vra> Scout Report - December 2, 1994 (fwd)
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Fri Dec 9 23:32:16 CET 1994
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Scout Report: December 2, 1994
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Highlights In This Week's Report:
* Habitsmart
* Oneida Indian Nation Homepage Updates
* Live access to climate data
* Artsliaison
World Wide Web
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The habitsmart web site has loads of information about addictive
behavior. It has been recently updated with new information: coping with
urges and craving, smoking reduction, memory model of addictive behavior,
a new issue of The Archivist (a newsletter presenting recent trends in
addiction research), and a self-scoring alcohol check-up.
http://www.cts.com:80/~habtsmrt/
International Shakespeare Globe Center information pages at Cologne
University includes information on the progress of the Globe Theatre
reconstruction in London, the idea behind the "International Shakespeare
Globe Centre", and links to Shakespeare-related sites on the Internet. Some
photos and drawings with relation to the "new Globe" are available as well.
http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/SHAKESPEARE/
The Oneida Indian Nation has released a new and improved Home Page,
including 1) "The Treaties Project"-an ongoing project to make significant
treaties between Native American Nations and the U.S. available via the
Internet to both Native Americans and Non-Native people. This project was
released to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the signing of the
Treaty of Konondaigua and the 50th anniversary of the National Congress of
American Indians. Comments concerning additions to this project are
encouraged. 2) The "Shako:Wi Project" monthly museum exhibits from the
renowned Shako:Wi Cultural Center of the Oneida Indian Nation. The
exhibits include both images and text. Please tour the exhibits often. 3)
"Little Known Historical Facts"-facts you probably never learned in
history class! 4) The "Oneida Indian Language Project"-audio samples of a
dynamic language. Native Net, the tour of the Nation and other items of
interest which were highlighted in the first release are still available.
http://nysernet.org/oneida/
Live Access to Climate Data Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory,
Seattle, WA, US. On-the-fly browsing, visualization, and retrieval of
climate data. A technical discussion of the Live Access server may be
found in Live Visualization and Extraction of Climate Data with Mosaic
and FERRET.
http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/ferret/main-menu.html
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, Web server includes academic courses, research projects
lists of staff and researchers, and general information about Aber and
the department.
http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/externals.html
Gopher
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A Citizen's Guide to Internet Resources on the Rights of Americans. The
guide is designed for the layperson and focuses on Internet resources
which explain and discuss individual rights under: the Bill of Rights,
select federal statutes (e.g., the ADA, the Copyright Act); rights by
status or group (e.g., women, youth, the disabled); and, other
rights-related resources (e.g., gateways to legal information). It has
been posted on the Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource
Guides at the University of Michigan.
gopher to: una.hh.lib.umich.edu
select: inetdirsstacks/Citizens' Rights
or use a Web browser:
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/00/inetdirsstacks/citizens:bachpfaff
Artliaison Virtual Gallery
gopher: artliaison.dorsai.org
Educational Testing Service
gopher: gopher.ets.org
Ege University Unix Gopher
gopher: gopher.ege.edu.tr
Elsevier Science, the scientific communications branch of Reed Elsevier,
started its official World-Wide Web and Gopher service which includes:
the Elsevier Science Internet Catalogue of Journals and Books; information
about - TULIP - The University Licensing Program, a research project
Elsevier Science is performing with nine universities in the USA; and, the
Proceedings of the WWW'94 Conference (May 25-27, 1994), organized by CERN,
Geneva; a number of current awareness services on diverse areas of science.
gopher: gopher.elsevier.nl
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
gopher: gopher.fao.org
Global Ukraine Inc.
gopher: gopher.gu.kiev.ua
LvNet-Teleport gopher
gopher: gopher.riga.lv
Ohio Literacy Resource Center, Kent State University
gopher: archon.educ.kent.edu
Saint Louis University, Baguio City, Philippines
gopher: gopher.slu.edu.ph
187resist: Immigrant Rights in California
gopher: garnet.berkeley.edu
Email
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National Information Infrastructure
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New documents on the Department of Commerce National
Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) gopher:
* 11/01/94 Technology Policy Working Group Minutes
* 12-07-94 GILS Meeting Change Announcement
* NII Security Issues Forum Announces Two Meetings
* IITF November Report (11/12/94)
* Calendar of Public Events (10/12/94)
* 07/15/94 NII Security Public Forum Statements
* 12/06/94 NII Advisory Council Meeting Notice
* 10/17/94 NII Advisory Council Meeting Minutes
gopher to: ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
choose: Hot Off the Press
NetBytes
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SlipKnot Dial-Up WWW Browser (w/o SLIP) MicroMind, New York, NY, US
SlipKnot is a graphical World Wide Web browser specifically designed for
Microsoft Windows users who have UNIX shell accounts with their service
providers. Its primary feature is that it does not require SLIP or PPP or
TCP/IP services. SlipKnot is distributed as restricted shareware, with a
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America, Europe and Japan). More information is available at the SlipKnot
home page, or by sending email to slipknot at micromind.com.
http://www.interport.net/slipknot/slipknot.html
Weekend Scouting
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G'DAY! The Aussies have arrived! Makin' Waves Studios on the Internet.
Aussie style humor abounds at this new site, complete with FREE .wav
sound files to download and share with your friends. Get yourself a
really different Windows intro or exit! Copy the file to cassette and it
can answer your phone, insult your friends, or be warm and caring - the
choice is yours. All professionally recorded and voiced by experienced
Aussie talent. Go on, ava a gander - erm, that means have a look!
http://cyberzine.org/html/Waves/wavepage.html
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