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I was working with AltaVista last night, and I noticed that they're now showing ads on the right side of the page. As far as I can tell from the URLs, these are Overture ads, just like the ones that...
What's in a Name?
The next time you are asked what's in a name, just refer the asker to this site at http://www.behindthename.com/ . It includes English, Spanish, African, Italian names and more. There are also Mythology and Biblical names. Browse the alphabetical index...
June 26, 2002Digital Archive for Auto Industry Planned
The University of Michigan-Dearborn has gotten a $220,00 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a Web site and online archive that studies the impact of the auto industry (and the auto itself) on American culture. The...
Continue reading "Digital Archive for Auto Industry Planned" » Dotcom Business Plans Gathered in Archives
An attempt to gather business plans from dotcoms is taking shape at http://www.businessplanarchive.org/ . A collaborative effort of Webmergers.com and the Robert H Smith School of Business (University of Maryland), the site aims to collect business plans and other items...
Continue reading "Dotcom Business Plans Gathered in Archives" » June 25, 2002Cool Advanced Options from AlltheWeb
I must confess I really don't like the "Google Killer" articles that have been popping up lately about Teoma and now AlltheWeb. I didn't think that the idea was to "kill" Google -- I thought the idea was to make...
Dogfriendly.com Expands Listings
Dogfriendly.com ( http://www.dogfriendly.com/ ) announced yesterday that they've expanded their listings of dog-friendly places in the US and Canada. Listings include California, Boston, the Smoky Mountains (NC and TN), and Florida. Information includes name and address of the dog-friendly site,...
Make A Shorter URL -- And More!
First I found makeashorterlink.com , which was nice but had a huge domain name. Then I found http://tinyurl.com/ , which makes really tiny urls. Now I've learned about Shorl.com ( http://shorl.com/ ). Shorl.com is ALSO an url-shortening service. But the...
June 24, 2002Natural Language Tool On Lycos Finance
Terra Lycos has teamed up with iPhrase to create a natural language query tool for Lycos Finance at http://finance.lycos.com/home/iphrase/overview.asp . This search tool allows you to ask questions about stocks instead of trying to figure out the proper search. I...
New Version of The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 43 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. This source includes information on over 1,600 articles, books, and other sources that deal with scholarly electronic publishing efforts online. It's available in HTML and Adobe Acrobat versions: HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf...
Continue reading "New Version of The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" » Pubs With Free Archives On The -- NOT
Last week I did a newsbit called "Pubs with Free Archives On the Web." (At http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/2002/jun13jun1902.shtml#pubswith ). I was alerted last week that the page I linked to was actually a private page (for subscribers only) that was made publicly...
June 22, 2002Tolkien-Inspired Artwork: The Gallery
How much do you like Tolkien? A lot? So do lots of other people. In fact, there's a gallery completely devoted to Tolkien-inspired artwork at http://www.nightrunner.com/gallery/html/ . There are several ways to view the materials on this site. The top...
Florida Memory Offers Spanish Land Grants
The Florida Memory Project has begun putting online their collection of confirmed Spanish land grants at http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/SpanishLandGrants/ . This is nowhere near complete -- only letters A and B are browsable. (The front page of the site says that Acosta,...
Continue reading "Florida Memory Offers Spanish Land Grants" » June 18, 2002Nanotech Right This Second
Well, no, actually it's Nanotechnology Now ( http://nanotech-now.com/ ). And it's a portal leading to interesting things nanotech. The front page has four columns. The first column leads to the meat of the site; I'll get back to that one...
June 17, 2002Jeeves Gets a New Look
News.com is reporting ( http://news.com.com/2100-1023-936065.html ) that AskJeeves has a new look -- and they do; check it out at http://www.ask.com/ . The page is much cleaner now, with the focus on the query box and three tabs: Web Results,...
AmphetaDesk Releases Version 0.93
AmphetaDesk has released version 0.93; it's available at http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/ . Besides the groovy little pill icon, there's plenty new in this release. It goes a bit faster, the Moreover title bug has been fixed, and removing a feed takes place...
Mozilla Resources
One gallant reader sent me a ton of Mozilla-related links and resources. Check these out if you're into Mozilla and want to soup it up a bit. If you don't mind getting "under the hood" check out http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html for changing...
June 14, 2002TV Acres Is The Place to Be...
... weeeebbbbb surfin' is the life for me! TV trivia fans will like http://www.tvacres.com/ , a huge collection of TV show facts. There are a couple of ways to view this site. You can search it, which uses a Webglimpse...
Photographs Of Sicily
A collection of 592 photographs of Sicily, taken by Nigel Pollard, is available at http://tinyurl.com/dmk . This is another Perseus collection, like the jewel collection I mentioned last week. The URL mentioned above takes you to a browsable directory of...
