The Internet Hunt - May Results
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Mon Jun 6 16:13:58 CEST 1994
Vazeni pratele,
byly zverejneny kvetnove vysledky Gatesova Huntu. Vladimir Vrabec.
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 17:08:33 -0400
From: Rick Gates <rgates at locust.cic.net>
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* THE INTERNET HUNT *
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* RESULTS *
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* FOR MAY, 1994 *
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Fast on the heels of the April Results comes the May Results!
The winner in the individual category is:
Patrick Crispen
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.A.
...who submitted an entry scoring 36 of 39 points dated Mon, 9
May 1994 21:07:28 -0400
The winners in our team category is:
Team Twinkie
Willamette University
Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.
...who submitted an entry scoring a perfect 39 points dated Mon,
9 May 1994 08:15:05 -0700 (PDT)
Congratulations to all the winners!
Each winning entry will receive:
* A one year subscription to:
"3W: World Wide Web Newsletter"
(for more info: contact 3W at ukartnet.demon.co.uk)
(thanks to Ivan Pope)
* A signed copy of
"The Internet Guide for New Users" McGraw-Hill, 1993 609 pgs.
(for more info: Gopher (enews.com) path=1/specialmcgraw-hill/dern
(thanks to Daniel Dern)
* A signed copy of:
"The Cuckoo's Egg" Pocket Books, 1989, 356 pgs.
(thanks to Cliff Stoll)
* A one year subscription to:
"The Internet Business Journal"
(for more info: contact Mstrange at Fonorola.Net)
(thanks to Michael Strangelove)
The winners will be contacted in the next few days for mailing
addresses.
THE HUNT RESULTS
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Question 1 (3 points)
Question from Alan Shapiro and Karen G. Schneider
Where does Bill Bradley stand on environmental issues? I'm
especially interested in his position on endangered species.
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Answer:
Bill Bradley is generally pro-environment. In particular, he
voted in 1993 to increase funding for the enforcement of the
Endangered Species Act.
Search strategy:
>From the NCSA WWW page Starting Points for Internet Exploration:
---> Internet Services List
lists two environmental gophers.
gopher://gopher.econet.apc.org/ gives
---> **** 1993 National Environmental Scorecard ****
(URL: gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/11/lcv)
Trial and error gives the entry "Voting records and scores: Middle
Atlantic":
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| Voting records and scores: Middle Atlantic |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
Senate Votes:
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Key: + is pro-environment; - is anti-environment; ? is absence;
I is Ineligible
MHTGR ------------------------------+ +------------- EPA Economics
ALMR -----------------------------+ | | +----------- Wetlands
Hydro Power --------------------+ | | | | +--------- ASRM
Ethanol Fuel -----------------+ | | | | | | +------- Endangered Species
BTU Tax --------------------+ | | | | | | | | +----- Mining Reform
Grazing - 3'rd Cloture ---+ | | | | | | | | | | +--- Arctic
Grazing - 1'st Cloture -+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +- California Desert
Grazing - Delay ------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Mining Royalties ---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LCV Scores
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1993 91-92 89-90
V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V ==== ===== =====
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NEW JERSEY
Bradley (D) + + + + + + + + + + + + + - + + 94% 85% 95%
The file gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org/00/lcv/Senate-issues on
the same gopher explains what the various votes were.
[From Sleepless at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford,
California, U.S.A.]
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Question #2, designed by Steve Harter, Simon Hernandez, and
Melanie Stallings
I'm a _big_ fan of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I've heard a
rumor that there's a nifty piece of software that runs under
Windows that will add Joel and the 'bots to your wallpaper or
desktop pattern and also plays sound bites from some of the
episodes.
Does this program exist? If so, what is it called and where can I
FTP it? Finally, do I need anything special in my system to be
able to run it?
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Melanie's Note: Credit should be given to those hunters who
demonstrated (by using the Net) how they got "mst3k" as an
acronym for "Mystery Science Theater".
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Answer:
My first impulse was to search for an FAQ on the subject. I
found it readily via VERONICA, searching with the phrase:
"Mystery Science". After reading the long document and
finding nothing, I decided to use the abbreviation used
often in the FAQ, i.e. "mst3k" to search for a file with
ARCHIE.
