Subject: NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 5 Jan 1998 to 6 Jan 1998 - Special issue (#1998-9) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:09:57 -0600 From: Automatic digest processor Reply-To: Net-Happenings To: Recipients of NET-HAPPENINGS digests There are 12 messages totalling 645 lines in this issue. Topics in this special issue: 1. MISC> Dine-USA 2. MISC> Do You Know How to Be Street Smart? 3. LISTS> NEW: SEARCHSECRETS - Search Engine Secrets Discussion List 4. NEWSLTR> InterNIC News "The Year In Review Issue" Now Online! 5. MISC> The Abyss 6. K12> Webcast of E Rate seminar by the PA Secretary of Education 7. K12> Canadian history site 8. RESOUR> Re: best news sites 9. NEWSLTR> The Weekly Bookmark (v4.01) 10. RESOUR> The Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites 11. K12> Attention Teachers of 6 - 12 graders 12. K12> [Classroom Connect] M&M News ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:11:57 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: MISC> Dine-USA Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:50:35 -0600 (CST) From: ayjoseph@uoli.com http://www.Dine-USA.com The finest dining guide on the Internet! This premier service will in the near future provide you with information on thousands of restaurants nationwide. With full color photos, menues, addresses, phone numbers and maps, Dine-USA is the Internet's most exclusive source of dining information. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:12:06 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: MISC> Do You Know How to Be Street Smart? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 16:36:26 -0500 From: Michael Schelling To: gsunet-l@bgu.edu Subject: Do You Know How to Be Street Smart? KidsHealth Express http://kidshealth.org http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/street_smart.html Quoted from email I received earlier today. "Do you know the rules for being street smart? Find out what they are when you read our new article for kids." This is a pretty darn good site. Enjoy, Mike mailto:mschelling@radix.net http://www.radix.net/~mschelling Worldwide Missing Children Information Education, Health, Parenting, Worldwide Jobs and more... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:12:16 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: LISTS> NEW: SEARCHSECRETS - Search Engine Secrets Discussion List Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:36:33 -0600 From: Christopher Knight Subject: NEW: SEARCHSECRETS - Search Engine Secrets Discussion List To: NEW-LIST@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU SearchSecrets on join-searchsecrets@sparklist.com You're welcome to join The SearchSecrets Email Discussion List. :) The purpose of the SearchSecrets list is to discuss search engine secrets, technology, search engines, internet directories, tips, tricks, suggestions to better improve your search engine position, and anything else related to search engines. To subscribe, Send An Email To: join-searchsecrets@sparklist.com Owner: Christopher M. Knight join-searchsecrets@sparklist.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:12:27 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: NEWSLTR> InterNIC News "The Year In Review Issue" Now Online! From: "Boroumand, Sepideh" Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:12:30 -0500 In describing Network Solutions' past year one word comes most prominently to mind - change. The year 1997 has been quite eventful - filled with growth, success and lessons learned. Here is what the InterNIC News has in store for you this month: Our first article, "NSI Expands" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/nsiexpands.html) will bring you up-to-date on our new state-of-the-art facility, latest equipment, staff expansion and our enhanced registration process. The article, "Awards, Achievements and Accolades" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/awards.html), is our way of telling you we have been doing things right. A number of our peers have recognized and honored us with awards. Registration services moved to a new building, we registered the millionth domain name and in little than over two years domain registrations have increased by a 1,000 percent growth rate. In other words - Network Solutions has been very busy! See our "History in the Making : Milestones Achieved" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/milestones.html) to learn more about these events. Did you attend Internet World, IETF, or INET in the past year? Were you or a student you know a participant in CyberFair '97? If so, then you've seen us in action. "A Strong Community Presence : NSI in Action" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/community.html) will give you a glimpse of all our activities and outreach within the Internet community. NSI is accustomed to being in the public eye and being covered by worldwide media networks. The Internet became a part of everyday life for more people in 1997 