House, garden and finances
Homeowners are logging on to solve their household problems. They check into
conferences, forums, newsgroups, and mailing lists for feedback from contractors,
architects, and fix-it experts on anything from broken ceiling fans and whistling
dryers to rotting decks and other annoyances. They're seeking advice on anything
related to house, garden, and finances.
The CHIMNEYS-L mailing
list is about chimney maintenance. Topics of interest include fire
prevention, safety issues, new products, trouble shooting, cleaning technics,
and anything you can think of about the chimney cleaning industry.
The newsgroup
misc.consumers.house on Usenet is
where you can discuss anything related to owning and maintaining a house.
For antiques, join a newsgroup in the
rec.antiques hierarchy.
Several software libraries
offer shareware and public domain programs to help you plan and maintain
your house.
There are also personal inventory
programs (to help you keep track of belongings), and programs to help you
plan allocation of the space in your home. . .
Other programs will help you
prepare tax return forms, plan next year's taxes, calculate interests and
down-payments on your loans, and do double- entry money-management (personal
book-keeping and checkbook balancing).
To succeed as a private investor,
the experts say, you must have a strategy that is appropriate to your unique
circumstances, resources for keeping up to date on investment options, and
tools for managing the process of investing. It sure is an information-intensive
activity and a constant learning process that requires the up-to-date,
exhaustive, and anecdotal information that online services are perfectly
suited to meet.
Usenet has several newsgroups
under the misc.invest hierarchy. Browse them at
http://x29.deja.com/info/toplevel.shtml.
House is also home. To bring
more "life" into life, some devote themselves to fashion. For links to
fashion-related Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists, visit
http://members.tripod.com/~cjlutz/Usenet.html.
Others consider adopting a
child. For information and experiences, check out
the ADOPTION
mailing list.
Then there is television.
The Interactive Satellite Chart
covers all satellite TV channels worldwide with links to broadcasters'
home pages.
Select your region of world
for a list of reachable satellites. The regions are (1) Europe, Africa and
Middle East, (2) North and South America, (3) Asia and South Pacific. Click
on a satellite, like Hispasat at 30 degrees W, for a list of TV channels
with frequencies, Web links, encoding schemes (if any), sound frequencies,
and TV text information.
Some sample TV station pages:
You will find "Die Tages-uebersicht aller Sender nach Genre" for European
TV channels at Pro Sieben
Online. Categories include Spielfilm, Information, Unterhaltung,
Sport, Serie, Musik.
Check
Zap2it.com for links to your favorite
TV show's home page and information. They offer thousands of links to popular
programmes, most of them made in the US.
Some sample links:
The Jeopardy Quiz
Show
Late Show with David
Letterman
The Internet Movie Database is at
http://www.imdb.com/. Addicted TV- viewers
can follow alt.tv.muppets on Usenet, or
some of the many other offerings in the alt.tv hierarchy of newsgroups. Read
about how to get that book in Chapter 10 if
you would rather read mystery novels by the fire place.
Other cinema/movie resources:
WebMuseum features online
exhibits at the world-famous art museum Louvre in Paris, France.
When we "visited," they offered
French medieval art, a collection of well- known paintings from famous artists,
and a tour around Paris, the Eiffel Tower and Champs-Elysees. There are also
pointers to museums in other countries around the world.
Many of the pictures are large.
"The Cry" by Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch was 110
KB in size, so if you have a dial-up connection and a slow modem to the Internet,
it will take a while.
The French government has
made its
JOCONDE database
of more than 130,000 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures,
and other pieces of art kept in over 60 museums throughout France available
. The database can searched by topic, artist, location, century, etc.
There are even offerings for
"the perfect house wife." Personally, I can think of no better pastime than
origami, the traditional Japanese art of folding paper. Try
alt.arts.origami. For images showing
folded paper procedures/products, check out
alt.binaries.pictures.origami.
Oh, I almost forgot
The Internet BONSAI Club.
Bonsai is the Oriental Art of miniaturizing trees and plants into forms that
mimic nature. This conference is for the discussion of the art and craft
of Bonsai and related art forms. On Usenet, try
rec.arts.bonsai. A FAQ on Bonsai is also
available through the nets.