ARCHIE led me to this anonymous FTP site:
ftp.cs.odu.edu
cd pub/mst3k/software/windows
the file: mst3kwin.txt gave me the answer below. [The
actual software is in the same directory.]
Greetings, fellow MiSTies! Here it is at last: the MST3K
Windows wallpaper. This handy Control Panel will add Joel
and the 'bots to your existing wallpaper or desktop pattern
in Shadowrama plus, if you have a soundcard, randomly play
one of 30 sound bites from various MST3K episodes. So far,
I've been really impressed with this program - the
Shadowrama is nice, and the sound clips were really
well-chosen (from "Does this bug you? I'm not touching you."
to "He triiiiied to kill me with a forklift!") It's big
(1.2 Meg unzipped), but worth it.
Note that this file requires VBRUN300.DLL to be in your
WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory. I've zipped and uploaded it
(VBRUN300.ZIP) to ftp.cs.odu.edu, or you can find it on lots
of other sites (e.g. oak.oakland.edu under
/pub/msdos/windows3).
[From Charles Chiesi, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, U.S.A.]
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Question 3 (4 points)
Question designed by John Makulowich & Kimberley Robles
A friend of mine decided to return to school and pursue her
interest in psychology. Her first course on sensation and
perception covers receptive fields. She admits to me that
she is having a very hard time with this concept. Knowing I
am fixated on the Net, she asks if there is anything that
might help her get a grasp of this concept.
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Kimberley's Note: This question turned out to be harder than we
thought it would be. While several folks found articles on the
e-journal PSYCHOLOQUY, and others found book and/or video
reviews, only five found the resource we did. Perhaps we should
have given more points for this one! The following answers
describe the various methods most used to find it.]
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Whew, what a toughie! And I have a roundabout answer for
ya, so there. Okay, first I tried the obvious, under
several well-known gopher reference desks looking for
psychology, but nada. So next choice - Veronica searches.
I went down the list of Veronica servers searching
gopherspace with the keywords "sensation and perception",
and finally hit something other than course listings when I
searched the gopherspace at the University of Texas at
Dallas (what a useful Veronica server).
Item number 16 on the Veronica result search was entitled
"Sensation and Perception Tutorial" - bingo! So I suavely
saunter down to item 16, select it, and AAAH!!! it's an HTML
(WWW, Mosaic, Lynx) document! I glean the page for the
relevant information - the site's WWW URL, which was:
http://gopher.hanover.edu:70/
I then used lynx to go to the above address ("lynx
http://..."), which was the Hanover home page. On that
page, I chose "Hanover_College_Information", then
"Psychology", then "Hypertext Tutorials Directory", then
"Sensation and Perception Tutorial", and finally "Receptive
Fields (one of the most difficult concepts for students to
understand.)" which brings us to the "Receptive Field
Tutorial Home Page", which includes definitions and various
links to further explain the concepts involved with
receptive fields - everything the psych student needs to
better understand them. The final URL of the tutorial is:
URL:
http://gopher.hanover.edu:70/0/Hanover_College_Information
/Psychology/tut/recptive.html
(NOTE: Since it IS a WWW/HTML document, it probably would have been
possible to use one of the various World Wide Web indexes to find
the Hanover site named above, but I didn't think about that until
after I'd already found it via Gopher.)
[From Team Twinkie at Willamette University, Oregon, U.S.A.]
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Answer: Try the URL
gopher://gopher.hanover.edu/00/Hanover_College_Information/
Psychology/tut/recptive.html.
Search Strategy:
Veronica search _at_the_UT_Dallas_site_only_ on receptive fields
yields, among other things, an entry entitled "Receptive Fields
Tutorial," with the URL above. Following the link gives us a nice
WWW page, all about receptive fields.
[From Sleepless at Stanford, Stanford University, California,
U.S.A.]
