From: The Weekly Bookmark [info@weeklyb.com] Sent: Jueves 10 de Septiembre de 1998 04:17 PM To: List Member Subject: The Weekly Bookmark THE WEEKLY BOOKMARK ISSN 1091-6202 September 6, 1998 - Vol. 4, No. 19 IN THIS ISSUE The Weekly Bookmark presents reviews of what's new and newsworthy on the Web in over fifteen categories. Readers submit sites and the editor makes final selections. Your submissions are welcome and are carefully reviewed. Subscribers to this free newsletter will receive each issue first. Issues will subsequently be made available online. http://www.weeklyb.com ON MY END We hope you will support the sponsor who makes this publication possible. Fresh back issues through August '98 are now available on the website. We've added a search engine to the home page which enables you to search all back issues since 1995. Please note that submissions number in the hundreds each day. We do our best to review them while the news is "fresh". Your patience is appreciated. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR ====================================================================== Try out this fun and easy-to-use Web Directory! The Search Beat...The One-Stop Web Directory is a THEME based Internet directory that covers 70 topics including History, Computers, Shopping, Travel, Colleges, Science, Education, Hobbies, Music, News, Business and Jobs. Check out our new Federal US Government Guide, Teacher and Education Resource Center and College Study Guide. A real time saver! The Search Beat...The One-Stop Web Directory http://www.search-beat.com ====================================================================== ARTS AND HUMANITIES The Alsop Review http://www.alsopreview.com/ The Alsop Review, a not-for-profit endeavor, offers on-line poetry classes with major, established poets, offers a $100 prize for poetry and short stories and is the home of "The Gazebo" where people can post their writing for critique by experienced staff. Submitted By: Lewis Gresham Jim's Ballroom Dance Links http://mall.turnpike.net/~jnr/links/dance.htm Extensive collection of links to ballroom dance websites. Submitted By: Jim Rosenfield -------------------- BOOKS AND MUSIC TW3: The Whole Wired Word http://www.pictograph.com/TW3.html TW3 is a one-stop web resource for readers. Contents -- updated in small ways every day and in a big way every Monday -- include book reviews and comment, original fiction, a web guide for readers, a 24-hour confessional (What are you reading?), and Pink Cadillac, an independent review of literature and the arts. And this summer, we're running a contest: "Save the language. Win a prize." Drop by today and put a stake through the heart of the single abused word or phrase you would love never to see or hear again. Submitted By: John Bancroft Michal Urbaniak http://www.brittany-net.com/urbaniak.htm Worlds leading jazz violinist, leader, composer & arranger. One of the few main creators of fusion of the 70s. Submitted By: Andrew Skonka Folkest: International Folk Festival http://www.folkest.com More than 500 music groups have performed at Folkest. More than 100 places all over FRIULI, Slovenia, Carinthia and ISTRIA have hosted the spectacles. Submitted By: webmaster -------------------- BUSINESS AND FINANCE Corporate Responsibility and Company Profits Can Mix http://www.corpsocialsol.com Corporate Social Solutions is a good news resource. We help companies solve business problems in a socially responsible way: helping their bottom line and benefiting the community. Our bi-monthly web page Winners & Sinners Column highlights firms with exemplary programs and others who stink. Digests of speeches, articles on corporate responsibility, racism, sexism are available. Submitted By: Francesco Cantarella ------------------- COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY Intel Owner's Club Special Report - Inside Windows '98 http://www.intel.com/home/club/win98.htm Join us as we take you inside Windows 98 on a tour of some of the new features and improvements you'll find in this new operating system. Many are a result of an ongoing effort between Intel and Microsoft to work together to help bring you a better PC experience. Submitted By: C. Masters ------------------- EDUCATION Hauora Healthy Lifestyles - New Zealand http://www.wce.ac.nz/sun/ This site aims to minimise the impact of cancer on our community through a well-resourced and supported teaching profession. Submitted By: C. Masters ------------------- ENTERTAINMENT The Real Mom Club http://www.realmom.com Real Mom is a satirical adventure into the world of a mother to three small daughters. It serves as a forum for parental therapy or coping with kids, and tales of child rearing through stories and cartoons. Submitted By: Denise Rissell On-Line Theme Park Anniversary Offers Free Air Hot Balloon Rides http://www.celisl.com/thprk-celebs-anniv.htm Celestia Island marks its 1st on-line Anniversary, July 18, 1998. The celebration begins by offering guests a complimentary trip, above Lake Tahoe, on the Internet's first hot air balloon ride. Also featured is a galactic fireworks show. Submitted By: groovemaster ------------------- GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Think for Yourself - Essays on Marijuana Policy and the War on Drugs http://mall.turnpike.net/~jnr/think.htm Think for Yourself, a drug policy reading room, essays by leading thinkers on the drug war, prohibition and public policy., Think for Yourself is a drug policy reading room, a collection of articles and opinions. Submitted By: Jim Rosenfield ------------------- HEALTH AND MEDICINE The Guide to Aromatherapy http://www.fragrant.demon.co.uk/ If you want to know about Aromatherapy and the use of Essential Oils come to this site. Along with the