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« February 2003 | Main | May 2003 » March 19, 2003Vertical Food Portal
No no no, this is not about foods that are taller than they are wide. The vertical food portal is a subject index of sites related to the various food industries. Yahooesque in setup, the categories on the front...
March 18, 2003Books In Print Offers Children's Book Information
Online book information service BooksInPrint.com ( http://www.booksinprint.com/ ) now has a children's section available. Once you've logged in (this is a pay service) pick the Children's Room. There you'll have the opportunity to search in several different ways. You...
Continue reading "Books In Print Offers Children's Book Information" » Ohio Memory
If you go back to Ohio and your city is gone, you may want to take a look at the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, now available at http://www.ohiomemory.org . This site contains nearly 20,000 images from over 2000 collections...
March 17, 2003Some DMOZ (Open Project) Notes
If you're interested in the Open Directory Project, you might be interested in the new Open Directory Weblog at http://dmoz.theblob.org/dmoz/journal.cgi . Various tibalets about the Open Source Directory, the Google Directory, and more. There's a Slashdot-like news and discussion...
Reader Response -- Pay and Free Databases
Wow! I got sixty BILLION responses e-mailed to me about this particular reader request -- that's right, every person on the planet e-mailed me about ten times. Well, maybe it just felt that way. Anyhow. After CL said, "I...
Continue reading "Reader Response -- Pay and Free Databases" » Database of Early American Furniture
Do you like furniture? Sure, we all do! So you'll find very interesting the many offerings from the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, available at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts . Click on the "Chipstone Collection images" link to...
March 13, 2003Bruce Lee Links
Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Bruce Lee! Or is that Sara Lee? I can never remember. Anyway, Someone likes Bruce Lee enough to put up BruceLeeLinks.com ( http://www.bruceleelinks.com/ ). There are several link categories here, presented...
Database of Flavonoid Content From USDA
No no. I am not talking about rap star Flava Flav. I am talking about flavonoids. Flavonoids are compounds in plants that are partially responsible for plant color -- for example, blueberries have lots of flavonoids. So what? Well,...
Continue reading "Database of Flavonoid Content From USDA" » March 12, 2003Windows Tips with Brian's Buzz
Need windows help, help? Check out Brian's Buzz, a search engine at http://www.briansbuzz.com/ . Via keyword search you'll find a variety of windows tips. Check out the advanced search -- there's a link from the front page. It's not...
Library of Russia Offers Views of Saint Pitersburg
The Library of Russia has digitized about 900 images of Saint Pitersburg (spelling it like they spell it on their site), grouped into two main categories: 1900-1917 and 1918-1940. They're available at http://www.nlr.ru:8101/eng/line/spbpcards/index.html . Now, this is set up...
Continue reading "Library of Russia Offers Views of Saint Pitersburg" » March 11, 2003New Newsreel Database
Can't get enough of newsreels and cinemagazine stories published in the UK between 1910 and 1979? Of course you can't. That's why you need the British Universities Newsreel Database at http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels . This site contains 160,000 records of British...
Searching for Just Google Ads
Mark Pilgram from Dive Into Mark has figured out ( http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/27/in_brief_27_feb_2003.html ) how to search just Google's ads for keywords. Handy when you're trying to figure out what's being advertised on what keyword. The Google Weblog has an interface...
Reader Response -- Men's Fashions from the 1970s
Sixty thousand years ago, ResearchBuzz had a reader request for sites on men's fashions from the 70s. On the first go-round there were only a few responses, but on the 2nd response there were a few more. Reader JJ...
Continue reading "Reader Response -- Men's Fashions from the 1970s" » March 10, 2003Google News: Source Syntax
Google News has a special syntax that it doesn't share with the Google Web search. It's called source: and it works like this: source:[name of source] So if you search for cricket source:bbc , the information you receive back...
Election Sites from the LOC
The Library of Congress has created the Election 2002 Web Archive, a collection of almost 4,000 sites archived between July 1, 2002 and November 30, 2002. It's available at http://www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/elec2002/ . This site is extremely browsable. Once you've entered,...
Catalog of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence
Good morning, Library of Scotland! What do you have for us today? Why, it's the Millgate Union Catalogue of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence, a database cataloging the locations of the nearly 14,000 letters written to or from Sir Walter...
Continue reading "Catalog of Sir Walter Scott Correspondence" » March 06, 2003Daypop And Word-Bursty Goodness
Dan Chan of Daypop has added a couple of new features to the news and weblog search engine. Top Word Bursts, at http://www.daypop.com/burst/ , shows that words Daypop-indexed sites are using more frequently. The list provides the word and...
March 05, 2003Etymology Dictionary
One of the interesting things I learned at http://www.etymonline.com/ is that when the word "access" first turned up in the 1300s it meant "an attack of fever." Seven centuries later it is hard to talk about the Internet without...
March 04, 2003Database of Corn Products
Sometimes I sit around and just wonder about all the different things that are made from corn. But I don't have to do that anymore as this database of corn products, at http://lepton.marz.com/ncga/comm_dev_center/index_PG.asp , lists over 600 products made...
AlltheWeb Changes Look, Updates Offerings
AlltheWeb ( http://www.alltheweb.com ) has "retired" its skin contest winners and is offering some new skins. I'm annoyed. I *liked* that medieval skin. But no matter. There are several other skins that you can use with the search engine,...
Continue reading "AlltheWeb Changes Look, Updates Offerings" » March 03, 2003State Tax Central Directory of Links
You know, it's never too early to think about taxes. (PFEH.) And with that in mind, I point you toward the searchable subject index State Tax Central, at http://www.statetaxcentral.com/ . Categories here include Corporate Income Tax, Sales and Use...
Moog Archives
Scholars of 20th century music history will enjoy MOOG memorabilia online at http://www.moogarchives.com/ . The index in the left column links to the Moog History, which tracks design and production of Moog electronic music instrumentation from 1953 until the...
March 01, 2003Early Maps of Japan
There are now over 200 images of early maps of Japan from UC's East Asian Library Japanese Historical Map Collection at http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/ . Eventually the entire collection will be scanned and put online. There are three ways you can...
The Wisconsin Name Index
If you're researching into Wisconsin genealogy or history, you'll appreciate the Wisconsin Name Index at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wni/ . This site lets you search through over 100,000 obituaries, personal sketches, and biographies of Wisconsin people. The front page allows you to...
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