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ANSWER: Check out the Receptive Field Tutorial Home Page at the
following URL (keep it all on one line, though):
http://gopher.hanover.edu:70/0/Hanover_College_Information
/Psychology/tut/recptive.html
SEARCH STRATEGY: After hunts through LISTSERVs, WAIS indexes and
Veronica proved fruitless, we decided to give the Web a try. We
went through various Web indexes until we came to the Internet
Resources Meta-Index
at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html.
The first index on its list is the W3 Catalog at CUI in Geneva.
The W3 Catalog comes up with a forms-based search. We entered
"sensation and perception", the name of the course in the question.
This returned a catalog entry dated April 24, 1994 for Hanover
College's psychology department. One of the resources it provides
is "tutorials in sensation and perception." This is another Web
link which offers "Receptive Fields (One of the most difficult
concepts for students to understand.)."
[From The UTK Internet Hunt Club, University of Tennessee at
Knoxville, U.S.A]
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Question #4 (2 points)
Question designed by Richard Lee Holbert, Billie Peterson,
Tony Safina & Dr Gerald R. Viers
I'm from a rather small community and was rather pleased to
have the opportunity to attend a recent computer workshop in
Chicago. The presenter often used the term *MAN* in her
presentation when referring to her own job duties. What,
pray tell, is a MAN?
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ANSWER:
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
A data network intended to serve an area approximating that of a
large city. Such networks are being implemented by innovative
techniques, such as running fiber cables through subway tunnels.
A popular example of a MAN is SMDS.
SOURCE:
Gopher access to gopher.lib.umich.edu
to <menu> General Referenece Resources
to <menu> Internet Guides and Resources
to <search> Internet Users Glossary (search)
use MAN as the search keyword.
[From Patrick Crispen, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, U.S.A.]
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Question #5 (3 points)
Question designed by Dee Baldwin, Gerard Egan, Bill Wilson,
& Laura Windsor
Last year I planted St Augustine grass in my yard. Now the
leaf blades have yellow mottling. I am not a master
gardener. What is the name of the turf grass disease and how
do I treat it?
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ANSWER: The disease is St. Augustine decline, a viral
disease. Use reistant St. Augustine grass varieties.
SEARCH STRATEGY: My commerical Internet provider uses The
News & Observer as its 'home' gopher menu. Under "The
Electronic Book Shelf" is a selection for "Gardening." This
brings back the Master Gardener files. But this gopher menu
is incomplete. So, a moved back to the main U. of Tennessee
library gopher at gopher.lib.utk.edu and queried Veronica at
University of Cologne for "master gardener." This was most
promising:
26. Full text search of Master Gardener Menus <?>
I then searched this index for "augustine". No good. Search
"turf grass" was less specific and found this information:
1. Full text search of Turf Grass Information Files <?>
Now, I searched for "augustine" and found:
1. All Turf Grasses.
Searching this file for "augustine" returned:
TURFGRASS
Problems Common to Turfgrass
SYMPTOMS POSSIBLE CAUSES CONTROLS AND COMMENTS
[...]
Leaf blades show -St. Augustine decline -Use resistant
yellow mottling on (viral disease) St. Augustine
St. Augustine grass grass varieties
[Submitted by The UTK Internet Hunt Club]
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Question 6 (4 points)
Question designed by Judy Hayes, Anthony Stevens
& Lu Wilson
I love playing the awesome game called DOOM for the PC. A
friend was telling me about a site that has nothing but Doom
stuff. What is address of this 'DOOM only FTP site'? and
what directory are the files in?
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I started this one by searching FAQs -- the easiest way to
do this is to search the news.answers-faqs WAIS index, at
ftp.eunet.ch. Searching this index on "doom" revealed
several intriguing choices, including the FAQ for
msdos-archives. Part 2 of this document (available via FTP
at bloom-picayune.mit.edu:/pub/usenet-by-group
/news.answers/msdos-archives as the file part2)
contains the following text:
DOOM **** Highly Recommended ****
++++
There is also the directory /msdos/Games/ID where you can
find DOOM - a newly-released, 3-D, virtual-reality,
Wolfenstein-like, action-oriented game from ID ... The
latest version (at the time of writing) is 1.2 ... (BTW,
the official site is /pub/msdos/games/id at ftp.uwp.edu ...
and some unofficial editors/cheats can be found in
/pub/msdos_uploads/games/doomstuff at ftp.wustl.edu ...).
