vra> Scout Report - June 2, 1995 (fwd)
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Thu Jun 8 17:35:18 CEST 1995
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No long stories to explain the latest interruption in service! Suffice it
say the announcement of my permanent return was a bit premature.
Thanks to Kathy Rutkowski, Editor and Publisher of NetTeach News
(kmr at chaos.com) for helping with the two recent Scout Reports that were
successfully completed. (net.friends to the rescue... ;-)
Regards,
Susan Calcari
Info Scout
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The Scout Report
June 2, 1995
A Service to the Internet Community
Provided by the Info Scout and InterNIC Directory Services
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newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome
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are included at the end of each Scout Report.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
* The National Library of Medicine's Toxicology and Environmental
Health Information Program
* Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in
Science
* Political ScientistÕs Guide to the Internet
* Stay in tune with Digital Pulse from Time-Warner.
* Get the buzz, gossip (and oh ya) the award winners from Cannes.
World Wide Web
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The Audio Engineering Society, now in its fifth decade, is the only
professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. Its
membership consists of leading engineers, scientists and other
authorities throughout the world. The Web site has links to information
about audio education, events, careers and more.
http://www.cudenver.edu/aes/index.html
The Feature Film Project is the Canadian Film Centre's effort to help
talented, first-time film makers with financial, production, and
marketing assistance.
http://www.magic.ca:80/ffp/
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in
Science Web site is especially suitable for middle and high school
students and teachers and tackles hard issues that face contemporary
scientists every day. Connect to the ELSI pages to see a discussion of
basic vs. applied research, equal access to medical screening, indoor air
pollution, and personal privacy and medical databases.
http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/ELSI.html
The Nutrition Expert is a group of Registered dietitians providing
nutrition information to the web community online. Topics include weight
loss, cholesterol, sports nutrition, and diabetes, and additional
directories are under construction. They also offer a for-fee telephone
consulting service which lets you pay by check over the phone.
http://www.alaska.net:80/~tne/
Political ScientistÕs Guide to the Internet leads users through a
well-organized collection of U.S. government and political resources
arranged under the topics: federal, state, political research, issues and
people, and international affairs. Readers can add resources they have
found using a form provided in each section which has resulted in
constant updates to the guide. A polite and informative warning at the
top of the guide states that the pages make heavy use of the proposed
extensions to HTML that are only enabled by the Netscape 1.1 browser, and
recommends downloading that browser before you go any further.
http://www.trincoll.edu/pols/home.html
Tokyo and Japan should be interesting and educational for people from
junior-high students to adults. It provides an interactive experience as
a virtual tourist on a trip to Tokyo. You can also 'Ask the Old Japan
Hand' questions about Tokyo and what it's like to live there. There are
also links to many Japanese sites that publish in English. The site is
young, but growing. It's direction and speed of growth will be determined
by the reactions of the visitors. Your input is encouraged.
http://www.twics.com/~repka/service.html
United Parcel Service package tracking on the ÔNet.
http://www.ups.com/
Gopher
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The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) was established in
1903 for the promotion of the science of horticulture. With 5000 members
from all 50 states and more than 100 countries, ASHS serves as the
world's largest and most-respected professional society for individuals
who practice horticultural science. The gopher server holds information
about the membership in the society and the educational opportunity they
provide, as well as their publications.
gopher to: ashs.org
The Banff Centre Gopher is located in an inspirational mountain setting,
The Banff Centre for Continuing Education is a unique Canadian
institution playing a special role in the advancement of cultural and
professional life, internationally recognized for it's advanced work in
arts and management, and for developing and hosting conferences on
contemporary issues.
gopher to: gopher.banffcentre.ab.ca
GASNET Anesthesiology Gopher server provides a variety of services to the
anesthesiology community, and is the home of Educational Synopses in
Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (The Online Journal of
Anesthesiology) and prepublished abstracts of the Journal of Clinical
Monitoring and the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesia.
gopher to: gasnet.med.nyu.edu
The Malacology/Invertebrate Paleontology Department gopher server at the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, provides information about
the department, staff, publications, authority files, and projects, plus
searchable indexes of the collections' type and general catalogs.
gopher to: erato.acnatsci.org
The "TIAA-CREF At Your Service" gopher is maintained by Teachers
Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund, the
retirement and financial services company for the education and research
community. The server contains general information about the company
plus: investment objectives and daily unit values for the CREF accounts
and total interest rates for TIAA pay-in and pay-out annuities; current
performance information on the CREF accounts and TIAA annuities; public
information bulletins and excerpts from company publications; postings
of special interest to employee benefit plan administrators, K-12
educators, and graduate students; and frequently asked questions.
