From: The Weekly Bookmark [info@weeklyb.com] Sent: Miércoles 23 de Diciembre de 1998 10:18 PM To: List Member Subject: The Weekly Bookmark - Cool Site Reviews The Weekly Bookmark - http://www.weeklyb.com THE WEEKLY BOOKMARK ISSN 1091-6202 December 20, 1998 - Vol. 4, No. 30 IN THIS ISSUE The Weekly Bookmark presents reviews of what's new and cool 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 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR **** IS WINDOWS TOO BORING? **** Bring it to life with Oska DeskMate. Oska is an interactive character that lives and plays on your Windows 95/98 desktop. !!FREE!! DOWNLOAD NOW !!FREE!! http://www.oska.com/oska0002.htm ARTS AND HUMANITIES Tibetan Portrait http://www.geocities.com/~tibetportrait/ This site is based on the book by Phil Borges: Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion. Riveting portraits paired with the words of the Dalai Lama provide a unique understanding of the Tibetan people and the Buddhist teaching of nonviolence. Submitted By: C. Masters The Digital Journalist http://dirckhalstead.org/ A multimedia magazine for photojournalism in the digital age. Submitted By: Dirck Halstead ------------------- BOOKS AND MUSIC Lord of the Flies - Interactive Novel Study http://www.cyberkamloops.com/flies/index.html Welcome to the Lord of the Flies Interactive Novel Study! In this website we will discuss some of the most important aspects of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Sections of our website include an overview of the story, the main characters, themes, games and quizzes about the story, and a discussion board. Submitted By: Chris Weston Herman Leonard - Images of Jazz http://www.leonardjazz.com/ Jazz image gallery and bio of Herman Leonard. His love of jazz led him to the swinging night clubs of 52nd street, Broadway and Harlem. The camera provided him with free entrance. His work became a personal project unfettered by editorial restraints. Submitted By: C.L. ------------------- COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY Andyart - Free Animated gifs, backgrounds, buttons, Photoshop tips http://www.andyart.com/ Contains 1000's of images that you can download and use on your site. Most of the images found here, I have created myself, but there are some that I haven't as well. Submitted By: Andy ------------------- EDUCATION FunSchool - Free, Educational, Interactive Software http://www.funschool.com/ You will find engaging educational content for your child. All content is original and created for your child's learning experience. Pre-school through sixth grade. Submitted By: K. Lussow Flights of Inspiration http://www.fi.edu/flights/ Great moments in aviation history. Submitted By: C. Masters ------------------- ENTERTAINMENT The DamnedestThing http://www.TheDamnedestThing.com PG Rated good clean fun. A collection of stories and photo's submitted by people who believe their story or photo is the damnedest thing they ever saw or the damnedest thing they ever did. Submitted By: Butch Grafton The Tacky Postcard Archive http://home.att.net/~ro/index.htm Preserving the bad taste of our era for future generations. Submitted By: webmaster ------------------- GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS PoliticalCartoons.com http://www.politicalcartoons.com Featuring the daily updates of political cartoons from the best newspaper editorial cartoonists around the world. Submitted By: Renee Menius Institute for Journalism in Transition http://www.ijt.cz/ Our aim is to provide a useful resource for journalists, scholars, students, and anyone else interested in the evolving societies and emerging markets of the post-communist world. Submitted By: J. Mitchell ------------------- HEALTH AND MEDICINE Hidden Killers: Deadly Viruses http://library.advanced.org/23054/gather/index.shtml This site will provide you with basics about viruses, our bodies' immune systems, how we combat these invaders, information about specific viruses, and how these 'hidden killers' could potential be used as bio-weapons. There are also weekly/bi-weekly feature articles in various facets that involve viruses. This site is meant for the general population. You won't find any extremely complicated technical terms that are best left for medical students or professional researchers. Submitted By: Bryant F. ------------------- **** IS WINDOWS TOO BORING? **** Bring it to life with Oska DeskMate. Oska