than ever before. As a result, the media covered Internet developments on a regular basis, and Network Solutions figured into many of the stories. For details see, "The World is Watching..." (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/media.html). Every business's success depends on a number of factors, and partnership is one of them. Network Solutions is proud to have established partnerships with a number of leading Internet companies over the past year. See our article, "NSI's Partners in Success" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/partners.html) for more details. "The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) : From Proposal to Practice" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/arin.html) will give you a quick look at the developments that led to this milestone in Internet administration. ARIN provides Internet Protocol (IP) number administration and registration services for North America, South America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. The Internet has become an essential tool for business, commerce, trade, and communication. Expectations and demand have risen among users, and existing models have been outgrown. At Network Solutions, we can see the future coming. A new, global framework is needed if the Internet is to continue to grow. Our senior staff have been busy this year carrying this message to a wide range of public and private forums. The article, "Where Do We Go >From Here?" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/evolution.html) shares highlights from the past year's activities. Ever wonder what a typical day at the Network Solutions registration services might be like? See "A Day in the Life of Network Solutions' Registration Services" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/aday.html). The title for Jack Solock's monthly column - End User's Corner - says it all. Read "From The Internet Scout Project Year in Review : 1997 "A Year of Growth and Development" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/enduser.html) for the latest developments and enhancements to the Project. Want the cold hard facts that registration services have been busy? See Eric Eden's monthly column "Bet You Didn't Know" (http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/jan98/eric.html) for the gross numbers of registrations for the first three quarters of fiscal year 1997. As you see, the year 1997 has been memorable and filled with historical moments for Network Solutions. We have come a long way and look eagerly towards the future. We, at Network Solutions, hope to have you with us every step of the way as we venture into 1998. Happy New Year! -- Sepideh S. Boroumand Editor, InterNIC News http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews Voice: 703.742.4789 Fax: 703.742.8109 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:12:39 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: MISC> The Abyss Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:21:36 -0600 (CST) From: DanOwen@juno.com http://Scubadiver.home.ml.org The Abyss is designed to keep Divers upto date on new information on Scuba Diving and Divesites. Pictures of sharks are found here. There is also a VRML shark here too. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:12:52 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: K12> Webcast of E Rate seminar by the PA Secretary of Education Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 18:20:06 +0000 From: alison@thecampus.com (Alison C Marshall) To: wwwedu@ready.cpb.org Subject: Webcast of E Rate seminar by the PA Secretary of Education and W Dear List, I thought all of you might be interested in a webcast (broadcasting of live and on demand audio and video over the Internet) occuring Friday January 9th from 10-11:30am EST and 1pm-4pm EST on E rate forms. The Pennsylvania Secretary of Education has invited the West Branch Area School district students to Harrisburg to webcast the event. The webcast can be seen live or archived (on demand at a later date) at http://www.westbranch.org or http://rams1.rasd.k12.pa.us. West Branch is the first school in the nation to formally use webcasting as a way to do low cost and effective distance education over the Internet. This should be an interesting event and informative as well since most people on this list will be dealing with the E rate issue in the next few weeks. I invite you to attend this groundbreaking student-driven event. Warm regards, Alison Marshall Alison@srtenterprises.com Chief Operating Officer ******************************* SRT Enterprises http://www.thecampus.com http://www.srtenterprises.com http://www.webcastcenter.com 814-342-7639 800-830-3778 Fax 814-342-7638 ******************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:13:11 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: K12> Canadian history site Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 22:47:04 -0500 From: Pat Elliott Subject: Re: Canadian history site