From: Weekly Bookmarkz [info@bookmarkz.com] Sent: Martes 19 de Octubre de 1999 01:42 AM To: Weekly Bookmarkz Subject: Weekly Bookmarkz - October 18, 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Bookmarkz - http://www.bookmarkz.com - ISSN 1091-6202 ---------------------------------------------------------------- October 18, 1999 - Vol. 5, No. 17 ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOP OF THE LIST ---------------------------------------------------------------- And you thought we forgot...here's a bonus issue to make up for missing last week. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTES FROM THE WEEKLY BOOKMARKZ TEAM ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wow! We don't know what happened, but we like it. Last week we experienced a pretty good sized influx of new members. Thanks to all of you who keep refering friends and family. This newsletter is only as good as its subscribers, so keep telling people about us. When passing WB on, please remember to send the whole newsletter so that the recipient has the subscription instructions included at the bottom. Have a great week, The WB Team ---------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alexa is the ultimate browser plugin. Find the best sites on Internet automatically! Download Alexa and Know Where to Go! => F R E E D O W N L O A D <= http://www.alexa.com/download/eye10/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- ARTS & HUMANITIES ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Genuine Haiku Generator http://www.selendy.com/haiku/ This elegant, simple website presents meaningful and random javascript-generated haiku. Submitted By: B. Selendy Lives, the Biography Resource http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/ Links to thousands of biographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, autobiographies, oral histories and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. There are group biographies about people who share a common profession historical era or geography. Also general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special collections. Submitted By: K. Dyson ---------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKS & MUSIC ---------------------------------------------------------------- CD Database http://www.cddb.com/ The world's largest online database of audio CD information. Now your computer can display album, artist and song names right on the screen as your CD plays. You need a CDDB-enabled CD Player, but there are several available for download in their CD Players section. CDDB is completely free. Submitted By: T. Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS & INTERNET ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Free Webpage Provider Review http://fwpreview.ngworld.net/fwp/ Everyone can use free web space, right? We all want to have our own websites out there on the Net, but who wants to pay monthly fees for it? That's where this great resource comes in. The site contains reviews of free webpage providers in several different countries. An excellent resource when looking for that perfect service to host your first try at a website. Submitted By: WB Team Area 404 http://www.plinko.net/404/area404.asp Links to the best 404 Not Found errors on the web researched and categorized for your surfing enjoyment. Add your website's 404 page to the listings. Submitted By: M. Irvin XNOT http://www.xnot.com/ This site is for programmers to host all of their open-source projects. It will host any and all open-source software projects free of charge, with no catch. XNOT provides web space, CVS, FTP bug tracking with Jitterbug and more. Submitted By: J. Chang Autobots.net http://www.autobots.net/ Autoresponders that send up to 10 follow up messages, you can preset the time intervals, you can add or delete the email addresses, prospects can remove themselves with one click. All original inquiries are forwarded to your email address. There are daily activity logs delivered to your email address. You can even personalize each and every messages. Best of all, the service is free and without advertisements. Submitted By: M. Johnston DSLreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/ DSLreports is an extensible online directory of DSL related resources, commercial or otherwise, mostly maintained by users of the site. Since companies can add themselves, listings may not be the most objective, but the site does include extensive information on this latest high speed connection technology. Submitted By: D. Saries ---------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION ---------------------------------------------------------------- eHow http://www.ehow.com/ With this site, you can learn how to do anything and get what you need to do it. You can even submit your own instructional article on how to do something and be the expert for that item. Submitted By: L. Reed Teacherzone.com http://www.teacherzone.com/ Teacherzone.com is a single-source for news and information about technology in elementary education for teachers and principals. Submitted By: H. Moore The Educational CyberPlayGround http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/TOC.asp An excellent resource that offers an interdisciplinary point of view, using the Internet to deliver online curriculum. The Educational CyberPlayGround provides Teachers, Parents, Home Schoolers, and Librarians a cybrarians webliography of links to educational resources in the Arts, Music, Literacy, Linguistics, Science, Technology, Social Studies, and Interdisciplinary Educational Curriculum. Submitted By: D. Gaffney ---------------------------------------------------------------- ENTERTAINMENT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TheFreeSite.com http://www.thefreesite.com TheFreeSite.com Newsletter offers a comprehensive round-up of the latest "must have" freebie offers on the Web. They review the latest essential freeware, free services, free product samples and more. There are a lot of "free stuff" sites on the Net, but TheFreeSite.com does a great job of cutting through the garbage and bringing you the best offers available. Submitted By: T. Hartley EgoSurf http://www.egosurf.com/ A perpetual search engine that keeps looking for your request for a week - then e-mails you a daily report on what it finds. Search for any name online, inlcuding your own! It's a great way to find out what is being said about you or a product online. Submitted By: P. Wilson The NitPickers Site http://www.nitpickers.com/ The Nitpickers Site was created for people to share those little nitpicks that you notice from time to time in movies. Basically a nitpick is considered any little detail, right or wrong, that you notice in a film. Of course with human nature being what it is most of the nitpicks posted are expected to be wrong details. Submitted By: B. Schroeder Zthing.com http://www.zthing.com/ What are they? Zthings are sick and twisted animated toys that run right on your desktop. Collect them all! Share them with friends! They make great email attachments. They run on Win95, 98 and NT computers (sorry, Mac users). Submitted By: T. Gonzalez ---------------------------------------------------------------- HEALTH & WELLNESS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Health http://health.yahoo.com Keeping with the Yahoo tradition, this is truly a one-stop shop for quick and reliable health information. Search on diseases, conditions, general health topics, medications and drugs, find a doctor and much more. Submitted By: K. Graham ---------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR ---------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~ Don't Just Surf, Take an eTour! ~~~~ eTour.com is a new, FREE service that brings great Web sites right to you, so you don't have to search for them yourself! Click below to sign-up today: http://www.etour.com/default.asp?AssocID=eye5 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------- UNICEF Halloween Fun http://www.supportunicef.org/halloween/ UNICEF site visitors can send "tricks" or "treats" to friends and neighbors and learn more about UNICEF's work around the world. Visitors can also offer donations to UNICEF online and can receive free updates about UNICEF's emergency programs. This year's site has added features like a new FREE UNICEF screen saver and an online "spooky story" generator. Submitted By: T. Perrone ---------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIETY & CULTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Expedition Africa http://www.expeditionafrica.org The interactive and educational bicycling adventure of the Millennium. Bicycling from Alexandria, Egypt to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa from fall 1999 to fall 2000. Pedaling 20,000 miles through Africa, on an odyssey traversing the Sahara, the Serengeti, Kilimanjaro and the great rivers; experiencing the many tribal lifestyles, and encountering diverse creatures of the wild. Submitted By: B. Hunter ---------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Bookmarkz - http://www.bookmarkz.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Subscribe: mailto:join-weeklybookmarkz@lists.dundee.net For Comments and Suggestions: mailto:info@bookmarkz.com Advertising Info: mailto:advertising@bookmarkz.com To Unsubscribe: mailto:leave-weeklybookmarkz@lists.dundee.net Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 by Weekly Bookmarkz, Portland, OR - 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. 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