07-25-2003, 07:20 PM
[size 2]Heres some interesting websites to visit - i get these each week in an e-mail . . .enjoy!
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Everything About Everywhere
Master the world of statistics at Nationmaster.com, quickly delivering
statistics of all kinds about the nations of the world, with graphs
comparing nations by more than 500 statistics. Those with a need to know
the fastest-growing, richest, most militaristic, most murderous, most taxed
(the residents of the Vatican City) will find it fast here.
Categories are vast, from most mobile to most murderous, womanliest to
wettest, plus more conventional categories like energy, education, religion
and sports. Find out how many cars, refugees, Olympic medals or tourists a
nation has, or how much corruption, divorce or rain fall. View profiles of
individual countries with their maps and flags, and generate a graph that
precisely meets your needs just by clicking on a country, the comparison
you wish to make, the category, and then on Generate Graph.
[url "http://www.nationmaster.com/"]http://www.nationmaster.com/[/url]
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Letters of Rejection
No one enjoys rejection, but there's comfort in knowing that being passed
over is a universal experience. We've all been there. Letters of Rejection
posts real letters of rejection from companies and colleges, stored in an
archive. If misery loves company, there's plenty of both here. Visitors can
submit rejection letters they're received.
At least prospective employers, unlike last week's date who you thought was
your next Mr. or Ms. Right, are usually courteous about rejecting you.
Sorted by company, from the gentle if puzzling rejection from Aardvark
Music, "Unfortunately, although we like your material we don't think it is
going to fit in," to this supportive Big No from Raytheon: "Although you
were not selected for this position, we appreciate your desire to expand
your career." With links for the rejected, like Monster Jobs and Resume
Assistance, and job market news stories.
[url "http://www.lettersofrejection.com/"]http://www.lettersofrejection.com/[/url]
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Time Tales
Three hundred photos found at flea markets, thrift shops or scooped up from
streets and alleys, lost from bags or pockets, or dug from the dark corner
of a cabinet in an abandoned house are collected at Time Tales.com.
The home for lost photos, their mysteries still intact, is organized by
time period, from pre-1930s to the present, and includes such gems as a
trio of rowers on a lake found in a second-hand store in Germany, and a man
getting a shave in a Turkish barber shop. Visitors can order and send their
favorite time tale photo as an e-card, from a couple posing with a CHP
cruiser to old-time wedding portraits and chubby toddlers. Photos are
submitted and posted only with a note telling where they were found and
when, by whom, and any clues to the mystery of their subject matter.
[url "http://www.timetales.com/"]http://www.timetales.com/[/url]
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SHORT TAKES
Tom Lehrer's Elements
Music satirist and Harvard professor Tom Lehrer redefined pop American
music satire with his dark wit in the 1950s. At Quigmans.com, sing along to
a Flash animation tribute to Lehrer's 1955 "The Elements," a narration of
the chemical periodic table of the elements.
[url "http://www.quigmans.com/elements.swf"]http://www.quigmans.com/elements.swf[/url]
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Rate This Catch
Rate the trout, salmon, bass and other fish caught on lures and on camera
at Panther-Martin.com, where visitors view the catch-of-the-day and vote on
whether it qualifies as "Throw 'Em Back" or "It's a Keeper," using a scale
of 1 to 10. Then order the very Panther-Martin lure that enticed the fish
to bite.
[url "http://www.panther-martin.com/trophy_fish/"]http://www.panther-martin.com/trophy_fish/[/url]
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Stop Tele-Marketers
On June 27, the federal government launched the National Do Not Call
Registry, where for free you can register up to three telephone numbers,
making it illegal for most tele-marketers to call your registered numbers
for up to five years. Register by August 31 to make those annoying calls
cease starting October 1.
http://www.donotcall.gov/
History of Electronic Music
The development from 1870 to the present of electronic musical instruments,
those that synthesize sound from an electronic source, is presented at 120
Years of Electronic Music. The history of electronic music starts in the
mid-19th century with the work of a German physicist who built an
instrument to electronically analyze combinations of tones, and continues
through experiments like the tone wheel, the vacuum tube, integrated
circuitry and digital formats.
Music buffs will discover cool trivia like this: Inventor Raymond Kurzweil,
who had developed a revolutionary reading machine for the blind that
scanned written materials and read them aloud in a synthesized voice, was
challenged by customer Stevie Wonder to create an electronic instrument
that blended the richness of acoustic sound with the control and sound
modification of electronics. The result: the first ROM-based sampling
keyboard to successfully reproduce the full complexity of acoustic
instrument sounds.
[url "http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/"]http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/[/url]
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Deep Impact
Comets carry fascinating and scientifically valuable info deep in their
interiors, so the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is literally taking a shot at a
comet to study its insides by excavating a deep crater into its surface. At
Deep Impact, learn details of the science behind comet explorations and the
remarkable technology, like the launch vehicle, high resolution instruments
and targeting sensors.
The Deep Impact mission launches in December 2004 from Kennedy Space
Center. The Gallery offers animations of the coming comet encounter and
early spacecraft models. Educational activities are provided for kids of
all ages, from grades 2 through 12, and for adult learners. Visit the
Discovery Zone for fun ways to learn about comets and space exploration,
from comet brain twisters to a simulated chance to fulfill one of the
mission's real challenges.
