vra> Scout Report - April 24, 1995 (fwd)
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Sun May 7 03:15:40 CEST 1995
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The Scout Report
April 24, 1995
A Service to the Internet Community
Provided by the Info Scout and InterNIC
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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and
newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome to
subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML) or visit the
Web version of the Scout Report on the InterNIC server:
http://rs.internic.net/scout_report-index.html
Additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions
are included at the end of each Scout Report.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
* Open position with the InterNIC announced
* National Electronic Open Meeting on "People and Their Governments in the
Information Age" May 1-14, 1995
* A Word For The Day puts up a Web page
* BMG creates the World of Classical Music Web
* Deaf World Web is "THE" Internet source on deafness
* The Fisher College of Business puts up The MBA Page
Open Position with the InterNIC:
Candidates are sought for the position of NIC Liaison, a newly established
leadership position within InterNIC Registration Services. The NIC Liaison
will be responsible for determining how the InterNIC can assist campus
Network Information Centers (NICs) and libraries in supporting their local
Internet users. The successful candidate will have experience in
higher-education in the support of Internet users, and be innovative and
self-motivated in the establishment of new InterNIC services on a national
level. Excellent writing and public speaking skils are a must for the
distribution of information over the network and at conferences around the
country. The NIC Liaison will be an employee of Network Solutions, Inc.
(NSI) in Herndon, Virginia, outside Washington D.C. NSI manages the
InterNIC Registration Services project under a cooperative agreement with
the National Science Foundation. For more information about the open
position, send mail to the address below for the full description or see
it on the Web.
recruit at rs.internic.net
http://rs.internic.net/rs-internic.html
World Wide Web
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A. WORD. A. DAY. is the Web page for the mailing list A.Word A Day (AWAD),
which mails out a vocabulary word and its definition (with occasional
commentary) to the subscribers every day. Currently AWAD has over 10,000
subscribers in 53 countries.
http://www.wordsmith.org/
DEAF WORLD WEB, is intended to be a nexus on the Internet of information
about the Deaf around the world. It provides deaf and hearing people
information on Deaf in all subjects. The Deaf World Web has three
separated parts: Deaf Culture. Deaf Youths, and References. Deaf Culture
includes information on sign language, the history of deaf, DEAFinitions,
the Ten Commandments from a Deaf Being, and other fascinating material on
deafness. Deaf Youths contains notes from students at the American School
for Deaf. References has excellent information about technology,
services, and associations.
http://www.computel.com/deafworld/
The Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University has created THE
MBA PAGE as a resource place for MBA students. The Page provides links to
other great MBA-related places on the Internet including Marr's Ratings of
Business School Web Pages, connections to the Business World, connections
to MBA online survival guides, online MBA newspapers and magazines, MBA
conferences, courses, fun things on the Web, things to get involved in,
good books, resumes and placement data, and program rankings.
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/mba.htm
The US INSTITUTE OF PEACE web pages contain information regarding conflict
resolution, negotiation theory, and specific resources pertaining ot
Northern Ireland and South Africa. There is information on programs and
organizations in conflict resolution and peace studies, and a general
reference section that includes primarily general government resources.
There are also links to journals and newsclippings, mailing lists and
usenet news groups.
http://witloof.sjsu.edu/peace/conflict.html
DEN-TEL-NET is a new informative guide designed to further the knowledge
and understanding of dentistry for the 21st Century. This guide is
sponsored by dental specialists throughout North America. There are also
links to information about periodontics, a medical newsletter, European
Dental Link, and the Internet Dental Related Resources Link.
http://www.onramp.net:80/Den-Tel-Net/
CRAYON is the web site that helps you to create your own online newspaper.
Follow the CRAYON directions and voila you are a publisher. There are
also links to an extensive listing number of excellent online publications
concerning such topics as business, technology, entertainment, sports,
comics, nation, weather, and worldwide web.
http://sun.bucknell.edu/~boulter/crayon/
FERMILAB's Home Page is the place to go to find out about Top Quark, The
Nature of Nature, and Fermilab at Work. The Nature of Nature provides a
brief overview of high-energy physics, an article on how scientists do
high-eneregy physics, and an article on the benefits of high-energy
physics research. There is also access to The Drell Panel Report.
http://www.fnal.gov/
CHIBAMOO, THE SPRAWL, is the world's first public access web server and
multi media Moo. It is a collaborative hyperarchival integrated media
environment based on the equation, WEB + MOO=WOO. WOO combines the
interactivity of text based moos with the media rich content of the world
wide web. CHIBAMOO consists of of three areas, "ChibaMOO"-the Internal
development system at SenseMedia, "The Sprawl"-on the outskirts of Chiba
and "The World."
http://sensemedia.net/sprawl
The EMBASSY OF SPAIN in Ottawa has provided this exhibit on Spanish
current affairs, and on its historical and cultural development. It
contains reference information on Spanish everyday life, history, language
and culture.
