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Newsletter #17 – May 1999
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IN THIS ISSUE
Editors note
Cool websites to check out
Joke of the day
This months useless Facts
Internet Facts
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EDITORS NOTE
Dear cyber friends and colleagues,
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This book is a toolbox for photographers who want to create an altered
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More books to check out in different areas of photography…….
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OTHER COOL WEB SITES TO CHECK OUT THIS MONTH
OZIMAGES
Searchable database of photographic images within a stock library in all
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JOKE OF THE DAY
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A mother and baby camel are talking one day when the baby camel asks,
"Mom why have I got these huge three toed feet?"
The mother replies, "Well son, when we trek across the desert your toes
will help you to stay on top of the soft sand".
"OK" said the son. A few minutes later the son asks, "Mom, why have I got
these great long eyelashes?"
"They are there to keep the sand out of your eyes on the trips through the
desert".
"Thanks Mom" replies the son. After a short while, the son returns and
asks, "Mom, why have I got these great big humps on my back??"
The mother, now a little impatient with the boy replies, "They are there to
help us store water for our long treks across the desert, so we can go
without drinking for long periods."
"That's great mom, so we have huge feet to stop us sinking, and long
eyelashes to keep the sand from our eyes and these humps to store water,
but Mom"
"Yes son?"
"Why the heck are we in the zoo then?"
Five-year-old Becky answered the door when the census taker came by. She
told the census taker that her daddy was a doctor and wasn't home because
he was performing an appendectomy. "My," said the census taker, "that
sure is a big word for such a little girl. Do you know what it means?"
"Sure! Fifteen-hundred bucks, and that doesn't even include the
anesthesiologist!"
Bumper stickers seen on vehicles lately - -
Honk if you've never seen an Uzi fired from a car window
Seen on the back of a biker's vest: If you can read this, my wife fell off.
I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
Heart Attacks...God's Revenge For Eating His Animal Friends
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you
If you lived in your car, you'd be home by now
What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull terrier
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Tamron …..
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Tenbar …..
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Umax …..
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Viewsonic …..
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Vivitar …..
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THIS MONTHS USELESS FACTS
(Brought to you by Useless Facts Daily-
http://www.uselessfacts.net )
The two most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.
Aerosmith's "Dude looks like a lady," was written about Vince Neil of
Motley Crue.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.
Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is the size of 78 football
fields.
Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
Skepticisms is the longest typed word that alternates hands.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top
and sinking to the bottom???
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Internet Facts and Figures
It took Radio 30 years to have 50,000,000 radios in people's homes.
It took TV 15 years to have 50,000,000 TV's in people's homes.
It took the Internet 3 years to have 50,000,000 people connected to the web.
"There are between 50 million and 100 million regular internet users
currently!"
"There are more than 20 million webpages in existence"
"There are seven new people on the Internet every second."
"Every fourth person on the Internet is buying something right now."
"The internet has had more users in its first 5 years, than telephone did in
its first thirty."
"This month another 18 million people will go online."
"Email already outnumbers regular mail by 10 to one."
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Top 10 Internet Terms (H-Z)
By Kate Schultz
1. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): The programming language used to
create Web pages.
2. Hyperlink: A link on the Web connecting one server to another. The user
clicks on the prepared text or graphic image to connect to the link.
3. Internet Newsletter: Refers to on-line publications. One type of Internet
Newsletter is sent to subscribers through e-mail, while others are published
on a Web site as an electronic magazine.
4. JPG or JPEG: A common file format for photo images. An abbreviation for
Joint Photographic Experts Group.
5. Netiquette: Rules of the road. It refers to proper conduct for Internet
citizens.
6. Newsgroups: Message boards on the Internet. The newsgroup is a *place*
the Internet user visits to get messages.
7. Search Engine: One of the primary ways Internet users find sites. Also
known as a *spider*, it *crawls* the web and sends pages to its index.
8. Shopping Cart: Software that acts as an on-line storefront. The shopping
cart tracks all of the items a shopper wants to purchase. A shopping cart
will let you put items back on the shelf and allow you to pay for your whole
order at once.
9. Signature File: The block of text appended to the end of each e-mail
message by your e-mail software. It is the Internet version of your business
card.
10. URL (Uniform Resource Locator): The addressing system of the Internet.
Your personal URL is the address of your Web site.
Kate Schultz is the Publisher of E-ZineZ: the E-Zine about E-Zines!
Visit
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Newsletter.
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