%

2. 50%
Unknown

Kidnappers abducted Gildo Santos near his factory in a suburb of Sao Paulo and demanded $690,000 for ransom. Santos, however, escaped. The next day, Santos got a phone call asking for $11,500 to defray the cost of the abduction. After negotiating a 50 percent reduction, Santos called police, when the abductors showed up to collect payment.
7%

3. Security Camera
Unknown

One criminal broke into the basement of a bank through a street-level window. In the process, however, he suffered from several lacerations. After he realized that he could neither get the money nor climb back through the window from whence he came, the robber panicked. Realizing he was going to bleed to death if he did not get help, he located a phone and dialed 911. The rest, as they say, is history.
0%

4. Don't Mess With Granny
Unknown

An elderly woman spent a leisurely shopping at the mall. Upon return to her vehicle, she found four strange males sitting in her car. Frightened, the woman dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun. She told the men that if they did not get out of the car, she would shoot. The four men ran off quickly, whereupon the lady got into the car. Her key, however, would not fit. The woman realized that her car was the identical one parked a few spaces down. She drove to the police department and reported the story. The officer on duty laughed hysterically and pointed to the other end of the counter where four pale men had reported a hijacking by a mean old lady; no charges were filed.
3%

5. 911
Unknown

A man from the town of Grand Forks, North Dakota, decided to travel to Fargo so that he could rob the First Community Bank. The criminal quickly scribbled a note demanding money and gave it to the teller. Frightened, she gave the man what he asked for and watched him run out of the door. Police were called and searches of the surrounding area turned up nothing. Upon reviewing the ransom note, it was noted that the message had been written on the perpetrator's bank deposit slip. Police traveled to the man's house and arrested him on his front porch.
0%

6. Cut Wrong
South Carolina

An angry man walked into his local police station and threw a bag of cocaine on the counter. He told the desk sergeant that it was a substandard cut and demanded that dealer he bought it from be arrested.
8%

7. (Link wouldn't open)

8. Running Low
Unknown

A bevy of thieves thought it would be a wise idea to steal cars from one of those trucks that transport automobiles across the nation. Everything went smoothly until it was realized that each car only contained one gallon of gasoline.
4%

9. ID Badges
Long Beach, CA

During their lunch hour, several employees of a large aerospace company decide to rob a bank. The group figured the police would never look for them at the plant. Of course, being dumb criminals, they forgot to removed their ID badges during the robbery.
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10. Miscalculation
France

Recently in France, two criminals decided it would be genius to break into a bank from a neighboring building. They decided to drill through the wall so they could reach the banks vault. After hours of exhausting labor, they finally broke through. Upon entering the room, however, they discovered that had miscalculated the location of the vault and were instead standing in the middle of the restroom.
1%

Gumball1960

01-07-2003, 09:17 AM

Another one of those things from my e-mail.. ;)

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Visit the Fact-O-Matic, type in a single word and find all occurrences of that word in Mr. Smarty Pant’s database. Or you can just jump right in head first to the topics, and browse to your heart’s content.

I chose the odd topic heading of Flan. Knowing that flan was a desert, I was curious as to what interesting factoids I could find on it. Here are some of the results:

“In El Salvador, flan is called flan de horchata because it is made with a milk-based almond drink sold across the country.”

“Spanish writer Vital Aza once said, "If you eat flan, you have a hearty appetite.”

“The Green Burrito chain of Mexican restaurants in California added flan to its menu in January 1991. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, Ruben Rodriguez, chairman of Green Burrito's parent company GB Foods Corp., said the move was due to the fact that, "flan is very popular with Hispanics, and with it, we believe we can attract a larger share of the Hispanic market into our restaurants." When it came to naming the new dessert selection, Green Burrito chose a name with a distinctly Anglo ring: "Flan-Tastic."

http://www.austinchronicle.com/mrpants/

Jolie Rouge

01-07-2003, 09:24 AM

Mr. Smarty Pants

Isn't he a "guest" on "Between the Lions" ??

Gumball1960

01-07-2003, 09:27 AM

Yup. :p But I'm pretty sure he must have a sideline, gotta pay for those big pants somehow. :D

Jolie Rouge

01-07-2003, 09:53 PM

Older Version

Those longing for the good old days of MSN Messenger 3.6 or Acrobat Reader 2 will find the classics at Old Version.com, where upgrading isn't always considered a blessing. Whatever the cause, whether your computer isn't compatible with a new version or the new version is a bloated monster, you might prefer the old. Find it here.

The site archives old versions of many software programs, from AOL to Eudora, acquired from individual contributors who feel your pain, with 297 versions of 39 different programs. But they only do Windows and only freeware and shareware. Still, most visitors will find what they seek and, if not, the site creators will try to locate it for you.

www.oldversion.com/

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Worldwide Newspaper Index

Find weekly community newspapers from The Idyllwild Town Crier to The Oman Daily Observer at Online Newspapers.com, where you can graze on the world's small town gazettes - literally hundreds of them from every continent - from the comfort of your own home office.

www.onlinenewspapers.com/

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The North Pole Times

When the kids get Santa withdrawal after December 25th, send them to the North Pole Times.com for the inside scoop on the merry old elf and his weight problem, to check Santa's List for their own naughty or nice status so they can start cleaning up their acts for next year, to do crafts in the Work Shoppe, or pick up recipes in Mrs. Claus' kitchen.

www.northpoletimes.com

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Master Dream Kit

If Santa didn't bring you what you've always dreamed of, build your own drum set at Pearl Drum.com's Master Dream Kit, where you choose the shell, components, bass drums, snare drums, toms, cymbals and every pretty piece of hardware, then try it out online, modify it and see how much the dream will cost you.

www.pearldrum.com/dreamkit/

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Stars on TV

Desperate for another glimpse of Alan Thicke, a sitcom with Agnes Moorehead, or a scene staged by David Lynch? At TV Now.com, track upcoming TV appearances of more than 4,100 stars via an index of actors, actresses and directors.

The online television guide offers monthly schedules by category so visitors who are in the mood for a good film noir or World War II flick can easily search out where and when the genre is playing on the small screen. Monthly schedules are listed for sci-fi, horror, G-rated, film noir, detective, World War II, silent and foreign films, plus 30s and 40s westerns, comedies and mysteries. With daily Hollywood News, entertainment columns and Prime Time picks.

www.tv-now.com/stars/stars.html
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When They Were Young

Childhood is as fleeting as it is lovely, so what luck to have it captured at When They Were Young, an exhibition of images from the collections of the Library of Congress. From Steichen's "Mother and Child in Sunlight" to a hand-tinted "ambrotype" of a nursemaid with her charge caught by an unknown photographer in 1855, children peer out from generations past and worlds apart.

