ResearchBuzz:
Last Five Entries: |
« December 2001 | Main | March 2002 » January 31, 2002Google Launches Canadian Search Engine
Google has launched http://www.google.ca, a version of Google aimed at Canadian content. The site looks much like the regular Google, but has options to search for Canadian Web pages only, and has a French version available at http://www.google.ca/intl/fr/....
Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots of Soccer
MEGASOCCER.com (http://megasoccer.com/) has tons of soccer stuff -- soccer information on 45 countries, over 80 leagues, and over 1000 teams. The site is divided into five sections. There's a soccer search engine that searches soccer pages across the Web. Searching...
Continue reading "Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots of Soccer" » Cold North Wind Blowing About Huge Newspaper Archive
Cold North Wind and the National Newspaper Association have agreed to create America's Chronicles, which will be an online search engine the accesses the digital archives of America's community newspapers. They'll start with the 3600 NNA member newspapers. Cold North...
Continue reading "Cold North Wind Blowing About Huge Newspaper Archive" » Even More Canadian Railway Information
(Why? I dunno. I'm on a kick or something.) There's a collection of Canadian railway information at http://www.trainweb.org/cana dianrailways/. The site is divided into several parts: Articles, Sections, Departments, and Information. The articles section is about what you'd expect --...
Myths, Legends, and Folklore in Encyclopedia
Myths, legends, and folklore information are available in the Encyclopedia Mythica at http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.h tml. This resource, which is over six years old, has over 5700 articles about people, objects, and animals that are featured in folklore and myth. The site...
Continue reading "Myths, Legends, and Folklore in Encyclopedia" » Search Engine Compares Terms
This is cute -- a little Web tool that one can use to compare the popularity of two terms in a search engine AND compare the occurrence of another keyword in pages containing the compared words. Not clear? It might...
AmphetaDesk v0.90 Available
AmphetaDesk .90, an RSS file reader and navigator, has been released. Tweaks to the program include new channel listings appearing in different colors, the option to make links open in a new browser window, a slightly tweaked and prettier GUI,...
Fishing Search Engine
The hoo engine of the day is FishHoo! at http://www.fishhoo.com/. This searchable subject index contains almost 3500 links on the subject of fishing, from Bait Shops to Women and Fishing. Sites have ratings and variable annotations -- if you like...
Yahoo Teams up With Consumer Reports
Yahoo announced this morning that they're teaming up with Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and ConsumerReports.org. Yahoo has integrated free buying guides and pay-per-view product ratings from Consumer Reports into Yahoo Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com/). You can browse the guides...
Swim Swim Swim -- Or Learn How to Swim
Summer's here, and you know what that means! (Hurricane season?) Yes, but something else. (Air so humid you have to chew it?) Yes, but something else... SWIMMING! And if you don't know how to swim maybe it's time to learn....
Choo-Choo, Eh?
(Wow, that was a painful headline. In my defense, I must note that it is Monday.) You like trains? You like Canada? Check out Rails Canada at http://www.railscanada.com/. This site is a searchable subject index of Canadian-railroad related sites, with...
Plans Underway for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
There was a cool story in wired recently... as far back as 1996, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recognized a need to develop a facility in which plant and animal collections from around the world would be available...
Continue reading "Plans Underway for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility" » All Volkswagen, All the Time
Love your VW? Check out http://www.allvw.com/, a searchable subject index of over 1200 sites related to all things VW. Categories include Clubs and Registries, Reference, and VW life and culture. There are lots of subcategories available. Annotation is variable --...
Opera Launches New Browser and Composer
Opera has released version 5.12 of its Opera Browser at http://www.opera.com/download/ . This new version includes several bug fixes and an "enhanced popup-window killer feature," though all I could find related to that was a setting that prohibits documents from...
Continue reading "Opera Launches New Browser and Composer" » Electronic Music Directory
The little I know about techno and electronic music I got from a hopeless addiction to Dance Dance Revolution, but if you're hipper than me you might get some use out of undergroundhouse.net (http://www.undergroundhouse.net/) . This site describes itself as...
All Alchemy, All the Time
Want to learn about alchemy? Don't miss http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html. This site provides loads of material on alchemy in several sections, including images, texts, and an art gallery. I'm going to hit the highlights because if I tried to get to...
Historical Salem Oregon Photograph Collections
If you are interested in the history of Oregon, explore the Salem Public Library's database of historic photographs at http://photos.salemhistory.org/ . Five collections, totaling thousands of photos, showcase Western Oregon and the City of Salem, while dating as far back...
Continue reading "Historical Salem Oregon Photograph Collections" » University of North Texas Creates Historical Law Resource
The University of North Texas has digitized Gammel's Laws of Texas, Volumes 1-10, and made them freely available at http://texinfo.library.unt .edu/lawsoftexas/. The Laws were published at the end of the 19th century and encompass a wide variety of laws, including...
Continue reading "University of North Texas Creates Historical Law Resource" » Search Engine For Cigars
It's just like what it sounds like -- a search engine for cigars at http://www.cigarsearch.com/ . The site indexes several thousand cigar-related sites and provides a plain query box. A search for "humidity" (I first searched for humidor but got...
Adobe Releases Acrobat Reader for Palm OS
Adobe announced yesterday the availability of Acrobat Reader for the Palm OS. It's available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html . At the moment it's available for Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows ME, and Windows 2000. Users must have Palm Desktop 3.0.1 or better,...
