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One of my favorite Google tricks is -- WAS -- using a stopword as a wildcard in a phrase. Since Google doesn't support wildcards it was the only way to find phrase variations; searching for "three of mice" would find...
Continue reading "Google Hoses One of My Favorite Search Tricks, Offers Feedback Option" » November 28, 2001Speaking of TV -- Almost 700 Theme Songs on One Site
If going through the previous site made you all nostalgic for those days when you laid in front of the TV for, oh, just HOURS at the time, chowing down pinwheel cookies and absorbing Doctor Who, then take another trip...
Continue reading "Speaking of TV -- Almost 700 Theme Songs on One Site" » Utah Photo Collection Spans 77 Years
The Utah State Historical Society is now offering The Shipler Commercial Photographers Collection, 1903-1980 at http://history.utah.org/photos/c275/. This online collection came about as a result of a grant from National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 6,000 pictures in the Shipler...
Oxford Reference Service Launches Next March
Oxford Reference is planning to launch a reference service next year at http://www.oxfordreference.com/. There's plenty of information available at the site right now. Looks like the idea is a reference engine, ala Xrefer, with 100 Oxford dictionaries and other reference...
Continue reading "Oxford Reference Service Launches Next March" » Cartoon Cartoon
I saw the Big Cartoon Database mentioned in a lot of Weblogs after writing it up. Seems that many folks hadn't heard about that great resource either. As I was researching that one, I came across some other cartoon sites...
November 21, 2001New RSS Feeds
New RSS feeds sent in by readers... check out aviation-related news at http://planenews.com/backend.php and the NTSB Aviation accidents monthly report at http://planenews.com/ntsb/ntsb.rss. Also, David Strom is now serving up RSS feeds at http://strom.com/strom.rss. Remember, you can't read RSS files with...
Materials Database and Search Engine Covers Over 20,000 Items
MatWeb ( http://www.matweb.com/ ) is a database covering over 20,000 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites. You can search by keyword or do a limited amount of browsing. I searched for "plastic" and got the maximum 200 results (if...
Continue reading "Materials Database and Search Engine Covers Over 20,000 Items" » PDA Document Collection Hits 10,000 Items
MemoWare -- http://www.memoware.com/ -- an online collection of PDA-readable documents, has hit 10,000 items. This nicely-organized collection will probably have a least a couple of items for you-the-PDA-reader. The front page of the site is divided into several categories, including...
Continue reading "PDA Document Collection Hits 10,000 Items" » Toronto Star Database Made Available by Micromedia
The Toronto Star and Micromedia Limited have teamed up to create a digitized version of The Toronto Star archives. The archives go back to January 1, 1894, and contain over 30,000 issues and over 1.9 million pages. The archives are...
Continue reading "Toronto Star Database Made Available by Micromedia" » The March of Dimes Launches Perinatal Health Statistics Site
The March of Dimes has created a site with data about pregnancy and and infant and maternal health. It's called PariStats and it's available at http://peristats.modimes.org/. It starts with a map of the US (and a link to Puerto Rico.)...
Continue reading "The March of Dimes Launches Perinatal Health Statistics Site" » November 20, 2001Philanthropy Portal Offers Charity and Volunteer Opportunities
Network for Good, an independent, 501(c)(3) organization AOL Time Warner Foundation and AOL, Inc.; the Cisco Systems Foundation and Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Yahoo! Inc., in partnership with over 20 nonprofit foundations and associations, has opened a portal at http://www.networkforgood.org/....
Continue reading "Philanthropy Portal Offers Charity and Volunteer Opportunities" » November 19, 2001Frederick Douglass Papers Released By LOC
The Library of Congress has announced the release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ . This collection contains approximately 2,000 items, including speeches, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, transcripts, and other items. The collection may be searched by keyword or...
Continue reading "Frederick Douglass Papers Released By LOC" » November 14, 2001Keep Watching the Stars
In honor of the Leonids meteor shower this weekend, I bring you AstronomyLinks.com, at http://astronomylinks.com/index.htm . This site is a searchable subject index of almost 900 links related to astronomy, with categories including light pollution, astronauts, SETI, and eclipses. The...
Rutgers Creating Site for Jazz Pianist-Composer Mary Lou Williams
The Mary Lou Williams Foundation has donated 180 cubic feet of music, papers, scrapbooks and photos related to Mary Lou Williams to Rutgers University. Currently they're working on turning some of the archives into a Web site. From a story...
Continue reading "Rutgers Creating Site for Jazz Pianist-Composer Mary Lou Williams" » Radio Pictures
If you're a Ham radio operator or enthusiast, you'll find this site with pictures of radio rigs interesting. RigPix ( http://www.rigpix.com/index.shtml ) provides over 1950 pictures of radios. The radios are searchable by keyword or browsable by manufacturer. A list...
To Stonehenge and Beyond
If you're into megaliths, get into Megalithia at http://www.anima.demon.co.uk/. If you thought Stonehenge was the only stone circle, you've got a surprise in store -- this site indexes over 1000 sites of standing stones. The search engine for this site...
November 13, 2001New Article: Search Engine FAST Unrolls New Index
Search engine FAST ( http://www.alltheweb.com ), which with Northern Light belongs in the "good but less known" groups of search engines, has revamped its site and rolled out a new look with new features and an exciting news search engine.......
Continue reading "New Article: Search Engine FAST Unrolls New Index" » November 10, 2001Los Angeles County Museum of Art Offers Materials Online
Big thanks to the Scout Report for pointing us to the LACMA, which is offering almost 25,000 records with over 10,000 images from some of its collections (Specifically the South and Southeast Asian, Japanese, Islamic, Photography and Costume and Textiles...
Continue reading "Los Angeles County Museum of Art Offers Materials Online" » November 07, 2001Lung Cancer Survivor Makes Online Resource
Librarian Karen Parles was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1998, and in the process of researching the disease decided to create her own online resource for researching lung cancer. It's now available at . The site is divided into several...
Continue reading "Lung Cancer Survivor Makes Online Resource" » Hopeful Distributed Search Engine Buzzin' Around the Net
HyperBee (http://www.hyperbee.com/ ) is a hopeful distributed search engine. What is a distributed search engine? You may have heard about the Seti@Home computer program. It's a screensaver that you download. When it activates, it downloads a chunk of data from...
Continue reading "Hopeful Distributed Search Engine Buzzin' Around the Net" » XRefer Reference Search Engine Rolling Out Plus Version
Extremely handy reference search engine XRefer http://www.xrefer.com"> ( http://www.xrefer.com ) is rolling out a Plus version, xreferplus ( http://www.xreferplus.com/ ) and is seeking librarians to help beta-test the new site. (It's rolling out at the end of the year) The...
Continue reading "XRefer Reference Search Engine Rolling Out Plus Version" » Election Reform Information Project Plans Database
The Pew Charitable Trusts has made a three-year, $3.5 million grant to the University of Richmond for the establishment of an Election Reform Information Project. There is already a Web site available at http://electionline.org . Information includes pointers to...
Continue reading "Election Reform Information Project Plans Database" » Drugs.com Relaunches With Database of -- You Guessed It! -- Drugs
Drugs.com has announced that they've relaunched as a searchable database of over 24,000 prescription and OTC drug descriptions. The front page has a variety of information -- news, a category list, poll, etc -- and it's easy to miss...
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