Join
CompuServe's Investors Forum to learn how
to play the stock and money markets, and other moneymaking 'instruments'.
Discuss investment techniques with others, read reports about economical
trends, and retrieve useful programs to use on your personal computer.
Buying computers and stuff
Each month, tons of articles comparing computers, modems, software and gadgets
are being published. The good news is that you can find much such information
on the Web. Internet's largest collection of free test reports are available
through Ziff-Davis' ZD
Net search engine. Here, you can search all Ziff-Davis publications
in one operation: Anchordesk, Computer Life, Computer Shopper, FamilyPC,
Inter@ctive Week, MacUser, MacWeek, PC Computing, PC Magazine, Underground
Online, Windows Sources, ZD 3D, ZD Internet Magazine, and Yahoo Internet
Life.
A search using the term "seagate"
(the hard disk manufacturer) found 320 documents (September 1996). All articles
were available in full text. A search using "storage technology" found 9,786
documents. I expanded the term with
"storage technology" and prices
This means that the two first words are to be adjacent, and that the word
"prices" is also required in found documents. This gave 4,672 documents.
Finally, I narrowed the query down to
"storage technology" and prices and comparative
The result was 2,155 documents. If you are interested in a specific product,
add the name to the list to narrow the query further.
ZD Net's hit report lists
the most relevant articles first. Ranging is reported as a percentage after
the date. The report started like this:
| Magazine |
Date |
Title |
| PC Magazine |
03-26-96 100 |
PC Magazine: Server Power (03/26/96) |
| Computer Shopper |
07-00-96 100 |
Pro Business |
| Computer Shopper |
06-00-96 100 |
Shopper's Guide to Hard Drives: Room to Spare |
| Computer Shopper |
06-00-96 100 |
Certified to Plug & Play |
| Computer Shopper |
09-22-96 100 |
Disk Jockeys |
At http://www.pview.com, ZD Net also offers
a free, personalized news service tailored to include only your favorite
topics. Here, you can track information on several subjects, issues, or
companies, get relevant news and press releases from over 650 worldwide sources,
get links to the most recent ZD Net articles on your favorite topics, and
more.
You may also find
the Index to Multimedia
Information Sources interesting, and there is usually interesting
things to be found in Usenet's FAQ texts. Search the contents of Web FAQ
texts at Planetweb
Galactic.
There's a list of
hardware-oriented newsgroups sorted by categories at
http://www.landfield.com/faqs/finding-groups/pc-hardware/.
Its categories include:
Networking/networks, PC Networking
hardware/cards/cables, Home-built personal computers, Laptops & notebooks,
Palmtops, Servers, Modems, Printers, SCSI devices, Other peripherals, PCMCIA
devices, Acer, Dell, Gateway, Micron, Zenith, Zeos, Technical topics on PC
soundcards, Discussion of forsale items (also Macintosh), Monitors/video
cards, Modems/fax cards/communication, Hard/floppy/tape drives & media,
CD-ROM drives & interfaces, Computer vendors & specific systems,
System chips/RAM chips/cache, and Other hardware questions.
The Boston Computer Exchange is
interesting if considering to sell or buy used computers. While those living
outside the US may not be prepared to buy from them, it can help find price
levels for use in local negotiations.
In some countries, computer
prices are high while import duties are low. If this is the case for you,
then there may be money to be saved by importing directly from the United
States. My experiences are good.
Here are some Internet stores to check out:
Education, teaching and the exchange of knowledge
Use of modem is opening new worlds of opportunities for students, teachers,
and institutions alike at all levels. The list of conferences, forums, clubs,
and services focusing on education - in its broadest meaning of the word
- is long.
No longer is it hard to find
information about educational offerings. On the Web, one starting point is
the international
College and
University Home Pages. In March 1996, it listed 2500 links to
universities in 73 countries. Mainly text. You can search by country or name.
The Study Abroad Programs
lists programs from over 725 institutions in 110 countries.
