The Scout Report - September 15, 1995
A Service to the Internet Community
Provided by the Info Scout and the InterNIC
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newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome
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the Web version of the Scout Report on the InterNIC server:
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Additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions
are included at the end of each Scout Report.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
UPDATE: The Censorship, Freedom of Speech, and Child Safety Web page URL
listed in a recent Scout Report has been changed to:
http://www.voicenet.com/~cranmer/censorship.html
World Wide Web:
- The American Academy of Ophthalmology is an international member
association of more than 21,000 ophthalmologists, physicians who provide
comprehensive eye care, including medical, surgical and optical care. The
AAO Web site provides authoritative information about eye care for the
public, and serves the professional needs of the Academy's members. Web
content includes links to other eye care sites plus educational articles
on Refractive Surgery, Nutrition and the Eye, AIDS, HIV and the Eye, and
Computers & Eyestrain.
http://www.eyenet.org/
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ArtsUSA is the WWW site of the American Council for the Arts (ACA) on the
Internet. ArtsUSA provides advocacy information, including relevant
Congressional committees, how to contact members, current legislation
regarding arts funding, and more. Barbra Streisand's speech promoting the
NEA at Harvard University, the ACA Books Catalog, now reorganized and
including on-line ordering, the ArtsUSA Cafe discussion group and Arts
Education information all can be found on ArtsUSA. Recently added is the
National Arts Policy Clearinghouse with more than 4,000 arts policy
documents.
http://www.artsusa.org
- The Climate and Radiation Branch of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
includes discussions on aerosols, clouds and the hydrological cycle,
rainfall, and remote sensing. As you dig deeper into individual pages,
you can find more detailed information on such things as fractals, GOES
and MODIS instruments, and so on. There's a page to search for
publications, and many abstracts are included. There's a list of other
Web Sites related to Earth's climate, and links to NASA datacenters
(DAACs) where you can obtain data for your own analysis, if you wish.
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- Economics and Politics carries the full text of articles and reports on
such issues as the federal budget and taxes, labor markets, the
distribution of income and wealth, monetary policy, and trade. The first
edition of Economics and Policies features items by Secretary of Labor
Robert B. Reich (on declining real wages); Harvard Business School
professor Rosabeth Kantor (on the software industry as a model for the
jobs of the future); economists Edward Wolff and Barry Bluestone (on
widening inequalities between rich and poor); and Robert McIntyre (on
what's wrong with the flat tax). Economics and Politics is the second
Idea Central page to be released. The first page, Welfare and Families,
is already online.
http://epn.org/idea/economy.html
http://epn.org/idea/welfare.html
- Great Lakes Environmental Wire (GLEW) provides Great Lakes environmental
news, editorials and opinion columns reported in eight Michigan daily
newspapers. Produced by Booth Newspapers, and supported by the Great
Lakes Information Network (GLIN). Both services offer search functions
and archives.
http://www.cic.net/~glew/
http://www.great-lakes.net:2200/glinhome.html
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The Space Shuttle Monitor combines links from various NASA sites on one
page allowing easy, live tracking of the Shuttle. It includes live
"snapshots" from NASA-TV, DEMO (Shuttle Tracking at Mission Control), and
Current Status of the Shuttle in flight. Other links include, Preflight,
Launch, Orbit, Landing, Photo Gallery, Video Gallery, Shuttle Home, and
sci.space.shuttle. For those with Netscape 1.1 (or greater, or browser w/
similar extensions) the URL will reload every 90 seconds to show a new
"snapshot". On the NASA "snapshot" pages themselves, there's
instructions on how to make it refresh in a "real-time" mode as the NASA
server updates the frame that is put on the WWW. No new information found
here that can't be found at other NASA WWW sites. Links were extracted
from the NASA pages and put together in a different format to make it
easier for the browsee to do just what is desired. It's an easy way to
monitor the space shuttle with the loads of information that NASA makes
available on the WWW.
http://www.prairienet.org/~tgnally/shuttle.html
- The Writing - Mulitmedia web page provides links to software which may
be of interest to students and teachers of college-level writing. FTP links
lead to shareware and freeware for DOS and MS-Windows. A brief
description is included for each piece of software, and each is given a
rating. Links to other software collections are provided.
http://www.humberc.on.ca/~coleman/cw-soft.html
Gopher
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The Radcliffe College gopher offers information about the College, its
seminars, publishing course, graduate course in women's studies and the
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in
America. Radcliffe College is a comprehensive center for advancing
society by advancing women.
