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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

~ Emily Dickenson

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsVolcanoes Are Hot StuffA mountain roars. Rivers of molten rock race to the sea. Towers of ash and smoke billow into the sky. Volcanoes are some of the most terrifying and magnificent wonders of our restless planet. Scientists have learned a great deal about volcano...
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The Blizzard of '78If you're old enough to remember Star Wars' first run in the theaters, if you lived in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, or New England, you remember the Blizzard of '78. People were snowed in for days. Cities were paralyzed. The National Guard was mobilize...

The History of the InternetTwenty years ago, on March 13, 1989, the web was born -- or at least the basic idea of it. That was the date that Dr. Tim Berners-Lee submitted his paper "Information Management: A Proposal" to his boss at CERN, a giant particle physical laboratory i...

The California Sea HareThis is probably the world's first fan page devoted to the California sea hare. No, seriously. When I looked up A. californica online after finding a tidepool full of them, I discovered some fascinating facts about this unassuming animal. Not only do...

Henry the Hexapus(3/09 Update! See Henry the Hexapus news below!) It's not every day an invertebrate steals the headlines on the BBC and CNN! Henry the Hexapus is a six-legged octopus rescued from a lobster pot off the coast of Wales and given a happy home in the Bl...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsAncient Greece Odyssey: a Traveler's Journal Myth major seeks armchair travelers, art lovers, and born-again pagans for a ramble through the ruins of ancient Greece. Odyssey Latest Update: Mycenae Museum Posted 4.25.08 I visited Greece in spring 2005 for the first time, where I have been going i...
Part I: Arrival ◊ Part II: Athens ◊ Part III: Eleusis ◊ Part IV: Delphi ◊ Part V: Mycenae
(Squidoo Honors: LOTD two weeks after starting, People's Choice, Lens of the Year 5th runner up, Giant Squids 2008 Awards Best Travel Lens, 220 days on Top 100 list)

Olympias: Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek TriremeThe trireme, trieres in ancient Greek, was the formidable warship that hamstrung the second Persian invasion of Greece and changed the course of European history. It helped Athens build an empire and the wealth needed to sustain a civilization whose...

Aeschylus: Ancient Greek PlaywrightAeschylus is hailed as the father of Greek tragedy; his plays are among the oldest surviving western literature. They are gripping, stately, troubling, and raise issues that are still pertinent today. They show a stern regard for justice, civil duty...

SapphoSappho, born around 630 BCE on the Greek-settled island of Lesbos off the coast of Turkey, is one of the earliest writers in the western world. Only fragments of her poetry have survived, preserved by later writers quoting her or on badly-damaged p...

ThothThoth, Tehuti or Djehuty in ancient Egyptian, is the god of wisdom, writing, speech, measurement, the moon, and magic. He serves as the vizier (prime minister) to Re, King of the gods. He's also the gods' official record-keeper. He's Mr. Science, the...

Answers to Your Questions About Ancient Greece Many visitors to my Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal website surf in through Google, looking for answers to search queries like "What are the Roman names for Greek gods?" and "map of Odysseus' wanderings." I hope you'll find that site fun...

"Some scholars beat
the ancient world to death,
when it's already dead.
I try to bring it to life."

~ My homepage motto, 1994

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsJackie Robinson: An American Hero On April 15th, 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto a baseball diamond in Brooklyn, New York. Photo credit: J.R. Eyerman Buy at AllPosters.com That was a few years after African-American soldiers came home from defending America and freedom i...
(Squidoo Honors: LOTD for April 15, 2009! Top 100 for now.)

Vin Scully For sixty years, Vin Scully (b. Nov. 27, 1927) has been the broadcaster for the the Dodgers -- in Brooklyn, in Los Angeles -- for every home game, and many away games. Players have come and gone. Legends have played out on the storied ballparks of E...

Russell Martin of the LA DodgersLess than a year after settling behind the plate at Dodger Stadium on May 5th, 2006, Russell Martin had become the face of the Dodger franchise. True Blue fans pray he will remain so for many years. This Russell Martin fan page was started before th...

Dar WilliamsDar Williams has an adaptable voice that can dance from lyrical and etherial to playful and gritty. Her lyrics are funny, sharp, lively, fresh, like the best 80s pop, yet she's got a style all her own. She weaves word-poems with a catchy beat and a c...

Sister UnityStoryteller, nun, drag queen, and kind-hearted nut -- Sister Unity is one of the web's more unique and colorful personalities. I stumbled across her while searching YouTube for videos on Hindu mythology. Sister Unity Divine has a gift for storytelli...

Director Alex de Campi: Video ShowcaseHere's a brief selection of the extremely creative music videos and indie film shorts directed by American-born British alien Alex de Campi, who "believes that the pen is mightier than the sword (and much easier to get through airport security)." He...