wonderful information here there are links to hundreds of other aromatherapy and complementar health sites. Submitted By: Graham Sorenson Ask The Makeup Diva - A Weekly Online Beauty Advice Column http://www.makeupdiva.com/ Ask The Makeup Diva is published weekly and answers makeup and skin care questions submitted by readers. The advice column is also sent out via email to subscribers. Submitted By: Matt Hockin ------------------- ORGANIZATIONS ABSSI - Association of Business Support Services http://www.abssi.org ABSSI is our industry's oldest; yet most forward. Submitted By: Lynette Smith ------------------- RECREATION AND SPORTS World Golf - The International Golf Course Guide http://www.worldgolf.com/ Selections of courses from around the world - over 35 countries and still growing and being updated. Plus free golf classifieds, course reviews, hole in one registry, golf travel, rules and a great library with a constantly increase archive of great golf information. Submitted By: Joe Bolduc Spa-Your spa travel source for planning a spa vacation, finding a day spa, spa resorts and products. http://www.spamagazine.com The Spa Gateway is home to Spa Magazine and the Spa Directory, your spa travel source for planning a spa vacation. To find a spa resort or day spa in the directory you can search by spa name, spa description or spa location. Submitted By: Heath Alexander Flyfishing The Flysnest! Colorado Fly Fishing and Fly Fishing Tips http://members.aol.com/Generalfly/cofish.html Flyfishing for the Huge Fish! WARNING: This Site Leaves Sore Lips! Flyfishing like you never have before! Flyfishing & more Fishing! Submitted By: Frank Navarro Yuba Sutter Tang Soo Do Soo Bahk Do Martial Art Academy http://www.soobahkdo.org/yuba-sutter U.S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan certified studio located in the Yuba Sutter community. Submitted By: Michael Cummins ------------------- SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Oil Exploration and Production - offshore and onshore. http://www.oil.com/ Directory provides a range of petroleum related information in form of an easy to browse interface. Submitted By: oilmaster The Bank Of New Zealand Kiwi Recovery Program http://www.kiwirecovery.org.nz/ Saving our national bird is a full time occupation. The kiwi is canny, strong and stroppy, but it's vanishing from New Zealand at a rate of 5.8 percent every year. In 1991 the Bank of New Zealand became a partner in the Kiwi Recovery Programme with the Department of Conservation and Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society because we wanted to do something about this decline. Submitted By: Gordon Wheaton Violating Traffic Laws is a Snap! http://www.photocop.com PhotoCop announces the publishing of www.PhotoCop.com, non-commercial site that provides research, management, and technical information about the photographic enforcement of traffic laws. Designed for traffic, law enforcement, and other governmental agencies involved in enforcing traffic laws, PhotoCop includes information on red-light, speed, rail crossing, and toll photo-enforcement. Submitted By: Jimmy Stephens ------------------- SOCIETY AND CULTURE See Judea http://www.virtual.co.il/clients/judea See color photos, maps, cartoons, and over 300 stories -- indexed and hyperlinked for easy browsing -- from the pages of Judea Electronic Magazine. Judea Magazine has been reporting on the rebirth of Jewish life in Judea, Israel, since January 1993, with feature stories about special people, Jewish heroes, Jewish roots, and the new communities in Judea. Submitted By: Mark Ami-El Tropical Fish http://www.tropicalfish.com/index.html Tropical fish site with information, pictures, classifieds, exporters. Submitted By: David Grant Darkness to Light http://www.dtl.org Explaining and defending the Christian faith, from a Reformed-Baptist perspective. Theology, apologetics, cults discussed in articles and Scripture studies. Bible versions controversy addressed. Submitted By: Gary Zeolla Baha'i Faith Pages in the UK http://www.fragrant.demon.co.uk/bahai.html The Baha'i Faith. The Fulfillment of all the Major Religions. Submitted By: Graham Sorenson First Family-Functional, Bilingual Website http://www.familywebfiles.com FamilyWebFiles supplies Spanish and English-speaking families with an unique database of content aiding them in locating the best the Web has to offer, along with, original articles, columns and interviews dealing with optimizing the computer investment, parenting in this digital age and meeting the cyber-players who are impacting the Internet for today's families. Submitted By: Marisa Treviņo ------------------- TRAVEL AND REGIONAL Aaron's Travel Resource Center - Hotel, Motel, Lodging Directory and Reservation Center. http://www.hotel-intl.com A premium accommodations site, listing hotels, motels, inns, resorts, bed & breakfast, suites and condominiums, hotel , motel, airline, rental car reservations, and many travel discounts. Submitted By: Matt Johnson Landseer OnLine, the international business traveler http://www.landseer.com Provides selected Internet resources to aid you in preparing for your next international business trip. Submitted By: James Alexis Coral Castle http://www.gate.net/~coralroc/coralrok.html South Florida's oldest tourist attraction. A Castle built out of coral rock, by one man after his sweet sixteen jilted him. Five foot tall and only weighting 90 pounds, he able to lift up to 30 tons of coral rock. Submitted By: Art Agramonte Alligator Farm http://www.everglades.com/ A privately owned attraction that is a real working alligator farm. Started in 1982 by Mr. John Hudson, the farm originally began as an airboat ride attraction. 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