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/SiSpain/
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES INTERACTIVE MEDIA DEPARTMENT presents TREASURES OF
THE CZARS -- a virtual tour of the Florida International Museum's
exhibition of 272 ietms from the reign of the Romanov czars, 1613 to 1917.
http://www.times.st-pete.fl.us/
THE ELECTRONIC SCHOOL ON THE WEB -- is a publication for all K-12 school
leaders and educators who are striving to enhance student learning through
the judicious and appropriate use of technology. It is an editorially
independent source of unbiased information on the people and trends,
developments, case studies, and controversies relevant to education and
technology in elementary and secondary schools throughout North America.
http://www.access.digex.net/~nsbamags/e-school.html
THE CYBERVIEW 3D DOCUMENT GENERATOR -- is a new WWW server
add-on that makes it easy to create HTML documents with
inline, rotatable, hyperlinked 3D images ("3D imagemaps").
The pages generated by Cyberview can be viewed in standar
HTML 2.0-compatible Web browsers. Try it at:
http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/cyberview3d/acme.html
Gopher
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The complete archives of the recently concluded National Technology Plan
discussion list are now available. The Office of Educational Technology in
U.S. Department of Education sponsored this online discussion which took
place over the last three months. The discussion concerned professional
development, financing and infrastructure, software and content, and
equity and access.
gopher to: gopher.ed.gov 10002
THE LEGI-SLATE Gopher Service provides information about all bills and
resolutions introduced in Congress since 1993. You can locate bills and
resolutions by specific number, 'Hot Bills' category, Legi-Slate subject
term, sponsor, chamber and type of legislation, words in the official
title and words in full text. Updated daily, the Legi-Slate Gopher
Service provides up to 17 different documents for each bill and
resolution.
gopher to: gopher.legislate.com 70
THE ACTIVE LIVING -- GO FOR GREEN (ALEP) Project gopher contains a host of
interesting information about active living projects that are taking place
across Canada. The resources available fall into two categories - first
those resources assembled and maintained by the participating agencies in
ALEP; and second those resources which have been identified as being
useful and/or informative within the context of the perceived mandate of
the ALEP participating agencies.
gopher to: alep.Unibase.com
B.C. TEACHERS' FEDERATION Gopher provides useful information about: the
B.C. Ministry of Education K-12 Plan, social responsibility in education,
mainstreaming/integration, and the global education project online.
Gopher to: sun.bctf.bc.ca (Port 70)
INSPIRE (INnovative SPI Resources for Educators) is provided as a service
of the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction to
assist K-12 educators in locating useful resources on the Internet. There
is information about Curriuclum Materials and Resources, District and
State Technology Plans, Educational Reform abnd Improvement, K-12
Acceptable Use policies and the Educational Technology Support Center
(ETSC).
gopher to: inspire.ospi.wednet.edu
National Information Infrastructure (NII)
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NATIONAL ELECTRONIC OPEN MEETING ON "PEOPLE AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS IN THE
INFORMATION AGE" MAY 1-14, 1995. The Clinton Administration's Information
Infrastructure Task Force (IITF), the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA), the National Technical Information Service's (NTIS) FedWorld, and
the National Performance Review (NPR) will be sponsoring a national
electronic open meeting entitled "People and Their Governments in the
Information Age," from Monday, May 1 to Sunday, May 14, 1995. You may
participate through multiple methods:
* Point your WWW browser to http://meeting.fedworld.gov
* Send a blank e-mail message to info at meeting.fedworld.gov
* Access an Internet provider, or online service such as America Online
and Prodigy
* Dial toll-free (800) 779-3272 using a computer with a modem
The open meeting will focus on five topics:
Services -- from emergency help to health care.
Benefits -- from Social Security and food stamps to business assistance.
Information -- from declassified secrets and economic statistics to
satellite maps.
Participatory Democracy -- improving everyone's opportunity to participate
in rulemaking and other governmental decisions.
Technology -- how the technical portion of electronic government will
work.
NetBytes
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SYBEX has just released Internet for Kids by Daneen Frazier with Dr.
Barbara Kurshan and Dr. Sara Armstrong. This book provides teachers,
parents, and kids with information about interesting places on the
Internet, interesting activities that empower kids and allow tthem to
share their ideas, research, and creativity. SYBEX 1995 ISBN
0-7821-1741-4.
