Odds 'N Ends

Offers a page of links to Manitoba Internet resources (WWW, Gopher, etc.) in community networks, education, politics, travel and tourism, business, newspapers, computer clubs, seniors, aboriginal peoples and lots more!

Excellent resource that has a very good directory maintained by Diane K. Kovacs. A good resource for educators and computer software developers.

This is the online version of Adam Engst's great book that every Mac user should have a look at. Excellent and informative resource - thanks Adam!

First - there is a downloadable binary version of StuffIt Expander 3.5.2 which is NOT binhexed within the ftp archive. This will be able to decode all the ".hqx" files that are within the ftp archive. Of course - if your friend doesn't need a binhex decoder or already has StuffIt Expander then this is a moot point. It is referenced here to avoid the "Catch-22" situation of needing a binhex decoder to get a binhex decoder... StuffIt Expander will also decompress .cpt and .sit archives. In any case - this list of tools is a fairly good starting point for a Mac user. Each has it own strengths and even though it may seem like functional duplication is taking place (it is) by providing a list that has similar programs, each program needs to be tried out and the end-user needs to see which suits their needs best. I suggest getting all of these...

Here are the *exact* file paths (subject to change with upgrades).

Here is the non-binhex (downloadable binary version) of StuffIt Expander:

Here are the rest of the "core" utilities.

This site offers all the "cool" Easter-egg hidden tricks that are found in Mac system software and within many Mac applications. Click at just the right place or push an combo and cool things happen sometimes. These are the "tricks" that programmers write in unknown to most users. Some of the "easter eggs" are now legendary classics - worth the trip!

This is Stephane Woillez's site (France) and is a wonderful repository of all sorts of links to multimedia utilities for a variety of platforms and operating systems.

Another excellent site for multimedia applications and utilities.

The "home" site of NIH Image a freeware powerhouse image editor that rivals Photoshop in some aspects. Can use Photoshop compatible plug-ins.

Well... it has lots of cool topics and links...

This is an online adventure travel/exotic destination magazine. 21st Century Adventures delivers a brochure of adventure travel and exotic destinations, a photo album with downloadable gifs, a monthly virtual adventure called the "Travelers' Quiz", articles, advice, links to other travel web pages and all sorts of links to travel related resources. Also included are soundtracks and talking narratives for those with RealAudio players. For those users who don't have RealAudio it can be obtained by going to:

and downloading the software for your particular system (PC Windows, Macintosh, etc.) There is no fee for this travel site nor are there any annoying "subscriber" notices. Even though this site is commercial it is very well done and there's lots to see.

This is the home page for the excellent HTML authoring tool "HTML.edit". This is a Macintosh application written by Murray Altheim and is a great program. Please visit the home page to find out more about this web page authoring solution and download the latest version from this web site.

This site contains links to acoustics-related information, listing many research centers, associations, journals, etc. The content varies from musical acoustics and psychoacoustics to structural and underwater acoustics. A plethora of information is here on all aspects of sound.

This site is a Yahoo-style meta-index of all Hotels, Bed and Breakfasts and Resorts on the Web, organized by geographical region. It currently contains over 2,800 links to individual Hotel pages on the Web, and is growing fast! An unbelievably huge listing awaits the virtual traveller.

Brent Hunter has created an awesome web site that is both visually cool and informatively cool. Many interesting links that take you to sites all over. In Brent's own words: At the present time, this site has links to a fairly wide variety of sites on the Internet. I add new topic areas and links based on my own web exploration as well as requests from current users who stop by and visit. I take great pride in having an open mind about things, and I will add just about any site, as long as the quality of the site is relatively high (and as long as it doesn't promote negatively affecting people against their will). As long as a site has a relatively high degree of quality and usefulness to people around the world, I'll add it. For a few weeks I also offered free home pages to individuals. However, due to the high volume of requests I received, the manual method I currently have for storing and updating the pages, and the cost I incurred, I had to stop offering free home pages. I will be resuming this free service to the public in the near future.

The "steakhouse" is open 24 hours a day for your dining pleasure. OK, the food stinks, but we do have the best (and perhaps only) collection of Japanese Latin music on the net. Plus you can visit the Arthur Nefff and his Pachinko Playboys record museum, go to the bar, and there is lots of other things to do as well. That's Mr. Nefff's Mambo Karaoke Steakhouse, the dining treat that's hot and sweet and sure to tempt your dancing feet!

The web site includes standings, schedules and other team information updated throughout the season. The Bullfrogs are in Roller Hockey International's Pacific Division and were World Champions in 1993 and Division Champions in 1994. For the roller hockey fans of Anaheim. =)

Stuck on an anagram clue in your favourite prize crossword? Do you want to generate an anagram from your name? Well now you can do all this using the easy to use Anagram Solver! Just type in the word or phrase into the easy fill-out form and bingo, out pops a list of anagrams!

Easy way to get the recent "scoop" and download the most recent updates from Apple, Inc. Links to ftp sites will let you download needed software.

Don't miss this site! An **excellent** new art site on the web - this is becoming a popular site and there is little wonder why. The graphics are phenomonally rendered - absolutely mystical - even on the web.

What is the ASCII ATLAS?

The ASCII ATLAS is a collection of maps 'drawn' using only the standard ASCII character set. Examples of ASCII Maps are included below.

