Computer Bits June 2002 - passions on the Web

Guess what the June column covers.

Jerome's soft drink can collection
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7670/

Eric Harshbarger's LEGO® website
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/

Other LEGO® pages
http://www.google.com/search?as_rq=www.ericharshbarger.org%2Flego%2F

LEGO® builders
http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Lego/Builders/

Silly Putty pages
http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Collecting/Toys/Silly_Putty/

More Silly Putty
http://vern.com/putty/creations/

Castles of the World - Jaime Fernandez Jr & al.
http://www.castles.org/

Phil and Becky Vacara's photographs of medieval sites
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/magor/photographs_of_medieval_sites.htm

Hamish Reid's California Driving - a Survival Guide
http://www.caldrive.com/

Someone LOVES his Miata
http://www.pacificsites.net/~hakuna/miata.html

Someone likes to collect um. unusual names
http://mabear.freeservers.com/index.html

Art Makosinski's passion for Henry Burr
http://www.me.uvic.ca/~art/hb.html

Jason Scott has a passion for text files
http://www.textfiles.com/

Who would buy that?
http://www.whowouldbuythat.com/

Michael Thyen collects 555 numbers from movies, television and radio
http://home.earthlink.net/~mthyen/

Rob Cockerham cares about "how much is inside?"
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/howmuchinside.html

Sarah's origami
http://sarah.fredart.com/sarahs.html

Clay Randall's money origami
http://www.umva.com/~clay/money/

a collection of links to folks with a passion for antique radios
http://www.antiqueradio.com/radiolinks.html

The DeadLetter Office - write your own "farewell" letter
http://www.thedeadletter.com/read.html

This to That - glue advice and more
http://www.thistothat.com/

Enrico Tedeschi has a passion for old radios
http://www.etedeschi.ndirect.co.uk/

Paul Robert's Virtual Typewriter Museum
http://www.mmworks.nl/typewritermuseum/

The Jell-o Museum
http://www.jellomuseum.com/

The Ancient AOL Disk and Memorabilia Museum
http://www.aolmemorabilia.com/

The Brick Testament
http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/

Airline Meals
http://www.m4rco.net/airlinemeals/

Geekbabe likes Peeps!
http://geekbabe.com/peeps/

Pen Spinning
http://pentix.modenstudios.com/

Rubber Band Balls on the Web
http://www.geocities.com/elvis9227/

Scott Bartlett's Rubber Band Ball
http://bigrubberball.tripod.com/index.htm

World's Largest Masking Tape Ball
http://monsterball0.tripod.com/id8.htm

Gladys Dwindlebimmers Ralston Gallery of the Unidentifiable
http://www.dearauntnettie.com/gallery/index.htm

The Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia
http://www.spectrumnet.com/pez/pezexhibit.html

Crackerpacks - collecting firecracker labels
http://www.crackerpacks.com/

Computer Bits May 2002 - art museums and more

The May Computer Bits column is titled "Surfing the Internet: Magritte, Monet, Matisse and Munch" and should be out in print and up on the Web at the beginning of May. The column covers art search engines and image searching on the Web. Also included are links to some of the online art galleries and museums:

http://www.tate.org.uk The Tate has put almost its entire collection on its site - 50,000 works. Each work is described in detail, including title, date and media.

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp - The National Portrait Gallery in London

http://www.vam.ac.uk/ The Victoria & Albert

http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm The Louvre

http://www.musee-orsay.fr:8081/ - The Musee d'Orsay

http://www.nga.gov/search/search.htm The USAn National Gallery

Great stuff.

Another blog - this one for internet-resources.com/writers

Decided to setup another blog -- one dedicated to writerly links.

http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/blog/writers-blog.htm

http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/ has over 1500 links that are checked for deadwood regularly. The links are sorted into nine major groups and almost one hundred subgroups. The site has been mentioned favorably in writers newsletters, on writers' sites, on mailing lists and in newsgroups and is visited by writers from all corners of the world.

I plan to use this new blog to pop up descriptions of some of the links I'm adding to http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/ and descriptions of some of the links that are already there.

This blog will be a means of getting a look at what's new at http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/ and a tour of what's there.

At the bottom of each item that has a link from http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/, I'll add a reference to where on the site you can find that link and others like it. The reference will be xxx|yyy, meaning you can find the link in yyy subgroup of the xxx group.