JUST SAY "NEUROPHARMACOLOGICAL ANARCHY"
Even if you've never inhaled, you might want to check out this psychedelic Web site, purely for the experience. It pays homage to drugs of all sorts, legal and illegal. Chemical formulas and intricate details available for those who dare to venture deep within. "http://stein1.u.washington.edu:2012/pharm/"
DOG LOVERS CATALOG: HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGY IN THE WINDOW?
Shopaholics who are also dogaholics might want to skip this one or kiss their credit limits goodbye. A new WWW catalog, ImageMaker's Gifts for Dog Lovers, features some amazingly detailed graphics of doggy doo-dads that include refrigerator magnets portraying almost every breed in the world (the list runs from Affenpinschers and Bichon Frises through Welsh Springer Spaniels and Yorkshire Terriers), lamps with dog shades, and sign yards such as "No Humpty Dumpty." The latter is to be posted "wherever you don't want any `dumpings'" (presumably only literate dogs dump in other people's yards?). "http://www.onramp.net/imagemaker"
TICK, TOCK, WHIRR, WHINE: ROBOT & VISION RESEARCH SITE
The Robotics and Vision Laboratory at Cornell University has a WWW home page with pointers to more than 50 of the best and latest robotics research papers. You can also download GIFs of 4 of their "mobots" and get info about the people at the lab. A great site if you are into machine vision, navigation and tracking, robotic manipulation, geometric algorithms, et cetera. "http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/csrvl/csrvl.html"
TOTALLY WEIRD AND WIRED - MURPLEWEB
If you're in the mood to just hang out with some interesting subject matter, stop by MurpleWeb. This eclectic home page features topics ranging from UNIX, cyberspace freedom and Internet tools to music, politics, drugs and religion. Just go and browse. "http://www.clark.net/pub/murple/home.html"
HYPERWEIRDNESS SITE GOOD, BUT NOT WEIRD ENOUGH
Cosma Shalizi maintains a site with the promising name of "Hyper Weirdness by WWW," but while this is a nice place to use as a jumping-off point to various interesting places on the Web, its own weirdness does not justify its name. Yes, you will find links to such things as Weird Politics and Conspiracy, but you will also find numerous links to more mundane subjects like computing and recreation. The latter predominate, but it's not clear if this is due to the lack of weirdness on the Web (yeah, right) or to a lack of high quality weirdness filters for this page. It's not all bad news, since the sheer quantity of links makes for some fun surfing sites. "http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lizi/hyper-weird/0.1.html"
SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR, FANTASY MINGLE AT CLEARING HOUSE
The Speculative Fiction Clearinghouse is a very straightforward site with many links and resources interesting to readers of those genres. The netsurfer is greeted by links to archives, authors, awards, bibliographies, bookstores, conventions, online fiction, publishers and zines. A random click on the authors shows a decent, though not comprehensive list of authors with an uneven mix of online resources given per author (J.R.R. Tolkien wins in number of links). The online fiction link is also worthy of a look if you like to access some free reading material or browse some online chapter previews from various publishers. Good meta-resource of its class. "http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/sf-clearing-house"
VOLCANO SITE GREAT RESOURCE FOR SCIENTISTS, TRAVELERS
If we were planning a road trip to a volcano we'd start with this site. The Michigan Tech Volcanos Page has impressive information on four active volcanos (Pinatubo, Santa Maria, Fuego, and Tecana). Each volcano page has info on nomenclature, altitude, geology, eruption history, age, weather, topography, a thorough bibliography, a list of hazards, and even tips on how to get there (directions and maps) and what to wear. This site is a prototype to what may become a catalog of active volcanos around the world. A great resource for volcanologists or travelers, and a fine example of what the Web can deliver in terms of information organization. A link to U of M Geology home page is another treat for scientifically inclined surfers, but we'll let you find out for yourself. "http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/"
PLANET EARTH HOME PAGE THEMATICALLY QUESTIONABLE
This is an interesting site due in equal parts to its content and its awkward design. It contains many links to, well, sites around the world. No particular theme manifests itself but you get things like Search Engines, Universities, Sciences, Information Resources, government sites, and the ambiguously named World Regions 1 & 2. While it's an undeniably rich collection of surfing sites the presentation is liable to lead one astray. The main home page has four large graphics, a "Welcome" link which turns out to be a 100K AU sound file, a "Memo" link which tells little about the site, and several presentation choices, three of which are huge graphical pushbutton panels (ismaps). A strange design which does not really work well. Do yourself a favor, skip the fluff and go directly to the text list HTML index at: "http://white.nosc.mil/info_modern.html" Neat globe though.