A map is a relatively simple method of conveying a large amount of information and can also be aesthetically pleasing, a map drawn using only ASCII characters consumes minimal bandwidth; these properties make them ideal for enhancing the quality of email and newsgroup articles. The maps in this atlas are intended to provide some tools for those wishing to optimize the information content and quality of their electronic documents.

How do I view ASCII ATLAS maps?

The maps are best viewed with your display set to a white foreground and black background, but this is very much a matter of taste. Windows users should ensure they are using a fixed, mono-spaced font. Mac users should also be using a mono-spaced (non-kerned) font such as Monaco 9 point or Courier 10 point plain. Viewing these in a kerned font such as Geneva or Times will make the ASCII images useless and quite unreadable. However - the Internet text font of choice (for Mac users) is Monaco 9 point or Courier 10 point and so it should come naturally to already be using these particular fonts for ASCII text work in tele-communications.

The dot format allows easy substitution of alternative foregrounds. To replace the '.' characters with another of your choice, use your text editors' global replace command. This will allow you to substitute the entire foreground with one instruction.

Here is an example showing the UK:

  **  *****                         ##  #####
    *****                             #####
*  ***********                    #  ###########
    *********                         #########
   * *******                        # #######
    ** ******                        ## ######
    ** ********                      ## #####>>>
      *********                        #####>>>>
          *******                           >>>>>>>
          * *******                         > >>>>>>>
            *******                           >>>>>>>
        ************                      ====>>>>>>>>
        ****************                  ====>>>>>>>>>>>>
        ****************                  ====>>>>>>>>>>>>
      *****************                 ======>>>>>>>>>>>
           ************                      >>>>>>>>>>>>
       **************                    >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
     ****                              >>>>

Another example:

This map shows Australia in the grips of a severe drought.

          Rainfall predictions for September-November 1994
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          800 km = ----------

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                    :::####:::::::        ::::::::##::::::::::#
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Key                                                     :#

 :  Low for the area

 #  Average

 =  Seasonally dry, no outlook issued

OK folks... I think you "get the picture". This is a great idea for using plain old ASCII tex to visually display information that is easily viewed.

A non-commercial Travel page with many links to Hawaii, Japan, Japanese language and Asia. Also includes Thailand and will include (soon) Malaysia.

An Asian Development Bank Home Page has been set up on the World Wide Web for electronic distribution and access to ADB documents throughout the Internet. The site makes available to the public information brochures, project profiles, news releases and an electronic edition of the publication ADB Business Opportunities. Also available is a new section on Law and Development. A page on Environmental Impact Assessments of Bank-supported projects in the Asia-Pacific region is under construction.

This site contains general info about Australian rock climbing areas and a list of Australian Indoor climbing gyms as well as some other relevant climbing information. Now that's climbing mate - extreme climb sites here!

This site contains many interactive automotive analysis and developmental programs, useful for race car builders and shadetree mechanics alike! Programs include environmental correction programs for horsepower and ET/speed, aerodynamic calculation code, and dynamic piston simulation.

The Guide lists virtually every official HTML 2.0 tag, as well as the Netscape extensions and some proposed HTML 3.0 tags, in a concise, organized format. It is designed to be used as a comprehensive "cheat sheet" for Web page designers, and thus descriptive material has been kept to a minimum to save space. The text version of the Guide prints out onto four pages. Version 1.1 corrects several minor errors and omissions. In addition, there are now several "flavors" of the Bare Bones Guide to HTML that may be accessed from the URL shown above, including a version formatted using HTML tables and one translated into French.

Now fully up and running, a WWW page dedicated to chemistry software and chemistry resources that are available on the Internet. Software covered for: MS DOS/Windows/NT Macintosh and Unix/Linux/Perl. Also includes links to other Chemistry Resource sites and informational archives. Contributions are welcome and this site encourages replies, comments and suggestions.

This page contains a lot of links that won't be found anywhere else. All of the links are to Chinese related web sites. Unique and interesting.

An e-zine from Duke U., "The Chronicle" has just been launched on the Web.

Binney & Smith, makers of Crayola products, announced the unveiling of the Crayola World Wide Web site.The Crayola site features Crayola trivia and history, new products information, and lots more!