Don't expect a Hallmark view of kids at play: a Civil War image glorifies a boy's role in war and early 20th century portraits show Native American children at the edge of extinction. In this exhibit launching a book by the same name, with quotes by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Coles.

www.loc.gov/exhibits/young/

Jolie Rouge

01-09-2003, 10:01 PM

Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet

What did Muhammad, prophet of Islam, really have to say about women, Jews, America, violence and Jihad?

Experience the 1,400 year-old story of Mohammed, the Muslim prophet, at PBS' Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, explaining the roots, rituals and rules of Islam, a religion with 1.2 billion followers worldwide.

Join a virtual Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim strives to perform and that 2 million people make today from every corner of the world, read full transcripts of the film, follow a timeline of the life of Muhammad and study up through learning tools like scholarly essays and personal portraits designed for teachers, students and the inquiring public.

www.pbs.org/muhammad/

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Non Photography

When is a photo not photography? When it not only breaks the rules but has none at No Rules Street Photography, where f-stops, apertures and composition are tossed out the window and point-and-shoot takes to the streets.

The images here ignore "the usual photography routines" like focus to zero in on life on the streets at its own pace, using only enthusiasm, creativity, a Minolta SRT 101 and a simple digital camera. The Gallery offers spontaneous photos taken indoors, outdoors, in cities, at night, with music, in color and in black and white. One rule it hasn't tossed out: the online store. Most photos may be purchased in high resolution digital file format.

www.skylightweb.com/imagine/

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Film Wise

Film trivia buffs seeking a challenge will find dozens at Filmwise.com, featuring "invisibles," familiar film screenshots with the players missing - their beautiful heads and gorgeous bodies absent from the scene - where you're challenged to name the film in the current Invisibles Quiz.

Dozens of other film IQ tests, some quite complex, are here. Some rely on visuals, like "From Above," in which the viewer is the fly on the ceiling, looking down on a famous film scene. Others are text quizzes, like "In Other Words," where movie titles are paraphrased. Visitors can make their guess, e-mail their answer and join other film quizzers for online chats.

www.filmwise.com/invisibles/index.shtml

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Philip Glass Engine

If the work of groundbreaking composer Philip Glass seems a bit inaccessible, access it - and really get it - with help from the Glass Engine, where high tech tools lead visitors through a deep navigation of Glass' famously experimental music.

Launch the applet, then click on various associations and impulses - joy, sorrow, intensity, density - to guide you through one of over 60 Glass works, like Mishima, the composer's score for Paul Schrader's film bio of the Japanese writer, or "Two Pages," an early sample of a classically austere Glass composition. Pull-down menus let you select a type of work, then a low-velocity level and a high-joy level, for example, to hear a slow, happy bit of opera.

www.philipglass.com/glassengine/index.htm

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The only failure

Is the failure to love.

~~Gangaji

Jolie Rouge

01-10-2003, 07:03 PM

Celebrity Pitches

What do Pierce Brosnan, Mel Gibson, Quentin Tarantino, Whitney Houston, ZZ Top and the Muppets have in common? No, they haven't all played James Bond. They're all Western celebrities who make big bucks by doing Japanese commercials that they probably wouldn't be caught dead doing here at home: Japanese + pander, get it? The ads are on view at Japander.com.

The spots are very brief, but the close-ups show some 70 big-time stars hawking cosmetics, SUVs, coffee and Scotch (the real 007, Sean Connery). Some of the celebs have a sense of humor about the lucrative gig: Ringo does an ad for applesauce, which is what his name means in Japanese, and Madonna slays a dragon, then in crisp English pronounces "I'm pure."

www.japander.com/

Whale Song

The whales are singing off Maui, and you're invited to the concert as Whalesong.net presents live broadcasts of humpback whale vocalizations via a listening system set up off the Hawaiian Islands.

The volunteer effort "gives a microphone" to marine mammals to bring attention to the threats of high-powered sonar systems, military technologies and undersea explosions, not to mention global warning, toxic dumping and commercial whaling. To us, it's an awesome performance, but to the whales and dolphins it's a means of navigating and communicating across vast underwater spaces.

Hear the beautiful, eerie live sounds or recordings from last season, and read about how a beacon transmitter rigged up on a floating platform captures these mysterious, marvelous songs of the sea.

www.whalesong.net/

Human Anatomy Online

If you get your pituitary gland confused with your adenoids - and who doesn't - click on over to Inner Body for a straightforward explanation of what's connected to what inside your own bad self.

Created by MyHealthScore.com, the group committed to helping consumers navigate the perilous waters of health care, the site makes learning easy by using the simple logic of point-and-click to guide visitors around and inside human anatomy. Click on an image for the skeletal system or the urinary tract, for example, then pick a point to zoom in on a new image and read about the body part or system you've selected.

www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

New Wonders of the World

Just when you thought you had the old Seven Wonders of the World memorized, New 7 Wonders.com invites citizens of the world to elect a new bunch of wonders.

It has been over 2,000 years, after all, we are on the threshold of the third millennium, and we do have a new global consciousness. Are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon old news? The Temple of Artemis dated?

Check out the current ballot, with new entries like the Sydney Opera House, see how the contestants stack up so far and mark your X on the symbols of civilization that will be held in the highest esteem for the next 2,000 years.

www.new7wonders.com/

Jolie Rouge

01-11-2003, 10:16 PM

TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: ASCII Art

I like the idea of delivering high tech stuff in a low tech medium. That's why the subject of ASCII (plain text) artwork is one of my all-time favorites!

BACK IN THE DAYS OF OLD...

Long before the advent of the Web and all of its glittering graphics, people were creating computer graphics of a different sort that required no special hardware or software to view. This "ASCII art" can be sent by e-mail without encoding or attachments because it's composed only of plain text characters.

The term ASCII refers to a standard set of characters that are supposed to display the same on any computer. ASCII art is a unique form of expression ranging from the simple to the very complex. Using only the characters on your keyboard and some creativity, you can create images that are cute, funny or intricately beautiful.

One caveat - you must use a MONOSPACE FONT such as Courier in order to view ASCII artwork. If your e-mail program doesn't allow you to change the font, save this message as a file and view it with a word processor that allows you to set the font.

SMILIES

Smilies, sometimes called emoticons, are the most basic form of ASCII art. Smilies are textual representations of emotions that people commonly use in their e-mail. They're one way to express emotion in the otherwise emotionless world of e-mail. When you see a bunch of dashes, parentheses, and other punctuation marks that don't seem to make sense, try turning your head sideways. Smileys like the ones in the list below, are great ways to overcome the impersonal nature of the electronic medium.

:-) Smile
;-) Wink
:-( Frown

These are the most common smilies, but there are dozens more. You can find a large collection on the web at

www.members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm

or get check out Don Z'Boray's Unofficial Smiley FAQ at

www.newbie.net/SmileyFAQ/index.html

COWS AND OTHER STUFF

One favorite subject of the ASCII artists is animals. Many people use them in e-mail or Usenet signature files just for fun. The eagle and the cat below are classic examples.