[url "http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/"]http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/[/url]
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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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Yum!
For good old-fashioned comfort food, visit Yum! with recipes, food articles
and restaurant and cookbook reviews. Featured recipe collections include
"White Trash Recipes" for such goodies as 7-Up Cake, Beanie Weanies and
Chicken-Fried Steak. Articles offer the off-beat, too, like 125 movies
about food, soft, delicious meals to help you through dental work, and
surefire recipes for solace.
Reviews range from restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area to Krispy
Kreme Donuts. Recipes range from "fabulously moist" Chocolate Kahlua Cake
to quick and easy camping cuisine. Cookbooks, cooking magazines and other
books on food are also reviewed, and the Store offers Yum items from
tee-shirts to panties, aprons to lunch boxes. Sign up for the Yum
e-newsletter to get updates on what's new on the site, free recipes,
cooking tips and more.
http://www.yumfood.net/
World Subways
Travel all the world's cities like a native with help from The Subway Page,
offering details of the world's subways and other modes of urban transit,
like city subway maps, routes and transit guides from Amsterdam to Zurich.
Also included are metro area trams, buses and light rail, like the Bangkok
elevated road system.
The site also links to books and bibliographies about urban transport,
images relating to subways and urban transit, and museums and clubs, like
the National Railway Historical Society and the London Transport Society.
View historical displays and images of subway-related items, like a 1940s
Paris subway map, and subway art from the Soviet Union to New York.
[url "http://www.reed.edu/%7Ereyn/transport.html#maps"]http://www.reed.edu/%7Ereyn/transport.html#maps[/url]
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Mirella Ricciardi
At Mirella Ricciardi.com, meet Ricciardi, a world-renown travel
photographer whose first book, "Vanishing Africa," was published in 1971
and became an international bestseller. She has since published four other
photographic books.
African Visions records her 30-year journey through Africa in a diary of
powerful tribal views in the African bush and intimate snapshots of her
family. Like a harmless hunter, Ricciardi traveled the continent on foot,
in canoes, on local buses, in light aircraft, in hot air balloons and on
the backs of camels and elephants. View her work on display at world sites
like the Brazilian Embassy gallery, hosting her "Hidden Amazon" photos, and
a Paris gallery showing the "Vanishing Africa" series. Copies of prints
can be ordered online at the site.
[url "http://www.mirellaricciardi.com/"]http://www.mirellaricciardi.com/[/url][/size]
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Everything About Everywhere
Master the world of statistics at Nationmaster.com, quickly delivering
statistics of all kinds about the nations of the world, with graphs
comparing nations by more than 500 statistics. Those with a need to know
the fastest-growing, richest, most militaristic, most murderous, most taxed
(the residents of the Vatican City) will find it fast here.
Categories are vast, from most mobile to most murderous, womanliest to
wettest, plus more conventional categories like energy, education, religion
and sports. Find out how many cars, refugees, Olympic medals or tourists a
nation has, or how much corruption, divorce or rain fall. View profiles of
individual countries with their maps and flags, and generate a graph that
precisely meets your needs just by clicking on a country, the comparison
you wish to make, the category, and then on Generate Graph.
[url "http://www.nationmaster.com/"]http://www.nationmaster.com/[/url]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Letters of Rejection
No one enjoys rejection, but there's comfort in knowing that being passed
over is a universal experience. We've all been there. Letters of Rejection
posts real letters of rejection from companies and colleges, stored in an
archive. If misery loves company, there's plenty of both here. Visitors can
submit rejection letters they're received.
At least prospective employers, unlike last week's date who you thought was
your next Mr. or Ms. Right, are usually courteous about rejecting you.
Sorted by company, from the gentle if puzzling rejection from Aardvark
Music, "Unfortunately, although we like your material we don't think it is
going to fit in," to this supportive Big No from Raytheon: "Although you
were not selected for this position, we appreciate your desire to expand
your career." With links for the rejected, like Monster Jobs and Resume
Assistance, and job market news stories.
[url "http://www.lettersofrejection.com/"]http://www.lettersofrejection.com/[/url]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Time Tales
Three hundred photos found at flea markets, thrift shops or scooped up from
streets and alleys, lost from bags or pockets, or dug from the dark corner
of a cabinet in an abandoned house are collected at Time Tales.com.
The home for lost photos, their mysteries still intact, is organized by
time period, from pre-1930s to the present, and includes such gems as a
trio of rowers on a lake found in a second-hand store in Germany, and a man
getting a shave in a Turkish barber shop. Visitors can order and send their
favorite time tale photo as an e-card, from a couple posing with a CHP
cruiser to old-time wedding portraits and chubby toddlers. Photos are
submitted and posted only with a note telling where they were found and
when, by whom, and any clues to the mystery of their subject matter.