Active CUSeeMe Reflectors - This is a public list

1. Cornell University
   telnet://132.236.91.204
   
2. NySerNet (nysrenet.org)
   telnet://192.77.173.2
   
3. NetWork Solutions (nic.ops.netsol.com)
   telnet://198.41.0.200
   
4. Ostfold College (fenris.dhhalden.no)
   telnet://158.36.33.3
   
5. Pisa,Italy
   telnet://131.114.9.19
   
6. University N. Carolina (magneto.csc.nscu.edu)
   telnet://152.1.57.56
   
7. University Ohio State (davros.acs.ohio
   telnet://state.edu)
   
8. University Singapore (biomed.nus.sg)
   telnet://137.132.9.61
   
9. Weizmann Institute (sunten.weizmann.ac.il)
   telnet://132.76.64.143
   
10. Geko (Australia)
    telnet://203.2.239.3
    
11. RMIT (Australia)
    telnet://131.170.9.1
    
12. University of Melbourne (Australia)
    telnet://128.250.20.187
    
13. University Queensland (Australia)
    telnet://130.102.128.59
    
14. PUC-Rio (Brazil)
    telnet://139.82.17.17
    
15. Dalhousie University (Canada)
    telnet://129.173.2.56
    
16. University Manitoba (Canada)
    telnet://130.179.8.44
    
17. University Vaasa (Finland)
    telnet://193.166.120.3
    
18. Telecomm Grand Ecole (France)
    telnet://130.190.6.28
    
19. Radio HK (Hong Kong)
    telnet://204.119.173.22
    
20. University Ulster (Ireland)
    telnet://193.63.68.162
    
21. Weizmann Institute (Israel)
    telnet://132.76.64.143
    
22. Eurocube (Italy)
    telnet://194.20.44.111
    
23. Eccosys (Japan)
    telnet://199.100.7.5
    
24. University Tokyo (Japan)
    telnet://157.82.76.2
    
25. University Trondheim (Norway)
    telnet://129.241.161.225
    
26. University Singapore (Singapore)
    telnet://137.132.9.61
    
27. University Geneva (Switzerland)
    telnet://129.194.12.26
    
28. Swiss Telecom R&D (Switzerland)
    telnet://193.5.232.55
    
29. University Hallam (United Kingdom)
    telnet://143.52.51.15
    
30. ASU Geology Department (USA)
    telnet://129.219.145.149
    
31. Classroom Connect (USA)
    telnet://198.51.81.112
    
32. Indiana State University (USA)
    telnet://139.102.70.201
    
33. Kent State University (USA)
    telnet://131.123.5.2
    
34. Kugs-FM (USA)
    telnet://204.96.68.1
    
35. Miami University (Ohio,USA)
    telnet://134.53.24.5
    
36. Penn State (USA)
    telnet://128.118.58.54
    
37. Seattle Pacific University (USA)
    telnet://192.190.33.9
    
38. Stanford University MED. CTR. (USA)
    telnet://171.65.4.4
    
39. The Point (USA)
    telnet://198.6.9.2
    
40. University Hawaii (USA)
    telnet://128.171.171.10
    
41. University Maine (USA)
    telnet://130.111.120.13
    
42. University Penn (USA)
    telnet://130.91.72.36
    
43. University Texas (USA)
    telnet://128.83.108.14

1. NASA TV at Kent State
   telnet://131.123.5.1
   
2. NASA TV at IITAP
   telnet://129.186.112.242
   
3. NASA TV at CMU GSIA
   telnet://128.2.230.10
   
4. NASA at Marshall SP FL Ctr
   telnet://128.158.1.154
   
5. NASA Lewis Res Ctr
   telnet://139.88.27.43
   
6. NASA Johnson Space Ctr
   telnet://139.169.165.25

1. Foeredrag I Lund/Fast
   telnet://130.235.4.10
   
2. Lund University
   telnet://130.235.128.100
   
3. NASA TV at Lund University
   telnet://130.235.128.100

1. NASA Select Europe (kark.hiof.no)
   telnet://158.36.33.5

This document is based on CUSI, a project of Martijn Koster of NEXOR.

See about this service for background information and the list of CUSI services.

Lynx users should use this radio button version of CUSI until the Lynx bugs are fixed.

• WWW Indices
• Robot generated WWW Indices
• Other Internet Indices
• Software
• People and Organizations
• Documents
• Reference Works

These are some indices of WWW-based information useful for finding well-known services.

Search term:

The CUI W3 Catalog is a fairly comprehensive semi-automated high-quality global index. Yahoo is a hierarchical subject-oriented catalogue for the Web. ALIWEB is semi-distributed/automated special purpose global index for the Web. The GNA Meta-Library is becoming more out of date as it is maintained manually, but has got non-WWW references also. CityScape's Global On-Line Directory boasts to be the "the ultimate Internet reference" soon, but is also manual so I'm not so sure. DA-CLOD is a database where anybody can add URLs. comp.infosystems.announce refers to your local News system for the actual articles (which may no longer exist).

These indices of WWW-based resources are generated by robots, and therefore very complete, but are more likely to find too much information.

Search term:

Lycos allows you to search on document titles and content. JumpStation is a comprehensive index in the UK, The EInet Galaxy also has a subject tree. If they don't help, the RBSE URL Search, the Nikos, or the WebCrawler might.

These are not WWW-based, but may well be of interest.

Search term:

Veronica searches Gopherspace, but is very busy and often gives far too many matches to be useful. The WAIS Directory of servers will find relevant WAIS sources. The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides has lists of resource guides.

Search term:

ArchiePlex is a full-featured Archie gateway for the web, and locates files on Anonymous FTP sites. The Language List and the Free Compilers and Interpreters List should be obvious. NEXOR's Mac Software Catalog is a Web view of Michigan's Mac Archive. The IBMPC Windows Archive is part of the HENSA/Micros archive, and the Unix Archive is also maintained by HENSA in the UK. Four SHASE searches are offered: UMich-Mac and Info-Mac combined archive; CICA and SIMTEL (MS-DOS and MS-Windows) archives combined; Linux, Simtel UNIX and Garbo UNIX archives combined; and alt.src and comp.sources.{unix.misc} archives combined. SHASE is a search engine for the Virtual Shareware Library (the combination of 15 of the biggest software archives and their mirrors; up to 3 archives are searchable at once).

Search term:

There is no single good way for finding people on the internet. The NetFind Gopher is uses a number of different sources to locate people. Also check the list of USENET authors. This UFN Search will find people in the X.500 directory. You can query the Internet domains database to look for organizations on the net.

Complete site with Software, Statistics and everything a sports enthusiast would need to run a league and more!