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`````````````````````(il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'

There are also quite a few people who enjoy portraying cows ala keyboard. I've seen some hilarious ASCII cows, like these floating around in cyberspace.

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``````````(oo) When cows laugh really hard,
```/-------\/ does milk come out their nose?
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``````````````(oo) Mathematical Cow
`````/---------\/ (Developer of cow-culus)
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If you need a good chuckle, visit David Bader's COMPLETE GUIDE TO COWS, which is a large collection of ASCII cows, dating back to 1991.

www.clasohm.com/cows/guide.html

FIGLETS

A figlet is a way to make large letters out of ordinary text. A program called FIGLET can use a variety of special effects to create text ...

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| | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __|
| | | < __/ | |_| | | | \__ \
|_|_|_|\_\___| \__|_| |_|_|___/

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/ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
( o | r ) ( t | h | i | s )
\_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/

You can learn all about figlets and create your own by visiting

www.figlet.org

ADVANCED ASCII ARTWORK
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The examples so far have been pretty basic, but there are ASCII artists who produce some pretty amazing images. This rose is just one example of the of the work you can sample at the Signature Museum.

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The ASCII Art section there has pages devoted to Animals, Christmas, Easter, Flora, Love. Misc, Music and People. Find it at [url]www.huizen.dds.nl/~mwpieter/sigs

Jolie Rouge

01-11-2003, 10:20 PM

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

If you thought those were kind of nifty, you will be amazed at the ASCII images you can find at the address below. Many of them are in COLOR and incredibly detailed. Here's a sampling of what you'll find:

* Disney and Warner Brothers Cartoons
- Don't miss the colorized Lion King pictures

* Comic Strips
- Archie, The Jetsons, and Superman are great!

* College Mascots and Logos
- Over 40 schools, even the Crimson Tide is there.

* Famous Paintings
- Wow. See The Birth of Venus, Mona Lisa, and Starry Night

www.users.inetw.net/~mullen/ascii.htm

ASCIIMATION

This next site is truly asciimazing. It's a condensed version of the original Star Wars movie, done with ASCII animation. The asciimation is achieved by displaying frames of painstakingly composed ASCII text one after the other. You MUST see this one.

www.asciimation.co.nz/

And for even more, check out Google's directory of ASCII art:

www.directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Visual_Arts/ASCII_Art

ROLL YOUR OWN

Wanna learn more about ASCII art? Visit Allen Mullen's ASCII Art Information page at

www.users.inetw.net/~mullen/asciiart.htm

You'll find info on the various styles of ASCII art, how to create your own, and links to some other fun ASCII art pages. Have a little fun with ASCII art. It's a wonderfully rich, low-tech, and very accessible medium to express yourself!

/ _\ ___ ___ /\_/\___ _ _ / / __ _| |_ ___ _ __ / \
\ \ / _ \/ _ \ \_ _/ _ \| | | | / / / _` | __/ _ \ '__// /
_\ \ __/ __/ / \ (_) | |_| | / /__| (_| | || __/ | /\_/
\__/\___|\___| \_/\___/ \__,_| \____/\__,_|\__\___|_| \/

Jolie Rouge

01-14-2003, 10:27 PM

Gawker

It's definitely not The New Yorker. Gawker.com is a Manhattan weblog to make non-New Yorkers crave a flight east and native New Yorkers re-commit to their love-hate relationship with the city.

Offering live reviews of city news like "urban dating rituals, no-ropes social climbing, Condé Nastiness and real estate porn," the site mostly links visitors to a mixed bag of NYC-related web pages: rental ads in the New York Times, Open Table's New York restaurant reservation site, the Google search page for Tina Brown, a live webcam from Times Square, and odd news bits like an item about several dogs getting electrocuted while walking near light posts and manholes in Battery Park.

Only in New York.

www.gawker.com/

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The Workhouse

Fewer than 100 years ago, a person who was poor, elderly, handicapped, unmarried and pregnant or otherwise destitute had nowhere to go but through the "Archway of Tears," as the entrance to one workhouse was known. Workhouses.org preserves the memory of the buildings, inmates and daily life of a phenomenon that mixes social history, politics, economics and architecture.

Entry to workhouses was generally a voluntary if painful decision, though perhaps not for Laurie Liddiard who at age 14 was sent off to the workhouse and whose detailed memories are preserved here in an audio clip/oral history of his experience. Take a workhouse tour, view the architecture and trace the Poor Laws that governed workhouses in England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

www.workhouses.org.uk/

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21st Century Art

Massive steel sculptures shaped and stretched like rubber, a trip to a Japanese grocery store in an oversized chair, photographs of dog bones … Is this really art? It is in the 21st century, and Art:21 from PBS helps visitors make the transition from Degas and Picasso to the performances of Laurie Anderson and the multi-dimensional home visits of Pepón Osorio.

Art is definitely headed into uncharted territory and the site focuses exclusively on contemporary visual art in the US to give visitor a road map to the astoundingly diverse media, sources, models and personal experiences from which art is being made in the US today. Meet 21 emerging and established artists, see and hear their stories, sources of inspiration and creative processes.

http://www.pbs.org/art21/

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This Is SportsCenter

Serious sports wonks with a sense of fun have tuned to SportsCenter since 1979 when it was launched as ESPN's flagship show. Catch up with how much sports and the program have changed at the 25,000th show celebration at SportsCenter 25K, from ESPN.com.

See the top 25 SC stories of all time, like Kenny Mayne and Dan Patrick's goofy top-rated commercial, "Go Global with SportsCenter." Read entries from winners of the "Why do you love SportsCenter?" contest ("When my girlfriend dumped me at one in the morning, my friends were drunk, my parents were asleep ... SportsCenter was there."), link to the ESPN auction to bring home an authentic SportsCenter desk and check out the SportsCenter Chronology.

http://msn.espn.go.com/thisissportscenter/sc25k/s/index.html
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The monk shaved his head
as a symbol of renunciation,
but now he goes nowhere
without his little cap.

~TAO

Gumball1960

01-15-2003, 03:34 PM

Do you like a good ghost story? Would you like to see photos of paranormal, ghostly activity? Well if so you might enjoy this site. Are you ready to visit the Castle of Spirits?

This site has ton of pictures, and pictures that have proved to be hoaxes. So for you sleuths out there that should appeal. Interesting photos and true ghost stories could keep you occupied for hours on end, I know it had my attention.

Enjoy this haunting site!

http://www.castleofspirits.com/ghostphotos.html

Gumball1960

01-16-2003, 01:26 AM

Like Fish, but don't want the upkeep? Well now you can get
your fish fix by using the virtual fish tank. You'll need to have
Macromedia's Shockwave to use this site. If you don't have
shockwave this site will direct you to it. If you're really
curious how this whole site works check out their Technical
Stuff Section.

