From: WBStandard Editor ; editor@weeklyb.com To: WBStandard Distribution List ; wbs@weeklyb.com Subject: WB Standard - November 24, 1997 Date: Lunes 24 de Noviembre de 1997 03:37 AM The Weekly Bookmark Standard ISSN 1091-6202 November 24, 1997 - Vol 3, No. 09 http://www.weeklyb.com/issues/wbs971124.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. Copyright and Disclaimer ____________________________________________________ On My End Matt Alberts editor@weeklyb.com We're still here. It's been a tough couple of weeks, but we're working hard to give you a great issue. 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Check out their websites for more information or to sign up. ____________________________________________________ The Other Box Some of the Other Stuff We Get Lumiere Magazine Launches Lumiere News Lumiere magazine, a publication of Triple International Ltd., today announced the launch of Lumiere News - a free service providing daily updates on fashion related events on Lumiere's site. http://www.lumiere.com UK's Only Dedicated Soccer Directory UK Football Pages, the UK's only dedicated soccer directory, opened today and contains listings for all English, Scottish and National teams with Welsh, N.Irish and English Non-league teams available shortly. http://www.ukfootballpages.com ____________________________________________________ What's Out There This Week's Sites Arts and Humanities Lady Morgan's Castle Romantic poetry by famous poets, women, not-so-famous poets and the author, herself. Links(add-a-link) and daily quotes. Daily announcements and just basically an overall friendly site. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/1560 This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Gina Morgan Tah Gallery Tah Gallery features contemporary fine artists including eleven-year-old Alexandra Nechita, Robert Stoller, and Mary Zarbano. http://www.wman.com/~tahgallery This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 2.0 or higher. Submitted By: Sandy Taylor Poems Penpals Inspirations and High Spirits We are each of us Angels, and we can only fly by embracing each other. A place of love and enlightenment. I'm so glad you came. Come on in dear friend. Read an inspiration, submit your favorite. Find a wonderful penpal. http://www.iaw.com/~pal/norm/Poems-inspirations-penpals.htm This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Norm B Love Citadel Complete poems site builded for just Romantic people. http://members.tripod.com/~eduardo_/index.html This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 2.0 or higher. Submitted By: Burt Rodgers The Call Project This site explores art, classical music, and literature in a thought-provoking, indepth, and extensive way. Visitors can peruse an original interview with legendary pianist Martha Argerich, and galleries and essays on subjects from Beethoven to Hesse to the state of art in the twentieth century. http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/~juragaga/Welcome.htm This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Elisabeth Hellmuth Books and Music Aquatic Alternaative online fiction. Science fiction. Updated daily in small amounts, so as not to take up too much of your time. Vignettes, multiple viewpoints and poetry expose a mad mind capable of creating a chaotic universe called Aquatic. Visit often and read a cybernovel as it is created. http://www.aquasky.com/ This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Joseph Love The Visits to Summer: A Christmas Story A poignant, mysterious Christmas story featuring RealAudio orchestral music excerpts and colorful, carousel artwork. The story is about how the past is contained in our future and our future contained in the past. Also features a Thematic Links page to related sites across the web. http://www.computan.on.ca/~fusco Submitted By: James Fusco Computers and Technology Top Hosts Top Hosts provides a resource to help you find a quality web host. We have many web hosts listed in different categories to help you find the best web server possible. Top Hosts lists only the top web hosts in each category to help you make the best choice for your web hosting needs. http://www.tophosts.com/ This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Rob Laidlaw Intracept - X-Ray Vision Security and privacy protection from combinations of Cookies, ActiveX, Javascript, Java, push/pull technologies with X-Ray Vision software used with Navigator, Communicator and MSIE. http://www.intracept.com/ This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Steve Butz TI99/4A Book Full updated text of 1983 book "Getting Started with the Texas Instruments TI99/4A Home Computer" by Stephen Shaw. Includes advanced programming tips and enough data to use the emulators available on the Web or commercially. http://www.btinternet.com/~shawweb/stephen/book.htm Submitted By: stephen shaw Education The wholeFamily Center The WholeFamily Center is an award winning interactive site geared to every one in every family. Featuring an on-line magazine, as well as separate Marriage, Parenting and Teen centers, WholeFamily is based on traditional values and uses RealAudio and Drama to portray problems and solutions. Psychologists' comments add authenticity to the many subjects dealt with in an honest, straight-forward way. Infertility, Anorexia, Divorce, and even Teen Suicide are only some of the sensitive topics discussed on this attractive, user-friendly site. http://www.wholefamily.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Sheryl Prenzlau Encyberpedia - A Living Encyclopedia Encyberpedia is an award winning educational reference site with thousands of links to the best reference site on the Internet. We keep our site current and are always looking for new information. http://www.encyberpedia.com This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Bob Kerstein Employment Services/Listings Space Careers With over 200 links directly related to space jobs, updated every week, with easy navigation and nice graphics, Space Careers is the ultimate free resource for employment in the space industry. http://www.spacelinks.com/SpaceCareers/ Submitted By: Pierre Oppetit Entertainment Jason's UFO Domain This paranormal is comprehensive, easy to navigate and has cool graphics. This is the complete UFO site with the topics being Area51, Roswell, UFOs, Military Secrets and much more. http://members.tripod.com/~JasonsUFOpage/index.html This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 2.0 or higher. Submitted By: Jason D. Brown World Wide Webb The personal homepage of songwriter Jimmy Webb, which includes song lyrics, information on his book on songwriting, concert and tour information, projects such as producing Carly Simon's album "Film Noir," cool links to Dinosaur sites, a BBS, and a photo gallery. http://www.jimmywebb.