News From the CWIS/Gopher Hole

Its been up for a little while, but now it's more presentable. If you enjoy Pierse Anthony's world of Xanth, then you will like this Web page. The title graphic looks best when you use a browser that supports transparent gifs. Please feel free to E-Mail me if you have any comments, or possible additions.
I am looking for original or fan artwork and fiction to include on this page (as long as it has something to do with Xanth). My home page has lots of fantasy and sci-fi related stuff: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/awooldri.html

Random URLS URouLette: http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/organizations/kucia/uroulette/uroulette.html From: abrams@falcon.cc.ukans. edu (Matthew Thomas Abrams) Date: 18 Aug 94 20:10:36 CDT

Announcing the world's first* random** URL generator: A World Wide Web page called URouLette has been created by some of the developers of the Kansas University Campus Internet Association.
URouLette is better left unexplained*** you should see it for yourself. We think it is pretty nifty, you may not, but at least take a few minutes to take a look.
Description: You can use your favorite WWW browser to click on an image and be taken to a random* URL. We don't know where you'll end up and you won't either.
Created by: Matthew J. Angell and Matthew T. Abrams at the University of Kansas.

The Well Connected Mac World Wide Web: http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html From: eharold@corona.sunspot. noao.edu (Elliotte Harold) Date: 16 Aug 1994 21:07:47 -0500
The Well Connected Mac World Wide Web site at: http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.htm now includes a directory of vendors doing business in the Macintosh market. The directory includes phone numbers, E-mail addresses, street addresses, ftp sites, Web pages and other useful information about each company. See http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/vendor.html
There are separate sections for software and hardware manufacturers, Apple authorized dealers, VARs, book and magazine publishers, repair shops, and a few others.
There are also separate lists of vendor ftp sites and WWW pages. In the future I hope to produce other topical lists such as 800 numbers and AOL addresses. The capability to do this exists now. What is lacking is the data.
If you would like to add your company to this directory please point your favorite forms capable World-Wide-Web browser (such as Mosaic 2.0 or lynx) at: http://rever. nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/forms/vendorinfoform.html and fill out the form you find there.
While information submitted via E-mail will eventually make its way into my database, the process will be a lot quicker if you use the form since the back end will automatically handle all the necessary HTML formatting.

New WWW page for Info Providers: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/RNR/Education/weavers.html From: ccat@netcom.com (Chris Beaumont) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 16:34:52 GMT
As part of a job I've been working on, I put together a fairly comprehensive list of pointers to info sources on the WWW for those wanting to learn how to put their data onto the Net.If people are interested, I'd appreciate it if they could take a look and offer feedback, additions, etc.
My page is not as large as some, but I'm trying to provide a clear, simple and useful set of resources both for those starting out, as well as experts in the field.
Please send feedback to cbeaumon@nas.nasa.gov Thanks! -Chris Beaumont

Psychology Graduate Student WWW site available: gopher://panda1.uottawa.ca:4010/ From: Tor Neilands tbn@utxvm.cc. utexas.edu Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 04:54:54 EST
Greetings. The PSYCGRAD project is the electronically based standard of communication among graduate students in the field of psychology. It started as an automatic e-mail distribution list: PSYCGRAD@acadvm1.uottawa.ca . Since then (and over 575 members later), it has grown to include an on-line journal, an extensive gopher space, including archives of discussions (including references to published scholarly work in many subdisciplines of psychology, APA style word processing templates available via FTP, and back issues of the on-line psychology graduate student journal). It also features WWW pages which are accessible through the gopher.
The PSYCGRAD gopher is accessible at: gopher://panda1.uottawa.ca:4010/
The PSYCGRAD project also features World Wide Web access at the following URL: gopher://panda1.uottawa.ca:4010/
Once you enter the PSYCGRAD gopher, select the subheader The PSYCGRAD WWW Pages (for WWW clients only) .

Frog Dissection Page: http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html From: David Robertson avidr@ george.lbl.gov Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 15:57:57 -0700
The Imaging and Distributed Computing Group of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory announces its interactive forms-based frog dissection kit. Images of the frog from various views, and in various stages of dissection, are generated on-the-fly based on parameters set by the user.
David Robertson, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

World Wide Web and Mosaic: User's Guide: http://elib.cme.nist.gov/fasd/pubs/schlenoff94.html From: schlenof@cme.nist.gov (Craig Schlenoff) Date: 28 Jun 94 19:49:25 GMT
Hello all. I have just published a paper entitled World Wide Web and Mosaic: User's Guide. It is written in HTML and intended to be primarily disseminated in electronic format. I've tried to include as many useful links as possible while still giving a brief overview of the major topics in the actual document. You can access it two ways:
1. By the URL http://elib.cme.nist.gov/fasd/pubs/schlenoff94.html
2. Going into our division's (Factory Automation Systems Division) homepage, clicking on staff, clicking on my name (Craig Schlenoff), and clicking on the publication. The URL for our division's homepage is: http://elib.cme.nist.gov/fasd/fasdhome.html
I hope you enjoy the document and am anxious to hear any feedback. Happy reading, Craig Schlenoff

Shopping on WWW: http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/commerce.html From: ian@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu (Spiff) Date: 23 Jun 1994 18:22:10 GMT
A list of commercial sites on the net. Included in there is a number of sites that sell things on the Net. There is one that seems sort of interesting called the Internet Shopping Network http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual-tourist/CaliforniaYP.html#centers This is The California yellow pages in the Online Shopping Centers section.

