Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:55:16 +0000
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From: Bob Rankin
Subject: TOURBUS - 05 Jun 01 - Rider's Revenge #18
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TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Rider's Revenge #18
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THIS REALLY BUGS ME
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Jim Kaelin, from Bayonne New Jersey, wrote:
I'm writing to suggest that you highlight the Chuck Jones "Letters
from the Heart" project, which is being conducted by those that love
him. Jones helped bring to life many characters during the Golden Age
of animation including some of Warner Bros.' most famous Looney Tunes
characters - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The
list of characters that he created goes on -- Road Runner, Wile E.
Coyote, Marvin Martian, Pepe Le Pew, and many others.
http://www.chuckjones.com
Mr. Jones is going to be turning 89 years old this year. In a recent
PBS documentary, I saw him, to my astonishment, say (paraphrased)
"I've spent my life trying to be a winner like Bugs Bunny, but I feel
like I've always been a loser like Daffy Duck". I think that spells
out the issue pretty clearly - this man see himself nearing the end of
his mortal life and actually believes, incredibly, that he was somehow
a failure. Please consider featuring this worthy project in order to
help to appropriately honor such a very worthy, decent, caring man.
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Christophe Castel, from Val-de-Marne France, wrote:
I'd like to present HTTPaint the online painting program. No plug-in
required. The website www.zewall.com is a showcase for this tool :
scroll the streets of a city, select a wall and paint on it.
http://www.zewall.com
The best pictures are stored in a gallery. Discover the great pictures
made by artists using HTTPaint. Vote for your favorite picture, use
the panoramic mode to quickly view all the walls. Modem users can
paint offline and connect again to save their picture. See you soon on
Zewall!
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THE MIGHTY ORGAN
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Val Stevenson, from London England, spake thusly:
The Mighty Organ has attracted some of the UK's best-known travel and
feature writers by providing them with an opportunity to publish
pieces they would not normally get commissioned to write. Recent
issues have featured a photo essay on paragliding Iranian women;
articles on body-building in Cambodia, the art of tedium, garden gnome
politics, geese in guerrilla warfare, the tradition of serious jokes,
and an insider's view of the making of a cult film; short stories;
spoof advertisements; and and England's oldest and oddest firework
show, the lethal Lewes Bonfire Society.
http://www.themightyorgan.com
Neither the contributors nor the editors - a small group of UK-based
writers - get a cent for contributing to a site described by
Newsbytes.com as having "a blissfully cynical view of modern life." We
all enjoy and value good writing, and we think that's what The Mighty
Organ provides.
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SHOW ME THE WAY
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Miles Abernathy, from Austin Texas, opined:
I've been reading Tourbus for several years, and it just occurred to
me that my own web site might be of interest to some of your readers.
It is the web's largest collection of waypoints from all around the
world, free for downloading.
http://swopnet.com/waypoints
What is a waypoint? It is the latitude and longitude of a location of
interest, such as the Eiffel Tower or the Grand Canyon visitor's
center or the north goalpost of Bryant-Denny Stadium. Folks with
handheld GPS units like to load waypoints in them before travelling,
to help find those locations of interest.
Last year, when the US government turned off the intentional
degradation of the GPS satellite signals, all GPS receivers suddenly
experienced an instant 10x boost in their accuracy. In most cases, a
cheap handheld GPS nowadays will show your exact location to within 5
to 7 meters...anywhere on earth.
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OH, BOTHER
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Owen Barritt, from the University of Cambridge, uttered the following:
I've been on the Tourbus mailing list for a couple of years now and
enjoy the regular emails. Currently I maintain a site that I thought
your readers might be interested in. The Pembroke College Winnie The
Pooh Society based at Cambridge University, UK is a society dedicated
to the preservation of the works of A.A. Milne and the important
things in life - TEA and CAKE! Our site includes most of the society
archives: minutes, photos, correspondence (including the famous letter
to Sainbury's about crumpets).
http://www-stu.pem.cam.ac.uk/pooh
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That's all for now, I'll see you next time! --Bob Rankin
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