I got these links from Rebecca's page, she has some of the coolest url's of anyone. check out SALVO before it goes away ... forever. http://www.salvo.com i like justin's page. he is groovy. http://www.links.net don't go there. http://www.geekcereal.com CHECK OUT STEVE'S PAGE! you won't be sorry. http://www.well.com/user/srhodes patrick farley knows WHERE it's AT http://www.tcp.com/~prime8 home page: http://www.cyborganic.com/people/rebecca

my favourite: www.100hot.com

http://www.news.com/radio To catch up on the day's computer news. You'll need the Realaudio plug-in.

A banner ad where you can actually "play" pong: http://www.transaction.net/zisktech/toons.html

I don't know what I am doing. Somebody, help!

I don't know what I am doing. Somebody, help!

You're doing ok. What questions do you have Noreen (email to be sent).

im having trouble downloading virtual place 2.0.......help......

Check out our Virtual Places discussion topic in the apps conference. This is a good place to pose this question.

Terry, do you have suggestions for the reconstruction of http://www.capitol-city.com We are going to reproduce http://www.capitol-city.com on the spring servers and increase our utilization of the conference system to be able to respond to readers quicker and better!

I have tons of suggestions which I will outline to you later tonight and post here later.

It will be interesting to hear your suggestions.

Laureate text-to-speech. Submit a form, get a .wav, .au, or .aiff http://www.labs.bt.com/innovate/speech/laureate/index.htm

The CMU design department has a class on "kinetic typography", which can be desicribed most simply as animated text, but covers a whole lot of fun stuff to do with text. They have a site with LOTS of examples up at http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/design/kdg/kt.html (from Laura Lemay)

A pretty outrageous page.. "Live Cam in the Oval Office" http://www.morecrap.com/ovl.htm www.concentric.net/~Mfierro/index.shtml http://www.deadlists.com for deadheads http://www.falken.net/webfree/ Ad remover. Mac-only. This just in from in Denmark... Talking 'bout push, you might say Castanet, Backweb, Pointcast... what ever... I just say telnet://kiera.premier1.net ! And then the server just drops you... Hilarious. http://www.currents.net/gigg http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html Enter a word or phrase, returns anagrams for same

http://experian.com is a place to research a house you want to buy, you can get a detailed report on a particular propety and even check your credit.

Can you have more than one favorite? I can. My favorite five sites for this week follow below. HealthGate Healthy Sexuality (Not tonight dear...can one be allergic to sex?) -- http://www.healthgate.com/healthy/sexuality/fs.index.html Uda's Corner of the WWW (Get a life: the most impressive personal webpage I have ever seen) -- http://www.ionet.net/~uday/sitesframes.html Johnathan Cainer's Zodiac Forecasts (My favorite astrologer...I'm an aquarius with virgo rising) -- http://marilyn.metawire.com/stars/index.html Nolo Home Page (Why I hate lawyers and employ three of them to cover my rear) -- http://www.nolo.com/ Asynchronous Logic Home Page (The future of chips -- asynchronous logic) -- http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/amulet/async/

Did I mention http://www.manipulation.com/spiff/ You'll never look at animated gifs the same.

http://webcrawler.com/Games/SearchTicker.html Is a voyeristic ticker showing what people are searching for right this red hot second. Check this one out for sure.

Cool site there Paul. Here's three of my favorites: http://www.tucows.com/ For software http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/6030/ For funny answering machine messages http://www.nashville.net/%7ecart/htmlguide/f-right.html Title: How do they do that with HTML?

http://www.prairienet.org/ag/garden/maillist.htm a discussion of woody and nonwoody plants.

great icons: http://www.iconbazaar.com/ Also: http://members.aol.com/rcmoeur/signman.html

Announcement: If you are a Microsoft "Site Builder Network" person, (yes, I know, the Borg) or just someone who writes cool programming-intensive web stuff (like barrett's periodic table...) please have a look at http://webwall.matisse.net/ which is a "grafitti wall" for web programmers - a shared web page where programmers can upload stuff they've done and want to share. you can also get to it from: http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/sbnmember/lounges/lev1/webwall.asp

http://www.netmoguls.com/

Not for the faint of heart department: Mark Stahlman's infamous "WIRED Magazine and the English Ideology" piece is now online at the new CULTURE WARS site: http://www.culturewars.com If you prefer spoonfed, innocuous content a la MSN this is not your kind of place. Arts, issues, sensuality, spirituality, and other thought provoking issues.