There are online courses,
workshops, and seminars for students of all ages, databases to help you select
a school for yourself or your kids, and all kinds of discussion forums for
educators. For examples, check the online distance education catalog of
The Open University in England.
It offers undergraduate and post-graduate courses (some leading to M.Sc.)
for study via the Internet.
There's a British
"Internet
Learning Resources Directory " page with special interest lists
for the visually handicapped, foreign language resources, Internet demographics,
and current awareness.
Usenet and the Internet have
long traditions in education. There are offerings for teachers within all
subject areas, from finance and accounting, through history, languages and
geography to technical subjects on all levels.
Wigglebits.com offers a basic
and easy-to-follow guide for teachers and students who want to construct
a Website for their school or personal use. It covers topics such as a basic
introduction to HTML, using a Web editor, standards, bandwidth, search engine
placement, and animation.
This is a selection of other mailing lists to suggest the span of topics:
Here are some Usenet conferences:
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comp.edu Computer science education
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sci.edu The science of education
-
comp.ai.edu Applications of Artificial
Intelligence to Education
The
HOME-ED
mailing list is for discussion of all aspects of home education. This includes
reasons for homeschooling, how to help a child learn to read, learning
experiences of homeschooling families, and how to design or select a
homeschooling curriculum. There's a home schooling resource page at
http://www.midnightbeach.com/hs/.
The EDUPAGE
newsletter is a twice-weekly summary of news items on information
technology, provided by a consortium of colleges and universities "seeking
to transform education through the use of information technology." Compact
and informative. I like it! Typical example:
FROM CYBERSPACE TO OUTER SPACE
Internet users can now reach out and touch the Endeavour space shuttle, through
NASA's Web site:
http://astro-2.msfc.nasa.gov.
Information available includes Endeavour's exact location over Earth, stellar
observations by Astro telescopes and sky charts, crew and ground control
team photos, snapshots of the cockpit, and taped conversations from four
of the astronauts. More than 350,000 requests for shuttle information have
poured in since Endeavour's lift-off last Thursday. (St. Petersburg Times
3/6/95 A1)
Edupage is translated into
Estonian,
French,
German,
Hungarian,
Spanish, and
Portuguese.
Here are some other interesting links:
You will find many similar offerings on the commercial services and free
bulletin boards.
There are many private conferences in the online world. All
conferences referred to in this book are open for anybody to join,
unless explicitly told to be private.
Language learning
These are tons of offerings and conferences on the Internet, including:
BASQUE
-- Basque, Spanish, French, and English
Moderated discussion about Basque Culture and related topics. The list is
mirrored to the soc.culture.basque
newsgroup.
The Vocabulary
Builder will help you to increase your Spanish Vocabulary. Select
a group. Click at each picture to hear the Spanish word. All sound files
are in the WAVE format. Categories include: Food, Transportation, Sports,
Animals, Verbs, Days, Months, Clothing, Weather, Numbers, and Telling Time.
CAUSERIE
-- French
For more in French, check
The Algerian Scientific
and Technical Information Research Center (CERIST).
The
Learning Chinese Online page
Kanji a day
is a free daily newsletter delivering a Kanji with few examples to your mailbox.
GAELIC-L --
Irish, Scottish, and Manx Gaelic.
BTW-L -- Italian
This is a "distribution-only" mailing-list for ByTheWIRE, a biweekly newsletter
written entirely in ITALIAN that covers topics related to the global Internet.
UN INDICE suddiviso per soggetto
dello spazio Web italiano. Italian.
Tamil.Net -- "to use the
common interest in Tamil language and culture to unite Tamils from all over
the world."
The Spanish Language Page
Information on dictionaries, grammar, translation, forums, literature,
conferences, Spanglish, etc.
WELSH-L -- Welsh
(also Breton, Cornish)
If English is a foreign language, reading interesting articles online is
in itself a great master. Learning to write it, however, is not equally easy.
Often, you find yourself trying to find a word that properly expresses your
meaning.
The
English as a Second Language
page may be worth your visit. It has links to help on grammar, idioms,
dictionaries, online conversation practice, listening training, and more.
For more on English grammar, see
www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.html.
