Ezines
And Other web matters
"Ezines" are the internet answer to magazines. There is a huge variety offered daily, weekly, monthly and whenever. I like the kind that deliver a small amount of information daily or weekly. This page lists some that may be of general interest. Also listed are other interesting URLs.
| URL or subscription information. | Description and/or example. |
| Webopedia | Daily definition
of technical terms: Clipboard: A special file or memory area (buffer) where data is stored temporarily before being copied to another location. Many word processors, for example, use a clipboard for cutting and pasting. When you cut a block of text, the word processor copies the block to the clipboard; when you paste the block, the word processor copies it from the clipboard to its final destination. In Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh operating system, the Clipboard (with a capital C) can be used to copy data from one application to an! other. The Macintosh uses two types of clipboards. The one it calls the Clipboard can hold only one item at a time and is flushed when you turn the computer off. The other, called the Scrapbook, can hold several items at once and retains its contents from one working session to another. |
| The Nature Conservancy | See the Enewsletter, 1-12 times a month. |
| To subscribe Scout Report, go to: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/misc/lists/ |
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. However, everyone is welcome to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML). Subscription instructions are included at the end of each report. There are other reports as well that may be of interest. |
| http://www.emazing.com/ | Can subscribe to "Tip of the Day" on a variety of subjects. |
| http://www.elementkjournals.com/tips.asp | Supplies "Tips" about a range of software products. |
| http://cbs.marketwatch.com/ | Stock market stuff. See e-Newsletters or Free Membership. |
| http://plus.maths.org/index.html | "Plus" is an internet magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics. It is published in conjunction with the Cambridge-based Millennium Mathematics Project. |
| Recipes | Has shopping-list creator. |
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California Coastline San Francisco Bay CAM Sea Lions CAM Kelp Forest CAM San Francisco Historical Photographs McNeil Falls Grizzlies Alaska Glacier National Park Elephant Seals CAM http://www.nps.gov/yell/photosmultimedia/yellowstonelive.htm |
A picture of every inch of the
California coastline. From Exploratorium roof. (Provided by Phyllis). From San Francisco wharf area. Monterey Bay Aquarium. From 1850 to the present. Grizzlies fishing for salmon at McNeil Falls in Alaska. Several webcams in Glacier. National Geographic, California Old Faithful Recent |
| MSN Terraserver | See a satellite picture of where you live. |
| Pennsylvania History | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
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Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Exhibition Lewis and Clark in Missouri National Park Service Historical Photos Lewis and Clark Journals |
National Geographic Site. By the Missouri Historical Society. By the State of Missouri. Nicely interactive. Historical Photographs from the National Park Service archives. Thousands of pages of the journals. The Grand Canyon |
| This Day in History | Several categories, good coverage. |
| GeoSnapper | This novel site serves as "the birthplace of GPS photograph," as users can take their photographs, mark the GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates of where the photograph was taken, and place them on this site for the world to view. As the site comments, "Wouldn't it be great if you could share an experience with someone and give them the means to go and get that experience for themselves?" |
| Mr. Picassohead | You can become a Cubist painter at this clever site, creating an original work of art by moving facial parts -- eyes, hair, lips, ears, noses -- onto a canvas in the same fashion as snapping plastic parts onto a Mr. Potatohead doll. Once you have painted your masterpiece, you can save it in the gallery, and email a link to your friends. |
| Emoticons | Acronyms, emoticons and smilies. |
| Graffiti of San Francisco | Graffiti as high art. |
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Zipdecode The National Map |
Mapping technologies. |
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The Best of Hubble Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Spectacular pictures of space. Mars rovers gallery. |
| Ice Crystals | |
| Farber Gravestone Collection | Thousands of gravestone images. (Note: the Java client is slow to install.) (Same site has thousands of historical maps.) |
| Dieter Roth Retrospective | MoMA. Artworks. Cool "flash" site. |
| Great Mirror | Some 5k photographs from around the world. About people and how they live. |
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Grammar Test Oxymorons |
How grammatically sound are you? The definitive list. |
| Newsmap | News headlines in a visually rich display, resembling bookends. |
| 3D | Take a ride on a skateboard. |
| Rembrandt | |
| Hymns | Methodist hymns. |
| Soople | (Most) of the special searches Google offers (including a dictionary). |
| Meteor! | If a meteor strikes, this will tell you what the impact will be where you are. |
| Scribbler | Draw something. Let scribbler run
momentarily. (Set parameters) Draw some more. Let scribbler run . . . [The results can be pasted into MS Paint.] |
| Photo Stamps | It's a hoot. Put your photograph on a postage stamp. It is real postage. [Peirce Behrendt] |
| Shipwrecks | Map and info about sunken ships. |
| Web Page Building Basics | Tutorials about creating a web site, or just a page. |
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Over 200 Games GameCity |
Some are old familiar card and
board games. Another one. |
| Best site (links) by category | Panel of experts maintains a list of what they consider to be the best sites in various categories. |
| Virtual Zoo | Take the tour! |
| Cloud Appreciation Society | Clouds. Lots of clouds. |
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http://www.jvanders.com/Whyiloveher.swf |
America |
| Zoom Through light years | Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida has put up a very interesting page on their site. It begins as a view of the Milky Way Galaxy viewed from a distance of 10 million light years and then Zooms in towards Earth in powers of ten. 10 million, to one million, to 100,000 light years and then it finally reaches a large Oak tree. Once you click on the site, the software does all the work. Sit back and imagine enjoy it! You can play it forward and backward. - Elaine James 01/06 |
| Disasters | From the Discovery Channel |
| Your Food and Exercise Implications | Assesses the implications of the food you as a particular individual eat and the exercise you get. |
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Interesting search terms: "author birthdays waterboro september" Elaine/Laney Martin James 9/11/2006 |
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| Time passing . . . | Interesting display of time. Elaine/Laney Martin James 12/1/2006 (ejames7777@aol.com ) Recent |
| Your Birth Date | What else is known about the day you were born. |
| Random Humor | Funny stuff. |
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http://www.greatdan |
Phenomenal slide shows set to music. |
| http://nobelpeaceprize.org/eng_lect_2007c.html | The Nobel Lecture, Al Gore, Oslo, 2007. [Thanks, Laney] |
| Ragtime/Jazz | Old time music, played by a master.Recent |
| http://sketchup.google.com/ | Design something, like a house or an addition. Or whatever. |
| http://www.periodicvideos.com/# | Videos about each of the periodic elements. Recent |
| http://wordle.net/ | Create "word clouds" from long-ish texts. |
| http://www.gapminder.org/ | Mind-the-Gap. A London thing, but here about other gaps: income, life expectancy, ... |
| http://www.nasaimages.org/ | NASA images. Spectacular. |
| http://maanumberaday.blogspot.com/ | A number a day, with properties. |
| http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php | The rate at which our world is changing. See also the link at the top of the page for finding your life expectancy. |
Food. All kinds of recipes, including daily if you wish. You can publish your own Cookbook here.
Exploring. Lewis and Clark Library of Congress exhibition.
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her" Agatha Christie
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Compromise: Such an adjustment of conflicting
interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got
what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly
his due. -- Ambrose Bierce |
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' -- Isaac Asimov |
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Last update: 10/20/09