Read comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action for the latest info ...
At first I was inclined to beleive that the "doomstuff"
directory was what I searched for. However, I checked
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action for the latest info. I found a
reference to an FTP site at ftp.uwp.edu. When I ftp'd
there, the welcome message informed me that:
MS-DOS Games (Doom home-brew)
ocf.unt.edu:/pub/doom
I logged into this site, and when I changed directory into
"/pub", I got the following welcome message:
Welcome DOOM player.
You have logged into OCF.UNT.EDU, the latest and greatest
486/25 running FREEBSD 386 hooked up to the Internet! Also
known as The DOOM onlyFTP. The section of OCF is dedicated
solely to DOOM.
OCF is currently limited to 20 users at peak times and 30
users at night. Even with these limits, we are servicing
4000 users per day. We are not affilitated with Id
Software. We do this for FREE.
NEWUSERS! Please see the faq in the /pub/doom/text
directory under the name doom56.faq. This file is a must
for ALL doom players.
barry at noc.unt.edu
The files NEWFILES.TXT and FILELIST.TXT have been updated.
Please read the file README it was last modified on Tue Apr
26 21:30:25 1994 - 13 days ago
The line "Also known as The DOOM onlyFTP." leads me to
beleive that this is the answer you seek.
Yowza.
[From Team Twinkie, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.]
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Rick's Note: Some of the later entrants discovered that the
site above had been closed down, right in the middle of the
Hunt! So the Doom-only site is no more, but (as with many
Net-things), there are other ways... Gail Gurman's answer
illustrates:
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Answer: I guess I'll just quote from the alt.games.doom FAQ:
Q. Is there an FTP site used primarily for DooM-related
files and programs?
A> Not any more! On Tuesday May 10 1994, the primary
Doom-only FTP site at ocf.unt.edu was ordered shut down by a
University of North Texas administrator: "Activites not
UNT-related can't use UNT resources". In this Mini-FAQ, the
references to ocf.unt.edu have been replaced by OCF.IS.GONE.
The mirror sites will have the directories and files, so
just translate the old ocf directory paths to the mirror
paths. The FTP server that was at ocf.unt.edu
(129.120.9.151), administered by Barry Bloom
<barry at noc.unt.edu>, was dedicated to DooM, and only DooM!
A well-designed subdirectory hierarchy reduces clutter
and search time:
/pub/FILELIST.TXT & NEWFILES.TXT list /pub tree and past
weeks' changes.
A *.txt info file *must* accompany all binary uploads to
/pub/incoming.
The sites and paths that mirrored ocf.unt.edu:/pub/doom
are:
mtf108.rh.psu.edu:/pub/doom (last mirrored ??? ??)
ftp.orst.edu:/pub/gaming/doom/doom (last mirrored May 05)
ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/pc/msdos/games/ID/doom-stuff (May 08)
infant2.sphs.indiana.edu:/pub/doom (only has subset of files)
ftp.uwp.edu:/pub/msdos/games/id/home-brew/doom (incomplete mirror)
[From Gail Gurman, University of California at Berkeley,
California, U.S.A.]
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Question 7 (3 points)
Question designed by Carol and Neil Enns
Help! My geology prof. is a visiting US scholar, here at Brandon Univeristy
in Manitoba, Canada. Her specialty is earthquakes, and our major assignment
is (you guessed it!) all about earthquakes in Canada. We have to find out
which non-coastal areas of Canada are high hazard for earthquakes. Another
question in the assignment is to find when and where the most recent
significant earthquake occured in Canada.
Where will I find answers to these, and is there a contact for more
information on Canadian earthquakes? There are 8 more questions in the
assignment!
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gopher wealaka.okgeosurvey1.gov
15. VERONICA: BOOLEAN SEARCHES OF ALL GOPHERSPACE/
2. Search gopherspace at University of Cologne <?>
search for: earthquakes
55. Earthquakes in Canada.
Other high hazard areas include...the southern Yukon
Territory, the Mackenzie Valley in the Northwest
Territories, the Arctic Islands and parts of Ontario and
Quebec (especially the Ottawa and St. Lawrence valleys).
