From: WBStandard Editor ; editor@weeklyb.com To: WBStandard Distribution List ; wbs@weeklyb.com Subject: WB Standard - December 01, 1997 Date: Lunes 1 de Diciembre de 1997 02:04 PM The Weekly Bookmark Standard ISSN 1091-6202 December 01, 1997 - Vol 3, No. 10 http://www.weeklyb.com/issues/wbs971201.html ____________________________________________________ In This Issue On My End A note and upcoming information from the editor. Who Sends This? Find out more about our host and the services that they provide. The Other Box Press releases and other submissions that made it some other way. What's Out There The web sites that rolled into our box this week. Weekly Bookmark Standard Information Advertising, unsubscription, and other general information. 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Enjoy the sights, as they may soon vanish forever. http://shop-southwest-ok.com/america/ Submitted By: Mike Holland ____________________________________________________ What's Out There This Week's Sites 'Tis the Season A Search for the Meaning of Christmas "A Search for the Meaning of Christmas" is a holiday site highlighting Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa celebrations as well as family and religious traditions. There are links and activities for children; holiday literature; holiday traditions, religious links and links to Christmas sites around the world. Come join us and put a little more meaning into your holiday season! http://www.techdirect.com/christmas Submitted By: Ruth Rainey Holiday Survival Guide The Holiday Survival Guide from Womens Wire and Preventions Healthy Ideas helps you plan for the season. Choose from features like Holiday Recipes, Planning your Holiday Budget, Dieting during the Holidays, and Managing Holiday Stress. In addition to general holiday content, there are also specific sections devoted to Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. http://healthyideas.com/holiday/ Submitted By: Ted Resnick Arts and Humanities Inspirations and poems from the heart. A place of love and enlightenment. Inspirations, poems, penpals. We are each of us Angels, and we can only fly by embracing each other. http://www.iaw.com/~pal/norm/page2.htm Submitted By: Norm The Ulysses S. Grant Homepage This is the largest website on any Civil War figure or American President. It is crammed with information on helping students, Civil War buffs or just interested history nuts in discovering the true man, U.S. Grant. http://www.mscomm.com/~ulysses/ Submitted By: Candace Scott Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation Welcome To Oklawaha County's Tribute to Gamble Rogers. Gamble's Music, Gamble's Stories, and Gamble's Life. http://www.gamblerogers.com Submitted By: Charles Steadham Laughing Sun Laughing Sun is dedicated to the literary arts. It is filled with original material, jobs for writers page, research page, and to Cyber Oasis, a literary newsletter you can subscribe to for free. The Laughing Sun is dedicated to making writing and literature a presense on the web. http://people.delphi.com/eide491 Submitted By: David Allen Eide Dirck Halstead home page Famous photojournalist Dirck Halstead, has started this multimedia rich site to stimulate the new journalism of the 21st century. http://dirckhalstead.org Submitted By: Dirck Halstead ShadCat's Free Genealogy Listings Find your roots - thousands of links to research. Add your genealogy related web site or your surnames today! ShadCat's is catagorized to speed navigation. Low use of graphics also insures fast page loading. Visit and bookmark our site. We will keep you busy for hours! http://user.icx.net/~booboo/shad6.html Submitted By: Gary L. Yeary Computers and Technology Girls Interactive Resource Library (GIRL) GIRL, Girls Interactive Resource Library, is an informal coalition of leading girls' software publishers. The web site was developed to provide parents and their daughters with a one-stop online resource for information about girls' software available during the 1997 holiday season. http://www.just4girls.com Submitted By: Holly Smevog MicrosoftWindows98.com The site for Windows98 tips, tricks, software, and information. http://microsoftwindows98.com Submitted By: Justin Knight Web Diner Visit the Web Diner web site and discover Your Web Adventure, an introduction for beginning web page creators. You'll find help and tutorials on everything from a beginning web page to CGI-less guestbooks and forms. Benefit from Web Diner's experience teaching thousands of folks how to create web pages. Don't miss the groovy 3D alphabets and Web Page Template