Scout Report June 24, 1994

Mon Jun 27 17:46:37 CEST 1994

Vazeni,
pripojuji Scout Report za minuly tyden. S pozdravem
                                                      Vladimir Vrabec
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                    Scout Report,  June 24, 1994

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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC
Information Services to the U.S. research and education and entire
Internet community via email, gopher, and World Wide Web.
Included are selected new and newly-discovered online resources,
network news, and bits of net culture. See below for additional
information and complete Scout Report access methods.

To browse the Report or accesss past issues via gopher or WWW:

http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
gopher://is.internic.net/

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.

http://polyn.net.kiae.su/polyn/manifest.html

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.

http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html

Internal Auditing World Wide Web (IAWWW). Internet resources of
interest to auditors, conference information, discussion groups, white
papers, and more.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/dhmc/IAWWW-FOLDER-
V1.0/DARTHOME-IAWWW-EXEC.HTML

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.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/home.html

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.

http://www.csc.fi/math_topics/General.html
http://www.csc.fi/math_topics/Movies/

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,

http://enterprise.osd.mil/

NAUTICUS,  at the National Maritime Center, that emphasizes
education and scientific interest in the sea and maritime industry.

http://www.nauticus.org/Nauticus/nauticus.html

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.

http://www.polymtl.ca:8001/zuse/tavi/www/Romania.html
http://s700.uminho.pt/europa.html

Comprehensive List of WWW Sites.

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mkgray/comprehensive.html
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/mkgray/web-growth.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/user/mlm/www/lycos-
home.html

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.

http://http2.sils.umich.edu/

Recently announced college and university World WideWeb servers:
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Indiana University,  Cognitive Science  Program
http://www.psych.indiana.edu/

Purdue University Department of Biology Server
http://bogie2.bio.purdue.edu

Stevens Institute of Technology
http://www.stevens-tech.edu/

Swinburne University of Technology, Swinburne Library, Australia
http://www.swin.edu.au/lib/library.html

University of Montreal, Faculty of Law and the Research Centre in
Public Law
http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/

Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York
http://148.100.176.70:80/prasad.htm

Monash University, Department of Computer Science, Australia
http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/

Gopher:
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Atlantic Geoscience Centre - Geological Survey of Canada
gopher:   gopher.bio.ns.ca

Central Connecticut State Univiversity
gopher:   neal.ctstateu.edu

Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC), founded to ensure that the
principles embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
are protected as new computing, communications, and information
technologies emerge.
gopher:   gopher.ee.mcgill.ca

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
gopher:   gopher.ieee.org

Mathematical Association of America
gopher:   gopher.maa.org

National Centre for Software Technology, India
gopher:   soochak.ncst.ernet.in

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Gopher
gopher:   gopher.nhlbi.nih.gov

National Library of Canada / Bibliotheque nationale du Canada
gopher:   gopher.nlc-bnc.ca

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Full text of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, the Declaration, the Plan of Action and the
Goals for Children for the Year 2000 adopted by the World Summit
for Children in 1990.
gopher:    hqfaus01.unicef.org

University of Iowa Libraries
gopher:   gopher.arcade.uiowa.edu

Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM)
gopher:   umhp01.mty.udem.mx

Network Tools
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AirMosaic, a commercial version of Mosaic for MS-Windows 3.1,
Windows for Workgroups, and Windows NT, from Spry Incorporated.
1-800-777-9638
info at spry.com

Amiga Mosaic 1.2
ftp://max.physics.sunysb.edu/pub/amosaic/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/AMosaic/         (documentation)

CERN Line Mode Browser 2.14
source:
ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/src/WWWLineMode_2.14.tar.Z
binary:
ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/bin/<WWW_MACH>/www_2.14.tar.Z
doc:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/LineMode/Status.html
info:
www-bug at info.cern.ch

NCSA Mosaic for the Macintosh 2.0.0 Alpha2
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu       /Mosaic/Mac

NCSA  Mosaic v2.0alpha5 Release - Windows
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu         /PC/Mosaic/wmos20a5.zip
ftp.cica.indiana.edu     /pub/pc/win3/winsock

NetBytes
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* 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:
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Free selection of 3D graphics on the web for use in your home
page.

http://www.mcs.net/~wallach/freeart/buttons.html

WWW Virtual Library: Sports (formerly Stringers Sports Pages)

http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/sports/sports.html
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

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.

Bradley University Amateur Radio Web Page. Information about the
club, several searchable links to locate hams, and general ham
information.

http://buarc.bradley.edu/

About the Scout Report
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  The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC
Information Services to the Internet community as a fast, convenient
way to stay informed about network activities. Its purpose is to
combine in one place the highlights of new (and newly-discovered)
online resources and other announcements seen on the Internet
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  A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis
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