NETSURFER DIGEST HOLIDAY GIFT PAGE
Holiday shopping can be hell. We here at Netsurfer were racking our brains for neat gifts, so as a service to ourselves and the Net community we put up the Netsurfer Digest Holiday Gift Page. It's just a list of neat commercial sites we found on the Net selling items which would make good gifts. None of them gave us a dime, we just thought it was a useful list. The list will grow, so you may want to hold on to the URL and check it periodically for additions. Take a look, you might find something you like. Businesses can also submit other free listings there. "http://166.90.202.17/netsurfer/holiday.html"
CONDOM COUNTRY: CONDOMS AND ONE HECK OF AN INTERFACE
Let host Prophylactic Pete and his faithful horse, Latex, guide you on a tour of Condom Country, home of "the largest assortment of condoms and other below-the-belt-buck'l items on the Web." Condom Country provides an entertaining and fanciful interface to a serious - if light-hearted - WWW business venture, and is worth a look for that alone. On the other hand, if you want to buy condoms, novelty items, books, or even clothing in private, this online catalogue is also for you. Always mindful of their civic duty, the folks behind Condom Country provide FDA-approved instructions for condom use and a graph of average penis length. "http://www.ag.com/condom/country"
Once properly educated at Condom Country, you can enter the Mall 2000 and go "face to face" with other lonely computer geeks at this new Net dating service. Promising in categories you can search by (hair dispositions alone ranging from kempt through fluff chick, to gone-by-nature vs. gone-by-choice), we'd wait 'til more people join this party, unless you just love being the first to do anything. "http://www.mall2000.com"
AND PRESTO! THE BAD BOYS OF MAGIC APPEAR ON WWW
Penn and Teller, the aforementioned "bad boys of magic", have a Web page thoughtfully devoted to them. It contains a bibliography, the ubiquitous FAQ, GIFs, and a list of tour dates. Most intriguing of the lot is a transcript of a chat session Penn visited on Delphi. You get to know him as more than a prestidigitating palooka with a ponytail. Also neat is an article Teller wrote (yes, Teller - the silent one) on the recently decomposing Jeffrey Dahmer. "http://www.portal.com/~gambler/PennandTeller/penn-n-teller.html"
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES
This page is your gateway to the world of AI. It is maintained by a Canadian Knowledge Systems Laboratory and has a nicely organized and searchable list of AI resources and Web links. Among other things, you'll find an exhaustive subject index, a list of AI publishers, FAQs, journals (online and off), conferences, bibliographies, and so on. A great browsing site both for technical and non-technical netsurfers. "http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/ai_point.html"
What can you say about a site where Death has a homepage? If you haven't been reading this gothic subliminal comic where Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, Destiny and Delirium walk among mortals, you have been missing a major cult experience of the '90s. Lushly drawn with heavily symbolic story "arcs" this web site chronicles, untangles, and answers the FAQs of the initiated. You can also download the artist's sketches or buy the collector card series online. "http://www.uq.oz.au/mecheng/home/sandman.html"
This is a useful site, and there'll be no tergiversation about that here at
Netsurfer. At the Peripatetic, Eclectic Gopher (PEG), you will find a
compilation of ready references to frequently sought information sources
and tools. They ain't lying when they say their coverage is "encyclopedic".
A random selection: dictionaries; Roget's Thesaurus; ACRONYMs dictionary;
5,000,000+ journal articles; Cancer Information for Patient and Layperson;
E-Mail addresses; Gardening; phone directories; Periodic Table of the
Elements - it just goes on and on. Oh yeah: Tergiversation - N. change of
mind, change of intention, change of purpose; afterthought.
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GET BEHIND THE MAGIC 8-BALL AT THE RESORT
A bonafide "geek house" where every housemate has a homepage and the
nitrous oxide FAQ explains how to attain deeper mental connections, this
site is an offspurt of the UC-Santa Cruz dorms which cater to computer
geekdom in every respect. Check out the famous oracle of the Magic 8-ball,
tour the Mystery Spot or join the Church of the Subgenius and send money to
Bob. "http://resort.com/~banshee/Misc/8ball"
RICE EDGES GERMANS FOR BEST COLLEGE DORM LINK
We went looking for college dorms with Web sites and came up with five
schools. Rice University's Brown College won our grand prize (glowing
admiration), nosing out Heim I at Clausthal Tech (about 40 miles south of
Hanover) and its trilingual site. A distant third was Stanford University's
dull, half-complete dorm system (every dorm similar). MIT finished dead
last; they hide their weak dorm pages in a large list of campus links.