Interest in Fantasy Sports has grown over the years to the point that many fans no longer track teams, but rather individuals. If this topic interests you than this is the place. Cybersports provides everything a Fantasy Participant or "Commissioner" could ever want:

• Free Fantasy Software
  • Fantasy Football for Windows 95
• Statistics during the season
• Player Moves
• Game Schedules
• Game Results
• Game Lines from 1989 to Present and the results
• Fantasy Football Newsletters from:
  • Grogans Fantasy Football Analyst
  • Audibles, Winning is Everything
  • Fantasy Football Insider
• Links to other Sports sites
• NFL Player Rankings
  • Passing
  • Receiving
  • Rushing
  • Using Basic Scoring Methodology
  • Using Performance Scoring Methodology
  • Using GSFL Scoring Methodology
• Sample Fantasy Rule Sets
• Tips on how to run a league
• Team Newsgroups
• Team Newsletters and MORE ! ! !

Freely available and royalty free pictures and graphics are here for the public to download. The images are not high resolution but might be just what you need for that school report or member newsletter you need to setup and create. Tons of graphics here - you may get a new idea or two browsing through this site. A wonderful resource on the Internet.

This site features all sorts of useful links and pointers to DTP sites and resources (Desk Top Publishing = DTP). Other DTP helpers include links to font and clip-art databases, DTP discussion groups and related DTP info pages on the web, DTP archives and prepress resources and files. Excellent.

Login as "gopher" and select "Select Libraries" and then "Select Electronic Books."

• 1990 USA Census Information
• Aesop's Fables
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
• CIA World Factbook 1991
• Clinton's Inaugural Address
• Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy)
• Federalist Papers
• Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
• Herland (Gilman)
• Hunting of the Snark (Carroll)
• Jargon File
• King James Bible
• Moby Dick (Melville)
• Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
• O Pioneers! (Cather)
• Oedipus Trilogy (Sophocles)
• PI to One Million Digits
• Paradise Lost (Milton)
• Peter Pan (Barrie)
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
• Sleepy Hollow
• Song of Hiawatha (Longfellow)
• Square Root of 2
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
• Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
• Time Machine (Wells)
• United We Stand
• War of the Worlds (Wells)
• Zen and the Art of the Internet (Kehoe)

If you have a Gopher on your local system, point it to world.std.com and select The Online Book Initiative, to find, among other resources, works by the following authors:

• A. Hofmann
• A.E.Housman
• Aesop
• Ambrose Bierce
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Bram Stoker
• Charles Dickens
• Charles Hedrick
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• Colin Higgins
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Edwin Abbott
• Eleanor H. Porter
• Emily Bronte
• Ezra Pound
• Francis Bacon
• Grimm
• H.H.Munro
• Henry David Thoreau
• Hippocrates
• J. W. Barrie
• James Matthew Barrie
• Jane Austen
• John Milton
• John Henry Newman
• Joseph Conrad
• Karl Marx
• Katherine Mansfield
• Lewis Carroll
• Lysander Spooner
• Mark Twain
• Martin Luther King
• Melville
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Philip Agee
• Plato
• Rudyard Kipling
• Saki
• Samuel Clemens
• Shakespeare
• Tennyson
• Thomas More
• Tommaso Campanella
• Tracy LaQuey
• Virgil
• Walter Scott
• Wilfred Owen
• William Blake
• William Butler Yeats
• William James

BTN is ABC TV's popular news and current affairs program for students. Tune in, click on and catch up on the background to the latest television news and current affairs. The Web page provides:

• A summary of the stories in the next program,
• When BTN is on air in Australia and Asia,
• Scripts from the stories on BTN,
• More detail about popular topics,
• Background to Behind The News and how it's put together,
• Teachers' Guide How to make effective use of BTN in the classroom.

For further details contact Richard Hunn:

• Behind The News,
• GPO Box 9994,
• Adelaide,
• South Australia 5001
• Australia

BTN is also available from the Australia This Minute (ATM) "National" page. ATM is project by the Australian Computer Society to help the community to document Australian culture on the World Wide Web, and as a supplement to the Government's "Australia on CD" initiative.

For further details see the ATM Home page:

The ACS will host the 1996 World Conference on Teleteaching, Sep 2-6, 1996 in Canberra & on-line. Suggestions for on-line interactive events relating to educational uses of networking and telecommunications are sought by 31 January 1996. For details see:

This is a wonderful service that has joined many people conversing using email much like a "penpal" system. This is NOT an adult oriented "mate finding service!". This service is for the K-12 educational crowd and it is wished that it be used accordingly. Please respect such wishes.

Login as "gopher" and hit return for password. Press return to verify VT=100 emulation or enter proper setting. Enter your name (follow instructions on screen) and choose item #4 to search the database.

This home page offers a literary resource called the LWOW (Literary Work of the Week). Every week, a piece of literture (from poetry and prose to whatever Internet authors can think of) is posted on the net for everyone to read. If you are interested in writing for the page, you'll be happy to know that submissions are being accepted as you read this. PLEASE! Don't worry, the LWOW is a hobby, completely free, and totally harmless. The LWOW is designed as an interesting resource everyone can simply have fun with. Apart from the LWOW, "The Darkside of the Moon" also offers Interesting Tidbits (recent news and interests), Netlinks, Trisha's Corner (book reviews), and more.

This WWW site--the Student Guide to Federal Student Financial Aid Programs is a definitive, user-friendly overview of all federal student financial aid programs administered by the US Department of Education.