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Ron McGowan Kidney Buzz Online - KBO The NKF bimonthly webzine for Singaporean young adults (and the young at heart) who keep up to date in news of the mind, body and soul. http://www.nkf.org.sg/newnkf/kbo.htm This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Alf Lien beeb @ the BBC The entertainment and information service from the BBC, with the personalities and brands and a lot of attitude. the score! for the latest sports coverage and results; Radio Times for listings, star interviews and film reviews; TopGear for motoring news, car tests and car guides; BBC Shop for BBC merchandise; Comedy Zone for humour and entertainment; and travel for destination and activity suggestions. http://www.beeb.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Sarah Somlo a guide to the best Dining in New Jersey! The Premiere Restaurant & Dining Guide. Search by Cuisine, County, Wine Lists, mouth-watering gourmet Recipes and so much more. http://www.njdiningguide.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Jane Butler Tolkien's Army of Angmar Tolkien's Army of Angmar is a website that contains comprehensive information on the Army of Angmar, an Army serving Sauron in Tolkien's Middle Earth. This information is of use to anyone role playing in Middle Earth, and in particular to those who play Mud. http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/1675/ This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Deproelius Gulmurathur Government and Politics Law and Politics Internet Guide Law and Politics Internet Guide is intended to be a guide to legal and political resources that can be found on the Internet. LPIG is a new Web site that will continue to grow and improve. LPIG's strength is its selection of Web sites with high informational value. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5011 This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Randy Roberts CHIP Environmental Reports Chile environmental groups give weekly reports of their assessment of environmental issues facing Chile. http://www.chiper.cl This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 2.0 or higher. Submitted By: Steve Anderson Native American Political Sites by Laura Brooks Native American Politics with a bite. No lovey dovey spiritual stuff here. Site includes: Native American Religious Freedom in Prison, Native American Prisoner Penpal list, Coerced Sterilization of Native American Women by the U.S. Government, Native American Law Students Association, Wabanaki and Abenaki Internet Resources, and a personal homepage of Laura Brooks, Passamaquoddy Tribal member and student at the University of Maine School of Law. http://brooks.simplenet.com/ This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Laura Brooks Health and Medicine National Maternal and Child Health Clearinghouse Presents a fully-searchable catalog of free publications about maternal and child health topics and online ordering. Most publications are written for health professionals, in addition to numerous "patient education" titles written for the consumer. Also provides a conferencing area in which Web visitors can participate in a discussion or initiate a new discussion to share information needs and resources. http://www.circsol.com/mch This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Linda Cramer KidsHealth at the AMA KidsHealth at the AMA provides parents with reliable children's health information on a range of topics, including emergencies, infections, accident prevention, and development. http://www.ama-assn.org/KidsHealth/ This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Dana Dillon The Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond Resource Guide A parenting resource guide on pregnancy, birth, babies, breast-feeding and more. http://www.monarch-design.com/baby/index.html This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Tammi LaTorre Another Empty Bottle An award-winning site for the friends and family of alcoholics. Contains links, help groups, a kid's section, chatroom, the "anonymous" guestbook, hotlines, information and personal stories (submitted by visitors). http://members.aol.com/emptybttle This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Tom Chaplin Internet and the Web Pambytes Free Web Graphics This is a newly remodeled and expanded version of the site which is dedicated to providing high quality, original images for use on websites. Featured are many different styles of backgrounds; seamless tiles, in a broad range of colors and patterns, border backgrounds, including left and top borders, as well as full page backgrounds, and image sets with coordinated background, buttons, banners and icons. Buttons are included in a multitude of colors, shapes and textures, including button bars and clusters. Several pages of banners, some icons and seasonal clipart round out the image collections. Graphics and HTML references are also included. This site also hosts sections for an Edgar Allan Poe library and a unique multi-page section on the Mercury-Redstone 3 project, the first U.S. manned space flight, put together from some original material collected from the time including many rare photographs which will soon be added. http://www.pambytes.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Pam Gibson Coolshopping.com The ultimate source for ultra-cool shopping sites, handpicked by the coolteam. http://www.coolshopping.com This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: amy strycula Gallery at Distortion A WebZine that showcases Artists, writers, poets, singers, ect. http://www.distortion.com/ch/gallery/ This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: hirokazu fukumoto Ultimate E-mail Ultimate E-mail refines and cultivates your e-mail skills. Each week a hot tip and secret is posted on the web site. Ultimate e-mail is a complete e-mail solutions package for business and individuals. Includes videotape, website, e-zine, tips, technical support. http://www.ultimate-mail.com Submitted By: lenny charnoff Bruce's Web Page Help! My homepage is your one stop source for webpage creation. You'll fine everything from HTML help, graphics, Paint Shop Pro tips, filters and more. You can even create a free homepage on-line. http://babeard.simplenet.com Submitted By: Bruce A. Beard News Services The Write News The Write News covers the arts, the writing and publishing industries and world news every business day with an internet slant. http://writenews.