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Site Seeing. . .WEB RESEARCH AND WEB SEARCHING

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This page is dedicated to interesting and/or fun places to visit on the World Wide Web. �This page also has a variety of �websearch devices.

Check back often...you never know where some of these will take you!

Interesting/Fun Places:

Good tutorial on use of colors for web page text,hot links,cool links and visited links

A biginners guide to webpage programming by Greg Nussberger. (a multimedia presentation with music.

Schilling's Friendship Force page

Virtual Tourist Home Page. A connection to all the servers in the WWW.

EcoNet Home Page
An in-depth and extensive listing of organizations and resources pertaining to a number of environmental and global issues.

Earth Views
Ben and Jerry's Home Page
A couple of guys who need no introduction! Check out their Page: fun, ice cream and Fabulous Prizes abound....

The Internet C@fe, Honolulu, Hawaii
Internet Cafe's are multiplying at a nearly geometric pace worldwide, and Hawaii's first is an excellent example of what can be done with a lot of imagination, a lot of coffee, and a lot of bits per second! Take a moment to visit!
Via-Web Kaleidoscope website
An example of a hard to find collectible. Take a moment to visit!

Kaleidoscope Gardens
Another hard to find kaleidoscope collectible site

The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
An extremely useful Home Page for mushroom cutivators and anyone else involved in the agriculture industry. Many downloadable tables and charts, readable through most works/spreadsheet applications. Take a look at what's available through the NASS Historic Data Products Gopher!

The Home Page of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Most renown (and sometimes reviled) for the book The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error , this media watchdog organization has a lot of fascinating information to offer on their Home Page. A little something for everybody!

The Interactive Etch-A-Sketch
Must be seen to be believed! You will need a copy of Netscape Navigator 2.0 or higher and Macromedia's Plug-in Shockwave. Stuff like this is what makes the Internet (and the Web in particular) such a nifty place!

The Society of the Hwarang
Interested in the Martial Arts? HwaRang Do is one of the most sophisticated martial arts in the world, and has been called the "Harvard" of martial arts systems. Exceptional in its fluidity and power (kicking, punching, grappling, joint-locks, throwing, and falling) this system is populated by black belts from other styles who are attracted to HwaRang Do for its depth, grace and beauty. Paul Stamets has been practicing HwaRang Do since the late 1970's and invite you to visit the home page of this eclectic but powerful art.

Ask Dr. Andrew Weil
Dr. Andrew Weil is available for general questions concerning health-related issues through his Hot-Wired internet site. Author of The Natural Mind, Spontaneous Healing and many other books, his advice resonates with wisdom.


Web Searching:� �

Some starting search devices and other aids Are you looking for information on the Web? The sites listed below are some favorite general Internet search engines and catalogs. None of them are comprehensive, so it's important to use a variety of different tools.
An easy to use Search engine is GOTO.COM
To locate additional services, see the All-in-One Search Page, Search.com or the Yahoo page titled Searching the Web. Also see Search Engine Watch, which has news and tips relating to WWW search engines, including tips for searching and tips for webmasters who want to make their pages more accessible.

IPL maintains collections of over 18,000 Internet resources, hand picked, organized and described.


AltaVista
http://altavista.digital.com/
AltaVista is very fast and comprehensive. It searches the entire full-text of web pages and Usenet articles. Users can search for exact phrases, require or prohibit words, search within the title field of an HTML document, search for documents that contain a link to a particular URL, use wildcards, and employ case sensitivity. The advanced query allows for the use of Boolean operators (AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR) and lets users limit searches by date.

Pros: Very powerful and extensive database that can be power-searched from page one.
Cons: Too many hits may overwhelm many novice searchers.
Help and/or FAQ Page: Help, FAQ

The Argus Clearinghouse
http://www.clearinghouse.net/
The Argus Clearinghouse is a concise archive of "value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources." These guides are evaluated, rated and indexed by category. They can also be searched for keywords, titles and authors. The Clearinghouse also offers an Internet searching center with more links and information about searching other places on the web.

Pros: Well-organized and well-categorized without much extraneous text; ratings system is clear and useful
Cons: Categories are organized into long lists of links that can be tough to browse
Help and/or FAQ Page: Information

Deja News
http://www.dejanews.com/
Deja News is the only searcher dedicated exclusively to searching Usenet newsgroups and is a great way to find esoteric information even too arcane for the World Wide Web. Users can search the Usenet as far back as March, 1995 with a simple interface. A very customizable Power Search page is also available where users can create their own query filters. Deja News also provides a great deal of basic information about newsgroups, newsreading and posting and allows users to post from their site.

Pros: Super powerful, customizable and fast. Useful information on Usenet for new users.
Cons: Hard to limit by topic or user. Usenet information can be erratic.
Help and/or FAQ Page: Help, FAQ.

excite
http://www.excite.com/
Excite is a feature-rich web site offering the benefits of both a powerful search engine and a well-organized index. Users can search for web pages, Usenet posts and recent news stories from Reuters in plain English or by