Food for Thought - June 2000
Webgrammar Stew
Keystroke Tips
EasyEverything
Pinacus
'Strine: Australian-English Dictionary
Did You Know: Capitalizing, Punctuating and Abbreviating Months
Recommendations
WINDOWS KEYSTROKES:
Pressing & holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the "F" key will bring you a garden of delights. It's the shortcut for "find." In almost any Windows program, including your Internet browsers, when you press Ctrl+F, a box pops up. Type in the word or phrase you need, and it goes to each of those in succession. Why scan with the eye when the Find function will save you time and effort?
EASYEVERYTHING Internet Cafes. If you're traveling in Europe and without a laptop, try one of these sites. They're located in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Rotterdam, with sites planned for Glasgow, Madrid, Rome, Dublin, Paris, Antwerp, and Manchester. Partnering with well-known coffee shops, EasyEverything offers the latest computer hardware and software for Internet access.
http://www.easyeverything.com/
PINACUS Pinacus started operations February 2000. It helps connect editors who need quality content to writers who are ready to provide it. Currently, its directory contains about 1,200 paying markets that they estimate will spend more than $20 million on content this year. Moreover, Pinacus is growing into an exchange to facilitate the creation and sale of writing and other forms of intellectual property for everyone with content needs, online or off.
Founders: Nayan Patel and Leonard Speiser. Advisory Board: Ellen Levy, Ph.D. SOFTBANK Venture Capital; Rajeev Motwani, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Stanford University; Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Founder, Nielsen Norman Group; Nirav Tolia - Founder & CEO, Epinions.
http://www.pinacus.com
'STRINE DICTIONARY Confused by Australian "slang"? Want to know the definition of animals, snakes, spiders, trees, flowers, places? JoyZine offers a comprehensive listing. And it's fun! On the introductory page, find Waltzing Matilda with hyperlinks to the dictionary for each Aussie word.
http://www.joyzine.zip.com.au/australia/strine/intro.htm
DID YOU KNOW that you capitalize the names of months in all uses, but you don't need a comma when a phrase lists only a month and a year (March 1963 was a proud day for the small town.). Set off the year when a phrase refers to a month, day and year (He was born February 29, 1912.). When a month is used with a specific date, abbreviate only Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. Spell out when using alone or with a year alone.
...The Associated Press Stylebook, 1996, ISBN 0-917360-12-5
RECOMMENDATIONS
The Black Sea Trade Project: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, exploring the ancient colony of Sinop.
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/sinop/sinopintro.htm
DAILY GRAMMAR Daily e-mail lessons from an experienced, effective English teacher.
http://www.dailygrammar.com
Infotrieve Infotrieve facilitates efficient, affordable, and innovative methods of distributing published materials to libraries and end users, while protecting the rights of the information producer. This research portal offers full-service document retrieval and delivery services, current awareness alerts, databases on the web, and a variety of tools to simplify the process of identifying, retrieving, and paying for published literature.
Through its network of library, archive, and publisher sources Infotrieve can provide a copy of most published articles.
http://www3.infotrieve.com/
Kids Click World of Web Searching Teaching children how to search the Web. Created by Ramapo Catskill Library System.
http://www.worldsofsearching.org/
North American Vexillological Association: Study of Flags and Flag History
http://www.nava.org/
Official British Education Sites & Resource Links
http://www.chester.ac.uk/~smilne/educ.htm#Government
The National Association Of Milk Bottle Collectors
http://www.collectoronline.com/club-NAMBC-wp.html
Pomp, The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar, an e-book for kids, by Liz Sonneborn
http://pompstory.home.mindspring.com/index.html
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
http://webster.commnet.edu/hp/pages/darling/grammar/notorious.htm
The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html
ULI - The Israel Union Catalog: The Israel Union Catalog (ULI) contains over 4 million bibliographic records in the catalogs of the Israeli university and college libraries, as well as selected research institute and government libraries.
http://libnet.ac.il:4555/ALEPH//start/uli01
Uchronia Uchronia: The Alternate History List is an annotated bibliography of novels, stories, essays and other material involving the "what ifs" of history. Such texts may also be called as alternate histories, alternative histories, allohistories, uchronia, counterfeit worlds, counterfactuals, negative histories, etc. In an alternate history, one or more past events are changed and the subsequent effects on history somehow described. This description may comprise the entire plotline of a novel, or it may just provide a brief background to a short story. Perhaps the most common themes in alternate history are "What if the Nazis won World War II?" and "What if the Confederacy won the Civil War?"
http://www.uchronia.net/
UNEXT UNext.com was created to deliver world-class education. It is building a scalable education business that delivers the power of knowledge around the world. To bring people the finest curricula, it collaborated and co-branded with The University of Chicago, Carniege Mellon, Columbia Business School, Stanford, and The London School of Economics and Political Science. Ultimately, it will form partnerships with leading establishments throughout the world.
The people at UNext.com - academics, cognitive scientists, computer engineers, and designers - work with these institutions to create state-of-the-art online learning. UNext.com's first online learning community is called Cardean University. UNext.com will continue to create other educational services that fit within its core competency: developing scalable, world-class knowledge businesses for delivery over the Internet.
http://www.unext.com/
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA VIRTUAL HOSPITAL
http://www.vh.org/
WORLD OF READING Source for foreign language and ESL materials: books, tapes, and videos. We offer foreign language software in over 100 languages, from preschool through adult - for IBM compatible PCs or Macintosh - with all products at or below the retail price. If you don't see what you are looking for, let them know - we have information on many more materials. They also have multicultural T-Shirts, sweatshirts, ties and scarves.
http://www.wor.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/menu.html?E+scstore
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