Towse: views from the hill

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/

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.

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.