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1. GreekGeeks Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found News!

So, you want to learn how to build good Squidoo lenses (or any kind of webpage) and attract lots of visitors! Here's ten quick steps to help bring web traffic your way. Credentials: I came here with zero web marketing experience, but my first lens was selected as Lens of the Day a week and a half...
SEO & Affiliate Marketing - Mon, 12 May 2008 03:30:41

2. SquidU Lensmaster Lounge: Help for Newbies

The SquidU Lensmaster Lounge is a great place to learn new Squidoo techniques, ask questions, and get to know your fellow Lensmasters. But what if you've never used an online discussion forum before? Are you trying to get links to work? Wonder how to get that picture to show up under your name? H...
How-To & Education - Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:03:34

3. Russell Martin of the LA Dodgers News!

Less 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 originally created before the 2007 All-Star Game to show basebal...
Sports & Recreation - Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:54:04

4. Funny Signs News!

Ever seen an unintentionally funny sign that made you go "What?!!" Perhaps you remember the infamous "Cruise Ships Use Airport Exit" freeway sign outside of San Diego? This lens is dedicated to the weird phrases that people try to cram onto billboards, banners, and signs. It is inspired by the ...
Entertainment - Thu, 01 May 2008 03:35:43

5. Volcanoes Are Hot Stuff

A 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 volcanoes in the last century or so, but when a volcano stir...
Animals & Nature - Thu, 01 May 2008 01:19:17

6. Yes, 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. The first models were smaller than a Toyota...
Cars & Trucks - Fri, 02 May 2008 18:08:54

7. Convert Your Prius to a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV): Even More Gas-Efficient!

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 assumed it was a customer satisfaction survey of some sort. In fa...
Cars & Trucks - Thu, 01 May 2008 05:21:57

8. Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Travellers Journal News!

Myth major seeks armchair travellers, 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 in my imagination for almost 30 years. During ...
Travel - Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:59:44

9. Advanced CSS: Layout Tricks and Lab Experiments News!

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 you're already comfortable with HTML and some ...
How-To & Education - Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:48

10. How to Build a Pyramid Kite

Alexander Graham Bell is well-known as the inventor of the telephone, but few people realize he also invented an early form of airplane! Well, not quite. It wasn't a plane -- a flat wing -- but a tetrahedron, a pyramid-like* structure with four sides. (Count 'em. The sides are shaped like triangl...
How-To & Education - Thu, 01 May 2008 01:25:36

11. Aligning Graphics on Web Pages News!

Want to place a picture on a web page or lens? Need side-by-side graphics and text? Or are just trying to align an image left, right or center? First, I'll review Squidoo's built-in ways of uploading pictures onto your lenses. Then I'll show you how to use HTML for greater control and flexibilit...
How-To & Education - Thu, 01 May 2008 05:07:28

12. 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 makes your pet smell weird. It's apostrophe abuse. Tho...
How-To & Education - Thu, 01 May 2008 19:16:31

13. Squidoo Modules List News!

Modules are the building blocks of Squidoo, like widgets in blogs. Each module has certain settings you can change and customize to fit your lens (web page). For example, there's modules for photo galleries, displaying a Youtube video, polls, lists of links, or Post-It ТЎ style notes (see below)...
How-To & Education - Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:26:34

14. Ancient Greece Odyssey Index

This will be an index, table of contents, and guide to my online book, Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal. Following the Table of Contents, I am compiling a list of all my photos with their descriptions, and a list of all the websites I recommended divided by categories. If you haven't...
Travel - Thu, 01 May 2008 20:50:59

15. Thoth

Thoth, 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 Answer Man, and divine Secretary-in-Chief. The...
People - Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:58:25

16. 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 travel in style. I won't say "in comfort," but a good under-the-seat pet carrier lets us snuggle close to our owner's feet, where we ca...
Animals & Nature - Sun, 04 May 2008 00:18:13

17. 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 and informative to read, but sometimes you ju...
How-To & Education - Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:45:06

18. Sappho

Sappho, 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 papyri reused as padding in late Egyptian mummies....
People - Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:31:01

19. Ancient Greece Odyssey: Part Five

Welcome, traveller. If you have just washed up on these shores from elsewhere, I invite you to start at the beginning of my journey, and head back to Athens and the first chapter of this online e-book: Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal. Otherwise, welcome back, dear readers. It's time...
Travel - Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:23:42

20. Olympias: Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Trireme

The 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 arts, monuments, and institutions sowed the see...
Travel - Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:22:45

21. Not Your Garden Variety Orchid: Flower with Tude

This is a totally silly lens without much redeeming value, but... well... anyway. I saw this little guy 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 ...
Entertainment - Sat, 03 May 2008 20:50:13

22. How-to Photoshop Trick: 3-D Picture Frame for Photo

Plopping a web graphic directly on a web page is fine, but plain. Here is a way to make it look 3-D, like a photograph lying on a flat surface. You will need Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements, or a full version of Photoshop (one that uses Layers). In the instructions below, when I say Cmd/Ctrl-D o...
How-To & Education - Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:22:32

23. Ancient Greece Odyssey: Part Two

Welcome to Part Two of Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal, a travel blog by a student of classics and comparative mythology. This section covers my third day in Athens, including my visit to the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the National Museum, and the Theater of Dionysos...
Travel - Sat, 10 May 2008 05:43:38

