Scout Report: Week ending June 24, 1994
World Wide Web:
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident document collection. Includes the most
recent official version of the events surrounding the Chernobyl
accident (published in 1992), materials from the Chernobyl
Kurchatov Institute Expedition, and scientific and mass media
publications on the topic. Provided by the Information Analytical
Center of Physics Nuclear Institute, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow.
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Human-Languages Page. German-to-English (and vice-versa)
dictionary, "Travelers Japanese" lessons, an introduction to the
Slovene alphabet, a source of Russian and Eastern-European
languages and literature, and more. If translation volunteers are
found, the Page will be translated into various human languages to
make it more accessable by non-English speakers.
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Internal Auditing World Wide Web (IAWWW). Internet resources of
interest to auditors, conference information, discussion groups, white
papers, and more.
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Internet Poetry Archive. Selected poems from a number of
contemporary poets in several languages are featured, including text,
photo of poet, voice of poet reading the poem, select bibliography,
and brief biographical note.
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CSC Mathematical Topics provides a variety of mathematics-related
topics, including
mathematical animations, and an editable list of best
mathematical services. CSC is the Finnish national supercomputer
center located in Espoo, Finland.
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Office of the Secretary of Defense. Wide variety of information,
including a link to the Defense Performance Review, the Department
of Defense's contribution to the National Performance Review,
- NAUTICUS,
at the National Maritime Center, that emphasizes
education and scientific interest in the sea and maritime industry.
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ROMANIAN Home Page linked to the
European Home Page.
Includes a map with links to ftp sites in Timisoara and gopher sites in
Bucharest. Romanian-language version also available.
- WWW Information
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WWW Guide to Civic Networking. A guide to developing community
networks which lists common community related subjects and
points users to quality examples on existing civic networks. Links to
various networks, archives and documents that will be of interest to
network developers.
- Recently announced college and university World WideWeb servers:
Gopher:
Network Tools:
NetBytes:
- From a announcement released by the Internet Society on June 17,
1994: ISOC Proceeding on Conduct Code Underway. The Internet
Society Board of Trustees, at their annual meeting in Prague, passed
a resolution which recognizes the need for an Internet Code of Ethics
and recommends that the Internet Architecture Board and Internet
Society Advisory Council propose an appropriate code of ethics. This
action was taken in response to recent events on the network related
to unsolicited advertising and marketing tactics.
- From a announcement released by Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
(BBN) and Stanford University on June 22, 1994: BBN to acquire
BARRNet from Stanford. Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.and Stanford
University announced that they have signed a letter of intent under
which BBN would acquire the Bay Area Regional Research Network
(BARRNet) from Stanford. This agreement, when finalized, would
allow BBN to merge its New England NEARNET operation, which is the
leading provider of Internet services in New England, with BARRNet,
which is the leading provider of such services in the San Francisco
Bay Area.
- From a announcement released by Performance Systems
International, Inc. (PSI) on June 23, 1994: Performance Systems
International, Inc. (PSI), of Herndon Virginia, disclosed that an
interim agreement had been reached with Canter & Siegel (C&S), of
Phoenix, Arizona regarding the controversial C&S advertising over
the Internet and USENET. The agreement includes statements that
C&S will refrain from mass electronic postings of any unsolicited,
non-contextual, non-topic advertisements to the USENET discussion
group bulletin board system; and will refrain from mass postings of
any unsolicited, non-contextual, non-topic advertisements using
electronic mail or other TCP/IP Internet applications.
Weekend Scouting:
- Free selection of
3D graphics
on the web for use in your home page.
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WWW Virtual Library:
Sports (formerly Stringers Sports Pages)
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HypArt - WWW art project. a artistical equivalent to 'Hyper-Text'.
A single picture is created by several people by dividing the image
into squares and each artist contributes a square. More information
about how to contribute etc. in the Homepage of the Project.
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Bradley University Amateur Radio Web Page. Information about the
club, several searchable links to locate hams, and general ham
information.
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