21 AUG 07 - Amazon.com's aStores are one year old today, and to celebrate, Amazon has unveiled a whole new set of features. (Actually a week ago, but why quibble?) Now you can quickly and easily build thousands of Amazon product pages using the unlimi...
Squidoo is great for people who have something to say, but aren't web-obsessed enough to learn HTML. Still, you need to know a thing or two about web publishing if you want your creations to be seen.
The New York Times Bestsellers list may not be the most prestigious award in literature any more than the Billboard top 40 is more covetted than the Grammy. But it's money in the bank for authors. Here are this week's winners. (Updated when Amazon.com...
People often tell me, "Banner ads are dead." I admit they can be annoying, they don't often take surfers to useful, relevant pages, and people generally ignore them. But dead? Not really. The thing is you have to use banners correctly and ha...
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I know that a lot of people use computers for personal networking (as opposed to computer networking, which is another topic.) Accordingly, a lot of attention is paid to avatars and biographies. My primary focus as a webmaster is to generate enough in...
The American Girl® brand was established in 1986 by educator & entrepreneur Pleasant T. Rowland. Mattel acquired American Girl's parent Pleasant Company in 1998. American Girl is the direct marketer of the popular collectible-quality American...
The barkeep of the Rutting Unicorn jerks his head significantly toward a lone figure in threadbare robes shrouded in the shadows at the far corner of the public house. Nearing, you glimpse Architeuthis' visage, hideously stained vert et gules in magi...
You can do a lot with the Squidoo resource with a little imagination and some trial and error. Edison said genius was "99% perspiration," but he didn't say whose! Update: "StumbleUpon"
Classics Illustrated Comics have introduced generations to the world of literature. They include fairly high-quality art, and are reasonably true to their original source material. Some would say they were early versions of the ill-defined graphic no...
If you haven't heard of Web 2.0 yet, you soon will. Chances are you'll be hearing more about Squidoo in that context, too. One of the first things about Squidoo to attract my attention was it's capability to publish embedded RSS feeds. Now you can hav...
A lot of people don't "get" RSS yet, and I confess I'm a relative newbie myself, but the point is that the content on this page changes four times a day (If everything is working) regardless of the "Lens Freshness" data in the sid...
When I started my credit by examination page (years ago) I focussed on the somewhat obscure DSST exams, thinking, "Everybody knows about CLEP." Besides, the DANTES option was a lot cheaper. Well a lot of people know CLEP exists, but the Coll...
It seems that disappearance of the Penguin Classics Complete Collection, an "Amazon exclusive," was a momentary SNAFU. We're leaving these links to the "top 100" titles, as they are, since you can't be too sure what may happen to...
Full-bodied, aromatic, and flavorful -- espresso is a delight to the senses and a tonic to the soul. Once the exclusive property of the beat generation, espresso has gained in popularity with the introduction of specialty coffee outlets like Starbuck...
New and updated!. Find bargains at Amazon.com before they've come and gone! Everybody loves a bargain, and Amazon.com has a lot of them... IF you know where to look! Visit these bargain categories any time, and be sure to stop by The Friday Sale every...
Lumping Frank Zappa's kids into one category and calling it "the Zappa Family" isn't especially good organization, particularly since the Zappas aren't a family act like The Osmonds or The Jackson Five Borrowing a strategem from Capt. von Tr...
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As a long-time Amazon associate, I've developed some tools that can help you find specific products. First, there's my Book Category Search. Officially a public "beta," it works fine, but is not yet complete. Secondly, there are the "To...
National Public Radio supports one of the most cost-effective news organizations in America today, and promotes diversity in musical programming, including a lot of instrumental music, which I find less distracting than earwig lyrics that comandeer t...
Knuth says programming languages are all alike (OK, he says they have several properties in common.) Still, it is a lot easier to learn a second or "N+1th" language than it is to learn the first one. Many languages are available, each...
"Kirsten Larson is a brave, steadfast pioneer girl growing up on the Minnesota prairie in 1854. Her stories begin with her long, dangerous voyage with her family from Sweden to America. At first, Kirsten finds it difficult to get used to this st...
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Lensmaster Skip McGrath and his wife Karen have been eBay Power sellers for over six years. Skip has written a number of books that will help eBay novices and seasoned sellers alike to maximize their profits as eBay sellers. These books should be of i...