From their Press box: The Virtual FishTank(TM) exhibit teaches
lessons about emergent behavior, group behavior and modeling.
The rich functionality of VirtualFishtank.com will enable
parents and educators to enhance the educational experience
by planning pre and post Museum visit online exercises.

Now for the fun info! You get to build your own fish.
That's right you get to design it, and then you can save
it and release at the Museum of Science's virtual fish tank
or you can release your fish into the simulated online
fish tank.

Registering is free and only takes a minute and gives you
the option of having four fish. This is a great site for
both kids and adults. I'm really excited about it, and can't
wait to release my fishies into the tank. Enjoy!

http://www.virtualfishtank.com/fishtank/fishtank.html

Jolie Rouge

01-17-2003, 11:11 PM

Ticket Stub Stories

Every ticket stub tells a story, evoking memories of a 1978 Queen concert or a 1988 trip to the World Trade Center Observation Deck. Better than old snapshots in some ways, stubs bring back the whole story. Visitors to Stories About Ticket Stubs.org can relive their own or take someone else's trip back through time.

"Tales of the ephemeral based on the flotsam of life" are found in pants pockets and under seat cushions. Here you can upload scanned images of your own lost-and-found stubs and tell the story of your first rock concert, first prom or how you got that parking ticket in Malta. Read other's stories by country, event, date or just go to the Top Ten Stories.

http://stories.about.ticketstubs.org/home.stub

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International Gallery of Children's Art

Kids draw, paint and color, and their art -- like their thoughts -- rarely stays inside the lines. At PapaInk.org the art of youth and the youth of art is on display in personal portfolios, special exhibits and collections, showing how kids explore peace, the environment, health and happiness through art.

Visitors are invited to view the art and express their feelings about each piece, visit the archive of historically significant children's art collections, share their own youthful work in ongoing projects like When They Were Children, which honors the kid in all of us, or Building a Sense of Home, exploring young people's capacity to express a sense of home.

http://www.papaink.org/gallery/home/index.html

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet

That tingling in your hand when you strike your keyboard may not be the sheer excitement of web surfing, especially if it ends in a sharp pain. Welcome to the tunnel. The Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke describes the painful progressive condition caused by pressure on the median nerve.

The nerve runs from the forearm into the hand and is housed by the carpal tunnel -- a narrow, rigid passage of ligament and bones that can hurt like hell when tendons thicken from irritation. Here, learn about the symptoms, causes, risks, prevention and - for those searching for the light at the end of the tunnel - research on this debilitating condition.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/pubs/carpal_tunnel.htm

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Banished Words

Lake Superior State University has issued its 28th annual list of mis-used, over-used and useless words deserving of exile at LSSU.edu's Banished, and the list speaks volumes about the year behind us: included are "homeland security," "weapons of mass destruction" and "undisclosed secret location."

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/

Jolie Rouge

01-18-2003, 06:40 PM

Videogame Music Archive

Relax with the piano collections from Final Fantasy or the deathmatch music from Quantum Rage at the Videogame Music Archive Store, where gamers can download and play or find and purchase the music that soothes or stimulates, whether you play Nintendo, Sega, X-Box or arcade games.

www.vgmusic.com/

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Fighting the Common Cold

You may not be able to beat the common cold, but you can sure put up a good fight with help from Common Cold. org, a comprehensive, updated source of info by two docs from the University of Virginia School of Medicine who tell visitors how to treat, prevent and understand their winter sniffles.

www.commoncold.org/

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Web Wheels

They don't call them "vanity" plates for nothing. At the Internet License Plate Gallery, web types with license plates like "NET DUDE" who aren't satisfied showing their plates only to other drivers can post their plates online, along with their name and e-mail address, car description and a bit about how they came up with the code.

http://webreference.com/outlook/license/gallery.html

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A Walk Through Time

From the movements of celestial bodies through the night sky to the Global Positioning System, humans have been obsessed with tools for measuring time. And no one is more obsessed than the folks at the NIST Physics Laboratory, creators of The Evolution of Time Measurement Through the Ages.

Ice-age hunters over 20,000 years ago scratched lines and gouged holes in bones to keep track of passing moments, Egyptians used obelisks as early as 3500 BC, and in 1656 a Dutch scientist made the first pendulum clock. Read about the instruments and theories of timekeeping from the ancients to the NIST's most recent achievement - a primary cesium standard, capable of keeping time to 30 billionths of a second per year.

http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 08:04 AM

Here are some sites that I found.

1. Learn the Net:
www.learnthenet.com

A journey of 365 days begins with a single web site. If you are new to the internet, take your first step here. Even if you have already been around the web a few times, you can pretend you don't know anything and then be amazed at how quickly you learn it all. Happy New Year --- and Happy Surfing!

Also See: www.livinginternet.com

2. Motley Fool:
www.fool.com

Don't let this investing site's name fool you. It's got plenty of wise advice and helpful features. And just the right amount of 'tude to keep it interesting. After all, making money wasn't meant to be boring.

Also See: www.thestreet.com

3. www.jigzone.com

If you've never gotten jiggy, here's your big chance: free online jigsaw puzzles at varying levels of difficulty. If you're feeling really lazy, click on the automatic button and watch the pieces fit into each other by themselves.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 08:36 AM

4. SkiCentral
www.skicentral.com

Ever since being invented by the crutch industry, skiing has always been the most enjoyable, fun way of breaking an arm or leg. This huge directory and search site will provide you with the information you need to race downhill at dangerous, reckless speeds. And that's why we love it.

5. Shop in your pajamas at these clothing sites...
www.bebe.com
www.delias.com
www.gap.com
www.landsend.com

6. Access Magazine
www.accessmagazine.com
This weekly Internet magazine lives up to its title, offering accessible articles and site reviews. Fresh-faced newbies and grizzled veterans alike will find plenty of useful, timely content.
Also see: www.yil.com

7. Macromedia/Shockwave
www.shockwave.com
www.macromedia.com/downloads
Shockwave Player is one of the downloads, or Plug-Ins, often requiredfor interactive site cotent, like games and other cool stuff. Flash Player, used for animation, is another gotta-have enhancement. You may already have them on your browser. Or you may need to update to the lastest versions. You can do all that at either of these Macromedia addresses.

8.QuitNet
www.quitnet.org
A new year means a whole new set of resolutions to make -- and break. If giving up smoking is one of your goals, QuitNet supplies the tools and support to do it. Or if someone you love smokes, use this site to nag and guilt them relentlessly until they quit just to shut you up.

