What Fires You Up?

9/28/2002

 

Added on Sat, Sep 28, 2002 10:18 AM Reposting the links to those seven new questions started Thursday and now severely damaged with lost posts - Yes, going 'forward' and going to keep those 'alive' in some way. Hopefully, the respondants may have kept emails that are the lost posts. If that is the case, they can be copied and restored - There Once Was Ahttp://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293393/discussion/ Moderated Political Discussions With Intelligence http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293396/discussion/ New: Exciting Poets and Poetry http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293517/discussion/ Aside From Heaven or Hell, Do You Believe in Devil or Evil http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293428/discussion/ Calling for Quality http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293387/discussion/ Seeking Net's Best Reference Sites http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293400/discussion/ Profit and Revenue for Abuzz Site? http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293381/discussion/ Hope to see some of us friends *there*. Also, any regular Fired Up Folks who are interested in the link to the Fired Up blog and don't have it, please write to me and I will send it to you. Have been posting danon5 and Swimpy links and others. Great place for links to be stored for easy retrieval from the posts there! Please 'check in' if possible today. I would like to start a new thread for this question early next week and do not want to have folks MIA... Be Well, cobalt * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This post was copied from the Fired Up thread in abuzz this morning * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

BJ 9/28/2002 08:37:00 AM

 

Abuzz lost at least 30 hours' posts I believe since Thursday night and this morning in Central time. Going thru the newest seven questions I'd started to try to generate some 'quality' questions - most so far are "there", but lost a great deal. Here are danon5's suggestions on Net's Best Reference. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * danon5 Quick stats Added on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 7:47 PM Hi cobalt, Here are a few in no special order: http://www.calendarsbytat.com Calenders By Tat http://www.earthcalendar.net Earth Calender http://oldversion.com Old Version http://whatis.techtarget.com Tech Target, what is http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm Phrases http://www.logophilia.com Logophilia http://phrontistery.50megs.com/ihlstart.html Phrontistery http://babelfish.altavista.com Babelfish Free Translations.com http://www.gifford.co.uk/tribbles/other/acronym.html Acryonym http://www.healthscout.com Health Scout http://antiqbook.com/index.html Antique Book http://www.ibiscom.com Ibis http://historyinternational.com History International http://americanhistory.si.edu American History http://www.tvhistory.tv TV History http://www.timepage.org Time Page http://terraserver.com Terra Server http://antwrp.gsfe.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Nasa Page http://www.biography.com/search/index.html Biography http://www.famousnamechanges.com/html/welcome.htm Famous Name Changes http://www.davidrumsey.com David Rumsey http://www.iqtest.com IQ Test http://www.factmonster.com Fact Monster My fav tech site has already been listed - HowStuffWorks!! They have a forum section also so you can interact with people about tech stuff. Good question!! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

BJ 9/28/2002 07:14:00 AM

9/27/2002

 

From Swimpy: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Here are some of my favs: The Dictionary of Difficult Words http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/ Encyclopedia Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm Space.com http://www.space.com/news/ How to cuss in just about any languagehttp://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/stat.html Word Detective http://www.word-detective.com/ How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Emoticons http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.cfm Search Public Records http://www.searchsystems.net/ National Archives http://www.archives.gov/ New York Public Library Collection http://digital.nypl.org/ And the one I use the most?http://www.ntl.matrix.com.br/pfilho/html/main_index/index.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Thanks, Swimpy!

BJ 9/27/2002 01:02:00 PM

 

