THE WEEKLY BOOKMARK ISSN 1091-6202 May 31, 1998 - Vol 4, No. 05 IN THIS ISSUE The Weekly Bookmark presents reviews of what's new and newsworthy on the Web in over fifteen categories. Sites are submitted by readers and final selections are made by the editor. 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 strive for balance in The Weekly Bookmark, but also to reflect current trends on the Web. You'll notice that some sections of this issue are well represented while other important sections are not covered. We figured that 30 listings is enough to digest in one week and ask you to point us to interesting sites in the categories you are especially interested in. Your suggestions are welcome. mailto:info@weeklyb.com OUR SPONSOR ********************************************************************** This issue is sponsored by Ad Resource. Ad Resource offers nano-reviews of 500 top web advertising & marketing resources and in-depth articles on web advertising and promotion designed to help you attract more visitors to your web site. http://www.adresource.com ********************************************************************** BOOKS AND MUSIC Acses Book Price Search Engine http://www.acses.com/ Acses, the book price comparison service for Internet bookshops, has added spree.com, Kingbooks.com and 1,000s of Discount Books to its book price search engine. Acses checks offers from far more bookstores than any other similar book price search engine. Submitted By: Christoph Janz Wagner on the Web http://www.zazz.com/wagner/ The site contains lots of information on the life, works, and music of German composer Richard Wagner, including a schedule of upcoming performances and reviews of past performances, currrently-available books, and CDs. Submitted By: Joseph Erbacher The Ashheap http://members.tripod.com/~TheAshheap/ The Ashheap is a rock/pop/cybermetal/folk/funk/humor band started in New York in 1995, but now based in Chicago. They are currently unsigned. Submitted By: John McDonnell Alexandria Digital Literature http://www.alexlit.com/ I'm Hypatia, the Librarian, and I think we'll get along just fine. What I do is pick out stories that you'll enjoy reading. This isn't some random dart-board kind of thing, nor am I paid for these recommendations. It's not a one-size-fits-all list, either. What happens is, I ask you about what you've already read, and how well you liked these stories. This lets me build a profile. When I've got enough data about your tastes in literature, then I compare your tastes to everybody else in the database. After all, if they love these stories, and they like what you like, then you'll probably love these stories too. Submitted By: RL Book Expo of America and Real Voices Team Up for Online Audio Interviews of Top Selling Authors http://www.realvoices.com/bea/showdaily.htm Book Expo of America will sponsor a series of Online Audio News Daily Reports, featuring Interviews with Top Selling Book Authors, Industry Leaders, Celebrities, and Show Management personnel. This event is scheduled for May 28 to June 1, in Chicago, with the Audio interviews available on line through the auspices of BEA and Real Voices. Submitted By: Patrick M. D'Acre -------------------- EDUCATION PedagoNet - Learning Resources http://www.pedagonet.com PedagoNet - Learning Resources enables you to find the information you seek. An innovative search engine, PedagoNet facilitates the exchange of learning resources. Submitted By: dac -------------------- ENTERTAINMENT Broadcast.com (formerly AudioNet) http://www.broadcast.com/ Audionet is now Broadcast.com. The lineup has grown beyond the extensive audio programming you've come to expect at AudioNet, to include live television and video programming too. Submitted By: sportsnews Project M31 http://www.project-m31.com A comprehensive resource for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy geek featuring movies, TV, literature, sounds and those lovable "Choose Your Own Adventure" paperbacks. (Ed. Note- slow loading) Submitted By: Dean Kuhta Game Crazed - Reviews, Previews, Interviews, Walkthroughs, Demos, Specials, and News http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/4330/ Free bi-weekly gaming magazine. We provide various PC game reviews, previews, specials, walkthroughs, and news to all gamers. Submitted By: Sam Liao -------------------- GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS Satirical Card of The Week http://www.btinternet.com/~cybercard/weekly.htm The Satirical Card of the Week has been created to recognize satire in the fine tradition of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer, considered one of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists of human folly and pretension. Each week a Swift Award is given to a card design which satirizes a contemporary folly. The Card format requires highly effective and economical language in both prose and poetry. Submitted By: David Bridge Parliament of Canada E-Mail Server http://www.earth-net.net/pac/canada/federal/index.html Nexus-PAC (Political Action Committee) is pleased to announce a mass mailer for Canadians. Reach out and communicate effectively with Canada's elected representative in parliament. Our sister association in the United States will be announcing a mass mailer for Americans. Submitted By: PAC Microsoft/Justice Department Editorial Cartoons On-Line http://www.cagle.com/microsoft A new web site features political cartoons about Microsoft from top newspaper cartoonists around the world. Submitted By: Daryl Cagle Women's Voting Guide http://www.womenvote.org/ Designed to "Bring American Democracy into the Digital Age," the site -will provide visitors with a personalized voting guide matching their own views to those of the candidates for U.S. Senate and House in their area. The site currently contains the positions of all U.S. Senators on more than 150 issues ranging from Balanced Budget to Work. The information is based on roll call votes cast since 1995. The Women's Voting Guide is a project of the Women Leaders Online Fund, a new, nonpartisan educational organization created to educate women about current issues in government, society, the economy, the media, and cyberspace. Submitted By: Gail Hoffman -------------------- HEALTH AND MEDICINE Bodywise - Your Definitive Guide To Health http://www.bodywise.net/ Bodywise