The programs described in the Student Guide help to enable millions of eligible student recipients to attend colleges, universities, and other postsecondary educational institutions throughout the United States.

The Student Guide web pages can help students better understand important features of the federal financial aid programs, such as eligibility criteria and application procedures for various grants, loans, and work-study funds. Users can navigate the WWW pages by pointing and clicking to key words describing each of the major federal student financial aid programs and all of the various provisions. Excellent resource site for students and parents of students or anyone considering continuing educational pursuits.

Virtual site of Tampa Bay's newest marine attraction. A complete site that you can almost get wet in. This site is constantly adding new sections and is off to a great start. A beautiful tour of the aquarium is completed.

Dole's 5 A Day Website, from Dole foods, offers some really good educational nutrition information, and delivers it in a clever and fun to experience way. The site is hosted by 36 fruit and vegetable characters, and it trys to make eating 5 fruits and vegetables a day a fun experience for everyone. This comprehensive Website has 9 areas: 5 A Day Prgoram, CD-ROM, Nutrition Center, Fan Mail, Fun Stuff, 5 A Day at School, Newsroom, and Dole.

A neat homepage of an organic farmer. Set up information to help those in the organic movement and for those interested in organic farming/gardening.

Homer 0.94 is the latest version. There will be no 1.0 (so don't believe it if you hear it). The author trashed his version 1.0 and has begun a complete re-write. I'm not sure of the date, but version 2 should be out in a few months. (early 96 ?) The latest versions of Homer (.94) and the Homer Manual (0.93) should always be available at the above sites.

The Nerd World Media Subject Index is a listing of thousands of Web Pages that are placed into subject categories to make it easy for Internet Travellers to find what they are looking for. It is created with the help of user suggestions as well as an Internet Web Robot. The following are links to a few of the several hundred category listings :

• Nerd World Business
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw9.html
  
• Nerd World Computers
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw10.html
  
• Nerd World Electronic Magazines
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw30.html
  
• Nerd World Food and Drink
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw77.html
  
• Nerd World Health
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw43.html
  
• Nerd World Internet
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw13.html
  
• Nerd World Living
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw18.html
  
• Nerd World Music
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw60.html
  
• Nerd World News
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw14.html
  
• Nerd World Places
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw21.html
  
• Nerd World Recreation
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw134.html
  
• Nerd World Science
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw20.html
  
• Nerd World Shopping
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw153.html
  
• Nerd World Television
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw59.html
  
• Nerd World Travel
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw188.html
  
• Nerd World Weather
  http://www.nerdworld.com/users/dstein/nw28.html

Contains links to many freeware/shareware and commercial server applications for Internet. You can set up a Mac as a full-fledged Internet server (ftp, mail, listserv, web server, gopher server) from the resources on this page.

A huge database directory that has hundreds of Postscript Type 1 fonts from all the big name vendors (Bitstream, Wayzata, Monotype and others). Thumbnail views let you preview a font and many fonts are in the public domain and can be downloaded freely. This is a great site for layout artists or DTP folks who need to see a large selection of fonts before making a layout decision or a font selection. *** Excellent site ***

This is one of the best places to go to get all the Internet "goodies" a Mac user needs. Also being added is a PC linked resource page that will give PC users a great place to pick up needed helper applications, 'net utilities and tools similart o the Mac offerings. This is a **** four star rated site! A great place for the experienced and the novice to visit!

Solve a maze, write your name with flags at the Hands On Children's Museum home page. The Hands On Children's Museum has added new features to its World Wide Web home page that let children solve mazes and write their names using ship signal flags.

On the new maze page, children can choose a maze and find the path through it. The museum added the maze page to go along with the real maze that was added to the museum earlier this month. The Internet mazes come in four sizes, plus a special hidden message maze.

The new Hands On Children's Museum signal flag page is part of the museum's current exhibit theme, Ocean Odyssey. Children can see how ships use signal flags and semaphore to communicate with other ships and harbor masters. As a hands on project, the flag page also shows children how to use various resources on the Internet to create their own flag messages. Children can type in their name or a short message like "Happy Birthday" or "Get Lost," and it will automatically be translated into colorful signal flags.

You will find the newsletter at:

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The Elk Grove Unified School District's State and Federal Programs department posts a weekly newsletter on progress and changes with state (California, US) and US Federally funded programs.

The Comenius Group has completed a new interactive English lesson in its Fluency Through Fables series. This month's fable, "The Father and His Sons," has a matching exercise, a completion exercise, a true or false exercise and three discussion exercises.

Fluency Through Fables is part of The Virtual English Language Center, an online resource of materials, services and products for students and teachers of English as a second or foreign language. Native speakers are welcome too!

The Photoshop master himself gives his tips and sagent advice on all that is Photoshop and all that is Kai Krause. Site features Kai's PS tips and even has tutorial illustrations, PS Techniques Newsletter (Adobe Acrobat Format .pdf) and also has downloadable image backgriunds and tons of other resources that no PS fan should miss. If you use PS or PS plug-ins or anything that Kai Krause has even remotely touched - then get thee here.

Kerberos is an add-on to NCSA Telnet and this page shows how one can properly set up the plug-in extension in easy to understand text and graphics. Lots of screen shots let the user see exactly how to do it in an orderly step-by-step fashion.

