This And That
WEDNESDAY
2008-02-13 13:07Aspazia's Web Adventures
ARE YOU FEELING ADVENTUROUS?
www links for your surfing entertainment
including the humorous, informational,
interesting, unusual, and virtual tours.
Check them out, and have a blast!!
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There's a Readers' Submissions Page,
where we place the best donated links.
Be prepared to be
educated, entertained, astounded, and even amazed!!
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THIS WEEK'S BONUS LINKS
POSTAL EXPERIMENTS
CALENDARS THROUGH THE AGES
MOVIES OF THE 1980's
SCIENCE HOBBYIST
JOSEPH WU'S ORIGAMI PAGE
Check them out here:
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WEDNESDAY'S ADVENTURES
February 13
MATCHBOOK MUSEUM
Now associated more with serious illness than glamor,
smoking was once as ubiquitous and socially acceptable
as drinking a glass of wine. As the number
of smokers has steadily decreased, so has the prevalence
of the artful smoking paraphernalia that
once littered our country's bars and restaurants.
Vintage matchbooks are the most collectable and appreciated
remnants of tobacco's heyday. Much more than a
smoking accessory, these matchbook covers offer us a glimpse
into the American culture they once lit up
www.lileks.com/match/index.html
SPIRIT SEARCHERS
If you're troubled by a haunting, who you gonna call?
Try the Spiritcatchers at Homestead.com,
real ghost hunters, not psychics, nor mediums, but a
husband-wife team of paranormal investigators
who take a scientific approach to investigating
paranormal activity through documentation, research
and state of the art electronic equipment. With a
sound archive of the paranormal, a photo gallery
of images caught by the investigators
and clients, the team's "Spirit Searcher Diary,"
and Tools, Instruction and Links to help you conduct
your own experiments and investigations.
spiritsearchers.homestead.com/main.html
PAW SENSE
Ever gone to the kitchen for a snack and returned
to find that your computer had crashed or
had newly damaged files?
Could your cat be the culprit?
www.bitboost.com/pawsense/index.html
LUCIFEROUS LOGOLEPSY
The Luciferous Logolepsy website
(which roughly translates into 'an illuminated obsession with words'),
seeks to drag roughly 9000 obscure English words
into 'the light of day' for all of us
to learn and enjoy.
The archive of arcane words is listed alphabetically,
which makes the many entries much easier to find
than to use in a sentence.
www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/
FAIRY TALE BRIEFS
This wonderfully eccentric website is virtual proof
that nothing is sacred on the World Wide Web,
not even something as seemingly innocent as childhood fairy-tales.
Entitled FairyTaleBriefs.Com, the creative site
was inspired by the "Fractured Fairy-Tales"
and vintage lingerie commercials often seen
during the golden years of television.
Despite their revealing name, these fables are
pure and wholesome, abiding by the editors
strict "Sparkling Clean Policy".
www.fairytalebriefs.com/
ESQUIRE COVER GALLERY
More than eight hundred and fifty-seven issues listed,
more than 857 covers to browse through.
If you've got the time, begin at the beginning
(Autumn 1933)
and click your way through to the present.
Very interesting to see how the pages have changed
over the years!!
www.esquire.com/cover-detail?year=1933&month=10#img
Hollywood writers to end strike -
news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/7242139.stm
First Baby Boomer Receives Social Security; the End is Nigh -
ed note: applying for mine next month
Overcharging Batteries Can Lead to Fire -
apnews.myway.com/article/20080212/D8UP1Q2G2.html
Strike Ends as Writers, Producers Agree to Share Internet Pie -
www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/61652.html
THIS N THAT
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