If significant is defined as magnitude 6 or more, there is a
list:
Date Magnitude Location
1988 6.0 Saguenay region, Quebec
1985 6.6 and 6.9 Nahanni region, Northwest Territories
1982 5.7 and 5.4 Miramichi region, New Brunswick
1979 7.2 Southern Yukon-Alaska border
1970 7.4 South of Queen Charlotte Islands, British Co.
Also this information on contacts:
For further information on earthquakes contact:
Geological Survey of Canada
Pacific Geoscience Centre
Box 6000
Sidney, British Columbia
V8L 4B2
(604) 356-6500^LGeological Survey of Canada
Geophysics Division
1 Observatory Crescent
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0Y3
(613) 995-5548
The gopher link to this information was:
#
Type=0
Name=Earthquakes in Canada
Path=0/NRCan-Info-English/gsc/earthqk
Host=gopher.emr.ca
Port=70
[Leonard Ladies Hunt Team, Grades 7 & 8, Leonard School,
Leonard, Oklahoma, U.S.A.]
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Question #8: (7 points)
Question designed by Walt Howe and Hope N. Tillman
"An English acquaintance of mine insists that the first
electronic computer was the Colossus. Where was it
developed, and what was it used for?"
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Walt and Hope's Note: Question 8 was born while tunneling
through gopherspace and discovering a file that described
the effort to create a museum at Bletchley Park, England,
with a replica of the original Colossus computer used to
break the German Enigma code in World War II. We verified
that a simple Veronica search for Colossus would not yield
any useful results--in fact it would most likely lead
hunters astray to the Colossus computer used in the entirely
fictional movie, "The Forbin Project." We wrote the question
with enough clues to rule out the Forbin Project (first
electronic computer, which the Forbin Colossus certainly was
not).
Team Twinkie, in their submission, describes the approach we
expected most to use:
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"The Colossus was developed at Bletchley Park and was used
for cryptanalysis.
"This was quite a difficult (for me!!) to discover. After
determining that the this colossus was not a member of the
X-men and not part of the 'legendary' movie, I browsed
looking for things on the history of electronics and
computing. I really thought that the info.computer.org
gopher, which as it turned out had lots of neat IEEE stuff,
should have had the answer, but no, I finally found it by
doing the following veronica search and following this path:
20. Search gopherspace by veronica at UNINETT/U. of Bergen <?>
search for: history computer
9. Computer History Project/
2. Existing museums, exhibitions, and organizations/
2. Europe/
3. Great Britain (6 entries)/
4. Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes"
[Walt and Hope: This is the file that they found there, and
provides the complete answer:]
Bletchley Park
The Bletchley Park Trust
The Stable Yard
Bletchley Park
Milton Keynes, UK
Telephone: +44 908 64 04
04
In process of being set up, early
1994.
The site is where important cryptanalysis was done during
World War 2, and where the world's first (?) electronic
computer, Colossus, was developed and used. The site is in
process of being secured as a national museum campus with
museums of cryptography, computing, radar and other
high-tech themes. Many of the World War 2 buildings remain.
The headquarters of the Computer Conservation Society will
move to Bletchley. There is a plan to build a replica of
Colossus.
[From Team Twinkie, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon,
U.S.A.]
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Question 9 (3 points)
Question designed by Melody Winkle
How about something like this: I've taken up juggling, and would like to
find some more ideas on what kinds of things I can do. I thought watching
movies with juggling in them would be a great source of ideas. Where can I
find such a list?
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Rick's Note: Lots of folks found the juggling-in-movies
reference, but few gave more complete information than Walt
Linden.
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nn
G rec.juggling
Here I found the FAQ file, as well as articles on the new
Listserv gateway at LISTSERV at PNFI.FORESTRY.CA. The FAQ gives
the Juggling Information Service page at
http://www.hal.com/services/juggle, and the ftp site at
moocow.cogsci.indiana.edu, directory /pub/juggling.
First I telnet to www.njit.edu, login as www, and when lynx
loads, "Go" to the JIS reference.
Follow link 12 to "Juggling in the Media".
