The Scout Report - October 20, 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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Highlights In This Week's Report:
World Wide Web:
- CareerPath offers a searchable index of employment
ads from six major newspapers: The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los
Angeles Times, The New
York Times, The San Jose Mercury News, and The Washington Post. The total
ads available on October 21 was 21,442. The site is attractive and easy to
use.
http://www.careerpath.com/
- Europages is a pan-European purchaser's guide featuring a
selection of
150,000 companies from 25 European countries. Published in collaboration
with the major European telecom companies for 13 years, it is now
available online. Europages can be searched in 5 languages, and additional
languages will be available in the near future. Europages' Economic Info
Service provides an economic indicators for all the industrial, commercial
and service sectors driving Europe's economy. A selection of tables, maps
and graphs presents the key figures and main short- and medium-term trends
for each of the 18 Europages sectors can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat. (A
link to Adobe is provided to download the Acrobat reader.)
http://www.europages.com/
- The Geometry Forum is "An Electronic Community
for Lovers of Geometry."
An NSF-funded project at Swarthmore College, the Geometry Forum is a great
place for geometry and math teachers to locate curriculum ideas, software
for mathematics, Internet math projects, and information about
professional organizations. The student center offers a problem of the
week, project of the month, the Internet geometry hunt, student hangouts
on the Internet (where students talk about school and math), and students
publications. The Geometry Forum has been re-designed and is attractive,
easy to navigate, and very friendly. The site is searchable, a Help Desk
is included, and the staff is available for questions.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
- The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and
PSGnet with partial funding
from the National Science Foundation have established a Web server
offering a database of information about international networking
developments and connectivity providers, with its major emphasis on
countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, and Latin America.
Topics include: networking in the developing world, low cost networking
tools, general computer networking info, and networking tips and
frequently asked questions.
http://www.nsrc.org/
- The One Earth Gallery maintains links to those "companies and
organizations that demonstrate a commitment to cultivating respect and
responsibility towards ourselves, each other, and our natural world" in
the categories of Environment, Health, and Social Action. The "1Earth Hot
Spot of the Week" features inspiring, and well-executed socially
progressive WWW sites.
http://www.1earth.com/hotspot
- The Yuckiest Site on the Internet, featuring
Cockroach World: "How do we explain the Yuckiest Site on the Internet?
It's a bonanza of creativity,
facts and activities for children of all ages! Created, in partnership,
with Liberty Science Center, the nation's newest major science education
center, it has been carefully researched, written and designed to
introduce the fascinating world of insects to the general public in a
friendly and unintimidating way. We're very proud that the yuckiest site
on the Internet is an educationally sound experience for children. Under
the guidance of Liberty Science Center and entomologist Dr. Betty Faber,
kids learn all about insects by interacting with a variety of cockroach
activities. As children become engaged by the maps, photos and graphics in
each gallery, they will be called upon to use their eyes, ears, minds and
their sense of adventure."
http://www.nj.com/yucky/
Gopher
- The Apple Computer Gopher Server offers an Apple Support Area and
the Tech
Info Library. The support area provides current product information,
software updates, the Top 20 Tech Info library articles, information about
the Quicktime lawsuit, opendoc, and more. The Tech Info Library contains
hundreds of documentation sheets on Apple hardware and software from the
Apple II through Lisa to the Mac, including peripherals, and white papers
and a third-party company directory. For searching instructions look under
"About the Tech Info Library."
gopher.info.apple.com
- The Television News Archive began at Vanderbilt University on
August 5,
1968 because television news was not consistently recorded, preserved and
made accessible for research anywhere. After a quarter century, the
Archive remains unique in systematically recording, abstracting and
indexing the most widely viewed national television newscasts so that they
are readily available for study. The Archive produces a monthly
publication, "Television News Index and Abstracts," that is a guide to the
collection. The electronic version of this guide is available via gopher,
and is searchable.
tvnews.vanderbilt.edu
Electronic Mailing Lists
NetBytes
- Anthony's list of Internet Accessible Machines
will bring you to those
corners of the Internet where coke machines, geiger counters, video-cams
(separate sections for indoor and outdoor) and remote-operated robots
live. There are dozens of things to choose from: you can play with a model
railroad, check on the status of Paul Haas's hottub, see the action live
on Hollywood & Vine, throw a snowball, or "Talk to some guy". Nice to see
craziness is alive and well on the 'Net.
http://www.dsu.edu/~anderbea/machines.htm
Weekend Scouting
- Hotel Anywhere, "The Internet Travel Grid", is searchable and is
organized
geographically and by subject, including airlines, hotels, cruises, travel
agencies and auto rentals. It provides links to two direct on-line airline
reservation search and booking tools that link into the same Apollo
reservation system used by travel agents: The Internet Travel Network and
PC Travel.
http://www.earthlink.net/~hotelanywhere/
- The Weightlifting Page begins with a quote by Benjamin Franklin:"I
live
temperately, drink no wine, and use daily the exercise of the dumbbell
..." and goes on to provide links to FAQs, newsgroups, nutrition and
flexibility pages, organizations, and dozens of other related Internet
resources. Zen and the Art of Weightlifting is included for beginners.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~wilsonk/weights.html
About the Scout Report
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by the InterNIC to the
Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed about
network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place selected new
(and newly-discovered) Internet resources.
A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis on
resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience,
the research and education community. Each resource has been verified
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-- Susan Calcari
InterNIC Info Scout
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
your desktop computer.
Copyright Susan Calcari, 1995.
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