Ginette ParisDr. Ginette Paris is a French Canadian psychologist, therapist, writer, and Core Faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she teaches Archetypal and Depth Psychology and serves as Research Coordinator for students embarking on their disse...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsFunny Signs and Bizarre Billboards Ever seen an unintentionally funny sign that made you say "What?!!" Perhaps you remember the infamous "Cruise Ships Use Airport Exit" freeway sign outside of San Diego, or the old [ North South ! ] freeway sign outside Chr...
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Web Flotsam: The Best Funny Videos, Web Humor and Weird Stuff! "The internet is a funny place. Some people spill their guts; other people just want to show you their fish." ~ Moi, back in 1993, in the heyday of Fishcams Memes, viral videos, web humor, email jokes: when are they spam, and when are...

Student Bloopers: Funny Stuff Kids Write I took a page from Anguished English and kept a file of howlers and mistakes whenever I was grading student essays or exams. Oh, the things students say! I've created this lens as a showcase of malaprops, misunderstanding and muddy thinking. Teacher...

Sparta, the Mean Kitty of YouTube Have you met Sparta, the Mean Kitty of YouTube? This famous feline, an Egyptian Mau, took the video meme circuit by storm in September 2007, starring in the cat music video "Hey Little Sparta" by Cory "Mr. Safety" Williams, director of SMP Films. Th...

The Space GiantsBefore anime went mainstream, before Power Rangers and Transformers, even before Robotech and Speed Racer, there was... THE SPACE GIANTS! Few adults would admit to liking...

Boom-Boom
Ain't It Great To Be Crazy

Aliquando et insanire iucundum est.
But sometimes it's pleasant to be insane!

~ Seneca

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsStar Trek: Of Gods and Men While waiting for the new Star Trek Movie to come out, I have something that Star Trek fans, both old and new, absolutely MUST see. It's a full-length fan-made movie: Star Trek: Of Gods of Men. It's not big-budget studio quality, of course, yet the...

The BBC Dramatization of the Lord of the Rings Millions have been captivated by JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the magnificent sequel to The Hobbit. Animators, movie directors, and sound studios have attempted to bring Tolkien's work to life, some more or less successfully. Peter Jackson's...

Unicorn Fans, Support Author Peter S. Beagle! Have you read any books by award-winning author Peter S. Beagle? Do you remember The Last Unicorn? Have you ever seen a child's wonder while watching the animated movie adaptation of that book? Or do you remember the animated (Bakshi-directed) Lord...

The Golden Key by George MacDonald You have stumbled upon a free e-book of a little-known children's short story from the Victorian Age: an original fairy-tale full of magic, wonder, and great beauty. George MacDonald, friend of Lewis Carroll, was a gifted author who had a profound influence on J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsBasic Kitemaking: How to Build a Pyramid Kite It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a... flying pyramid? Alexander Graham Bell is famous as the inventor of the telephone, but few folks realize he invented an early form of airplane! Well, not quite. It wasn't a plane -- a flat wing -- but a tetrahedro...

The Care and Feeding of Apostrophes I'm here today to talk to you about a terrible tragedy that's sweeping our planet. It's not the disappearance of your favorite brands from the store courtesy of those dastardly Brand Police, nor is it the scented kitty litter that...

Feline Frequent Flyer Tips: Pets on a Plane! Airplanes. Cat carriers. Airport security. Oh, the indignity of it all! Well, if we must board those infernal contraptions, the least our owners can do is let us fly in style. I won't say "in comfort," but a good under-the-seat soft-sided cat carrier...

Help One Fainting Robin If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain. Photo By: Anita Gould, Creative Commons

My Amazing Nessie Photo! I've loved the Loch Ness Monster ever since I was a child. I had books about Nessie. My grandparents brought me back a Nessie sculpture and Nessie playing cards which lived on my desk for years. I studied all the Loch Ness Monster pictures that were...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsYes, I Love My Hybrid Car Yep, I am a rabid Prius owner. I got it for the environment. I love it for the mileage, especially after the gas prices here jumped over $3! When hybrid cars first came out in Japan, I thought I'd wait a few years until they'd worked out all the kinks...

Qassia: Next Facebook/Wikipedia, or Next Bust? Qassia combines two popular trends of Web 2.0 -- social networking and user-submitted content. Qassia has two goals: to build a library of user-submitted information, called "intel", and to provide its intel-writers with backlinks to their websites a...

Cast Iron Cookware Cookware drives me nuts. Nonstick pans never are, and the teflon-coated ones always seem to scratch when I scrub vigorously. Flecks of teflon in the tummy can't be a good thing! Whereas well-seasoned cast iron heats more evenly than modern pans, and...