The index includes:

• Documents classified by category;
• Pointers to electronic journals, mailing lists, USENet groups, and other interactive sources;
• Pointers to Australian law firms, universities, and other organisations;
• Reccommended sites for legal researchers.

TransMac is a PC Windows/Windows95 utility that can access Macintosh HD diskettes, CDROMs, and SCSI drives (Syquest, Bernoulli, Zip, optical, harddrives, etc.). It can also format diskettes for the Mac.

MacLinQ has over 200 Macintosh-related vendor Websites, and a total of over 600 links. But this is no boring list, it's packaged in a fun and easy-to-use graphical interface!

Our categories include:

• SHOPPING
• BOOKS and REFERENCE
• MAGAZINES
• FTP SOFTWARE ARCHIVES
• MacTALK!
• PRODUCTS
• USER GROUPS
• VENDOR DIRECTORY
• and COOL SITES
• WHAT'S NEW and WHAT'S NEWS?

What are people on the Internet saying about MacLinQ?

"Professional Mac resource w/ cool GUI!" - Michael Yee's ULTIMATE Macintosh

"Ambitious, extensive set of Mac links" - Ric Ford, MacWEEK columnist and Editor of MacInTouch

MacLinQ also features a live Web chat forum called "MacTALK!"

Dave Taylor, author of the new book "MacWorld's Creating Great Web Pages with HTML", will be a guest host on the MacTALK! forum in September!

Macintosh magazine columnists and experts will be coming to MacLinQ's MacTALK! forum soon, so check our Web site for speakers, topics, and dates.

MacLinQ will also feature 'clue hunts' throughout our site, with hardware and software prize giveaways!

The print magazine goes online and offers up lots of solid info, reviews, excerpts, articles and downloadable Internet software and utilities.

This is a resource for magicians and offers tips, advice, supplies and links to magic resources on the Internet. Too much to list. Excellent.

Another very well done site devoted to magic and magicians. Lots of links and info are here including a listing of shows and performances.

From UTA - The University of Texas at Austin Web site

Map-Related Web Sites

• Electronic Cartographic Reference Resources
• General Map Sites
• Country Map Sites
• State Map Sites (U.S.)
• City Map Sites (International)
• Weather Map Sites

General Map Sites

• Center for Mapping, Ohio State University
• CIA World Factbook 1994
• Coastline Maps U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Delorme Mapping
• Direct Line Distance Server (CMU)
• Earthquake Hazard Maps (abagOnline) San Francisco Bay area
• Earthquake Maps, U. California at Davis
• Geographer's Craft - Univ. of Texas at Austin
• Geographic Name Server Univ. of Michigan (telnet)
• Geographic Nameserver (MIT)(Gopher)
• Geography Resources on the Internet (U. Buffalo)
• Grand Canyon National Park Maps (Bob Ribokas)
• Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products
• Maps at CMU
• Mars Atlas
• NASA Earth Observing System (EOS)
• NASA Earth Imagery
• Railroad Maps
• Rare Map Collection (Univ. of Georgia)
• State Department Travel Advisories (St. Olaf College)
• Subway Maps
• Tiger Home Page U.S. Census Bureau
• University of Minnesota Map Library/ARL Electronic Atlas Project
• U.S. Census Bureau - DataMap
• U.S. Digital Relief Map
• U.S. Geological Survey Home Page
• USGS Austin, Texas Office
• USGS Geographic Data Available Online
• USGS Geographic Names Database Extensive database giving locations of U.S. place names
• USGS Global Land Information System
• USGS Index of USGS Servers
• USGS National Mapping Program
• USGS National Water Conditions
• USGS Water Resources Information
• USGS What Do Maps Show? Teaching Package
• World Maps (Xerox Map Viewer)
• Yahoo Map Page
• Yahoo Regional Information/Geography Page

Country Map Sites

• Country Page from City Net
• Country Page from Yahoo
• Antarctica Maps
• Canada Geographical Names Web
• Canada National Atlas Information Service
• India Maps
• Iran
• Israel
• Macedonia
• Russia - Russian Far East Maps
• Rwanda - Crisis in Rwanda
• Singapore
• Slovenia
• South Africa Clickable tourist map
• United States Relief Maps (Andrew Birrell)
• Vietnam Maps (A Virtual Visit to Vietnam)

State Map Sites (U.S.)

• State Information (Virtual Tourist II/City Net)
• State Shaded Relief Maps
• Connecticut (ARL Electronic Atlas)
• Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer
• Louisiana County outline map
• Minnesota (ARL Electronic Atlas)
• Montana Maps
• North Carolina (Institute for Transportation Research and Education)
• Oregon Map
• Texas Maps
• Virginia On-Line Atlas (University of Virginia)

City Map Sites (International)

• City Net
• USA CityLink Project
• Beverly Hills, California, U.S.A.
• Bologna, Italy
• Bonn, Germany
• Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
• Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Dover, Delaware, U.S.A.
• Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
• Helsinki, Finland
• Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
• Kyoto, Japan
• Leiden, Netherlands
• London, U.K.
• Oxford, London and UK Maps
• Nara, Japan
• Oulu, Finland
• Palo Alto and Bay Area, California, U.S.A.
• Paris, France (Historic Maps)
• Paris, France (Metro and RER Maps)
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Riga, Latvia
• San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
• San Diego, California, U.S.A. (University of California, San Diego)
• Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A.
• Singapore
• Tokyo, Japan (Metro and Railway Maps)
• Trier, Germany
• Washington, D.C., U.S.A. (ARL Electronic Atlas)
• Zurich, Switzerland