24. Greekgeeks Lensography

Greetings from Greekgeek, storyteller and scholar. Here are most of my Squidoo lenses, for your delectation and bewilderment. For newcomers to Squidoo, a "lens" is a web page focusing on one topic, combining original information with hand-picked links to the best pictures, videos, books and sit...
People - Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:54:01

25. Boost Your Self-Confidence With a Magic Cloak

Some people are born confident, and then there's the rest of us. Public speaking, interviews, and even social mixers can feel like the Inquisition. I've heard of various psychological techniques for boosting self-confidence and quashing stage fright. There's the old "pretend everyone in the audi...
DIY & Hobbies - Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:03:59

26. 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. This lens is part of my Travel Threads collection,...
Travel - Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:50:01

27. Samhain 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 shelter on Hallowe'en 1996. My owner claims she named ...
Animals & Nature - Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:05:01

28. Ancient Greece Odyssey: Part Three

Welcome to Part Three of Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal, a travel blog by a student of classics and comparative mythology. This page will focus on my visit to the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis. Below you will find: My retelling of the myth of Demeter and Persephone...
Travel - Thu, 01 May 2008 05:27:55

29. 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 Hollywood wearing designer spandex that actually flatter...
Sports & Recreation - Thu, 01 May 2008 09:04:16

30. Ancient Greece Odyssey: Part Four

31. 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 provide a platform for getting quality backlinks that search engines will like, and to compile a huge library of user-submitted information, called "intel." It was opened to the...
SEO & Affiliate Marketing - Sat, 10 May 2008 17:12:16

32. Aeschylus

Aeschylus 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 and the gods, while challenging the gods themse...
Arts & Literature - Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:14:58

33. Sister Unity

Storyteller, 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 storytelling and bringing myths to life, and that alone m...
People - Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:46:06

34. 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 they genious? I've been a connoisseur of the weird, silly an...
Entertainment - Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:32:44

35. 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 aware of wars and military operations. I read ...
Computers, Gadgets & Tech - Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:19:16

36. The Golden Key by George MacDonald

"For my part, I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, fifty, or seventy-five." George MacDonald: The Complete Fairy Tales You have stumbled upon a free e-book of a little-known children's short story from another era. George MacDonald, friend of Lewis Carroll, was a ...
Arts & Literature - Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:56:50

37. Student Bloopers: A Connoisseurs Collection

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. Teachers: at the bottom of this page there's space for ...
How-To & Education - Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:34:03

38. 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 of the Rings from the 70s? Peter is an incredib...
Arts & Literature - Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:45:05

39. Jackie Robinson: An American Hero

Sixty years ago, on April 15th, 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto a baseball diamond in Brooklyn, New York. That was a few years after African-American soldiers came home from defending America and freedom in World War II, only to discover they had to use "colored" restrooms, "colored" d...
People - Fri, 16 May 2008 18:11:42

40. Greekgeeks Squidoo Stats

Following Giant Squid bdkz's lead, I'm going to start tracking my Squidoo stats here: lensrank, earnings, and traffic. For consistency's sake, I'm going to use her method of tracking Lensrank: # of Lenses in the Top 100 = I count 1 - 100 # of Lenses in the Top 1,000 = I count 1 - 1,000 # of Len...
People - Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:49:29

41. The Blizzard of 78

If 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 mobilized. Homes washed away. People froze on freeways ...
News & Politics - Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:29:42

42. Henry The Hexapus

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 Blackpool Sea Life Centre in northwest England. At first staffers didn't know there was anything u...
People - Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:34:13

43. 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 recent trilogy of films were a smashing success...
Arts & Literature - Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:54:29

44. Dar Williams

Dar 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 catchy tune far more complicated than you'd thin...
People - Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:15:58

45. 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 can be utterly nonstick. But that's not why I s...
Food & Cooking - Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:36:57

46. "Its 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 all sorts of information about the art, monuments, sites -- and...
Shopping - Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:07:04

47. Ginette Paris

Dr. 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 dissertations. She is an honorary member of the Jung...
People - Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:34:23

48. 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 national dialogue from the economy, crime, mak...
News & Politics - Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:01:53

49. 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 profiles on gods and goddesses? Joe Campbell, meet We...
Entertainment - Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:13:55

50. 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 country, where hedgerows, fields, farmhouses and c...
Travel - Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:47:34

51. Travel Threads: 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 it. I took it with my to my undergraduate colleg...
Travel - Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:42:20

52. Director Alex de Campi: Video Showcase

Here'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)." Her video for Thomas Truax's "Why Dogs Howl at th...
Movies & TV - Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:16:48

53. The 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 neighborly and safe cul-de-sac, it had easy-clean lami...
Arts & Literature - Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:38:16

54. WindFire CursorУЂТТЂ Kite: The Best Kite Ever

I've seen and flown some beautiful kites, but if I could get my hands on this baby, even my two-masted full-rigged ship kite would never leave the house. No, these images aren't Photoshopped! This off-the-wall kite is the creation of Tim Elverston of WindFire Designs. His web page proclaims it a...
Computers, Gadgets & Tech - Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:51:56

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