Convert Your Prius to a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV): Even More Gas-Efficient! [Aug. 12 2007] As a Prius owner, I was recently invited to be part of a focus group for Hymotion Hybrid Plug-in Conversion Kits. We weren't told what the focus group was for until near the end of the meeting -- I and the other Toyota Prius owners assu...

Dance Dance Revolution "You'll need different shoes." I glanced down at my ugly gym shoes and back at the gleaming warehouse-sized room full of chrome and mirrors, alien technology exercise machines, and skinny well-toned folks who'd just stepped off the bus from...

War in the 21st Century: A New (and costly) Paradigm After 9/11, the atmosphere of America -- indeed, our whole lives, and that of many other nations drawn into the mess -- changed forever. We now live in a society where leaders speak the language of Terror instead of Progress, shifting the emphasis in...

Le Chat

Je souhaite dans ma maison:
Une femme ayant sa raison,
Un chat passant parmi les livres,
Des amis en toute saison
Sans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.

I desire in my house:
A woman of strong mind,
A cat strolling among the books,
The friends for all seasons
Without whom I cannot live.

~ Apollinaire

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsSamhain the Cat My owner has neglected to make a shrine to the house god, so I have threatened to yark on her Dance Dance Revolution pad every day until she submits. (Could be worse-- at least it's easy to clean.) My name is Samhain, and I was adopted from a shelte...

How Do You Face the Unthinkable? I've coped with chronic illness all my life. I was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis at 18 months, when my knee swelled up as I began to try to walk. I toughed it out through years of pain, doctors, physical therapy, one attempt after the next to mit...

The Tale of the Greenberg Turkey Greetings! My family is one of many hundreds who for generations have ordered our Christmas smoked turkey from the Greenberg family in Tyler, Texas. I have a funny story to share about my adventure with a Greenberg turkey. Also, at bottom, I've adde...

Hardest Homebuying Experience Ever It seemed so simple. The market was down, my rent was climbing: why keep pouring money down the drain? Thanks to a good agent, Josef Szigeti, I'd found a condo that felt like home. There was a beautiful park right outside, it was nestled in a neighbo...

My Patch Jacket It's been about twenty years since I last put on this old windbreaker, which I wore into my late teens in the late 1980s. I was never a Girl Scout, but I collected patches wherever my family travelled. So this jacket has a lot of memories sewn onto i...

Travel Threads: Space My father was an aerospace engineer and my grandmother a planetarium director. So I've always had a personal relationship with the space program -- never as my career, but as something I followed avidly, the way children of military families are more...

Travel Threads: Canada Many summers, we'd camp for two weeks in the wilderness of Ontario north of New York State. I loved Canada. As a kid, I thought I needed a patch for each trip, and I agonzied over selecting the most interesting shape or most appropriate picture. Th...

Travel Threads: American West When I wasn't paddling the rivers of eastern Canada, I was usually on the back of a horse out west. The big skies, looming mountains, dark forests and lonely plains of the American West were dramatic indeed for someone raised at the edge of Amish cou...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsSquidbits: Greekgeek's Squidoo Blog Yep, I've finally got a Squidoo blog so I can share my tips, techniques, and ruminations regarding all that is Squidoo. I created this blog mostly because I often share tips in The SquidU Lensmaster Lounge where it would be much easier if I could ref...

MYTHPHILE: The Blog for Mythology Lovers Remember Joseph Campbell, that learned yet charismatic storyteller who never met a myth he didn't like? What if there were a blog for sharing mythology, telling old myths afresh, exploring the origins of seasonal holidays, and posting in-depth profile... (ON HOLD)

"It's All Greek to Me!" Gift Shop Welcome to the Squidoo lens for my "It's All Greek to Me" Gift Shop, selling unique gifts with an ancient Greek twist! Many of you have visited my Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal travel diary with photos, stories, and...

Not Your Garden Variety Orchid: Flower with 'Tude I saw this little orchid in a greenhouse in Carpinteria, California, and just had to take his portrait. Worse, I had to put him on a T-shirt and a few other items. I don't know why, I just think flowers with faces are hilarious. So if you want a humo...

Greekgeek's Cafepress Cartoons! These are fun and humorous (and sometimes quite ODD) designs I've made for Cafepress shops. Happy cats, eco-friendly cars, no-drama zones, mutant lemons, killer orchids -- you just never know what I'm going to get inspired to turn into a T-shirt, mug...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsGreekgeek's Top Ten Squidoo TipsPsst! Want some free Squidoo secrets? At the risk of losing some footholds in the top ranks on Squidoo, I'd like to share my Top Ten Squidoo Tips! I've already shared with you How to Get Your Lens Found, a three-part tutorial on making solid lenses...

Is Squidoo a Scam? An Honest AnswerIs Squidoo a scam? Does anyone really make money or get web traffic from Squidoo? Short answer: No, yes and yes! You won't make thousands of dollars on Squidoo in your first week or first month. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to scam you!...

