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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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06 January 1999 Travel Micro$oft Expedia (Gates is into EVERYTHING) http://expedia.msn.com/ City Net from Excite http://www.city.net/ Travelocity http://www.travelocity.com/ Lowestfare.com http://www.lowestfare.com/ Bed & Breakfast Channel http://www.bbchannel.com/ All the hotels on the WWW http://www.all-hotels.com/ 12 January 1999 Impeachment An Impeachment Trial Primer -- CNN/All Politics http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/06/primer/ Impeaching the President -- NPR [RealPlayer] http://www.npr.org/news/national/impeach/ Clinton Under Fire -- BBC News [RealPlayer] http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/clinton_under_fire/ The Politics of the Presidency -- CBC [RealPlayer] http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/news/indepth/clinton/index.html USIA Foreign Media Reaction Daily Digest http://www.usia.gov/admin/005/wwwh9j06.html Scout Report Signpost http://www.signpost.org/ Jurist: Law Professors on the Web http://scout7.cs.wisc.edu/page/00000972.html The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson http://scout7.cs.wisc.edu/page/00008896.html Independent Counsel's Report to the US House of Representatives http://scout7.cs.wisc.edu/page/00008253.html 19 January 1999 Crossfire From the Left: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/liberal.html From the Right: http://www.freerepublic.com/ 21 January 1999 EARTHRISE Tired of looking at those three by five glossies of your house taken from ground level? How about looking at your town from outer space? Then this site will definitely interest you. This is the site of a huge database of photos that over the past 15 years have been taken of the Earth from the Space Shuttle. The photos can be searched a number of different ways (photo, topographical, and political) and can be zoomed in for some great views of landforms, landmarks, etc. This is not only a fun site, but can also be a great resource for planners, developers, and other professionals. <http://earthrise.sdsc.edu/earthrise/> 28 Janaury 1999 Global Warming http://www.unep.ch/iuc/submenu/infokit/factcont.htm Climate Change Information Kit --Thirty excellent information sheets from the UN Environment Program. http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/home.htm The EPA Global Warming Site --A vast, excellent resource from the Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.egs.uct.ac.za/engeo/faq/NASA_FACTS/global/gw.html Global Warming --Information about global warming, with accompanying graphics, from NASA. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98jan/climate.htm The Great Climate Flip-flop --This article from the Atlantic Monthly discusses the possibility that we are heading toward "global cooling." http://www.epa.gov/ozone/science/ The Science of Ozone Depletion --A great site from the EPA that includes a plethora of ozone-depletion information and resources. http://www.whrc.org/globalwarming/warmingearth.htm The Warming of the Earth --Comprehensive information from the Woods Hole Research Center. 04 February 1999 The Polling Report Collection of Polls done by The Wall Street Journal, ABC, CNN/Time, The Washington Post, etc. about things old and new -- politics, business, social issues and more: http://www.pollingreport.com/ 12 February 1999 Mardi Gras Bourbon Street Cam: http://www.mardigras.com/bourbocam/ Everything Mardi Gras: http://www.mardigras.com/ http://www.mardigrasday.com/ http://www.icorp.net/carnival/ 23 February 1999 Back to Basics Learn the Internet: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html Everything Email: http://everythingemail.net/ Computer Info for Consumers: http://www.cnet.com/ http://www.zdnet.com/ 05 March 1999 World History Comprehensive chronological guide to historical resources. Contains two exhaustive sections of links for each historical period, the first section dealing with people, places, events, and resources, and the second covering art, music, drama, literature, daily life, and culture. More than 2,300 annotated and/or rated links are included. http://history.evansville.net/index.html 15 March 1999 Electronic Texts Alex: Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/ Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/ Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia): http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ Online Book Initiative: gopher://gopher.std.com/11/obi/book The Online Book Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html Oxford Text Archive: http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ota/public/index.shtml 1st Books Library: http://www.1stbooks.com/ OminMedia Digital Publishing Links to Electronic Texts: http://www.awa.com/library/omnimedia/links.html Project Bartleby: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/ 19 March 1999 Miscellany GRAPHIC SEARCH ENGINE: Arriba Vista -- the image searcher Search for "lewinsky" returns 82 images of you-know-who. Why you'd want 82 images of you-know-who, I haven't got a clue. But you get the idea behind Arriba Vista. http://www.arribavista.com/ -- TAXES: Collection of helpful tax sites: http://www.taxsites.com/ The IRS trying to be somewhat human: http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/cover.html -- PUT YOUR LIFE ONLINE: Registered Yahoo users can now keep group calendars and publish personal calendars. Yahoo has also released TrueSync for Yahoo!, which makes the Yahoo! Calendar and Address book synchronizable with Microsoft Outlook and the 3Com Palm devices. http://calendar.yahoo.com/ Bookmarkbox cleverly decided that everyone needs their own webpage to store their bookmarks, or favorites in IE-speak. http://www.bookmarkbox.com 23 March 1999 Miscellany Britannica -- the best of the WWW chosen by the editors of the Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.ebig.com/ http://www.eblast.com/ Malaspina as Great Books Five Star Sites -- thousands of links (arranged as a hypertext index) about important people (from Aesop to Zoroaster) and many academic subjects. http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/fivestar.htm N.O. Jazz & Heritage Festival: http://www.nojazzfest.com/html/frontmid.html 24 March 1999 Political HotSites HotSites has been updated! Selected online political resources: http://lhostelaw.com/ia/ia2/hsites.htm 07 April 1999 ClearStation For market hounds thinking Wall Street, this site looks at the market with more charts, graphs, analysis, and other hoopla than anyone probably needs. ClearStation http://www.clearstation.com/ 12 April 1999 Propoganda THEIR PROPOGANDA: Serbian ministry of information site http://www.serbia-info.com -- OUR PROPOGANDA: US Government Site http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/kosovo_more.html UNICEF-USA relief site http://www.unicefusa.org/kosovo/ 21 April 1999 1998 Webby Award Nominees Arts ParkBench http://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench/ Doors of Perception http://www.doorsofperception.com The multi-cultural Recycler http://shoko.calarts.edu/~alex/recycler.html Last Will and Testament http://will.teleportacia.org *jodi.org* http://www.jodi.org Commerce *Amazon.com* http://www.Amazon.com CDNOW http://www.cdnow.com ebay http://www.ebay.com Gap Online http://www.gap.com The Tire Rack http://www.tirerack.com Community iVillage.com http://www.ivillage.com MiningCo.com http://www.miningco.com *SeniorNet* http://www.seniornet.org Talk City http://www.talkcity.com Third Age http://www.thirdage.com Education *Journey North* http://www.learner.org/jnorth Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/ The Global Schoolhouse http://www.gsn.org The Math Forum http://forum.swarthmore.edu Web66 http://web66.coled.umn.edu Fashion Hint Magazine http://www.hintmag.com London Fashion Week http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk Lumière http://www.lumiere.com *PaperMag* http://www.papermag.com w.&l.t. online http://www.walt.de Film Coming Attractions http://corona.bc.ca/films Dark Horizons http://www.darkhorizons.com Film.com http://www.film.com *Internet Movie Database* http://www.imdb.com Ireland Film and Television Net http://www.iftn.ie/index.html Finance ClearStation http://www.clearstation.com E-Loan http://www.eloan.com Investor Home http://www.investorhome.com *The Motley Fool* http://www.motleyfool.com The Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com Games Digital Addiction http://www.digitaladdiction.com *Gamers Central* http://www.gamerscentral.net Java on the Brain http://www.tdb.uu.se/~karl/brain.html ShockRave http://www.shockrave.com Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator http://mame.retrogames.com Health *InteliHealth* http://www.intelihealth.com Mayo Clinic Health Oasis http://www.mayohealth.org mediconsult.com http://www.mediconsult.com onhealth http://www.onhealth.com thriveonline.com http://www.thriveonline.com Humor Bezerk http://www.bezerk.com Red Meat http://www.redmeat.com Suck http://www.suck.com *The Onion* http://www.theonion.com The Simpleton http://www.simpleton.com Living *BabyCenter* http://www.babycenter.com Epicurious http://www.epicurious.com Garden.com http://www.garden.com The Knot http://www.theknot.com The Yuckiest Site on The Internet http://www.yucky.com Music bobdylan.com http://www.bobdylan.com mp3.com http://www.mp3.com *SonicNet* http://www.sonicnet.com/ Spinner http://www.spinner.com The Ultimate Band List http://www.ubl.com News MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com *CNN Interactive* http://www.cnn.com Rough & Tumble http://www.rtumble.com/ BBC News Online http://news.bbc.co.uk Politics & Law *California VoterFoundation* http://www.calvoter.org FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com Free! The Freedom Forum Online http://www.freedomforum.org/ The Non-Partisan Center for Responsive Politics http://www.crp.org Web White & Blue http://www.webwhiteblue.org Print & Zines Feed http://www.feedmag.com Nerve http://www.nervemag.com *Salon Magazine* http://www.salonmagazine.com Slate http://www.slate.com Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu Radio *Freespeech Internet Television* http://www.freespeech.org Imagineradio http://www.imagineradio.com Internet Underground Music Archive http://www.iuma.com SonicNet http://www.sonicnet.com Spinner http://www.spinner.com Science *Exploratorium* http://www.exploratorium.edu NASA Space Science Laboratory