TOURBUS: Tuesday, December 3, 1996
DRIVER: Bob Rankin
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP:
Assorted Eclectica
Howdy all - I decided to devote today's posting to some offbeat
sites that were brought to my attention by TOURBUS riders over the
past year. It's an eclectic mix of useful, interesting and funny.
Each site is worth a visit!
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Several months back I came across this wonderful Web site, "Bill's
Lighthouse Getaway". Since that time it has expanded and received
a top 5% Web site rating. I thought that the TourBus just might like
to take a tour with close to 100 lighthouse images. They are well
worth the effort. The site belongs to William A. Britten, Systems
Librarian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries.
-- Thomas Trout (trouttw@ornl.gov)
It's an online auction where you can buy and sell stuff! And the
best part, it's free! (for sales under $100). I've sold all sorts
of "junk" in no time at all. A great example of some innovative
use of the WWW.
-- Doug Burg (doug.burg@mail.wdn.com)
While researching for our limerick contest, we discovered a whole
subculture of limericks and nonsense poetry on the web. One of the
sites is The Limerick Garden...
-- Peg Kay (vertech@cpcug.org)
Oh, here's a sample from the Limerick Garden. My kinda poetry. ;-)
A silly old gardener named Pottem
Complained of a frostbitten bottom.
When it rained on his plants
He remembered his pants,
But whenever it snowed he forgot 'em.
Your Tourbus of today reminded me of a neato & zorch site I learned
about a few days ago. You can type in a starting address (only for
certain U.S. metro areas, unfortunately) and a destination address
and it comes back within just a second or two with complete, plain
English step-by-step directions for getting from the starting location
to the destination. With step by step incremental mileage details
to boot. And total distance and time. It is amazing.
-- Nelson Bonner (nelson@redshift.com)
Enjoyed the virus roadmap. Somewhat related but not quite a virus
is the Year 2000 computing problem. We have a site with tons of
stuff on it. The site was recently shown on CNN, and mentioned in
the Wall Street Journal and in FORTUNE.
-- Cliff Kurtzman (cliff.kurtzman@tenagra.com)
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See you Thursday! --Bob