vra> Scout Report: October 21, 1994 (fwd)
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Tue Oct 25 11:33:54 CET 1994
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Scout Report: October 21, 1994
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Errata: Last week's Scout Report included the Daily News pointer listed
below. I have been alerted by several of our loyal readers that the UPI,
USA Today and additional selected publications are in fact not available
to the general Internet population. It is possible to follow these links
through several menus, but when you reach the level of actual content a
terse message is returned in place of the text of the article. (More than
one reader also mentioned that they didn't appreciate being addressed as
"dude" in the return message they received, but then that's another issue
altogether. ;-)
My apologies for not confirming access to each publication more
thoroughly and for any confusion this has caused.
Daily News - Free Internet Sources
gopher: gopher.nstn.ca
choose: NSTN CYBRARY/Internet READING Room/Daily News
Highlights In This Week's Report:
* The White House Interactive Web Server As noted by a net.colleague:
"We've come a long way from the White House without direct dial
telephones or accessible fax machines of two years ago."
* Internet Training Video available from USGS
* Mosaic Communications releases its first public browser: NetScape
* The Moscow Libertarium provides a link to guidelines on installing
Cyrillic fonts in your WWW browser
* The Breeder's Cup on the 'net, via school kids and the Web
World Wide Web
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"Welcome to the White House: An Interactive Citizens' Handbook" was
announced Thursday, October 20 by President Al Gore on C-SPAN and the
Internet's Multi-cast Backbone (M-bone). The White House Web server is a
great starting point for finding government information, including
executive branch offices and agencies, and the ongoing Government
Information Locator Service (GILS) initiative working to provide easier
access to government information. It's well organized, has a nice look and
feel, and good response time.
>From the White House Press Release:
"In an effort to make government information more readily accessible to
citizens across the country, Vice President Gore, joined by Associate
Director for Technology in the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
Lionel S. (Skip) Johns and world-renowned artist Peter Max, today (10/20)
unveiled the first interactive, multimedia, electronic citizens' handbook
on the White House, including detailed information about Cabinet-level
and independent agencies, and information about the First Family and the
White House. "Welcome to the White House: An Interactive Citizens'
Handbook" provides a single point of access to all electronic government
information on the Internet, a vast electronic computer network used by
people in more than 150 countries. Examples of accessible material
demonstrated at today's event include information about the President and
Vice President and their families, a virtual tour of the White House,
detailed information about Cabinet-level and independent agencies, a
subject-searchable index of federal information, and a map of Washington,
D.C."
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Ruggiano's School Home Page - created by a Beaverton Schools (Beaverton,
OR) teacher to introduce students and teachers to the internet. Nicely
organized collection of K12 Internet resources, including Education,
Humanities, Science, Math, and Social Studies. Includes links to schools
on the 'net, and a pointer to the K12 Internet School Site Page.
http://www.teleport.com/~vincer/starter.html
LAFEX, a laboratory of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas devoted
to Cosmology and High Energy Physics, has announced a WWW server.
http://www.lafex.cbpf.br/
The Health Info-Com Network Medical Newsletter (MEDNEWS) mirror for the
USA is now operational at the University of Pennsylvania. This news is
distributed biweekly and is very international in flavor. This Web site
maintains an internal WAIS server to search by topics.
http://cancer.med.upenn.edu:3000/
The Advertising Law Internet Site houses articles about the legal aspects
of marketing products, with particular emphasis on infomercials, home
shopping, and direct response TV. Other articles discuss 900 Number
regulations, contest laws, business opportunity laws, and additional
aspects of promotion law. The site also houses copies of FTC Guides and
Speeches and FTC Rules and statutes. Consumer Advisories issued by the
FTC will also be made available at the site.
http://www.webcom.com/~lewrose/home.html
The Screenwriters and Playwrights Page offers a variety of resources and
services of special interest to professional and student scriptwriters
alike, from film and script databases, format templates, marketing
strategies, and discussion of the nuts-and-bolts of scriptwriting.
http://www.teleport.com/~cdeemer/scrwriter.html
Over 400 megabytes of patent information are now available at the
Internet Patent News Service's (IPNS) WWW Patent Searching home page,
including being able to retrieve titles to all US patents since 1970
using the US patents Manual of Classification. Files with administrative
information about PTO offices, as well as an archive of IPNS news
releases are also available.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html
Moscow Libertarium is a project aimed at the information support of
social activity and scientific research on the problems of liberalism,
and liberal conscience in Russia. Important: most materials are in
RUSSIAN! A link to the guidelines on installing Cyrillic fonts in your
WWW-browsing program is included.
http://feast.fe.msk.ru/libertarium/
In light of the recent sightings of Basking Sharks Cetorhinus maximus in
the New England coastal waters and the resultant influx of requests for
information regarding this second largest of sharks, the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts has assembled a short fact sheet
regarding this species.
http://www.mbl.edu/
http://www.mbl.edu/html/MISC/basking.html
Conservation OnLine, (CoOL) a project of the Preservation Department of
Stanford University Libraries, is a full text database covering a wide
spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of
museum, archives and library materials.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
LabSOURCE is a periodic newsletter produced by the University of
California. It provides news and information on UC's management of three
DOE laboratories -- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory -- and news
highlights from the laboratories themselves.
http://www.llnl.gov/labsrc/
The editors and staff of The MIT Press, invite you to browse through
their on-line catalogues featuring recent books (1993-1994) and current
journals. The MIT Press is one of the world's leading scholarly technical
publishers, offering texts and monographs in the computational and
cognitive sciences, architecture, photography, art and literary theory,
economics, environmental science, and linguistics.