This lens was originally intended to be part of my RSS Feeds & Syndication lens, but it quickly became apparent that it needed it's own space. It's just a bunch of links at the moment, so flame gently, please. I'll be adding commentary RSN.
"Felicity Merriman is an independent, loyal, spirited girl growing up in colonial Virginia in 1774, just before the Revolutionary War. Felicity® is impatient doing the “sitting-down kinds of things” that colonial girls are expect...
Does your computer crash in weird, non-reproducible ways? It may not be a software problem. An inadequate power supply can cause extremely unpredictable operation, and it is one of the most frequently overlooked computer hardware SNAFUs. "Brand...
"Josefina Montoya is a hopeful, caring, faithful girl. She is growing up in 1824 New Mexico, a place of sweeping big skies and hard work, danger, and dreams. In Josefina’s stories, she and her family watch their old ways cross paths with t...
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So you're adding some Amazon.com content to your blog (Squidoo makes it easy). Which books should you feature? Your own favorites, of course. Your expertise in the areas you're most interested in is the "value added" part...
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Economic influences shape our daily lives both overtly and in more subtle ways. Oddly, the subject is often viewed as arcane and unknowable. I'm always glad to see good books like Freakonomics, or Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson demystify this...
"Molly McIntire is a lively, lovable, patriotic girl growing up in 1944. Her stories describe her life on the home front during World War Two. Molly doesn’t like many of the changes the war has brought, and she especially misses her father...
Unless you spend an inordinate amount of time searching for books at Amazon.com, you probably didn't notice that they have recently overhauled their ridiculously inadequate search function. The change is a big improvement overall, but a big step back...
As with any online page-builder, there are a lot of things you can't do with Squidoo lenses. One thing you can do very easily is to insert RSS feeds into your page without even knowing any HTML. If you are looking for the "Social Bookmarks"...
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The History's Mysteries Series from American Girl® carries the stories of familiar characters forward for somewhat older readers, approximately grades 3 - 5.
"Amazon" is a very popular word referring to a number of things, but they all refer back to the Amazons, a tribe of warrior women most notably found in Greek mythology. If you seek "The Earth's Biggest Bookstore" ... oops!. I'm tes...
John Steinbeck is one of my two favorite authors, I suppose. (The other, in no particular order, is Ernest Hemingway.) Steinbeck won both the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes for literature, which is not bad.
I've put a lot of work into this book store, and I certainly hope that the people at Squidoo who put the "under construction" WebMD page online over a year ago AT LEAST don't "mess" up another co-branded page because they don't kn...
Bands and artists strive to develop their own unique sound, then the music industry pigeonholes them into more-or-less appropriate genres. This page should make it a little easier to find your favorites.
I don't suppose people commonly pick a publisher, then a book (unless they have a credit or coupon or something.) Nonetheless, it is useful to be familiar with publishers when evaluating books. Some just have a better reputation than others. Penguin...
American Girl has created some new historical characters since Amazon.com made their American Girl's category. Eventually, this page will expand into a page for each character, but for now, they're all lumped together here, since the associated produ...
I, for one, am averse to the cult of personality that makes celebrity endorsements such a huge business. (I'm not a Doctor, but I play one on TV). So why would I care what the relatively obscure marketeer Seth Godin has to say? Basically, I don't.&nbs...
Amazon.com completed their evil experiments with the "ref=nosim" portion of their links, so the screen-scraped content here should behave normally again. See More Classic British Literature in our bookstore
"... As to whether modules are a good idea for someone who doesn't like modules... obviously no. For someone like you, you're pretty better off with a blog or a custom site." &nb...
Almost titled this "Summer Reading," but, people read for fun all year long. After a stack of computer and technical books, I'm seldom looking for anything too challenging in the way of diversions. StumbleUpon this
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"Kaya is a daring, adventurous Nez Perce girl living in 1764. Her deep love of horses and respect for nature nourish her spirit, as she dreams of becoming a courageous leader for her people. She’s ready to meet whatever the future brings!...
Cherry Poppin' Daddies is an American retro swing band known for their part in the swing revival of the 1990s. Their musical influences include swing, ska, and rock. The band is best remembered for their CD & single Zoot Suit Riot, and has been on...
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Two events made 1776 a remarkable year. The first is the well-known Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress. The other, which ultimately has had a far greater influence on the world in which we live, was the quiet publication of...