To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Here is an interesting site of Canadian history. It can be viewed by Quick-time plug-in or by clicking on a graphical page with a charted floor plan. It covers 1000-1600 On the edge of a New World (The Norse and explorers); 1600-1810 Acadia; 1760-1880 Expanding Frontiers - The fur trade; Metis; Upper Canada; 1840-1890 Towns and Trade http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/cmc/cmceng/canp1eng.html -- Pat Elliott Teacher/Librarian Ferndale Woods Elementary School Barrie, Ontario Canada mailto:pat.elliott@sympatico.ca =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST NOTE: Please allow time for confirmation from Listserv. For more help see LM_NET On The Web: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:13:19 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: RESOUR> Re: best news sites Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 22:48:59 -0500 From: Pat Elliott Subject: Re: best news sites To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU The top 50 best news sites on-line. Including: Toronto Star; USA Today, Wall Street Journal and others from around the world. http://www.newslink.org/bestresults.html -- Pat Elliott Teacher/Librarian Ferndale Woods Elementary School Barrie, Ontario Canada mailto:pat.elliott@sympatico.ca =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To quit LM_NET (or set NOMAIL or DIGEST), Send an email message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST NOTE: Please allow time for confirmation from Listserv. For more help see LM_NET On The Web: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:13:30 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: NEWSLTR> The Weekly Bookmark (v4.01) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 23:21:54 -0600 From: Matt Alberts The Weekly Bookmark ISSN 1091-6202 January 05, 1998 - Vol 4, No. 01 http://www.weeklyb.com/issues/wbs980105.html ____________________________________________________ On My End This is just a small sampling of some of the sites you will see in each issue of the Weekly Bookmark. For the full description, and a lot of other sites, please visit the address above. ____________________________________________________ In This Issue A Forgotten America The San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau today launched the official San Francisco visitor web site, ... http://www.sfvisitor.com HotWired's RGB Gallery The RGB Gallery by HotWired is a Web-based digital gallery which spotlights forward-thinking multimedia and cutting edge technology. http://www.rgb.hotwired.com ArtNet ArtNet is "the leading online service for the art world." http://www.artnet.com BookSpot BookSpot is the information sweetspot of the best book-related resources on the Web, ... http://www.bookspot.com Quid Pro Quo A law student run website featuring free law outlines, ... http://quidproquo.org ____________________________________________________ Copyright (C) 1998 by Matt Alberts - All Rights Reserved ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:13:40 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: RESOUR> The Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites From: "Birzeit Webmaster" Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 09:39:31 GMT + 2 COMPLETE GUIDE TO PALESTINE'S WEBSITES RELAUNCH http://www.birzeit.edu/links/ The new, improved Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites was relaunched on 3 January 1998, with new categories, new reviews, around 30 new websites and some useful new features including "Palestine's Websites at a Glance" (all on one page), "Key Peace Process Links", and a list of local Palestinian mailing lists from which you can receive information about events in the country. Hope you like the new design, which will get a few minor tweaks in the next two weeks. In the rush to get it out quickly, there were several websites that didn't get listed, a task which will be completed by mid-January, at which point the results of the 1998 Golden Olive Awards will be announced along with January's site of the month. The good news is that Palnet, the leading Palestinian ISP, and us at Birzeit will be teaming up to offer a new Palestinian website search service. We will continue to provide an index and searchable reviews of Palestinian websites (a Yahoo-type service), while Palnet will offer a searchable index of the text all of Palestine's websites (an AltaVista-type service). We are both excited about this new idea and plan to make an interface for both options available in both resources. In addition, Birzeit will become the clearing house of all local Palestinian URLs, passing them on to Palnet for indexing. This makes it very important to alert us of new URLs of sites based in Palestine. The Complete Guide will also now offer links to recommended external websites related to Palestine from the same subject categories as local sites. Please note that if you are based in Palestine you are guaranteed of a listing. If you are