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Welcome to the 425th issue of the Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter
offering weekly insights into new, cool, useful, fun, unusual and
interesting sites on the Internet.

- Based on a True Story
- The Art of Books
- Baseball Reference
- Short Takes
- The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
- The Onion: Celebrating 10 Years Online
- And on the Eighth Day, They Danced
- The Sleep Foundation
- Zak Smith's Illustrations for Gravity's Rainbow
- Subscribers' Sites

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Based on a True Story

Many of the films made these days are based on or inspired by true stories
and real-life events. Movie buffs will love this cool website, which
allows you to peek behind the script and meet the real people whose lives
became the foundation for a Hollywood film.

Meet the real people behind the "reel stories" such as "Erin Brockovich",
"Invincible", "Frida", "Goodfellas", "Schindler's List" and other powerful
movies. Browse alphabetically by movie title, click on a movie to meet the
real person, and then read an interview about their life experience and its
correspondence to the film that was made in their honor.

http://www.chasingthefrog.com/
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The Art of Books

You can now safely judge a book by its cover, thanks to this extensive
digital collection of decorative bindings from the 19th and early 20th
Centuries. "Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books"
(PBO), is a collection that demonstrates how book artwork can be a window
through which we can view a specific period of American history and culture.

PBO is a cooperative project between the libraries at the University of
Alabama and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and boasts an amazing
amount of material on its site including over 4,500 books and upwards of
10,000 original images. Browse the collection of bindings, read through
some of the literary and historical essays, and click on the "About PBO"
section to learn more about the spirit behind "The Art of Books" project.

http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/
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Baseball Reference

Baseball fever is in full swing at the moment, so it is time for both
hardcore and "October-only" fans alike to brush up on their knowledge of
the game. BaseballReference.Com is chock-full of stats on every team,
player, and manager in the Major Leagues.

In addition to all of the statistics, the Baseball Reference site also has
other fun features including a Baseball Travel Guide with state-by-state
baseball attractions, league standings for every game played in the last
century, and a collaborative encyclopedia of America's favorite
pastime. Be sure to check out the section of the site called "Leaders",
which lists the players with the top stats in every imaginable area of the
game from RBI's to Strikeouts.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/
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SHORT TAKES

Delocator

Fight back against big business gentrification and help promote local,
independent businesses in your city with the help of Delocator.Net. Simply
enter the name and location of your favorite indy café, bookstore, or movie
theater, and Delocator will permanently plot it on its virtual map for
others to discover.

http://www.delocator.net/

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The Parade of Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes

Star Wars buffs will get a laugh out of this site, which is essentially a
photo gallery of fans wearing embarrassing Star Wars costumes. Scroll the
gallery of "unfortunate photos", including a shot of Jedi in "lavender
robes", all of which are accompanied by hilarious comments.

http://www.capnwacky.com/sw/sw01.html

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A History of Fly Fishing

Created by fishing buff Dr. Andrew N. Herd, FlyFishingHistory.Com is a
comprehensive, free online guide to fly-fishing. Visitors will learn about
the two thousand-year history of fly-fishing, track its evolution over the
centuries, and read arcane articles from all over the world about this
elegant sport.

http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/contents.htm
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The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers

When Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal, they
quickly became the most famous journalists in America. This online
exhibition, entitled "The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers", reveals
some of the journalists' materials from their legendary investigation that
began with a "third-rate" burglary and ended with the resignation of the
President of the United States.

While the online exhibition does not contain all of the information from
the physical exhibit at the University of Texas-Austin, it is still a
fascinating experience. Visitors will find notes, tapes, memos, drafts of
articles, tape recordings, source interviews and other research materials
from Woodward and Bernstein's original investigation of Watergate, which
led to the downfall of a president, and became the subject of two books as
well as the Academy Award-winning film "All the President's Men".

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/woodstein/
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The Onion: Celebrating 10 Years Online

The nation's funniest newspaper, the satirical weekly known as "The Onion",
celebrates its tenth anniversary online! Regular readers and anyone who
enjoys a bit of extreme irony will enjoy this retrospective, which shows
highlights from the past decade of TheOnion.Com.

Click on each year along the Onion's virtual timeline to find top stories,
and then check out the "Year in Photos" and selected "Opinions"
pieces. Highlights include "Independent Film Made By Dependant 27-year
Old" (2000), "Christ Returns to NBA" (1996), and "Fritolaysia Cuts Off
Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan" (2005). Funny stuff.

http://www.theonion.com/content/index/4227/1
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And on the Eighth Day, They Danced

Every January the East Campus Dorm at M.I.T. holds a "Bad Ideas
Competition", which culminates in a celebratory "Bad Ideas Ball". This
website is a blow-by-blow account of what happens when some of the smartest
students in the country focus their efforts on building a Disco Dance Floor
from their own dorm room.

Read about the inspiration behind this zany dorm room endeavor, the
ingenious design, and the exhausting construction of the incredible First
East Disco Dance Floor. View photos and video of the project during
construction and upon completion, read a detailed description of how it was
assembled, and meet the fun-loving, industrious students behind this
colorful dance floor.

http://web.mit.edu/storborg/ddf/index.html

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The Sleep Foundation

Most of us will spend about a third of our lives sleeping, so it is crucial
to our minds and bodies that it is time well spent. This interesting
non-profit site, created by The Sleep Foundation, has a ton of useful
information that will help you to get a good night's rest.

Whether you suffer from one of myriad sleeping disorders, are a "drowsy
driver", or just want to maximize your shut-eye, you are sure to find the
answers to your nocturnal problem at this website. Check out the
"Sleeptionary" (a guide to sleep issues and disorders), read polls about
the status of sleep in America, and get tips from the Doze family.

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/
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Zak Smith's Illustrations for Gravity's Rainbow

It is no small task to attempt to illustrate each page of Pynchon's
"Gravity's Rainbow", but that is exactly what ambitious artist Zak Smith
has done. This site, presented by TheModernWord.Com, contains Smith's
entire work as well as critical essays about his significant artistic endeavor.

Scroll through all four digital books of the Illustration Index, where
Smith used a mixture of mediums including acrylic painting, drawing,
experimental photographic processes, and other methods to capture the
essence of each page of Pynchon's famous work. Then read the introductory
essays, and click on the "Artists Gallery" to learn more about Zak Smith
and his art.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/title.htm
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SUBSCRIBERS' SITES - Many of our subscribers have fascinating on-line
projects. This weekly section will introduce you to some of these sites.
Please let me know about your project so that I might mention it in this
section. Write me at ctt@net-market.com

~Save The Girls
http://www.savethegirls.org/

~ Via Maria Designs
http://home.earthlink.net/~unstyled101/

~Senior Citizens
http://www.sticksite.com/oldfolks.htm

~Keith England
http://www.keithengland.com/

~Renae's Room
http://www.renaesroom.com/

~Diamond Willow
http://www.sticksite.com/


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