You can literally skip your freshman year of college in many cases, or at least save A LOT of time and money by passing a few easy credit by examination tests. At the moment, we're featuring full coverage of the DSST program, but we will "...
Maybe you won't enlist, but you could lend the army a hand in some small way -- and patting yourself on the back with a stupid yellow ribbon doesn't count. You could perhaps read Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics. Then, if the su...
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The feeds on this page have been reworked using Amazon's Web-Services (AWS) API, making them considerably more "bullet-proof" than the original screen-scraped versions. The jury is still out on whether it's better to show one example produc...
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The Cramps have gone through numerous personnel changes, since emerging from the early punk scene with lead singer Lux Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy as the only constant members. Their music is influenced by early rockabilly, as well as sufer...
Dame Jane Goodall, DBE is best known for her 45-year study of chimpanzee social and family life in Gombe Streams National Park, Tanzania where she subsequently founded the Jane Goodall Institute As her lens, Jane Goodall: The Big Picture shows, her in...
David Byrne is best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the new wave supergroup Talking Heads Byrne is known for his interests beyond music, including film and information theory, and won an academy award for his "Last Emperor&qu...
Feedburner is a great webmaster's resource for resyndicating blogs or other xml or atom sources, that was recently cited by Red Herring as one of their top 100 new technology companies
Jeffery Deaver is a popular writer of detective thrillers, who began his writing career as a journalist. He later became a practicing attorney, then began writing fiction. His first book, Manhattan Is My Beat was published in 1988.
Penguin publishes a very nice selection of Children's classic literature, much of it unavailable anywhere else Penguin-who-looks-lot-like-Tux appears on his own, without permission from Linus Torvalds or anybody else.
Art History is strictly a humanities subject, and as such it is more about living life than about earning a living. If you have to ask, "What is it for?" you might not enjoy taking such a class, but in that case, the short answer would be:...
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My Everybody Eats! lens has generated a lot more traffic than I ever thought it would, probably because (a.) everybody eats, and (b.) it features the very popular Rachael Ray. In the process of building my new Stupid Squidoo Tricks lens, I found that...
Elaine Corvidae is an up-and-coming writer of "Fantasy with Attitude", beginning with her 1996 novel, Wolfkin. Her recent Dragon's Son was awarded the 2006 Eppie Award for fantasy.
From the title, I expected this to be a collection of picture-books and bed-time stories. There are a few of those, but generally this would be better termed The Teen & Young Adult Collection. Confusion aside, there are a few titles in here I've...
O'Reilly & Associates began publishing computer-related books in 1978 (before the PC revolution) with a small series of highly regarded UNIX® manuals. Their books were frequently better than the "official" documentation, if any such...
Did you write a lens for a "co-branded" group only to be hung out to dry for months? Fortunately, not many did, since these were SO hard to locate. Unfortunately they have remained hard to locate ... til now!
I'm an Eagle Scout, so I not only understand, but heartily approve of the Boy Scouts' desire to instill positive moral values in America's youth. I am not obligated to agree with every decision the BSA Central Office makes. The decision to ban gay boy...
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Lisa Randall is one of the leading young thinkers in particle physics, having become the first tenured woman theoretical physicist at both MIT and Harvard, where she now teaches.
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Health care professionals read a lot of books, but they are often too busy to struggle with Amazon.com's mediocre indexing to find what they are looking for, despite the healthy discounts offered there. These books from the Medical Specialties categor...
Subscribe to Amazon.com's daily listing of musical instuments that have shown the greatest percentage increase in sales over the past 24 hours. Contrary to the "last updated" data posted by Squidoo, this listing is refreshed daily.
During his 30-year tenure as a top cookbook editor, Roy Finamore helped guide Martha Stewart, Ina Garten, and Diana Kennedy, among others, to the bestseller lists. One Potato, Two Potato, co-authored with Molly Stevens, gave readers a taste of Finamo...
Amazon.com completed their evil experiments with the "ref=nosim" portion of their links, so the screen-scraped content here should behave normally again.
These "Top 10" lists are resyndicated every 6 hours via Amazon Web Services and FeedBurner. They are relatively "bullet-proof compared to earlier "screen-scraped" versions. Hey, I'm a "belt and suspenders" kind of gu...
"Addy Walker is a courageous, strong girl growing up in 1864, during the Civil War. Addy’s stories tell of her daring escape with her mother from slavery, and the challenges they face afterward as they try to reunite their family. But Addy...
