ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP HITS THE WEB
Three men, 4000 miles, seven days. Roadside America is the online sequel to the hardcopy travel guide to the off-beat, "New Roadside America." Follow along as the authors seek out odd people and out-of-the-way places, downloading their dispatches, photos and home movies every step of the way. Always wondered about the Mutter Preserve of Medical Curiosities? Look no farther than Wired's Web server or AOL area. "http://www.wired.com/"
The "WWW Virtual Library: Sports," formerly known as "The Stringers Sports Page," has changed its name and significantly broadened its scope. The link remains the same, only the name of the page has changed. Becoming part of the WWW Virtual Library, hosted by CERN, means more sports links are now available. Chances are that whatever your sport this well organized Web page will have a link to it. Links to all the major sports, plus windsurfing, fencing, orienteering, rowing, speed skating, Australian football rules and much more. "http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/sports/sports.html"
TOUR DE FRANCE WEB SERVER ON THE NET
Beginning June 30, VeloNews, The Journal of Competitive Cycling, is offering daily Tour de France updates, direct from their correspondents in France. Users of the service can also post questions about the Tour to the correspondents, who will supply answers when possible. Other information will be available on the service concerning teams, route maps, etc. VeloNewsTDF@aol.com "http://cob.fsu.edu/velonews/". Runs through July 25.
EXPLORE EUROPEAN SERVERS WITH EASE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
You can explore Europe and many European Web Servers on the net from the colorful "European Home Page". If you can display images, it shows a map and flags of 26 nations, and uses them as selection points for navigation. Otherwise, CERN's text list of sites is available for selections. Also, a new Romanian Home Page from Canada points to the European Home as well as a Romanian language gopher in Switzerland. European Home Page "http://s700.uminho.pt/europa.html" Romanina Home "http://www.polymtl.ca:8001/zuse/tavi/www/Romania.html"
GOPHER JEWELS HAS NEW LOOK AND FEEL
Gopher Jewels, the phenomenally successful and comprehensive list of Gopher sites, has reorganized their menu structure to aid in navigating this extensive netsurfing resource. In addition they are developing new tools to automatically check broken Gopher links, tools they plan on making public after the usual debugging effort. Pointers to Gopher Jewels top menu require no change. Links to any other Gopher Jewels directory will be broken with this reorganization. "gopher://cwis.usc.edu/11/Other_Gophers_and_Information_Resources/ Gophers_by_Subject/Gopher_Jewels"
FINNISH MATH WWW SERVER FEATURES MATHEMATICAL ANIMATIONS
The Center for Scientific Computing, the Finnish national supercomputer center in Espoo, Finland, provides information for a variety of mathematics-related topics in its CSC Mathematical Topics server. Links are provided to numerous math resources on the net. The center recently added a collection of MPEG format mathematical animations: "http://www.csc.fi/math_topics/Movies/". If math becomes tedious follow their "Virtual Tourist" link for a hop around travel resources worldwide. "http://www.csc.fi/math_topics/General.html" "gopher://gopher.csc.fi:70/11/tiede/matematiikka/"
16-BIT NATIVE CHINESE TEXT ON WWW
An experimental Chinese web server funded by National University of Singapore provides links to several other Chinese sites as well as WWW client software capable of displaying two-byte Chinese characters. With this software it is possible to view their sample text, Sun Tzu's masterpiece "The Art of War," in its native form. Links are provided to enable viewing the text in three different types of coding systems. "http://biomed.nus.sg/CM/cweb/cstart.html"
UK HISTORY BUFFS TAKE NOTE: NATIONAL ARCHIVES ONLINE
The National Register of Archives in London has increased its FTP collection with documents ranging from military matters and performing arts archives to criminal, legal, or women's history. Even genealogy is covered. Do you have an ancestor in King Henry's court? "ftp://ftp:coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/uk-nra-archives"
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER CANADA GOPHER
The Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC) aims to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected as new information technologies emerge. To that end, the group has instituted a Gopher with sections devoted to the Charter, information law and the Canadian media. Currently, much discussion centers on the use of electronic communication to circumvent an infamous Ontario publication ban on details of the ongoing Homolka kidnapping and murder trial. "gopher://gopher.ee.mcgill.ca"
WWW GUIDE TO CIVIC NETWORKING AVAILABLE
A new World-Wide Web guide to creating community networks lists related topics and pointers to examples of existing civic networks. In addition, the guide provides links to various networks, archives and documents of interest to network developers. The guide is on the U. of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies Home Page. From the home page, select "ILS-related information and services," then look for the guide in the category of "Community networking resources." "http://http2.sils.umich.edu/"
U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE'S WWW SERVER IS OPEN FOR BROWSING
Some interesting documents behind all of the fancy, colorful mini- graphics on the opening screen. The text of the Executive Order which established the U.S. Advisory Council On The National Information Infrastructure, and many documents on redesign of the government and our military branches are there. Interesting site for political science research. "http://enterprise.osd.mil"
WWW FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
This excellent introduction to the WWW is aimed at people who know a bit about navigating the Internet, but want to know more about WWW specifically. "http://siva.cshl.org/~boutell/www_faq.html" "ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/faq"
The Molecular Manufacturing Shortcut Group, a chapter of the National Space Society, has WWW pages focusing on applications of nanotechnology to the exploration, exploitation and colonization of space. "http://www.gpl.net/mmsg/mmsg.html"
The Bradley University Amateur Radio Club has set up a WWW page that contains information about the club, searchable links to locate hams and general ham information available. Nothing on eggs, though. "http://buarc.bradley.edu/"
The Human-Languages Page includes a German-English dictionary, "Travelers Japanese" lessons, and ten other links. It's in English only, until translators volunteer. "http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html"
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Gopher now offers documents from press releases to major publications. "telnet://hqfaus01.unicef.org" and type user ID "gopher" "gopher://gopher/hqfaus01.unicef.org."
