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2000 HotSites Archive -- from <:>i n t e r a l i a<:> |
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This is an archive of the HotSites section of the newsletter <:>i n t e r a l i a<:> for 1999. <:>i n t e r a l i a<:> is a newsletter of resources from the internet collected, repackaged and published periodically by David J. L'Hoste. Topics vary widely, but intermittently include: A Word A Day, Weird Facts of the Day, HotSites, Graphic of the Day, On This Day, This Day in History, Quote of the Day, and Cool Fact of the Day. To subcribe to the <:>i n t e r a l i a<:> mailing list send an email with "subscribe inter alia" only in the message section to subscribe@lhostelaw.com To unsubscribe from the <:>i n t e r a l i a<:> mailing list send an email with "unsubscribe inter alia"only in the message section to subscribe@lhostelaw.com |
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10 March 2000
My Reference Desk (from Matt Drudge's father): http://www.refdesk.com/index.html Graphic Search Engines: http://www.ditto.com/ http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm NOW FREE The complete Encyclopędia Britannica, among other things. http://www.britannica.com/ 17 March 2000 Find Your Own HotSites Archives of TOURBUS: http://listserv.aol.com/archives/tourbus.html Back issues of Fierce.com: http://www.fierce.com/archive/index.html CHOICE web reviews: http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.html 24 March 2000 Miscellany "LibrarySpot.com is a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. The site was designed to break through the information overload of the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot." http://www.libraryspot.com/ Lives, the Biography Resource http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/index.html whatis.com - a knowledge exploration tool about information technology http://www.whatis.com/index.htm 4 April 2000 N.Y. Museums The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org/ The Frick Collection http://www.frick.org/html/collmnf.htm -- More on Vermeer: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer/ http://www.glyphs.com/art/vermeer/ http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/ http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Jan.html 7 April 2000 Miscellany The Masters http://www.masters.org/ Search for Adobe PDF files http://searchpdf.adobe.com/ (submitted by Jean L'Hoste) Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall http://www.graffiti.org/index.html Very Cool Bugs http://www.insects.org/ 20 April 2000 Miscellany Check out this cool Web site: Plug in any date from 1900 through 1999 and it will give you American news headlines, a listing of various commodity prices on that date like the price of gasoline or the average cost of a house...and more! What was going on on the day you were born? http://dmarie.com/timecap/ The Ultimates is a new type of index with twenty-five net services at your fingertips. Search resources from all over the net like phone books, email directories, and trip planners. The form for each resource is integrated into the site, and Javascript copies the information from one blank to another so you can use everything out there with a minimum of time and effort. http://www.theultimates.com/ Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress from 1774 to the present. http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp 20 April 2000 Private Eye Stuff WEBGATOR SEARCH SITE! http://www.inil.com/users/dguss/wgator.htm ROBERT SCOTT'S BLACK BOOK 2 ONLINE http://www.crimetime.com/online.html Corporate Investigative Services site: http://www.hsv.tis.net/~pvteye/source.html Prof.TOM O'CONNER'S MEGA-CRIMMINAL JUSTICE LINKS http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/linklist.htm Governments DownLoadable How 2 investigate: http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/soi/contents.htm Nettrace Investigator's Guide to Internet http://www.nettrace.com.au/ Reddy's Forensic HomePage: http://idt.net/~nyrc/new23.htm Technical Surveillance Counter Measures http://www.tscm.com 15 May 2000 Reference Ask Jeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com CIA World Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook FedStats (gov't. statistics): http://www.fedstats.gov Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org Learn2: http://www.learn2.com MapQuest: http://www.mapquest.com 22 May 2000 Two fine sites from Discovery.com: Everglades Forever Take a voyage of ecological discovery through the Everglades. http://www.discovery.com/news/features/everglades/everglades.html Unexpected Everest Take a voyeuristic climb and a virtual journey up the mythical mountain. http://www.discovery.com/exp/mteverest/mteverest.html 22 May 2000 Miscellany LibrarySpot.com was recently selected as the "Best Reference Site" by Forbes.com: Best of the Web. http://www.libraryspot.com -- -- -- -- The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement from the Smithsonian Institution Tens of millions of birds were taken at the height of the feather-trade years, between 1870 and 1920. The two groups most damaged by fashion hunting were the white egrets or herons, and the small terns. One auction record alone lists more than one million heron or egret skins sold in London between 1897 and 1911 . . . http://americanhistory.si.edu/feather/index.htm -- -- -- -- BBC's Evolution Site BBC crammed 4000 million years of evolution into one Web site. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/index.shtml 13 June 2000 weird and whacky Weird animation: http://heavy.com/ Whacky, but you freaks (you know who you are) will love it: http://www.online.ee/~noobik/perfect/ Bozo Criminal of the Day (stupid crooks): http://www.electricferret.com/bozo/ 13 June 2000 weird and whacky |
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