Rodney Jones's Internet List

Rodney Jones's Internet List

Some useful and interesting sites on the Internet (a work in progress), as well as a list of sites related to mining and materials science.
Some sites are daily favourites, others look potentially interesting, and are waiting to be explored. Some are probably already quite out of date.

News .	Mining . .	Materials Science	Pics W
Travel .	Weather	Entertainment	Genealogy .
Search	Reference	Museums	Photography
Humour . . .	Kids' Stuff	Health	Religion
Computing	HTML & Web storage	Explore	Shopping

Google Calendar / GMail / Google Webmaster Tools / Google Maps / SA Maps
Mintek / Pyromet / Mintek 75 / WebMail / Star / RTJ4 / AJC1
Pyro.co.za / Local copy / Pyro 2011 / BPt / ConRoast / Conferences
Amethyst Guide to Johannesburg / Indexing / PHP test / Family Tree . . / Local file copy
Germiston High School 1976 / Global GHS1976 / Local copy
Wits University Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy ~1980 / Global Wits1980 / Local copy
Metals Conferences / Platinum 2012 . / PbZn 2008 / Base Metals 2009 / Local file copy
LinkedIn
Standard Bank / Internet Banking
Nedbank - Internet Banking
First National Bank - Internet Banking
Woolworths Financial Services
Joburg - Water and electricity meter readings / EasyPay
Discovery Health / Oxygen / Oxygen Medical Scheme / Oxygen Levels / FedHealth - Medscheme
Glenrand MIB insurance claims
Telkom - online billing Telkom - online billing
MWeb Global dial-up and e-mail settings and account information
Cell C
HoTMaiL
Bushbaby viewing - 1st Friday of each month

NEWS

Google News
Business Day
Mail & Guardian / News Archive
Sunday Times
The Economist
Independent (UK)
Guardian (UK)
Daily Mail (UK)
New Yorker magazine
Eyewitness News
Daily News (SA)
Randburg Sun
News 24
Star newspaper / Independent Online
Sunday Independent
Radio 702
SABC news
BBC News Online / BBC Broadband
Times Online (UK)
Reporter.co.za
360 News (SA)
CNN Interactive
CBC - Canadian News
Computer news from CNet
National Geographic News
Time magazine
Newsweek
Channel Africa TV news
Voice of America
Financial Mail
Financial Times
Electronic Telegraph
Times Online
Los Angeles Times
New York Times - text
The Chicago Tribune
USA Today
World Net Daily news stories from the International Herald Tribune, London Times, Associated Press, etc.
Index of Current World News
Paperboy - online newspapers
List of online newspapers
Newspaper Links
Africa News
Press Display - world newspapers
Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
International Herald Tribune
Aljazeera
New Scientist
Wall Street Journal
San Jose Mercury News

MINING

SAIMM / Presidents. / Events / Journal / Conference Papers
Minerals Engineering Online / Minerals Engineering blog
One Mine - technical document search
Mining Weekly
Mining Journal / Publications/MJ/News
Johnson Matthey / Platinum Today / News room
Mining Review
AIME papers from 1871 - 1970 / Log in via TMS and choose Read Journals, then AIME Transactions /
Value Digger
Mining Life
Mining Africa
Braemore Resources / Interactive Investors / Jubilee Platinum
24h Gold - Economic News
Metal Bulletin (prices for Al, [Co], Cu, Ni, Pb, Sn, Zn)
Sharps Pixley - PGM.net (prices for Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru, Os)
The Bullion Desk (prices for Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru, Os)
Anglo Platinum (prices for Pt, Pd, Ni, Cu)
MetalPrices.com (prices for Al Co Cr Cu Mo Ni Pb Sn Ti V W Zn)
London Metal Exchange (prices for Al Cu Ni Pb Sn Zn)
CNN (prices for Ag Au Pt Cu)
Platinumscrap (prices for Au Ag Pt Pd Rh)
Kitco (prices for Ag Au Pd Pt)
Index Mundi prices for Ni
Kitco prices for Ni
Prices for Ag Au Pd Pt Rh
Moneyweb (prices for Au Pd Pt)
Scrap metal prices from Recycle.net
Johnson Matthey (prices for Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru)
Base Metals (prices for Al Cu Ni Pb Sn Zn)
BHP Billiton Co price
Co price
JOM - Journal of Metals
Woza Mining
Mineral commodity info from USGS
Yahoo Mining/Metals News
Info Mine
Australian Mineral Foundation - directory of mining websites
Nickel news
Nickel Producers Environmental Research Association / Links (good also for Cu, Pb, Zn)
Cobalt Development Institute
Nickel conference
Nickel contents
Norilsk Nickel
Hatch Steltech articles
Fuel Cell Today
De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola

USGS Metal Industry Indicators

Metals Watch!

MP METAL OnLine

Canadian Mining Journal

Mining Business Digest Magazine

Mining Business Digest

Mining Week

Nevada Bureau of Mines Quarterly Newsletter

News of the Mining Industry

The Northern Miner, North America's Mining Newspaper

The Prospector Newspaper & Daily Mining News

The Weekly Mining News Review

USGS Mineral Resources Newsletter

MATERIALS SCIENCE

Conference and Event Listings

Chem Spider - chemical nomenclature and database from RSC

IOM3 International materials conference list

IOM3 Events

Metal Bulletin Events

CastingArea Events

Schedule of engineering & scientific conferences

International Scientific Organizations and Societies

Steelynx - Metallurgy Resources on the Internet This list of materials science sites was provided largely by Cathy D. Stewart of National Steel, (stewarca@mlc.lib.mi.us).