MICRO TUTOR PRODUCTS announces the first formal course designed to give
teachers all the expertise they need to put their class on a MOO.
Beginning with 'What is a MOO?', the course assumes no previous MOO
experience, yet soon each student will be creating MOO objects, designing
their online classrooms, and even doing just a little MOO programming.
Completion of the course assignments, as well as a personal
design-and-application Project, will result in the awarding of a course
certificate for the student's permanent resume. More information, as well
as registration details, can be found at:
http://fred.net/cindy/moo.html
The National Library of Canada's ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS PILOT Project
(EPPP) is now available on the World Wide Web and the Gopher. Using 12
Canadian periodicals currently available only online, the EPPP is
examining various means by which Canadian electronic publications can be
deposited at the National Library, where they will be catalogued
permanently stored in a database and made accessible to library patrons
across Canada. Information on the status of the project and the
publications it includes is now on the Internetinfoserver at:
http:/www.nlc-bnc.ca/eppp/e3p.htm
or gopher to: gopher.nlc-bnc.ca
select Canadian electronic publications
GOPHERCON '95 will take place Friday and Saturday June 9 and 10 in
Minneapolis, MN at the Radisson Hotel MetroDome (the site of the last two
Internet Gopher conferences). Features for this year's GopherCON will
include:
- Tutorials for new gopher server administrators.
- New gopher 3D user interfaces; component software
- Showcasing interesting gopher applications, including clients, servers,
tools, new subject areas etc.
- Forum for gopher software folk to discuss gopher protocol extensions,
tools, and new functionality.
For more information on presenting a session or to propose a session
please send e-mail to: gopher95 at boombox.micro.umn.edu
Weekend Scouting
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BMG 's WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL MUSIC is a site for all classical
music lovers. You can journey to the Concert Hall for audio and video
clips of classical performances. There is a CD Catalog where you can
search the complete release database of RCA Victor Red Seal, Gold Seal,
Living Stereo, duetsche harmonia mundi, Catalyst and other classical
labels in the BMG family. There are links to discussion groups on Opera
Talk, New Music, General Classical and Early Music. Check out the Artists
and Composer areas for bieographies, recordings, tour schedules,
audio/video and more.
http://classicalmus.com/
WELCOME TO MTV.COM currently spotlights "MTV's Oddities" --MTV;s newest
animation series.
http://www.mtv.com/
THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN ARCHIVE is devoted to the works of William
S.Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan. It includes a variety of G&S related
items, including clip art, librettos, song scores, and newsletter
articles. It also contains the Opera Schedule Server which is a searchable
database of opera performance schedules worldwide.
http://diamond.idbsu.edu/gas/GaS.html
AMERICA'S CUP ON-LINE web site provides up-to-date information onf America
Cub Race Results, Real-time Deltas, Ship's Log, and answers to the Top Ten
Questions regarding the America's Cup Race.
http://www.AC95.org/
ESPNET SportsZone provides up-to-date information on the Sports World
including the top stories of the day, scoreboards, and features.
http://espnet.sportszone.com/
FLY WITH US! allows you to take the controls of a high-performance fighter
jet in Moscow, break the speed of sound, pull 9 g's - with one of the best
pilots in the world as your co-pilot.
http://www.mig29.com/mig29/
About the Scout Report
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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by the InterNIC to the
Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed about
network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place selected new
(and newly-discovered) Internet resources.
A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis on
resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience,
the research and education community. Each resource has been verified
for substantial content and accessibility within a day of the release of
the Report.
The Scout Report is provided in multiple formats -- mailing lists for
both a plain text and HTML version; gopher; and World Wide Web. The
gopher and World Wide Web versions of the Report include links to all
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In addition to the plain text version, the Scout Report is distributed in
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servers each week. The result is faster access for local users. You are
welcome and encouraged to re-post and re-distribute the report. Note that
copyright statements appear on all versions of the Scout Report, and we
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If you haven't yet subscribed or told your friends and colleagues, now
is the time. Spread the news by word-of-net. Join 20,000 of your
colleagues already using the Scout Report as a painless tool for tracking
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Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
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-- Susan Calcari
InterNIC Info Scout
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Resource Addressing Conventions
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After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses are
listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each listing
for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users
recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those
users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing
additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network tool.
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://www.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
installed on your desktop computer, or a "command-line" WWW client on
your local Internet host computer. Web browsers are available for all
major computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. Check with
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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Copyright Susan Calcari, 1995.
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