(or go direct to http://www.hal.../juggle/info/media.html)
From there, link 3 to "Juggling in the Movies".
(or direct to http://www.hal.../juggle/info/juggling-in-movies)
This is a massive annotated list of movies (mostly mass
releases) with juggling scenes.
Going back to the JIS home page, we follow the link "News
and Old News" for the rec.juggling archive. There is a link
here which promises wais-like searching, but I could not get
this to work, as I got a chronological listing of ALL
articles.
However, I saw some referring to a video of Michael Moschen,
one of today's most celebrated jugglers. On fetching the
articles through their own links, this proved to be the PBS
program "In Motion With Michael Moschen", and we are told
that it can be ordered:
"it is commercially available from WNET in Vermont here is
the Phone number:"
(800)336-1917
Title: Great Performances - Dance in America
"In motion with Michael Moschen"
Cost: $19.95 plus $3.50 shipping & handling
Since several articles referred to IJA videos, the IJA might
be a source. Return to the JIS home page and follow links
to "International Juggling Association" and "Information on
the IJA".
The address of the International Juggling Association is:
P.O. Box 218
Montague, MA 01351-0218
Now, if you can not use WWW:
ftp moocow.cosgsci.indiana.edu
cd pub/juggling
get info/juggling-in-movies
get ija/info
For the data from the newgroup archives, use mail to
LISTSERV at PNFI.FORESTRY.CA
SUBSCRIBE JUGGLING Firstname Lastname
(after searching through indexes..)
SEARCH juggline/rec.juggling-digests video
returning excerpts from the relevant articles
[From Will Linden, <wlinden at maestro.com>]
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Question 10 (5 points)
Question designed by Anthony Stevens
What is Clifford Stoll's next book going to be about?
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Now this one shouldn't have taken us as long as it did.
Here we go... First, start off with a longshot - a Veronica
search of gopherspace for "cuckoo", which was the title of
Cliff's previous book (_The Cuckoo's Egg_).
The only Veronica server I could connect to at the time was
the server at UNINETT/University of Bergen, which returned a
list of various things with the word "cuckoo" in them,
including some references to Cliff's book. I started at the
top, searching each reference that looked interesting, until
I happened across #48, "- The Cuckoo's Egg".
I followed the link, and the result appeared to be some sort
of description of the book - title, author, publisher, ISBN,
etc., followed by a short summary. Looking closer I found a
line in the header that read "Suggested-By: Cliff Stoll
<cliff at cfa.harvard.edu>".
Email addresses are good - we'd tried checking his Berkeley
address but found nothing of importance. So we quickly quit
Gopher and fingered Cliff at his Harvard address, which gave
us this...
::
[cfa.harvard.edu]
Login name: stoll In real life: Cliff Stoll
Directory: /u1/mailusers/stoll Shell: /bin/csh
Never logged in.
Plan:
Cuckoo!
This is Cliff's mailbox. Mail sent here will follow my
footprints and tickle my computer.
I'm now writing a book about astronomy and telescopes.
Watch for it this fall!
-Cliff Stoll
::
So, it looks like his next book will be about "astronomy
and telescopes". Q.E.D.
[From Team Twinkie, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, U.S.A.]
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Extra Credit Question (1 point)
Question designed by Rick Gates
The flag of Sri Lanka depicts a lion holding a sword. With
which paw does the lion wield the sword?
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Answer: With its right paw.
I used Mosaic to access the WWW and looked through the WWW
Virtual Library list "by Subject." Under this I found
"Geography". Here, under "Information about Countries," I
chose "WWW VL: Asian Studies." On this page, I chose "WWW
Quick Access Nodes"
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombswebPages/CoombsAccessNodes.html)
after failing to find Sri Lanka in the list of countries.
Here I found a link to the "Sri Lankan Home Page"
(http://suif.stanford.edu/~lanka/sri_lanka.html) (actually
located at Stanford University). Here a Stanford student has
included lots of interesting information about Sri Lanka,
including a picture of the National Flag!
[From Gail Gurman, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.]
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Rick Gates rgates at locust.cic.net
Student & Lecturer
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