Mineralogy Database

Met Trans B via ScienceDirect

Ironmaking and Steelmaking

CIM Bulletin (PDF format)

Smithsonian Physical Tables

Material Science at Non-Profit and Government Organizations

Institute of Materials - Links
Understanding the Internet: A Guide for Materials Scientists and Engineers
TMS Home Page - The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
CISR Home Page - Center for Iron and Steel Research @ Carnegie Mellon University
NIST WWW - Home Page - National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST/MSEL Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
High Temperature Materials Information Analysis Center - @ Purdue
Metals Information Analysis Center - @ Purdue
NRIM Home Page - National Research Institute for Metals, Japan
American National Standards Institute
Oak Ridge Centers for Manufacturing Technology - sponsored by the DOE and managed by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc
Guide to NASA Online Resources
NASA Picture Database

Material Science at Some Academic Sites

MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering Home Page
The Department of Materials Science & Engineering Homepage - @ U of Mich.
Material Science and Engineering Home - @ University of Pennsylvania
Drexel University: Department of Materials Engineering

Links to Some Materials Science Journals

Light Metal Age - On-Line Journal
Metals Watch! - Free On-Line Subscription Newsletter
Elsevier Science - Home Page - Scientific Publications
Chapman & Hall Co, UK - Journal of Materials Science On-Line
CASTI Publishing, Inc. - Publishers of the Black, Red and Blue Books of Metal Data

Meta Sites with Multiple Links to Material Science

Other

Iron and Steel Society
CIMs Metsoc
Archives of metallurgy mailing list
Mining & minerals web links
Materials science educational material
CSIRO
Liu Rixin
UMR Metallurgy
ASM
TMS & other conference info
TMS document ordering service
Metal specifications
The Nonferrous Metals Society of China (NFsoc)
The Nonferrous Metals Society of China (NFsoc)

Inorganic Chemical Thermodynamics

- databases and software for use in pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, ceramics, chemical industry, alloys, salts, slags, aqueous, geology, electrochemistry, chemical processing, etc. To add your web site to the list please contact Christopher W. Bale.

FACT Web - free calculations
F*A*C*T - Facility for the Analysis of Chemical Thermodynamics, Montreal, Canada
List of web sites
GTT DataGuide Online
GTT Technical Thermochemistry - Gibbs energy minimisation software, GTT-Technologies, Aachen, Germany
ChemSage - Gibbs energy minimisation software, GTT-Technologies, Aachen, Germany
ChemApp - General and Programming Information
ARSoftware - various software packages, ARInternet Corp., Landover, MD, U.S.A.
Geology - links to data and software in geology, University of Calgary, Canada
HSC Chemistry
HSC - Outokumpu HSC Chemistry for Windows, Pori, Finland
NIST - Standard References Data Program, Gaithersburg, MD, U.S.A.
SGTE - Scientific Group Thermodata Europe, list of members
Thermo-Calc - software and databases, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
WebElements - various data from the periodic table of elements, University of Sheffield, U.K.
WWW-CHE - WWW Virtual Library of software in chemical and process engineering
Ellingham Diagram web tool

Los Alamos Periodic Table
Periodic Table
Periodic Table
Periodic Table - mirror site
Periodic Table of Comic Books
Interactive Periodic Table (requires Flash software)
WebElements - various data from the periodic table of elements, University of Sheffield, U.K.
Periodic Table

Units of Measurement

Binary phase diagrams (SGTE)

Phase diagram collection

Tutorial on phase diagrams and eutectic alloys

Thermodynamics Research Laboratory

Thermodex - An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks--University of Texas
The Mallet Chemistry Library at the University of Texas provides this recently updated site, a no-nonsense search interface to bibliographic information about 129 "printed handbooks and compilations of thermodynamic and thermophysical data for chemical compounds." Users simply enter the properties and compounds they are interested in and a list of sources that are relevant to the query is returned. Each source contains brief bibliographic information, along with an abstract.

Plasma Formulae

Journal of Chemical Education

Report on Forum 2000: Fluid Properties for New Technologies -- Connecting Virtual Design with Physical Reality [.pdf]
In June 2000, the Fourteenth Symposium on Thermophysical Properties was held to review the progress of thermophysics over the last 100 years and to look forward to the next century of research and development in thermophysics. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a special publication online covering the event and including overviews of topical issues from professionals in the field and several brief, invited essays on issues raised in the forum by panelists, audience participants, and other experts in thermophysics. The topics addressed in the 113-page .pdf document include molecular modeling, nuclear waste cleanup, power plants, process and chemical manufacturing, data evaluation, simulations and sensitivity analysis, among others.