NEWS & JOURNALISM ONLINE: U OF FLORIDA'S FINE WWW COMPENDIUM
You can find references and pointers galore at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications' web site. They have links to commercial news services and pointers to various campus newspapers, Journalism Schools on the net, prototypes, demos, and experiments, and "The Journalism List." If you just can't find enough news, then this should help. Good place to get an overview of online news publishing. "http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/webjou.htm"
This well-organized gopher server features medically-related information from Basic Science and Clinical Resources to News & Publications. Good starting resource if you are ill and need to find out more about your ailment. Try it out at: "gopher://gopher.med.harvard.edu/1"
BUSINESS STRATEGY CONSULTING VIA WEB, PRICING UNCLEAR
When it is fully implemented, this business service is intended to provide easily accessible question-and-answer interaction with experts on business strategy available through the sponsoring consulting service. Details about the cost of becoming a client are sketchy, but if "innovative views on global trade and competitiveness" and "Future-Based Strategic Management" turn you on, then you should check out the virtual consultants at the StrategyWeb. Interesting online business concept. "http://fender.onramp.net/~atw_dhw/precom.htm"
GREAT GLOBAL GUIDE TO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFO ON THE NET
It's getting more and more common to see federal agencies, departments, and branches of government making various information available by telnet, ftp, gopher, and WWW. This large list points to many of these sites and has a brief description of what you may find at each of them. It contains references to about 300 Internet sites, as well as over a dozen library catalogs and a good number of discussion lists dealing with government. Good place to start if you are looking for government goodies. "ftp://nevada.edu/pub/liaison/govrnmnt.zip"
The city of San Diego ("America's Finest City") is well served by this site, part of the Planet Earth collection noted above. The range of resources available to the prospective traveler is much more varied then you would expect to find on an average tourist-oriented Web site. In addition to the usual airlines, weather, census, and tourist info it's possible to get such things as a list of coffee houses, links to university sites, research institutions, Internet providers, commercial sites, restaurants, and even information about various neighborhoods of the city. Naturally the way cool San Diego realtime traffic link is also here. This is one of those rare travel sites which can actually be useful for travelers to this pretty city. One caveat, the page has a 100K+ image on it, so you may want to turn off auto image download. "http://white.nosc.mil/sandiego.html"
LENO VS. LETTERMAN: GUEST LINEUPS AVAILABLE
Guests are the soldiers of the Late Night Wars. Find out who they are ahead of time and set those VCRs. But guys, could you possibly make the URLs any longer?? Sheesh! "http://www.cs.vu.nl/PublicMaintainers/public_links/Information/TV_radio_movie/JayLeno/tonight_show_us.html" "http://www.cs.vu.nl/PublicMaintainers/public_links/Information/TV_radio_movie/Letterman/late_show_us.html"
COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF WWW SERVICE PROVIDERS AVAILABLE
The list is about 50K in length and tells you who to contact if you want to put up web pages, create web software, or do business on the web. We're not on it. Yet. "ftp://ftp.einet.net/pub/INET-MARKETING/www-svc-providers"
WWW PAGE GIVES INFO ON ISDN VENDORS
The page has pointers to Ascend, Digiboard, Cisco, NEI, and NetCS. There is also some additional info on PC software and other vendor info. Check it out before you shell out bucks for ISDN. "http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/"
PRO-IMAGE CATALOG BRISTLES WITH ECLECTIC CD-ROMS
Choose from over 500 titles in 22 categories, such as agriculture, education, music, business, medicine, military, sports, space exploration and more. Take a look, there's bound to be a title of interest to you. Send email to info@proimage.com, or link to "http://www.proimage.com/proimage/"
IMALL-CHAT: GLIMPSE OF ONLINE COMMERCE AT THE INTERNET MALL
This list is specifically about the Internet Mall, but topics about shopping on the Internet are also welcome. You may learn how the merchants are doing if you tune in. A marketing gimmick but may be of interest to online merchants. Mail to listserv@netcom.com with the message body: subscribe IMALL-CHAT.
WINDOWS MOSAIC CONFIG UTILITY "UNOFFICIAL" BUT USEFUL
It provides a simple Windows config screen for most of the Mosaic INI settings that are not currently accessible from within Mosaic. Lets you specify the location of the MOSAIC.INI file. It also lets you browse to select and install various file viewers. It's Visual Basic with VBRUN300.DLL and other junk so it's rather large, but it works. Thank Rod Potter for this freebie. "ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/../PC/Mosaic/util/SMOSAIC.ZIP"
UNCGI 1.0 SIMPLIFIES FORMS PROCESSING UNDER UNIX
Uncgi is a short C program that reads in the CGI encoding of various forms fields and gives you much simpler access to them. The values are placed into environment variables. Using this package you can easily write a form-processing program as a shell or perl script. "http://www.hyperion.com/~koreth/uncgi.html"
PERLWWW: COLLECTION OF USEFUL WWW BUILDER SCRIPTS UPDATED
The perlWWW collection features a variety of scripts useful to the Web hacker. They include programs to convert a Mosaic hotlist to an HTML document (hl2html), a program to convert mail messages to HTML (mail2html), a program to strip out HTML markup from a file (striphtml), and others. This latest revision to the collection has updated mail2html to version 3.0.0. Info: "http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/" Distribution "ftp://ftp.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html/perlWWW.19Aug1994.tar.gz"
APPLESEARCH INFO INTERFACE TO MAC WEB SERVER
AppleWebSearch supports two types of WWW client interfaces. The simplest uses the [isindex] search arguments passed from a WWW client like Mosaic or MacWeb to perform searches on an AppleSearch information source. There is a more comprehensive interface available that uses fill-in forms to collect search arguments from the user. AppleWebSearch is implemented as a gateway (CGI) application for use with MacHTTP and requires a version of MacHTTP that supports the CGI file type and the "Search Doc" AppleEvent. This means you must use MacHTTP version 1.3.1b1 or later. Written by Apple and University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Info: "http://www.uth.tmc.edu/mac_info/machttp_info.html" Program: "ftp://ftp.uth.tmc.edu/public/mac/MacHTTP/applewebsearch.sit.hqx"
WINDOWS SOFTWARE FOR INTERNET TRAINING
Suarez Associates has just released "The Beginner's Guide to the Internet" for Windows, a commercial software program. It takes users one step at a time through everything they need to know to "get started, be productive quickly, and have a good time". Or so they claim. If your grandma wants to learn about the Net, buy her this program. E-mail pat@bgi.com for info.
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