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« September 2002 | Main | November 2002 » October 31, 2002Pricegrabbin' for Candidates Before Election Day
Pricegrabber.com, which is better known for retail shopping comparisons, is now offering comparisons of candidates in advance of election day. Visit http://www.priceg rabber.com/election_attrib.php and you'll see what I mean. You'll get a list of the first group of candidates with...
Continue reading "Pricegrabbin' for Candidates Before Election Day" » Sky And Telescope Astronomy Information
Sky & Telescope ( http://skyandteles cope.com/resources/internet/ ) is a portal to online astronomical information. The News section links to top stories and also to a news archive. The section on Observing provides a look at the sky this week and...
Continue reading "Sky And Telescope Astronomy Information" » October 29, 2002The Waldren Studios Feature Nova Scotia Photographs
The Waldren Studios, at http://www.library.da l.ca/archives/waldren/ , feature photographs taken in Nova Scotia between 1870 and 1940. The collection consists of about 35,000 images on glass plate and film negatives. Search by title, subject, description, location or keyword. Note that...
Continue reading "The Waldren Studios Feature Nova Scotia Photographs" » Star Wars Collectors Unite
... And head over to http://www.toysrgus.com/ , where you will find insane numbers of data collections based on Star Wars toys. (If you liked the ray guns site you'll really dig this.) There are about eight million sections to this...
October 28, 2002Dumb Warnings
It's Monday and I suspect you might need a laugh, especially if your favorite American football team is causing you much anguish. Anyway, Dumb Warnings ( http://www.dumbwarnings.com/ ) is an index of -- you guessed it -- dumb warnings. Dumb...
NY Times Redesigns Travel Section, Opens Archives
The New York Times announced last week that it's redesigned their travel section and made access to New York Times travel archives back to 1996 available for free. If you've ever browsed the New York Times you won't be surprised...
Continue reading "NY Times Redesigns Travel Section, Opens Archives" » October 25, 2002Photographs From Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Public Library has a collection of 10,000 Minneapolis and Twin Cities-related photographs available at http://www.mplib.org/dbt w-wpd/phosrc.htm . The photographs date from the 1850s to 1960. You can search this database by keywords, years/decades, or accession number. A search...
Google Cooking Actually Works Now
Sorry about the problems that Google Cooking was having today -- it's at http://www.buzz toolbox.com/google/goocookin.shtml if you missed Wednesday's writeup. My Web host was having server issues that have apparently been resolved. Happy cooking!...
Software for Non-Profits and Schools
The site is apparently all in black and white. So when I first visited I thought "Ah, Web noir." Then I saw the dog in the little hat and I changed my mind. Npsoft.org ( http://www.npsoft.org/ ) is a directory...
October 24, 2002FamilySearch Offers 1880 US Census, 1881 British and Canadian
Oh my. If you never see me again it's because I'm busy browsing through the new 1880 US Census, made available by volunteers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at http:/www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_se arch.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp (TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/25pq ). The search...
Continue reading "FamilySearch Offers 1880 US Census, 1881 British and Canadian" » October 23, 2002Cooking With Google
Last summer, Judy Hourihan came up with the idea of Google cooking ( http://judy.hour ihan.com/2002_09_01_archive.html ) -- entering a couple of ingredients into Google and seeing what recipes you got back. The only problem with doing this is that you...
Cuban Missile Crisis Documents From the Washington Post
The Washington Post has announced a special seven-day opportunity to view newspaper articles written between October 22 and October 29, 1962 -- the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. You can get to the newspaper sections at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/digitalarchive/index.html . Every...
Continue reading "Cuban Missile Crisis Documents From the Washington Post" » October 22, 2002Amazing Childhood Nostalgia Page
It amazes me how much space popular culture gets on the Web, and it amazes me how the material can trigger a rush of nostalgia. I got nostalgic looking at ray guns from the 1930s, and I wasn't even around...
Museum of Online Museums
Why haven't I heard about this site before?! How lame I am. The Museum of Online Museums -- http://www.coudal.com/moom.php -- is a collection of links to online exhibits, though not the stodgy exhibits you might see in some online exhibits....
Net-Happenings Goes Bye-Bye
Gleason Sackmann has announced that Net-Happenings list, hosted by Classroom Connect., is shutting down. Gleason says, "Since I am no longer employed by Classroom Connect, I am shutting down this list... I have enjoyed the years that the list has...
October 21, 2002Pencil Pages For the Pencil Fan In You
Did you think pencils were just plain bits of wood and graphite without much inherent interest at all? HA! And again I say HA! (I shouldn't write these things so early in the morning.) Pencil Pages ( http://www.pencilpages.com/ ) has...
Cooking With Recipe Sketches
If you're like me and I know I am, you don't have the patience to go through recipes. You might want to take a quick idea and come up with your own creation. Check out A MUSE for Cooks at...
State of Missouri Adds Navy to WWI Database
Back at the beginning of June I covered the state of Missouri's online database of WWI service records. At the time it covered Army and Marine personnel. Now over 18,000 United States Navy cards have been added to the database....