TRAVEL

South Africa
Amethyst Guide to Johannesburg / Local copy
Pretoria Maps / City of Tshwane Streetguide / Local copy
Braby's Maps of South Africa
Maps of South Africa
Excellent maps of South Africa (especially Cape Town mountains) by Baardskeerder
Johannesburg Map
Johannesburg Pictures
Johannesburg Statistics
World Crime Rankings
Brief History of South Africa
Kromdraai - Valley of Ancestors /
SA Venues /
Gauteng Information /
Kids News - What's On /
Jozi Kids - Activities for children in Jhb /
SA Maps
Tswaing Meteorite Crater
Northern Farm - Diepsloot Nature Reserve
SA City Maps - online
Maps of South Africa
SA City Maps
Travel Data - SA City Maps
SA Small Town Maps
SA car journey route planner and maps (IE only)
SA maps - Map Me
SA maps - Easy Map
Kruger Park to Jhb route map
Kruger Park main map
Kruger Park regions map
WorldSkip Country Information
Wild About Town
Pretoria Online
Krugersdorp
Getaway magazine (from 1 April 1999)
LeisureMap - SA street guide
Journey through South Africa
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife brochures
National Parks Board / via WildnetAfrica / Mpumalanga / North West Parks / Kwa-Zulu Natal
De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre
Malawi travel guide
AA Travel Guide to Southern Africa
Drakensberg excursions
Drakensberg - Royal Natal walks
Africa Travel
SA Out There
Cool Antarctica
World Heritage Sites - official list
New London Tube Map (more geographically accurate)
Hotel Map for London
Old Byland, Yorkshire
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's 'Know Before You Go'
Europe PDF travel guides
Himalayas - Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet
Russia - travel information
Russia and former CIS countries
Frommer's Destination Guides - via Travelocity
Guernsey, Channel Islands
Train travel from London to Yorkshire via Grand Central Rail
China Consulate-General, Johannesburg (visa)
Japan - visa and travel guides
Japan - no visa required for British citizens
Japan - visa is required for South African citizens
Japan - Practical travel guides
Japan - Welcome card and transportation information
Time
US Atomic Clock / UTC
World Time - daylight, sunrise, sunset
Time Difference Calculator
World Time Zone
Sunrise, Sunset, and local times and calendar
Sun and Moon data
Moon phases
Gregorian and Julian Calendars
ISO 8601 Date Format
Currency converters
OANDA Currency Converter (Backdated to 1990)
Olsen Currency Converter (old version of OANDA) (Backdated to 1990)
World Atlas Currency Converter
Xe.net Currency converter / Xe.net Currency converter 2
eMoneyMail: Chicago-based Bank One lets you send up to $500 to anyone with an e-mail address. You have the option of sending money from a Visa credit or debit card, or a US checking account. When the recipient gets the payment, he or she can accept the money through Visa credit or debit card, checking account, or paper check sent by mail. The service costs $1 (plus an extra $1 if the person receives a paper check).
Airlines
Airports - SA arrival and departure times
FlightWiz - Airport arrival and departure times / Johannesburg arrivals
Star Alliance / Star Alliance destination map
Flight Network - South African flight comparisons
Travel Supermarket - South African flight comparisons
Comparison of South Africa's local flights
Comparison of South Africa's local flights
South African Airways (including Voyager miles query)
Aeroplan frequent flyer (Air Canada, bmi, Lufthansa, Mexicana, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, TAP Portugal, Thai, United, US Airways, Varig)
Kulula
1 Time
Mango
Nationwide
Travel Online - Dunkeld (Alison Groves)
Seat Guru - airline seating plans
British Airways
Lufthansa
BMI
Air Canada
US Airways
United Airlines (cannot pay online)
Continental Airlines (cannot pay online)
American Airlines
TW Airlines
Virgin Airlines
Southwest Airlines
India flights
India flights and trains
Tickets To ... UK and Europe
Last-minute flight discounts of 10-20% on BA/Comair
SA budget airfare sites: Amex / eTravel / Flights.com / Flight Centre / Rennies Travel / Travel /
Rennies Travel
Expedia travel service
World Travel Guide Online
Cheap Tickets (mostly USA flights) - was IntelliTrip
ebookers.com
Orbitz
Travelocity
Travelocity UK
Cheap To Travel
Travel Web (USA departure airport)
Cheap Hotels and Airline Tickets
Airline Ticket Auction: Name your destination and the price, guarantee it with a credit card, and within 24 hours you find out if a major airline wants your business.
Maps
Google Maps
MSN Virtual Earth
Maps and aerial photographs of UK, etc.
Via Michelin - Maps and driving directions for Europe and UK
Maps of UK and Europe
Maporama
Mappery.com
Namibia Maps Namibia Info /
Only Maps
PCL Map Collection
World Atlas
World Atlas list of countries and other facts
US Maps and Directions
United States state maps
MSN MapPoint - Maps and Directions
US Atlas
ERSYS (Earth Resource SYStem) - USA demographic and geographic data
USA travel information
Walt Disney World on-line
Unofficial guide to Walt Disney World
Missouri Guide for Kids
Traveller's Diary
Brazil Info
Greyhound Buses - South Africa
Travelnet - tourist information for Southern Africa
Lonely Planet Travel Guide
Guide To South Africa
Lonely Planet Guide To South Africa
Canadian High Commission
Oregon
Knowhere guide to UK towns
This Is London / London Maps - London Tourist Board guide
DigiStreets - Virtual stroll through London
UK railway info
UK public transport
Travel planning
TravelWeb - Hotel Booking USA
Find-A-Hotel
World Hotel
Hotel Guide
Venere Hotel Guide
Booking.com Hotels
Travel Now - hotels
Automobile Association of SA
Toronto
Where Magazine - guides for many cities
Tristan da Cunha
SA street maps - Witwatersrand, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban
Maps of South Africa: Also a 3D image of Table Mountain
Malaria areas in South Africa
Malaria in Southern Africa
SA Hiking Trails
Eagle Cove, Magaliesberg
Sparkling Waters, Magaliesberg
Cape Town - webcam
Table Mountain webcam, Cape Town
Durban and Muizenberg beach webcams
Africam - South African game reserve webcams
International Atlas
Visa applications
Working in the UK
World Info from the UN - country statistics
Echo New York
Paris
Everest expedition
Mapquest - US Maps
MapQuest! Interactive Atlas Welcome!
Fodor's Travel Guides
Israel - off the beaten track
World's Tallest Buildings
DeLorme's CyberRouter - road route finder for the United States
Australia Maps
Perth Maps
Perth Cam /
Perth Cam Plus
Perth virtual reality view
Discover West Australia
Perth train journeys
Seattle Municipal Archives - with searchable historic photographs searchable by time-period, neighbourhood district (a neighbourhood map is also provided)

Find the cheapest airline flight
The Internet is the place to go for great travel bargains. You can find them by going to specific Web sites or by signing up for email notification about special deals. Preview Travel's Farefinder sets you up with the cheapest fare. All you have to do is input your preferred flight and date information. At the Travelocity site, you can sign up for the Fare Watcher email dispatch, which notifies you whenever one of your top destinations goes up or down $25 or more. At Expedia's Fare Tracker, enter your top three destinations, and each week you'll receive an email with the best going rate for your chosen hot spot. Many airlines offer special deals at their Web sites or through a weekly email. Subscribe to the Net SAAvers email dispatch for alerts about discounts on American Airlines flights. Stop by the CyberSavers page for deals on Northwest fares. For links to more airlines than you'll fly in your lifetime, check out Yahoo's very comprehensive list.