Casey's Snow Day Reverse
Dictionary may not be able to help in such cases, but it is worth
a try. It tries to determine matches between a query (the definition
that you type in) and definitions in the dictionary.
For a starting point for resources
of foreign languages to English, try
Human
Resources. Languages covered include Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French,
German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Middle English, Portuguese, Russian, Scandinavian
Languages, South Asian Languages, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Turkish, Yiddish,
as well as links to other "foreign" language learning resources and home
pages. Languages
Online is worth checking out, and in particular if interested
in Albanian, Chinese, Croatian, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian,
and Spanish.
For lists of Spanish language
Web servers and Internet resources, try these pages
http://mel.lib.mi.us/humanities/language/LANG-spanish.html
http://www2.mmlc.nwu.edu/mmlc/language/spanish/
The Human-Languages Page
is a super resource for anyone interested in foreign languages. Their database
contains links to over 1.900 Internet resources about more than 100 different
languages (2000).
It lists regional databases
across the world where information about foreign language Web pages, mailing
lists, and newsgroups is stored. It has links to Schools and Institutions,
Linguistics Resources, Text & Book Archives, Languages and Literature,
Commercial Resources.
Offerings include dictionaries
(like "English-German Dictionary"), tutorials (like "Let's Learn Arabic,"
and "Travelers' Japanese Tutorial"), literature, other references and resources.
Languages covered include
Aboriginal languages, Afrikaans, African, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese,
Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, French, Gaelic, German,
Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Kurdish,
Latin, Lojban, Mongolian, Maori, Native american languages, Nepali, Persian,
Philippine, Polish, Portuguese, Rasta/patois, Romanian, Russian/eastern european,
Sardinian, Scandinavian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish,
Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Urdu, Viennese, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
For a competitor's offerings,
check Language
and Translation links. You may also find
the world's largest, free dictionary
interesting.
travlang links to
online translating dictionaries. Languages covered include: Afrikaans, Czech,
Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Italian,
Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.
A Web of On-line
Dictionaries has links to online grammar resources for languages
ranging from 'Armenian' to 'Urdu'. It also offers Multilingual Dictionaries,
Specialty English Dictionaries, Thesauri and Other Vocabulary Aids, Language
Identifiers and Guessers, An Index of Dictionary Indices, and A Web of On-line
Grammars.
The Yamada WWW Language Guides
offers a Font
archive, which gives access to downloadable fonts for a broad range
of languages. It also has links to an annotated list of
language-related news
groups, and to
language-related mailing
lists.
Also, make a note about
The Ethnologue for the
languages of the world. This is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages
spoken in 228 countries. Its Name Index lists over 39,000 language names,
dialect names, and alternative names.
These Chinese language-related
information pages
http://www.webcom.com/~bamboo/chinese/chinese.html
http://www.cnd.org:8022/WWW-HZ/WWWChinese.html
point to Chinese-language-related resources, has links to viewing and listening
to Chinese on the WWW, language study courses, educational and viewer software,
FTP sites, and more. If you really want to go there to learn Chinese Language,
China Business (taught in English), and Martial Arts, check
http://www.worldlinkedu.com/.
Joyo'96 provides information about written
Japanese online tutorials: 144-page katakana tutorial, Japanese Ministry
of Education's Joyo Kanji complete with etymology, stroke order, movies,
and mood music. Links to books, software, and free stuff.
There's a
Teach
Yourself Russian page (requires installation of KOI-8 fonts) . The
Russian
Dictionary With Sounds and Images page has pictures of animals and
food paired with Cyrillic text and recordings of a native speaker pronouncing
the words.
If you understand French,
and take an interest in "de la Francophonie," check out the Web pages of
l' Agence de Coopiration Culturelle
et Technique (ACCT) in Paris. Try
http://stp.ling.uu.se/call/french/
for an online course in French.
Even if you're not in secondary
school, you may enjoy the Latin
America Data Base. This resources for educators has several databases
of lesson plans, resource materials, teacher partners, a photo archive of
images of Latin America and the Caribbean, lists of links to embassies, and
100 other Internet sites dealing with Latin America or teacher materials.
