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http://www.suu.edu/Museums_Galleries/artapp.html Art Appreciation (ART 101) will be taught entirely on-line, self-paced, and independent but interactive, beginning in March, 1996. Quarter credits (3, transferable) from Southern Utah University can be earned.
http://www.edoc.com/ejournal/ The Catalog of Electronic Journals is searchable and includes over 1800 entries. Categories include: academic and reviewed, college or university, e-mail newsletters, magazines and newspapers, political, print magazines, publishing topics, and other resources. Many of the major categories have subcategories underneath them. Most of the entries have descriptive information about the journal, along with the URL to that journal's site. The catalog. Journal articles are usually not available without a subscription.
http://www.capitolwatch.com Capitol Watch On Line offers content on what's going on in the nation's capital daily. A dozen or more headline stories plus a special interests section and links to the Federal News Service and other government sites. "Live chat with candidates and the leaders of our nation" should be online by the time you read this.
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/ The gigantic and very popular FTP archive at Washington University at St. Louis (wuarchive) is now available as a Web site, providing easy access for those who don't remember how to spell anonymous. Over 65 gigabytes of files in 11 top level directories (with literally hundreds of directories underneath) covering such topics as systems, graphics, documentation, selected Usenet News archives, and educational programs and materials. New is a list of the hundreds of sites wuarchive mirrors. Concentration is on computer related items, however see the public directory for an eclectic selection of files. Forgive me the word "eclectic", I just couldn't help myself.
http://www.oakbridge.com Play Bridge on the Net.
http://www.outland.com/OutlandHearts.html Play Hearts on the Net
http://www.zpub.com/un/bill Bill Gates Homepage
http://bingen.cs.csbsju.edu:80/letterman/topten/dec93.html#dec21 Top Ten things Overheard at the Trump Wedding.
http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/pd/pd.html Savetz's "Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index" contains pointers to works that are in the public domain. As clarified by Mr. Savetz: "Public domain doesn't mean 'shareware.' It isn't a work that is owned by somebody else, who allows you to use it for free. It isn't software distributed under the "GNU Public License," or a copyrighted book that the author has put online. Public domain means that the creator of the work, with no strings attached, has given up all rights to the work. It means that you may do anything with the work that you want—read it, publish it, put in on CD-ROM, change it."
http://ptolemy.gis.virginia.edu:1080/tigermap.html The Virginia County Interactive Mapper (was the Virginia On-Line Atlas) makes customized maps of every Virginia county and independent city available on the World Wide Web. It is the first component of the Geographic Information Center's continuing Virginia Atlas Project Initiative. Users may customize maps by choosing features to be displayed, zooming in to a desired level of detail, and selecting appropriate formats to download data. Users may download maps in a common binary image file format (GIF) or as an ArcInfo interchange file, making the data available across platforms and accessible to users of MapInfo, Atlas GIS, and other popular GIS packages. Each map is generated "on the fly" after the user selects features to be displayed.
http://world.std.com/~ldjackso/hthb5.htm The Hypertext Handbook includes a list of 80+ defined commonly used Internet terms, a huge glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and acronyms, an Internet and Unix Dictionary, and pointers to a computing dictionary and jargon lookup. University.
http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/resources.html Inter-Links is an easy to use Internet guide, tutorial, and resource locator. Inter-Links contains extensive original features, and over a dozen original search engines for finding topics, discussion groups, software, multimedia files, games, and people. Unlike many internet guides, *each* of the several thousand resources identified has been hand selected for maximal utility, ease of access, and minimal hype or advertising. While emphasizing World Wide Web resources, Inter-Links also provides comprehensive access to a wide range of other Internet services, including gopher, telnet, ftp, irc, mud, and bbs resources. Inter-Links is provided as a public service by Robert Kabacoff and Nova Southeastern.
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