World Wide Web News
Monday, March 29, 1995 an irregular gathering of
web stuff by...
/
Alan Levine /
Maricopa Center for
Learning and Instruction /
In this issue...
South Mountain is on the Web!
South Mountain Community College is the latest addition to
the Maricopa Web servers. They are just starting, but look for a growing
source of informatrion about their campus and programs. They now appear on our
clickable map
of the Maricopa Community Colleges
Browser This and Browser That...
Remember the good old days of, say, early 1994 when all there was,
was NCSA Mosaic?
Just try to keep up, we dare you:
- NetScape has just released the beta
version of NetScape Navigator 1.1- which will expire on April 1 (no fooling!)
The biggest "features" include a more efficient scheme of caching pages
seen, a new format for page layout ("Tables"), and the ability to display
a patterned background if yopu are tired of drab grey. Look for much discussion
among the Internet Gods and Goddesses about the merits of standard HTML
versus NetScape "enhancements".
The new version of NetScape also includes other
things for those trying to conduct business transactions across the net.
It should not have taken this long, but here is a book about the world's
hippest web browser.
Netscape Quick Tour
by Stuart Harris and Gayle Kidder
Ventana Press, March 1995.
152 pp, US$14
ISBN: Windows: 1-55604-244-5; Mac: 1-55604-248-8
- NCSA Mosaic
Still beta after all these years?
- MacWeb
EINet is pleased to announce MacWeb Version 1.00ALPHA3.2.
MacWeb is a full-featured World-Wide-Web, hypermedia browser. It is
available as freeware. MacWeb is very versatle, less quirky than NCSA Mosaic,
and operates rather "zippy"
Arachnid for HTML
As recently announced in MacWeek,
Second Look Computing
at the University of Iowa is offering a beta verison of a WYSIWYG
HTML editor, called "Arachnid". Here is the offical description:
Arachnid is an object based tool for graphically building WWW
pages, including tools for creating objects needed for WWW
forms. Using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Arachnid
allows simple, seamless designation of hypertext and
hypergraphic links to the entire range of WWW events: URLs,
local page and text links, and the full suite of multimedia
events. With Arachnid, you can actually preview the behavior of
your links, including full support of multiple format image
display and A/V playback.
Click
here to download a beta version (with example media files - 1,924 K)
for evaulation, or
click
here to download a smaller version (without media - 1,154
K). Both files contain fully-working beta version of Arachnid,
but the first one comes bundled with a few example files, so
that you can begin learning right away! Please note: Arachnid
is intended to be used on '040 or better machines.
The Best and the Worst...
Ghoulish souls prowl the web to seek and rank the peaks and valleys in the web....
- Best of the Web
aims to highlight those places which best show the
quality, versatility, and power of the World Wide Web.
- The Best of the Net
is a free-floating collection of the best resources
from the Whole Internet Catalog. The collection is maintained by the
Gloabl Network Navigator editorial staff, an eccentric bunch who like things that are
useful, well-designed, and entertaining.
See also the Whole Internet Catalog's
Top 25 sites
- Mirsky's Worst of the Web
boldly states: YOU ARE IN FOR THE OPPOSITE OF A TREAT.
Mirsky's prides itself on perpetuating user disorientation.
A graphical browser is required to view
the pages, which will otherwise appear even worse than intended.
- Useless WWW Pages is
"an inspired collection of links to the
most inane WWW pages in
cyberspace. Featured useless resources include Steve's list of all his
T-shirts, The Surrealist Compliment Generator, Find-The-Spam, and
Mike's fruit of the day."
- Clay S. says, "As a service to the Web (and to make me laugh
until coffee comes out my nose) I have set out to design the
World's Worst World Wide Web page. Needless to say,
this page relies on non-standard
HTML built into the Netscape 1.1b1 browser."
- "I have made it my goal in life to abuse semi-standard HTML-3 tags to make
my pages as hideous as possible. You're invited to browse & suggest
additions. Netscape 1.1b1 would be a good browser to use...."
Society, Cyberspace and the Future
How Can New Interactive Communication Technology Enhance Harmonious and
Functional Communities at all Scales Worldwide?