It covers various subjects, including Spanish, Social Studies, Science,
Mathematics, Art and Language Arts.
Language-Learning.net
has a Language Course Finder, a database of over 6,000 schools in 80 countries
teaching 70 languages.
Learning online
takes different forms in different programs. In some, students simply read
lecture notes and readings, and interact with their professors via email.
In others, especially at the graduate level, the exchange of comments among
students is the highlight of the learning experience.
Unlike students in face-to-face
classes, online students usually have ample time to review "class discussion"
and ponder their contribution before entering it. The result is often a high
quality of interaction.
Example:
Kidlink
Many parents and teachers regard the online world as a learning opportunity
for their kids. Some of them turn to
Kidlink,
a global service for youth through secondary school. This free service is
operated by a grassroots network of volunteers.
The aim is to get as many
youth as possible involved in a global dialog. To help youth build a global
personal network.
Before joining the discussion,
each youth must respond to the following four questions:
-
Who am I?
-
What do I want to be when I grow up?
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How do I want the world to be better when I grow up?
-
What can I do Now to make this come true?
The kids can write in any
language. Click
here for further instructions.
Once they have submitted their
responses, they are invited to 'meet' the others in one of the many KIDCAFE
forums. There, they can discuss anything from pop music to how it is to live
in other countries. The cafes are split up by language. There are cafes in
many languages, including English, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, Icelandic,
and Norwegian. Click here for a glance at the action:
English:
http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/kidcafe-individual.html
Portuguese:
http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/kidcafe-portuguese.html
The service also has forums for collaborate projects between schools, a private
"chat" network (IRC), an art gallery, and support forums for educators. Schools
all over the globe integrate it with their classes in languages, geography,
other cultures, history, environment, art, etc.
Kidlink grew
from an idea in 1990 to over 175,000 participating children in 139 countries
(by June 2000). The work is supported by 83
public mailing
lists in 19 main languages.
Gateways to knowledge
Visit The United Nation
Publications's CyberSchoolBus site. Imagine the United Nations as
a vast land of resources you can travel through. You can stop on the way
and pick up information on water pollution or on housing and urban problems,
you can drop in at any one of the four major UN conferences, say the one
on population held in Cairo, or you can visit all of the peace-keeping sites
around the world. You can also take a tour of the UN and then stop by the
bookstore to order instructional materials, charts and posters.
Exploring Ancient World
Cultures is interesting to students of all ages. This introductory,
online, college- level 'textbook' of ancient world cultures is constructed
around a series of pages consisting of: The Ancient Near East, Ancient India,
Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam,
and Medieval Europe.
The home pages contain essays
by subject specialists, an anthology of readings from the period, a chronology,
bibliographic resources, hypertext links to related sites, and computer graded
quizzes. You can also navigate the site by topic across cultures. You can
click on a year and culture, and then another culture, to compare cross-cultural
developments of the same period.
We dived into Ancient China,
retrieved the chronology of rulers, and got lost in pictures of the Great
Wall. Did you know that it is over 5,000 kilometers long?
The
Gateway to World
History page has links to documentary archives, and online resources.
You can search for resources by keyword or by subject.
Here are some other places
to try:
African History
- African Cultures
Ancient history search
engine
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/
Discovery Channel Online
EMuseum
Plant Image Gallery
The European Schoolnet
Schools Projects
Questacon is a
hands-on science centre in Canberra, Australia.
Study, reference, and research
link categories on Study
Web include: Agriculture, Animals & Pets , Architecture, Business
& Finance, Communications & Media, Computer Science, Criminology,
Delete, Education, Family Science, Fine Arts , Geography, Government &
Politics, Grammar & Composition, Health & Nutrition, History, Home
& Garden, Literature, Math, Medicine , Mental Health, Metaphysics, Music,
Philosophy, Reference, Religion , Science, Social Studies & Culture,
Teaching Resources, Transportation , Writing & Writers.