gopher to:
radcliffe.harvard.edu
- The Socrates and Youth Master Gopher was created to further the adoption
of the SOCRATES and YOUTH FOR EUROPE III Action Programmes by the
European Council of Ministers and the European Parliament under articles
126 and 127 of the Maastricht Treaty. The new programme covers a wide
range of activities: ERASMUS (higher education), COMENIUS (primary and
secondary education), LINGUA (language training), ODL (Open and Distance
education), Adult education and Exchange of information. As the
programmes evolve, more information (deadlines for submission of
applications, selection results, Guidelines for applicants) will be
added. This Gopher server is managed for DG XXII, Education Training and
Youth by the Socrates and Youth Technical Assistance Office, part of the
ETAPE Consortium, which assists the European Commission in the
implementation of these programmes.
gopher to:
socrates.ulb.ac.be
Electronic Mailing Lists
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The Talk 2000 Forum mailing list, 2000ad-l, is an open, moderated
academic discussion list on the folklore, festivities and future of the
year 2000. Topics include millennial influence on today's culture,
millennial books, previous mega-anniversaries, the great calendar,
bimillennial groups, proposed mega-events for 1999-2001 and reflections
on the advent of the third millennium. The 2000ad-l list will be
bidirectionally gatewayed with the newsgroup misc.future.2000-ad,
assuming it passes its CFV.
To receive a more information:
- send email to: LISTPROC@USC.EDU
- in the body of the message type: GET 2000ad-l invite2000
- To subscribe:
- send email to: LISTPROC@USC.EDU
- in the body of the message type:
- SUBSCRIBE 2000ad-l yourfirstname yourlastname
Or visit the Talk 2000 Forum Web page:
http://humnet.humberc.on.ca/talk2000.htm
- The USDA Economics and Statistics System Reports are now available
automatically via email. The electronic mailing list provides quick and
timely access to the agricultural and economic estimates that are
available in the reports section of the Economics and Statistics System.
You will receive the reports of your choice within three hours of their
publication via email. (Note that delivery time may take longer depending
on factors, such as network speed and congestion.) The reports are
posted on the gopher server and sent to the subscribers simultaneously.
Subscribe to as many reports as you wish. To request a USDA Reports
catalog with detailed information on reports, including a short
description, publication frequency, and publication date/time for 1995,
- send email to: usda-reports@usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
- in the body of the message type: send catalog
- or gopher to:
usda.mannlib.cornell.edu
NetBytes
- The Web Search page is another collection of all the major search
engines and directories, but with graphic representations which may make it
more fun to have in your bookmarks. A text version is also provided which
includes even more search engines, resulting in a new feeling of being
overwhelmed.
http://www.mainelink.net/SKYADVENTURES/search.html
- The Icons & Images Collection Web page offers dozens of graphics for the
Web page your building, nicely organized into the categories: Arrows and
Pointer, Background Images, Flowers, Punctuation Marks, Symbols, Bars and
Banners, Dots and Cubes, and Stars. If you don't find anything you like,
links are provided to 40 other sites with icons related to such topics as
Hobbes, the X-Files, and pets.
http://www.infi.net:80/~rdralph/icons/
Weekend Scouting
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The BrainTainment Center- home of the World Brain - receives a daily feed
of uplinked Brainpower scores from players of THINKfast(tm)- the new
brain-game that claims to grow your brain as you play the game. Bell
Curves comparing Brainpower by country, domain, sex, age, profession &
special interest groups will be posted as the data streams in. This
One-stop Neuro-cog shop also features an on-line 5-minute IQ test,
left/right brain analysis, random quotes & koans, a very popular Brain
Board & a steady feed of brain booster news on new nutriceuticals, smart
drugs, books, machines & games for your brain. The BrainTainment Center
also offers the very popular THINKfast brain-game free off the site.
http://world.brain.com
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is now open on the Web and seems to be
almost as good as being there. So if you missed the official opening in
Cleveland or the HBO live special on TV, have no fear --the Internet
comes to the rescue again. Hear audio clips of the inductees, vote for
the 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll (seems the staff needs your help
with this) or express yourself in one of the forums. The real-life
building was designed by I. M. Pei looks great in the photos, at least.
Oh ya, you can also win "free stuff".
http://www.rockhall.com/
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Scout Report Access Methods
Resource Addressing Conventions
After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are
listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing
for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users
recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those
users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool.) A brief explanation of one tool,
WWW is included below.
The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP. Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.
After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available using multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:
- World Wide Web (WWW)
- Gopher
- FTP
- Email
- Telnet
- WAIS
A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two forward
slashes. For example:
http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt
To access the resource through the WWW you can use a WWW browser
installed on your desktop computer, or a "command-line" WWW client on
your local Internet host computer. Web browsers are available for all
major computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. Check with
your local support center or your Internet Service Provider for more
information about Web browsers installed on the Internet host computer or
Copyright Susan Calcari, 1995.
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