SquidU's Lensmaster Lounge: Help for New SquidsNewbies! Click "SquidU" at the top or bottom of a Squidoo page to visit Squidoo's fabulous discussion forum for its members, aka The Lensmaster Lounge. SquidU contains many kinds of resources to help you learn Squidoo. The Lensmaster Lounge is the i...

How NOT to Make Money on SquidooI'm still learning the fine art of not making money online. Oh, I putter with the odd Amazon module, and once in a blue moon I put up an eBay module as a joke to see what silly things people are selling... but market products? Goodness me! Let me tel...

Greekgeek's Squidoo StatsFollowing Giant Squid bdkz's lead, I'm going to start tracking my Squidoo stats here: lensrank, earnings, and traffic. Update: In 2008 I used Bonnie's way of measuring lenses. But in 2009 I'm going to track Squidoo payout tiers, because quite frankl...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsGreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens FoundSo, you want to learn how to build good Squidoo lenses (or any kind of webpage) and attract visitors! This three-part tutorial covers: Part I: Ten Steps to Build an Appealing Lens Part II: Ten Steps to Help People Find Your Lens Part III: Search Engine...
(Top 100 list: 170 days and counting)

Squidoo Tips: Building Web TrafficWelcome to Part II of Greekgeek's Squidoo Tips: How To Get Your Lens Found! This tutorial focuses on building web traffic with social networking. I'll also recommend some simple tools and resources to improve your lens, so that visitors stick aroun...

Squidoo Tips: Search Engine OptimizationWelcome to Part III of "Greekgeek Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found!" This final part focuses on search engine optimization. If you surfed here from the web, Part I was Ten Steps to Build an Appealing Lens (or Webpage) while Part II was Ten S...

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsCSS Codes: Making Webpages Look GreatThis easy CSS Reference Guide shows you how to format paragraphs, margins, and more on your Squidoo lens (or any webpage). Normally, Squidoo does this for you, but sometimes you need more control. CSS codes give you that control. SHORTCUTS! Jump to...

Make a Fancy Table of ContentsA clickable Table of Contents helps visitors navigate webpages. A table of contents also shows what's on a single webpage, which helps visitors decide whether your page is worth reading! A great table of contents within the first screen is a powerful...
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Build a Better Featured Lenses ModuleThe Featured Lenses module lets you showcase a rotating selecting of lenses, but it's not so good when you need to show MORE than five lenses or lenses in a certain order. Here's how to fix both problems! Plus, if you use this tip, you can fine-tune...

Advanced CSS: Layout Tricks and Lab Experiments*Columns! Images! Colored boxes! This lens is my CSS sandbox, where I'm testing fancy layout tricks to make Squidoo lenses look great. As I figure out new CSS techniques, I'll share them with you, so you can use them on your lenses! This lens assumes...

*Note: Most of the tricks first worked out in my Advanced CSS Lens have been incorporated into the tutorials above.

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Squidoo Tips & Tutorials:Tips ◊ Traffic ◊ CSS ◊ GraphicsAligning Graphics on Web PagesWant to align an image on a web page? Need side-by-side graphics and text? Are you trying to align an image left, right or center? Or are you trying to add captions to your images? This Image Tutorial Covers: How to Make an Image a Clickable Link Ho...

How to Upload Images on SquidooNeed help getting graphics onto Squidoo? Look no further! This easy Uploading Images Tutorial will help you dress up your Squidoo lenses. SHORTCUTS! Jump to... %u2022 How to Upload Graphics to Text Modules %u2022 How to Display Photos w...

Free Web Graphics: Where to Get Them (Legally!)With all the clip art, free web graphics, and stock photography sites out there, it's easy to make your lenses and webpages look great without breaking copyright! Some people think images posted on the web are up for grabs. They aren't, any more tha...

Squidoo Graphics For Your Lenses!Here's some Squidoo Squid graphics to jazz up your lenses! I've dressed up Squidoo's squid logo in different ways to use as clipart. Feel free to use these or change them! All I ask is credit and a link. Other Squidoo lensmasters are doing this too:...

How-To Photshop Tutorial: Glossy Buttons Do you want to be able to make your own glossy web 2.0 buttons? Here's a free Photoshop tutorial to get you started. It teaches you to make buttons of any shape or color with text and/or an icon on them. Once you've learned this basic technique, you...

Fixing Missing Images on Amazon ListingsDon't you hate it when an Amazon product you want to feature is missing its picture? Sometimes it's an old book that's out of print, but available through used booksellers. Sometimes the product listing just happens not to have an image. And you know...

How-to Photoshop Tutorial: 3-D Photo FrameIf you've got Photoshop, here's a tutorial to make your grahpics look 3-D, like a photograph lying on a flat surface.You will need Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements, or a graphics program that uses layers and includes effects like drop shadows. In th...

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