http://science.msfc.nasa.gov Scientific American http://www.sciam.com The University of Arizona - The Biology Project http://www.biology.arizona.edu Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org Sports GolfWeb http://www.golfweb.com *SportsPages.com* http://sportspages.com Quokka Sports http://www.quokka.com SoccerNet http://www.soccernet.com The Sporting News http://www.sportingnews.com Technical Achievement AltaVista Translation with Systran http://babelfish.altavista.com *Amazon.com* http://www.amazon.com FedEx http://www.fedex.com My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com Travel *biztravel.com* http://www.biztravel.com/ Expedia Travel http://www.expedia.com Lonely Planet On-line http://www.lonelyplanet.com TerraQuest http://www.terraquest.com Travelocity http://www.travelocity.com/ TV Comedy Central http://www.comedycentral.com Gist TV Listings http://www.gist.com *PBS Online* http://www.pbs.org TVGen http://tvgen.com UltimateTV http://ultimatetv.com Weird Absurd.org http://www.absurd.org Disinformation http://www.disinfo.com *Superbad.com* http://www.superbad.com ITAG http://www.trepan.com Unamerican Activities http://www.unamerican.com 30 April 1999 Miscellany All the World's Newspapers http://www.webwombat.com.au/intercom/newsprs/index.htm Price's List of Lists The Internet contains numerous lists of information. Many of these lists present information in the form of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, etc. This collection is designed to be a clearinghouse for these types of resources. http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm Direct Search (also from Gary Price) This page is a growing compilation of DIRECT LINKS to the search interfaces of resources that are not easily searchable from general search tools such as Alta Vista, Hotbot, and Infoseek. While general search tools are essential for information retrieval of Internet materials many users do not realize that large amounts of information are not searchable via these tools. http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm 04 May 1999 Miscellany Investors who like getting their company information straight from the source will enjoy BestCalls - http://www.bestcalls.com BestCalls is a public directory of investor conference calls. Registration is free. News From 61 Newspaper, Broadcast & Online News Sources http://www.1stheadlines.com/ Search and browse over 1,700 Star Wars resources. http://www.project-m31.com/ 11 May 1999 Miscellany The Encyclopedia Smithsonian - The Smithsonian from A to Z The Smithsonian website is huge, and this site will help you get the most out of it. This is their FAQs and guides page. It will help you find information about the countless resources available at this big site. http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm Listen_To_The_News is a great news resource! Real Audio and Video World News & Info has Hundreds of direct Real Audio and Video radio and television news links and live current news links from around the world. http://ListenToTheNews.com/ LOCATORplus -- NLM The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) LOCATORplus is a Web catalog of the world's largest medical library, with over 5.3 million books and other materials. Bringing together previously disparate databases and information formerly available only to Library staff, the site allows users to search by a variety of specific fields and then email the results to themselves. Search returns are ranked by relevance and feature standard library catalog information as well as a link, in the case of electronic resources. LOCATORplus also offers tutorials on using the site and the NLM physical Reading Room and links to additional online catalogs and a variety of other authoritative online medical resources. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/ 15 May 1999 ===>NoteTab<=== Great text editor! Cost=0 =========== http://www.notetab.com/ NoteTab is a top-rated text and HTML editor for Windows 95, 98, and NT4. It is user friendly and feature rich with many innovative productivity tools. Whether you create web pages, write source code, send E-mail, take notes, analyze text, read files, or do anything related to text, you will certainly find NoteTab a worthy tool and a great time saver. There are currently two variants available. NoteTab Pro provides functionality and performance that will suit the more demanding users. It is also ideal for HTML editing as it provides tag highlighting. NoteTab Standard/Light uses the Windows Rich-edit control and appeals to users with a smaller budget (the Light version is Freeware) or who prefer to display their text with variable-pitch fonts. http://www.notetab.com/ 21 May 1999 Basic but useful United States Postal Service No crowds. No lines. This post office is open 24/7. Buy stamps, change address, find zip codes, etc. http://www.usps.gov/ Kelley Blue Book Used car prices and more. http://www.kbb.com/ 1st Headlines News From 101 Newspaper, Broadcast & Online News Sources http://www.1stheadlines.com/ 27 May 1999 History Selected History Sites http://lhostelaw.com/djl/historysites.htm 02 June 1999 WoodyPest Main Page http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~pest/woodypest/index.html Moths of North America