Cool Web Sites
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the June 2000 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
Including links previously reviewed at
http://www.educationindex.com/index.html,
http://www.komando.com/,
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/arch.htm, and
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Poems, prayers, background on the
holiday, and a comprehensive list of sites related to Memorial Day.
Includes a history of the holiday.
CNet Tech Trends article on the AoLization of America,
While most of the news stories have been about Microsoft's legal troubles,
and the resulting Nasdaq ups and downs, America Online has been not so
quietly taking over cyberspace.
You've Got Deathmail!
Stay wired from beyond the grave. Finalthoughts.com will store and
send "afterlife emails" to your friends and family after you die.
Just don't include anyone with a weak heart.
Internet Guide about browsers, e-mail programs, newsgroups, search engines,
avoiding scams, web page creation, money making opportunities, creating and promoting
web sites, and simple tips for a better web surfing experience.
No more fumbling with My Computer or Windows Explorer, wishing you could print
information about all your files. The Winmag.com Directory Printer can print the
name of every file on a drive, along with the file's size, date and time of last
modification, and attributes (Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive)!
Aggregates the web pages you tell it to, and sends them to you by
email as HTML attachments. You can even schedule how often you want
to have the pages mailed to you.
The HTML email contains everything you'd see on the page, just as if
you'd surfed there; and all the links work the way they would on the
live page.
Captioned photos and illustrations covering over 40 years of journalism about scientific
research come to you from the non-profit Science Service and the Smithsonian
Institution. Use these images for academic and non-commercial pursuits, or simply kick
back and browse through over 100 subjects from automobiles to television. You can
also search the online database to learn about light weaving, lasers, electron
micrographs, and other "new" technologies described with upbeat enthusiasm by
science reporters of the day.
Good starting point for US company information.
Integrates the search engines of all the major package shippers in one
interface; just enter shipping number and select shipping company from
pulldown menu.
Explains what is meant by file extensions like AAM (Authorware shocked
file), ARI (Aristotle audio file), CAP (compressed music file format), and
other mysteries.
Searchable by country, religion, or this month's calendar, this includes public
and religious holidays, as well as local ones. There's a section for kids, and
a Just for Fun section that includes submitted quotes regarding holidays,
calendars and the like.
Your Starting Point for Legal Information on the Net
This service allows you to either search with LawFinder or go into specific
bodies of law to search -- state law, county and city law, federal case law,
etc. What is available for searching will vary from state to state.
Includes sections on Federal Law, State Law, County & City Law, International Law, Federal
Caselaw, State Caselaw, International Caselaw, Courts of the World,
Law Dictionary, Law by Topic, Uniform Laws, Reference Aids,
International Governments, United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court
Audio Cases, Audio Legal Guide, Discussions, Trial Advocacy, Federal
Rules, Find Forms, E-Journals, Demographics, Cyberlaw, World Virtual
Museums, Avalon's Historic Documents, General Resource, World
Libraries, Encyclopedias, Employment, Lawyer Pages, Library of
Congress, Audio & Video Legal News, FindLaw, Law Schools, Washburn
Law, Cornell Law, Law Crawler, General Search, and Search Utility
If someone calls you costive, should you be flattered or insulted?
Have you footled today? What two foods are hidden inside the word
seersucker ? Do you know where your tragus is? What's a sockdolager?
You'll learn all that and more when you sign up for a free daily Fun
Word in email. It's an entertaining way to expand your vocabulary by
learning new words and the surprising stories behind familiar ones.
Explore the new, expanded Fun Words Archive -- now featuring such
words as coruscate, snollygoster,and chatoyant! Or check out this
week's Wacky Word.
Set your kids loose here and they'll be sending secret messages in eggs,
teaching raisins to dance, and making slime, matchstick rockets, musical
saws, and fog in a bottle. Does not come with instructions on how to clean
cabinets and wash floors afterwards, however.
Anyone interested in learning about HTML -- the
programming language that runs the Web -- can find no
better resource than htmlcompendium.org. For anyone
from novice to master.
PersonalMD.com, saying it's time for people to take
charge of their personal health, features resources that
allow members to store and retrieve personal medical
information. A free service that promises confidentiality.
Search through online magazine articles or click on the site map to browse
the detailed subject tree which includes the number of articles, current and
old, posted for each topic.
Everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING, you could possibly want to know
about soup -- theatrical soup, soup in the news, soups of the stars,
Shakespeare and soup, etc. More to the point, there are oodles of recipes
for hot or cold soups, vegetarian soups, fish soups, international soups, etc.;
searchable, or clickable by category where recipes are in alphabetical order
by primary ingredient
Today's Internet Events and Chats
Find out where and when you can chat with authors, newsmakers, TV and
rock stars, financiers, technology gurus, and such.
You need to update your system's drivers regularly. Be sure
to check your video card, sound card, CD-ROM drive,
monitor, printer and even motherboard manufacturer's
websites to see if there's been an update driver to your
particular piece of hardware. An excellent starting point for
new drivers is WinDrivers, which gives the latest info on
new drivers as well as pointers to websites.
The Intel processor serial number control utility is a
Windows program that enables or disables the reading of
the Pentium III processor serial number by software,
effectively enabling users to "close" a potential security
loophole first present in the Pentium II chips. This allows
users to control which software programs or websites have
permission to read the processor serial number. When
installed, the utility runs automatically each time the system is
started.
You can't run for president without spending lots of money, so it's at least
useful to know where the money is coming from. Check out these reports on
the biographies and campaign finance (including the top 25 contributors) for
each of the presidential contenders, courtesy of the Center for Public
Integrity .
Log on to this site and check your computer's time (in the
lower right corner of your screen for Windows users)
against the Official U.S. Time in any time zone.
Cooperatively provided by the two time agencies of United
States: the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), and its military counterpart, the U. S. Naval
Observatory (USNO), the readings at this site maintained
by both agencies should never differ by more than 0.000
0001 seconds from UTC (Universal Time Coordinated).
After you've checked the time on your clock against the site
above, KEEP your clock set to the proper "UTC" time by
downloading this handy little careware program called
About Time. This program is a superior source of time for
your computer, as it acquires time from the Internet with
great accuracy. As a server it will provide four kinds of time
signals to other computers on your local network.
Among the topics followed here on a regular basis are biotechnology,
technology in the classroom and distance learning, intellectual property,
personal security (check out their anlysis of what any web site owner can
find out about you just from your clicking on them). Each page includes links
to well-chosen news items and research reports on that topic.
A nice guide to cartoonists, jokes, satire, arranged by topic (Dubya,
Democrats, Feminists, Impeachment, Monet, etc.). Best Feature: This
Week in the E-Zines, which trolls for fun stuff and links it in.
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Tulsa Computer Society 4/20/2000
Don Singleton, President
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