Moving right along in our ongoing attempt to induce
widespread carpal tunnel syndrome in our visitors, the Pi
offers this second in what we hope will be a long-running
series of compilations of interesting urls noted on the TCS.
The links were all checked and found to be live as of
Wednesday, May 31, 2000. So, go ahead, click yourself
silly!
We regularly get complaints about being lost on the Web.
The Pi, ever eager to do its part, prepared this page to
help out:
http://www.wap.org/ifaq/posters/milkyway.html
Recently, however, another extremely valuable navigation
page was posted on the AT&T network at:
http://home.att.net/~cecw/lastpage.htm
The Gold Cup races for unlimited hydroplanes ran down at
Belle Isle, Michigan. These used to run Allison, Rolls
Royce, or Packard aircraft engines and were called
"thunderboats" for the noise that eight of these could make
coming down for the flying start of each heat. Most are
turbine powered these days, but the racing can be just as
exciting. Unlike ocean racers with V-hulls, these are
3-pointers with widely spaced sponsons (attached, but widely
separated outriggers). They throw out a spray, called a
roostertail for their appearance, 30 feet high and over 100
feet long. See them at:
[QuickTime, .pdf]
The official site of the Leaning Tower of Pisa offers
users a comprehensive tour of this historic landmark with
6,400 images and two QTVR films. In addition to the
exhaustive photographic tour, which illuminates almost every
conceivable detail of the Tower's eight floors (help on
navigating the photos is available), the site includes a
nice history of the Tower from 1173 to the present, and a
fourteen-part exhibit on the building's construction and
efforts to conserve the Tower. Simply put, this is THE site
for anyone interested in the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
http://torre.duomo.pisa.it/index_eng.html
A subsidiary of the New York Times Co., and headquartered
in Sonoma County, Winetoday.com is a comprehensive source of
current wine news and information for both novice and
experienced wine lovers. The heart of the site is its
database of over 5,000 wine reviews...
A single collection point for Apple Data Detector
modules, both detectors and actions. This is not an official
Apple site.
http://homepage.mac.com/matthewmiller/add/
"All About Frogs: Lots of Frog and Toad Information
(including Pet Care FAQs), Stupid Frog Jokes, Frog Art and
Photo Gallery, Frog Stories, Frog Coloring Book, and even
Free Froggy Computer Toys and Games!"
Ever find yourself stuck behind lines of traffic on
the interstate, but when you get to the end of the slowdown
there's nothing there? Now you can find out how traffic
phenomena like this occur at Traffic Waves...
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html
[.pdf]
This new site from GPO Access offers a helpful
overview of the US Government for K-12 students.
Contact with local people where you want to visit...
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/2442/database.html
Nice starting point for getting clip art of all
kinds.
http://www.webplaces.com/html/clipart.htm
Expand your shopping horizons--go visit the
AppleMugStore and get some bargains.
How do physics laws affect amusement park ride design?
Here is a webpage that addresses those issues. Find out
about amusement park physics by designing your own roller
coaster and see if it passes a safety inspection. You can
also experiment with bumper car collisions.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/
This month, New York's Metropolitan Museum of
Art... unveiled its newly redesigned Website.
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
Bartleby.com has published online all eighteen
volumes of the classic Cambridge History of English and
American Literature. This excellent free resource "comprises
the largest public reference work of literary criticism and
history on the Internet."
They also have added five other major reference
works--complete electronic versions of the Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; The American Heritage
Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition;
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition;
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; and The
American Heritage Book of English Usage.
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
Visit the Website of Clear Language and Design
(CLAD), launched on International Literacy Day, September 8,
1999. CLAD is the plain language editing and consulting
service of East End Literacy in Toronto, Canada. On this
site, you can, for example: test your document, using their
online Reading Effectiveness Tool, use and add to the
interactive thesaurus of plain language terms, read "before
and after" examples of what a clear language makeover can
do...
http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/
[.zip]
A Global Information System on Fishes, this site
seems to offer everything you ever wanted to know about
fishes. The heart of the site is two databases--FishBase and
LarvalBase...
The Digital Atlas of the United States is a continuing
public education project of Professor William Bowen and the
Department of Geography at California State University,
Northridge. The Digital Atlas is a great collection of
information in a graphical map format of the United States
that includes, a United States atlas, Citizenship, Ethnic
and Racial Groups, Poverty, Income, Adult Education
Attainment, Population and Census maps:
http://130.166.124.2/USpage1.html
Enter a surname (last name) into the form [at
this website] and you'll get a map of the United States
showing the distribution of people with this surname within
the 50 United States.
