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The Earthquake Information Network http://www.eqnet.org/ offers a searchable subject index of information related to earthquakes. Categories range from Earthquake Information Services to Archives (news and photos of significant earthquakes since 1999.) At the end of the list of categories there's...
Virtual Observatory to Be Built Online
Astronomers from 17 research institutions have been given a five-year, $10 million Information Technology Research grant from the National Science Foundation to start an online observatory. The observatory, at http://www.us-vo.org/ , declares that its purpose is to "maximize the potential...
October 30, 2001Virtual Learning Resources Center has Thousands of Listings
The Virtual Learning Resource Center, at http://www.virtuallrc.com/ , has about 6,000 learning resources divided up into categories from the American Civil War to Writing Style Guides. A selected category -- ugh -- appears in a pop-up window. The upside is...
Continue reading "Virtual Learning Resources Center has Thousands of Listings" » NY Times Creates Premium Content Baseball Site
The New York Times announced yesterday the launch of a premium content collection called "Glory Days: Baseball in New York 1947-1957." The site includes audio from interviews with New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson, New York Times photographs of...
Continue reading "NY Times Creates Premium Content Baseball Site" » We Want Your RSS Feeds
Okay, listen up. Because I have just scads and loads of free time (cough) I'm a volunteer at Syndic8 http://www.syndic8.com. Syndic8 is dedicated to spreading the good news about RSS. You can get a list of feeds here, submit feeds...
October 29, 2001Port of Los Angeles Adds Historical Site
The Port of Los Angeles has created a historical information site at http://www.laporthistory.org/ . First of all, make sure you have your images turned on or you won't be able to make head nor tail of this front page. Subsequent...
Continue reading "Port of Los Angeles Adds Historical Site" » Weblogs.com Turns the Corner
A little background. Weblogs.com was a place that automatically checked Web logs (including ResearchBuzz) and listed the most recently-changed pages. Recently Weblogs.com "turned the corner" and changed the way they operate, because of the large number of Web logs that...
October 25, 2001Los Angeles City Fire Department Historical Archive
This site isn't official, but it's interesting. The LA City Fire Departement Historical Archive http://www.lafire.com/ is broken up into several sections. Sections include The Volunteers 1871 to 1885 (don't forget to check out the famous names of the early department...
Continue reading "Los Angeles City Fire Department Historical Archive" » Ancestry and RootsWeb.com Combine Databases
Ancestry.com and RootsWeb.com have combined their family tree databases to create one large database of family trees -- over 160 million names at this point, with an expected count of 250 million names by the end of 2002. The two...
Continue reading "Ancestry and RootsWeb.com Combine Databases" » October 24, 2001Boo-Boo (Haunted Event Search Engines)
Crypt Crawl http://www.cryptcrawl.com/ lists only 115 haunted houses, but also has sections for horror-related music, horror-related television, and horror-related art. This is more of a general horror site in the line of HorrorFind, which was covered recently. If you want...
New Search Engine for News Searching
With the news that Excite's NewsTracker was folding up, a couple of news junkies gloomily e-mailed me asking if there were any other news search options out there. There's DayPop, of course, and Moreover, and MagPortal, and several others. And...
October 23, 2001Government Science and Technology Resources
The National Technical Information Services sponsors this site providing links to government resources for users in the science and engineering industries at http://www.scitechresources.gov/ . I couldn't get this site to work on Opera at all, but it works just fine...
Continue reading "Government Science and Technology Resources" » Ancestry.com to Offer United Kingdom Subscription
Ancestry.com http://www.Ancestry.com has added an United Kingdom and Ireland subscription to its genealogy service. The new collection includes 50 million names pulled from such sources as probate records, civil registration indexes, immigration records and marriage/baptism indexes. Cost of the new...
Continue reading "Ancestry.com to Offer United Kingdom Subscription" » October 19, 2001Displaced About.com Guides Get New Homes
I mentioned recently that lots of About.com guides got laid off from About.com. EricWard.com has started an information page about the layoffs at http://www.ericward.com/guidehelp/relocationdirectory.html . This site includes: a full list of the guides/sites cut, links to sites that are...
Continue reading "Displaced About.com Guides Get New Homes" » October 17, 2001New Product Updates A Go Go
Several software packages have new versions. Mozilla's up to 0.9.5 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ , AmphetaDesk is up to 0.92 ( http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ ) and TextPipe, that lovely text handling program, is up to 5.6 ( http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe.html )....