Contrary to the "last updated" data in the sidebar to the right, the content of this page is updated hourly. Be sure to come back frequently to see what's new in portable electronics!"
"A superb series of sumptuously illustrated portable guidebooks to the very best natural wonders in every region of the United States and Canada. Author-guided hikes lead readers along favorite trails, pointing out and explaining natural highlig...
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Maybe I'm a slow learner, but I had to try out Squidoo's automated page generator. This picture of Dava is probably better than the one below, which actually looks a lot more like Albert Einstein. I've removed the empty modules and filled in the &quo...
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Peter Beinart is an author and syndicated columnist as well as a contributing editor to The New Republic. Peter served as TNR's editor for over 6 years.
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I learned early on that video game lenses get a lot of traffic. (Well, duh!) Unfortunately, I haven't had a lot of time for gaming in the last few years, which is an eternity in the fast-paced world of game development. I do spend a lot of time poking...
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Electronic gadgets are here to stay. Besides the obvious computer, audio / video, and portable categories, there are a lot of office and "miscellaneous" devices featured here.
I was surprised that celebrities (or their publicists) were posting on Squidoo's evil cousin MySpace. The idea of a website based around personal profiles just smacks of those desperate "dating" sites. No wonder parents and cops alike are h...
You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to stay abreast of developments in computer hardware and software these days. These feeds of Amazon top sellers can help. Updated hourly.
Lisa Randall is one of the leading young thinkers in particle physics, having become the first tenured woman theoretical physicist at both MIT and Harvard, where she now teaches.
Much of Western Civilization is derived from the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans, so a foundation in the Classics is essential not only for its direct benefits, but to fully understand the modern classics which often refer to them. Amazon appar...
"Paul Berman is one of the American Left's most incisive historians and thinkers, loyal to what he considers its best traditions but passionately critical of its excesses and its willingness to turn a blind eye to totalitarianism when it comes i...
Vista is the first major upgrade to Microsoft's Windows Operating System in over five years, and it is packed with the new features and capabilities users want most. Still pricey at 40% below its initial cost, even Microsft admits the OS targets manu...
I don't know much about breastfeeding, but displaying obscure products from Amazon.com is my specialty! Personally, I find the third-party recommendations at Amazon.com more credible than the sales pitches of commision-oriented associates anyway!
The Penguin (Viking) "Portable" Series offers substantial if not complete works by significant authors at bargain prices. They are indispensible volumes for any well-rounded personal library. Buy two to qualify for free shipping.
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I pretty much stole the idea for this lens from Megan Casey, athough my content is much different. I'm testing modules here before publishing them to a "real" lens. Some modules rely on third-party software to select content based on keyword...
Lensmasters, Amazon associates, and busy shoppers will find Amazon.com's most popular game-related items here. Just find your system in the "Lens Contents" in the right margin. We've developed these tools to help people find products they mi...
Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D. is one practitioner of modern western medicine who does not subscribe to the notion that there is a pill for every ailment. Rather he advocates a more proactive approach not to the mere absence of identifiable disease, but the p...
For nearly half a century, Haynes Johnson has reported on American history as it happens, including a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the civil rights battles in Selma, Alabama, years as a national affairs columnist for the Washington Post and a...
Firefox® won't balance the federal budget or bring about peace in our time, but it just may be the best browser for you. As a webmaster, I generally use Internet Explorer, not because I like it, but because it is so prevalent that pages must "...
2006-08-02 Amazon.com announced today in in their associates-only web pages that they were releasing a new "beta" program called Omakase links. The links will combine data from Amazon's associate & customer databases as well as context i...
Oprah may not like hamburgers, but her book club has done a lot to raise the public awareness of decent literature in recent years. If you like, you can view the FAQ and join Oprah's Books Club®. Book Club members save 10% on selected Amazon Merch...
Originally intended to nudge Google into indexing redirected links, (Huh?) this lens has proven to be a pretty interesting portal for browsing Amazon.com's book categories. Not only does it present a wide variety of specific topics, but both the lens...
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The American literary tradition is so rich and varied that the Penguin Classics editors have grouped the collection into two volumes, with Volume I focused on the novels, short stories, and poetry through the 19th century, and Volume II focused on th...
Martha Stewart opted to serve a five-month sentence for "something" after a lengthy public witch-hunt worthy of Ken Starr failed to produce evidence of alledged insider trading. The charge is currently under appeal, but Martha is now back o...
