The Painter's Eye

On this site, Dale Keiger says:"If art is in the seeing, what is it the painter sees? We asked a handful of Hopkins artists, who drew on personal experience to grapple for an answer." Here is is a very interesting article on the art of seeing. Even if painting is not your forte, reading this article will clearly enhance your comprehension on "seeing."

 

Publish Your Own Ezine

Have you ever gotten to urge to get on your own soapbox to vent your opinion and position, or, have you ever had to need to write a rebuttal or commentary? Or, perhaps, you have felt like you've been hoodwinked and had that strong urge to make justice happen -- use your pen as a sword? Better yet, have you wished you could publish your own electronic magazine? Well ... check http://www.zinecast.com/index.html and they will give you free space and the means to do your own thing.

Check out other peoples' newsletters. The ezine's zinerack contains (as of mid Sept. 2001) about 58 magazines on the Arts and Humanities, 19 in Business and finances, plus a LOT more. I haven't out the time to really check for the quality of the service or the newsletters it provides. I simply want to alert you of the service.

 

 

 

Calming Foods

On this site, Sue Gilbert, M.S., writes about Carbohydrates for calming the mind. She writes: "That's because of their effect on brain chemistry, not blood sugar. Calm people can have high blood sugar levels, and even sound-asleep folks can have high blood sugar. What induces that sense of calm from carbohydrates is their ability to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin, the one responsible for a relaxed, calm feeling. Eat complex carbs for longer lasting effects."

Calming Pink

Here is another excellent site on colors. What attracted my attention is their coverage on the effect the color PINK. Quoting from the site: "Can pink make strong men weak? Do pink jail cells create a calming effect? Is it true that football locker rooms (the ones for the visiting/opposing teams) are painted a certain shade of pink to weaken the players?"
Yes and no! Here are the facts and some opinions:

 

A Do-It-Yourself Fix for Low-Frequency Room Resonance

Yep! here is another focus on sound. Many of the rich and famous who also are music aficionados will pay big bucks to have their entertainment equipment finely tuned to the room in which it is located -- or is it: to finely tune the room to the sound equipment. Well, both should be true if your are audio purist. As this site mentions:" ... resonant condition in a room creates a sound of it's own, sort-of like blowing across the top of a bottle, which will interfere with the tunes created by your mega-buck system." They have low-buget solution. Check them out.

Telephone Area Code Finder

How many times have you gotten a message where a telephone number is given but no address is provided? This happens a lot on the Internet. I don't know why these site owners make it so difficult to really know who they are and where they are located -- the legal system is way behind on this one -- time to have full-disclosure legislation, right? The link to this site lets you do a quick area code lookup. You may also use services which does what is called reversed lookup. Here you enter the telephone number and the identity of the telephone number owner is revealed -- only if the telephone number is published. These reverse number lookup services used to be free, however, most of the services are now charging a fee -- thus they do not deserve to be mentioned here. I sincerely believe that this type of charging service that should be sponsored by advertisers to make it free for the rest of us.

 

Quack Watch

Just like it says, here is a quack-watch service. Bless these good Samaritans who are trying to alert us of the scum of the human race. A visit to this site is a must. I just love this type of site. If I were a district attorney I would take a proactive role by having a full-time person monitor the quacks. What sense is there of waiting for complaints -- that is a passive role. Perhaps a little bit of political pressure in the right place will do wonder for our society.

Convection in a box

Here is good science fair project, not to mention the research application for amateur scientists on a bear budget desiring to study how things flow and how they get disturbed. This site show a way to experiments with smoke that can be performed using a Plexiglas box and a burning stick of incense.

Another Way to Search

Here is another way to to searches on the Internet: As this site describe,"Search Engine Colossus offers you links to search engines from 157 countries around the world! Conduct exhaustive web searches. Search the web using your choice of language. Locate your new favourite search engines."

More on sound!

Here is a strange phenomena ... Quote from this site:"The 'Taos Hum' is a low-pitched sound heard in numerous places worldwide, especially in the USA, UK, and northern Europe. It is usually heard only in quiet environments, and is often described as sounding like a distant diesel engine. Since it has proven undetectable by microphones or VLF antennae, its source and nature is still a mystery."

 

 

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ULTRA-SIMPLE Homemade HOVERCRAFT

Here is a project that I though might be too complicated, or expensive, or both. This site covers the making of an excellent project, the plan allows anyone to build an ultra-simple hovercraft that can lift several adults. It is very inexpensive to build. If you feel slightly more adventuresome, you will find the plans for an enhanced version of the craft. And, I am sure that, if you build the simple hovercraft, will be "hooked" and proceed to the better plan.

 

Community Discussions

MetaFilter is a community of users that find and discuss things on the web. The topics run the gamut, and tend to run intelligent and civil -- and that is saying a lot for open discussions.

Storage Technology in the near future

The first generation of this new storage technology will permit the storage from 20 to 100 gigabytes of information. The second and third generation promises an excess of capacities up to and exceeding 1 plus Terabytes (1,000 Gigabytes). In addition Read/Write versions of disc and card are planned. Nope! this is not April Fool. This is real stuff and this new technology will have a substantial impact of our life. The same technology will wield 5 Gigabyte on wallet size card. Watch for passport and ID be replaced by this behemoth storage media.

Right Brain Library

Here is a wonderful resources for brain development. Yes, it refers to the "Right Brain Library." But it is really about the "whole brain." I started investigating sound effects on the brain and stumbled on The introduction of tuning forks into the classroom to accelerated programs. Tuning forks have been found to have calming effects. In any event, this an absolutely marvelous resource for teacher as well as all the rest of us. Warning: only visit this site if you have time -- it is a real time black hole. If you do, have a coffee carafe within easy reach.

Nonverbal Calibration

As you pay more attention to signals other people send out, you'll become more aware of how much their nonverbal communication reflects their models of the world. Matching a person's external behavior to their internal workings is called calibration. This site gives a good explanation of what this is all about and how to achieve "reading" of nonverbal signals.

"The Mining of the Mind with Smoke and Mirrors" is available online. If you can, please comment and critique this paper by sending mail to: ron@herff.com

 

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