LOC Releases Morse Collection
The Library of Congress has released an online collection of the Samuel F.B. Morse Papers at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/ . This collection consists of about 6,500 library items (approximately 50,000 digital images.) This includes correspondence, diaries, drawings, and maps. You can search...
Yahoo Sells WebRing
There's a story on CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7535715.html saying that Yahoo has sold WebRing to Tim Killeen. Considering some of the mail I got from 'ring "owners," I'm not sure that's a bad thing. The page for migrating your 'ring is at...
October 11, 2001Canada Encyclopedia Now Available Online
The Canada Encyclopedia is now available free online at http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ . A simple keyword search is at the top of the site's main page or you can do an advanced search. (Advanced search appears in a popup window and seems...
Continue reading "Canada Encyclopedia Now Available Online" » Speaking of Encyclopedias...
Speaking of encyclopedias, you probably remember that several months ago Encyclopedia Britannica announced that it would no longer be free. This decision has been implemented; you can still search the online encyclopedia but you'll get only the first part of...
October 10, 2001Repertorium Chronicarum
Repertorium Chronicarum http://www.chronica.msstate.edu/ is a bibliography of Latin manuscripts chronicling the Middle Ages. It includes the locations of manuscripts and works documenting medieval public events, event narratives, and histories. Most of the documents date from early in the fourth century...
AquaPlants
Need a plant for your fish tank? Check out AquaPlant at http://www.aquaplant.org/ . This site gives you several different options, from the simple to the complicated, for finding water plants. I chose the most basic search, tank search, because I...
Horror Search Engine
Halloween is coming. If you're in the mood, get an early fright at HorrorFind http://www.horrorfind.com/ , a searchable subject index for pages related to horror. The categories include Horror on TV, Haunted Houses (these appear to be staged "scare you"...
eNature Updates Web Site
eNature, last mentioned in ResearchBuzz way back in April 2000, has added some new features to its site. One of the new features is Hawkwatch http://www.enature.com/outdoors/hawkwatch/hw_home.asp , a map of the US with 15 highlighted places to watch hawks, harriers,...
October 08, 2001Web Not Growing As Fast As It Used To
The OCLC released the results of its annual World Wide Web survey last week, and while the Web is still growing it's not growing as fast. According to OCLC research, the public web (that is, "a distinct location on the...
LOC Releases Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection
The Library of Congress has made the Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/ This is not the biggest LOC collection in the world, but there's enough here. Eighty-four pages of manuscript materials related to Woody Guthrie cover 1940 to...
Continue reading "LOC Releases Woody Guthrie Manuscript Collection" » October 04, 2001PBS and Oregon Public Broadcasting Launch American Field Guide
PBS and OPB have gotten together to create the American Field Guide site at http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/ . This site provides over 1,200 video clips comprising 150 hours of video. Looks like most of the nav is on the left. You can...
Continue reading "PBS and Oregon Public Broadcasting Launch American Field Guide" » Public Libraries of Europe
I know I recently covered a site that listed K-12 libraries in the US. How about public libraries in Europe? http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/eurolib.html lists European countries from Albania to Yugoslavia. Pick one (I chose Finland) and you'll get a brief entry to...
October 03, 2001Google Gets All Tabby
Google ( http://www.google.com ) has updated their interface with a set of tabs. These tabs give you easier access to search results from all Google's properties, including Web search, image search, Google Groups, and the Google Directory. This may not...
Name that Ohio Snake! That Tree! And That Flint!
(Instead of "And That Flint" I was really tempted to put up, "And Cleveland Rocks" but that wouldn't do anybody any good.) The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) and the Ohio Historical Society (OHS) have teamed up to create...
Continue reading "Name that Ohio Snake! That Tree! And That Flint!" » October 02, 2001Bowling Search Engine
Who wouldn't want to bowl a turkey (three strikes in a row, not bowling the frozen bird)? MBC On-Line Bowling search, at http://www.bowlsearch.com/ , provides a database of over 650 bowling sites. Categories include indexes, personal home pages of bowlers,...
The Treasures of New Mexico
Want to learn more about New Mexico? Check out New Mexico's Cultural Treasures at http://www.nmculture.org/ . This site is a database of the cultural offerings of New Mexico. Once you've entered the site (the main page is at http://www.nmculture.org/HTML/direct.htm )...
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