New York Arts and Entertainment
Artdirect Guide to New York City
New York Movie Showtimes (MovieLink 777-FILM online)
New York Nightlife
New York Philharmonic
On Broadway (J. Geigel)
Radio City Music Hall
The NYC area Concert, Club and Band Guide (Internote)
ViewFinders - Photography in NYC (TothTron Photography)
totalny: New York City

New York City Guides
Bronx Home Page (Aventura Travel)
Explore! New York
Net-Person's Guide to New York City (D. Pirmann)
New York City Reference Information
Paperless Guide to New York City
The Long Island City Home Page (Krypton Neon)
The New York Web
Village Voice Essential Guide to New York at Night
Statue of Liberty (Young Audiences/New York)
TravelNow Hotel Reservations

National Geographic Society
This site, updated daily, provides highlights from the Society's three print magazines: National Geographic, World, and Traveler. Also included: the Map Machine, which provides political and physical maps of the world; Flashback, which allows the viewer to see photographs and maps from the NGS archives; and Gold Mine, an archive of questions and answers from NGS members and others. Users may also send a virtual postcard with an NGS photograph to anyone with an email address. The site's search engine is not yet implemented, but there is the NGS Publication Index, which includes listings for National Geographic magazines, books, and videos. Registration, free of charge, is offered but not required to view the site.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
An index to the site is available:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/globals/go/go.wd

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORES MAP TERRITORY From the people who bring you exciting new views of the world in print and on TV comes a map resource so nationally geographic, you can practically hear the theme music in the background. Go ahead, hum a few bars. Anyway, if you're looking for maps of the world, this is the place to go. Click on the continent, country, or region of your choice, and you'll get a good dose of visual and textual information. A nifty Shockwave-operable political map is also available. <http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/maps/cartographic.html>

FROM THE LOST TRIBES TO ALICE LOST This beautiful site draws on surprising sources offered in unexpected juxtaposition. Maxima New Media refashions traditional visual and literary material for presentation in the computer medium, and they use this Web site to proudly display their work. Not the least of the site's pleasures is Maxima's eclectic selection of sources: legends of the lost tribes of Israel; nonsense illustrations and poetry by Edward Lear; whimsy from Lewis Carroll; a history told in Jewish folklore. Colors are rich and warm. Animation is restrained and just right for the image. Line drawings are witty, and even the link icons are minor masterpieces. Contests engage visitors even more and there's free clip art.

WEATHER

Weather Underground - Johannesburg
Weather Underground - Moscow
Weather Underground - St Petersburg
Weather Underground - Harrismith
Randburg Climate History
SABC News - South African Weather
South African Weather Service / SA Weather
Netforecasting - South African Weather - and satellite image
Yahoo Weather - Johannesburg
MetroCast - South African Weather
Drakensberg Mountains Weather
CNN Worldwide Weather
Cape Town - Real Time Weather Watch
Weather in Warmbaths
Weather in Perth

ENTERTAINMENT

SABC TV programme schedules TV1 / TV2 / TV3
ETV programme schedules
M-Net TV Guide
Market Theatre
Movie Site / List of current movies
Computicket
TicketWeb
Ster Kinekor
Film Monthly - film reviews of substance
Movie reviews from Internet Africa / Movie times
Review of current movies
Internet Movie Database USA UK
Movie Reviews by net citizens (pulled off usenet newsgroups)
Roger Ebert film reviews
LA Times - Movie Reviews Database
Empire Online - Movie magazine and reviews
The Internet Film Network [RTealPlayer G2]
Classic FM radio
CD Universe
Weekly Mail & Guardian - Entertainment: (Jhb, CT, Dbn - weekly update)
Soccer - Bafana Bafana supporters club
Diners Club guide to SA restaurants
Dining Out SA
Restaurant Guide - www.dine.co.za
On-Line Books
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Electronic books
Penguin Books
WWW Bookstore - search and order
WWW Books
Classical Books (free text)
Great Books
Books - University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
Find Books to Buy
Rubik's Cube
Learn to play the guitar
Sheet music
MP3 music search
MIDI music search
New MIDI songs
MIDI music Farm
Jethro Tull music, arranged by Adam Bodkin: Thick as a brick

SEARCHING THE WWW

Yellow Pages - South Africa
Telkom White Pages - South Africa
BT Phone Directory, UK
International Phone Directories
192.com - Directory of people in the UK
InfoSpace phone directory for USA and Canada
Switchboard: Switchboard, provided by Banyan Systems, Inc., allows users to search its U.S. database of over 90 million names for telephone numbers and addresses. Listings are compiled from white pages directories throughout the U.S., although because white pages directories are usually updated annually, there is a possibility that the listing you get might be out of date. Switchboard is searchable by name, city and state. Retrieval looks exactly like a telephone listing. A help file is available on the home page. You may also register at the site and personalize your listing, adding an e-mail address if you wish. 10 million U.S. businesses are also searchable.
USA Yellow Pages - GTE SuperPages
USA Yellow Pages
Zip2 online yellow pages - USA business
International telephone dialling codes - USA business