outside Palestine, however, we only aim to list the best resources. Send us sites we overlook, let us know your feedback, and if you are a business, consider advertising on the Complete Guide. Every banner advert that runs for a year buys Birzeit a new computer to expand our work on the Web. Help us promote this resource for local Palestinian information. Download the title gif from the homepage and display it on your website. Smaller gifs are in the process of construction. If you want to make one, please do. Thanks for your continued support. Nigel Parry Birzeit Webmaster Public Relations Office, Birzeit University P.O. Box 14, Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine. Tel: +972-2-998-2075 Fax: +972-2-995-7656 E-mail: nparry@admin.birzeit.edu OR nparry@baraka.org Webphone: Search for Nigel Parry (voice mail available) Birzeit University homepage: http://www.birzeit.edu/ Nigel Parry's homepage: http://www.birzeit.edu/diary/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:45:07 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: K12> Attention Teachers of 6 - 12 graders From: G-Wiz Date: 6 Jan 1998 14:13:09 GMT Dear Teachers and Students, Hello. My name is Jeremy Ennen. I'm in the 7th grade and I'm doing my science fair project on the INTERNET. If it wouldn't be to much trouble, and you and your students have INTERNET access, would you and your students please fill out my survey at http://www.gate.net/~gregnn/jindex.html Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:09:19 -0600 From: Gleason Sackman Subject: K12> [Classroom Connect] M&M News To: Classroom Connect Mailing List From: Susan Metalis Subject: [Classroom Connect] MM News Date: Tue, 6 Jan 98 10:09:55 -0500 M&M News Vol 5 l297 http://www.mm-soft.com We at M&M Software hope your holiday season was wonderful. Our newest creation, Fifty States Clip Art,includes 50 clip art images, one for each of the states of the USA. It also includes information about each state: the capital, the state flower and the state bird. Not only is our creation great, but it is free!! You can find this collection and many other free clip art collections at our site: http://www.mm-soft.com Speaking of web sites of value to people interested in education, I recently found two web sites that may be of use to you. The Seattle Times has a spot on their web page dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes an interactive quiz about the civil rights movement, study guides and links to related sites. It can be found at: http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/classroom.html The other site of interest is dedicated to the Chinese New Year. It includes descriptions about Chinese celebrations, the Chinese zodiac, graphics, lunar calendar and links to related sites. You can find it at: http://www.chinascape.org/ChineseNewYear Finally, here are the fine programs for Windows and Mac that we have recently added to our M&M Software Library. WINDOWS ======= [] Math Drop [ME4246] Play this addition game against the computer or with friends. Roll the four dice and add them up to gain points. 2nd-5th. [sw] [] Spell Games [LA4244] Enter your spelling lists and play one of the four games to help you learn them. 1st-6th. [sw] [] Pic-Tac-Toe [GS4245] A three dimensional tic tac toe game. Very cute graphics! 3rd-adult. [fw] [] Eye on Sunrise [SP4243] Choose a date and place on earth and find out when the sun will rise, when the sun will set, what phase the moon will be in and much more. 5th-adult. [sw] [] Solitaire [GC4242] This cool version of the classic card game will keep you busy for hours. 2nd-adult. [sw] MACINTOSH========= (Just download Stack Player [CT3409]if you don't already have HyperCard.) [] Camping Story [LA6076] A cute HyperCard story book that you can personalize. Makes reading extra fun when you see the names you have chosen used in the story. 2nd-5th [sw] [] Sentence Builder [LA6078] Read the words and put the sentence back together. Helps to learn sentence structure. 1st-5th. [sw] [] Be Fruitful and Multiply [ME6079] Learn to multiply with this colorful tutorial. This is not just a drill. It illustrates the principle of multiplication graphically. 2nd-5th [sw] [] Weather Quiz [SP6077] Do you know how our weather is made? Take this quiz and find out how much you do know and learn what you don't. Requires HyperCard. 5th-adult. [sw] [] Solitaire Till Dawn [GC6067] The most complete set of solitaire variants I have found for the Macintosh. There are twenty games including the ever popular Klondike. 2nd-adult. [sw] We also have added Apple II and MS-DOS titles. You can get all of the above along with hundreds of other educational titles from us, either on disk (for $4.95/disk) or, much more economically, by joining our users' group (for $4.95/month) and then downloading titles to your heart's delight. To find out how, look us up on the internet at: http://www.mm-soft.com You can download the current catalog of all our titles. 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