Continue reading "State of Missouri Adds Navy to WWI Database" » October 18, 2002Australian Dance Collection
Australian Dance Collection, at http://www.nla.gov.au/ausdance/ , is a directory of Australian dance resources in various research collections in Australia. The Directory includes lists of artistic directors, choreographers and dancers along with dance companies, dance festivals and dance productions. Each of...
October 17, 2002Archive Planned for Walt Whitman Manuscripts
Two University of Nebraska faculty members have received a $245,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two year project that will create a virtual archive of Walt Whitman manuscripts. The project will be an effort...
Continue reading "Archive Planned for Walt Whitman Manuscripts" » California Nursing Home Search
There are over 1400 nursing homes in the state of California, and now you can search for information about them. The California HealthCare Foundation site, at http://www.calnhs.org/ . From the front page you can either choose a city (from Alameda...
October 16, 2002Search for Career Sites In Your Area
I had no idea what One-Stop Career Centers were, but then I visited http://www.careeronestop.org and became enlightened. There are several types of searches you can do here -- for employment, education information, and so on -- but the things I...
Finding Baseball Literature Citations With The Baseball Index
Looking for baseball literature citations? Look no further than http://www.baseballindex.org/ . This site, an ongoing project of the Bibliography Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research, allows you to search for references to baseball people, or topics, or do...
Continue reading "Finding Baseball Literature Citations With The Baseball Index" » Sites for Racing Teams and Drivers
If you enjoy racing, there's plenty of information to be found at http://www.racinghome.net/so mgb.html . Here you'll find sites of drivers and teams for several different types of car racing: NASCAR, Formula Nippon, Rally, CART, etc. Sites are listed with...
October 15, 2002LOC Adds Three New Exhibits
The Library of Congress has added three new exhibits to their American Memory online collection. The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 is available at http://memory.loc.go v/ammem/award99/icuhtml/ . There are about 15,000 pages here covering the travels of...
October 14, 2002Haunted Shrubbery for Halloween
I know you know about haunted houses. But did you know about haunted yards? Yardhaunts ( http://www.yardhaunts.com/ ) is a roundup of non-commercial decorated yards across the US and Canada. Pick a state (or Canada) from the front page and...
The New York Public Library Picture Collection
The New York Public Library has a way cool picture collection available at http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/ . This site contains 30,000 digitized, public-domain images from books, magazines, postcards, etc. There's a quick search on the front page. An advanced search allows you...
Continue reading "The New York Public Library Picture Collection" » October 09, 2002Toy Ray Guns a Go Go
Certain commercials I see make me desperately wish for a real ray gun with which I might disintegrate the TV. Alas, I shall have to settle for browsing the extensive galleries of toy ray guns at http://www.toyraygun.com /introindex.html . Who...
Yahoo Announces Earnings Today
Yahoo is announcing earnings after the close of business today, and I'm just slopping over with questions about some changes I've seen in Yahoo lately. Is the question of whether Google will provide Web site results finally be resolved? What's...
October 08, 2002The Juggling Database
The Juggling Database, at http://www.jugglingdb.com/ , contains tons of information on the art and sport of juggling. Possibly the most unusual part of this site is the video database. Over 550 videos related to juggling are here, most of them...
October 07, 2002Get Your Pumpkins Now
A few weeks before Halloween, and several weeks before pumpkin pie time, check out this database of pumpkin patches at http://www.localharvest. org/pumpkins.jsp . Search on this site is simple; you can search by either state or zip code. Once you...
Burke's Peerage & Gentry Books now Online
The Burke's Peerage & Gentry series of books have been digitized and is now available online as a paid database of over 5,000 records. The main site is at http://www.burkes-peerage.net/ . Access to the records is $25 for 24 hours...
Continue reading "Burke's Peerage & Gentry Books now Online" » October 02, 2002Digital Bridges
Lehigh University has launched Digital Bridges at http://bridges.lib.lehig h.edu/index.html . Digital Bridges is a collection of thirty representative 19th century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals, and documents from the Lehigh University Libraries' Special Collections. You can either browse or search...
Google Poetry And BuzzToolbox.com
Continuing with the fun Google applications is GooPoetry at http://www.buzz toolbox.com/google/goopoetry.shtml . GooPoetry lets you enter a query (any query you'd use with regular Google, with the exception of the phonebook: and stock: searches), and choose a "flavor" (hippie, Shakespeare,...
October 01, 2002AltaVista and URL Inclusion
Last Friday, Andrew Goodman of Traffick published a very disturbing item on his Weblog at http://www.traffick.com/ blog/default.asp . (It's the Friday,September 27 item; unfortunately there is no permanent link.) He was contacted by a person selling AltaVista's URL inclusion services....
What Is NewsSeer?
I hadn't seen this site before. There wasn't much information available about it on the site, but it looks interesting for news junkies. It's called NewsSeer, and it's available at http://newsseer.com/ . It's not fancy. Basically it's a list of...
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