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by Al Massey |
StreetEYE attempts to bring together every important investment and financial resource on the Internet into a neatly arranged structure, organized by topic and subtopic, and supplemented by a search engine. Users will also find information about government and commercial information providers, nonprofit institutions, and other financial resources. Individual investors can browse a collection of personal finance topics, as well as selected non-financial resources.
Klub Kaycee—Kansas City Jazz in the 1920s and 30s, presented by the Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri-Kansas City, in cooperation with kansascity.com and the Kansas City Star newspaper, is highlighted by a “Soundbyte” section, where, with the aid of RealAudio 2.0, users can listen to (approximately 30-second) jazz recordings provided from the holdings of the library. Included are over 35 recordings from 1916 to 1954, by artists including Count Basie, Euday Bowman, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Jay McShann’s Kansas City Stompers, among others.
http://www.tele.fi/karpov/gameworl.htm
Chess—Karpov Defeats “The World”. Last February the best chess player in the world, Gary Kasparov, defeated Deep Blue, IBM’s multiprocessing chess playing machine, Anatoly Karpov, arguably the world’s second best player, beat the “rest of the world” (an average of 250 players actively voting on the world’s next move) in 32 moves and about four and a half hours. Highlight of this site, provided by Finland’s Tele Chess, is a Shockwave-enabled replay of the game, chronicling its progress move by move. A non-Shockwave graphical and text-based game is also available, as well as commentary and information on both Karpov and chess.
First Monday is a peer-reviewed monthly electronic journal about the Internet. It covers the Internet from the point of view of political and regulatory events, economic, political and social factors, software research and development, usage in specific communities, standards, and content.
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/obev/
The Oxford Book of English Verse at The Bartleby Library at Columbia University has added the 1919 edition of The Oxford Book of English Verse to its on-line offerings. The entire text of the 1084-page original, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, is available and searchable. The collection may be browsed using alphabetic indices of authors, titles, or first lines. A chronological index of authors, from a 13th-century Anonymous to R. D. Blackmore (1825-1900), is also available.
http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html
Institute for the Study of Civic Values, an outgrowth of a non-profit community revitalization and development effort in Philadelphia, this newly updated web site provides information about the Institute’s civic values-based programs. The four projects currently under way are: Neighborhoods Online, an effort to help citizen groups make effective use of telecommunications; Building Community in the American Tradition, a discussion guide and e-mail list for neighborhood leaders and activists; Social Contract Project, which helps neighborhood organizations negotiate with government and businesses to define shared goals; and Community Opportunity Program, with an emphasis on adult literacy and community service internships.
WWWebster Dictionary. Britannica Online has made Merriam-Webster’s WWWebster Dictionary available for searching on the web. Each retrieved word is accompanied by pronunciation, usage, grammatical function, a brief etymology, and of course, definition. A thesaurus can be queried for similar words, hypertext cross references are available, misspellings return suggested spellings, and there are hypertext links to illustrations. The search system supports internal wildcards (single and multiple letter) and right hand truncation searching. There is also an extensive pronunciation guide. In addition to the dictionary, the site also contains selected transcripts of the syndicated radio show “Word for the Wise.”
Ballparks by Munsey and Suppes (Paul Munsey and Corey Suppes) have lovingly compiled facts and photos on all major league baseball parks in this frames-based site. In addition to each modern park, there are 23 parks from the past, including Huntington Avenue Grounds, Shibe Park, the Polo Grounds, and Forbes Field, among others. Each page contains photos or artist’s renderings of the park, along with basic information about the tenant, time of tenancy, capacity, dimensions, and trivia, among others. Each team’s stadium page is also hyperlinked to the past stadiums it has played in. In addition, there are 15 future parks, with artist’s renderings when available, and information on the development of these parks. Munsey and Suppes have recently added sections on pro football stadiums, including NFL and CFL (Canadian Football League) stadiums. And the Crescendo-enabled rendering of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” that accompanies the home page should get fans in the mood. This site is reminiscent of Philip Lowery’s great book, Green Cathedrals, and though not nearly as comprehensive, is one of the best places on the web to find this type of information.
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