Drive-In, too! New this week: seven winter holiday web page templates, including Santa's Guestbook, that you can download and use on your own web site. http://www.webdiner.com Submitted By: Laurie McCanna Education Swissinvest.com=20 Guide to Swiss stocks, derivatives, financial services provides reports, research, investment information about companies traded on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX). Includes latest business news. http://www.swissinvest.com Submitted By: John Fotiadis English and English Language Schools A directory of English language schools in England and Great Britain. http://www.idiom.co.uk Submitted By: Nick Winter Institute Winter Institute is a web site dedicated to postsecondary learning assistance centers, programs, and services. Its name is derived from the series of weeklong intensive training sessions that originated at UC Berkeley by Martha Maxwell in 1977 and are now annually co-sponsored by the University of Arizona and Maricopa County CC District. http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/winterinstitute/ Submitted By: Frank L Christ the NODE The NODE is an online network devoted to post-secondary distance education. Among the features of our site are: The Learner Support pages, Integrated Learning Packages, and a bi-monthly newsletter, "Networking." http://node.on.ca Submitted By: Leslie Fournier Entertainment Game Players' Gathering Game Players' Gathering contains cheats and FAQ's for N64 games. Also, Final Fantasy 7 section. Complete with cool music and home-made icons that will make you amazed. http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/2622/index.html Submitted By: Henry Leung Tyee's Payback Web Have you ever had the urge to take out a little frustration on the politicians and celebrities in your life. At Tyee's Payback Web everyone can use the BugEyes Java applet to make funny face of a large variety of the rich and famous. http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/4644/ Submitted By: Bob Wagner British Television And A Cup Of Joe If you're looking for information regarding who or what this Mr. Bean is...and what he could possibly be doing in America on the big screen, this would be the site to tell you. Plus, you can also find out about Inspector Morse, Prime Suspect, Fawlty Towers, and other great British Television programs. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2694/index.html Submitted By: David Duplessis Where To Bet Online Where To Bet attempts to provide the Internet community with independent directory listings of Internet sites where you can gamble with real money (includes Online Casinos, Sportsbooks and Lotteries). Issues that are covered include player security, the operations' gambling license details, games offered and a whole lot more. http://www.wheretobet.com Submitted By: Scott Logan Bob's Rock Shop Bob's Rock Shop is the Internet's first 'Zine for mineral collectors, lapidary hobbyists and rockhounds. http://www.rockhounds.com Submitted By: Bob Keller Government and Politics Elections U.S.A. Regular updates of current campaigns from all 50 states. Plus detailed results of U.S. presidential elections 1948-96, all gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, and some minor elections from all 50 states. Other features: latest national polls, visitor's comments, Vote 2000 - you can vote for your favorite candidate... now! http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6228 Submitted By: Andrew Zak Mark's Politics Page A site devoted to providing people with the tools they may need to understand American politics and governance. Links to most executive branch agencies, Supreme Court decisions, Congress. Updated daily with a new statistic of politics, public policy or public opinion. Articles, essays, and research written by a Michigan State University Student who is also a legislative advocate for a non-profit organization. It also contains a section on how a bill becomes a law, how the federal budget process works, how the Fed works and excerpts from inaugural addresses. http://pilot.msu.edu/user/gribbenm Submitted By: Mark Gribben Friends of Arthur and Megan 11 year old Arthur exposed San Diego Family Court corruption on the internet and he is now gagged and banned from the internet by the same corrupt judge he exposed. http://www.primenet.com/~rhal/foam.html Submitted By: Richard Halavais Health and Medicine KidsHealth.org Features interactive articles about children's healthcare, medicine, surgery, and parenting. There are fun games, Kids Vote health polls, and the Nemours media