One of the coolest peoplesearch places: http://www.anywho.com

Tips for Using the Web Buying and Selling Real Estate Online By Clay Hathorn Aiming to appeal to a metropolitan New York clientele, Donna White figured that a two-line newspaper ad to sell her suburban house that basically said "3-bdr in Aberdeen, New Jersey" seemed a little flat. So she dressed up her marketing a bit, listing the house in an online service with a Web-site ad that begins this way: "Pristine custom contemporary with water views: Lounge as sailboats pass this custom ranch with professional landscaping, diagonal tongue-and-groove cedar siding." Even if you're unclear about the "diagonal tongue-and-groove" (a way of fitting the siding together), the place sounds pretty swanky, huh? "That's what's great about marketing on the Internet," says White, who lives in Deerfield, Florida. "You're not limited in what you can say. You can write up the character of the house. Show a picture. Where else could you put an ad like that and have exposure to anyone, anywhere? It would cost a fortune." Prospective buyers worldwide can view Donna White's three-bedroom house, for sale on the WWW. White is one of the growing number of people turning to the World Wide Web to help them buy or sell a house. The reasons to try the Web are numerous: Sellers can provide many more enticing details ("lounge as sailboats pass") at a much lower cost than in newspaper ads and can reach people anywhere; buyers can explore real estate options at their convenience on their own computer. But don't get the wrong idea: Although the Internet offers many options for real estate, it's probably not wise for a seller to rely solely an Internet listing or for a buyer only to peruse the Web for homes. Not only is the Internet still a secondary source for most buyers and sellers, but the Web lacks the emotional wallop needed to bring about a home sale. "Nobody buys a house from a brochure," says Jody Lane, who runs the Realty Locator site, an online listing of homes for sale. "It's the same thing on the Internet." Yet as a supplement to marketing or a great way to find homes, the Web is proving to be a valuable medium. "It's a good tool to use with other advertising," says White. "Not everyone in the whole world is computer literate. But on the Web you're open to the whole wide world." Selling So for home sellers who are willing to try the Web, what's next? Well, you have two broad options: enlisting an agent or selling the home yourself. The Web is making more attractive the "for-sale-by-owner" option, known as FSBO (or, as those with the lingo say, "fizzbo"). Traditionally, roughly 15 to 20 percent of home sellers go this route, mostly to avoid the 6-percent commissions of real estate brokers. The trade-off is that FSBOs have had to market their property without access to the local multiple listing service (MLS), which is proprietary to real estate agents (although this is beginning to change). FSBOs have traditionally relied on newspaper ads and lawn signs to get the word out. But the Web's capability to reach people has opened new marketing avenues for FSBOs. Probably the most comprehensive FSBO site is the Abele Owners' Network site, which "looks good enough to give agents a run for their money," says Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. FSBOs can list their homes on the site under several plans: high-cost is $105, the low-cost is free. By comparison, listing your property with a broker will typically cost 3 percent of the selling price -- several thousand dollars on the average home. To list property on the Owners' Network site, sellers write a description of the property in a text file -- no knowledge of HTML is required, but a flair for the descriptive is encouraged ("pristine custom contemporary . . ."). Sellers can also submit a photograph of the property, either a digitized image by e-mail or regular picture by post. In addition, the Owners' Network provides resources for FSBOs, including links to brokers, agents, and others who help handle many aspects of the whole real estate ordeal -- from hosting open houses to coordinating the closing -- for a flat fee. "It's a great way to take advantage of the marketplace," says White, who listed her New Jersey home in the Owners' Network and received an offer from a person who discovered the property online (she didn't sell). "It gives people an opportunity to dial up and see a picture of the house," she says. If you sign an agreement with a broker, chances are that the agreement will be exclusive, meaning you can't market the property the FSBO way. Your agent will list the house in the local multiple listing service (MLS), which is computerized but not necessarily on the Internet. But that doesn't mean you can't have a nifty Web site to help sell your home. Many companies, agents, and local MLSs have a presence on the Web. The biggest broker-run sites (discussed below) have tens of thousands of listings. However, these sites are not comprehensive, and many homes won't automatically be listed. If that's the case, you could encourage your agent to get access to the Web. Or you could list your property with a site that takes such listings. HomeScout, one of the Web's largest real estate sites, has a service called Home on the Web that allows a seller to submit information on their property, including how to contact the broker. A Buyer's Market For those of you looking to buy real estate, the Web offers many choices and timesaving features. You can search for homes across town or across the hemisphere. Several sites offer thousands of detailed listings, plus photographs and even information on communities and schools nearby. The sites mentioned in this article all feature searchable indexes -- just plug in the city, the size of the house, and the price range, and the search engines will divulge which homes meet those criteria. With Realty Locator, for example, you can call up one of 21 U.S. metropolitan areas to obtain a wealth of real estate information, including such related information as a profile of local schools. Additionally, the site has more than 100,000 real estate links in 10,000 U.S. cities and towns. HomeScout, compiled by the Cobalt Group, a multimedia company in Seattle, Washington (U.S.A.), has gathered information from 260 databases to provide users with information on more than 500,000 homes. CyberHomes, which has agreements with multiple listing agencies in cities and counties across the country, places thousands of listings; the National Association of Realtors takes the multiple listings from realtor associations nationwide to offer thousands of home listings; and the Owners' Network is the best place to search the FSBO market for homes that even an agent might not be aware of. And who knows? Some of them may even have water views. Links Abele Owners Network: http://www.owners.com/ HomeScout: http://homescout.com/ Realty Locator: http://www.realtylocator.com/ CyberHomes: http://www.cyberhomes.com/ National Association of Realtors: http://www.realtor.com/ Related Links Talus Multiple Listing Service, Inc.: http://talusmls.com/ If your local bank comes up short on appraiser referrals, the Appraisal Institute has plenty of names; visit its Web site at http://www.appraisalinstitute.org/.)

