The Web was made for places like the Websurf Page "...where the grits are chewy, days short, and the drinks on the house." Jason Newquist has put together with great humor and a unified visual motif one of the finest root pages for seriously fun Web surfing. Try the TIDEPOOL for some of the most interesting sites, the PRETZEL BAR for great art, the FINAL FRONTIER for space, and our two favorites, CYBERCENSUS with over 100 personal home pages from around the world, and DRIVETHRU where food and beer reign supreme. A gateway into the best of web space. "http://pubweb.ucdavis.edu/Documents/Quotations/web/websurf.html"
WELL ORGANIZED CYBERWEB IS A GOLD MINE FOR WEB WORKERS
An extensive tree of Web-building and Web-using information pointers goes by the name "CyberWeb." You'll find it organized into categories like the Usenet newsgroups under comp.infosystems.www: providers, users, and miscellaneous. There are point-and-click links to everything from tools to tutorials, MIME to Perl, clients to conferences. This is a great site for anyone working with the World Wide Web. It's moving soon, but for now it's at: "http://www.charm.net/~web/"
BBC HOSTS CLASSY & EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH ENGINE PAGE
The British Broadcasting Corporation (really, the BBC!) is maintaining a fantastic home Web page of Internet search tools. If you have a forms-capable browser you can perform keyword searches of numerous databases of sources such as WWW and gopher sites, Usenet FAQs, Unix man pages, people on the net, libraries, bibliographies and much more. Each search engine has a short description, a forms field where you can enter your query and hints are included on the best way to set up each search. "http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/babbage/iap.html"
TAKE A WALK DOWN THE REAL STREETS OF A VIRTUAL WEBWORLD
Forget SimCity. The real thing is happening on WebWorld, a two-month-old virtual community you can travel through and even help construct. Claim your own spot on the map interface, or just visit. This is one of the most interesting WWW spots for a stroll, but you'll find it faster to parachute down to specific sites from the large map on the welcome page than to literally scroll down the streets and through the woods. You'll find everything you can in a real city - businesses, services, people, parks. The most popular building by far, with over 120 visits per day: SinCity. "http://sailfish.peregrine.com/WebWorld/welcome.html"
GUESS THE DISEASE & DROOL ON ZARF'S GAME LIST
Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web is just that. Divided into two sections, "Interactive Games" and "Interactive Toys," the page contains links to many games bizarre and mundane. Among your options are "Drool," in which you play a dog, "Guess the Disease," a variation of the traditional what-animal-am-I guessing game, and a number of adventure games. The toys include such items as a Tarot card reader and the now-famous virtual frog dissection kit. "http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/zarf/www/games.html"
People in the newsgroup rec.puzzles, tired of seeing the same brain teasers over and over again from newbies who weren't following the group the last time these same puzzles came up, have created what may be the most complete FAQ on the Net. You can request puzzles with their definitive solutions by E-mail, check out the archives directly by FTP, or send mind twisters to the Puzzle Oracle, which guarantees some kind of response within two days, even if it's just "We're puzzled." To get an index of solutions, send mail to archive-request@questrel.com with "[your return address] send index" in the body of the message. "ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/Usenet/news.answers/puzzles/archive" E-mail: puzzle-oracle@questrel.com
This is a straightforward page with the expected discography and lyrics listings for the band as well as a link to various press releases and articles about them. Serious fans will like the QuickTime videos of Rappin' With The Rickster and Sabotage, and some unreleased footage of the latter. "http://www.nando.net:80/music/gm/BeastieBoys/"
PLOT YOUR COURSE AROUND TOWN WITH "SUBWAY NAVIGATOR"
This interactive service lets you choose starting and ending points on metro systems of select cities around the world, including Vienna, Paris, Munich, Athens, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, London, Boston, New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. In your choice of French or English, Subway Navigator will map out your route and tell you how long the trip should take. The only drawback? You need to know in advance the "official" name for each subway station you'd like to visit. All trains now departing at: "gopher://gopher.jussieu.fr/11/metro"
ENDANGERED SPECIES INFORMATION AVAILABLE VIA E-MAIL
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently made some endangered species data available over the wires. Although there is no WWW site as of yet, you can obtain a variety of items through e-mail, including the current list of threatened and endangered species, text of The Endangered Species Act, The Plant Notice of Review, and most interesting, several species maps. E-mail R9IRMLIB@mail.fws.gov with "Send ES Instructions" in the Subject line. You'll then receive a list of more retrieval commands.