is an interactive character that lives and plays on your Windows 95/98 desktop. !!FREE!! DOWNLOAD NOW !!FREE!! http://www.oska.com/oska0002.htm ------------------- NEWS AND INFORMATION Lockerbie Incident http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5260/ The Crime of the Century: In the evening of December 21st, 1988- flight Pan Am 103 exploded and pieces of the plane fell onto the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 259 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground. This air-disaster of the century now has its own homepage on the internet. Here you will find 25 MB of documents, pictures, sounds, films and all kinds of information of the crash of Pan Am 103 at Lockerbie in 1988 and to the present day. Submitted By: megrob ------------------- ORGANIZATIONS Jane Goodall Institute http://www.janegoodall.org/ What is Jane doing now? At any moment, the most likely place to find Jane Goodall is on an airplane. She travels an incredible amount of the time, giving lectures, visiting zoos and chimpanzee sanctuaries, and meeting young people involved in her Roots & Shoots environmental program. "Dr. Jane," as many children call her, spends most of her time carrying her message of conservation and vision of cooperation all around the world. Submitted By: A.M. ------------------- RECREATION AND SPORTS Athlete Daily http://www.athletedaily.com Catch the daily spin on the biggest names in sports at Sports Celebrity Network! SCN is the only destination for comprehensive, daily coverage on and off the field of the top athletes that drive professional sports. Submitted By: J. Mitchell ------------------- SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ExploreScience http://www.explorescience.com/ Welcome to the first shocked science lab on the WWW. This site will let both students and teachers interact with material on the web, rather than just reading text. Submitted By: Raman Pfaff Tag-A-Giant Bluefin Tuna http://www.clsfa.com A collaborative effort between scientists and the recreational fishing community is providing valuable information necessary in solving critical stock issues surrounding Bluefin tuna. As part of the "TAG-A-GIANT" project, researchers from Stanford University and Monterey Bay Aquarium will converge on Morehead City, NC and Cape Lookout National Seashore to surgically implant computer tags into the giant fish. Submitted By: Renee Menius ------------------- SOCIETY AND CULTURE Journey of the Magi http://www.mungopark.com/container.asp?issue=199712&sec=contents Retrace the steps of the Wise Men, from Tehran to Bethlehem. Submitted By: Paul William Roberts The Smoking Gun http://www.thesmokinggun.com The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents -- cool, confidential, quirky -- that can't be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide, we guarantee everything here is 100% authentic. Submitted By: William Bastone Rocket - Now Read By More Politicians Than You Can Poke A Stick At http://www.zip.com.au/~rocket/ Sharp tongued politics and culture columns from Australia. Submitted By: C.J. See Summer Swing Dance http://www.vintageparts.com/summer/index.html A touching remembrance site for a lost loved one. Submitted By: Dave Schul ------------------- TRAVEL AND REGIONAL Edo, Japan - A Virtual Tour http://www.us-japan.org/EdoMatsu/ For most people in Japan, Edo is more than just a historical city. It also has a symbolic image and meaning. It represents nearly everything that they consider a part of their "traditional" culture. Submitted By: C. B. The Ultimate Lake Tahoe Resource http://www.tahoeguide.com/tahoe/SITE/index.cfm Your gateway to everything there is to know about North Lake Tahoe. Submitted By: webmaster The Weekly Bookmark - http://www.weeklyb.com Comments, Suggestions: mailto:info@weeklyb.com Copyright (c) 1998 by The Weekly Bookmark, Chicago, IL - All Rights Reserved No portion of this work may be republished in any form, including on a website, without prior written permission of the copyright holder. Disclaimer: Due to the incredible amount of time involved with putting together each issue of the Weekly Bookmark, we cannot guarantee the accuracy, suitability, quality, or decency of the material that we provide. Each of the site's descriptions is written by the listed submitter and is only briefly verified by the editor. 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