YAHOO EDGES OUT WEB OF WONDER FOR MEGA-LINK SITE HONORS
Both are giant Web overview sites with thousands of WWW links covering everything from Art to Zappa. The categories which they cover are virtually the same, apparently since Web of Wonder copied the organization of Yahoo verbatim - understandably so, since the organization is effective and well thought out. However, a casual browse comparing the two yields the undeniable conclusion that "Yahoo - A Guide To WWW" seems to have a richer and fresher variety of links under just about every category. A set of links near the top also takes you to What's New, Site of the Day, Random Link, and Popular (who would have guessed? "Art:Erotica:17751"). Forms-based searching is supported. They earn a place near the top of our Hotlist. Yahoo: "http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/" Web of Wonder: "http://www.digimark.net/wow/"
OCEANIA - A LIBERTARIAN EDEN FROM SCRATCH
Oceania already has a constitution. It already has a code of law. What it needs now is territory. In early 1993, Atlantis Project founder Eric Klien initiated the building of a new country from scratch. Appropriately named Oceania, the new country will be a floating sea-city, about 50 miles off the coast of Panama in the Caribbean Sea. It will consist of linked hexagonal modules, each about 1.6 acres. Government in Oceania will be restricted. Genuine free enterprise (as envisioned by Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek and Ayn Rand) will be practiced and Oceanians will be expected to make their own unregulated lifestyle choices. These people are serious. For more on this libertarian paradise, visit "http://saturn.uaamath.alaska.edu/~kane/oceania_start.html"
WEB FULL O' SLACK: CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS ONLINE PAMPHLET
Redemption comes in many forms and this could be one of them, so cover your behind and at least get the pamphlet. The Church has been quietly infiltrating the global psyche with its insidiously contradictory meme disease for some years now, and if you know of it, more Slack to you. If you don't, then take a peek and be treated to an excerpt from the "Book of the SubGenius": aliens; TV; $$$; THE STARK FIST OF REMOVAL; and warnings about the Space Bankers. The fine GIF of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs ("a bulwark against the unbearable fear and anxiety tormenting mankind") is worth a visit. It's all text, no links to anything except the large GIF, which leads to the thought that the Church really deserves more Web space. "http://www.iona.ie/www/hyplan/jmason-data/slack.html"
FROG MANIA REDUX: IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN
"This page contains links to froggy things from various places on the net." She ain't kidding. Sandra Loosemore has put together a frog page like no other. There are frog images, frog calls, songs and stories about frogs, and even science - there are links to a document that will shed light on why frogs are "croaking mysteriously" all over the world and to the dreaded dueling virtual dissection kits. Even Mr. Pickle, a bemused-looking Argentine Horned Frog who no doubt wants nothing to do with the aforementioned kits, has his page included. "http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/froggy.html"
HOT, STEAMY, AND CAFFEINATED - "OVER THE COFFEE" WEB SITE
Needless to say, this stimulating home page is a caffeine lover's dream. Inspired by Usenet coffee newsgroups like alt.coffee and rec.food.drink.coffee, "Over The Coffee" acts as a central repository for cups and cups of java jive, including coffee-related news, vendors, trivia, books, recipes, and more. It's good to the last drop. "http://www.infonet.net/showcase/coffee"
THE HUMAN-POWERED VEHICLE ARCHIVE
Don't let the name fool you. Even if you just tinker with your bicycle you'll find information of interest here. The main focus is on serious, record breaking HPV design. You get imagesand reviews of HPVs, the Electric Vehicle FAQ, Builders Corner (very impressive engineering reference on stuff like hub gearing, wheel size choice and other esoterica), commercial sources for all the parts, and performance evaluation software. You even get images and videos of Mark Drela's 1991 world-record speed run (18.5 knots, 9.53 m/s) in the human-powered hydrofoil "Decavitator". "http://zippy.sonoma.edu:70/1/HPV"
SPIDER'S WEB A GOOD "POINTER" SITE FOR CASUAL BROWSERS
This site offers a funky ASCII graphic of a web, an intersting "dropdown" menu bar for Lynx users, and the usual Web stuff. Its real strength is links to many great sites on the net. There is something for everyone to browse and, with the inclusion of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Web, is a good collection for newbies and experienced netsurfers alike. "http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/spider.html"
CREATE YOUR OWN HOME PAGE WITH "HOMEPAGE PUBLISHER"
HomePage Publisher is available for use by anyone with a forms-capable browser (Mosaic 2.0 or later). With it, you can create and edit your own WWW home page with its own URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Password protection is provided for your security. A networked version of HPP is in the works. Check out some of the home pages other people have created. E-Mail: doug+@osu.edu. "http://www.mps.ohio-state.edu/HomePage"
JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER JOINS ONLINE CROWD
Well, almost. This WWW server is based at the official Japanese prime minister's building (nice photo at the top), but a disclaimer tells you it's an experimental effort, and not official material. You get Japanese and English translations of several boring political speeches, but the site is not a total loss since there is also a full text (with figures) of "The Economic Survey of Japan 1993-1994". Read about Stagnated Economy, Decreased Business Equipment Investment, the Decreased Current Account Surplus, and Stagnant Private Consumption. Besides unrepentant Japan bashers, this may be of interest to those who want to see what a snapshot of a large ailing economy looks like. "http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/summary.html"
HAVE YOU EVER ENTERED AN AT&T INTERNET CONTEST?