9.Nature
www.enature.com

In the last few years, Web portals have become increasingly specialized. eNature, for example, was launched in 2000 as the first comprehensive wildlife portal. It offers thousands of pages filled with birds, butterflies, mammals, reptiles, wildflowers, trees and more. You can click all night and never get one mosquito bite.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 08:45 AM

10. Despair, Inc.
www.despair.com

We've all seen those corporate motivational posters that feature dramatic photos of people scaling mountains or breaking the tape at the finish line, accompanied by inspiring titles and quotes. Well, this entertaining retail site offers the flipside.

11. CitySearch
www.citysearch.com
The weekend's here! Make your entertainment plans by digging through the newspaper, getting your fingers all dirty from the print. Or click through this online guide, keeping your skin smudge-free and beautiful. Your hands, your choice.

Poodle43

01-20-2003, 09:06 AM

Originally posted by VQ
I haven't laughed so hard in ages! This site was sooo funny! If anyone hasn't gone to it yet the address again is:

http://www.thespamletters.com/

This guy has some sick humor so if you're easily offended I would stay away...if you're not easily offended PLEASE go and take a look!

I went to this site and it is just great. I get alot of this stupid "spam" letters and no matter how hard I try they just won't go away. So I got a real kick out of reading some of the responses.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 12:06 PM

12. The Hunger Site
www.thehungersite.com
Once a day, everyday. That's how often you can donate food to the world's hungry with a single click of you mouse. Corporate sponsership makes it completely free to you. This site is fast, easy and just waiting to be bookmarked.
Also See: www.freedonation.com

13. WWWomen.com
WWW.wwWomen.com
Wwwhen you wwwant to find wwwomen's online resources, here's wwwhere to wwwander. Beginning as a women's search directory, this operation has since given birth to a network of relevent, female-friendly sites.
Also See: www.ivillage.com

14. Real.com
www.real.com
RealNetworks is another major provider of multimedia applications that make the web come alive. RealPlayer, RealJukeBox and RealArcade are just a few of several free downloads available here. You can also get premium versions that'll cost you. It's all real. Really.
Also Try:
http://player.broadcast.com

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 12:31 PM

15. IcePick
www.icepick.com
This Netherlands-based site chronicals daily life in a nornal household--provided it's normal to give an online account of each and every time (hour, minute, and second) any item is discarded into the trashbin.

16. Bogbeast
www.bogbeast.com
When television was first launched 467 years ago, it was heralded as a great educational tool that would expand our minds and imaginations. Eventually we got over that idea. Likewise, the World Wide Web is being championed as the most important communications advancement in record history. We'll get over that one, too, with the help of sites like Bogbeast.
Also see: www.nuttysites.com

17. Ancient Greece.com
www.ancientgreece.com
There once was a golden age when people ran around in togas, drank to much alcohol and engaged in random acts of debauchery. Put on a sheet and discover the glory that was Ancient Greece at this informative site.

18. In the '70s
www.Inthe70s.com
There once was a golden age when people ran around in togas, drank to much alcohol and engaged in random acts of debauchery. Put on a sheet and discover the glory that was the Seventies at this informative site.
Also see: www.8trackheaven.com

19. Active.com
www.active.com
According to medical experts, actively participating in sports yields greater health benefits than passively watching sports. This amazing site provides compelling evidence to support this bizarre theory.

20. Top Secret Recipes
www.topsecretrecipes.com
Why buy it at a grocery store or restaurant when you can waste hours creating it at home? Fool your dinner guests with tasty counterfeits of brand-name foods. But don't let the kitchen police find out. Federal prison is no place for a nice person like you.

21. Google
www.google.com
There are dozens of major search engines ready to serve you. Ultimately, the one you favor is as personal a matter as what brand of shampoo you gargle with. If you appreciate an unadorned but very effective search resource, Google is woth a look. It ranks each site in a given search according to how many other sites link to it. This means that the most popular sites-as determined by the web itself-show up highest on the list. It's Google-riffic.
Also see: www.google.ca

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 12:51 PM

22. Guyville
www.guyville.com
Beer. Sports. Women. Sex. Money. Movies. Cars. Food. Beer. Cigars. Trucks. Health. Fitness. Sex. Gadgets. Sports. Women. Food. Advice. Music. Sports. Stuff. Sex.

23. World Wrestling Federation
www.wwe.com
It might look fake. It might sound fake. If you get close enough, it might even smell fake. But more people watch pro wrestling every year than go to zoos. And zoos aren't fake, are they? Think about it.

24. The Onion
www.theonion.com
Is it possible to talk about humor on the web without talking about The Onion? Yes, but only if you don't have a clue. Reading the newspaper will never be the same.
Also See: www.herdofsheep.com

25. Cranks and Crackpots
www.crank.net
For the best in "Cranks, crackpots, kooks abd loons on the net," look no further than Crank.net. Sites are rated according to degree of nuttiness, the highest being illucid, which is defined as "something so beyond understanding that it defies classification."

26. Free Computer Help
www.computerhope.com
Relax, there is hope during those times when you feel like taking a hammer to your computer. Just step back, calm down, and center yourself. Then get out the hammer.
Also see: www.helponthe.net
www.techsupportalert.com

Jolie Rouge

01-20-2003, 12:53 PM

If Dr.Suess WroteStar Trek

Guinan's Page of Star Trek humor

www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2541/funpage2.htm

Ted Geisel's genius gets run through the ringer of episodic sci-fi and the results are -- hmmmmm -- interesting, as evidenced by this exchange between Worf and Picard :

Worf : The saboteur is in the brig
He's very strong and very big
I had my phaser set on stun -
A zzzip ! A zzzap ! Another one !
He would not budge, he would not fall,
He would not stun, no not at all !
He changed into a stranger form
All soft and purple, round and warm.

Picard : Did you see this Mr. Worf ?
Did you see this creature morph ?

Somewhere out there, The Cat in the Hat is drinking heavily ....

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 01:14 PM

27. Classical Music
www.classical.net
An appreciation of classical music is what separates us from gorillas. Well, that and the fact that we don't throw our food at each other--unless we are in the cafeteria and someone asks us to pass the meatloaf. So stop minkeying around and visit this classy web site.
Also see: www.classicalmus.hispeed.com/links.html

28. Gift Registries
www.wishclick.com
They're not just for weddings anymore. Registries are available for Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and every other gift occasion. Avoid the hassle of having to "Save the receipt" just in case Auntie Em doesn't like the souvenir broomstick you brought her back from your trip to Oz.

29. Entertainment Weekly
www.ew.com
What's Julia doing? Where's Quentin filming? Why does Leo have a restraining order against you? Whether you love television, movies, music or stalking, you'll find it here.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 01:21 PM

Buy-A-Rock
www.buyarock.com
If you're a guy who's about to propose marriage, check out this site for straight talk on choosing the right rock. Happily ever after is just a diamond away.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 01:34 PM

Unusual Museums Of The Internet
www.unusualmuseums.org
Yeah, the Louvre is okay if you like fine art. But what if you want to see a nice collection of artistic toilet seats, tissue box covers or rum bottle labels? Check out this site first. Then go to Paris. Then come back and check out this site again. Keep going back and forth until you run out of money or they don't let you into France anymore.