[url "http://www.timetales.com/"]http://www.timetales.com/[/url]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
SHORT TAKES
Tom Lehrer's Elements
Music satirist and Harvard professor Tom Lehrer redefined pop American
music satire with his dark wit in the 1950s. At Quigmans.com, sing along to
a Flash animation tribute to Lehrer's 1955 "The Elements," a narration of
the chemical periodic table of the elements.
[url "http://www.quigmans.com/elements.swf"]http://www.quigmans.com/elements.swf[/url]
<><><><>
Rate This Catch
Rate the trout, salmon, bass and other fish caught on lures and on camera
at Panther-Martin.com, where visitors view the catch-of-the-day and vote on
whether it qualifies as "Throw 'Em Back" or "It's a Keeper," using a scale
of 1 to 10. Then order the very Panther-Martin lure that enticed the fish
to bite.
[url "http://www.panther-martin.com/trophy_fish/"]http://www.panther-martin.com/trophy_fish/[/url]
<><><><>
Stop Tele-Marketers
On June 27, the federal government launched the National Do Not Call
Registry, where for free you can register up to three telephone numbers,
making it illegal for most tele-marketers to call your registered numbers
for up to five years. Register by August 31 to make those annoying calls
cease starting October 1.
http://www.donotcall.gov/
History of Electronic Music
The development from 1870 to the present of electronic musical instruments,
those that synthesize sound from an electronic source, is presented at 120
Years of Electronic Music. The history of electronic music starts in the
mid-19th century with the work of a German physicist who built an
instrument to electronically analyze combinations of tones, and continues
through experiments like the tone wheel, the vacuum tube, integrated
circuitry and digital formats.
Music buffs will discover cool trivia like this: Inventor Raymond Kurzweil,
who had developed a revolutionary reading machine for the blind that
scanned written materials and read them aloud in a synthesized voice, was
challenged by customer Stevie Wonder to create an electronic instrument
that blended the richness of acoustic sound with the control and sound
modification of electronics. The result: the first ROM-based sampling
keyboard to successfully reproduce the full complexity of acoustic
instrument sounds.
[url "http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/"]http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/[/url]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Deep Impact
Comets carry fascinating and scientifically valuable info deep in their
interiors, so the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is literally taking a shot at a
comet to study its insides by excavating a deep crater into its surface. At
Deep Impact, learn details of the science behind comet explorations and the
remarkable technology, like the launch vehicle, high resolution instruments
and targeting sensors.
The Deep Impact mission launches in December 2004 from Kennedy Space
Center. The Gallery offers animations of the coming comet encounter and
early spacecraft models. Educational activities are provided for kids of
all ages, from grades 2 through 12, and for adult learners. Visit the
Discovery Zone for fun ways to learn about comets and space exploration,
from comet brain twisters to a simulated chance to fulfill one of the
mission's real challenges.
[url "http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/"]http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/[/url]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
A complete archive of previous Cool Tricks can be viewed at
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/archives.htm
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Yum!
For good old-fashioned comfort food, visit Yum! with recipes, food articles
and restaurant and cookbook reviews. Featured recipe collections include
"White Trash Recipes" for such goodies as 7-Up Cake, Beanie Weanies and
Chicken-Fried Steak. Articles offer the off-beat, too, like 125 movies
about food, soft, delicious meals to help you through dental work, and
surefire recipes for solace.
Reviews range from restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area to Krispy
Kreme Donuts. Recipes range from "fabulously moist" Chocolate Kahlua Cake
to quick and easy camping cuisine. Cookbooks, cooking magazines and other
books on food are also reviewed, and the Store offers Yum items from
tee-shirts to panties, aprons to lunch boxes. Sign up for the Yum
e-newsletter to get updates on what's new on the site, free recipes,
cooking tips and more.
http://www.yumfood.net/
World Subways
Travel all the world's cities like a native with help from The Subway Page,
offering details of the world's subways and other modes of urban transit,
like city subway maps, routes and transit guides from Amsterdam to Zurich.
Also included are metro area trams, buses and light rail, like the Bangkok
elevated road system.
The site also links to books and bibliographies about urban transport,
images relating to subways and urban transit, and museums and clubs, like
the National Railway Historical Society and the London Transport Society.
View historical displays and images of subway-related items, like a 1940s
Paris subway map, and subway art from the Soviet Union to New York.
[url "http://www.reed.edu/%7Ereyn/transport.html#maps"]http://www.reed.edu/%7Ereyn/transport.html#maps[/url]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Mirella Ricciardi
At Mirella Ricciardi.com, meet Ricciardi, a world-renown travel
photographer whose first book, "Vanishing Africa," was published in 1971
and became an international bestseller. She has since published four other
photographic books.
African Visions records her 30-year journey through Africa in a diary of
powerful tribal views in the African bush and intimate snapshots of her
family. Like a harmless hunter, Ricciardi traveled the continent on foot,
in canoes, on local buses, in light aircraft, in hot air balloons and on
the backs of camels and elephants. View her work on display at world sites
like the Brazilian Embassy gallery, hosting her "Hidden Amazon" photos, and
a Paris gallery showing the "Vanishing Africa" series. Copies of prints
can be ordered online at the site.
[url "http://www.mirellaricciardi.com/"]http://www.mirellaricciardi.com/[/url][/size]
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