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« November 2000 | Main | January 2001 » December 28, 2000Go to the Dogs for Your Vacation
Want to go on vacation but don't want to leave Rover behind? Check out http://www.dogfriendly.com , which allows you to discover places to go that will welcome both you and your dog. There's a dog-friendly hotel section that covers both...
Find Plants in the UK -- By Postcode
The Postcode Plant Database ( http://www.nhm.ac.uk/scienc e/projects/fff/ ) was developed to find native plants and wildlife by postcode. The front page search interface is very simple; give the first part of a postcode. (I used KT22.) The resulting page --...
December 27, 2000Civil War from a Soldier's Perspective
I'm always reluctant to cover sites that are not large data collections, but sometimes when they have unusual and interesting information I'm persuaded. Please check out the Civil War letters of the Christie family at http://www.mnhs.or g/library/Christie/intropage.html . This site,...
December 26, 2000Kitty/Iguana/Dog/Ferret/Rat Jam
Whether you're a confirmed cat person or you like dogs, Petjam ( http://www.petjam.com/ ) is worth a look. While this site is more portal-oriented than I like to cover, they have a couple of good resources for the researcher. The...
Merck Medical Reference Now Free Online
Merck has updated their home edition of the Merck Manual of Medical Information. It's now available for free online at http://www.MerckHomeEdition.com/ . From this page there are two versions available. The first version is the text-only version, which you can...
Continue reading "Merck Medical Reference Now Free Online" » December 25, 2000Genealogy.com Adds Yet MORE Materials
Genealogy.com last week announced nine more titles have been added to their online collection. The new titles are: Illinois, 1900 Census Records -- Information on about 4.8 million people from the 1900 Illinois census. Tennessee, 1900 Census Records -- Information...
Water, Water Everywhere
The weather in your area getting you down? Looking for something above freezing? How about visiting a hot springs? Don't know where one is? No problem; visit href="http://www.hotspringsenthusiast.com/HSSearch/SearchForm.asp">http://www .hotspringsenthusiast.com/HSSearch/SearchForm.asp . (And that's the longest and silliest lead ever, I think.)...
BrightPlanet Adds To Database Collection
BrightPlanet, collector of pointers to the "Invisible Web," has more than doubled the size of its searchable database catalog. Their "database of databases" now has 38,500 entries and can be accessed at: http://www.completeplanet.com . That link has a search form...
Continue reading "BrightPlanet Adds To Database Collection" » December 18, 2000Scout Report Launches New Archives
The Scout Report, long enjoyed as one of my favorite resources for Web sites (especially academically-oriented and scientific ones) has launched the Scout Report Archives. The archives are accessible at http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ archives/index.html ; currently they contain over 10,200 summaries from...
Go Go Couch Potato
Thanks Scout Report for pointing me to Epguides ( http://www.epguides.com/ ) which has episode listings for approximately fifty million television shows -- okay, over 1500. I went to the main site listings and threw some fairly obscure stuff at it...
More Fun Than a Barrel of Boolean Expressions
... okay, that wasn't a cliché. But you can get a huge pile of cliches at the Cliché Site ( http://www.clichesite.com/index.as p ). The site allows you to search and browse what appears to be hundreds and hundreds of clichés....
Continue reading "More Fun Than a Barrel of Boolean Expressions" » December 14, 2000New Search Engine for Tutorials
... well, not really that new, but pretty darn huge. FindTutorials.com contains over 2900 tutorials, covering everything from dancing to nutrition to gardening to astrology. The materials are laid out in a directory format, but they're also searchable. Searching for...
New Content Rating System Available
Newsbytes is reporting ( http://www.newsbytes.com/ news/00/159363.html ) that there's a new rating system available. The Internet Content Rating System is available at http://www.icra.org/ . The site includes information on implementing the rating system in Internet Explorer (it's not supported by...
AltaVista Launches Portuguese and Brazilian Sites
AltaVista Announced yesterday the launch of AltaVista Brazil ( http://www.altavistabrasil.com.br ) and AltaVista Portugal ( http://www.altavista.pt ). AltaVista Brazil will index 1.25 million pages of local content. The AltaVista Brazil site will index nearly eight million pages of local content....
Continue reading "AltaVista Launches Portuguese and Brazilian Sites" » December 13, 2000ABCNEWS.com Inks Content Distro Deal with Yahoo
ABCNEWS.com and Yahoo have made an agreement. ABCNEWS.com will send daily video feeds to Yahoo! News, along with "regularly scheduled" excerpts from ABC programming, including World News Tonight and Good Morning America. They'll also be providing audio of news, sports,...
Continue reading "ABCNEWS.com Inks Content Distro Deal with Yahoo" » Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Press Releases
... it's far easier to type than it is to say. Do you dig tongue twisters? Check out this collection of over 1800 twisters in 77 languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu. It's at http://www.uebersetzungat /twister/index.htm . Non-English twisters have rough...
Continue reading "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Press Releases" » December 12, 2000Another New Science Search Engine Available
What's up with all these science search engines all of a sudden? Check out http://www.search4science.com/, which its press release says contains around 50,000 scientific words and expressions. The presentation of the search engine is interesting. You're given two query input...
Continue reading "Another New Science Search Engine Available" » December 11, 2000xrefer to add Houghton Mifflin Content in January
Reference engine xrefer ( http://www.xrefer.com ) has entered a content partnership with Houghton Mifflin. January will see several new items added to the xrefer engine, including the American Heritage Concise Dictionary; The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms; the Compact American...
Continue reading "xrefer to add Houghton Mifflin Content in January" » North Carolina Creates Child-Care Information Database
The state of North Carolina has created a site for looking up information on licensed child care centers. The site, at , covers child care centers, family child care homes, and day camps. There are several different ways you can...
Continue reading "North Carolina Creates Child-Care Information Database" » December 07, 2000Opera Launches Version 5.0
... for Windows. Opera has launched a new version of their browser in an "ad-supported" mode for users who don't want to pay the $39. (You can still pay for it if you don't want to see the ads, which...
Science Search Engine Being Developed
Elsevier Science announced on Tuesday that they're developing a search engine designed for finding scientific information. The engine is called Scirus ( http://www.scirus.com . While the full site will not launch until March of next year, you can preview a...
GiveSpot Til It Hurts
Okay, Scrooge, you've dreamed of the ghosts all night and had the fact of your mortality shoved down your throat. It's early morning the next day and you're rushing about madly trying to rack up some karma before the grim...
December 06, 2000Infotrieve Offers Pre-Release of Article Finder
The official release is the first quarter of next year, but if you're a periodical research junkie you might want to check out the pre-release version of Infotrieve's new article finder -- you can get to it at http://www4.infotr ieve.com/search/ArticleFinder.asp...
Continue reading "Infotrieve Offers Pre-Release of Article Finder" » Google Adds Title Syntax (Finally) And URL Syntax
So Google last week sent out this big braggy press release about how everyone adores them. They skipped the REAL news: Google now partially supports title and URL special syntaxes. The title special syntax is allintitle:. So if you want...
Continue reading "Google Adds Title Syntax (Finally) And URL Syntax" » December 04, 2000Genealogy.com Releases Several New Titles
Genealogy.com announced last week several new titles which are now available online. The new titles are: New York, 1900 Census Data: Contains approximately 7.3 million people Kentucky, 1900 Census Data: Contains approximately 2.1 million people Virginia Colonial Records -- 1600s...
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Releases Several New Titles" » LOC Updates Online Ephemera Collection
The Library of Congress has updated An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera. First released in 1998, the collection has had more than seven thousand additional items added to it. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpe html/...
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