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/
Gopher
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ALLDATA Corporation (car recall and technical service bulletins)
gopher to: 199.4.107.1
US Bureau of Labor Statistics (LABSTAT)
gopher to: stats.bls.gov
GCRIO Global Change Research: Environment Climate
gopher to: gopher.gcrio.org
OSU Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
gopher to: bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate.edu
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
gopher to: shamash.nysernet.org
Regent University
gopher to: beacon.regent.edu
Amnesty International Gopher
gopher to: gopher.io.org
Institute of Public Policy Studies, Univ. of Michigan
gopher to: www.ipps.lsa.umich.edu
National Information Infrastructure
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New documents on the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications
Information Administration (NTIA) gopher:
* Irving Speech: NII: Public Institutions as On-Ramps
* NII Awards Information
* IITF October Report (10/12/94)
* IITF Factsheet (Revised 10/12/94)
* NII Advisory Council 09/13/94 Meeting Summary Minutes
* Calendar of Public Events (10/12/94)
* Notice of Intellectual Property Working Group Hearings
* V.P. Gore Speech to Center for Communication 10/17/94
* Intellectual Property WG 09/14/94 Hearing Transcript
* Intellectual Property WG 09/16/94 Hearing Transcript
* Intellectual Property WG 09/22/94 Hearing Transcript
* Intellectual Property WG 09/23/94 Hearing Transcript
gopher to: ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
choose: Hot Off the Press
NetBytes
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The U.S. Geological Survey has produced a video titled "Connecting to the
Internet." It is released as a USGS Open File Report and all material
contained in the videotape is in the public domain. This training
videotape provides information on how to get connected to the
international network of networks called "the Internet." It is intended to
help the viewer be aware of the complexities involved in shopping for the
hardware and software products and services needed to connect to the
Internet as a host computer in order to use powerful Internet client
software. The training is oriented toward those who need occasional access
and will be using a personal computer with a dial-up telephone line and an
inexpensive modem. The citation:
OF 94-570. Connecting to the Internet, by E. J. Christian. 1994. One VHS
videotape, approximately 45 minutes $20.00.
Copies of the tapes may be obtained by sending an order to:
Book and Open-File Report Sales
U.S. Geological Survey
Federal Center
Box 25286, MS 306
Denver, Colorado 80225
In the order, specify the Publication Series Number, Title, and Unit Price
as follows: Open-File Report 94-570, "Connecting to the Internet", Unit
Price: $20.00. For each copy, specify the Quantity you wish to order and
the Total Price (Quantity times Unit Price), then add 10% if first class
delivery is desired, or 25% for transmittal outside the United States,
Mexico, and Canada. Clearly indicate the Total Amount Remitted. Payment in
the form of check, money order, purchase order, or Government account,
must accompany the order. Do not send cash. Drafts are to be made payable
to "Department of the Interior - USGS." Please note that these videotapes
are distributed in the VHS NTSC format. Other formats, such as PAL or
SECAM, can be produced by special arrangement
Mosaic Communications Corporation (MCC) the company formed by several
members the original NCSA Mosaic development team and others, has
released their first widely available Web browser, called Mosaic Netscape
(version 0.9) for Macintosh, Windows, and Unix. Here's their plans, taken
directly from the MCC server:
* Mosaic Netscape.0.9 (public beta version) is free for your personal
use, subject to the terms detailed in the license agreement.
* Subject to the timing and results of this beta cycle, Mosaic
Communications will release Mosaic Netscape 1.0, also available free for
personal use via the Internet. It will be subject to license terms;
please review them when and if you obtain Mosaic Netscape 1.0.
* A commercial version of Mosaic Netscape 1.0, including technical
support from Mosaic Communications, will be available upon completion of
the beta cycle.
http://home.mcom.com/
FTP: ftp.mcom.com cd netscape
The Indiana University Support Center has begun maintaining html versions
of the standard Emacs, Windows, and Perl FAQs for their UCS Knowledge
Base. They've also added a Usenet Resources page, which provides a
thorough introduction to newsgroups and newsreaders, including links to
charters, RFCs, man pages, FAQs, periodic postings, and netiquette guides.
Hint: click on the unlabled icons for more options.
http://scwww.ucs.indiana.edu/
Weekend Scouting
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Announcing a new WWW page for Mountain Biking enthusiasts. This page
focuses on mountain biking in the San Francisco Bay area (including
descriptions of several local trails), but also contains links to
descriptions of mountain biking in other areas, including Pittsburgh,
Colorado, Utah and New Zealand.
http://xenon.stanford.edu/~rsf/mtn-bike.html
A WWW FAQ on Isaac Asimov is now available covering Dr. Asimov's personal
life and the books he wrote. It includes pointers to bibliographies of
his books and stories and other miscellaneous items on Dr. Asimov
available on the Internet.
http://www.lightside.com/SpecialInterest/asimov/asimov-faq.html
A University of Louisville journalism class is taking the Breeder's
Cup 1994 from the racetrack to the Internet. The students are working in
the Churchill Downs press box disseminating information about the Nov. 5
Breeder's Cup via the World Wide Web. Beginning Oct. 25, students will
post daily summaries of the morning workouts and provide the latest
analysis from the backside. Through a partnership with IgLou, the
Internet Gateway of Louisville, the students' reports will be available
on the World Wide Web, complete with text, graphics, video, and sound.
For more information on the program, contact the instructor, Hugh
Finn, at hfinn at iglou.com
http://iglou.com/breeders_cup.html
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