A sporadically promulgated annotated listing of arguably worthwhile, recently published online reading, new or revised websites of potential utility or ostensible interest, and other internet-accessible experiences that, were it not for the casually collected, cavalierly collated, & capriciously collocated components comprising these posts, could easily be overlooked - which would be, in some cases, a shame
Two consecutive posts dedicated to cyber-bookmarks is atypical for the Heck of a Guy blog, but I’ve been accumulating these items faster than I’ve been publishing so I’m trying to eliminate the backlog lest some of these get lost as time passes.
Gorgeous Gallery
Liquid Sculpture is a gallery of fascinating shots like the above graphic.
What more is there to say?
It’s On The Internet So It Has To Be True
Myth-information lives By Chris Emery.
Baltimore Sun
Published August 31, 2007
This Baltimore Sun article holds a special appeal for me because, for several years, my contribution to humanity was packaged in emails I sent debunking whatever hoax-perpetuating email I had received from a colleague, an employee, my insurance agent, the receptionist of my doctor, etc. That my responses, which inevitably included a link to the pertinent page of the Urban Legends site, rarely contained phrases such as “Only an blithering buffoon completely oblivious to what we like to call real life would not only believe that Bill Gates has to pay people to use email but also contaminate the email of other with such an asinine idea” was my other contribution to humanity.
It’s an engaging if not ground-breaking article on the Internet as Petri Dish for hoaxes.
On The Other Hand, The Internet Is A Handy Place To Find The Sounds Of History
The goal of the Free Information Society is simply to “archive the greatest speeches in recorded history.”
They’ve made a good start. Check out this handful of whimsically selected examples from their Historical Sounds where these and many other can be downloaded freely:
Spiro Agnew - Hippies
Vladimir Lenin - 1918 Speech
P.T. Barnum - 1890 Commercial
Samuel Gompers - On War
Lou Gehrig - Luckiest Man
Mahatma Gandhi - Soldier of Peace
Robert Frost - Fire & Ice
Thomas Edison - Electricity and Progress
Apollo 13 - Houston We Have a Problem
Winston Churchill - Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
5 responses so far ↓
1 ben // Sep 4, 2007 at 11:45 pm
by “DrHGuy” wouldnt correcting another persons email via a public newspaper be cruel and unsual
2 Mary // Sep 5, 2007 at 5:41 am
Not if the email title starts with “FW” or “FWD”, Ben, - then the correction is not only permissible, it is fun.
3 ben // Sep 6, 2007 at 5:42 pm
cant get myth-information lives to work either
4 DrHGuy // Sep 6, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Well, here’s what I learned. If one tries to link to the “one-page” format of a two-page article, the software goes wacky and automatically inserts ones own url into the link. Who knew? (Not me, obviously).
Anyway, the link is working now, and connects to the first page of the article.
Thanks for letting me know.
5 Helen // Sep 8, 2007 at 2:43 am
I have a darling old relative who is constantly sending me emails of crap from the internet. Exploding mobile phones, syringes in cinemas, everything you can imagine. Each and every time I hit reply and send him a reply email with a link to the relative page in Snopes, which I have taken the trouble to find, together with an entreaty to please, please, check THIS SITE first.
They’re still coming, three years later.