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If you're hip to sheet music and riffs, you need http://www.8notes.com/default.asp . This site features free sheet music and lessons for several different instruments, including guitar, piano, trumpet, and flute. There are also pieces and riffs arranged by category (classical,...
Directory of State Troopers
If you're looking for an aggregate of information on state troopers, I haven't seen a better source online than http://www.statetroopersdirectory.com/ . The information from each state is loaded on the front page, so the front page has a pretty high...
September 26, 2001Good Sources for Good Sites
Reader BH dropped me a note asking me what my favorite newsletters are for finding sources. Bearing in mind that I do a lot of searching on my own, and that the greatest readers in the world send me a...
So Was That Movie Any Good or What?
Wondering about a particular movie? Check out the Movie Review Query Engine at http://www.mrqe.com/ . This site indexes over 200,000 reviews from a variety of places. Searching for "Pippi Longstocking" brought up two titles, one with 4 reviews and one...
September 25, 2001Chess Links and Information
Chessopolis http://www.chessopolis.com/ is a general chess information site that includes book reviews and other resources as well as a link directory. Let's start with the other resources first. The book review section contains what looks to be 80 or 90...
Census Link Directory
Y'know, I love finding these great site collections of which I've never heard before. Census Links, at http://censuslinks.com/ , is absolutely excellent. It's a directory of links to censuses (censii?) that appears to focus primarily on the United States though...
September 24, 2001More RSS Resources
Here I go again. Remember RSS? Right; it's that syndication format I won't shut up about, the one you can use to aggregate news from all over the Web and read it in one place (or, if you're a Web...
Place Name Search Engine
Places Named http://www.placesnamed.com/ is a search engine for place names that also incorporates information about last names in the United States. Over 200,000 place names and last names are incorporated into this engine. The query box is on the left...
Teddy Bear Search Engines On Parade
Teddy Bear Search http://www.teddybearsearch.com/ does exactly what you'd expect it to -- searches sites related to teddy bears. You can do either a direct keyword search, or narrow your search through a series of pulldown boxes that allow you to...
September 20, 2001Search Index for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Machinebrain.com is a searchable subject index for robotics and artificial intelligence at http://www.machinebrain.com/ . At the top of the page are Moreover headlines, but underneath it are the many categories of the site index, including robot animals, fighting robots, cyborgs,...
Continue reading "Search Index for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" » Go Go Potatoes
Global Potato News http://www.potatonews.com/ has a huge amount of information in it, most of which you can access using the navigation on the left side of the screen. For the subject index, scroll down to Potato Directory and choose any...
September 19, 2001Blogdex Adds New Features
Blogdex, if you haven't heard, is a site at MIT http://blogdex.media.mit.edu that tracks the popularity of links mentioned in Weblogs. From the front page of the site you can see the most popular links for the sites that Blogdex indexes...
Directory of School Libraries Online
There are plenty of resources for college and university libraries online, but it's not often that you'll find a resource for K-12 libraries. There is a great one at http://www.sldirectory.com/ The front page lists a variety of countries -- from...
September 18, 2001AltaVista In Shallow Dough-Dough
Before anyone asks, yes, that is a shameless ripoff of Wired's Metricom headline of July 11. Not that I think AltaVista is in danger of immediate bankruptcy (thus "shallow" instead of "deep.") But as a story on News.com reported yesterday...
September 17, 2001DayPop Adds New Features
News and Weblog search engine DayPop http://www.daypop.com/ has added some new features to its new search engine. In addition to specifying a search for news, Weblogs, or both, users may specify the age of the materials being searched. Specified search...
NewspaperDirect Opens Up Beta Site For Limited Time
NewspaperDirect http://www.newspaperdirect.com has announced access, for a limited time, to its web-based display of newspapers in their original print format. The reading URL as I found it was http://test.newspaperdirect.com/servlets/catalog/member . I looked at this URL in Mozilla, Opera, and IE,...
Continue reading "NewspaperDirect Opens Up Beta Site For Limited Time" » Ask Jeeves Buys Teoma
Natural language search engine Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com has purchased much-talked-about search engine Teoma ( http://www.teoma.com ) for an undisclosed sum. Ask Jeeves plans to run Teoma as a separate search property, but it should be noted that Teoma itself is...
September 11, 2001Movies From a Different Perspective
Most movie information sites provide information from the consumer's viewpoint -- they're concerned with who the actors and actresses are, etc. SoundSpeed Movie Database at http://www.soundspeedmovie.com/database/ , approaches movies from a different perspective. It's a database of movies' production information....
This Isn't Brain Surgery -- Oh, Sorry, It Is
Neurosurgeon.com http://www.neurosurgeon.com/ provides links to several areas of interest to Neurosurgeons. Instead of a searchable subject index where the categories are listed in the middle of the page, these are listed on the left. Click an item ( Conditions is...
Continue reading "This Isn't Brain Surgery -- Oh, Sorry, It Is" » September 10, 2001Scuba Duba Doo
ScubaSearch http://www.scubasearch.com/ is a searchable subject index built for those interested in scuba diving. Topics include dive clubs, dive travel, specialty diving (ice?) and equipment. All subcategories appear to be listed on the front page; the "other" listing is a...
Small Town Papers Available in Their Entirety Online
In the same vein as the New York Times project I reported on last week, here's SmallTownPapers.com at http://www.smalltownpapers.com/ . This site takes small town papers, scans them in, and puts them online in GIF files. As you might expect,...
Continue reading "Small Town Papers Available in Their Entirety Online" » Singapore Launches eLibraryHub
Singapore's National Library Board has launched the eLibraryHub at at http://www.elibraryhub.com/ . The site, which is in English, offers access to 10,000 reference books and 13,000 electronic magazines. You do not have to be a resident to Singapore to...
September 06, 2001WiseNut Search Engine Officially Launches
WiseNut officially launched yesterday; it's available at http://www.wisenut.com . What is it? It's a search engine that claims to index 1,495,332,308 pages. (Does anyone else find it interesting that at about the same time WiseNut officially launches, Google starts claiming...
Continue reading "WiseNut Search Engine Officially Launches" » The Golden Age of Ballooning Search Engines
Blastvalve http://www.blastvalve.com/ is a searchable subject index devoted to ballooning. Categories include festivals, organizations, publications, extreme flying (??!), and regulations. Some but not all of the subcategories are on the front page; there are a lot of subcategories here. There's...
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