You Will! Actually, that's the name of the contest, taken from AT&T's current vapor-product advertising campaign. The grand prize is a trip to an as yet undetermined American location to ride the "Chameleon", which is best described as a multi-module amusement park g-force machine - you know, the thing that makes your cheeks look like Jell-O. Wow! There are also T-shirts or something. The really fun part is the link to AT&T's future products page where they try to sell you on their vaporware. How do you sign up and get on yet another commercial mailing list, you ask? We could tell you, but that would be cheating. Surf to "http://youwill.com/"
Grant researchers and writers will love this gopher site. Information about grant and funding opportunities is provided by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Research Services through their Grant-Source(SM) Service. They provide full-text searching of nearly 10,000 documents available from major funding sources such as CDFA, NSF, NIH, and ORS. We have this comparative pizza tasting study which involves a lot of foreign travel.... "gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d"
THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THAR WEB!
The Mining Channel is a Vancouver site that wants to become THE mining investment resource of the Internet. To draw a crowd, they are giving away a Canadian Maple Leaf one-ounce gold coin. Visit and enter. The site is off to a good start, but is angled primarily towards newer players rather than the established megacorporations, and heavily favors gold and diamond exploration over other metals. It offers company profiles, investment newsletters, and links to stock quotes, and is becoming more comprehensive with time. "http://www.wimsey.com/Magnet/mc/index30.html"
HIDDEN BEER GEM ON BELGIAN WEB SERVER
This server is populated with various maps, facts, thin study abroad info, and pathetically anemic travel tips courtesy of the alarmist U.S. State Department. You might be tempted to skip the unintentionally amusing essay about the Belgian character (sample section: "The Belgian Way of Problem Solving") but if you did, you'd miss the real gem buried inside: a link to "Beer Hunting in Belgium", the product of extensive personal research and a must read for any beer-loving traveler. A good set of links to other Belgian WWW/Gopher sites is also worth a casual browse. "http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Belgcul.html"
Have you ever wondered, "What's happening in Latvia right now?" Well, maybe not, but if you have, then check out the Gopher server the University of Latvia has set up. It includes daily news from the Baltic News Service, Latvian statistics, and the State Department Human Rights Report on Latvia - zero incidents of torture and political killings are reported. You can also check out Latvia's progress in the sciences, including Wood Sciences. This gopher server is a model of its kind, giving an overview of a whole country in minutes. Also try their under construction WWW site. "gopher://gopher.mii.lu.lv" "http://www.mii.lu.lv/galva.html"
E-SPAN has joined the WWW with the Interactive Employment Network (IEN). The IEN provides a searchable database of over 1,000 high-tech job openings as well as a wide variety of resources for the job seeker. "http://www.espan.com"
WWW TUTORIAL SLIDE SET AVAILABLE
A set of WWW Tutorial Slides written in HTML is now available. The slides are potentially interesting to anyone giving or wanting to see a WWW tutorial. "http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/usr/mwm/www/tutorial/"
TRACK YOUR MUTUAL FUND PORTFOLIO ON THE WEB
Despite some dubious and obfuscated advertising by Galt president Robert Frasca, the company is worth a look for NetWorth, their free end-of-day pricing info on over 4500 mutual funds. They also offer a portfolio builder/tracker and historical graphing of all the funds. "http://networth.galt.com"
CABLE TV RESOURCE LIST ON THE NET
For a complete listing of just about every cable-related Internet resource along with a short description, ask John Higgins, finance editor of MultiChannel News, who has put together a dandy. E-Mail: "John Higgins higgins@dorsai.dorsai.org"