Help Charity Frogs donate to the Red Cross. Charity Frogs
is giving away $1,000,000 to the American Red Cross-once a
day, when you RIBBIT (i.e., click the link on the webpage).
The official Web presence of the military education
libraries in the United States and Europe, MERLN links
together the holdings and electronic information resources
of fourteen libraries, collectively the "largest and most
comprehensive collections of military information resources
in the world.
Created by Jennifer Hubert, Young Adult Librarian
at the Queens Borough Public Library in New York City, and
Webmaster Andrew Mutch of Novi, Michigan, this site offers
booklists for young adult readers "who need a good read, but
are wondering if there's life after Judy Blume and Gary
Paulsen."
http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/jen/index.html
"Homepage for Roadside America, your travel guide to
offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and
roadtrips. Let the Travel Brain do the driving!"
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
DCRTV for short. DCRTV was created in October 1997
and is an independent, non-profit forum about radio and
television (including cable) in the Washington DC and
Baltimore area.
http://www.geocities.com/~dcrtv/media.html
An online newsletter to New York City featuring
Hotels, Restaurants, Visiting New York, The Arts, Hot List
and much more.
http://www.manhattanusersguide.com
A very interesting site about Antarctica!
Particularly the photo gallery.
http://www.artifactinteractive.com.au/antarctica/index.html
Created by Ellen Chamberlain, Head Librarian at the
University of South Carolina-Beaufort campus, this
collection of concise lessons is designed to help users get
their Web searches on the right track quickly and easily.
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html
Published in nine volumes between 1959 and 1991, DANFS is
regarded as the foremost reference work on US naval vessels,
chronicling virtually every ship that the US Navy has put to
sea.
http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/
The complete Johann Sebastian Bach. An extensive
biography, tour of Bach's life in Germany, catalog of his
works, bibliography, recommended recordings, and other Bach
resources on the web. This award-winning site is maintained
by Jan Hanford in North Amercia and Jan Koster in Europe.
While fans have a number of choices for sites on
the pros, online information on minor league ball has been a
bit harder to find. Fans need look no futher than this site,
the official home of Minor League Baseball on the Web.
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/
Announced by the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) on February 29, this new site offers information on
over 4,000 federal and private medical studies involving
patients and others at more than 47,000 locations
nationwide.
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui
[QuickTime]
Located at the Department of Physiology at the
University of Wisconsin - Madison, this site offers images
and information from "one of the world's largest collection
of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains.
http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/brain/
Are you the kind of person that has several hours
of free time available each day? The kind of person that
rocking chairs dread? Are you the kind of person who can
recite an entire episode of Gilligan's Island? Have you
mastered all of the Nintendo games and are looking for
something new? Does bungee jumping no longer hold any
thrills for you? Have you macromeed all the plant hangers
your family and friends can stand?! Then become an
Apprentice Armorer! Making mail is easier than pulling your
own teeth, more time consuming than differential calculus,
and more fun than doing the dishes.
http://realbeer.com/jjpalmer/HowtoChain.html
Listening to police scanners strikes us as being
one of the Internet's best guilty pleasures. You might not
admit to partaking, but once you try it, there's no turning
back. APBNews is home to police scanners from 27 US cities.
http://www.apbnews.com/scanner/index_blank.html
Once again, cobbled together on 5/31/2000 by the
midnight edit team +d;-))
Click City II
Guidance
Thunderboats
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
WineToday.com
ADD Depot
Frogland!
Traffic Waves: Physics for Bored Commuters
Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids
The M word: parenting humor
Database of TravelHelpers
Clip Art Review
Apple MUG Store
Amusement Park Physics
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
and five other major reference works now onlineClear Language and Design (CLAD) Website
FishBase
Digital Atlas of the United States
U.S. Surname Distribution
Charity Frog
Military Education and Research Library Network
(MERLN)
Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!
Roadside America
Washington DC Radio & Television
Manhattan User's Guide
Antarctica
Bare Bones 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
The J.S. Bach Home Page
Minor League Baseball
ClinicalTrials.gov
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
Apprentice Armorer's Illustrated Handbook for Making
Mail
Police Scanners Online