Cyber Cafes
www.cybercafe.com
After a long day riding kangaroos in the Australian Outback, you'll want to Email your hairdresser back home to schedule an appointment upon your return. You'll crave a hard-earned cup of mocha java. Being the savvy traveler you are, you'll already have a printout of the nearest Australian cybercafes. And you'll owe it al to this site.
Also see: www.netcafeguide.com

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 01:42 PM

Soda Constructor
www.sodaplay.com/constructor
Constructor is a strange, animated thing that has something to do with gravity, friction and mass. It's user-interactive, which means you determine it's movement by setting controls and manipulating it with your mouse. "That is so cool!" and "That is so weird!" are the two comments most often heard when someone first visits this site.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 01:51 PM

Groundhog Day
www.groundhog.org
The official Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Site, complete with a schedule of events, the history of Groundhog day, souvenirs and "hogtivities."

Goosehead
www.goosehead.com
Girl Surfs web. Girl can't find any worthwhile sites for teenagers. Girl decides to build her own. Girl grows site into a fully incorporated company with staff, merchandising and celebrity endorsements. You go, girl.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 02:26 PM

Earth cam
www.earthcam.com
Here a cam, there a cam, everywhere a Webcam. Hundereds of cams around the world give you fascinating glimpses of people and places. See the clouds over Cameroon, the streets of Spain and the Cheeseheads of Wisconsin.
Also see: www.camcities.com

Bug Bios
www.insects.org
While you slept last night, a little beetle crawled into your earand took up residence in your brain. After it lays it's eggs and comes back out, you'll probably want to identify it. This site's many insect illustrations and photos will help you do just that.

Museum of Web Art
www.mowa.org
We live in a world of good vs. evil. MOWA is good because it demonstrates the potential of the web as a medium for artistic expression. Circus clowns, on the other hand, are evil.

The No Clown Zone
www.ihateclowns.com
One person's battle against clowns and clown related activity on the web. Why? "They scare little children, they cause neurosis in some adults, they have big, floppy feet, and they try to fit too many of their kind in a car."

World Time Zone
www.worldtimeserver.com
Whatever time it is in Mongolia right now, it's very different from the time where you are--unless you're in Mongolia as you read this. For the sake of argument, however, let's assume you're in a non-Mongolian time zone, dazed and confused over how far you've wandered from Mongolia's sunny shores.

Moviefone
www.moviefone.com
Enter your zip code and discover what's playing nere you. See clips, read reviews and find out what other moviegoers are saying. And remember, sitting too close to the screen is bad for your eyes.
Also see: www.movieweb.com

Shop with your headphones on at these Electronics sites...
www.crutchfield.com
www.800.com
www.hifi.com
www.sharperimage.com

Investorama
www.investorama.com
For active investors, this jumbo-sized directory of financial web sites will help keep your stock timer ticking. For beginners, investorama provides lots of down-to-earth, practical articles--plus primers for regular folks who can actually survive for days at a time without checking the market averages.

Godiva Chocolate
www.godiva.com
Look at Cocolate, read about chocolate, find recipes using chocolate, order chocolate. Ant not a celery stick in sight.

Common Cold
www.commoncold.org
Heat up some Chicken soup, break out the tissues, and let the good doctors behind the site educate you on the finer points of cold prevention and treatment. Ah...ahh...choo!

Tempest Tours
www.tempesttours.com
Hey, let's all pile into a van and chase after severe storms that could develop into tornadoes! And let's charge people to come along!

Indie Film
www.filmthreat.com
Take the next exit off the mainstream highway and travel the dirt roads of independant and underground film. You'll find news, reviews, feature stories, festival announcements and much more. Yes, so much more you'll forget all about chasing funnel clouds.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 03:05 PM

Love Stories
www.lovestories.com
So where does Cupid go to get ready for Valentine's day? To the nearest tavern, of course. But right after that, he heads to this site for romantic ideas, poetry and real stories from lovestruck couples. Happy Valentines Day, and watch out for incoming arrows.
Also see: www.getromantic.com
Follow Cupid to www.americangreetings.com and let your pookie-bear know how adorably cute and cuddly they are.

Religion
www.belief.net
Salvation is just a click away on this well-organized site that covers the world's major religions. Atheists and agnostics are always welcome, too!

www.WeddingWizard.com
Do you long to have uncooked rice hurled mercilessly at you by laughing, well-dressed onlookers? Then find a partner who shares your masochistic streak and plan a wedding with this interactive, browser-based application that's free to registered users.

The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
Celebrate Presidents' day by touring the Oval office, the Lincoln bedroom and the Grover Cleveland Memorial Taco Stand. See the moustache that Jimmy Carter drew on Richard Nixon's portrait. USA! USA!

Pork Rinds
www.porkrind.com
Yee-Haw! With another Texan on Pennsylvania Avenue, gourmet dining makes a Triumphant return to the Oval office. Keep a few bags on hand for holiday parties and Election recounts.

Last minute adventures
www.lastminute.com
Anyone can plan a romantic weekend months in advance. But where's the adventure in that? If you're willing to take off on a minute's notice, you can indulge your spontaneous side at discounted prices. In other words, you can have fun and be cheap at the same time. What a concept.
Also See: www.site59.com

Alternative Health News
www.altmedicine.com
Alternative health care has gone mainstream, as billions of dollars are now spent annually on complementary techniques and treatments. With breaking health news, updated bulletins, a search engine and top medical links, this award-winning resource will keep you informed. As always, consult with a board-certified witch doctor before trying anything too alternative.

MySonNick1

01-20-2003, 03:21 PM

The Daily Darwin - www.dailydarwin.com
Sure humans are responsible for building the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid. And, yes, Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi are among the countless men and women who've inspired nations. And, blah blah blah, we've flown to the moon and split the Atom. Still, one inescapable fact remains: People are Stupid.

The labor of love - www.laboroflove.com
Pregnant? Planning a Pregnancy? Hoping to someday be pregnant? Here's an extensive site to visit between bouts of morning sickness.

Planet Rider - www.planetrider.com
The planet is Earth. The rider is You. The time is Now. Find out where to find out where to go.

MP3 - WWW.MP3.COM
The groundbreaking site of downloadable digital music that shook the recording industry all night long.
Also see: www.listen.com

Anonymizer - www.anonymizer.com
The less exposure you want during your Web travels, the more you need a middleman between you and your destination sites. Think of Anonymizer, featuring both free and fee-based services, as a virtual shade you pull down to keep the peeping-Toms from peeping.
Also see: www.safeweb.com

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 08:12 AM

The Paperboy - www.thepaperboy.com
This paperboy throws thousands of Newspaperson virtual porches around the world. With such a big route, how does he find the time to do his homework and after-school chores?
Also see:www.themagazineboy.com

How stuff works - www.howstuffworks.com
This site is loaded with articles explaining how just about everything works, from car engines to ice rinks. It's all in-depth, well-reasoned and convincing. But don't believe a word of it. Stuff really works because invisible pixies sprinkle magical dust over the whole universe every single day. God bless them.