www.searchenginewatch.com Is a website by Meckler Publishing that evaluates search engines.

http://netscan.sscnet.ucla.edu is Marc Smith's (mailto://smithm@ucla.edu) newsgroup analysis tool. It will show you which newsgroups have the most activity. I just ran into Marc at CFP98 and he was kind enough to show this to me.

www.griggs.demon.co.uk/spring/bio.html - information on creating your Spring bio www.griggs.demon.co.uk/spring/userlist.html - regularly updated list of already submitted bios

Peter Shipley's cool sites: http://www.dis.org - lots of cool http://www.network-security.com - more serious Pretty cool stuff. Out of Berkeley CA.

A cool place to get scripts for cgi, etc. is at http://www.scripting.com I heard about this from Rafe Colburn.

http://www.chickclick.com I got smashed with CLAIRE DANES and other amuzing content.

http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/ripley/eap/rt/back_pages/index.html

http://www.rotten.com

http://www.missingkids.com/

http://www.dolphin-synergy.com good dolphin pics plus more art galleries opening http://www.800florals.com/virtual good place to send virtual bouquets (and it's free!)

check out http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/terra_findaspot.htm To get closeup of your house from space.

from Barrett Golding mailto://beedge@well.com http://memory.loc.gov/ Amercican Memory Historical Collections form the National Digital Library also, not cool, but culturally progressive: "...small children were visibly upset to see Barney beaten up...": http://www.current.org/ch/ch814b.html from Dennis Wilen mailto://thevoidmstr@well.com monica as if by warhol, leictenstein, etc.: if the president bubba/starr transcripts were chat room transcripts, they'd look like this (javascript) this is absolutely brilliant, imho, not only in the technical sense, but the perfect choice for the presentation, and hysterically well written. tell yer friends!

http://sixdegrees.com

Someone has already registered there as terry@spring.net . . . an imposter!

wasn't me...

