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The BBC is reporting that a new database will "cover all those given awards for bravery in north west Europe between D-Day and the war's end." That's apparently about 12,000 people, though only 600 or so are available at the...
Continue reading "UK Archives to Make WWII Awards Database Available" » Ask Jeeves Weblog
Hat tip to Library Stuff, who noticed that there's now an unofficial Ask Jeeves Weblog. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....
NARA Offers Records Information for WWII Soldiers
NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, offers several databases related to WWII. There are two in which I think you'll be particularly interested. There's the "ARMY SERIAL NUMBER ELECTRONIC FILE: MERGED PROCESSED FILE ENLISTMENT CARD RECORDS," covering almost...
Continue reading "NARA Offers Records Information for WWII Soldiers" » New Stuff on LLRX
Hey hey, LLRX has plenty of new articles available for your happiness, including Who Downloaded the Spyware? Not Me! ( http://www.llrx.com/features/spyware.htm ), Coming Soon: The Death of Search Engines? ( http://www.llrx.com/features/deathsearchengine.htm ), Online Legal Information in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden...
WWII Government Pamphlets Available at U of Richmond Site
The University of Richmond (GO SPIDERS!) is offering for Memorial Day a collection of 60 digitized World War II pamphlets. They can be searched and browsed at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/is/library/digital/america_at_war/Gateway.html , while the university announcement is at http://oncampus.richmond.edu/news/press/may04/WWII.html . You may search...
Continue reading "WWII Government Pamphlets Available at U of Richmond Site" » May 29, 2004Connecticut Has Vanity Plate Lookup
The state of Connecticut has put up a vanity plate lookup at http://www.dmvplate.state.ct.us/VanityPlate.asp. If there is no match to your lookup, you'll get a sample of what the plate would look like (there are several different backgrounds to choose from.)...
May 28, 2004TodaysPapers Turns RSS Feeds Into A Big Ol' Community
Ever been rambling through your RSS feed list and want to comment on an item, or find out who's linking to that item, or even read other stories that people who have read that item have read? Now you can...
Continue reading "TodaysPapers Turns RSS Feeds Into A Big Ol' Community" » May 27, 2004FindForward Offers Specialized Google Searches and Some Hackish Stuff
Philipp Lenssen, a Web developer from Germany, has used the Google API to create a search interface called FindForward. The site is at FindForward.com but I'm going to point you to the About page at http://www.findforward.com/about/ since it best explains...
Continue reading "FindForward Offers Specialized Google Searches and Some Hackish Stuff" » McMaster University Researchers Develop Better Medical Searches
Researchers at McMaster University have developed a way to find "relevant and scientifically sound studies" from online medical databases. The article about their effort is found at http://www.medicalpost.com/mpcontent/article.jsp?content=20040523_111944_5200 . From the article: "That was achieved by first developing a list...
Continue reading "McMaster University Researchers Develop Better Medical Searches" » May 26, 2004ADMIN: ResearchBuzz Gets Monthly Archives, Some Tweaking
I spent yesterday doing some toting and lifting with the Web site. I did some cosmetic stuff and some cleaning, but I also made a couple of major changes that I think will make it easier for you to find...
Continue reading "ADMIN: ResearchBuzz Gets Monthly Archives, Some Tweaking" » Let's Go Hike A Hike
National Trails Day, is June 5, 2004. If you want to get out and hike a bit, or help take care of trails in the US, visit the American Hiking Society National Trails Day events database at http://www.americanhiking.org/events/ntd/events.html . There...
Yahoo's Groovy Linkdomain Syntax
You learn something new every day, and today I learned about Yahoo's linkdomain: syntax. Yahoo's link: syntax finds everything that links to a particular page, but as you might guess from its name, linkdomain: finds all pages that link to...
May 25, 2004Database of NCAA Records
The NCAA and Thomas Technology Solutions have teamed up to digitize the NCAA's archives of sports championship records. Currently the baseball, softball, and outdoor track records are online, with football and women's volleyball expected to be on the site in...
David Rumsey Announces Image Collection Portal
David Rumsey and Cartography Associates, known for really lovely map sites, has announced Visual Collections, a "digital image collection portal that includes more than 300,000 works from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world." It's available at http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/ ,...
Continue reading "David Rumsey Announces Image Collection Portal" » May 24, 2004A Continually-Updated Set of News Images
Both Google and Yahoo offer images integrated into their news search, but this site offers nothing but a collection of news images, gathered from all over the Web. NewsImages ( http://www.newsimages.com) offers news images divided into several categories. When I...
Continue reading "A Continually-Updated Set of News Images" » State of Nebraska Offers Court Information
Today is Really Cool Stuff on State Web Sites day. Nebraska is now offering searchable trial court information for 92 of Nebraska's 93 district courts, and all 93 county courts. It is not a free service. If you check...
Continue reading "State of Nebraska Offers Court Information" » Maine State Archives Launches Online Service
The state of Maine last week announced an online service to make it easier for visitors to find documents from Maine's archives. You can access it at http://www.informe.org/sos_archives/. There are several different databases available from here, including photographs, maps, and...
