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The University of Glasgow has a site dedicated to James McNeill Whistler. To commemorate the centenary of his death, the site has posted over 1700 letters of his correspondence. They're accessible from the front page of the Whistler site at...
Marinas Around the World
If you're looking for a place to park your boat, you might want to check out http://www.marinas.com/. This site provides information on a bevy of places to find marinas around the world. From the front page you can do a...
June 26, 2003HotBot Jumps on the Toolbar Bandwagon
HotBot announced on June 24 that they're offering their own toolbar, a "HotBot Quick-Search Deskbar" that's based on the open source "Dave's Deskbar." It's available for download at http://www.hotbot.com/tools/. The biggest thing about this deskbar is that while it looks...
Finding Postmasters both Past and Present
If you're looking for historical information on postmasters and post offices, you find find it -- surprisingly enough --the US Postal Service Site. The Postmaster Finder, at http://www.usps.com/postmasterfinder/, offers ways to search for both postmasters and post offices. This page...
Continue reading "Finding Postmasters both Past and Present" » New Search Engine for South Africa
A new search engine for South Africa is expected to launch by early July. It's called Susy Search ( http://www.susysearch.com ).According to a news article at http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,1009,60964,00.html , it's got about 35,000 sites indexed now and will launch once it...
June 25, 2003Over One Hundred Amazon RSS Feeds
Those wacky folks at Lockergnome has been messing around with Amazon RSS feeds, creating over 160 of them. You can get them at http://www.lockergnome.com/amazon/. The feeds are sorted by category, and include baby gear, books (of course), DVD, music, and...
Google Launches Beta 2.0 Toolbar
Google's toolbar is going to beta 2.0, as you can see from the beta-index of their toolbar site at http://toolbar.google.com/index-beta.php. If you're using at least Windows and Internet Explorer 5.0 (or, in one feature's case, IE 5.5) you can try...
June 24, 2003Steamboats, Links and Photos
If you're into steamboats, you'll like the photo gallery and link list at http://www.steamboats.com/. There's also some stuff not directly linked to steamboats, like -- tree topping? Start your visit at in the photo gallery. You'll get a list of...
Old Missouri Court Cases Go Online
Over 7,000 Missouri court cases spanning from 1783 to 1871 are now available as the Missouri Supreme Court Historical Database. The database is at http://www.sos.state.mo.us/archives/judiciary/supremecourt/. There are a couple different ways you can search this site. The first way is...
June 23, 2003Car Clubs Around the World
Have a hip and groovy car? Join a club. Carclubs.com (http://www.carclubs.com/carclubs.htm) lists car clubs all over the world. From the front page you can browse car clubs by car model, or by geographic location. New categories are marked with an...
San Francisco Public Library Picture Collection
The San Francisco Public Library has a collection of digitized photos of San Francisco at http://sfpl4.sfpl.org/librarylocations/sfhistory/browse.htm. The entire collection is about 250,000 photographs, and the digital collection here has "only" 30,000 photographs, but that's plenty to keep you occupied. There's...
Continue reading "San Francisco Public Library Picture Collection" » June 20, 2003New Search for Oscar Winners
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revamped their database of Oscar winners, which is now available at http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/. Choose Search on the left and you'll get a search page where you can search for titles, nominee names,...
June 18, 2003Google Goofin' -- Searching for "The"
It used to be a mantra. The sky is blue, the grass is green, and you can't search for "the" on Google because it's a stopword. Well, Google's goofin' on me because now you can search for "the." I don't...
Golf Schools & Camps
Do you have the heart of a goof? Looking for something to do this summer? There are more than 1500 Golf school and camp resources located at http://golf.shawguides.com/. and nearly as many different ways to search for a resource. There...
June 17, 2003Yacht-Links Directory
"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht." Should you find yourself in such a Fuddesque state of property you'll appreciate Yacht-Links at http://www.yacht-links.net/. Its categories include Harbours, Navigation & Safety, Holidays and Shopping. Subcategories...
Playbills of the Theatre Royal Edinburgh
The National Library of Scotland is at it again! This time they've put together over 240 playbills from the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh between 1800-1850. This new collection is available at http://www.nls.uk/playbills/. From the main page you have the option...
Continue reading "Playbills of the Theatre Royal Edinburgh" » June 16, 2003A Race Track Locator
I admit, there have not been many days where I have looked around and said to myself, "Dagnabit, where's a race track when I really need one?" But I'm cognizant of the fact that many people lead much more interesting...
AltaVista and Case-Sensitivity
One of the differences between Altavista ( http://www.av.com) and Google is that AV's case-sensitive, which makes it more useful for some searches. I discovered last week while doing some research for an article that AV has apparently changed how it...