guide. http://kidshealth.org Submitted By: Dana Dillon Convomania: Where it's OK to be not OK. A hangout for sick and disabled kids, sponsored by Apple Computer. Chats, discussions, expressions about changing the hospital experience. http://www.mania.apple.com Submitted By: Peter Green Extended Care Information Network, Inc. Elderconnect is a database of over 33,000 providers of all levels of long-term extended care. Full color provider brochures. http://www.extendedcare.com Submitted By: Mark Krupowicz Doctors Opposing Circumcision Doctors Opposing Circumcision, with members in all States and a number of other countries, flatly opposes infant circumcision. We have a brief curriculum for medical students and others who wish to learn the truth about this tragic practice. http://weber.u.washington.edu/~gcd/DOC Submitted By: George C Denniston MD Cindy's Legal Bite Are you disabled and trying to get Social Security benefits or other insurance benefits? Or are you just looking for more information on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)? If so, try "Cindy's Legal Bite." We have a lot of information about CFS and disability, as well as links to other legal sites. http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/1265/index.html Submitted By: Cindy Peterson Internet and the Web Amazon City Radio The one and only radio station for women on the net, featuring news, music, talk, and a guide to women's radio. In RealAudio. http://radio.amazoncity.com Submitted By: Rae Zander Interactive Adventure's Home Page This page about adventure games. News, music, downloads, hints, chat and links. http://www.civila.com/brasil/interadv Submitted By: Volcano Advertising Age OnLine AdAge.com features daily advertising, marketing, media news and daily newsfeeds covering interactive and international marketing for an audience of marketing, ad agency and media professionals. The site includes features from Advertising Age, special reports, agency and marketer data, and access to search the the most comprehensive archive of marketing information on the Web. http://adage.com Submitted By: Margot Patrick The Godfathrs Paintball Web Page http://www.monmouth.com/~jmwebpages/paintball.htm Submitted By: Joe JewishInk the Jewish contemporary magazine. Jewish contemporary magazine featuring entertainment, Jewish celebrities, music, jewish singles, interviews, book reviews, kosher information, holiday articles, discussion forums. http://www.jewishink.com/ Submitted By: Dr. Tzvee Zahavy News Services The HowToWeb Update The HowToWeb(TM) Update is a free bi-weekly newsletter which provides links and descriptions of content-rich websites and services. Each issue has its own theme and is available online at writenews.com and by email. The premier issue focuses on U.S. newspapers online. Almost all major U.S. newspapers have made the move online, some more successfully than others. The first Update describes and links to newspapers that have flourished in their online adventures. http://www.writenews.com/howtoweb.htm Submitted By: Greg Knollenberg Nasdaq Newsroom The Nasdaq Newsroom provides comprehensive and timely information to financial reporters and anyone interested in learning more about The Nasdaq Stock Market. This site contains the latest Nasdaq press releases, statistics, IPOs, and other market information. http://www.nasdaqnews.com Submitted By: Leith Wheeler Trade India It is a User's Guide for the Traders linked to India. The site lists Indian "Exporter's Yellow Pages" first ever "Indian Importers' Directory and a business magazine "Export-Import Trade Flash". http://www.trade-india.com Submitted By: Bikky Khosla Tacoma Weekly On-Line Local news, business and community information from Tacoma, Washington and the South Puget Sound area of Washington State. http://members.tripod.com/~tacomaweekly/index-3.html Submitted By: John Weymer BBC News Online BBC News Online from the world's leading broadcaster. Up to the minute news in multimedia formats from the UK and around the world, including dispatches from BBC correspondents worldwide. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Submitted By: Keith Roberts Organizations Kansas City Commercial Real Estate The Kansas City Commercial Brokers Association (CBA) has established an on-line search engine for commercial property listings in the midwest United States. The site also includes business opportunity listings and a unique "properties wanted" bulletin board. http://www.kccre.com Submitted By: William W. Gillmor Association of Rotational Molders The Association of Rotational Molders is an international trade association representing member manufacturers of rotationally molded plastic parts. Members also include resin and equipment suppliers, designers and professionals in 57 countries. http://www.rotomolding.org Submitted By: Janet Friends of Lulu Los Angeles Official homepage for the Friends of Lulu Los Angeles. We are dedicated to the advancement of women and girls in the comic book industry http://members.aol.com/lulula Submitted By: Sean Glumace Mood For A Day Home Page Mood For A Day is a Utah nonprofit prohemp organization which has been promoting the many uses of hemp, such as food, fuel, fiber, and medicine, since 1988. Mood For A Day provides ecology information, hemp activism information, newsletter pages, a bulletin board of ongoing information, access to Utah-made hemp products such as soaps, lip balms, and trail bars, and links to other Utah hemp sites. http://www.xmission.com/~mood/ Submitted By: Fred George Recreation and Sports PAOK HOME PAGE This is the best way to keep in touch with PAOK SALONIKA and the greek league. http://www.paok.com Submitted By: Asterios Kalivas Sea Shell Exchange The Sea Shell Exchange is a Free service for all sea shell collectors, providing a place where both beginners and experienced collectors can exchange sea shells. http://members.aol.com/lwood99982/shell.htm Submitted By: Larry and Lenora Woodham Quincy High School Cross Country Team Quincy High School Cross Country Team is celebrating its third year on the web. Provided is their schedule and 1997 meet results with links to other high school cross country teams. http://www.virtualquincy.com/qhscc/ Submitted By: John Reese Ken the Juggler's Homepage Help for jugglers, information on juggling tricks, plate spinning, etc. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/orr_kchu Submitted By: Kenneth Chu Society and Culture The Labor of Love This unique pregnancy/parenting site contains over 100 searchable birth stories and a pregnancy/parenting pen pal database so you can network with others that have the same experiences and interests as you. Other exciting information includes message boards, pregnancy bookstore, email postcards and more. http://www.thelaboroflove.com Submitted By: Vickie Barnes MKH Pages My site is a collection of short discourses pertinent to the subject of God/Christ, but my understanding of who God is and what Christianity is all about is atypical. You may find it of interest, and it may give you a new and different perspective on this subject. http://members.tripod.com/~mkhpage/index.html Submitted By: Mark Hitter Ian's Lunar Page A site all about the moon, focusing mainly on folklore and mythology, but with other stuff too, and enough digressions to provide something of interest to most people. Includes: How to make moondials, lunar gardening, Erasmus Darwin, ancient Egyptian art, Robin Hood, The man in the moon, homebrewing and some stuff you almost certainly didn't know about Led Zeppelin. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2739 Submitted By: Ian Sanders Travel and Regional Information "Orange County's Online Information Service" Community Access is THE directory of directories for Orange County information and Southern California resources. http://www.communityaccess.org Submitted By: roland gregory A welcome to NH's Spectacular Mt. Washington Valley An informational directory from the Mt. Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau for vacationers and visitors to the White Mountains National Forest area. Check lodging availability and make reservations on-line. A must-see website describing one of New Englands premiere resort areas. http://www.4seasonresort.com Submitted By: Dennis E. Helfand The Bj=F8rnefjord region Presentation of a beautiful fjord-region in Western-Norway. http://www.bjornefjorden.com/english/ Submitted By: Hans-Normann Gaassand ____________________________________________________ The Weekly Bookmark Information Web Addresses The Weekly Bookmark Homepage: http://www.weeklyb.com/ The Weekly Bookmark Archives: http://www.weeklyb.com/issues/ Submission Addresses The Weekly Bookmark Submission Form: http://www.weeklyb.com/submit-guide.shtml E-Mail Addresses info@weeklyb.com An autoresponse message about the Weekly Bookmark and other services available. editor@weeklyb.com For information regarding the Weekly Bookmark. advertising@weeklyb.com For more information about advertising in the Weekly Bookmark or on the homepage. Subscription Information currentwbs@weeklyb.com To get the current issue. 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