11th World Festival of Animated Films - Awards: http://AnimaFest.hr/awards.html From: mviljac@smile.srce.hr (Mario Viljac) Date: 23 Jun 1994 13:39:57 GMT
The 11th World Festival of Animated Films, Zagreb, Croatia is over, the prizes have been presented. The jury members have been very pleased that so many new artists have participated in this Festival ensuring the optimistic future for animation. See you in two years . (Zagreb '96) Same time same place ! Mario Viljac, CARNet

Beach Camera: http://sailfish.peregrine.com/surf/surf.html From: orchard@mdavcr.mda.ca (David Orchard) Date: 24 Jun 94 21:41:20 GMT Dean Walker (dw@mx1.uk.mdis. com) wrote:
Did anybody find the URL for the video camera on the Calif. beach that was requested recently ? Can be found at: http://sailfish.peregrine.com/surf/surf.html Enjoy the surf. dave, orchard@mda.ca

WWW Guide to Civic Networking: http://http2.sils.umich.edu/ From: Catherine Kummer ckummer @umich.edu Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 19:28:45 -0400 (EDT)
In response to many of the listserv questions posted regarding starting a Freenet, I have created a WWW guide to developing community networks. The majority of this document lists common community related subjects and points users to quality examples on existing civic networks.
The rest of the guide connects users to various networks, archives and documents that will be of interest to network developers.
The guide is available on the University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies Home Page.URL: http://http2.sils.umich.edu/
From the home page select ILS Related Information and Services. The guide is listed on this document under "Community Networking."
This collection was completed in April and will be maintained by future SILS students. I welcome any suggestions or comments you have to make this guide more useful for community network developers.
Enjoy! Catherine Kummer, ckummer@umich.edu

VR and WorldWideWeb Mailing List: http://www.wired.com/vrml/ From: Brian Behlendorf brian@ wired.com Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 00:47:33 +0200
Announcing the Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) Mailing List!
What is VRML? Virtual Reality Markup Language or VRML is an evolving specification for a platform-independent definition of 3-dimensional spaces within the WorldWideWeb. It is designed to combine the best features of virtual reality, networked visualization, and the global hypermedia environment of the WorldWideWeb.
Why is there a VRML mailing list? Due to the intense interest expressed within the WorldWideWeb community during WWW '94 in Geneva, we have begun an open forum discussion for the design and implementation of a platform-independent language for virtual reality object design/scene design/linkage to the Web.
Is there a WorldWideWeb site for VRML? Yes. The folks at WIRED have very kindly given us some of their bandwidth and disk space. The URL for the VRML Forum is: http://www.wired.com/vrml/
We hope that this site will grow into a major resource for individuals and groups developing VRML viewers/authoring tools/etc. There are a number of links from this site to other works, including two papers from WWW '94 which outline, in some detail, the requirements for VRML.
How do I subscribe to the VRML mailing list? To subscribe to the list send mail to: majordomo@wired.com. No subject field, message body: subscribe www-vrml. Within a few minutes you should get a reply from the server at wired.com. We hope to see you there! Mark Pesce (mpesce@netcom.com) Brian Behlendorf (brian@ wired.com)

Best of the Web '94!!: http://wings.buffalo.edu/contest/ From: plewe@acsu.buffalo.edu (Brandon S Plewe) Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 20:58:37 GMT
After many months of work and voting by several hundred people, The Best of the Web '94 Awards were presented Thursday at the WWW Conference in Geneva.
The award recipients and other nominees are on permanent display at: http://wings.buffalo.edu/contest/ (please make any pointers to the awards go to this URL, not the subpages)

WebWorld, a Web-based cyberworld: http://sailfish.peregrine.com/WebWorld/welcome.html From: pgrine@nic.cerf.net (Robert Young) Date: 24 May 1994 01:10:08 GMT
Come explore and become a part of WebWorld, the first virtual world you can travel in, build in, and visually link to other parts of the World Wide Web. WebWorld is at: http://sailfish.peregrine.com/WebWorld/welcome.html
You can build a home, office, or even a city that is linked to other parts of the World Wide Web. Prime real estate is available now for those who build first in WebWorld.
WebWorld is a new way to look at information-space. A visual metaphor for the World Wide Web. Come check it out. Ron Britvich, ronb@peregrine.com

Periodic Table of Elements on WWW: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/index.html From: Richard Lee Holbert a_holbertrl@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 08:25:41 +1000
For those Chemistry people out there or people who would pass this along to their Chemistry friends, the Periodic Table of Elements is now available on theWWW. It gives 105 elements and when you highlight an element, it gives you a 3 pages of info. on the element, including General Information, Radii /pm, Val-ence, Electro-negativities, Temperatures, and Isotopic Abundances to name a few. Good for students who want to learn the table.

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