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Subject: TOURBUS -- 14 AUGUST 1999 -- GREAT EMAIL NEWSLETTERS (PART ONE)
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
GREAT EMAIL NEWSLETTERS (PART ONE)
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.neatnettricks.com
http://www.kuca.com/join.html
http://www.kuca.com/archive/index.htm
Howdy, y'all, and greetings from Alabama!
TOURBUS congratulates both the Santa Clara Vanguard and the Concord
Blue Devils for winning the 1999 Drum Corps International World
Championships earlier tonight (SCV and the Devils tied with a score of
98.4). If you have no idea what I am talking about, check out the Drum
Corps International homepage at
http://www.dci.org/
You can learn more about the Concord Blue Devils at
http://www.bluedevils.org/
and the Santa Clara Vanguard at
http://www.scvanguard.org/
[although the Vanguard's site was down a few moments ago -- the site
"has surpassed its bandwidth allocation at the present time."] :(
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On with the show ...
With as much attention that the World Wide Web has generated over the
past couple of years, it is easy to understand why some folks think
that the Internet and the World Wide Web are synonymous. That's
unfortunate, because there's a lot more to the Net than HTML and Web
pages. One of the Net's best (and often overlooked) resources is its
email newsletters. There are email newsletters for fans of Alabama
football, for people looking for entertainment news, and even for
people looking to learn a new dictionary word every day.
There are so many email newsletters that everyone has his or her
favorites. Here are two of my favorites (be looking for more in my next post):
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NEAT NET TRICKS
---------------
Twice a month for the past three years Jack Teems has written a
wonderful, free email newsletter called "Neat Net Tricks." Each
newsletter shows you about a dozen short tips and techniques that help
you enhance your Net usage and even help you use your PC more
efficiently. For example, Neat Net Tricks showed me that I could
minimize all of my open windows at once just by hitting the Windows
and M keys at the same time.
Here is an example of a Net tip from the most recent edition of Neat
Net Tricks:
02. SPACE BAR BEATS MOUSING IT. The wheel mouse makes it easier to
negotiate down those pages of graphics, but an even easier way is
a touch of the space bar, advancing one page at a time. Of course,
if you're a slave to the mouse, clicking on the open space in the
scroll bar does the same thing. Still another thing that space bar
will do when reading Netscape mail is to advance to the next
message.
Short *AND* helpful. You can't ask for more than that! :)
As I said earlier, Neat Net Tricks is absolutely free. To subscribe,
just send a new email letter to
majordomo@neatnettricks.com
with the command
SUBSCRIBE NEATNETTRICKS
in the body of your email message (by the way, simply replying to the
email message that you are reading right now will not work; you must
send a NEW email message to majordomo@neatnettricks.com in order to
subscribe).
You can also subscribe to the newsletter at Neat Net Tricks' Web site:
http://www.neatnettricks.com .
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FOCUS ON TOP WEB LINKS
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FOCUS on TOP WEB LINKS is a free, twice-monthly email newsletter that
gives you short reviews and links to twenty of the best Web sites in
the world. The way these twenty sites are chosen is actually pretty
cool. FOCUS' editors constantly monitor the top-notch Web review
services -- eBlast, the Internet Public Library (at U. Mich.), the
Internet Scout Report, and so on -- looking for new or interesting Web
sites. The editors then visit these new or interesting sites and
choose twenty that have "clear cultural weight (educational, economic,
scientific, journalistic, entertaining, etc.)." In other words, FOCUS
on TOP WEB LINKS only publishes information about the best of the best
Web sites.
Here is an excerpt from FOCUS' most recent newsletter
---------------========| KIDS / INTERNET |========-------------
FAMILY CONTRACT FOR ONLINE SAFETY - *_F_*
http://www.safekids.com/contract.htm
DESCRIPTION: There are lots of "rules" on how kids (and
parents) can use the Internet but the most important rule is that
parents and kids agree to a set of criteria. Here, based on
"Kids Rules for Online Safety" and "Guidelines for Parents" are
two pledges that kids and parents can take. They should be
printed out, signed by both kids and parents, and posted near the
computer.
PUBLISHER: Safekids.com, USA.
NOTE: (1) SafeKids.com also includes links to over a dozen
child-safe search engines and Internet directories (these are
search engines and directories that promise to steer your kids
clear of some of the Net's more objectionable material).
http://www.safekids.com/search.htm
(2) SafeKids.com site offers a complete directory of parental
control (also known as "filtering" or "blocking") programs. If
you are looking for information about the methods used and
features offered by most of the major blocking software packages,
check out
http://www.safekids.com/filters.htm
Like Neat Net Tricks, FOCUS on TOP WEB LINKS is free. To subscribe,
send a new email message to
majordomo@kuca.com
with the command
subscribe focus
in the body of your email message (by the way, simply replying to the
email message that you are reading right now will not work; you must
send a NEW email message to majordomo@kuca.com in order to subscribe).
You can also subscribe on the Web at
http://www.kuca.com/join.html .
The Web site also has a small archive of previous FOCUS newsletters:
http://www.kuca.com/archive/index.htm .
That's it for this week. I have some more email newsletters to share
with you -- Seidman's Online Insider, the Tweney Report, Fred Langa's
"LangaList" -- but I'm going to save those until next week (today's
post is already rather long). Have a safe and happy week, and we'll
talk again in a few days!
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S):
GREAT EMAIL NEWSLETTERS (PART ONE)
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
http://www.neatnettricks.com
http://www.kuca.com/join.html
http://www.kuca.com/archive/index.htm
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TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE WEEK
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FAINTS (noun). A barrier.
Usage: "Hooo BOY ... that Sammy Sosa whomped that ball clear over
the faints!"
[Special thanks to Dan Bathker for today's wurd]
You can find all of the old Southern Words of the day at
http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
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