Weather Map Sites

• Current Weather Maps/Movies (MSU)
• ESO Meteosat Info
• Interactive Weather Browser (MSU)
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• NOAA Weather Page (NOAA)
• UK Weather
• U.S. Weather Map (MIT)
• Weather and Global Monitoring (ANU)
• Weather - Austin, Texas (Quadralay)
• Weather Images and Information (Reading University)
• Weather Information (Harvard University)
• Weather Maps and Satellite Images (Auburn)
• WXP: The Weather Processor WWW Server (Purdue)

Want to know how many hits your page is getting but don't want to bother with installing one of those huge web statistic programs? If you want a simple, FAST way to determine how popular a particular page is, this is the package for you. You can set rules such as which hosts to ignore with more features to come soon such as time based hostname exclusion and other nifty features. This site is by the Univ of Mich Medical Center (US).

Each day, more than 85,000 passengers on Long Island, New York board the MTA transit buses. Part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the routes serve 45 Long Island Rail Road stations plus colleges, museums, parks, theatres and beaches throughout the NY Metropolitan area. If you are planning a trip to or around Long Island then this site will help you to find access routes, public transit schedules, fares and much more.

The only place on the net to find information about everyone's favorite folksinger - Arlo Guthrie! Once there, you will find a current tour schedule, lyrics, discography, past newsletters (the RBR), pictures and concert photos, and information about his record company and several charities that he supports. Arlo fans will love this web page!

A great place to use many different search engines to search the web. This is a free service available to the public.

Links to a variety of education and classroom related web sites are available at this site including sites of interest to children. along with any recommendations for additional web sites. The author, Don Cram, is a public school teacher in Hawaii and has done a great job in providing a useful and well-linked educationally based web site.

I have just put together a photo album from cycling trips. The photographs include pictures taken when cycling from City to St Kilda (Melbourne Arts Centre, Southgate, Royal Botanical Gardens), and weekend trips (Great Ocean Road, Bright, Mt Buffalo). There are also photos from Melbourne Main Yarra Bicycle Trail and Bicycle Victoria rides - Easterbike in Castlemaine and Great Victorian Bike Ride 1994. About 100 photos in all.

Discover the beauty of Melbourne and Victoria! Enjoy! -Margaret

All sorts of Photoshop plug-ins and "goodies" are to be found here. Info on Photoshop and related graphic software and materials are also here.

You can get Pine via anonymous ftp from the pine directory of:

This is where to go when you want information on using and configuring the popular PINE emailer that many unix shell dial-up users have access to and use. This is one of the most popular email programs in use.

I'm pleased to announce the Pittsburgh, Links page (city in the US state of Pennsylvania). Working hard to be its own peculiar version of Yahoo, this page provides links to WWW pages relevant to the Greater Pittsburgh area. Current sections include food, fun, sports, music, organizations, other Pittsburgh pages, and much more. If you are travelling to Pittsburgh or just want to learn more about the city and surrounding region this site is a good place to start. Info about travel accomodations is also included.

For PNG Format Specifications

Here are various sites that feature support of the PNG graphics format. The PNG Pages and archive web site contains an extensive listing and links of applications on various platforms that support the new PNG format. The other mentioned PNG spec sites feature info on the PNG spec.

The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies promotes research and independent thought on matters of Israeli national security and Middle East strategic issues and politics.

The Reform Party was the first Canadian federal party to officially make use of the Internet during an election campaign as well as the first party to establish a permanent online presence. Founded in 1987, the Reform Party has helped change the way politics in done in Canada. After winning its first seat in a byelection in 1989, Reform stormed onto the political scene, winning 52 seats across five provinces. Reform now aims to replace the Liberals and form the government in the next election, expected in 1997. Stay tuned for details on this upcoming political party. Hmmm....

StateSearch is a service of the National Association of State Information Resource Executives and is designed to serve as a topical clearinghouse to state government information on the Internet. Lots of state related info!

This site is chock-full of tips, advice and a "how to" section on Prepress topics and issues. There is info on fonts and font management including a few freely downloadable font management software tools and utilities (Mac). There are illustrated step-by-step tutorials online, and lots more like imagesetter resolution issues and software RIP's. There are also lots of links and pointers to other Internet sites that deal in DTP or Prepress issues and this site is a highly recommneded place to "surf on over to".

(PRS), a chapter of the American College of Radiology now has their web pages online. These pages hilight information from and about the Society. In particular, the Bulletin of the Society is available as hypertext. We believe the PRS is the first state chapter of the ACR to be present on the web (preceeding even the ACR itself!) The web pages are hosted by the Penn State Department of Radiology. You will also find links to other radiological information and Internet sites that are radiology related.

You are invited to discover the island of Sardinia through WWW, by watching spots of 37 minutes of videotape. This is a beautiful video but fairly bandwidth intensive. You can select the image dimension, the quality and the frame rate, to adapt to your network connectivity and the software you are using for web browsing. Netscape 1.1 browser is highly recommended (and so is patience if accessing with anything less than a 28.8 modem connection - a T1 connection is preferred --- Yikes!)

Not visited yet - but the web page author had BIG plans... My love of cars is showing here so I do hope this site becomes a Poncho haven (heaven) =)

For anyone interested in Scottish Clans, history, traditions or heraldry.

