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Cool Site of the Day Newsletter
December 1, 2003
Contents:
- The Weather, Johnny Cash, & Jack's BBQ
- Cool Picks of the Web
- Christmas is coming and Chanukah too!
- Republicans Who Watch Fox Really Are Ignorant: Study
- Strange Things I Found on eBay
- Submit Your Site to Cool Site of the Day
- Cool Sites!
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This weather is nuts. It was freezing. Then it rained for a week. Today it felt like summer. What is going on?? Mother nature is indeed a woman and she is going through menopause! Now I'm whacked with a bad cold. Thank goodness for Nyquil.
I was lucky enough to attend the Johnny Cash public memorial in Nashville last week. What a show! They have been showing it on CMT since then and it turns out that The Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute is the most watched telecast in CMT history. Go Johnny! Get the lowdown on the tribute: click here.
Nashville is great, by the way. Amazing BBQ at Jack's BBQ. Cheap, delicious, cafeteria style. I had just picked up my food and my wife was on line behind me. The folks behind the counter looked in her direction and said "Hi Jack!" Confused, she timidly waved and said "Hi!!" Being the wiseass I am, I turned to her and said in my most obnoxious voice, "Yeah, HI JACK!!" Then the guy behind her in the cowboy hat turned to me and tipped his hat. It was THE Jack! The guy that founded the place, who's face is on the sauce bottles... luckily I already had picked up my food or else I might have wound up chewing on a cigar stub. That'll teach me to tease my wife in public.
Anyway, on to the newsletter. Enjoy!
Regards,
Mike Corso
Cool Site of the Day
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Cool Picks of the Web
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More Cool Stuff than you can throw a brick at.
Church Sign Generator
Fun and blasphemous!
"Canada Beats World At Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Man, must've been a slow news day...
"World Beard Championships"
and their official website:
http://worldbeardchampionships.com/
While on the subject of odd competitions... here are two closely related links to enjoy.
You tell us what it looks like...
Proof positive that all press is NOT good press. This is coach Bill Parcells and a coach from Duke. I don't know much about that sports stuff, but I do know funny and this is it.
The Amish ROCK!
"Apparently the Amish get very funky after age 16..."
The Disability Dating Network
Appealing to a niche market: a dating site for the disabled.
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Christmas is coming and Chanukah too!
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Check out the Amazon.com gift store for the PERFECT gift! Get free shipping on orders over $25 and get them in AMPLE time for the holidays but you must order by December 12th to still get free shipping in time for Christmas!.
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Republicans Who Watch Fox Really Are Ignorant: Study
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From Netsurfer Digest:
There's no way we can report this without being flamed by somebody who operates with their political sensitivity set to "nitro". As we don our asbestos body armor, let us disclaim that we don't make the news, we just point you to primary sources and make up snappy headlines. A research group from the University of Maryland explored the public's "significant misperceptions" about the Iraq war and how they correlate to political affiliation and media consumption. The group looked at three falsehoods:
1) there is a proven link between Saddam's Iraq and Al Quaeda
2) weapons of mass destructions have been found in Iraq
3) world public opinion generally supported the war.
The study found that those who believe these misconceptions have "sharply higher" support for the Iraq war. To find why these misconceptions persist, the study looked at news source and political affiliation. Here are two direct quotes:
"Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions"
and
"It is also true that Republicans and those with lower education are more likely to have misperceptions."
The full report has extensive documentation and statistics with detail about other news sources and other political party affiliations. Click here and read it yourself.
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Strange Things I Found on eBay
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Folks sell all kind of strange stuff. For example:
"TACO BELL HEATED GRILL BY STAR"
Someone must really love Taco Bell, the auction ended with a winner. Cholesterol city, here you come!
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Submit Your Site to Cool Site of the Day!
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One of our the sites we featured way back when recently wrote to update us. Here's what he had to say:
"When I won the 'Cool Site of the Day' award I was getting 400 unique hits per day....Naturally, when I got 2,000 in just one day from Cool Site of the Day, I was delighted! Hundreds of e-mails came in that day and they haven't let up since; even though my site was featured almost two years ago, I'm still getting traffic!"
-- "The Digital Dude"
Submit your site now!
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Cool Sites
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Day26.com (CSotD Nov 17, 2003)
Neat personal site with great photos... a 'photo journal,' is what I guess you'd call it.
Defend Your Castle (CSotD Oct 10, 2003)
Could be the greatest time waster ever!
cellphonecarriers.com (CSotD Oct 20, 2003)
I'm a clown by trade (and choice). Every once in a while I have to force myself to feature a site that is actually useful. Need a cell phone? Find out where to get it and what plan suits you best.
SearchPhantom Games (CSotD Oct 24, 2003)
And RIGHT BACK to being a clown! Play games, have fun.
A lot of web sites don't last more than a year or two. Here's a classic Cool Site of the Day pick that is still hanging on to life. You GO, nerdlinger!
Car Talk (CSotD Apr 07, 1996)
My wife loves this radio show. Web site is great too!
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Until next time...
Mike Corso
Publisher
Cool Site of the Day
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