It was Ray, and that's the way it's supposed to work. You sign other folks and they get email. So I signed up a few folks, some of 'em here, to further Ray's experiment. It's an interesting way to build a little circle of friends on the net. Maybe we could use it to expand the Spring by making contacts there. I assume that other folks start to contact you and your circle grows.

i've got your e-mail via sixth degree, terry. I'll be sorting it all out soon.

Need an award for your website? http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/icon.html

http://www.baylisa.org/events/ Discussion of operating systems.

There's a panel discussion put on by BayLISA tomorrow about running Unix on x86. Represented will be BSDI, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and Solaris. (regarding above url)

http://www.aw.sgi.com/pages/home/pages/monthly_image/index.html

VERY COOL! http://www.snarg.net Relax and watch the show.

my browser wouldn't let me see that page. what do you think is the cause?

It requires you to download something.

http://www.peacepilgrim.org/ http://www.peacepilgrim.com/

http://rinkworks.com/dialect/ Changes your favorite website in to a whole new dialect.

here's a couple i learned about today: http://www.fishydance.com http://www.hamsterdance.com

i don't know how i found this website but it's great for contacting friends and alumni from schools: http://www.classmates.com registration is free, but to access everything, you'll have to fork over a couple of bucks good for two years. i found the names of 4 of my fellow graduates :)

This site is an awesome place to find *everything*! Today they feature a site where you can get thousands of recipes. I can't even begin to describe what you can find on this site. http://www.refdesk.com

That is one incredible URL, Terry. One could just use that instead of bookmarks...almost! A really cool URL showing a variety of live eruption cams http://educeth.ethz.ch/stromboli/livecams/index-e.html

Could someone please tell me how to create a link? (Hypertext, I mean.) There are some ULRs I'd like to put up here, but I don't know how to do it!

Duh, sorry--that should have been URLs!

You need to check out Ann's splendidly easy HTML tutorial. I printed it out! http://www.spring.net/~anneh/toota.html To make the above I just copied and pasted. To have it be a hot link, you need to put the entire URL down including the http://etc...

Thanks again, Marcia! I'm going to see if I can get this to work... This is the website of my beloved Shakespeare professor, Tita French Baumlin, which has received international acclaim and is going to be used to help British schoolchildren learn about Shakespeare: Shakespeare page If you visit, tell her I sent you!

Cool, it worked!

Excellent! You did not need my email, after all! I would have told your esteemed professor that you sent me to her wonderful site (love the insults!) but she requested only email containing other Shakespearean sites.

Oh, I don't think she'd mind. She loves the attention she gets from that website. Especially if you told her I sent you...brownie points for me!

A letter is on the way to her per your request. *smile*

For thy goodly service many thanks! What didst thou say?

I shall forward it to you if you'd like... Only good things, and I kept it short in the interest of saving her valuable time, etc...

Sure! She'll probably send me an email (we usually touch base about once a week,) but I'd like to see it anyway.

It is on your hot little monitor by now...if your email listed under your name here works (some times it takes some back-checking to correct what the ever-creative Yapp software has done to it.) Happy to help!

This web site reviews the latest software (Sorry if this has been mentioned down-topic...I did not see it there!) and has free downloads: http://www.Slaughterhouse.com/index.html

If you do not know about this website, it is fascinating: http://www.InternetTrafficReport.com/index.html

Have you visited http://www.stroud.com Marcia? Our apps conference links to Forrest Strouds reviews there.

Indeed I did. When I enquired of you about CRT you sent me there. I am now the proud owner of a registered and paid-for CRT program. I even told them "Terry at Spring.net" was how I heard of them. I truly appreciate his reviews since you esteem him...I trust your judgement and his as a result!