NEW RESOURCE GUIDE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
"The DO-IT Guide to Disability Resources on the Internet" features a collection of mailing lists, newsletters, newsgroups and gopher sites which contain information of interest to people with disabilities. The list is brief but thorough, and can be obtained by mailing Dean Martineau at deamar@u.washington.edu or at the following URL: "gopher://hawking.u.washington.edu/11/Resources_Disability"
FOR SALE BY OWNER: CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE MAGAZINE
Tired of open houses, pushy agents and no results? For Sale by Owner magazine now has a WWW home page. In what is sure to be a spreading trend, this page is designed to assist both buyers and sellers for Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and Monterey Counties in Northern California. For more information, mail fsbo@human.com or visit "http://www.human.com/mkt/fsbo/fsbo.html"
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GOPHER DISAPPOINTS
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is one of the ten largest natural history museums in the world. It is certainly well worth a visit if you happen to be in the Bay area, but its Gopher site needs work. You can find out about the museum or peruse a few of its biological catalogs and resources, but unless you REALLY like taxonomy, you might want to skip this and see the real thing. "gopher://cas.calacademy.org"
SUMMER TOO HOT? COOL OFF IN ANTARCTICA
Our friends in New Zealand are maintaining a "Gateway to Antarctica" on the Web based at the International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research. They have a cool "clickable map" for access to info in seven categories: treaty, science, education, news, tourism, environment, and logistics. Under tourism, for instance, you can find out about 3 different companies offering cruises to the world's deep freeze. You can also find a gift shop catalog and a visitor's introduction to Antarctica. Try it out! (Sun. P.M. in U.S. is Mon. A.M. there.) "http://icair.iac.org.nz/"
Wired magazine is covering this virtual tourist outing of two 12 person Russian biplanes buzzing around Siberia and the Arctic Circle. The American and Russian crews, under the bureaucratically plausible excuse of Friendship Flights, are having a grand time in a part of the world seldom visited by Western journalists. The lively accounts and pictures make for fine entertainment for those stuck behind their CRTs and wishing they had the budget to do likewise. "http://www.wired.com/Hotwired/siberia/index.html"
AUSTRIANS KNOW HOW TO PARTY: SALZBURG SUMMER FESTIVALS ONLINE
If you're in the mood for something decidedly fun, cultural and Austrian, stop by the home page of the Salzburger Festspiele, the lively theme of which is descent into Hell, and Sommerszene Festival, where you'll find, pictures and program information, and some of the art exhibits. Scene clips in the form of MGEP-Movies are available. "http://hirsch.cosy.sbg.ac.at"
loQtus has recently moved. It features several megabytes of quotations, from the staunchly literary to the humorous. "http://pubweb.ucdavis.edu/Documents/Quotations/homepage.html"
NEW FREE SOURCE OF INVESTMENT NEWS & INFO
The mailing list is sponsored by Knowledge Plus Multimedia Publishing. It's intent will be to distribute information on investment strategy, emerging technologies and companies, and IPO profiles of interest, free of charge. E-mail for info: rowzej@delphi.com
RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES HOME PAGES
Dedicated to all things Russian and Eastern European, from culture to history and government, this collection features multimedia, text and other hyperlinks. "http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html"
UNCOVER THE LATEST MELROSE PLACE GOSSIP ON COMPUSERVE
If you're a soap opera fan and have soap-related questions on such topics as story lines, casting news, or behind-the-scenes happenings, ask Jonathan Reiner in the Entertainment Drive Forum's Section 12, "Daytime Soap Scoop," or Section 15, "Nitetime Soap Scoop." Reiner gets information from sources at Soap Opera Weekly and gives special attention to the TV shows "Models Inc." and "Melrose Place." CompuServe is awarding door prizes for posted messages through August 30. To access the Entertainment Drive Forum, GO EDRIVE, an extended service.
IT COULD BE, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD WINDOWS WEB CLIENT
Then again, WinWeb Version 1.0 A2 may be just another newborn colt pretending to be a racehorse. It's alpha software and is available free from EINet. According to their news release, their MacWeb client has received positive feedback. They say that it's "designed for someone who is not a Web, or even an Internet, guru." Quite simply stated, our copy doesn't work. You can get a copy for yourself at "ftp://ftp.einet.net/einet/pc/winweb.zip"
TWO SOFTWARE PACKAGES CONVERT MAIL MESSAGES TO HTML
The first is a PERL tool called mail2html. HTML markings in the mail message are preserved, an index page is generated, as are links to previous and next messages. The other program is Hypermail 1.0 and it does similar things but is writen in C and comes with source code as well as a Sun 4.1.3 binary. Both are useful for creating mailing list archives. Mail2html info: "http://www.uci.edu/indiv/ehood" Mail2html: "ftp://ftp.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html/perlWWW.15July.1994.tar.gz" Hypermail Info: "http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html" Hypermail: "ftp://ftp.eit.com/pub/web.software/hypermail"
BETA GOPHER SERVER FOR WINDOWS NT
GOPHERS version 0.8 Beta is a "Classic" Gopher protocol server which runs as a Windows NT "Service." Executables are available for Intel-based and DEC Alpha systems. The software has a UNIX compatibility mode and WAIS database searching capability added with the WAISTOOL toolkit for Windows NT (also available at this site). You may also wish to look around for Windows NT compatible HTTP server and WAIS server software at this site. "ftp://emwac.ed.ac.uk/pub/gophers"
WEB MOVES MORE PACKETS, NOT BYTES, THEN FTP
In Vol 0 Issue 8 we reported that the WWW has overtaken FTP as the largest mover of bytes on the net. What we meant to say was that the Web has overtaken FTP in the number of PACKETS transmitted on the web. We refer you to the Merit graphs "http://www.gatech.edu/gvu/stats/NSF/merit.html" or an excellent writeup of the latest Internet statistics in the September issue of Internet World magazine.
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