LADIES & GENTLEMEN: JOSIP BROZ TITO
Who? You know, that militantly non-aligned communist who held Yugoslavia together for 40+ years after kicking the Nazis out. So here we have this virtual Web shrine to the guy complete with texts of his speeches, tons of photos hobnobbing with other world renowned leaders, (Yassir Arafat, Idi Amin, Richard Nixon) and a section entitled "His Last Battle" reenacting his lingering death in an equally lingering photo series. Conceptually weird in some deep hind brain manner. We can't figure out if these guys are serious in their adoration or what. But then, maybe anyone who managed to hold Yugoslavia together all these years deserves a shrine. Then again, maybe not. You decide. "http://www.fer.uni-lj.si/tito/tito-eng.html"
ROADKILLS-R-US AND THE PRICE OF "BAT, FRUIT"
Somewhere between ridiculously bizarre and spectacularly inspired lies Roadkills-R-Us. Apparently it's not just a Web page; it's a way of life, and to link there is to be sucked under the wheel of its creative juggernaut. We recommend you check out the Roadkill Payment Schedule before going on to the whole history of RRU, and culminate your visit with links to either Page.bIZARRE or the Obituary Web Pages. Do yourself a favor and visit this place before life runs you over. "http://hostname.pencom.com/rru.html"
NASA'S VOLCANOLOGY INFO, PART OF "MISSION TO PLANET EARTH"
Lots of goodies about volcanoes and the Earth Observing System of satellites coming in 1998 as a major part of NASA's "Mission to Planet Earth." For educators, a series of slide sets covering "Surface & Atmospheric Effects of 1991 Eruption of Mt. Pinatubo" is available for downloading. For the rest of us, info and images on EOS activities and future plans, satellite views, FAQ from sci.geo.eos and links to related sites. "http://www.geo.mtu.edu/eos/"
ONCOLINK: A DEFINITIVE NET SITE FOR CANCER INFO
Find out about cancer and how not to get it. For cancer doctors OncoLink offers information organized by speciality. At the request of cancer patients and families it's also organized by disease. While it may be the most used site for cancer information (getting 4000 accesses/day) it also gives links to other oncology sites on the Net. The organizers believe that this Gopher/WWW server offers the best general interest cancer information anywhere, being a better organized single source than journals and less narrowly focussed than other Net sites. "http://cancer.med.upenn.edu" "gopher://cancer.med.upenn.edu"
APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE - THE SCREENWRITERS' & PLAYWRIGHTS' HOME PAGE
From Aristophanes to Alien 3, this extensive resource offers a ton of information for drama lovers, film buffs and professional writers alike. You'll find online scripts of classic and contemporary plays, film reviews, screenplays, a searchable film database, links to relevant discussion groups, plus marketing and writing tips from the pros. All in all, we give it two thumbs up. "http://www.teleport.com/~cdeemer/scrwriter.html"
SECULAR WEB: ATHEISM AND DARWIN FISH
These folks are serious about atheism. In addition to being philosophically interesting, this page is also rather entertaining. Aside from the expected newsgroup archives, FAQs, serious magazines and documents, they include links to religious satires, Heathens & Heretics at MIT, a chance to order the Darwin fish as a sticker or T-shirt, and a link to the ever-relevant "Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce (in HTML courtesy of Project Gutenberg). Naturally there are also links to religious servers. "http://freethought.tamu.edu/"
AEON FLUX PAGE OF INTEREST TO FANS AND ARTISTS
Aeon Flux is the lithe and lethal heroine best known for her exploits in short animated segments on MTV's Liquid Television. This site holds two pieces of text which are of interest to fans of this often surreal work. An interview with Peter Chung, the character's creator, covers his original concept and his plans for her continuing adventures. Also of interest is a copy of the original proposal Peter sent to MTV pitching the series. The interview makes absorbing reading as it delves into the thinking behind the series. Artwork also available. "http://sunsite.unc.edu/otis/notes/aflux/aeonflux.html"
THE U.S. LIBERTARIAN PARTY WEB AND FTP SITES
America's third largest political party now has a number of sites on the Internet. Their official site has info on Libertarian history, philosophy and positions, directories and lists, official documents, current activities and membership. There is also a list of e-mail addresses for their national, state and local officers, committees, managers and staff. "http://www.lp.org/lp/" "ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/lphq/lphq.html"