Why thanks, Marci. What a cool thing to tell them.

http://www.sissyfight.com http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 (do your own security check) http://www.haddock.org (more cool urls) http://www.backflip.com/ (save your bookmarks and more) http://www.soda.co.uk/soda/constructor/

Aha! This is where I should have been putting them...not in science, at all?

Have I got one for you! If there is a off-center theory it is here: http://www.totse.com/know.htm

This URL is so cool I posted it as an updating image in Geo 24 http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

For the coolest updating weather maps and satellite images on the net http://www.earthwatch.com/SKYWATCH/ Thanks to Austin ARES web site listing the link.

I posted four of the weather maps in Geo 14...they are really good quality. I especially like the stormwatch one with the blinking warning areas for tornadoes.

that weather map is cool! looks like the one they use on the local newschannel.

yup! I posted them - 4 to be precise - in Geo 14. That's where I got the UTC clock, too.

This one is amazing and can bring you your 15 minutes of fame: http://www.emergingmind.com/schwa/contest.htm Or this... http://www.jwp.bc.ca/saulm/index.htm

http://www.spring.net/today

That is just plain scary. Some people just don't know when to stop typing, huh?! *sneaking off quietly and resolving not to talk so much anymore*

NO, keep talking!

*Sigh* Your wish is my command...better whatch what I say from now on, in that case. Interesting Front Page, too....*hiding under desk*

I take requests...I am working on Train-hopping in the Austin Conference and almost anything in Geo. What would you like me to write about?

One more question: After plowing through the endless junk I seem to have posted on the conferences on Spring's Master's list of things worthy of his time, The only place I make any sense at all is Geo, and it is missing. How much is it gonna cost me to get it on his list?? If he can have topics not written in for two years, he can jolly well have one which has been very active lately. It is a very interesting place...You'd think he'd like to know what I am doing with part of Spring's bandwidth and hard drive...! Pretty Please?! ...I I'll do anything....

Lovely that you kept the heart I posted even in your telnet cut and paste...but I suupose that is the only way a telnetter can see it. Good! It is just odd to see telnet printout with gifs and other pictures. *totally amazed and delighted* that you could see it...*hugs*

Back to train hopping on Austin conference. I wish someone would join me there.

using http://google.com of course. Tis the best there is! I already posted a bunch of stuff there which is interesting in hopes of bringing more interesting people out of lurkdom and into postdom (is there such a word?!)

Geo will be on the list! It was an unintentional oversight!

Thank you! Official recognition is a good thing...and I think you would find some fun and interesting stuff in there. We've been busy...*smile*

Makes a shambles of other websites: http://penn.netroedge.com/~mrt/

If it's too hot where you are, try some winter sports. http://www.won.net/channels/quickgames/snowcraft/

Turn up the a/c and get some tunnel-vision.

Did you try it?

First I tried my splarking Geo front page on the http://firefly.sparse.org/~mrt/ first time it came back with Welcome to Marcia's Wild World of the Earth Snd this time we are going to do it OUR WAY. Second time it said Wild World of that Darn Earth Third time it said Wild World of the darn Earth!Crazy foo. Of course everything is in the colors I chose for the page and looks really official and absolutely the funniest thing! Even has a tasteful link back to their webpage.

Hmmm.... wonder what it would do to Drool....heh...heh... (tried it but nothing special - but paraspring: Welcome to the crazy Paraspring Conference. 'dis is gunna be a place to theorize the darn paranormal.Oh man, you made me mad now! Have Ya been abducted by aliens?Crazy Murdock gonna get us all killed! Do Mr.T believe in ghosts? Do Mr.T have ESP (or know someone who does)?The fool's crazy! Talk about it here!This man's nuts! Disclaimer: the theories presented here are simply that crazy . They are not endorsed by the darn Spring and do not necessarily represent the crazy views of the crazy domain host....Are we gonna get down with our own bad selves?!? Member of some Esotericism Banner Exchange bookmark 'dis conference