http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/mothsusa.htm Leps journal index.html http://www3.sympatico.ca/lepsjournal/index.html The Butterfly WebSite http://mgfx.com/butterfly/ Myrmecology - The Science about Ants http://members.aol.com/dinarda/ant/index.htm Insect-World Front Page http://www.insect-world.com/ Entomology Index: Beekeeping http://www.ent.iastate.edu/List/beekeeping.html 11 June 1999 Normandy http://normandy.eb.com/ 5 days ago was the 55th anniversary of D-day. This site from Encyclopedia Britannica is very well done and can take hours to explore. It includes documents, photos, news stories, personal accounts, published memoirs, and much more. 18 June 1999 Pushing the Envelope Lynda.com features several sites notable for their innovation and/or beauty in catagories such as animation, illustration, color, simplicity etc. Take a look at these spectacular web sites: http://www.lynda.com/resources/inspiration/index.html More spectacular websites: http://www.kimble.org/ http://www.unimark.ch/english_flash.html 29 June 1999 PowerLists Maybe all the bookmarks/favorites you'll ever need -- Essential Links http://www.EL.com/ Britannica-Newsweek Internet Guide http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/inetguide/inetguide.htm myGO Start Page http://www.mygo.com/ The Search Beat http://www.search-beat.com/ refdesk.com http://www.refdesk.com/index.html 05 July 1999 Miscellany Learn Everything http://www.learn2.com/ The New Millennium http://www.everything2000.com/ The Real Beer Page http://www.realbeer.com/ The Virtual Garden "...where gradeners grow." http://www.vg.com/ 13 July 1999 Professional Cartoonists Index Wonderful site filled with daily comics, 76 daily editorial cartoons from the most famous, and cartoons in numerous categories such as Bill Gates and Star Wars. http://www.cagle.com/ guache! Left-Handers in Society (I happen to think it's hot.) http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/lspeak.html 27 July 1999 Origami http://www.origami.vancouver.bc.ca/index.html http://www.paperfolding.com/ Knots http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/knotlink.htm Kites http://www.kfs.org/kites/ http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/pp/kites/ Yo-yos http://www.yoyoing.com/kwos/ http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~jacolwel/ Social Work http://www.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Social/swindex.htm 09 August 1999 Quicken.com http://www.quicken.com/investments/mutualfunds/ Mutual Fund Magazine http://www.mfmag.com/ Exploding Whale http://www.perp.com/whale/ Montana's Original Testicle Festival http://www.testyfesty.com/ 19 August 1999 NOVA Online - Great stuff from the PBS show. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ Digital Journalism at it best. From the ultra-heavy stuff, like Kosovo, to the lighter side -- sports art and the last days of Seinfeld. Great photos with video and audio clips to boot. http://digitaljournalist.org/contents.html 10 September 1999 ESPN Score Tracker is a Java Applet that puts a little box in the corner of your screen that display real-time scores whenever your online. It updates every 15 seconds no matter what your doing on your browser. ESPN Score Tracker (free download) http://scores-espn.sportszone.com/cgi/scoretracker/about.asp Also check these: CBSSportsLine ScoreCenter http://www.sportsline.com/u/scorecenter/index.html CNN/SI Desktop http://cnnsi.com/java/index.html 28 October 1999 1) NewsTrawler - Parallel Search engine for news sites on the Internet http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html (2) NewsHub - News summaries and meta search http://www.newshub.com/ (3) NewsIndex - search 250 newspapers at once http://www.newsindex.com/ (4) Many of the major web search sites, such as Lycos, Excite, Hotbot, Yahoo and others have news searching capability where you can search several news sources at once: http://news.excite.com/news http://headlines.hotbot.com/news/ http://www.lycos.com/news/ http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ 08 November 1999 Photo exhibits by two very important 20th century portraitists, Henri Catier-Bresson and Annie Leibovitz: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/museums/photogallery/bresson/index.htm http://www.nytimes.com/library/photos/leibovitz/index.html 22 November 1999 Shopping Bots (short for robots) are web-based software agents that prowl the web in search of bargains. You plug in the name of the product you want and the bot returns a list of the best prices it finds. My Simon http://www.mysimon.com Bottomdollar.com http://www.bottomdollar.com Shopfind http://www.shopfind.com Webmarket http://www.webmarket.com Yahoo Shopping http://shopguide.yahoo.com BookBlvd http://www.bookblvd.com Bookfinder http://www.bookfinder.com PriceScan http://www.pricescan.com ====E-Malls==== Mallsguide.com http://www.mallsguide.com/ Mall Internet http://mall-internet.com/ IChargeit http://www.shopppersgateway.net/ Buyitonline.com http://www.buyitonline.com/ Shabang!.com http://www.shabang.com/ ====Toys and Games==== Netoy.com http://www.netoy.com/ ToysRUs.com http://www.toysrus.com/ Yahoo Toys http://shopping.yahoo.com/toys/ FAO Schwarz http://www.faoschwarz.com/ |
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