Cool Web Sites
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the June 1999 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
All the children on the Net are invited to visit this site and leave their Father a Happy Father's Day message.
Article that also features a discussion area about Father's Day gifts.
Interesting statistics on how people go about phoning their dads the day in question, quotes, and gift ideas.
Original clip art for Father's Day; for personal use only.
Greeting cards with lots of customization options.
With options for kids and spouses; also selections for new fathers, and grandfathers.
Here is a huge collection of the most senseless laws in the entire United States. Many of these laws have been verified but many were copied from sources which did not include the law numbers. The laws have been taken from newsgroups, other web sites, mayors, and visitors to the site. Be sure to tell all your friends about this site, and for one time in your life, enjoy the law!
Home of the three biggest study sites on the Internet, Homework Central Jr. for 1st through 6th grades (http://www.homeworkcentral.com/junior.htp), Homework Central for middle and high school (http://www.homeworkcentral.com/highschool.htp) and Encyclopedia Central for college and beyond (http://www.homeworkcentral.com/college.htp).
Also be sure to check out http://infoseek.go.com/Center/Education
Come along as John Cunningham takes you to the driveways of your favorite stars!
Interviews
Meet the people who know stars best -- gardeners, mailmen, and next-door neighbors.
Stars Talk about their Driveways Hear what the rich and famous have to say about their pavement.
Celebrity Driveways past and present See the grease spots of your favorite stars! Select from a list of more than 100 names below.
Ann-Margret, Christina Applegate, Dan Aykroyd, Rosanna Arquette, Antonio Banderas, Bob Barker, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael Bolton, Marlon Brando, Beau Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Garth Brooks, George Burns, Nicolas Cage, Kirk Cameron, Jim Carrey, Lynda Carter, Johnny Cash, Kurt Cobain, Cher, Bill Cosby, Billy Crystal, Johnny Depp, Laura Dern, Danny DeVito, Joe DiMaggio, Kirk Douglas , Michael Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Anthony Edwards, Gloria Estefan, Peter Falk, Morgan Fairchild, Larry Flynt, Harrison Ford, Peter Frampton, Brendan Fraser, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Bill Gates, Crystal Gayle, Mel Gibson, Kathie Lee Gifford, Whoopi Goldberg, Jeff Goldblum, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Melanie Griffith, George Hamilton, Linda Hamilton, David Hasselhoff, Goldie Hawn, Hugh Hefner, Leona Helmsley, Pee-Wee Herman, Lauren Holly, Anthony Hopkins, Engelbert, Humperdinck, Vanilla Ice, Julio Iglesias, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, The Jacksons, Shirley Jones, Tom Jones, Sally Kirkland, Joey Lawrence, Martin Lawrence, Jay Leno, Liberace, Trini Lopez, Madonna, Barbara Mandrell, Penny Marshall, Reba McEntire, Burgess Meredith, Bette Midler, Eddie Murphy, Paul Newman, Wayne Newton, Jack Nicholson, Nick Nolte, Kim Novak, Dolly Parton, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Stefanie Powers, Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley, Richard Pryor, Debbie Reynolds, Keith Richards, Lionel Richie, Julia Roberts, Linda Ronstadt, Diana Ross, Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Siegfried & Roy, Martin Sheen, Martin Short, Andrew Shue, Frank Sinatra , Aaron Spelling , Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, Danielle Steel, Martha Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Jimmy Stewart, Sharon Stone, Elizabeth Taylor, The Artist, Marlo Thomas, Lea Thompson, Donald Trump, Lucky Vanous, Gianni Versace, Denzel Washington, The White House, Robin Williams, Shelley Winters, Tammy Wynette, Xuxa, and Pia Zadora
In December 1998, the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-88 began construction of the International Space Station, joining the U.S.-built Unity node to the Russian-built Zarya module. The crew carried a large-format IMAX® camera, and a selection of still images are presented here. The small JPEG images are screen resolution (72 dpi), 35 to 50 Kb files. The large JPEG images are high resolution (600 dpi), 1.5 to 3.2 Mb files. Photographs should be credited to NASA or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
"NASA is deeply committed to spreading the unique knowledge that flows from its aeronautics and space research...." Explore what NASA has to offer on the WWW through links to the NASA centers.
Launch of the STARDUST spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket on February 7, 1999.
You don't have to be an educator to enjoy browsing through EDSITEment, a National Endowment for the Humanities site that boasts links to the best educational resources on the Net.
A step-by-step process for finding free company and industry info on the Web. Whether you want some financial data, links to company home pages or help with finding sales prospects. You may be amazed how much of this stuff is available at the click of a mouse.
includes the following categories:
Agriculture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture/Design, Art, Astronomy, Biology/Life Sciences, Botany, Business, Chemistry, Communications, Computer Science, Conservation, Construction Trades, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environmental Science, Ethnic/Cultural Studies, Finance, General Reference, General Science, Geography, Geology, Health & Medicine, History, Home Economics, Interdisciplinary Studies, Language, Law, Liberal Arts & Sciences, Library Science, Literature, Manufacturing, Marketing, Mathematics, Mechanics, Military Technologies, Music, Parks & Recreation, Performing Arts, Personal Services, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Political Science, Protective Services, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Statistics, Technology, Theology, Transportation, and Women's Studies
To get the most out of your PC, make sure you visit this excellent site from PC World Online. Keyword and concept searchable and loaded with information, it makes your computer a much more fun and productive place to be.