Sites are ranked below.
Brown College: %20/%7ebeaumont/brown.html"
Clausthal Tech: "http://www.heim1.tu-clausthal.de"
Stanford: "http://rescomp.stanford.edu/dorms.html"
Lehigh: "http://www.lehigh.edu/inwrd/public/www-data/wired.html"
MIT: "http://web.mit.edu/afs/net/admin/www/homes/indices.html"
THE BIBLE OF USENET UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The Bible of Usenet aspires to be THE newsgroup reference. It will present
info on every newsgroup out there: descriptions, FAQ files, moderators,
archives, and traffic volume. You can help by contributing a newsgroup
description or archived site. Read the FAQ. The work in progress can be
reached at the URL below, but careful - it's 500 K and growing.
"ftp://ftp.clark.net:/pub/usenet-b/info/bible-faq"
"ftp://ftp.clark.net:/pub/usenet-bible/report/"
Harvest is a site and a set of tools designed to suck up online info. Think
of it as giant and more capable Archie. With modest effort, users can
tailor Harvest to digest information in many different formats and offer
custom search services on the Internet. Moreover, Harvest makes efficient
use of network traffic, remote servers, and disk space. Demos include
AT&T's 1-800 phone numbers, an index of WWW home pages, 24,000 Computer
Science technical reports, and six PC software FTP sites. There's also
technical info about Harvest itself. Try a search using your URL to see how
many people have links to your page.
"http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/"
FANTASY SPORTS (PRETTY MUCH ALL THAT'S LEFT) BBS GOES WWW
SportsWorld BBS, in Vancouver, B.C., has put together a Web site that might
have been of interest to the fantasy sports enthusiast. The page is
essentially a
collection of advertisements for statistical services and information that
would primarily benefit fantasy league administrators in any of the four
major professional sports. The highlight for the occasional browser is a
link to Richard Rosa's Web page, a hockey gold mine with a newsletter and
links to many other hockey sites. Now, if they'd only drop the puck....
SportsWorld: "http://debussy.media.mit.edu/dbecker/docs/swbbs.html"
Rosa: "http://www.liii.com/~richr/home.html"
100,000 PIECES OF PI IN YOUR FACE
Damn, but writing headlines is fun! Try out this site and get - you guessed
it - 100,000 digits of pi. "http://cad.ucla.edu/repository/useful/PI.txt"
Be yourself - or be an elf. When you're touring a Multi-User Domain, just
about anything is possible. The following page can point you to a great
list of MUD, MOO, MUSH, MUCK, LP, and Diku sites to visit. Also available
at this nicely done, complete resource are pointers to MUD-oriented FTP
sites and newsgroups. "http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html"
A worldwide movement to bring the codpiece back to the height of fashion
has now found a supportive niche on the Web. A codpiece is a bag or flap
that was appended to the front of the tight pants worn by men in the 15th
and 16th centuries. Hmmmm. Although the site is currently under
construction, soon you'll be able to learn more about codpieces, join the
"Bring Back The Codpiece" campaign and send away for "The Codpiece
International Catalog." Stop by the following URL:
"http://www.teleport.com/~codpiece/index.html/"
SEARCHABLE GOPHER JEWELS SHINE IN THE GALAXY WEB SITE
EINet Galaxy World Wide Web site has integrated Gopher Jewels by David
Riggins in its expanded directory. The Jewels index is searchable with a
WWW forms browser and most of the underlying documents are on searchable
Gophers. A traditional index is also available if your Web browser doesn't
support forms. The regular index reveals 50+ major headings and over 30
Gophers, with subject trees for each.
"http://galaxy.einet.net/gopher/gopher.html" is the searchable form.
"http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/index.html" is the regular index.
"http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html" is the galaxy Web index.