Historic Maps at the Alamo Library
A collection of 18 maps from the estate of Robert Tobin will be converted to digital images and made available on an Internet site for the Alamo's library. The announcement is available at http://tinyurl.com/dnk . Several of the maps mentioned...
June 13, 2002007 Database
I know very little about James Bond, so I can't come up with a good pun. Instead I'll just say check out the James Bond database at http://www.007database.com/ . The front page has news about a James Bond movie in...
June 12, 2002Yahoo Launches Beta Version of Homepage
There's been talk on various news outlets about a new beta version of the Yahoo home page, and now you can see it at http://www.yahoo.com/beta.html . While I liked some of it, I think it's also got some major problems....
Continue reading "Yahoo Launches Beta Version of Homepage" » June 11, 2002Disciplined Doctor Database on Internet
The group Public Citizen has published a portion of its database of physicians who have been disciplined by state medical boards or who have been convicted of crimes. Currently only California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire,...
Continue reading "Disciplined Doctor Database on Internet" » NPR Creates Middle East Resource
National Public Radio has created a special section of their site devoted to the Middle East. The site's at . The site is currently evolving, but offers transcript and audio dating back to May 6, 2002. Transcripts include a thorough...
June 10, 2002Free Library of Philadelphia Celebrates 75th Anniversary
The Free Library of Philadelphia is celebratin' their 75th anniversary. They've started a new digital collection devoted to the building of the Free Library. You can get to it at http://libwww.library.phila.gov/75th/ . There are several components to this online exhibit....
Continue reading "Free Library of Philadelphia Celebrates 75th Anniversary" » Meeting Industry Has New Online Resource
NicheDirectories LLC has launched VenueResource.com ( http://venueresource.com/ ), a directory of venues for meetings, conferences, reunions, etc. From the front page you can either search by location or criteria. Criteria is a series of pull-down menus and includes country, area...
Continue reading "Meeting Industry Has New Online Resource" » June 06, 2002Scots Dictionary to Go Online
The BBC is reporting ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_2022000/2022999.stm ) that a dictionary of what they call "Vernacular Scottish" is going online, with the expectation that it'll be complete by 2004. Researchers putting it together are going through 100,000 words, some over 800...
Mozilla 1.0 Released
Mozilla 1.0 is out, for which O Be Joyful! Frankly I can't see much difference between it and Mozilla 1.0 RC2 (I skipped RC3.) You can download it in several different OS flavors at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ . I've been using it...
Movie Title Screens -- The Database
Oh, I love the Internet. Check out http://www.shillpages.com/movies/ ; it's a collection of over 1700 title screens for movies and videos. Unfortunately I do not see a search engine here; you have to browse the collection of screens alphabetically. Click...
June 05, 2002United Nations Launches Online Ocean Atlas
The United Nations has launched an online atlas of the oceans at http://www.oceansatlas.org/index.jsp . There are headlines on the front page and several ways to navigate the atlas. By clicking on "Uses" under "Navigate the Atlas" you'll get links to...
Continue reading "United Nations Launches Online Ocean Atlas" » June 04, 2002Beach Volleyball Database
Feeling left out by all the World Cup hoopla because you're not into soccer? Fear not and check out the Beach Volleyball Database at http://www.bvbinfo.com/ , your source for all things beach volleyball (men's and women's.) The front page provides...
New Online Gem Catalog from Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Perseus Digital Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have teamed up to present an online catalog of 140 ancient gems. The majority of the gems in the catalog are from Greece between 560 and 100 B.C. You...
Continue reading "New Online Gem Catalog from Boston Museum of Fine Arts" » June 03, 2002RSS Feeds -- Finding Them Automatically
It's always weird to watch exploding memes (or maybe they're memes which have hit their tipping point.) Anyway, I'm going to start hollering about RSS again. If you're sick of it you can skip to the next item or check...
Continue reading "RSS Feeds -- Finding Them Automatically" » RSS Feeds -- Finding Them Automatically
It's always weird to watch exploding memes (or maybe they're memes which have hit their tipping point.) Anyway, I'm going to start hollering about RSS again. If you're sick of it you can skip to the next item or check...
Continue reading "RSS Feeds -- Finding Them Automatically" » Google Announces Contest Winners
Google has announced the winners of the 2002 Google Programming Contest. The winner is Daniel Egnor of New York. He used geographic data to convert street addresses on Web pages to latitude-longitude coordinates, then enabled users to search for Web...
Missouri Puts WWI Service Record Database Online
The State of Missouri has put a database of WWI Service Records online at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/ww1/default.asp . This database contains over 145,000 cards of Army and Marine personnel from Missouri between 1917 and 1919. (There are plans to add the records...
Continue reading "Missouri Puts WWI Service Record Database Online" » Missouri Puts WWI Service Record Database Online
The State of Missouri has put a database of WWI Service Records online at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/ww1/default.asp . This database contains over 145,000 cards of Army and Marine personnel from Missouri between 1917 and 1919. (There are plans to add the records...
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