Direct FX - WWW.FOREIGN-CURRENCY.COM
Have you ever gotten off the plane in a foreign country carrying no local cash? Have you ever gotten off the plane in a foreign country wearing no pants? You can avoid the first dilemma with a quick stop at this currency exchange site. You can probably address the second problem with weekly trips to a psychotherapist.

TerraServer - www.terraserver.com
TerraServer lets you zoom in on selected geographic areasthrough the wonders of "digital orthophotoquads" and "digital raster graphics." Yeah, whatever.

Furniture Shopping - www.furnitureshoppers.com
We sit on them. We get up from them. We go to the fridge for a snack and then sit back down on them. They're pieces of furniture - and we adore them. Show how much you care by visiting this site, which also includes things you should not sit on, such as plant stands and coat racks.

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 08:29 AM

Astrology - www.astrocenter.com
Today you will meet a generous Scorpio who will give you a basket filled with dental supplies. Celebrate your good fortune with toothless strangers.
Also see: www.astronet.com

Mardi Gras Madness - www.mardigrasday.com/mardigras
Do you have to drink on Mardi Gras to have a good time? Why does it take place in New Orleans? And what's with the beads?! Visit this site for a complete education in revelry and mayhem. It's almost like being on Bourbon Street-minus the public acts of indecency.
Also see: www.mardicard.com/mardigras
www.mardigraszone.com

NBA - www.nba.com
Question: What do you call 10 sweaty men running around in shorts while millions of people watch their every move? Answer: Millionaires. "Pro basketball players" is an acceptable response, too.
Also see: www.wnba.com

Yahoo! - www.yahoo.com
This is the big kahuna of popular directory/portal sites. Surf a tidal wave of information on the vast ocean of cyberspace and discover virtual worlds beyond worlds where each click of your mouse opens another door into the infinitely expanding future; or, just get the weather and check your email.

Comedy Central - www.comedycentral.com
Another cable network with a web site...and a further blurring of the boundaries between the television and the computer screen, between fantasy and reality, between salad dressing and really runny mayonnaise.
Also see:www.laugh.com

The Oscars - www.oscar.com
You like this site! You really like this site! A billion people watch the Oscars each year. You could make it a billion-and-one.

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 08:34 AM

The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource - www.zuzu.com
Mark Twain visited this site every single day when writing Tom Sawyer. But Tom never wrote back because he was just a fictional character.

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 08:47 AM

Behind the name - www.behindthename.com
You wont get very far in life without a first name. For instance, you could never be a member of the royal family in merry olde England, because they always use their first names. It's Queen Elizabeth and King Richard and Prince William. Oh sure, you could go by a cute nickname-like Pookie or Spike-but that's no way to rule an empire, is it? Of course not. So visit this site, select a respectable name, then go to Buckingham Palace and tell them you're ready to take the throne. It's that easy.
Also see: www.babynamer.com

Islands Info - www.islandsinfo.com
No man-or woman- is an island. But both sexes are welcome to take a virtual tour of the world's islands at this specialized directory and search site. From the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, your paradise awaits. Don't forget the sunscreen.

Family Tree Maker - www.familytreemaker.com
Shake the family tree hard enough and lots of surprising stuff is sure to fall from it. Discover which ancestors are to blame for your bad temper and funny-looking earlobes. Hurray for DNA.
Also see: www.ellisislandrecords.org
www.ancestry.com

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 09:09 AM

Hungry Minds - www.hungrymindsuniversity.com
Feed your head with an online academic course or two...or three...or 17,000. Some are free, some will cost you. If you want, you can even attend class in your underwear. But make it a clean pair, okay?

It's a wrap! - www.movieclothes.com
Dress like the stars themselves by wearing their clothes. From its store in Burbank to the outer limits of cyberspace, It's a Wrap! sells production wardrobes off the sets of movies and television shows. Because even celebrities can have cooties, all previously worn garments are dry cleaned for your protection.
Also see:www.propstore.co.uk

Parent Soup - www.parentsoup.com
Contrary to it's enticing name, this site doesn't have much information on soup. What it does provide, however, is a wide range of message boards covering just about everything concerning parenthood. Links, polls and news headlines add to its broad appeal. But where's the #@*% soup?!

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 09:41 AM

St. Patrick's Day - www.st.patricks-day.com
The closest thing to an unofficial national holiday in the United States, St. Patrick's Day just keeps getting bigger. Put on some green, pour yourself a beer and kiss the virtual Blarney Stone at this link-filled site.
Also see: www.theholidayspot.com/patrick
The shamrocks grow taller and greener at www.americangreetings.com, so send a few to your favorite leprechauns.

Geek Culture - www.geekculture.com
This site makes geekdom look kinda' fun. Maybe you've been missing something-assuming you're not a geek already. If you're not sure, here's a quick way to find out: Stand up in a public place and shout , "Am I a geek?!!" You'll have your answer in seconds.

Net Lingo - www.netlingo.com
Learn to talk like a geek with this dictionary of internet terms, acronyms and emoticons:-) WYSIWYG.
Also See: WWW.WEBOPEDIA.COM

KiddoNet - www.kiddonet.com
The child in you wants to come out and play. Visit these well-designed, colorful kids' sites for a quick lesson in innocent fun.

Yahooligans! - www.yahooligans.com

MaMaMedia - www.mamamedia.com

Salon - www.salon.com
This irreverent, award-winning daily might make you swear off print magazines for good. A menu of subject-specific pages covers news, tech, health, sex and more. Other features include talk forums, spoken-word audio and regular columns by irregular columnists.

Dining/Cuisine - www.savvydiner.com
Sleepless for seafood in Seattle? Buggin' for beans in Boston? Alarmed over alliteration in Atlanta? Find Menus, maps and more for hundreds of restaurants in most major markets.
Also see: www.opentable.com
www.cuisinenet.com

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 10:47 AM

ON THE ROAD

Airports - www.quickaid.com
Airports, like the department of motor vehicles, can be confusing, intmidating and funny-smelling. This directory of worldwide airports might help to make your flying experience a little less stressful. Sorry, no complimentary bag of peanuts, though.

Camps for Adults - www.grownupcamps.com
This site dares to ask the question, "Why should kids have al the fun?" From canoeing to creative writing, there's a camp for you. Make new frends, go skinny-dipping and sleep on lumpy cots. If you're really lucky, maybe you'll get to use an outhouse.