This article in the Tourbus by Bob Rankin and Pat Crispen reminded me of a chance visit my youngest son and I made just about 3 years ago when we went "Out East" for a week. We stayed in Roslyn, the train stop between D.C. and Arlington, and walked the 3 more blocks it took to reach our inexpensive hotel. One day, we walked past this museum, and insisted on going inside. I was amazed, utterly amazed! Here is the same experience I had, told from a subscription newsletter I received this week: Have you ever heard of the "Newseum," the interactive museum of news? They closed their doors a couple months ago. Apparently they're picking up shop and moving from Arlington, Virginia, to the corner of Sixth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. One of the coolest parts of the old Newseum was this *HUGE* purple room they had that truly defined the term "information overload." Along the base of one of the walls you could see the front pages of over 100 newspapers from around the world. Above that was a giant news ticker, the kind you saw in old movies of New York's Times Square. And topping it all off was a bank of projection televisions showing you live newscasts from around the globe. In fact, I found a couple old pictures of this room online at http://www.pjoy.fi/galleria/washington99-newseum1.jpg and http://www.sunrisesystems.com/newseum2.jpg . Cool, huh? Even though the Newseum has gone into hibernation, I am happy to announce that you can still find the bottom portion of that wall -- the front pages of over 100 different newspapers -- on the Newseum's "Today's Front Pages" page at http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ . [Let's see how many times I can say the word "page" in the next sentence.] The Newseum's Today's Front Pages page lets you view the current front pages of 116 newspapers from 21 different countries ... page page page. Don't let the fact that this page says it is "currently under construction" fool you. Despite the warning, Today's Front Pages works wonderfully. Click on the continent or region in which you are interested and up pops a window showing the front pages available for that particular continent or region. Move your mouse over the name of a particular newspaper (and wait a few seconds) and a small, thumbnail version of that newspaper's front page will appear on the right side of the pop-up window. Click on that newspaper's name, and up pops a new window showing that newspaper's front page in JPEG format. If you want to see that front page even closer and you have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer, click on the PDF link. I apologize if this sounds confusing. It really isn't. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that the Today's Front Pages page can be a little slow at times. For example, it took 20 seconds to load the PDF of the front page of the Asian Wall Street Journal over my cable modem. :( Still, Today's Front Pages is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in keeping up with current events or seeing how different newspapers, countries, or even regions cover a particular news story.

BJ 9/27/2002 12:57:00 PM

 

Continuing along, with "Seeking the Best of the Net Reference Links" from abuzz, this week These are from the Tourbus by Bob Rankin and Pat Crispin, links to follow: "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. 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.onlineconv ersion.com http://www.acronymsearch .com "

BJ 9/27/2002 12:48:00 PM

9/24/2002

 

Beginning of link posts: about a dozen a day will be posted within this blog for easy "storage" and "retrieval" by any of the Fired Up Friends who may be interested: http://stats.userland.com/groups/radio1/report.html Radioland Community Server http://www.boingboing.net/ boing boing a directory of wonderful things http://www.popculturejunkmail.com/Alt-log.htm Alt-log http://www.weblogs.com/top100.html weblogs.com top 100 blogs http://newhome.weblogs.com/historyOfWeblogs David Winer's History of Weblogs http://www.disinfo.com/ disinformation A good political blog with a variety of articles and links http://www.digittante.com/index.shtml digittante http://zefrank.com/ ze's page (funny funny stuff - animations, games, ads, graphic art games, humor, stand-up routines, etc. all by this one guy) http://www.statewatch.org/news/2002/aug/05datafd1.htm Statewatch.org This site gives much information on global attempts to censor and surveillance the Internet. There are serious issues discussed herein, especially for European plans. There are about 10 good media links with this article for supporting stories.

BJ 9/24/2002 01:53:00 PM

9/22/2002

 

Sent from The Charleston Gazette. Read the complete story online at http://www.wvgazette.com/display_story.php3?sid=200209213 Bush's war plans are a cover-up, Byrd says by Paul J. Nyden Saturday September 21, 2002; 12:09 AM Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq are a conscious effort to distract public attention from growing problems at home.

BJ 9/22/2002 03:57:00 PM

 

This is from Roger Tatoud, an editorialist for many global papers. A blog within blogspot is Caliban's Log Here is a recent post, just the first few paragraphs. I mostly read him in the Blue Ear Forum, a global journalism community. I get it by daily email, but it is also accessible by online site as linked. Most enlightening as to what thinking people around the world outside of the US think of 'news events' or is that 'actualities'? Thursday, September 19, 2002 What we think of America Some days ago I posted a review of the issue 77 of GRANTA magazine collecting 24 essays from writers around the world on the subject of America. Here is my vision of America. It’s a great opportunity for me to put in one article most of what is spread in several of my posts involving the US of A. I hope it would make my posting clearer, put them back into context and give them the ground needed for their understanding.

BJ 9/22/2002 08:51:00 AM

 

Jespah, glad you liked them! You should see the ones I left out of that list I included in the Aaron-editor article! I have thought about taking many more of them out and 'storing' them here in this blog as the fastest way to link to some. Would just take about a few hours, ha ha! On a side note, did you see that story about a woman in Mishawaka Indiana who beat her daughter in the car, caught on videotape at a Kohl's Department store? That's where I came from and THEN this am I find by the newspaper that the mother is also wanted by the cops where I NOW live! How weird is that! She's a "Traveler" as in g-y-p-s-y so of course this is going to be big news for a while. At least it will take attention from the little "war" issue also at hand...... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/22/2002 08:16:00 AM

 

Re the 9/16 post - golly I haven't heard of most of those Abuzz interactions. Funky!

Jespah 9/22/2002 05:20:00 AM