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Jeffery Deaver, former attorney and folksinger, is the internationally bestselling author of 22 suspense novels, which have sold in 150 countries and been translated into 30 languages.
This "Lens" is not intended to be a shopping page, although the links do click through to Amazon.com, and it can be used that way. Rather it is one of several tools we've developed to help Lensmasters and Amazon associates find products they...
Amazon.com invites readers to write guides focussing on products for a specific task, e.g. "So you'd like to ..." (escape from the lab and take over the world.) Here are a number of specially commissioned "expert" guides from Amazo...
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Most free public websites prohibit "promoting gambling" as well as various other activities which may be illegal in some jurisdictions. If I'm not mistaken, Squidoo has such a discalimer This lens DOES NOT promote gambling. We have made no l...
Here are Amazon.com's most popular CDs by category, updated hourly. Sorry, Amazon deleted the popular Free Downloads feed, and inexplicably the profitable "Gear & Gadgets feed.
IP routers -- often called broadband routers or just routers -- direct network traffic to its proper destination, and so help to reduce the load on every system in the network. Once the exclusive domain of IT professionals, a wide variety of small but...
The American literary tradition is so rich and varied that the Penguin Classics editors have grouped the collection into two volumes, with Volume I focused on the novels, short stories, and poetry through the 19th century, and Volume II focused on th...
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"Samantha Parkington is a bright, compassionate, generous girl being raised by her wealthy grandmother in 1904, during a time of great change. Samantha’s world is filled with frills and finery, parties and play. But Samantha sees that time...
For legal reasons, I must insist that you visit "virtual Springfield". Thank you. My Klingon-inspired space-age 'bots have determined that these products will amaze and delight you. Please do not get fingerprints on the display case. If you c...
"Since becoming the editor of The New Republic in 1999 (a position he left this spring to become an editor-at-large at the magazine), Peter Beinart has been one of the sharpest and most influential political writers around, and after 9/11 he was...
Goldfrapp is billed as a duo consisting of lead singer Alison Goldfrapp and composer Will Gregory, so apparently other band members are not considered permanent. The group has enjoyed considerable critical and popular acclaim in Europe, but is relativ...
U.S. foreign policy, warns Ian Bremmer, is too often based on a simplistic formula: engage America's friends and isolate her enemies. Bremmer's provocative and persuasive new book, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall, revea...
John W. Dean, a former counsel to the president of the United States, after recently retiring from the world of business, has turned to writing and lecturing full time about the ways and means of government in Washington.
Amazon.com invites readers to publish guides on products for a specific purpose, e.g. "So you'd like to ..." win a million dollars and move to Tahiti. Here are Amazon.com's Top 100 Reader's Guides, according to Amazon's own ranking system.
What was Peter the Great's last heroic act? How deep is the Black Sea? What's the coldest place on earth? Find answers to all of your questions in a National Geographic reference title
The American Girl® brand was established in 1986 by educator & entrepreneur Pleasant T. Rowland. Mattel acquired American Girl's parent Pleasant Company in 1998.
Anyone can write a Listmania! list, but Amazon.com's book department editors do an especially good job. Here are more of their lists, including some deep discounts.
David Suzuki is an acclaimed scientist, broadcaster, and environmentalist. For over 40 years, he's been educating the public about environmental issues--both in the classroom and over the airwaves as the host of the long-running television program 'T...
Amazon.com lost a court battle with Toys"R"Us, apparently because they hadn't lived up to the "exclusivity" terms of their contract with Geoffry & Co. That really put this page through some changes, but it appears that the dus...
When I first began contributing to Squidoo, I wondered, "Who is Seth Godin?" On the theory that if I'm wondering about something, somewhere, sometime, somehow, somebody else will be wondering about it, too -- I wrote a lens about Seth. I was...
This lens contains opinions that cannot currently be verified for 100% accuracy. I will stipulate that the use of the word "scam" does not imply that Squidoo LLC is currently under indictment for fraud.
I've been like a kid with a new toy since I discovered Feed 43, an online service that will (with a little HTML-massage) create an RSS feed from "any" page. The Feed 43 Announcements blog recently (16 JUN 06) unveiled the long-anticipated p...
I've been fortunate to help out with the stage management functions at the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddler's Convention for the last six or seven years, and I've been looking for a way to encourage a greater web presence for the event. Students, ca...