Continue reading "Maine State Archives Launches Online Service" » May 22, 2004Syndic8 Hits 50K
Congrats to Syndic8 for hitting 50,000 syndicated feeds in its database. You go Syndic8, and congrats Jeff! This entry will not appear in the newsletter....
WebSite-Watcher Enters 4.0 Beta
Those of you who use WebSite-Watch to monitor page changes will be happy to know that it's gone into a version 4.0 beta. Get the details, a download link, and a changelog at http://www.aignes.com/beta.htm. This entry will not appear in...
May 20, 2004Factory Tours All Over the USA
The beach? Fiddlesticks! A cruise? Phooey! Take a factory tour vacation. With Factory Tours USA, at http://factorytoursusa.com/ , you'll get pointers to over 450 factory tours around the US. Pick a state and away you go. Sites are presented in...
All Golf Links, All The Time
All right, all you Happy Gilmores out there, here's your directory of golf courses in the US, and what are described as "carefully reviewed and hand picked Golf only web sites." There are plenty of golf course sites out there,...
Google, Yahoo, and CNN: ARGH
Much has been made of the switch of CNN from Google's search results to Yahoo's. I'll take CNN's word that they switched, but in at least one instance Google's search is still better than Yahoo's. Last week I needed to...
May 19, 2004Plenty of Places to Eat Jamaican and Caribbean Food
Love Jamaican and Caribbean food? Do I have the Web site for you. Eat Jamaican ( http://eatjamaican.com/ ) features links to Jamaican and Caribbean restaurants all over the world. Pick an area on the front page; I chose the United...
Continue reading "Plenty of Places to Eat Jamaican and Caribbean Food" » Google's Offering a Local Search Option?
There's a story in the NY Times ( http://tinyurl.com/3c86w ) saying that Google will soon be launching a local search option: "Google, the Web search engine, is preparing to introduce a powerful file and text software search tool for locating...
Continue reading "Google's Offering a Local Search Option?" » May 18, 2004312 One-Minute Portraits Of Famous People At Movietonews Potraits
British Movietonews has announced a free Web site of one-minute potraits of famous people divided into categories, including entertainment, personalities, and lifestyle. These portraits go back to 1929 and are available at http://www.movietone-portraits.com . You'll probably need to use Internet...
Continue reading "312 One-Minute Portraits Of Famous People At Movietonews Potraits" » Quick Take: the YP Toolbar
Browser toolbars are extreme love-em-or-hate-em propositions. But if you're in the love 'em camp, let me point you toward the new YP.com toolbar at http://www.yp.com/toolbar.php . This Internet Explorer offers the Web search you've come to expect from toolbars as...
Google's Now Offering Image Ads
Google's getting into the image ad business. Now on their Web site, but through their AdSense technology. Now AdSense publishers can not only put text ads on their Web sites, but image ads. You can get more information on these...
Marcus Zillman, the Update
Marcus Zillman must live on coffee or Water Joe or something. He's always putting together those Subject Tracer Information Blogs -- pointers to links on various topics. I'm bringing them up because he's up to 30 of the things, available...
Arkansas Launches Election Tracker
The state of Arkansas has an election tracker, with information on both races and candidates, at http://www.arelections.org/index.php. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....
May 17, 2004ACM Queue and a Bunch o' Search Articles
The April 2004 issue of ACM Queue has several search-oriented articles, including "Building Nutch: Open Source Search", "Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard", and "A Conversation with Matt Wells" (aka Gigablast.) Very techy stuff but worth a read;...
Continue reading "ACM Queue and a Bunch o' Search Articles" » Google Labs Offering Google Groups 2
Google Labs has launched Google Groups 2. When you think Google Groups, you think Usenet, but Google Groups 2 is also offering the ability to create, join, and search mailing lists (which is an interesting flank attack on Yahoo.) The...
Another Search Engine for Finding RSS Feeds
RSS! RSS! I won't ever shut up about it! Whoopee! Okay, I'm better now. If you're looking for more RSS feeds, you might want to take a look at CompleteRSS, http://www.completerss.com/ . Here you can browse for feeds by both...
Continue reading "Another Search Engine for Finding RSS Feeds" » DMOZ Category for Google Weblogs
There is now an Open Directory Project category for Google Weblogs. There are five at this count. The URL is dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Google/News_and_Media/Weblogs/ This entry will not appear in the newsletter....
May 16, 2004Alabama Citizens Can Ask: Dude, Where's My Refund?
The State of Alabama is now offering a free online tool for citizens to check the status of their tax refund. You can either get to it through the Online Services link at Alabama's home page or directly at https://www.alabamainteractive.org/cgi-bin/ador/income_tax_lookup/search.cgi....
Continue reading "Alabama Citizens Can Ask: Dude, Where's My Refund?" » May 14, 2004The Dictionary of Playground Slang
You think I'd learn with the Electric Company Archive, but nooooo, instead I've got to go straight to the Online Dictionary of Playground Slang at http://www.odps.org/ . This site actually contains four different dictionaries related to playground slang. There's Ghastly...
