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« November 2001 | Main | January 2002 » December 31, 2001Tough Eggs and Gun Molls -- Detective Listings
If you're into that yummy pulp goodness, you'll like Thrilling Detective ( http://www.thrillingdetective.com/), a site devoted to -- you guessed it! Detectives! This site has a lot of detective-oriented resources but of particular interest is the alphabetical list of detectives....
Continue reading "Tough Eggs and Gun Molls -- Detective Listings" » December 27, 2001Catsup, Ketchup, Rah Rah Rah -- The CONDIMENT PACKET MUSEUM!
When I first got the URL for this site I took a look and had a good laugh. Not in a pejorative way, but just in enjoyment of the Web. I'm glad to discover the Condiment Packet Museum at http://www.chrisharne.com/condiment/....
Continue reading "Catsup, Ketchup, Rah Rah Rah -- The CONDIMENT PACKET MUSEUM!" » December 26, 2001Irish Excavations
Oh, I love my job. Excavations.ie ( http://www.excavations.ie/) is a database of Irish excavation reports (North and South Ireland) between 1985 and 1999. While that doesn't sound like it'd be a lot of information, this database actually contains over 4000...
Stapler Information Site
You know, staplers! Those ubiquitous office tools that you see so often you don't really look at them anymore. Well, most people don't look at them, but at http://www.calcampus.com/stapler/index.htm you can find a guy who takes a great interest in...
Contemporary Africa Database
The Contemporary Africa Database ( http://www.africaexpert.org/), according to its about page, will eventually be in three parts -- a database of prominent Africans, a collection of information about African institutions, and a timeline of African chronology. Currently only the first...
NCAA Tourney Statistics
If you're into college sports, check out SportsStats at http://www.sportsstats.com/. This site doesn't give you win-loss statistics, but instead provides scores from tournament games. On the front page you'll need to pick a sport (twelve are provided, both men's and...
Turbo10 Opens Their Site to Specialty Search Engines
Metasearch engine Turbo10 ( http://turbo10.com) announced this week that specialty search engines can register their engines at Turbo10 and have results from their engines included on Turbo10's site. You can access the sign up form at http://turbo10.com/cgi-bin/joinupengine1.cgi. I'm not much...
Continue reading "Turbo10 Opens Their Site to Specialty Search Engines" » December 25, 2001A Database Of Special Shapes
... ah, but what kind of special shapes? Special hot air balloon shapes, that's what, and you can get to it at http://www.specialshapes.nu/. This site contains over 850 special shapes with lots of gorgeous photographs. Once you've used the...
December 24, 2001Arkansas Launches Fish and Game Commission Site
Arkansas has launched a fish and game commission site at http://www.agfc.com/ with several information collections relevant to wildlife. There's an alphabetical list of Arkansas lakes managed by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission with PDF maps of each lake. There's...
Continue reading "Arkansas Launches Fish and Game Commission Site" » December 20, 2001News Search Engine News
For a while there there was a real dearth of news search engines. Then starting late this year there was a veritable explosion of news search. Now you can't swing a shillelagh without hitting a news search engine. Even Google's...
December 19, 2001Daypop Now Indexing RSS Headlines from NewsIsFree
Daypop ( http://www.daypop.com ) now indexes headlines from NewsIsFree. To search headlines only, put your query in the box and choose "headlines" from the drop-down list to the right. You can get more news on this implementation at http://www.danchan.com/weblog/daypop/6224. (And...
Continue reading "Daypop Now Indexing RSS Headlines from NewsIsFree" » Natural History Museum of LA County Puts Fish Collection Online
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has put their fish collection online at http://204.140.246.24/nhmims/pres/sHome.htm. There are four ways you can search this collection -- there's a map, specific location field search, all location field search, and taxon field...
Continue reading "Natural History Museum of LA County Puts Fish Collection Online" » Backflip is Alive And Well
Online bookmark utility Backflip ( http://www.backflip.com/) has plenty of fans among ResearchBuzz readers. Last week I got a couple of e-mails from concerned readers when they couldn't reach Backflip. Backflip is fine and they're still in business. They had a...
A White Sport Coat and A Pink Cretaceous (Fossil)
Cretaceousfossils.com ( http://www.cretaceousfossils.com/) is an index of information related to cretaceous fossils (hereafter referred to as "fossils.") The site is a mix of links and information. For example, there's an invertebrate subsection that provides information on corals, jellyfish, belemnites, etc....
Continue reading "A White Sport Coat and A Pink Cretaceous (Fossil)" » Diabetes Site by Writer Specializing in Diabetes
Rick Mendosa is a writer who specializes in writing about diabetes. From his writing and research he has developed a diabetes directory, which contains over 800 links relevant to diabetes, at http://www.mendosa.com/diabetes.htm. This site is not a traditional searchable subject...
Continue reading "Diabetes Site by Writer Specializing in Diabetes" » December 18, 2001Yahoo Launches Music Property
Yahoo has launched Yahoo! Launch. No, wait, I lied; in fact it's called LAUNCH, Your Yahoo! Music Experience, (hereafter referred to as LYYME) and it's available at http://launch.yahoo.com. Built on Yahoo's acquisition of LAUNCH Media, LYYME offers a lot of...