U.S. NAVY SAILS THE INFO SEA, YOU CAN SURF IN IT'S WAKE
This site, the Navy's official Web presence, turns out to be a fascinating surfing source for the curious military science research junkie. The home page has links to a number of Navy research labs and operational facilities worldwide, some of them classified (those won't let you connect). You can be thrilled by such tantalizing sites as the Space and Naval Warfare System Command (home of the boldly named SPAWARRIOR newsletter), read the Navy News Service which brings you Marine Corps, Medical, and European sections, or go diving into other Dept. of Defense sites. "http://www.navy.mil/"
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE LIST OF RESOURCES ON FTP
The prolific John Makulowich has given the net community another of his excellent lists. This one, Alternative Medicine, is a list of newsgroups, discussion groups, gopher servers, and web servers which have information on alternative medicine. He also gives some pointers about how he developed the list for those who would like to develop their own lists of resources. It is available at: "ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/journalism/altmed.txt"
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS LAW COMPACT COMPENDIUM
Washington, D.C. law firm of Pepper & Corazzini has lots of info for those interested in current legal issues related to broadcast, cable, common carriers, PCS and information law, including staff opinions. "http://www.iis.com/p-and-c" "gopher://gopher.iis.com/11/p-and-c" "ftp://ftp.iis.com/companies/p-and-c"
MORE COOL PLACES (LITERALLY): FROM THE ARCTIC TO ANTARCTICA
This University of Alaska gopher server can take you where few
people have traveled before. Choose to follow the Circumpolar
Expedition of May '94, the Mount Vaughn Antarctic Expedition
or link up with other environment related topics including
the International Arctic Project and the Wolf Study Project.
Cool adventures for the desk bound.
MEDIA SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Feel free to repost this item far and wide. Access offers
alternative media transcriptions for persons with auditory,
visual and cognitive impairments. Among other services they
will record paper documents to tape or magnetic media, use
Braille and copying equipment to aid persons with low vision,
and make documents available on disk for reading by computer.
Via E-mail: access@human.com
Via Fax : (510) 530-6213
Via Phone : (510) 530-6213 voice or TTY
"http://www.human.com/mkt/access/index.html"
LITSERVER: BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
It contains 240,000 references in BibTeX format for such areas
as Artificial Intelligence, Theory/Foundations of CS, Computer
Graphics, Neural Networks, and numerous other CS topic areas.
It can be searched via E-mail or WWW. For manual send E-mail
to bibserv@ira.uka.de, containing only the word "help" in the
body (no quotes).
"http://www.ira.uka.de/ftp/ira/bibliography/litserver/litserver.html"
"ftp://ftp.cs.umanitoba.ca/pub/bibliographies/litserver/litserver.html"
COMPUTER EXPRESS: COMPUTER RETAILER NOW ON INTERNET
Computer Express is a decade-old on-line retailer of computer
software and hardware products, mostly on commercial online
services, and this is their "superstore." Worth a look if you're
shopping for computer stuff. E-mail to info@cexpress.com
"http://cexpress.com:2700/" "gopher://cexpress.com:2600/"
PENPAGES DELIVERS TROVE OF AGRICULTURAL INFO VIA GOPHER
PENpages is an electronic library containing thousands of
reports, newsletters and fact sheets pertaining to a wide
variety of agriculture-related topics. It's been around since
1986 via Telnet and now can be reached at
"gopher://penpages.psu.edu/"
YOUR PRIVACY, YOUR FRIENDS' PRIVACY, AND COMPUSERVE
The Tampa Tribune (8/15/94) reports that a CompuServe-offered
service called CompuTrace will find the last known address
for any person in the U.S. You can also find out how long
someone has had a particular phone number or lived at a
particular address and who else lives there. Information on
how to obtain driving records in every state is also
available. Scary stuff. CompuServe is not (yet?) an evil
empire, but there are plenty of such out there. Be paranoid.
Be very paranoid.
NCSA WEB SERVER V1.3 FOR WINDOWS FINAL VERSION
Playing in a Windows 3.1 or Windows For Workgroups 3.11 theater
near you! Those wishing to put up their own Web site in a PC
Windows environment will be interested in the latest Web
server for Microsoft Windows. It closely follows the NCSA "httpd"
v1.3 Unix Web server, including common log file format,
automatic directory indexing and access authorization, etc.