DESKTOP PUBLISHERS RESOURCE GUIDE HEAVY ON SELF-PROMOTION
The new "Resource Base for Desktop Publishers", from UNB Graphic Services
in Canada, has a few good items, but is heavy on self-promotion in
proportion to overall content. Judge for yourself and perhaps pick up a
nugget (it's still under construction) at:
"http://degaulle.hil.unb.ca/UNB_G_Services/GSHomePage.html"
INTERNET MARKETING LIST A MUST FOR ONLINE BUSINESSES
The Internet Marketing mailing list is a moderated list for all who are
interested in the issues involved in doing business on the Internet. The
list, maintained through EINet/MCC and moderated by Glenn Fleishman, is
probably the premier forum for discussing online business related issues.
The postings to this list can be searched by keywords with a forms-capable
Web browser. To subscribe, send E-Mail to "listproc@einet.net" with the
message body
"SUBSCRIBE INET-MARKETING Your_Name_Here".
%3a/.INET-MARKETING/inet-marketing"
"http://galaxy.einet.net/hypermail/inet-marketing"
EXPEDITION NEWS: VICARIOUS WORLDWIDE ADVENTURES VIA E-MAIL
The new monthly zine, "Expedition News", made its debut with a 3 1/2-page
October issue that featured interesting short content about treks to the
Arctic, kayaking in the Amazon, and blind climbers on Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Other briefs highlighted a powerboat antipodal global circumnavigation
record attempt, online bicycling in Central America, and unique climbing
attempts in Antarctica and Argentina. Available by E-Mail or FAX, the zine
costs US $36 for 12 issues. Contact Jeff Blumenfeld and ask for a sample at
"0004210571@mcimail.com" or "76226.773@compuserve.com".
This is an excellent site providing a great deal of information about New
Mexico and things New Mexican. The material is quite varied, ranging from
several screenfuls of book references to the Almanac - which gives census
info (including a census of Native Americans), satellite pictures, and
Chambers of Commerce - to a good selection of guidebooks with info on what
to see and do in various parts of the state. There's also a nice selection
of images. Good place to check before a trip, especially for the book
references. "http://www.viva.com/nm/nmhome.html"
SEATTLE ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
Even if you don't live in the Emerald City, this site is worth visiting for
the cool graphics and movie reviews alone. Maybe other cities, including
yours, will catch on soon. Also featured at this location are KOMO News
Radio news tidbits, a list of current Seattle movie listings (times and
theaters), plus auditions being held in the Seattle area. We give it two
thumbs up! "http://useattle.uspan.com"
"http://www.uspan.com"
This exhaustive selection has nearly 1500 files of GIF-format clip art,
plus links to several other clip art repositories. Sandra Loosemore has
assembled a
number of special topic clip art links (Golf, Age of Sail, Caving,
Medical/Human Anatomy Clip Art, etc.). Another great effort from the
creator of the Froggy Page.
"http://www.cs.yale.edu/HTML/YALE/CS/HyPlans/loosemore-sandra/clipart.html"
MASSIVE U.S. PATENT REPOSITORY
500 MB of PTO & patenting information, including the beginning of an
Internet site that provides full searching capabilities of the PTO's patent
text databases for free. You can also retrieve patent titles in any
class/subclass. "http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html"
The Four11 Online User Directory provides an efficient way to search for
someone's E-Mail address. The directory includes almost 500,000 listings
and all Internet users are provided a free listing and unlimited searching.
E-Mail: "free@Four11.com" "http://www.Four11.com/"
Find area codes by city, state, or country. Find city, state, or country by
area code. Also look up area codes anywhere in the world. This company also
sells long distance service. "http://www.xmission.com/~americom/"
Local and international news, stock quotes, weather info, sports, airport
info (arrivals and departures). A very slow site when we tried it, though.
"http://www.ntu.ac.sg/intv/intv_www.html"
According to the announcement, "Companies listed are MANUFACTURERS and
EXPORTERS. e.g. only interested in VERY VERY large orders." Other Hong Kong
links are included, so it's more interesting than it sounds.