gopher to: gopher.tiaa-cref.org
The Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) at
the US National Library of Medicine has developed an Internet gopher
offering free access to national and international information resources
and convenient connection to NLM's MEDLARS online databases. Included in
the TEHIP gopher are a variety of publications (e.g., the bibliographic
publication produced by TEHIP: ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF LIVE
VERTEBRATES IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND TESTING) and direct connections to
many relevant information sources from national and international
government groups and universities. Training modules and documentation
for the MEDLARS toxicology databases, and a calendar of meetings and
courses of interest to those working in the areas of toxicology,
environmental health and medicine, and occupational health and medicine
are also included.
gopher to: gopher.nlm.nih.gov
New Lists
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CYBER-RIGHTS - Campaign for Cyber Rights Cyberspace is the "coordination
headquarters" for the global Cyber Rights campaign being conducted by
CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.) CPSR is a
highly respected public service organization that has an effective track
record in influencing legislation and regulation. CPSR contributed to
the exposure of the fallacies behind the Star Wars project and helped
defeat the Clipper Chip. CYBER-RIGHTS is moderated.
send mail to: LISTSERV at CPSR.ORG
in the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE CYBER-RIGHTS yourfirstname yourlastname
For example: SUBSCRIBE CYBER-RIGHTS Joe Shmoe
Wake-Up_Brain - Fire up those synapses each Monday morning. It's Monday
morning and caffeine is slowly percolating into your system but your
brain is still covered with weekend sludge. You need something to get
those synapses firing, a brain booster to stimulate those billions of
gray matter cells. You need Good Morning Thinkers! ... an absolutely
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NetBytes
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When high technology crashes into popular culture you've got Digital
Pulse, the heartbeat of the infotainment infobahn with exclusive news and
tips from the experts at CMP's Windows Magazine, NetGuide, Home PC and
more. This week read about Adam CurryÕs deal with BMI which will let him
sell (and us buy) digital recordings over the ÔNet. Free registration is
required on Pathfinder, Time Warner's home on the internet.
http://www.pathfinder.com/pathfinder/pulse/pulsehome.html
The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIIAC) was
created by executive order at the end of 1993 by President Clinton. The
thirty-seven member advisory panel was formally established and appointed
in early 1994. Through its diverse membership, the NIIAC represents many
of the key constituencies with a stake in the National Information
Infrastructure (NII), including private industry; state and local
governments; community, public interest, education, and labor groups;
creators and distributors of content; privacy and security advocates; and
leading experts in NII-related fields. The NIIAC server is brought to you
courtesy of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
http://niiac-info.org/~niiac/
Weekend Scouting
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The Cannes Film Festival awards listed on the Web site, along with the
ÒBuzzÓ and gossip from Cannes.
http://www.interactive8.com:80/cannes/welcome/welcome.html
Internet users can now put on their helmet and leathers, fire up their
engines, and get out on the information highway on the Harley-Davidson of
Stamford Connecticut web site. Harley-Davidson enthusiasts can view the
Harley-Davidson and Buell motorcycle lines, visit the parts counter,
learn service tips, purchase clothing and collectibles, browse a calendar
of upcoming Harley-Davidson events, and enter the Racer's Corner.
Visitors can also submit pictures of themselves on their Harley to win a
Harley-Davidson T-shirt, listen to the sounds of Harley cycles, and
download Harley video clips.
http://www.hd-stamford.com/
The Napa Valley Wine Auction, the nation's largest charity wine auction,
will debut the first online bidding for selected wine lots on June 10,
1995 in St. Helena, CA. This four-day food and wine extravaganza has been
sold out for weeks, but auction organizers wanted to broaden Saturday's
auction bidding excitement beyond the sylvan confines of Meadowood
Resort. Auction attendees and Internet surfers alike will have the
opportunity to bid on an exciting selection from the program's silent
auction lots. Virtual Vineyards, a cyberspace-based food and wine
merchant, will display a consolidated bidding screen that will scroll the
bidder numbers and dollar bids of both on-site and cyberspace guests.
While on-site Auction guests are pre-registered, online surfers can
register beginning June 6 by completing an online sign-up form that will
assign unique bid paddle numbers. Virtual Vineyards can be accessed on
the World Wide Web at the address below. [NOTE: the registration form was
not yet available at 8:00 a.m. PST on June 6, but I thought IÕd give them
the benefit of the doubt and include the announcement in the report.
Perhaps it will appear later today.]
http://www.virtualvin.com
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A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.
The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP. Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.
After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available using multiple network
tools. The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order
after each resource:
World Wide Web (WWW)
Gopher
FTP
Email
Telnet
WAIS
A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two forward
slashes. For example:
http://ds.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt
To access the resource through the WWW you can use a WWW browser
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your local support center or your Internet Service Provider for more
information about Web browsers installed on the Internet host computer or
for your desktop computer.
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