In November 1994, CompuServe will move to entrench itself on the Internet. The company will offer commercial customers T1-speed dedicated Internet and IP access via its "FRAME-Net" frame relay service, and asynchronous access via modems, so customers can use Mosaic and other front-ends to connect across CompuServe's global network. CompuServe will also expand its current online Internet gateways, offering Telnet and FTP in late 1994 with access to WWW and Gopher servers slated for 1995. The company will also make selected online products of its own available to Internet users via its fledgling WWW page in the months ahead. "http://www.compuserve.com"
WEBMASTERS' STARTER KIT HELPS YOU CONFIGURE YOUR SERVER
It uses forms to get basic configuration information, and writes your config files for you as you download the software. It can configure extensions which automatically generate home pages via forms, verify HTML links, webify E-Mail, and gather statistics. There are versions for SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.3, IRIX 5.2, OSF/1 V2.0, and AIX 3.2.5 (the AIX version is one rev out of date). SCO UNIX and HP/UX will come in a few weeks. It's all freeware from the fine folks at Enterprise Integration Technologies. "http://wsk.eit.com/wsk/doc/"
PINE AND PC-PINE, POPULAR MAIL READER UPDATED TO VERSION 3.90
Pine has been one of the favorites in menu-based mail readers on the Unix and PC platforms for many years. This new version has a number of enhancements, among them a new configuration screen, news postings, multiple address books, multiple postponed messages, and numerous other features. Binaries for various machines are also provided. "ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine" "http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine"
TKHTML VERSION 2.0 LETS YOU EDIT HTML ON UNIX
TkHTML is a Tcl/Tk-based HTML document editor for X11. It has almost all the standard editing features of a word processor, as well as special functions for editing HTML documents. TkHTML also has WYSIWYG previewing, so you can see what your document will look like as you work. Naturally, you will need Tcl/Tk installed, as well as the the WWWish Tk interpreter, both available from the site below. "http://alfred1.u.washington.edu:8080/~roland/tkHTML/tkHTML.html" "ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/roland/tkHTML"
OS/2 HTTPD 1.0A1: WEB SERVER SOFTWARE FINALLY COMES TO OS/2
This native OS/2 Web server is a port of the NCSA httpd 1.3 server and supports most of the features found in that server, including forms and imagemaps. In addition, it supports OS/2 specific features such as both HPFS long filename and FAT 8.3 filename, Unix-style "/" and DOS-style "\" in the path name, and server scripts written in REXX and also OS/2 executable. It requires IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 Base Kit 2.0 or later and is released as freeware for non-commercial use. Contributed by Frankie Fan "kfan@netcom.com". "ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/kfan/web2-101.zip"
MACHTTP USERS CAN NOW SEND FORMS-BASED MAIL
With this software, a user can send SMTP mail from a Macintosh MacHTTP server. The front end is a FORM, which takes the user input (e.g. name, E-Mail address, response, feedback, etc.) and sends it to the MacHTTP server. The server then activates various scripts which send the mail. You can contact Rajesh Bhatawadekar, who developed this software, for a copy at "prba001@atai.epri.com".
TGIF EXTENDED TO GENERATE IMAGEMAP FILES
Tgif is an Xlib-based 2-D (free) drawing tool available since April, 1990. It has just been extended (version 2.15, patchlevel 7) to use its attribute feature to generate NCSA/CERN imagemap files. The man pages and info on generating imagemap files are included in the package. "http://bourbon.cs.ucla.edu:8001/tgif/" "ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/tgif/tgif-2.15-patch7.Z"
PNLINFO BROWSER: GOPHER AND BROWSER CROSS-PLATFORM PACKAGE
This is yet another interface to the Internet, with the added virtue that it looks and feels similar across various platforms. Windows and Mac versions are available; SUN and DEC Motif are on the way. Loads of features. "ftp://ftp.pnl.gov/pub/pnlinfo/win" "ftp://ftp.pnl.gov/pub/pnlinfo/mac"
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