nove cislo Scoutu

[Vladimir Vrabec]

Vazeni pratele,
pripominam, ze v patek, 20. kvetna 1994, vyslo nove cislo tydeniku
"Scout". Ti, kteri by chteli jeho gophersky nebo www tvar, odkazuji
na prislusne smerniky, treba na omicronovskych serverech "saturn" a "jupiter".
Zdravi
       Vladimir Vrabec
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                Scout Report:  Week ending May 20, 1994

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World Wide Web:
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1) WWW server at The Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and its
Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF), at the National Air and Space
Museum, Smithsonian Institution. This NASA supported RPIF acts as a
reference library providing planetary science researchers with access to
the extensive collection of image data from planetary missions.

http://ceps.nasm.edu:2020/homepage.html


2) EcoSystems at the University of Virginia is a recycling and
environmental information server.  It provides and connects users to
local, regional, national, and international environmental info.  Includes
WWW and gopher servers, a public Lynx Web client, keyword search
capabilities, mailing list info, isolated IRC chats, and more.

http://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/EcoWeb.html
gopher: ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu
telnet: EcoSys.drdr.Virginia.EDU    login as gopher, lynx, or ecochat


3) The SunSite Communications archive is now on the web. IRC logs from the
Gulf War, Russian revolution, California Earthquake; a large collection of
papers dealing with virtual communities, chats, and muds; the April Fools
archive.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/dbarberi/communications.html
ftp   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/academic/communications


4) The School-to-Work Opportunities Act is now available on the Internet
in the U.S. Department of Education's online library. The Act was signed
into law on May 4, 1994. Also available: fact sheets on grants, tech prep,
career academies, youth apprenticeships, more.

gopher.ed.gov http://www.ed.gov/


5) The Global Student Newswire project is a collaboration by a group of
student journalists and media scholars dedicated to creating a multimedia
source of formal news stories on the Internet. It consists of a set of
standards for writing news stories and a collection of Internet resources
devoted to the project.

http://www.jou.ufl.edu/features/


6) An article written for WIRED magazine by Stewart A. Baker, chief
counsel for the National Security Agency, is available online at the
addresses listed below. The article, "Don't Worry Be Happy", discusses key
escrow encryption. Mr. Baker will host a Q & A session on the Clipper Chip
on America Online in Center Stage on Thursday May 26, 1994, from 7-9 p.m.
EST.

gopher:  gopher.wired.com Etext/2.06/features/nsa.clipper
http://www.wired.com/Etext/2.06/Features/nsa.clipper.htm
E-mail: sen message to infodroid at wired.com with the words "get
  2.06/features/nsa.clipper" contained in the body of the message


7) The Internet Multicasting Service in conjunction with the New York
University Stern School of Business Information Systems Department are
pleased to bring to th e WWW community all corporate filings submitted
electronically by publicly traded firms to the SEC.

http://www.town.hall.org/


8) The Social Security Administration (SSA) is now part of the World-Wide Web

http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html


9) Wondering what an abbreviation or ancronym really means? Use the Acronym
Translator via e-mail or WWW to receive back the English meaning of that
alphabet soup you've been wondering about for days.

http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
email to freetext at iruccvax.ucc.ie   with abbreviation in body of message


10) Recently Announced College and University Web sites:

* Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, OZ project
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html

* Iowa State University, Entomology WWW Server
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~entomology/homepage.html

* MIT Weather Radar Laboratory
http://graupel.mit.edu/Radar_Lab.html

* Stanford University Medical Center
http://med-www.stanford.edu/MedCenter/welcome.html

* University of California-Santa Cruz, Perceptual Science Laboratory
http://mambo.ucsc.edu/


National Information Infrastructure (NII):
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Posted this week on the Department of Commerce NTIA gopher:

* Larry Irving Testimony, House Minority Enterprise Subcommittee Hearing
* Minutes of the Technology Policy Working Group meeting on 04/14/94
* Calendar of Upcoming Public Events
* Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) May Report
* IITF Factsheet, revised 5/10/94

gopher: ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov


Weekend Scouting:
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* The University of Tennessee Division of Continuing Education -- Home Page
for the Smoky Mountain Field School which offers supervised wilderness
adventures for people of all ages and levels of experiences.

http://www.ce.utk.edu/


* FINS, the Fish Information Service contains information about keeping
aquariums, both marine and freshwater.

http://www.actwin.com/fish/index.html


* The Railroad-related Internet Resources page provides links to
documents, databases, mailing lists, and file servers relevant to
railfans, model railroaders, an d others interested in rail transportation.

http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bowdidge/railroad/rail-home.html


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