Searchable FTP at Internet Solution
Archie at Internet Solution - Search for files available via FTP in South Africa
Scout FTP index for SA - replacement for UCT's Archie
ArchiePlex USA
Archie USA
Archie UK

Patent Searching from IBM and Optipat USPTO and CNIDR Patents Database
IBM and Optipat, Inc. have made a searchable US Patent Database available on the web. Coverage is from 1971 to the end of 1996 at present (IBM intends to update it regularly), and retrieval includes bibliographic information about the patent, claims, reference, and abstract information. In addition, for patents since 1987, images of the patent are available. IBM intends to add images from 1974-86 patents early in 1997. Users can view the images, or order the patents online from Optipat. Patent number searching, as well as Boolean and field searching are provided. The provision of claims and detailed drawing image information distinguishes this site from the Patent and Trademark Office/CNIDR (Center For Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval) patent search site. Of course, as might be expected, both retrieval and relevance rankings of these two search engines differ, so patent searchers may want to use them in combination.

IBM Intellectual Property Network Users can search, retrieve, and view nearly four million patents and applications at this site from IBM. The Intellectual Property Network offers access to US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions from 1971 to the present, as well as "over 1.4 million European Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Office patents and applications." In addition, the site also contains "images of nearly all the US patents over the last 24 years and the images of the EPA and WIPO documents." Users can search each patent collection by keyword, patent number, Boolean text, or advanced text. Print and CD-ROM copies of patents may be ordered for a fee. Additional resources include What's New and FAQ pages and a Gallery of Obscure Patents.
All United States Patents since 1971 are online, courtesy of IBM (no slouch in the patent securing field, by the way). Using a familiar search engine interface, you can search by a number of fields including: inventor, assignee, title, abstract, claims, and agent. You can access over 27 years of US Patent and Trademark Office patent descriptions as well as the last 24 years of patent images. In all, it amounts to over two million patents. <http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/>

USPTO Patents Database from Elsevier
Search the free US Patents Full-Text Database from January 1996 to the present. Data from over 850,000 patents is text searchable by patent title, inventor name and assignee name.

Bible Browser--University of Chicago
The Bible Browser, provided by Richard Goerwitz of the University of Chicago, is a powerful search tool that lets you search passages, words, or word parts of any of three (in basic mode) or eight (in advanced mode) bibles. Each mode will search a Latin as well as English bibles. Phrase and Boolean searching is supported. Exhaustive help files are provided for basic, advanced, and pBible (direct queries to the search retrieval daemon that underlies the entire searching system) searching. One of the highlights of this site is that it allows you to see selected passages in multiple bibles, set up as table output. The Bible Browser is supported by the Afroasiatic Index Project and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
Basic Search: http://negus.uchicago.edu:1080/pub/goerwitz/bible_browser/pbeasy.html
Advanced Search: http://negus.uchicago.edu:1080/pub/goerwitz/bible_browser/pbform.html
Bible Browser User's Guide: http://negus.uchicago.edu:1080/pub/goerwitz/bible_browser/pbdoc.html

OCLC SiteSearch WebZ -- an evaluation system at the University of Missouri
The University of Missouri has made the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) SiteSearch WebZ evaluation system available on the Web. Searchable databases include Current Contents, Expanded Academic Index, Legal Resource Index, and Business Index. Searching can be done on title keyword, author phrase, subject keyword, or journal title phrase. Boolean searching and powerful proximity searching are available. Inverted indexes of each searchable field dictionary are also available. The help files are crucial to exploiting the power of the searching system, as they explain basic searching, broadening and refining searches, and the indexes available for searching in each database. Using the indexes allows searchers to construct much more powerful searches. All help files are located under "Help" on any search page. For additional information about the databases, click on "Descriptions of the databases and what they contain" after you begin searching. Note that the University of Missouri specifically states that this an "initial implementation," which means that it is a beta offering. However, the quality of the databases, as well as the power of the searching system, make this site worth a visit.
http://sequoia.lso.missouri.edu:4300

Kids' Stuff

Lucy - the human computer
Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids
Science experiments at home
Web Index for Kids
Gamespot
Funology - the science of fun
Mammoth Net
Cool Science for Curious Kids
Smithsonian Kids' Castle
700 Great Sites for Children
Test - Read me a story
Read me a story / Also here later
Surfing the Net with Kids
National Geographic "Pirates for kids"
CIA Kids Page
Dragonfly - school science
Kids e-mail
Interesting Places for Kids
Space Dog - Kids' site
Sesame Street (and parenting info)
San Diego Zoo
Yahooligans - Web guide for kids
Little Mermaid
Disney
#1 Disney Homepage
Seussville / via Random House
Dr. Seuss Page
Muppets Home Page
Theodore Tugboat
Uncle Bob's Kids' Page
Animaniacs
Looney Tune Home Page
CyberKids Magazine
Kids' Space
Shining Time Station
Jackson's page for 5 year olds
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Children's Museum
The Canadian Kids Page
Bright Ideas Page
Nye Labs Online - Bill Nye the Science Guy
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - No longer online!
Astronomy for children
Butterflies and Beetles
SA Foundation for Education, Science and Technology: Science is fun
Kidsurfer Digest
Number guessing game

