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	WWW News June 1, 1995	Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
an irregular gathering of web stuff by... Alan Levine

It's a Jazzed look for NetScape 1.1!

• New on the MCLI Web ... yes, always, always, improving
• MacHTTP -> WebStar ... it's evolution, man
• Arizona Webs ... keep popping up like wild weeds
• What are the looking for? ... just what kind of person searches our server for "cheese"?
• Top o' the Web ... the best of the pack, in our unorthodox, unscientific opinion
• Sites of Intrigue ... hot, cool, lukewarm, here are some new sites to surf.

For examples from our server, the new look and organization for our subject oriented "HOT Links". The tables provide a (hopefully) more organized presentation of the navigation area at the top of the page. Backgrounds are easy to incorporate and after putting a few up, that plain old grey background looks awfully bland. However, it is easy to over-do it! Quite a few backgrounds used out there on the net make text almost unreadable (today I saw blood red text over a vertical striped green background.... we will not embarass the site by posting its URL but YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!).

Backgrounds are just GIF or JPEG files. As always, smaller sized files will be better received on the viewer end. NetScape will "tile" the screen to fill with the background. The appearance will be drastically better if the graphic "wraps" at the edges so that you do not see all the seams (like desktop patterns on the Mac and Windows systems). We've made great use of KPT Texture Explorer in Kai's Power Tools to generate patterns which we lighten in PhotoShop. It's gotta be light if you want people to be able to read your text (which at many sites must not be a high priority!)

For more info see NetScape's Creating High Impact Documents page

SEND US YOUR HOT LINKS... and we will add them to our collection. Check out our spiffy submission form.

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The software was always easy to operate (lacking the deep cryptology of unix) and through efforts of those on the Net community, evolved a series of tools which expanded its capabilties, including the ability to process forms, image maps, and execute CGI scripts.

An Macintosh WWW servers index and site of the month at Brad's WebStar

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Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum

is the American Southwest's oldest and most spectacularly situated botanical garden. Mining magnate Colonel William Boyce Thompson founded his arboretum near Superior, Arizona, just outside the metropolitan Phoenix area , in the roaring 1920's, to imbue in people an appreciation of plants.

The Unofficial Guide to the Colorado River in The Grand Canyon

for the wildest adventure in the grandest gorge, the "boss ditch of the world".

GoodNet

a new net provider in Tempe, with a shiny home page and cool logos.

Arizona Macintosh Users Group (AMUG)

has a notable front end to its web server that looks like a Mac desktop! The fun part is clicking on the trashcan and it sends you to Microsoft ;-)

KZON FM 101.5 -- The Zone

radio station with genial host known as the "Bone Mama"

Sedona On Line

where the rich and famous dwell among the red rocks and the crystal seekers scour for vortexes...

Arizonaweb

The city of Phoenix web pages are currently under development

Arcosanti

Arcology is a term coined by Paolo Soleri to describe the concept of architecture and ecology working as on integral process to produce new urban habitats. Arcosanti, a project of the nonprofit Cosanti Foundation, is a prototype arcology for 5,000 people, combining compact urban structure with large-scale, solar greenhouses on 20 acres of a 4,000 acre preserve.

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AOL Altas America Anglican Anorexia Arthritis Bestiality Church City DCM DIAMOND Haledon Illinois MOVIES Masturbation Networks Opra_Winfrey Oprah_Winfrey Rhetnet Sex abc_tv after_dark afterdark alan altbinaries alternative_medicine ames amway arizona autonomy awesome_list baltimore bible book_reviews brian_pattern building camping cancer carducci celtic_mythology charaties cheese children children_photography children_pictures cholestoral collaborative_learning colored commercial_multimedia conferences_literature construction cool director download education_abstract entertainment erotic erotism foundations free_radicals french gay_men gfdg gfdgalan girl girls health holy_grail html http http_wwwcitynet http_wwwloalcom http_wwwloralcom info infocernch integrating_technology integration_technology internet_provider internetu kurt laws learning_styles list loral_corperation macromind management marvel meditation metrolink model mondo mpeg multilevel_marketing museum mythology naked netscape nro nsa nude nudity paint painter patten pattern pc_file penthouse pete picture pictures playboy poems porn porno port_townsend psychology recreation sex shange smut solar solar_home spirituality supermodel supermodels telnet_cdconnectioncom theatre tobacco transcnedental_meditation turtle u_haul wav whore wine woodworking www

On the serious side, keep in mind that when you use a web page to submit a form your browser is sending along with it information including the internet address of your computer, what type of browser and what version you are using, and even your e-mail address (if entered into the Preferences area of your software).

If it ain't Big Brother watching, it might be little brother peeking...

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This issue, at the Top of the Web is...

features a the dailiy generated "Fractal of the Day" which is viewed on the first page in low resolution with a link to a larger, high resoultion image. The creator is Julien C. Sprott, PhD, Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin. The images are generated by software that comes with Sprott's book, Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos.

The page contains links to previous FoDs (Fractals of the Day) as well as other fractal images.