Parenthood
The misc.kids newsgroup is for parents, soon-to-be
parents, and others interested in children. They discuss issues about pregnancy
and child rearing, ask for advice from others on many parenting concerns,
and seek and provide support and encouragement about raising kids. Check
the Kids FAQ at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/
The
alt.parents-teens newsgroup is for
parent-teenager relationships.
TWINS is a mailing
lists for issues related to twins, triplets, etc.
Your personal network
Network is a word with many meanings. It can be a system set up to transport
data from one computer to another. It can be an online service with many
conferences, and a friendly connection between people (like in "old boys'
network"). Here, we use it in the latter meaning of the word.
We use our personal networks
more than most of us think. We have a chain of people who we call on to ask
for advice, help, and invite to participate in projects or parties. When
they ask us for help, we lend a hand.
The online world has some
interesting characteristics. One is that most participants in online conferences
already have received so much help from others that they feel obliged to
pay back. They do this by helping others.
Those who help, know that
helping others will be rewarded. The reward, however, may not come from the
persons that they help. The contributions help maintain and develop the online
world as one giant personal network.
A typical example: In
CompuServe's Toshiba Forum, I read an open message
from a user who had bought a 425 megabyte hard disk for his laptop computer.
I also wanted one, but before placing an order, I wrote to check if he was
still satisfied with the unit.
The happy user did more than
reply. He told about other vendors and offered to help return my computer
after the upgrade. He made it clear that he had no financial interest in
the companies selling the upgrade. By the way, we had never been in touch
with each others before that date.
The online world is full of
such examples. The list of what people do to help others is indeed very long.
In most conferences and forums
you'll get help. Just like that. There is always someone prepared to help.
Still, it is wise to invest to increase the odds of getting quality help
when you really need it. This is what to consider:
Your best long range strategy
is to be visually present in conferences that matter to you. 'Being visually
present' means that you should contribute in discussions and help others
as much as you can. You see, positive contributors get a lot more
friends and a disproportional amount of help from others.
For example, you may contribute
by telling others about your interesting finds in the online world. Keep
that up over a stream of weeks or months, and you may find that others start
sending you things, quite unprovoked.
Helping others is what it
takes to build a personal network. One day you may need it. It will give
you an incredible advantage! I have seen people get jobs, partners and clients
through such contacts. The online world is full of opportunities.
Watch your words
Written communications are deprived of the body language and tone of voice
that convey so much in face-to-face meetings and even in telephone conversations.
Therefore, it makes sense to work harder to build in humor, sarcasm, or
disagreement to avoid that your words come across as stupidity, rudeness,
or aggressiveness.
One way of defusing
misunderstanding is to include cues as to your emotional state. One technique
is to use keyboard symbols like :-). We call them emoticons (Emotional
icons. Pictorial representations of the emotions of the moment).
What :-) means? Tilt
your head to the left and look again. Yes, it is a smiling face.
Here are some other examples
to challenge your imagination: ;-) (Winking Smiley), :-( (Sad),
8-) (User wears glasses), :-o (Shocked or surprised), and
:-> (Hey, hey).
A bracketed
<g> is shorthand for grin, and <g,d&r> means
grinning, ducking, and running. Some people prefer to write their emotional
state in full text, like in these two examples: *grin* and *evil smile*.
Do not misunderstand. You
still should not allow yourself to write the most appallingly insulting things
to other people, and then try to shrug it off with a
<smile>.
Watch your words. They are
so easy to store on a hard disk.
Religion
Usenet offers
ISLAM-L is a
non-sectarian forum for discussion, debate, and the exchange of information
by students and scholars of the history of Islam. For links to software,
FTP archives, and network resources such as online academic conferences and
newsgroups related to Islamic topics, check
http://www.islamicity.org/.
MUSLIMS is
The Islamic Information & News Net, and there is a
Muslims Internet
Directory.
At
http://www.the-quran.com/index.html,
you can have the entire Holy Quran (the Koran) recited over the net. It is
also available for downloading. There is also a link to translations into
English. For other translations, see
http://www.arabiaweb.com/religion/quran.shtml
The Buddhist Studies
WWW Virtual Library is a comprehensive directory of Buddhism. It
has links to sources of information about Buddhist studies networked resources,
major Buddhism WWW sites, Buddhist texts and translations, databases, newsletters
and journals, organizations, art, and more.