Baby's Art Gallery InfoHaus (high-contrast black-and-white images designed for infants)
Canadian Kids Home Page
Carlos' Coloring Book
Children's Literature WWW Page
Children's Radio in the United States (Media Literacy Project)
Cinderella Project
Digital KIDS (kid-oriented CD-ROMs: samples and info for both kids and parents)
Dinosaurs!
Disney Pages (unofficial)
1. Disney Home Page
2. Doug and Lisa's Disney Home Page (Doug & Lisa Krause)
3. Disneyland Park - Anaheim, California (Doug & Lisa Krause)
4. John's Disneyland Page (John Perry)
5. Disneyland (SteveZ)
6. Disney Theme Parks (SteveZ)
7. Tokyo Disneyland
Dr. Toy's (info for parents about best award-winning toys and other children's products) (Chris Beaumont)
Edutainment Page (educational software and multimedia; reviews of software and links to resources)
The Fabulous Miss Piggy Homepage (history and homage; includes Miss Piggy artifacts, photos, memorabilia) (Rose Sage)
FAO Schwarz
Global Show-n-Tell
Hands On Children's Museum (Olympia, Washington) (for children under 10)
Kaitlyn's Knock Knock Jokes and Riddles for Children (Kaitlyn Ruth Bayne)
KidsCom Home Page
KidsCom
KID: Kid's Internet Delight
KidPub (page for children to publish their stories)
K i d s T r a v e l (resources to keep kids busy during trips)
LEGO Home Page
Matchbox Toys (Tyco Industries, Inc.)
MayaQuest '96 ("Armed with hi-tech team equipment, the explorers will link to classrooms and computers around the world. Aimed particularly at grades 4-8 (with high school and family applications), this online interactive experience will, among other things, let followers lead the team, chat with other kids and educators, view images from the journey, and learn about the ancient Maya and contemporary Central America") (MECC)
NetVet/Electronic Zoo Animal Information & Archives
Richard's Poetry Library: Poetry For and About Children (Richard Darsie, U. California, Davis)
Reading Room: FairyTales (ftp)
The Scoop - Children's Book Reviews And Much More! (Bookworm Enterprises)
Sea World/Busch Gardens
Treasure Island ("information on everything you could possibly want to know about Treasure Island. Find out about the author, the characters of the book, tropical islands, pirates, buried treasure and lots more!" ["created by UK Office for Library and Information Networking in order to explore how a childrens' library in a public library can integrate the Internet into its services"]) (Steve Hill and Sarah Ormes)
Wooden Toy Exhibition
The World of Curious George (Houghton Mifflin Interactive)

Education Place--Houghton Mifflin
For teachers looking for new ideas, for parents trying to rescue children from summer boredom, and for kids who would like to try some new activities (and learn something along the way) Houghton Mifflin offers the Education Place. This web site includes a Math Center, a Reading/Language Arts Center, and a Social Studies Center. Each Center has activities, links to related web resources, suggestions for reading, and resources for teachers. Throughout the site are ideas for parents and kids, as well as resources that specifically instruct teachers on how to enrich their curricula.
http://www.eduplace.com/
Text-only index is available at:
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/main.html

Kidsource Online
Kidsource Online is an extensive collection of information about raising children from newborns to adolescents. A sampling of the publications they've pulled together at the site includes "Children and Bilingualism" from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; "Testing Your Child's Hearing" by Carol Knightly, Pediatric Audiologist; and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) Provides Tips to Help Parents and Kids Cope with Allergy Season. Resources are organized under top-level categories of Newborns, Toddlers, Preschoolers, K-12, Education, Health, Recreation, Forums, Organizations, and Guide to Best Software, among others.
http://www.kidsource.com

Berit's Best Sites for Children
http://www.cochran.com/theosite/KSites.html
If you want to introduce your young child to some of the better Internet sites for children, Berit's Best Sites for Children is the place to start. Provided by Berit Erickson for Cochran Interactive, this site offers over 400 briefly annotated and rated sites in the subjects of "Just for Fun," "Kids on the Net," and "Serious Stuff." There are pointers to museums, elementary schools, "creepy crawlies," pen pals, stories, and other attractions. Ratings (on a 5 point scale) are based on appearance, content, ease of use, organization, relevance, and suitability for children.

The Space Place
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm
The Space Place demonstrates and explains scientific concepts related to astronomy in a fun, hands-on manner that is tailored to grade school children. Sponsored by NASA, the California Institute of Technology, and a consortium of other technology partners, The Space Place offers a simple, clutter-free forum where children can learn about such topics as stars, the earth, ions, and interferometry by baking cookies, navigating a maze, and solving a riddle. The explanations that follow the activities are clea and concise enough for even adults to understand.

Family Pages

Family Planet
Family World
HeartThread Resource Page
Interesting Places for Parents
The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids

HEALTH

Complete Home Medical Guide - CUCPS: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Health Answers
Mayo Health Oasis
Kids' Health
Cellphone antennas and Health
Braces for teeth
Attention Deficit Disorder and more
A.D.D. Warehouse
Endometriosis
Acne
Health Daily
Anxiety Disorders Association of America
Drugbase - pharmaceutical information
Pharmacy and drug information
Medical information
MedHunt
Medline Plus - NIH

RELIGION

Desiderata
Valley Vineyard Church
Vineyard Churches (also see www.kindness.com)
Kingsgate Vineyard Church
Planet Vineyard newsletter
Comparitive religion
African Enterprise - Daywatch
Statistics on religion
Cult Info
List of Cults
Bare-faced messiah - The true story of L. Ron Hubbard
Plain Truth articles
Ambassador Report - The Painful Truth
Origins of Easter
Bible History
Nonviolent resistance - Third Way
Third Way - Walter Wink
Weekly Addiction Gambling Education Report
CS Lewis - Into the Wardrobe
Christian perspective on radiometric dating