Continue reading "Adobe Releases Acrobat Reader for Palm OS" » Toss a Tomato, Sling a Posy
I don't even know why I'm reviewing this site -- the last movie I saw in the theater was Twin Dragons. But I do read the occasional movie review. If they're your kind of thing you'll get plenty of content...
International Affairs Resources
If you're looking for information on international affairs, http://www.etown.edu/vl/ will do the trick. This site, which is part of the WWW Virtual Library, contains over 2000 links pertaining to international affairs. Check out the front page for a bevy of...
Find That Radio Station
If you're looking for radio stations, http://www.radio-locator.com/ is a nifty tool, and unlike most media- finding tools online, isn't restricted to just online or offline sources. The front page of the site is actually several, several, several query boxes in...
Genealogy.com Makes 1900 Census Subscription Available
Genealogy.com announced Tuesday that they had completed digitizing the 1900 United States census. It's now available via subscription at http://familytreem aker.genealogy.com/ 1900census.html. Currently the subscription cost is $19.99 a month or $99.99 a year....
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Makes 1900 Census Subscription Available" » Everything You Wanted to Know About Hardwoods, But...
Oak, Ash, and ... Sassafras. Okay, it's not Kipling. But it is tons of information on 21 different species of hardwood at http://www.hardwood.org/. From the drop-down box at the top of the page choose a type of hardwood. You'll get...
Continue reading "Everything You Wanted to Know About Hardwoods, But..." » Google Directory Out of Beta?
The Google Directory was officially launched yesterday and is apparently out of beta -- at least the beta graphic is gone from http://directory.google.com/ .. As I said a few days ago, this directory is based on the dmoz.org searchable subject...
100 Years of Vintage Port
Do different years make so much difference to wine? Apparently so; the Vintage Port Site (http://www.thevintageportsite.com/) has a database of different years of Vintage Port production and their quality. Pick a year (from 1900 to 1998; some early years are...
Learning the Difficult Words
"So sit bolt upright in that straight-backed chair, button that top button, and get set..." Whoops, sorry, that's difficult MUSIC. The resource at http://w ww.lineone.net/dictionaryof/difficultwords/index.html is for difficult WORDS. It's searchable, but also browsable, if you want to get a...
New Zealand to Start Online Encyclopedia Next Year
The New Zealand Herald is reporting that New Zealand's Prime Minister and Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage announced that work will start on an online encyclopedia next year. They expect the encyclopedia to enhance the nation's identity and...
Continue reading "New Zealand to Start Online Encyclopedia Next Year" » Google Adds New Languages, Spanish Translation Tech
Google's added several new languages to their search engine interface as a result of their "Google in Your Language" program. You can access the new language settings at http://www.google.com/preferences. The new languages include Bengali, Hacker, Malay, Malayalam, Indonesian, Welsh, Latin,...
Continue reading "Google Adds New Languages, Spanish Translation Tech" » Merriam-Webster Adds Audio Pronunciations to Its Site
Merriam-Webster (http://www.Merriam-Webster.com) has added an audio feature to its online dictionary, offering audio pronunciations of about 105,000 words. Now, after you do a search, you'll see that some defined words have a small red icon beside them. (Sometimes more than...
Continue reading "Merriam-Webster Adds Audio Pronunciations to Its Site" » Search for Elvis, A-uh-huh
Of course there's an Elvis search engine. Did you doubt it for a second? The searchable subject index for all things Elvis is at ElvisFind ( http://www.elvisfind.com/main.asp). The site currently lists over 200 Presley-related sites, divided into categories that include...
Get the Rules for All Kinds of Stuff
Alas, I didn't find the rules for Cripple Mr. Onion (you can get those at http://jump.to/cmo) but you can get a variety of other rules at RulesCentral http://www.rulescentral.com/. The site is divided into several categories, from sports to board games....
Maximum Minerals
Mineralogy Database at http://webmineral.com/ contains information on over 4,205 mineral species and a variety of other things too. You can get to the mineral listing at http://webmineral.com/Alphabetical_Listing.shtml . You can browse by letter of the alphabet. You'll get a list...
Sea Turtles All The Way Down
Behold the humble sea turtle. Well, not that humble; he's got his own domain name and link list. You GO, sea turtle! Anyway, http://www.seaturtle.org/links/ contains almost 600 links related to the sea turtle, with categories including action items, cartoons, farming,...
No, Google Isn't Planning an IPO
There have been some stories floating around that Google was planning an IPO. I asked 'em. Representative Cindy McCaffrey said "We have no current plans for an IPO," which pretty much says it all....
January 02, 2002Reader Request/Reader Response: Time/Weather Resources
Wow! Who would have expected such a huge outpouring of responses to last Wednesday's question about finding the time and weather. Most of the responses I got centered on finding the time. Far fewer focused on the weather. I can't...
Continue reading "Reader Request/Reader Response: Time/Weather Resources" » 1901 Census for England and Wales Published Online
Hey hey! The 1901 Census for England and Wales is now available at http://www.census.pro.gov.uk. Unfortunately due to heavy demand the site is only intermittently available, but I was able to get through after a couple of tries. You're able to...
Continue reading "1901 Census for England and Wales Published Online" » Find Movie Reviews At Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/) is a search engine for movie reviews. There are about a gabillion reviews here for about a gabillion movies, and its navigation makes it easy to use. Start with the front page. You'll find capsule information...
Castell Pridd Museum Of Power
The online site of the Castell Pridd Museum Of Power, at http://www.semidiesel.com/, has several online databases of interest to those who like engines. You can access the databases by choosing the "Databases" link from the left navigation. There's the list...
|
|
||