Lonely Planet - www.lonelyplanet.com
The backpacker crowd goes digital with the same off-the- beaten-trail approach as the Lonely Planet print guides. Read what other wanderers have posted about their travels. Or upgrade your print edition with last-minute information. With a little help from your Lonely Planet friends, you'll be halfway up Mount Everest by the weekend.

Maporama - www.maporama.com
To get where you're headed, it's smart to have a map. Otherwise, how will you know when you've arrived? You could pass right by your destination, end up someplace else and never even realize it. When it's time to depart, you won't know where you've been. Get Directions or stay confused forever.

Mapblast! - www.mapblast.com

MapQuest - www.mapquest.com

Amtrak - www.amtrak.com
Do you ever dream of hopping a freight train and living the life of a hobo? Then wake up! It's dangerous, dirty and doesn't pay well. Pick an Amtrak route instead and travel with the rest of the fare-paying public. They're sometimes dangerous and dirty, too--but in a nice, respectable sort of way.
Also see: www.trains.com

Getting Away - www.escapeartist.com
Wake up, do stuff, go to sleep. Repeat every single day until death. Or escape.

Where in the world...--www.worldskip.com
Choose a continent and a country, then get access to relevent news, products and services information. If you're a buisnessperson, tourist, immigrant or student, don't skip this site. And don't skip breakfast, either. It's the most important meal of the day.

Travel - www.travelocity.com
So you've been invited by Aunt Doris and Uncle Frank to spend the holidays on their hog farm in Iowa? Hot Dang! Here's one of the best doggone places for you to check out your air, car or hotel needs. Aunt Doris probably wont hear of you staying at some fancy-schmancy hotel though, when they've got that extra room with the cot. "She's a little lumpy," says Uncle Frank, "but still serviceable." (Referring to the cot, of course.)
Also See:www.orbitz.com

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 11:39 AM

Creature Features

Neopets - www.neopets.com
A fun, colorful place where you can adopt a "Neopian" pet and be part of a fast-growing, interactive Neopian community. No dogs, cats, gerbils or other non-Neopian creatures allowed.

Horse Web - www.horseweb.com
Is a horse a horse? Of course, of course. Whatever breed you're searching for, this stable is a good starting point.
Also see: www.haynet.net

Eatbug - www.eatbug.com
Seebug. Catchbug. Cookbug. Eatbug. "Remember, insects are the food of the future, and you are paving the way for future generations."

Virtual Dog - www.virtualdog.com
When dogs are outlawed, only outlaws will have dogs. But what about virtual dogs? That's up to the legal system to decide. In the meantime, write your local elected officials and express your concerns.
Also see: www.adoptme.com

Zoo Web - www.zooweb.com
If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? If you feed an imaginary peanut to a virtual elephant, does it say thank you? Get in touch with your inner animal through links, worldwide zoo cams, screen savers, and more.

Garden Gate - http://garden-gate.prairienet.org
Gardening was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1897. Watering geraniums in Alabama on Sunday is punishable by hanging. Marigolds only attack when provoked. Oddly enough, this impressive link-oriented site mentions none of these well-documented gardening facts.
Also see: www.gardennet.com

Ufo Database - www.ufodatabase.com
Suppose you're walking alone on a deserted stretch of road one summer night in Arkansas. Suddenly--A whooshing sound, something silver above the trees and a beam of light. Next thing you know, you're lying in a farmer's field a mile away, surrounded by several agitated sheep. That's when this site will come in handy. Go ahead and snicker. The sheep know.
Also see: www.alienscapel.com

Mr.Monkey's Home Page - www.citizenlunchbox.com/monkey
If you like monkeys, raise your hand! Okay, be that way and don't raise it. But Mr. Monkey welcomes you anyway to his very own home page.
Also See: www.monkeymaddness.com

Petfinder - www.petfinder.org
www.petfinder.com
Stuffed animals can't fly around the room, curl up in front of the fireplace or hump your leg. But real ones can, and this searchable U.S./Canada database (with plans to launch overseas) is probably the best pet-adoption resource on the web.

Pets on the go - www.petsonthego.com
After finding the perfect pet, find a good hotel to accommodate you and your significant four-legged other on the road. And please remember to leave the fleas at home.

MySonNick1

01-21-2003, 02:13 PM

Sports & Stuff

ESPN- WWW.ESPN.COM
This site is to a sports fan what an open field is to a dog. You'll want to spend all day chasing after scores, news, stats and fantasy leagues. Now if you could only find someone to rub your belly...

Sports Pages - www.sportspages.com
More links here than a roomfull of sausages. Except that these are sports links - to newspaper columnists, team coverage pages, broadcast sites and web sites. Mostly professional, with some college stuff included. A seperate Baseball Link Service for baseball addicts.

Gone Fishin' - www.avid-angler.com
They couldn't stop at 100...or 200...or even 500. No, the fishing fanatics here weren't satisfied until they had compiled "The Top 1000 Fishing Sites." Oh well, they're not hurting anybody and the fish seem to like the attention.
Also See:www.worldwideangler.com

Fringe Golf - www.fringegolf.com
Wanna improve your golf scores? Start cheating. If you insist on being honest, however, slice your way to this irreverent site and maybe pick up a few tipes-like whether to chase after loud ducks with a wood or an iron.
Also See: www.golfonline.com
www.golfersindex.com

Indianapolis 500 - www.indy500.com
If cars were made of light, they'd reach speeds of 186,000 miles per second. This official Indy 500 site features cars made of steel, fiberglass and rubber. They don't go as fast as light, but they're covered in decals and have big, thick tires. Close enough!
Also see: www.nascar.com

Major League Baseball - WWW.MLB.COM
Why go to the stadium where somebody might spill beer and nachos all over you when you can spill beer and nachos all over yourself in the safety and security of your own home? Philosophical questions aside, this site has something for fans of all ages and glove sizes.
Also See:www.baseballhalloffame.org
www.baseball-reference.com

SportsJones - www.sportsjones.com
A sports site with a section on politics? You bet your pulled groin muscle. The folks here have got a jones for the stories behind the stats.

Runners Log - www.runnerslog.com
Register here and keep an ongoing record of your running or other distance activities, such as walking, biking, swimming, pogo-sticking, etcetera. You can compare yourself to others with similar profiles and log any cross-training you do. Not responsible for blisters and heel spurs.

One day hikes - www.onedayhikes.com
The next time someone tells you to "Take a hike," you'll be prepared. Easy or arduous, just a few hours or all day--these hikes come with directions, equipment recommendations and lots of helpful tips. Check with your podiatrist before climbing any mountains taller than 8 miles high.

Sports Instruction - www.mysportsguru.com
So you want to improve your tennis game, but don't know how to grip the putter? Well, first you might consider using a racket instead. Then check out this site's expert content and unique animated lessons.
Also see: www.sportsid.com

NFL - www.nfl.com
And on the seventh day, God created football.