COMPUTING

What's my IP address?
Docx file conversion
DNS Stuff (IP networking tools)
Photonote Toshiba
Toshiba products
Disassembly of Toshiba notebook computers
Toshiba forums
Toshiba support
Toshiba FAQs
Toshiba computers
Toshiba America
Toshiba
Apple II history
Pegasus Mail / Updates
Pegasus Mail / Resources and Wish List / Addons List / Filenames
Pegasus Mail - export or convert
Windows XP Power Toys /
Windows XP Media Bonus Pack /
Windows Calculator Plus
Router Passwords
Yahoo - Free e-mail
Go-OO add-on to Open Office
Cyberdyne
Independent Computers - Dale and Murray
PC International
Zentek
World of Windows Networking
Original Google paper
Gibson Research - SpinRite and ShieldsUp
Zone Alarm (personal firewall)
Task List Programs
Windows ME Boosters - CNet
Free software for Windows
Karen's Power Tools
Movie file conversion
Browser Archives
Home Networking
IT Web - SA computer news
Tom's Hardware
Tech News World
Microsoft Office updates
Windows Annoyances and workarounds
New Hacker's Dictionary - jargon file
Computer Virus Myths
Computer Virus Info from IBM
PC World - Computer News
PC World - Tip News
Windows Sources
Byte Magazine
ZD Net SA
SA Computer Buyer
C-net columnists
C-net reviews of software for downloading
Listing and description of Windows 95 files
Windows 98 Overview
Which new version of Windows (98 or NT 5.0)?
Windows 95 - Dylan Greene
Windows 95 - Frank
Windows 95 - Microsoft
Windows 95 - Process Software Corp.
Windows 95 - InterNetworking Headquarters
Software library at WUSTL.EDU
Microsoft Proxy documentation (on Mintek's intranet)
Visual Basic 5.0 Resource Editor
Visual Basic Developers site
PowerBASIC
Visual Basic to Java
Visual Basic online training course
Wotsit's File Format Collection
File Conversion Software
E-mail address book conversions
Look up registration for US web sites
Imaging advice
Windows drivers from Conitech
Windows drivers from Driverzone
Windows drivers from WinDrivers
Windows drivers from DriverGuide
SpinWave JPG/GIF image compressors
MPEG Tutorial
Microsoft Clip Art Gallery
Ziff-Davis Publishers
Check Mosaic page to find which software version is current
Quarterdeck WebServer for Windows 95
Frontier Technologies SuperWeb 1.0 for Win95
Article on programming and the Windows API
PC Magazine
PC Magazine:
John Dvorak /
Bill Machrone
Winsock Apps
C-Net Contents
C-Net News
C-Net Reviews
WebSite WWW Server software (60 day trial; $379)
Open Source Software economics
Information from your web browser
Topological map of Southern African Internet Access Providers
Stupid e-mail disclaimers
Free Software installer
DVD Recording
Default Password List
Guide to ISOC and other Internet societies
Linksys routers and repeating of wireless signals

HTML Language References

Website design tutorials
W3Schools - excellent language tutorials
Compendium of HTML tags
HTML special characters
NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML
Strict HTML
Crash Course on HTML, PC Week Labs
Web authoring and surfing - good style, by Yukka Korpela
Writing HTML: A tutorial, Maricopa Center
HTML Documents: A Mosaic Tutorial, Dennis Horn - Clarkson University
Introduction to HTML, Ian Graham
HTML, the complete guide, Emory Univ. Chemistry Department
HTML Forms tutorial
HTML Forms tutorial by Carlos
HTML Forms - check examples at end of document
CGI
Latin-1 character set (official standard as of HTML 3.0)
HTML 3.2 press release
HTML 3.2 standard
ActiveX development
HTML 4.0 Specification - Public Working Draft
HTML 4.0 Specification - Table of Contents
HTML 4.0 - hands on
How-to articles on CGI programming
ABCs of CGI programming
Web Engineer's Toolbox - CGI stuff, Star Trek icons, etc.
Test your pages for standard HTML
CGI Script examples
Free Internet software tools from Andover.Net
Tips (including HTML) for a faster web site
W3C HTML Validation Service
HTML Lessons
HTML with style
PHP Language Reference Manual
PHP Downloads
PHP FormMail documentation
Send e-mail from a PHP script
Send e-mail from a PHP script using SMTP authentication
PHP Image uploading and resizing
CSS For Beginners
Online free Icon Editor (favicon)
Penceland Online Tips (web development references)

htpasswd encryption for .htaccess password protection
Create Images from Text (make text buttons)
Easy Thumbnail Images
Free Graphics
Web Art Samples: A variety of images from a commercial Web art product
Animated Web Icons: These web icons shake, rattle, and roll
Free Web Tiles: Decorative web backgrounds
The Web Rules: Better horizontal rules than the plain old HR tag
Stones Background Art: Various rock textures
Animated Gif Collection: Web-ready moving pictures in 256 colors
Elementals: A collection of over 100 raytraced images
Animated Collection: Twelve animated GIFs
Arrows (.GIF): A set of 3D arrows
Animated Lightsabre: A full screen blue lightsabre that extends over from right to left.
Sound effects search engine

HTMLGoodies
This site, provided by Joe Burns, contains a veritable gold mine of HTML-related tutorials for both beginning and advanced web developers. The site is highlighted by HTML tutorials, which include basics, Java, Javascript, CGI, tables, forms, frames, and image maps, among many others. For the beginner, there is a seven step HTML tutorial. The site also contains over 450 submitted Javascripts, and a library of free images. Language used to teach concepts is breezy and lighthearted; still, the content is infomative and well thought out.

