vra> Scout Report: October 21, 1994 (fwd)
Miroslav Uher
uher at mrkev.vabo.cz
Tue Oct 25 12:28:12 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
> ---------------
>
> "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
> ------
>
> 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
> --------------------------------
>
> 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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> A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
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