Report of an Exploratory Aspen Workshop Prepared by:
Bruce Murray
California Institute of Technology
bcm@mars1.gps.caltech.edu
February, 1995
Abstract
Rapid growth in population and consumption will place unprecedented
stresses on natural resources, on the global environment, and on current
economic and political systems through the next century. Stable,
harmonious communities will be essential for dispersed leadership at all
scales as traditional command-type political and of economic structures
diminish in significance. New interactive communications technology can
--and must-- play an essential role in connecting individuals within
diverse, dispersed communities. However, as with previous new
technological developments in communications, negative effects on the
stability and functionality of communities are also latent. In this
report, we visualize both potentially positive and negative effects on
communities and identify specific near-term actions and policies which
can enhance broad, informed participation in content-rich networks
in the future.
Finding Listservs
Even with the full graphic glory of the Web, one of the best resources
on the Internet still is the flow of scholarly conversation, advice, rants,
discussion, chat, etc over electronic disussion lists, or listservs.
The Web does offer links to places to find a list of interest as. Here are
some useful pointers:
Gastropoda: SlugWeb
A "Gastro"-Quiz:
Why was the Banana Slug named the nation's top college mascot?
How did the Banana Slug become a mascot to begin with?
Who was responsible for the Banana Slug t-shirt on John Travolta in
Pulp Fiction?
Just what exactly is a Banana Slug anyway?!?!
Hear the strange story of the iconoclastic yellow mollusk and the people that
love them. History, biology and trivia all available 24 hours a day, world-wide:
SlugWeb - The Banana Slug Home Page
SlugWeb - Please watch your step on the information superhighway.
Sites of Intrigue
- Electronic Archives for Teaching American Literatures
- from Georgetown University, includes syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources related to
teaching American Literatures. This is complementary to the T-AMLIT
listserv.
- Discovery Learning Community
- is a pilot effort to encourage new ways for teachers, learners and their educational
partners to use the programs that air on The Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel.
- Image Processing for Teaching
-
Images provide an exciting introduction to science, mathematics
and technology. All learners can process and manipulate images
from the real world to develop critical thinking and problem
solving skills. Educators are using image processing to integrate technology in
the classroom in a meaningful way. Learning with image
processing gives students new opportunities to explore, discover
and create.Since 1990, the Image Processing for Teaching
program, developed at the University of Arizona, has been
helping teachers bring this exciting and powerful technology
into their classrooms.
- Environmental Biology Program
- of Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant
Research at Cornell University offers information on
research focusing on the interaction of plants and the environment.
- National Graffiti Information Network
- is an organization which
specializes in crime and graffiti prevention.
- National Press Club
- gives Club members, journalists
and the general public unprecedented access to this professional and
social organization for journalists that is one of Washington D.C.'s most
prestigious institutions. It includes Internet access to speeches and
press conferences at the Club, which make the national news on a daily
basis. It also contains a comprehensive but concise collection of
Internet resources for journalistic research, designed to be the best
available tool for journalists seeking information from the Internet as
deadline approaches.
- 1995 Kaibab Mountain Bike Tour Guide
- If you've never mountain biked Moab, Utah you've never mountain biked.
- Virtual Henry
- a multimedia annotated text of Shakespeare's Henry V
-
Classroom Internet Server Cookbook
- gives the recipes for setting up an Internet server in a classroom.
- British Politics Pages
- includes transcripts of Prime Minister's Questions,
by-election profiles, links to party and governmental web pages,
Election results and statistics, a list of all British MPs and
known e-mail addresses and various links to miscellaneous
information resources of relevance to British Politics.
- American Arts Alliance
- is to be the principal advocate for America's professional
nonprofit arts organizations and their publics in representing arts interests and advancing arts support
before Congress and other branches of the Federal government. To achieve this mission, the Alliance
will inform legislators and policy makers of the vital role of the arts in American society, and advocate
the development of national policies which recognize, enhance and foster the contributions that the arts
make to America.
- William Calvin's fifth nonfiction book
- on the evolution of the human brain during the ice ages,
is now available on the web (all chapters, illustrations, end notes).
First published by Bantam-Doubleday-Dell in 1990, it considers
the abrupt climate changes
that punctuate the last 2.5 million years to be the primary "cause"
of the enlargement and reorganization
of the ape brain. The book is the precursor of the author's article,
The emergence of intelligence in the October 1994 issue of Scientific
American.