C|Net's Get Animated -- Create an Animated GIF in 7 easy steps
http://cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Webanim/?builder
GIF animation resources:
http://cnet.com/Content/Features/Howto/Webanim/ss04.html
GIFmation:
http://enlil.boxtopsoft.com/GIFmation/
Cecilia Farell, a Web designer and freelance writer based in Toronto, has put together a great online tutorial/informational resource for c|net on "how to make your GIFs dance" in as few as 7 simple steps. All the tools necessary to animate as well as additional resources are provided at the site. The tutorial is open to those with Windows 3.x/95/NT, Macintosh, or UNIX, but it is specific to GIF Construction Set, one of the animation tools listed for Windows 95/NT. If you choose another tool much of the tutorial may not apply to you, but it still offers some general information on animation from which anyone can benefit. The Internet Scout Project used the 90 day evaluation version of GIFmation, a $49 product of BoxTop Software, Inc. Working with this tool was very easy: import the images, press play, and voila, you have your first animation. Saving the animation was also as easy as using the "Export Optimized ..." feature (note: the demo version will not save GIFs with more than 3 frames). If the GIF doesn't appear to be animated when viewed in your browser, go back to GIFmation, increase the amount of loops, and re-save it. Since the default play time is very fast, it probably completed its loop before it was visible in the browser. The documentation, which must be downloaded separately, is also quite helpful. Another nice feature is that animations created with this or any of the tools listed on the resource page of Get Animated do not require a browser plug-in. The tutorial ends with some useful advice on animation, tools, and resources, so be sure to check them out as well.

WEB STORAGE

Excellent web hosting at ICDsoft
DNS Lookup
Commercial low-cost web hosting, Hetzner, SA
Free web hosting at Homestead
Free web hosting at theglobe.com
Free domain registration
Free web storage (25 Mb) at Driveway.com
Free web storage (50 Mb) at iDrive.com
Free web storage (25 Mb) at MySpace.com (300 Mb if quarterly survey and receive promotional e-mail)
Free web storage (25 Mb) at xDrive.com (up to 100 Mb)
Free web space at Fortunecity
FreeDiskSpace 300 Mb free online storage space (or 25 Mb if unwilling to take a survey)
Free backup disk space (10 Mb)
Domain name registration (com, org, net)
Domain name search engine
Rename your URL to yourname.ipfox.com
Search for domains by name
Inexpensive Domain Registration at Easy Hosting ($10) / Joker ($12) / directNIC ($15) / Dotster ($15) / 123 Domains ($15) / Buy Domains ($17)

SHOPPING

Froogle comparative shopping
Digital Planet
R35 delivery anywhere in SA; free delivery on orders above R2000
Incredible Connection computer store
InTheBag Woolworths and other groceries - R30 / R35 delivery charge; pricing same as Woolworths (or other major retail chains for other items)
Delivery 8am-10pm Monday to Friday; orders by 10pm the previous day
WebShop groceries - R33 delivery charge; pricing same as major retail chains
Delivery 9am-6pm Monday to Friday
ClicknPay - R40 delivery charge; pricing similar to Spar
Order 3pm-8am, deliver 3pm
Order 8am-12noon, deliver 9am next
Order 12noon-3pm, deliver 12noon next
Megashopper - add 5% (min R39) to purchase price for delivery
MegaGroceries - add 5% (min R39) to purchase price for delivery
Have-to-have gadgets
RS Components
The Shopping Matrix - SA books, DVDs etc, with free delivery
Look and Listen
Musica
Powell's City of Books
Sun Foods - online grocery shopping
Shopping in SA
24-hour shopping online
Comparative Shopping in SA
Comparative Shopping
Virtual Emporium - Online Shopping
AutoTrader - used cars
Auto Net Mail - used cars
Demdaco / Willow Tree - Sculptures by Susan Lordi
MyGate transaction processing / Willow Tree

PHOTOGRAPHY

Digital Photography Review
Photographic Society of South Africa
PhotoZA gallery
Photographer's Right - USA law
UK Photographers Rights
UK Photographers Rights - useful comments
UK Photographers - London Metropolitan Police
Australia Street Photography Legal Issues
Photography and Laws of Canada
Download digital camera manuals
SA Camera - purchase online from Cape Town
BH PhotoVideo (New York, good reputation)
Adorama
Sony F828 accessory lenses
Rob Nunnington Natural Images
Guy Tillim - Jo'burg
Gigapxl project - Half dome
Astronaut Photography
The Luminous Landscape
Digital photography - technical tutorials
Sports photography - ActionPhoto
Ansel Adams
Cambridge photographs by Sean McHugh
Vivid Light Photography magazine
Passion for Pixels
Guide to Free Online Photo Albums
Microsoft Picture It online photo albums
California Museum of Photography, University of California-Riverside
Eadweard Muybridge
Rob Galbraith digital photojournalism
Digital Express - Recommended for online camera shopping
Steve's Digicams
ZoneZero digital and analogue photography
Pictures of Places
List of technical photo resources, including IR and Panorama
Video editing and conversions
DVD tools
Canon PowerShot 600 digital camera
Review of digital cameras
Review of Kodak DC50 zoom camera
Web cameras
Earthcam web cameras
Oxford Circus, London (WebCam)
Mathematical pictures
Silicon Film (digital attachment for 35mm cameras)
Snow Crystals
Craig Thom's Photos of America
Ken Rockwell - technical opinions and landscapes
The Pooh Sticks Bridge - VR Panorama
Foto Search Stock Image Bank
Can Stock Photos
Optical illusion - added colour

PLACES TO EXPLORE

Louvre - Art in Cyberspace (complete with background music)
ArtServe - The ultimate, exhaustive Arts lesson by the Australian National University. It's a database of about 3,000 prints from the 15th to the 19th century.
Israel Home Page - where you get everything from detailed background on the latest Middle East peace pact, to the state of archaeology in the country, to tourism information.
Virtual Traveler Home Page
U.S. Constitution
White House Home Page - a nicely done pictorial gateway to important documents
Library of Congress Home Page
Library of Congress
NASA - for the latest space exploration news
Dinosaur fossils (from originals at the American Museum of Natural History)