Impressive features including true multi-threading of up to 8
simultaneous users. Important info and file pointer at
"http://www.alisa.com/win-httpd/"
"ftp://ftp.alisa.com/pub/win-httpd/whttpd13.zip"
PROGRAMMING LIBRARY HELPS TO CREATE WEB GIFS ON THE FLY
Created to allow graphs, charts and the like to be generated on
the fly for use on the World wide Web, but is suitable for any
application in which custom GIFs are useful. It is a library
(gd 1.0) for use by programs that wish to create GIF-format
diagrams, graphs, charts, and so on, and includes functions
for loading and manipulating existing GIF and XBM images.
Free, but give the authors credit and mail them improvements
to include in future versions.
"http://siva.cshl.org/gd/gd.html"
"ftp://isis.cshl.org/pub/gd/"
EMAIL FORMS 2.0 PROVIDES SIMPLE E-MAIL FORMS SETUP
It's a C program which can give you professional looking e-mail
forms on your Web documents. Users can mail the accounts you choose
directly from Forms capable browsers. You'll need a CGI-compliant
server (like NCSA or CERN httpd) and an ASCII standard
compiler (e.g. gcc). Simple to set up, secure, generally a
cool piece of software. Thank to Thomas Boutell.
"http://siva.cshl.org/email/index.html"
WEBSTAT V1.4 USEFUL FEATURES, WEIRD LANGUAGE
The package promises (and probably delivers) a raft of useful
features such as a list of usages per provided service, top
ten of accessing domains, list of accessing countries, and
list of accesses per file (page). However the author in a fit
of misguided loyalty chose to write it in some weird hybrid of
Perl and TCL called Python. We don't know anything about it,
and frankly don't have the time to learn yet another
programming language. But the Python home page does have some
sounds from Monty Python so it can't be all bad.
Python: "http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/python/index.html"
WebStat: "http://www.pegasus.esprit.ec.org/people/sijben/statistics/advertisment.html"
COMBINED LOG FILE SYSTEM FOR WWW, GOPHER, AND FTP
Designed to enable the automatic handling of log files
generated by info-server daemons (ftp, gopher, http...) for
Internet archives. It does this by providing a combined format
for the transfers, and converting each of the raw log files
into this combined format. The results are then stored by
date/time, summarized and compressed. A complex system, aimed
at administrators but apparently it works well once configured.
"ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/tools/www/logtools/logtools-1.0.tar.gz"
"http://www.hensa.ac.uk/tools/www/logtools/logtools-1.0.tar.gz"
MAC HTML EDITOR HAS TONS OF FEATURES
HTML Editor (original name, isn't it?) is a semi-WYSIWYG editor
for (surprise) editing HTML documents on the Mac. You need a
68020 or higher machine with System 7 and 2 Megs of RAM.
Handles more then 32K text, has the usual insertion of HTML
elements through button clicks, editable user tag palette,
quick document preview, auto-launching Mosaic or MacWeb, and a
raft of other useful features.
"ftp://cs.dal.ca/giles/HTML_Editor_1.0.sit.hqx"
WINTAPESTRY FULLY FUNCTIONAL NET ACCESS DEMO FOR WINDOWS
The press release says it all: "WinTapestry is a fully
functional Gopher+, CSO, and WWW client that will be included
in SuperHighway Access for Windows, a soon to be released
Internet connectivity product that will be available from
Frontier Technologies Corporation." Kind of a Beta+ release.
They want feedback at SuperHighway@FrontierTech.COM.
"ftp://winftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/uploads/WINTAP-1.EXE"
MINUET: GRAPHICAL PC BASED INTERNET CLIENT PACKAGE
Minuet is an integrated PC package that includes modules for POP3
e-mail, Gopher, Telnet, Usenet News and FTP. It has a mouse-driven
graphical user interface via the TurboVision graphics libraries.
It is a TCP/IP client that runs over any type of TCP/IP network
including ethernet and SLIP, and works with either static or
dynamically-assigned IP addresses.
"ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/minuet-faq"
"ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/pc/minuet/beta16/minuarc.exe"
Our home page: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/index.html
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