Noises From The Basement Archive 9-20-00

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NOISES FROM THE BASEMENT                     ISSN 1531-5258
This Week's Contents - September 20, 2000

1) Peeking thru WINDOWS - "Key Keyboard Shortcuts"
2) Fantastic File Find! - "WinGlobe"
3) Seen These Sites? - "Bizarre Stuff/Totally Absurd"
4) Email Funnies - "Meaning of Life"
5) The MOUS Hole - "Rotate Text in Cells"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge - that what fits no where else

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Greetings to our newest readers,
   thanks to old friends for reading once again!
     & AOL users - your links are at bottom.
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1) Peeking thru WINDOWS "Key Keyboard Shortcuts"

Here's a few lesser-used Windows keyboard shortcuts you
might find handy:

ALT-ENTER to view an item's Properties (select first!),
SHIFT while inserting the disc bypasses CD Autostart,
ALT-TAB still lets you switch between open windows,
                and:
CTRL-ESC opens the Start Menu (especially handy for
    emergency shutdowns when a mouse stops working!)

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2) FANTASTIC FILE FIND! "WinGlobe" [2166 Kb/EXE]

A reader plaintively pleaded recently - "I downloaded
Allstar, and it wanted my longitude and latitude info.
How can I tell?"

Happy to help - it gives me the opportunity to
introduce one of my favorite desktop items, WinGlobe.
WinGlobe is a tiny earth that sits on your desktop.
It can show countries and major cities (about 2800),
and knows the population, longitude/latitude, and the
current local time of each city. It also shows where
it is day or night - and it displays the current weather,
anywhere in the world! An essential tool!

WinGlobe is shareware ($15 if you keep it) or
free to schools.

http://www.BasementNoises.com/free4u/dl11.htm

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3) SEEN THESE SITES? "Bizarre Stuff/Totally Absurd"

The first science experiments I remember committing
were conducted in my parents' basement and consisted
largely of mixing ALL the ingredients of my chemistry set
together, in different proportions. The usual result was
a smelly brown glob of ooze, though once I succeeded in
creating a smelly brown glob of ooze that smoked and
eventually burst spontaneously into flame. Created such
an impression, I ended up working in the chemical industry
for 18 years!

First site to see this week is Bizarre Stuff, at
http://freeweb.pdq.net/headstrong/control.htm - an
assortment of the experiments some of the more
demented of us tried as young people. Collected in one
place, many of the science projects that you might have
attempted – or want to attempt now!

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Next, may I suggest http://totallyabsurd.com   for your
viewing (and laughing) pleasure? Here you'll find some of
the strangest patents ever issued! Real people have spent
real cash to patent inventions such as the Brain Buzzer,
the Kissing Shield, and the Portable Spittoon. Absurd!

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4) EMAIL FUNNIES "Meaning of Life" [124 Kb/EXE]

What is the Meaning of Life? Douglas Adams gave us
the shortest answer - 42. This little funny offers a
different perspective:

http://www.BasementNoises.com/free4u/dl12.htm

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5) The MOUS Hole - "Rotate Text in Cells"

When one has many columns of side-by-side data in
an Excel worksheet, the column headings can often
be double the width of the data itself. It may not
be desirable to widen columns or to decrease the
font size of the headings. An alternative to consider
is to rotate the text. Cells can be formatted with
the text rotated +/- 90 degrees from horizontal.

To rotate text:

I) Select the cell(s) you wish to format

II) Format | Cells | Alignment tab

III) A) In the Orientation section of this window,
      either key in the desired degrees, or
      click & drag the sample text to the desired
      position
          -or-
III) B) Click on the stacked "Text" sample if you'd
      like your text vertical, with the letters remaining
      horizontal

IV) OK

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6) THEY SAID IT

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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7) HODGEPODGE

Brave New World?

Visionics' FaceIt system works by isolating human faces
in still pictures and then compares them to photos in a
database containing a specific population, such as licensed
drivers, known criminals or missing children.

FaceIt is currently used in Newham, England, in closed-
circuit video surveillance systems of public outdoor areas.
Newham, a borough in East London, has installed a face
recognition system that - when coupled with over 200
cameras - picks out known criminals, authorities say.

And the latest surveillance tool revealed last week at the
Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference, co-sponsored by
the National Security Agency? Pattern-recognition software
soon will be able to analyze the stride of a person!
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For anyone who's ever had that back itch, but couldn't
describe exactly where - this week's Photo Funny might
provide an answer! And our Bozo, also found at
http://www.BasementNoises.com is a hit man's employer
who's asking for a refund! Drop by the Basement and see!
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             G'nite, and thanks for reading!

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