Classic Horror Movies In a Big Ol' Set of Reviews
We all have different levels of scary movies that we can tolerate. If you're into serious scary, lots of horror, whatever you want to call it, check out Classic-Horror at http://www.classic- horror.com/, which describes itself as "Reviewing the History of...
Continue reading "Classic Horror Movies In a Big Ol' Set of Reviews" » May 13, 2004New York Times Updates Travel Section
The New York Times announced last week that they've updated their travel section with free archived content and some different search options. The New York Times travel section is available at http://travel.nytimes.com/pages/travel/index.html . Man, search boxes everywhere! Pay attention to...
Bookmarklet for Searching Google News
I am always messing around making tools for Google. And when I make them (and they work) I want to share them with you. First because you're the greatest readers on the planet and second because it seems silly to...
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Hits Version 53
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is up to version 53 and now features over 2100 articles, books, and other resources related to scholarly electronic publishing on the Internet. The HTML version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html and the PDF version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf ....
Continue reading "The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Hits Version 53" » May 12, 2004Surfwax Is Helping You Find Health News
Not too long ago I mentioned Surfwax' new news search. They now have a Web site with that groovy little "look ahead" feature that's oriented towards finding health news. You can play with it at http://www.findhealthnews.com . I typed in...
Continue reading "Surfwax Is Helping You Find Health News" » New Google Bookmarklet for Google Web Alerts
I've written about bookmarklets in the past. As you may remember, they're small snippets of JavaScript that you save as a bookmark. Then you click on them and they do various things depending on the JavaScript....
Continue reading "New Google Bookmarklet for Google Web Alerts" » Greetings Groovy WSU PeopleMay 11, 2004Opera Releases Version 7.5 of Browser
Break out the root beer and crank up the zydeco, Opera Software has released version 7.5 of Opera for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. You can download it at http://www.opera.com/windows/changelogs/750/ and also get a list of changes. Among those...
Google Launches a Weblog
After noting a test URL, and then noting when it went poof, I should probably note that I was out of town when the Google Weblog, now at http://www.google.com/googleblog/ , officially launched (in beta). The Weblog describes itself this way:...
May 10, 2004Not What's On TV, Who's On TV?
Sometimes you're less interested in TV shows than you are in TV stars. You want to see when so-and- so is on TV, or when whoosis is guest-starring somewhere. In that case you want TV-Now, which lets you track TV...
Reuters Offering RSS Feeds
Hey hey! Reuters has got some RSS feeds going. You can get them at http://reuters.com/newsrss.jhtml . There are about sixteen channels here, covering a variety of topics including US News, Politics, Technology, and Sports. Be sure to keep an eye...
May 08, 2004It Went Poof
Now it's a 404 error....
May 07, 2004Quick Aside
(Dear Phil, thanks! and sure, you can if you want, though ResearchBuzz has the most boring privacy policy ever. I think we used a wizard to generate it. Have a good weekend, ResearchBuzz.)...
May 06, 2004Pearl Street Software Announces New Genealogy Sub Site
Pearl Street Software, the folks behind the Family Tree Legends software, this week announced a new subscription-access genealogy site that they claim offers over 400 million records from a variety of sources. You may read the announcement at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040505/law141_1.html ....
Continue reading "Pearl Street Software Announces New Genealogy Sub Site" » Quick Take: AntiPhishing Toolbar for IE and Firefox
It sorta sounds like it ought to go on your armpits, but SpoofStick is instead a browser extension designed to minimize the impact of phishing. You can download it for free at http://www.corestreet.com/spoofstick/ . (Dear CoreStreet, your press release URL...
Continue reading "Quick Take: AntiPhishing Toolbar for IE and Firefox" » May 05, 2004Get Your News In a Big Rectangular Flash App
My visual acuity is limited to "Lookit pretty colors" but representing Google News stories as a Flash app full of rectangles which vary in color according to topic and age is rather fascinating. So if you've got a Flash-enabled browser...
Continue reading "Get Your News In a Big Rectangular Flash App" » Search Engine and Subject Index for the Meat Industry
Vegetarians, don't look. I'll try to find you a hummus or Veat or Gardenburger Riblets search engine. In the meantime, if you're interested you will find both a pretty good search engine and a subject index of links over at...
Continue reading "Search Engine and Subject Index for the Meat Industry" » May 04, 2004Gary Price Launches List of Google-Related Domains
Gary Price has a very cute list of Google-related domains available at http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/google_names_1.htm . Note that these are not domain names necessarily REGISTERED by Google, but domain names which have Google in the title. There are over 400 domain names...
Continue reading "Gary Price Launches List of Google-Related Domains" » USDA Makes A Database of Agriculture Exporters Available
The US Department of Agriculture has launched a free online database of over 3,800 US-based agriculture exporters. The database is available at http://www.fas.usda.gov/agexport/exporter.html ; choose the "Online Searchable Database" link on the left. This database is extremely searchable. Choose product...
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