-
The Diabetes Knowledgebase
- is an effort of the University of Wisconsin Medical School to provide
diabetes related information to the world community in an effort to enhance
the lives of individuals with diabetes.
- Indiana Jones
- has a home page
- Europa
- a European Commission service offering user-friendly and interactive
information on the European Union's goals, institutions and policies.
- Enterzone
- is a hyperzine of writing, art, and new media. It also includes
a list of other eZines, especially Web zines.
- Dartmouth College Language Resource Center
- includes information about the Language Resource
Center as well as a compilation of resources for foreign language and
culture teaching and learning.
- Modern Humanities Research Association's
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
- is now openly available for searching.
The database currently contains more than 20,000 records of articles,
doctoral dissertations, books and reviews in the field of English studies
from the report years 1991 and 1992.
- Mayo Clinic
- Mayo is a team practice of medicine enhanced by medical education and
research. Almost 400,000 patients a year come to its outpatient
clinics and hospitals in five states.
- AT&T's TalkingPower at
- tells you how your telephone system works,
- SUBIA
- is a full-service graphics resource and service bureau in
Albuquerque, NM.
-
Independent Filmmakers Internet Resource Guide
- is a hypertext reference to resources on the
internet for the independent film and video community.
- Daily news service in Spanish
- from in Mexico.
- World Health Net
- is home
of the latest and most innovative research therapies. At the
time of its initial launch, the American Academy of Anti-Aging
Medicine, American Longevity Research Institute, Life Resucitation
Technologies, Inc., and Organ, Inc., had joined the site. Many
medical resources plus a medical mailing list are available on this
site.
- International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC)
- is a
non-profit corporation founded to promote the creation and adoption
of international standards for Multipoint Document and Video
Teleconferencing. The IMTC's mission is to foster a market where
multiple vendors create interoperable conferencing products using open
international standards.
- IndiaWorld
- is a news and information service on India.
- Videomuseum
- is a french non-profit organization managing a very extensive
project aiming at the computer cataloguing of all the arts works of the 20th
century in all the french public museums and collections. To this date,
there are 70000 entries int its database (each comprising text and
image).
-
Wandering Through the Yucatan
-
A visual account of one traveler's impressions, this resource is based on
entries from a 90-page travel journal written during a five-week
backpacking trip through southern Mexico. Images of Mayan ruins accompany
the text, along with graphical desktop elements.
- Association for Software Design
- exists to promote software design and to create a community
of software designers.
- Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
- (mirror at University of Arizona) consists of about 600 locally stored bibliographies with altogether about 330,000
references to conference papers, journal articles and technical reports. There are more than 800 links to
other sites carrying bibliographic information. See your nearest
mirror site.
- Fluid Dynamics, Oceanography and Meteorology
- The School of Mathematics at the University of New South Wales offers
some web-browsable preprints and reports on our research, a
picture gallery, a full list of recent publications and general information on
our group, links to a range of resources on similar topics in Australia and
overseas, and information on our seminars.
- Daily Martian Weather Report
-
When the Mars Global Surveyor mapping sequence begins, the MGS Radio
Science Team will be producing a daily weather report for the planet
Mars. The report will be derived from their measurements of atmospheric
temperature and pressure using radio occultation techniques.
-
Morrison Research Initiative
- is a multidisciplinary project funded by
the
National Park Service
and the
USGS.
The overall goal of the project
is to reconstruct the evolution of Late Jurassic environments, habitats,
and climates of the extinct Morrison ecosystem in National Park Service
units in the Rocky Mountain region.
-
TB/HIV Research Laboratory
- at Brown University,
is dedicated to the study of tuberculosis
(TB) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including their
immunopathogenesis, epedemiology, and social impact.
- National Archaeological Database
- sponsored by the National Park Service, is a database
containing more than 100,000 archeological citation references which
users can access and query via modem or Internet.
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- has responsibility for
most of our nationally owned public lands and natural resources. This includes fostering the wisest use
of our land and water resources, protecting our fish and wildlife, and preserving the environmental and
cultural values of our national parks and historic places.
- Virtual Shareware Library
- catalogues
about 90000 files totaling 11.5 gigabytes . A
search engine (Shase) enables you to search descriptions,
locate, download or order files from Internet's best software
archives.
WWW News 03-29-95
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Maricopa County Community College District
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