Features a shareware "Font of the Month" in both TrueType and the Adobe Postscript Type 1 format for PC and Mac users. This site also showcases the extensive font library of the Scriptorium Font Foundry.

StuffIt Expander v1.0 for Windows is a freeware utility from Aladdin Systems that expands eight compressed and encoded formats, including StuffIt (.sit), Zip (.zip), Arj (.arj), Arc (.arc), gzip (.gz), uuencode (.uue), BinHex (.hqx), and MacBinary (.bin). A similar Macintosh version is also available as FreeWare and ShareWare. (StuffIt Expander 3.5.2)

The South Dakota - Great Faces, Great Places home page offers information about South Dakota, including local government, higher education, cities, tourism information, employment opportunities, and even the state signs and symbols. The tourism information includes several on-line brochures, such as The Great Sioux Nation and The SD Group Tour Planning Guide, national and state park information, road maps and much more. You can also fill out an on-line form to request more information from the Department of Tourism. And for the outdoorsman, the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks has implemented on-line forms to request hunting applications, and fishing information. You can even search the site to find just what you're looking for.

Plan your trip to the beautiful Black Hills with the aid of this online brochure. See pictures of the world famous national monument, Mount Rushmore and learn about Native American culture. Read all about it in the South Dakota Group Tour Planning Guide. You can send away for all sorts of goodies from the South Dakota Vacation Guide to a map of the Black Hills area just by using the forms included within this web site.

Information about building kayaks, kayak trip reports from the New England (US) area, and kayaking pictures. The primary emphasis is on sea kayaks but there is some info of interest to White Water types. There is also some information and pictures from Gail Ferris about paddling in the arctic. Kayak building information includes information on strip building and stitch and glue, and traditional (baidarka) techniques. Check this site out.

Netree is a great startup page for your browser. It combines a deep outline of Web sites with breaking headlines from around the Web, and fits it all into one tight page with fast graphics. Netree's OUTLINE is like looking at three levels of Yahoo (or GNN, etc) at once, but in a nice, efficient font that avoids scrolling or extra clicking. Jump to the most popular sites, or search areas new to you. Netree's NEWS headlines and statistics are updated every 5 minutes. If you are using the Netscape browser then you can automatically grab new headlines every 6 minutes (6, not 5, to be sure you get a new file). Just click on the headline (or its cute little icon) and go directly to the story at its online source. (TIME Daily, Reuters-MCI, computer mags, etc). Also provided are dynamic statistics from the Web, like NASDAQ Composite and the current world estimated population. This service is free to the public. Great site.

This site has tons of links to graphic software and Internet utilities for PC, Mac and Unix users. Heavy on the PC side - Windows/DOS users rejoice!

This is an online guide to tattoo parlors in your area. You choose the location, and a list is provided of the tattoo parlors in the area or region that you chose with the artists, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and other relevent information on the establishment. An extremely singular service that is unique on the web. Now that's how to use forms!

This tele-robotic installation allows WWW users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm. Another "cutting edge" educational web site.

Cryptic and not useful unless you actually download and read the indexes. But there is a lot of useful information waiting to be found here.

The Ooga Booga page has information on Vampires and Lycanthropy and on Witches and Ghosts in myth, folklore, fable and legend. Peter Paolucci, the author of this web page, teaches English Literature, Popular Culture and Horror Literature and Film at York University in Toronto Ontario.

Ticino is the only Italian-speaking canton in Switzerland and is located entirely south of the Alps. With palm trees, lakes and mountains, Ticino is a wonderful place to spend your holidays. You'll find useful information here as well has general information about Ticino: history, gastronomy, geography and much more!

If you're looking for info on transparent and interlaced GIFs, then this is a great site that has links to lots of Web and FTP resources for all platforms and operating systems (Unix, Mac, PC), including executable programs, applications and tutorials. Although many of the resources are Web pages, there are also many FTP sites for folks that do not web access.

All sorts of educational shareware/freeware and demos are available at this site including educational software information and update info.

Search Gopher-space using Veronica search tool. Now available via the WWW. Includes a complete set of links to various Veronica searchers and an index of Veronica search services available on servers throughout the world.

You'll find over 250 pages of exciting Virtual Reality (VR) info including:

• Over 115 VR Centers Worldwide (with detailed info, pictures and more)
• 70 VR systems from swimming with dolphins to flight simulators
• The concept of Atlantis VR Theme Park and VR Outpost
• A full resource of Home VR and 3D games
• And more VR stuff for you to enjoy!

Over 3 years of research are being compiled in this exciting site. If VR is of interest to you, you must give us a visit. Soon a VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) interface will also be available for people to form their own VR models and interactive graphics.

• xfinger -- automatic fingering client
• xtalk -- ntalk client/server
• xplan -- upload your dynamic address to your remote .plan file
• winbiff -- new mail indicator

And a few other utilities are in store here too.

Well... after working with Quark you might need something more than even espresso but this site might help you from going that far. Lots of savvy advice and tips and hidden tricks to be found here. Also contains news of new Quark Express releases, updates and new XTensions as well.

Simply one of the best newsreaders for Mac users that are running a SLIP/PPP connection or are running a direct Internet connection. This comes with complete documentation that describes the care and feeding of this wonderful application. A port of the highly-regarded original Newswatcher newsreader. YA-NewsWatcher offers exceptional ease of use and is highly configurable and has powerful functions that can be used.

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