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June 21, 1996

The Internet Scout Report for Students, by Students

A Project of the InterNIC


In This Issue:


Way to Go -- Infoserve Global Network
The most informative World Wide Web site I have found is the Infoserve Global Network, the local Boulder section of which is called Planet Boulder. Its links are set up geographically and in many other formats. It is a nicely built home page that is being constantly revised. It has links to "the Boulder underground," and to various local cameras providing live footage of several areas. There is a cyber-yellow pages and many fun hidden places within the site. It has a revolutionary search engine that blows Yahoo out of the water and a truly professional Boulder feel. The whole thing is more than a little bit commercial, but hey,...
Submitted by Joe Shockman
http://www.planetnetwork.com/
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There is an Alternative To Learning -- AHEN (Alternative Higher Education Network)
The Alternative Higher Education Network provides information about colleges that offer a different way to learn. The network also provides a forum for the discussion of what alternative education means. AHEN suggests tools for the collaborative assessment of existing programs within the schools, and for the creation of new programs. The organization also helps individual students at the member colleges network with each other.
Submitted by Robert Bowen
http://hampshire.edu/html/cs/ahen/ahen.html
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Throwing Words Around -- Trevor Stone's Shakespearean Curse Generator
Want to be eclectic? Want to get academic (or at least intellectual) credit for a foul mouth? This is the page for you. Trevor Stone, soon to be well known sorcerer, has written a page that includes a number of interesting tidbits, including a list of 5,675 verbs (who knows when you'll need an extra?) and a program that enables visitors to his site to obtain randomly generated curses that use the language of the noble bard.
Submitted by Ben Leibig
http://bvsd.k12.co.us/~tstone
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Roots -- Celtic Net
Being of Scottish descent, I often find it interesting to look into my clan's roots. I have tried to search the web for places where I can find more insights; but until recently, I didn't have much luck finding any useful information. Then I came across the Celtic Net. I found complete listings of the Scottish clans, some info on bagpipe music, Scottish traditions and cultures, a Gaelic dictionary, and links to other Celtic sites on the web. This site is useful to anyone interested in Celtic stuff, whether it's for school or home.
Submitted by Michael George
http://taisbean.com/celticnet
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Now You See It... -- The Philadelphia Experiment From A-Z
Through this site the author of a recent book (mysteriously entitled The Philadelphia Experiment) describes what he learned through his research on (you guessed it) the Philadelphia Experiment. In the P.E., which took place during World War II, the Navy tried to make a destroyer and several planes optically invisible by using a strong magnetic field that would "bend light." The site is very interesting, but it has very few graphics (most of those being book covers, pictures of men who worked on the project, and meaningless diagrams of engines). The subject matter, however, more than makes up for the lack of visuals, providing a clue into what the Navy was trying to do in WWII so that we could beat the Japanese. The links, unfortunately, go to other pages by the same author, which is as much the result of this being a unique site as it is the author's ego. I think this site is definitely worthwhile; but be warned, you may have to wait to get on.
Submitted by Brian York
http://www.wincom.net/softarts/philexp.html
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Just Say Maybe -- The War No One Wants to Win
The author of this site, W. E. Gutman, has done an extraordinary amount of research on the supposed War on Drugs conducted by the U. S. Government. The site is basically one long article in which the author talks about the "drug conspiracy" in the United States. You might be surprised by who the conspirators are. The article is chock full of information on smuggling, criminals, and Colombian politics.
Submitted by Ben Nelson
http://com.primenet.com/callme/free/wardrugs.html
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Better Read When Red -- The Marx/Engels Archive
This is the perfect site if you are looking for the history of economics. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were Germans writing on the history, philosophy, and future of economics in the mid-19th century. This site contains translated versions of almost all of their works (and more are being put up as they are finished): everything from The Communist Manifesto to The Part Played by Labour in the Transition >From Ape to Man. The site also allows searches of the works as well as biographical information on the authors and a photo gallery of black and white pictures of them and of the times. All in all I found this a very interesting and educational site, a good place to find some of the harder-to-find works of these two great German philosophers.
Submitted by Trevor Stone
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/
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The Democratic Alternative -- Financial Scandals
The first site listed describes a variety of scandals in the capitalist countries' financial and political worlds. It's primarily an index to a huge number of other really important reports. The second site listed focuses on the bribery and corruption of the Savings and Loan Scandal (circa 1980's, before most of us were sentient). The site includes a nifty cost/bribe ratio on the Congress, organized by significant industries. Very informative.
Submitted by Ben Nelson
Financial Scandals:
http://com.primenet.com/callme/free/scandal.html
Herb Brooks' Reviews on Bribery, Plunder, and Corruption:
http://www.thebook.com/revenge/review1.html
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If it Worked for Andreessen -- 3M Collaborative Invention Unit
This page shows students and even teachers how to be better at inventing assorted items that work! It has two other little parts that tell how Benjamin Franklin and Richard G. Drew (the maker of scotch tape) did research and created their inventions. It also gives four other links to role-playing games (well, sort of) that teach the viewer how to be a better inventor. Each game asks questions to guide the viewer/player through the process of imagining and developing cool inventions.
Submitted by Robert Bowen
http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/inventing/inventing.html
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The Killer Site -- Rick's Page of Hunting
This is a home for the hunter or hunter at heart -- especially bowhunters and reloaders. This site provides a guide to hunting ranches, some excellent hunting tales, and much more. The home page also has an abundant directory filled with links to other hunting pages, retailers of hunting gear, different departments and bureaus of wildlife, weather information, airline information, and interesting stories about hunts with an array of game. Unfortunately, none of the site's four stories have any visuals, and the home pages visuals consist of a picture of a bull elk in the background repeated over and over again. Still, I would recommend this site to the outdoor sportsman or person who wants to know more about hunting.
Submitted by Justin Schwartz
http://vader.castles.com/richardm/
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Space Weather Report -- The Space Environment and Effects Page
This page, which is produced by the National Space Development Agency of Japan, talks about the effects of the space environment on various things we send out there. Environmental elements discussed include radiation, plasma, geomagnetic fields, atomic oxygen, high- energy particles, and cosmic dust. Effects from these elements in the space environment include electrostatic discharge, single events on IC's memory, degradation of solar cells, degradation of thermal control materials, and contamination of optical equipment. This is a very well designed web page, which has some good graphics but not too many, and is very complete. All of the links work and are useful, though much of the information is a bit thick.
Submitted by Brendan Billingsley
http://akebono.tksc.nasda.go.jp/
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