HELP SAVE NASA'S BUDGET - SPACE ACTIVISM HOME PAGE
NASA's budget is currently under review in Congress. If you're interested in supporting space development and exploration and want information, visit the Space Activism home page. "http://muon.qrc.com/space/start.html" "telnet://sunsite.unc.edu",login: "lynx", type "g" (for go to) then type "http://muon.qrc.com/space/start.html"
NOT JUST COWS - AGRICULTURE ON THE NET
Not Just Cows, a guide to agricultural science resources on the Internet, is available via Gopher. The file is in HTML format without any graphics. "gopher://snymorva.cs.snymor.edu/hhgopher_root1/not_just_cows.html"
WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASES - WITH LOVE FROM BILL TO YOU
Daily summaries of White House press releases are available. Send a message to "almanac@esusda.gov" with "subscribe wh-summary" in the body to subscribe. If you have any questions, contact "wh-admin@esusda.gov".
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE REGISTRY
The registry summarizes language-processing software available to researchers, with the terms on which it can be acquired. They will include your own natural language system if you complete a questionnaire. "http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/cl/registry/draft.html" "ftp://ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de/pub/registry/"
Purdue University hosts a currency converter that is updated weekly. Watch the dollar sink like a rock online. "http://www.ora.com/cgi-bin/ora/currency"
GOODS AND MACHINERY RECYCLING CONTACT NETWORK ON WWW
Global Recycling Network is an information service set up on the Internet to help businesses around the world recycle resources, surplus manufactured goods and outdated or used machinery. "http://www.clinet.fi/grn/"
INTERNET SLIP STARTER KIT FOR WINDOWS AVAILABLE
Aztec Information Management is now offering via FTP a starter kit to run a Slip connection under Windows 3.1. The components, which include telnet, mail, news, ftp, archie, and winsock are all tested and ready to go; better yet, they are all public domain or shareware "ftp://aztec.co.za/pub/win3/Slip_Starter_Kit". Send email to Jean van Eeden at jve@aztec.co.za for information or problem reports.
WINSOCK SOFTWARE LISTING USEFUL FOR INTERNET BEGINNERS
To help newcomers avoid installation problems edsink@mbnet.mb.ca has compiled a listing of (Trumpet) winsock compatible Windows packages. The listing includes latest version info, filenames, file sizes, some personal comments, and covers a broad spectrum with about 20 packages. "ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/misc/winter01.zip"
GENIE INTRODUCES WINDOWS FRONT END
GEnie, one of the major commercial online services has finally introduced front end software using the Windows GUI. The usual online browsing and offline mail access features are supported. Subscribers can download the GUI by typing M1465 or the keyword, FRONTEND, at any GEnie Page prompt. Vivian Kelly +1 301 340 4494
HOTMETAL V1.0B - WYSIWYG HTML EDITOR FOR WINDOWS, SPARC MOTIF
In a fit of refreshing candor we must admit that we don't know much about it but we figured our readers may be interested. "ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/Mosaic/contrib/SoftQuad/hotmetal"
NCSA MOSAIC FOR THE MACINTOSH 2.0.0 ALPHA 2 RELEASED
While faster then the alpha 1 release, and with several fixes for annoying display bugs, this version has the abort download feature (command-period) disabled. This is a fatal problem particularly if you are using it over a modem SLIP link, where long downloads are the rule. Now there is no way to abort a long and uninteresting data transfer. Recommended only for those with fast Internet links. "ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Mac/"
SIMPLE HTML EDITOR (S.H.E.) HYPERCARD STACK FOR THE MAC
A nifty HyperCard based editor has all the basics for producing HTML documents with a minimum of fuss. Advantages: Nice tool pallet, Forms support, comprehensive HTML support, easy to use. Drawbacks: Text display area limited to the size of a card, maximum text size is 32K. Best used for formatting text rather then composing it. A well designed effort. "ftp://ericmorgan.lib.ncsu.edu/Public/simple-http-editor.hqx" "ftp://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/software/mac/simple-http-editor.hqx"
L-SOFT ANNOUNCES LISTSERV FOR UNIX
One of the most popular list server software packages, until now confined to VMS, will shortly be available for various flavors of UNIX. Beta evaluation versions are available, and the final versions are expected to be released this summer. To order a free evaluation copy, send mail to SALES@LSOFT.COM and indicate the brand of UNIX you are running.
CERN LINE MODE BROWSER 2.14 AVAILABLE FOR UNIX
This character based World-Wide Web browser can be run in interactive mode, non-interactive mode, and as a proxy client. Furthermore it gives a variety of possibilities for data format conversion, filtering etc. Precompiled binaries are available for various flavors of UNIX. Source code: "tp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/src/WWWLineMode_2.14.tar.Z" Documentation: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/LineMode/Status.html" E-Mail: www-bug@info.cern.ch
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