June 12, 2003Community College Directory
The Community College Web at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/contains over 1300 community college sites and almost 200 related resource sites. It's a framed site, but oh-so-searchable! The searching/browsing resources are on the left frame of the screen. From here you can search by...
Memories of World War I
The National Archives of Canada is now offering "War Diaries of the First World War" at http://www.archives.ca/02/020152_e.html, a digitized archive of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units, who were required to keep a daily account of their "Actions in the...
June 11, 2003Pennsylvania Archives Add Civil War Card File
The Digital Archives of the state of Pennsylvania (http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp) have added a new item to their collection -- the Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, at http://tinyurl.com/e0ic. (Or use the digitalarchives link above. You'll find a link to the card...
Continue reading "Pennsylvania Archives Add Civil War Card File" » June 10, 2003Technorati Adds Keyword Search
Blog-universe mapper Technorati (http://www.technorati.com) has added a keyword search at http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html. This site allows you to search, by keyword, over 360,000 'blogs. Syntax: AND, OR, and NOT are supported; phrases are delineated with "". Subqueries should be grouped by parentheses....
Sibley Guide to Birds Online
Birds birds birds birds birds. If you're into birds check out the the online Sibley Guide to Birds at http://www.sibleyguidetobirds.com. This is a paid service but there are some things you can do for free.You can find birds several different...
June 09, 2003State Archives of New Jersey Cataloged Holdings
The New Jersey State Archives now has a "cataloged holdings" page at http://www.njarchives.org/links/catalog.html. This page offers access to almost 200 pre-established catalog searches. Categories listed on this page include Genealogical Holdings, State Government Records, and Federal Government Records. Click on...
Continue reading "State Archives of New Jersey Cataloged Holdings" » Yahoo Keeps On with the RSS Feeds
Jeremy pointed out in his 'blog (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000774.html) that Yahoo has added even more RSS feeds. This time they've RSS'd Yahoo Buzz. Check out Jeremy's 'blog entries for a list of feeds. A hat-tip to Jeremy for point out this new...
June 05, 2003HayNet's For Horses
If you're into horses, you might enjoy the directory of links at http://haynet.net/. However, the directory is structured a little differently so it may take you a visit or so to get used to it. This directory is not set...
Criminal Justice Links
They're not just links, they're MegaLinks. Criminal Justice MegaLinks are located at http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/. The site is divided into several categories on the left of the screen. Categories include Current Event News, Prison Issues, and, strangely enough, Humor & Weird Stuff....
June 04, 2003Yahoo News Adds "Tech Tuesday" Section
Yahoo News ( http://news.yahoo.com) has announced a "Tech Tuesday" section, with information from various content providers. The new section ( http://news.yahoo.com/techtuesday/) includes information from Ziff Davis, PC World, and the AP. In addition to feature stories (this week's is "Digital...
Yahoo Quietly Adds An RSS Feed
If you read the above item, you might have thought, that this was just another Yahoo feature that Newsisfree is scraping. Well, they're not scraping *this* Yahoo page. After an aborted experiment with RSS feeds in Yahoo Finance ( http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/2002/sep19sep2502.shtml),...
June 03, 2003The First 62 Years of the Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper Available
The Brooklyn Public Library has set up a digitized archive of the first 62 years of the Brooklyn Eagle, a leading newspaper of the borough of Brooklyn in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The site is located at...
Continue reading "The First 62 Years of the Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper Available" » Fastpitch Softball!
Drat, now I want to go over to the batting cages and hit a couple. The Fastpitch softball directory ( http://www.fastpitchsoftballdirectory.com/) is a categorical listing of all things fastpitch, including an e-zine. Instead of the usual Yahoo-type layout, this site...
June 02, 2003dWoz is not DMOZ
All right, if it's not DMOZ, what is it? It's dWoz ( http://www.dwoz.com/), and it's a searchable subject index designed for Webmasters with over 1500 sites. Unlike many searchable subject indexes on the 'Net it is a closed list, with...
Anime Site Directory Has Over 16,000 Links
I'm ashamed to admit that at one point in my life I knew all the words to the "Starblazers" theme. I assure you I've forgotten most of them (except for the really loud, hearty "ouurrrr... Starrrrr....BLAZERS!" at the end.) So...
Continue reading "Anime Site Directory Has Over 16,000 Links" » New York Times Launches Movies Section
The New York Times announced last week the launch of http://movies.nytimes.com. This site contains 20 years' worth of reviews in addition to a variety of other movie- related content. Wow, there's a lot of stuff on this front page.. where...
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