December 17, 2001Google Offers Selection of Catalogs
Google is offering both a catalog search and a subject index of catalogs at http://catalogs.google.com. (It's in beta.) Catalogs include Dell, LL Bean, PC Connection, Harry & David, Ikea, etc. (You can get an unadorned list at http://catalogs.google.com/catalog_list). Now, this...
December 12, 2001The Larch. The.... Larch. (Wood Resources Index)
WoodCenter.com ( http://www.woodcenter.net/) provides a searchable subject index related to all things wood. The site is clearly oriented towards the business types as categories include processing, sawmills, and pulp/paper. Annotation varies, but sites are clearly marked to be in English...
Continue reading "The Larch. The.... Larch. (Wood Resources Index)" » Pennsylvania Green Project Bank
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has launched a Web site where organizations looking for environmental projects to fund can meet organizations with environmental projects that need funding and vice versa. The site, at http://www.dep.state.pa.us/greenprojectbank/, is called PA Green Project Bank....
Forestry For the Trees
Forestry Index ( http://www.forestryindex.net/) is a searchable subject index of resources related to forestry. Categories include conservation education, tree identification, and urban forestry. Each category groups its well-annotated resources in groups of ten. WARNING: The "Next ten" link is at...
New York Times Launches Tolkien Archives
If you've got Lord of the Ring tickets in your pocketses (gollum, gollum) you may be interested in the latest New York Times archive, The Tolkien Archives: A Guide to the World of J.R.R. Tolkien. The site, at http://www.nytimes.com/tolkien/, will...
Continue reading "New York Times Launches Tolkien Archives" » Internet Movie Database Launches Pro Version
The Internet Movie Database ( http://www.imdb.com) launched a pay version, IMDbPro.com ( http://www.imdbpro.com) last week. This pay version will cost $12.95 monthly with 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month subscription discounts (a year's subscription is $99.95.) Aimed at people in the entertainment...
Continue reading "Internet Movie Database Launches Pro Version" » Google Expands Every Whichaway
Google today announced the expansion of their image search, Web search, and Usenet search. Web Search -- Google's Web search now offers more than 2 billion documents, 25 of which they say are non-English Web pages. When I asked how...
Xrefer Officially Launches Xreferplus Reference Search Engine
xrefer has officially launched their xreferplus reference service for libraries at http://www.xreferplus.com. The search engine cosnists of 100 reference books. Subscription rates start at $1,500, or 1,800 euros, a year. Librarians can sign up for a free trial at http://www.xreferplus.com/trial/signup.jsp...
Continue reading "Xrefer Officially Launches Xreferplus Reference Search Engine" » December 10, 2001Soviet History Getting Digitized
The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story on the digitization of Soviet history at http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1206/p12s2-stin.html. A media company based in Fort Worth has signed a contract with officials at the Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk to...
December 06, 2001Tool Searches Many Google Servers at Once
(Thanks to TVC for the alert about this one.) According to http://fergusons.dk/tools/google.php, Google provides search results from several different servers, www, www1, www2, and www3. A tool available at the above URL apparently queries all four of these servers at...
Continue reading "Tool Searches Many Google Servers at Once" » December 05, 2001Directory of Japan-Related Sites Linked
A directory of Japan-related sites has launched at http://japan.co.jp/top.php. Currently the site contains almost 85,000 links in 15 categories (mostly in English but in some other European and Asian languages as well.) The site is in searchable subject index format,...
Continue reading "Directory of Japan-Related Sites Linked" » UVA Library to Create American Studies E-Community
The University of Virginia Library has received a $300,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to develop an American Studies "information community." The research project will provide an electronic resource for anyone interested in the history, literature and culture background of...
Continue reading "UVA Library to Create American Studies E-Community" » Drug Interaction Database
MedicineNet has a new drug interaction tool on its Website at http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/hp.asp. (That's the main page; the drug interaction page appears as a popup from a link on the page's left side.) The tool provides both drug/food and drug/drug reactions....
Weblogs.com Now Offers "Categories," Including RSS
Dave Winer has updated weblog tracker Weblogs.com. Now Weblog users who "ping" the site have the option of including a category into which their Weblog should be included. There are two categories: Europe (for European Weblogs, natch) and RSS, for...
Continue reading "Weblogs.com Now Offers "Categories," Including RSS" » December 04, 2001NOVA Online Offers Teacher Resources
NOVA Online now has over 500 resources for teachers on its site at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/. The site has a searchable database or viewers can browse the keyword list or the list or program titles. Some of the listed programs have accompanying...
Zoo Subject Index
ZooWeb ( http://www.zooweb.com/) promotes itself as "Your World Wide Link to Zoos & Aquariums" and it does offer a lot of material. Their subject index, the ZooGuide, is partially on the left side of the page. Subjects include top sites,...
Fire, Rescue, and Firefighting Links
Firehouse.com has a searchable subject index of emergency services links at http://www.firehouse.com/links/. This site contains over 9900 links in several categories including EMS, HazMat, and Wildland. Highlights include a live dispatch directory (over 100 links to live and recorded dispatch...
Fat Birder's for Birdwatchers
The fat birders are back, and you know they can never be wack! The fat birders -- sorry. Listened to a lot of rap when I was younger. Anyway, Fat Birder ( http://www.fatbirder.com/index.html) is a subject index of sites of...
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