If your scientific curiosity spans everything from Stargazers to Starships, take a flight through cyberspace to this NASA site. Tutorials about some of the coolest subjects in the universe. Includes a math refresher.
Rainy Day Activities, And More The Kid's Channel doesn't stop with stories, games and rainy day activities. This tech-savvy site also offers image animations, virtual cards and screensavers.
Everything any kid -- or adult -- ever wanted to know about frogs. Read about their amazing adaptability. Take a tour through Frog City. Or make a rain stick.
Web portals are becoming more specialized: BIZPROLINK Network focuses exclusively on users' professions, linking to job-specific resources. There are 16 fields listed so far, from accountants to travel agents.
PriceScan is a search engine for computer prices. Just plug in the hardware or software options you're looking for, and PriceScan gives you the make and model with the lowest price, along with others for comparison. Then you click to the provider you want--free!
At PriceWatch, you can compare current pricing data on computer hardware and software--free. Just enter the item, receive competitive prices and, if the retailer you select is online, you can go to its site and make the purchase.
Those interested in marketing on the Internet will find a lot of good information here. Crain Communications offers current articles, useful tips, a guide to web site pricing, and a terrific dictionary of Internet terms.
This is a series of explanations and experiments with light refraction, reflection, and characteristics of travel. It's straightforward and informative with helpful figures to go along with the text. All of it is nicely tied together in that, combined, the principles explain rainbows.
Link from here to biographies of the big names in Physics ("and a few 'natural philosophers'") reaching back to Aristotle and forward to Modern Physics. There are also links to collections, catalogs, and other Physics sites.
This is an extensive collection of photos of the plants of Israel, arranged by Hebrew name and by scientific name. There is some beautiful photography here.
The future of justice may be seen at communitycourts.org. It's about resolving conflicts through partnership and problem-solving. And this site provides a look at community justice projects around the country.
If you're a glutton for info overload, check out Metagrid. It's a search engine for newspapers and magazines around the world. Just type in a keyword, or browse through categories ranging from arts and autos to women and youth.
Here's how the system works: When a person wants to send you a fax, they simply dial your unique eFax number and press send. Just like regular faxes, eFaxes can include text, graphics or both.
Once sent, your fax is received at our eFax Service Center, compressed and protected with your personal password for security, then instantly forwarded to your email address.
Find, manage, and participate in email lists.
Originating in Holland, this site offers botany articles and images, botany software information, links to worthwhile sites, and much more. There are a number of wonderful color photographs of plants, mainly from Europe and the rainforest of Suriname, South America. The author's explorations in Suriname are detailed, including information on those who live there. Interesting!
T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. stands for Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations.
Twinkies is a series of experiments conducted during finals week, 1995. The tests were designed to determine the properties of that incredible food, the Twinkie.
Although done very much with tongue-in-cheek, this humorous site does give insight into the scientific testing done to explore any subject.
This is a big green button. You click on it. And you get a big green button. You click on it and you get a big green button. And for some reason you may not fully comprehend, you just might keep clicking on the big green button.
Christianity Online invites you to explore your interests, from music to spiritual devotion. There's also a search engine for other Christian websites.
Found a Web page you'd like to shred? Now you can. With this handy Shredder. Just type in the Web address and you may feel just like Ollie North.
Have you ever wondered where the Internet begins and where it ends? Well, we've found the answer to one of those thought-provoking questions. This site, based on a server located in the city of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, claims to be the final directory entry of the easternmost web server on the Web. The site purveyors are quick to inform you that you can find out all kinds of neat stuff about Newfoundland on the Internet, but not here, because you've reached THE END. And with no other links or navigational tools available at this page, they're also quick to point out that once here, you'll have to TURN AROUND. This is a hilarious URL to pass on to a friend or colleague to let them experience a little finality within the vastness of cyberspace.
Brought to you by Houghton Mifflin's excellent Education Place For Kids, Wacky Web Tales allows kids to create their own personalized versions of weird tales from the Web. Kids select one of several stories and enter in adjectives, nouns, personal info and other identifiers, and Wacky Web Tales comes back with a complete story based on their info and experiences. Another great feature is the ability for kids to post their own complete stories and have Wacky Tales "customize" them for use on the site. The kids get full credit for their submissions, which is a great ego boost. An excellent grammar and writing skills teacher, Wacky Web Tales is sure to keep your kids busy (and laughing) for hours on end.
Ten years ago this would have a truly frightening website to visit, but with all that's happened recently in global politics it's just a cool site to check out and learn a little something about mankind's darker side along the way. Pick the size of nuclear detonation you'd like to see, select a target city or ZIP code, and the program retrieves maps and data that show concentric "damage rings" according to the size of the bomb. Fallout readings with different weather conditions are also available.
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Tulsa Computer Society 5/10/99
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