glassfacts.info

I recently posted about a new website:

http://www.glassfacts.info

In addition to fixing a bug that was preventing most Canadians from
being able to subscribe (sorry) I've added the ability to single click
back and for to see the different glass facts for other days and to
browse a list of topic.

For those who haven't visited I invite you to do so. The site is free
(no popups or anything like that) and has a new bit of glass history,
science, technique or something else every day.

- paul

While almost certainly not the fault of glassfacts.info, Damion Prior, first
prize winner in 2/5 item, is said to be from Dallas, while his web site says
he is from Austin. And Damion's web site is, for me, an example of useless
"features" which delay loading, especially on dial up. The first of which
is a set of blue vertical bars that follow the mouse cursor. Clicking on a
word on the screen drops most of the words to the bottom and flicks on a new
menu. Choosing to look at Sculpture gets eventually to an image with a
stack of boxes to the right that turn out to be keys to quick change images.
Oh, by the way, don't use your back arrow - it takes you to the Enter page
of the whole site.

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Mike Firth
Hot Glass Bits Furnace Working Website
http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/hotbit47.htm Latest notes

wrote in message
ups.com...
I recently posted about a new website:

http://www.glassfacts.info

In addition to fixing a bug that was preventing most Canadians from
being able to subscribe (sorry) I've added the ability to single click
back and for to see the different glass facts for other days and to
browse a list of topic.

For those who haven't visited I invite you to do so. The site is free
(no popups or anything like that) and has a new bit of glass history,
science, technique or something else every day.

- paul

A perfect example of a website produced by someone who has all the
tricks...and used every damn one of them. What a waste of bandwidth!!!

"Mike Firth" wrote in message
...
While almost certainly not the fault of glassfacts.info, Damion Prior,
first
prize winner in 2/5 item, is said to be from Dallas, while his web site
says
he is from Austin. And Damion's web site is, for me, an example of
useless
"features" which delay loading, especially on dial up. The first of which
is a set of blue vertical bars that follow the mouse cursor. Clicking on
a
word on the screen drops most of the words to the bottom and flicks on a
new
menu. Choosing to look at Sculpture gets eventually to an image with a
stack of boxes to the right that turn out to be keys to quick change
images.
Oh, by the way, don't use your back arrow - it takes you to the Enter page
of the whole site.

--
Mike Firth
Hot Glass Bits Furnace Working Website
http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/hotbit47.htm Latest notes

wrote in message
ups.com...
I recently posted about a new website:

http://www.glassfacts.info

In addition to fixing a bug that was preventing most Canadians from
being able to subscribe (sorry) I've added the ability to single click
back and for to see the different glass facts for other days and to
browse a list of topic.

For those who haven't visited I invite you to do so. The site is free
(no popups or anything like that) and has a new bit of glass history,
science, technique or something else every day.

- paul

In article ,
"Moonraker" wrote:

A perfect example of a website produced by someone who has all the
tricks...and used every damn one of them. What a waste of bandwidth!!!

While I agree that flashy (and especially _Flash_) web sites
are irritating, I found some interesting things on the site.
Chiefly pointers to other sites....

Mike Beede

[Do you have a fact checker for that site? Or are these "facts" just
something you guess at, when you're not busy soliciting advertisements? In
yesterday's entry, on tektites, you state they are of unknown origin, when
most people who have studied the subject (except for someone at NASA, which
flies rockets but isn't composed of gemologists) agree they are glassy
spatters resulting from meteor impacts which melt the rock they hit and
spray it around the crater. Here are some links supporting this consensus:

http://www.yourgemologist.com/moldavite.html
http://www-phys.llnl.gov/tektite/tek...efinition.html
http://www-phys.llnl.gov/tektite/faq.html
http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/metsoc/techweb.htm

There's a lot of information on the Web, but not all is factual. Try to get
to the bottom of things before adding to the confusion out there...]

Andrew Werby
www.unitedartworks.com

wrote in message
ups.com...
I recently posted about a new website:

http://www.glassfacts.info

In addition to fixing a bug that was preventing most Canadians from
being able to subscribe (sorry) I've added the ability to single click
back and for to see the different glass facts for other days and to
browse a list of topic.

For those who haven't visited I invite you to do so. The site is free
(no popups or anything like that) and has a new bit of glass history,
science, technique or something else every day.

- paul

(I didn't realize, when got an email from Mr. Werby, that he had posted
the same content here. Fwiw -- probably not much -- here's the
response I sent him. I never heard back.)

I'm not sure what you point is. I wrote:

"...they are believed to be from outer space that theory has yet to be
proven"

All of your sources agree to varying degrees:

http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/metsoc/techweb.htm says:

"...thought by most scientists today to be melt products of terrestrial
rocks formed by hypervelocity impacts of large, extraterrestrial
objects"

http://www.yourgemologist.com/moldavite.html says:

"Rather it is a natural glass reported to be formed by the heating of
silicon rich rocks at the impact point of a meteorite. That are many
possible ways in which it can form but the meteorite theory has the
most industry acceptance...and is the most fun."

http://www-phys.llnl.gov/tektite/faq.html says:

"I believe I fairly state that the consensus of the vast majority of
the planetary science community is that tektites are terrestrial impact
melt."

So I used the words "believed to be" and your sources used "thought
by", "reported to be" and (my favorite) "I believe I fairly state that
the consensus...".

I'm more than glad to make correct mistakes when I make them -- but the
bottom line is that the my definition is factually accurate.

Tektites are believed to be from meteor impacts but that has not been
proven. That sentence is factual and accurate.

As for my diligence in research accuracy, I'm very careful to rely on
what I believe to be credible sources. I'll trust information from NASA
over "yourgemologist.com" every time.

If you don't like the site, you disapprove of my research methodology,
and/or you have a moral opposition to advertising then I invite you not
to visit the site.

- Paul

Andrew Werby wrote:
[Do you have a fact checker for that site? Or are these "facts" just
something you guess at, when you're not busy soliciting
advertisements? In
yesterday's entry, on tektites, you state they are of unknown origin,
when
most people who have studied the subject (except for someone at NASA,
which
flies rockets but isn't composed of gemologists) agree they are
glassy
spatters resulting from meteor impacts which melt the rock they hit
and
spray it around the crater. Here are some links supporting this
consensus:

http://www.yourgemologist.com/moldavite.html
http://www-phys.llnl.gov/tektite/tek...efinition.html
http://www-phys.llnl.gov/tektite/faq.html
http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/metsoc/techweb.htm

There's a lot of information on the Web, but not all is factual. Try
to get
to the bottom of things before adding to the confusion out there...]

Andrew Werby
www.unitedartworks.com

wrote in message
ups.com...
I recently posted about a new website:

http://www.glassfacts.info

In addition to fixing a bug that was preventing most Canadians from
being able to subscribe (sorry) I've added the ability to single
click
back and for to see the different glass facts for other days and to
browse a list of topic.

For those who haven't visited I invite you to do so. The site is
free
(no popups or anything like that) and has a new bit of glass
history,
science, technique or something else every day.

- paul

Thanks for the catch Mike. I fixed it.

- Paul