"http://www.hk.super.net/~rlowe/bizhk/bhhome.html"
THE CONTRARIAN ADVISOR, FREE INFO ON OUT OF FAVOR STOCKS
A monthly newsletter devoted to helping readers profit from out-of-favor
stocks, it focuses on identifying and analyzing beaten-down stocks that
have the potential to rebound strongly. E-Mail "choyt@cais.com" for free
subscription.
STOCK QUOTES AND HISTORICAL GRAPHS
DTN Wall Street has a new electronic quotes and news service. You can view
15-minute delayed stock quotes and historical graphs of the markets and
such. "http://www.secapl.com/cgi-bin/qs"
HTML TO POSTSCRIPT OUTPUT VIA THE WEB
This is one neat idea. The Mozilla Print Gidget presents a form which, when
filled out and submitted, fetches your HTML doc, translates it to
PostScript, and sends it to you. The CGI URL automagically fills in the URL
field of the form with the URL you came from, so if you add the WWW to your
hotlist/bookmarks, it is almost like having a full featured print command
built right into your Web browser. This amazingly cool software/site is
brought to you by Michael Toy, "mtoy@neon.mcom.com".
"http://home.mcom.com/people/mtoy/cgi/www-print.cgi"
This is kind of old news (October), but those interested in testing out the
latest Mosaic may want to take a look at this. Versions for X-Windows in
various flavors of Unix are available at the FTP site. It has hotlist
handling improvements, HTML table support, a kiosk option to disable all
menu items except back, forward, home, and close, support for HTML SUP tag,
and some other things.
"
"ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Unix/binaries/2.5"
HTMLGOBBLE GRABS HTML PAGES FROM REMOTE WEB SITES
This is not for the faint of heart. You get source code and a makefile, but
no documentation. The program apparently sucks in the HTML from any site
you specify, along with any linked files in the same directory. Strictly
for hackers.
"ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/net/www/tools/htmlgobble.tar.gz"
GIFTRANS MAKES TRANSPARENT GIFS
Not a day goes by without someone asking the 64K question, "How do I make a
transparent GIF?" Well, here's the utility that is the key to the whole
process: source code and a man page. The man page tells you what you need
to make it work with MS-DOS. The Web site tells you about transparent GIFs.
"ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/net/www/tools/giftrans.c"
"ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/net/www/tools/giftrans.1"
"http://melmac.corp.harris.com/transparent_images.html"
This is a port of Perl, that indispensable scripting language which Net and
Web sysadmins know and love, ported to MPW C for the Macintosh. There is
also a discussion list you can subscribe to by sending mail to
"mpw-perl-request@iis.ethz.ch". Sounds like a very robust port, but you'll
need plenty of RAM for using some advanced features. Source and binaries
are available in the FTP directory. There is also a Think C port available
at the other URL below. "ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mac/mac-perl/"
"ftp://ftp.maths.tcd.ie/pub/Mac/"
MULTIMEDIA ON THE INTERNET HYPERCARD STACK
This full-color Hypercard stack will run on any Macintosh computer equipped
with Hypercard 2.1 or later. It is a reference tool for anyone interested
in exploring the uses of multimedia on the Internet. There is a great deal
of text and background information contained on the cards, but a handful of
video, animation, and sound files have been included to demonstrate what is
available online. Note that this is not an anonymous FTP site, so log in as
user "ftp".
"ftp://edinburgh.aero.hq.nasa.gov/pubs"
INTERLEAF ANNOUNCES CYBERLEAF, A PRICY WWW PRODUCTION TOOL
This tool, perhaps more of an environment, will supposedly translate
various word processor files such as Word, WordPerfect, FrameMaker, and
ASCII to HTML. It will do automatic style matching (e.g. underlines to
underlines), support outlining, include Web site management, and have a
bunch of other features you can read about in the press release. They will
also throw in free home page templates. So far it's vaporware, but there
should be a Unix version this month for $795, and a Windows version in the
first quarter of '95 for $495. The prices seem high, given that there are
so many public domain and shareware tools which do these things already.
"http://www.ileaf.com/cleafpr.html"
WEB SERVER AVAILABLE FOR HP3000
This port is based on NCSA's httpd V1.3. To run it, you'll need MPE/iX V5.0
or later (X.50.20). Ported by Mike Belshe "mbelshe@cup.hp.com".
"http://jazz.external.hp.com/"
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