The
Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary is a compilation
of Buddhist terminology and translation terms to bridge the Tibetan and English
languages.
The
Dictionary of East Asian Buddhist Terms is a digital dictionary
containing over 5000 terms from Chinese, Japanese and Korean Buddhism.
For Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma,
check Hindunet and
Dharmacentral.com.
The Catholic Kiosk
page is devoted to cataloging Catholic resources on the Web. Links
include parish and diocese information, educational and research resources,
prolife pointers, and subject menus on various Catholic subjects.
The WWW Bible Gateway offers
seven translations of the book in six languages, and a contents search service.
For Scientology, try
http://www.scientology.org/scn_home.htm.
BELIEF-L
is where personal ideologies can be discussed, examined, and analyzed.
PAGAN-HOME is for
those wanting to explore paganism and neo-paganism.
You can search the Book of
Mormon, the Quran, King James' Bible, the BUDDHA-L mailing list, and other
religious resources at
http://www.ub2.lu.se/auto_new/auto_39.html.
For more, check the
Virtual Religion
Index at Rutgers University, and this
Religions
page.
Philosophy, etc.
Check The Chinese Philosophy
Page. For more links to Su Tzu, Kong Fu Zi - Confucius, Tao, Lao
Tze, Chinese Classics, and other old Chinese masters, take a look at
http://www.gac.edu/oncampus/academics/philosophy/lchinese.html.
The
talk.religion.newage newsgroup focuses
on esoteric and minority religions & philosophies.
Yogabasics.com offers a basic
introduction to yoga and its history, an illustrated guide to yoga postures,
introductions to and links for information on Pranayama and the seven Chakras,
free yoga .mp3s, free yoga music radio, and a forum. The Kundalini Yoga web
site is at
http://www.kundaliniyoga.org/.
If you know what New Age is about, then try
The New Age
Directory for a long list of links.
Job-hunting by modem
Unemployment is a global problem, and losing a job is usually a bad experience.
Job-hunting is the solution. If you have a job, you may be looking for something
better.
There are many forums and
conferences devoted to job-hunting. If your potential employers have an email
address, you can send dozens of job resumes - while reading the newspaper!
The Web service at
http://www.discribe.ca/yourhbiz/howto/helphint.htm
offers "Helpful Hints for Home Businesses." You may also find these
Web resources interesting:
http://www.overseasjobs.com/resources/
http://www.dbm.com/jobguide/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/classifieds/careerpost/parachute/parafram2.htm
Home based business opportunities may exist within areas such as desktop
publishing, desktop video, high-tech equipment repair, import and export
management, and professional practice management. Learn from others in forums
or conferences on related topics.
For some, the biggest challenges
of being out of work is losing that day- to-day contact with the people in
their industry. The online world is an excellent way to stay in touch. Whatever
your industry, there are places online to hang out, learn the latest developments
and stay connected.
Being a member of an online
forum does not mean that you are overtly looking for a job - an activity
that your current employer may not appreciate. By being there, however, you
have put yourself out there to be discovered. The discovered candidate is
always more interesting than one who sends in his resume along with 300 other
applicants' resumes.
The good news is that many
organizations are also having problems finding qualified candidates for their
vacant positions, and that some of them are turning to the online world for
help. This is what one of them did (from an online announcement):
Because it is difficult to locate qualified candidates for positions in
special libraries and information centers, and to help special librarians
and information specialists to locate positions, the student chapter of the
Special Libraries Association at Indiana University has formed a LISTSERV,
SLAJOB, in connection with the Indiana Center for Database Systems.
The LISTSERV, available
on both the Internet and Bitnet, will help special libraries and information
centers in the sciences, industry, the arts and within public and academic
libraries to have a central location for announcing special library and
information science positions.
The LISTSERV is available
to individuals or organizations that have an Internet or Bitnet network
connection. For those on the network, subscribe by sending an email message
to:
listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu
Leave the subject line blank and then type the following in the message
of the text:
subscribe SLAJOB [firstname] [lastname]
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