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by Al Massey |
Old friend Tom Robb "The Old Gardner." A few short months ago I overheard Tom saying "I've really got to look into this Internet thing." Well, looks like he did! When you visit take a look at Tom's Brag Wall and check out the icons for Point's top 5% and RadioOne. His "My Garden" is a must see. Tom is past president of the Harris County Master Gardeners Association and his work really shows through. Great job, Tom.
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/conference/asco96/
The well-known Oncolink Internet Cancer Resource, provided by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, has recently made available highlights from the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which took place May 18-21, 1996 in Philadelphia, Pa. It was the largest cancer conference in the world, with 14,000 participants. Included at the site are highlights from each day's activities, including interviews, research findings, symposia, newspaper articles, and speeches. Note that most of this content is excerpted or summarized. Oncolink is one of the largest and most comprehensive cancer resources on the Internet, aiming to disseminate oncology information, educate health care personnel, patients and families, and collect specialty information. AASCO meeting highlights.
http://www.utoledo.edu/www/erp/
The Equal Rights Party History Project, provided by Professor Timothy Messer-Kruse of the University of Toledo, is an "experiment in participatory research" on the 545 women and men who founded the Equal Rights Party (ERP) in May of 1872. Members such as Victoria Woodhull and Belva Lockwood are well known, but most are anonymous to history. This site attempts to address that oversight by encouraging interested Internauts to adopt a founder of the ERP who once lived in a place close to their home town as a subject, research that subject, and report the findings back to the ERP project. At present the site contains a geographical database of ERP members, a brief history of the Party, research tips, and an explanation of how to send your information to the site. The ERP page is an interesting attempt at collaborative primary history that hopes to "level the ivory tower walls that have long isolated professional historians and the history they write from everyone else who make it and live it."
At the heart of the College Grad Job Hunter Web site, provided by Quantum Leap Publishing, is the Entry Level Jobs Offered Section, which at present includes eleven companies and is, for the most part, geared toward new college graduates. The section also offers thirteen pointers to other sites that provide job information for new grads. Another highlight is partial text from College Grad Job Hunter, by Brian Krueger. College Grad Job Hunter also provides information on writing cover letters, resumes, and negotiating offers. Note that at this time most of the jobs offered are computer related. Partial text of College Grad Job Hunter is at http://www.collegegrad.com/prep/cgjh/chapters.html/.
http://bohr.physics.purdue.edu/~jswhite/dance_links.html
One of the highlights of the Dance Links Web site at Purdue University, compiled mainly from information provided by dance videographer Amy Reusch, is the University Dance Departments pointers page, a collection of pointers to over 150 US University Dance departments, as well as departments in Australia, Canada, Finland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Dance Links also points to resources related to dance companies, performance listings, publications, organizations, funding, dance schools, dancers, and other dance indexes.
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm
The Ohio State University Department of Finance has made a Financial Data Finder available on the Web. There are pointers pages to data providers, including Canadian, Australian, United Kingdom, and Spanish, as well as US providers; historical data; free and for-fee current quotations; market news and analysis; and business libraries. "Couch potato" investing tips are also provided. Most links have brief annotations. There are also links to other Internet finance resources.
Gourmet World, produced by Internet World Broadcasting Corp., is an epicurean delight. The Culinary Center offers hundreds of recipes, organized geographically and by main ingredient, as well as pointers to the pages of over twenty renowned chefs. The Fine Dining Court presents restaurant reviews and restaurants by cuisine. The Library contains links to associations, cooking schools, conversion tables, and food information. Note that this site is a work in progress. However, there is already a large amount of information about good eating. Bon appetit, ya'll.
The Rose Resource, provided by All America Rose Selections, is highlighted by a searchable database of 137 AARS-approved rose gardens in the US It also contains a list of AARS-award winning roses (with selected photos) going back to 1940, information about rose use and landscape design, gardening tips, the history of roses, their symbolism and fragrances, and a list of AARS trial gardens. AARS is a "non-profit organization of rose growers and introduces the dedicated to garden rose research and promotion." It has been in existence since 1938.
http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/main.html
Adobe has made the hitherto code-named "Amber" Reader an official 3.0 Beta release, available for free downloading. Features include integration with popular Web browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer, transparent navigation between Acrobat .PDF files and HTML, delivery of .PDF files one page at a time, ability to read .PDF files embedded in HTML pages, an Acrobat toolbar within a Netscape window, and continuous scrolling and 2-up pages, among others. At present the reader is available for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix platforms. An alpha version is available for OS/2.
Scientific American has been publishing since 1845, and at its Web site interested readers can find two full text articles from the current issue, as well as several features including selected short articles, news and analysis, short selections from 50, 100, and 150 years ago, an interactive "ask the experts" where scientific experts answer selected e-mail questions, and weekly explorations and exhibits of scientific concepts.
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