offers useful and practical information on all aspects of health from leading experts worldwide in an innovative and user-friendly design. You'll find professional in-depth features, late breaking news, book reviews, in-depth resources, and a weekly subscription newsletter with many promotional opportunities! Submitted By: Sao Ricardo -------------------- INTERNET AND THE WEB Find-a-Fund - The Most Comprehensive Source Of Mutual Fund Information http://www.findafund.com/ Findafund.com supplies Mutual Fund investors with a huge amount of pertinent current and historic information plus unique measuring tools for investors. Submitted By: Brian Malone iList - The Web's First Online Bookmark Manager http://www.itlist.com/ itList allows Web users to store their bookmarks online. Users can have a single list of bookmarks that can be used from anywhere, not just from a single computer like normal bookmarks. Tools at the itList site allow users to add, edit, organize, and delete links. Privacy and password options can be used to protect your bookmarks. You can also add to your list via email, from anywhere. Submitted By: Jason Frankovitz Internet.Org http://www.internet.org Find other companies in other industries and locations. There's also some general information about the growth and distribution of domains on the Internet for your perusal. Search lists of other domains in your zip code, 3-d maps of domain distribution and more. Submitted By: C. Masters Museum of Promotional Pens http://hjj.hypermart.net This young Danish man is using the WWW to show the world his collection of promotional PENs from around the world. He has scanned a lot of his PENs, and he puts them up for show. There are hundreds of promotional PENs on the page - and you can search the PENs from a special country. Submitted By: H.J.J. CyberLink.To/You - The Internet's #1 Free URL Redirection Service http://cyberlink.to Providing web site owners with a short, descriptive, FREE domain name. Especially useful for individuals who have their web sites hosted on one of the free community based services and providing vendors a direct domain name to their product, software, etc. Long web site URL domain names are OK but you do not have to live with them you now have a choice. Why settle for a long, awkward web site address when you can use CyberLink.To/You Submitted By: Chris Creighton -------------------- NEWS SERVICES CMP's Electronics Design, Technology & News Network http://www.edtn.com/ A Web-based service that delivers directly to the engineering workstation a suite of information, design and decision support tools and reference materials that help electronics design engineers enhance their expertise, make smarter design decisions, and build state-of-the-art designs. Submitted By: Dave -------------------- ORGANIZATIONS Best Friends Animal Sanctuary http://www.bestfriends.org/ Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, in the majestic red-rock country of southern Utah, north of the Grand Canyon, is the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned companion and domestic animals. Submitted By: Faith Maloney Academy of Interactive Arts And Sciences http://www.interactive.org/ The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences was founded in 1996 after more than a year of planning by key members of the interactive industry. This not for profit organization is dedicated to the advancement and recognition of the interactive arts and sciences. Mission: Promote and advance common interests in the worldwide interactive community. Recognize outstanding achievement in the creation of interactive content. Conduct an annual awards show and enhance the image and awareness of the interactive arts and sciences. Submitted By: Neil ------------------- SOCIETY AND CULTURE Local Ireland - 1798 Rebellion http://local.ie/history/1798/ 1798 marked the year of one of the bloodiest rebellions in Ireland since the Williamite War of 1640, when the Gaelic political order collapsed, Catholics lost their civil rights and their land was confiscated and passed on to wealthy Protestant settlers. "The Year of the Rising" in 1798 also marked the first time a foreign military nation joined forces with Irish insurgents in a pledge to fight against British colonial rule. Submitted By: J.G. Granny's Kitchen - Country Lovin' Recipes http://www.primechoice.com/lonepine/kitchen Free home-style recipes. Grandma and kid approved. Submitted By: Suzanne Jenson Something about China http://maxpages.com/lisaliu During the long course of Chinese history, the Chinese people created splendid national culture. In this website, you could know a little thing about China, her history, religion, the Great Wall, opera, wushu, festival and so on. Submitted By: Lisa Liu Twin Capes Review http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/1840/ A bi-weekly free E-mail zine that explores the strangeness of daily life. "Witty, entertaining, thought-provoking, exploring a different slant on culture, language, technology, new age, whatever. Submitted By: Terry McElroy Ape Culture http://www.apeculture.com/ Ape Culture is the quarterly webzine dedicated to the humorous exploration of pop culture and the stripmall way of life. Ape Culture features edgy satire, reminiscing, reviews, personal essays, and the Choose-Your-Own-Celebrity Adventure game. Submitted By: Julie Wiskirchen Mindjack Magazine http://www.mindjack.com An online magazine about technology, culture and technosocial issues with a bit of a technorealist and critical bent. Submitted By: Donald Melanson -------------------- TRAVEL AND REGIONAL Mayan Riviera - Online Travel Guide http://mayanriviera.com All about the Mayan Riviera, a section of land along the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Mayan Riviera is an Internet guide to the area between Cancun and Tulum, especially Playa Del Carmen. Submitted By: Mark Missett The Hotel Guide http://www.hotelguide.com The Hotel Guide's directory, with 60,000 hotel listings, used by both travel agents and individual travelers, is believed to be the largest international guide to hotels found on the Internet. Submitted By: Bob Lawson --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 are written by the listed submitter and are only briefly verified by the editor. 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