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Greg Knollenberg The Andover News Network AndoverNews.com offers 10 technology news sites, including AppleWatch.com, NetscapeWatch.com, Microsoftwatch.com, JavaWatch.com, HardwareWatch.com, SoftwareWatch.com, ITWatch.com, TelcoWatch.com and Internet-Watch.com. Customizable views. Searchable. Updates every hour of every business day. Designed for technology professionals. http://www.andovernews.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Andrew Bourland Snap! Online Snap! Online organizes the Web into content channels updated throughout the day, provides a search function, chat rooms, sports scores, stock quotes, software downloads, Internet events and more. http://www.snap.com/??tt.text.listing.x.fd This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Drew Smith Organizations U.S. Sheep Seedstock Alliance Web Services Web site for the U.S. Sheep Seedstock Alliance, a producer organization supporting and promoting the seedstock sector of the sheep industry. Activities include research, education, foreign trade, sponsored international missions, genetics, artificial insemination, EPD's, NSIP, web services, and other issues important to the 21st century livestock producer. http://www.seedstock.org This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: U.S. Sheep Seedstock Alliance Bay Area Acura Legend Owners and Enthusiasts Website devoted to Acura Legend owners and enthusiasts. Check out the comprehensive car performance and modifcation section. http://www.legend.org This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Brion Lau The Irish Internet Association Formed in 1997, the IIA seeks to promote and assist the development of the Internet in Ireland as a professional body for the Internet business community. The website provides resources to all level of Internet users, from the beginner to the professional. Also featured is a recently conducted Irish Internet Usage Survey. http://www.iia.ie/ This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: denise cox ConsumerNet ConsumerNet is a network of California consumer organizations dedicated to increasing public awareness and access to consumer information by providing groups with Internet tools and training to produce web pages, host conferences, mailing lists and collaborate with other consumer groups. ConsumerNet is funded by a grant from "The California Wellness Foundation" and the "California Consumer Protection Foundation" http://www.consumernet.org This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Victor O'Rear Recreation and Sports Aaron Semas Professional Bull Rider Aaron Semas is a Professional Bull rider from Auburn CA. Member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, member and share holder of the Professional Bull Riders. http://www.cowboymall.com/semas This site did not supply the browser information. Submitted By: Tim Engelhart winsports Sports Reporter and American Turf Monthly cover both horse racing and sports handicapping. Featuring statistics, winning selections, horses to watch and expert NFL and NBA analysis. http://www.winsports.com This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 2.0 or higher. Submitted By: dana Sporting Icons Official Host of Australia's Sporting Elite http://www.sportingicons.com.au/ This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Steven Yates Talk City College Connection An exciting college and university site. Features include College quiz bowl,football, jobs information, music, relationship advice, chats, scores, and best of all Your friends. EZTalk, our java chat client, and your input make this site special! http://www.talkcity.com/college/ This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Diane Mathia Garrod Reference Libraries and Indexes CEO Express: The business resources you need every day. Business-focused Internet gateway honed to perfection by a seasoned executive. http://www.ceoexpress.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Christine Barnes Society and Culture A Forgotten America A Forgotten America. A photo gallery of a past era. Pictures of old barns, farms, tools, and vehicles. The structures of the old American farm life are quickly disappearing. Would be that more admirers of them will capture them on film before they're completely gone from sight. So take a trip back into America's past. Enjoy the sights, as they may soon vanish forever. http://www.online-classifieds.com/america/ This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Mike Holland The Book of Zines The Book of Zines web site includes an Ezine and Zine Resource Guide with links to more than 100 handpicked zine and e-zine sites, interviews with and advice from 65 zine editors, a list of zines they recommend with ordering addresses, selections from the anthology and a comprehensive guide to doing your own zine and e-zine. http://www.zinebook.com This site can be viewed with any browser. Submitted By: Chip Rowe CyberStory Everybody needs an emotional pick-me-up sometime. CyberStory is a web site devoted to uplifting, feel-good stories that will bring a smile to your face, inspire you, offer you a new perspective or get you thinking about how you too can make a difference in someone's life. http://www.cyberstory.com Submitted By: Editor Travel and Regional Information Lake Tahoe Cam Check out Lake Tahoe Now! Audio and Visual reports of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Updated with changes throughout the day. http://www.laketahoecam.com This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Steve Day "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 This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. 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 This site is best viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher. Submitted By: Dennis E. 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