We like this site because of its clear organization and quality of content. And okay, fractals are just neat. They are visually appealing and can be used in multimedia. For mathematicians, the are a way of "seeing" complex equations. For scientists, they are part of the "new science" of understanding the "chaos" of nature.

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Archeology

Duke Papyrus Archive

contains introductory text about papyri and papyrology, descriptive catalog records, and scanned images of over 200 papyri. The archive is organized by subject and language, and is keyword-searchable.

Art

Sprott's Fractal Gallery

contains over 100 examples of original fractal art from various mathematical equations and a new "Fractal of the Day" generated automatically at midnight every day. Computer code for generating an endless succession of similar examples is also available

Atlas of the Web

InterLink Hawaii

brings the exotic Island life to the Net. Kilauea, the only erupting volcano in the United States, is increasing the size of the Big Island with a spectacular and awe-inspiring display of the power of Pele, the goddess of the volcano.

Computers

Apple Directions

is an online publication for Macintosh software developers

Imaja

publishes a variety of animation, graphics, music, and educational software for Macintosh computers.

Aretha

Frontier is a scripting system for the Macintosh that servers the same purpose as AppleScript. Lots of features, lots of verbs. It used to be a commercial product, but now it's free and is known as Aretha

MacScripting Page

is for all who are interested and using AppleScript, Userland Frontier ("Aretha") or other scripting environment for the Macintosh.

International Windows NT Users Group

has a membership of almost 500 strong. Weekly on-line conferences are held dealing with all aspects of the Windows NT operating System.

Query Interface to the PC Software Harvest Broker

search the descriptions of more than 35,000 PC Software freeware distributions available from 6 major Internet archives.

Visual Basic programming page

features "Ask Dr. VB!", which allows the Visual Basic users on the Net to get answers to questions about Visual Basic. All questions will be answered, and the answers will be combined into a digest format for publication on my site, as well as publication in the VB'ers Electronic Magazine.

Unix Help For Users

is an experimental service designed to provide helpful information to new users of the UNIX operating system.

Education

National Network of Regional Educational Laboratories

are educational research and development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education Department

College E-Mail FAQ

gives guidelines on how to guess e-mail addresses at colleges around the world

Peterson's Education Center

Games

Interactive Dart Game

gives you a choice of pictures (such as Rush Limbaugh, Barney, Ted Kennedy, Bill Gates) and will let you "throw" darts at the picture

History

French and Indian War (1755-1763)

is a page devoted to the French soldiers who came to fight, and many of whom remained behind to marry the Canadian women.

Internet

The Inquirer

is intended to act as a front end to many of the freely available search engines on the net. From this single location, you can search a majority of the content of the net.

Top Ten Ways to Tell if You Have a Sucky Home Page

Compiled and written by Jeffrey M. Glover, created a lot of traffic pro and con on the www newsgroups.

Law

Multimedia Law Page

is an informative source for multimedia content producers, publishers, and distributors. It is the culmination of work with attorneys in the area of interactive multimedia.

The Copyright Website

provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information of interest to infonauts, content providers, musicians, activists, rappers, infringers, and law abiding netizens. Special sections cover Fair Use, Sampling (with audio comparisons!), and Web specific issues.

Inter-Law's 'lectric Law Library

is probably the largest private-sector free legal resource on the net. It's materials include legal software, an online law encyclopedia/dictionary, lawyer jokes, ascii files of various court rules, state laws, and case transcripts

Library

Bartlett's Quotations

the full version and searchable too!

Medical - Health

Red Ribbon Net

provides the largest assemblage of information with respect to HIV and AIDS. Chat with other interested parties from around the globe in the Red Ribbon Coffee House, research the latest biotech or clinical trial results, shop for unique and interesting products in the Red Ribbon Mall and sign our guestbook to enter a free T-shirt giveaway.

Multimedia

Media Mega-Links

is one of the largest collection of media-related WWW sites: currently with over 700 listings. Newly restructured, this index is constantly growing to provide coherent and easy access to hundreds of on-line resources from Film Production, to Movie Databases to Non-profit organizations. If its not here - its probably not on the Web.

Multimedia Law Page

is an informative source for multimedia content producers, publishers, and distributors. It is the culmination of work with attorneys in the area of interactive multimedia.

Intel Games and Multimedia Developer Support

stay up to date on the latest Intel technologies and software designed to augment efforts in creating high-performance, multimedia rich applications for Intel architecture

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The Journal of New Media Authoring in the Digital Domain
.... contains some of the best critical and creative media-related work on the WWW. The journal is seeking submissions from people who are pushing the boundaries of media authoring, particularly HTML, for the SUMMER edition.

Music

CD Now!

is an online music store with over 14,000 titles. Also offers the All-Music Guide that includes music reviews, a dictionary of music terms, and a "chat/discussion" area.

News

Nando Times

a slick online magazine that has been a Web presence for quite some time

Psychology

Trauma Info pages

focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder), whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. Specifically, my interests here include both clinical and research aspects of trauma responses and their resolution.

Sociology

Social Indicators of Development, 1994

contains the World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development. Data are presented for more than 170 economies

Trends in Developing Economies, 1994

provides brief reports on most of the World Bank's borrowing countries.

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