Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:53:52 +0000
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From: Bob Rankin
Subject: TOURBUS - 01 Aug 00 - Rider's Revenge #14
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TOURBUS Volume 6, Number 05 -- 01 Aug 2000
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TODAY'S TOURBUS TOPIC: Rider's Revenge #14
Hi All! Bob here with another Rider's Revenge issue, where I share
the sites that Tourbus riders think are cool. If you have a favorite
site that's of general interest to an international audience, tell me
about it. You just might see your name in the next Rider's Revenge!
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FLAMERS ILLUSTRATED
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Mike Reed, from Minneapolis MN writes:
I have published a taxonomy of Flame Warriors one might encounter on
the internet. It has been getting enormous amounts of traffic, and I
thought that your subscribers might be interested.
http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame01.html
[Editor's note: This site is a MUST! You'll laugh out loud while
reading humorous descriptions of the types of people you meet in
online discussion groups. Reed has also professionally illustrated
each of the 60+ "warriors".]
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ROVING WITH ROVER?
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Zenon Slawinski, from Lake Peekskill NY writes:
Just read through the new TOURBUS and noticed you were focusing on
travel. It's summer and a good time to use the web for your travel
needs. I don't mean to blow my own horn on this but I'd like to invite
you to take a look at a site I designed for a friend of mine.
Surprisingly, it's the only site devoted to traveling with a pet.
That's it - no other frills. There are over 25,000 listings currently
and growing. It's been recently highlighted on Oprah and was cited in
Forbes. If you're considering a road trip with your pet, visit
http://www.petswelcome.com
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JUST FOR REFERENCE...
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Simon Prodger from London, England writes:
Xrefer is a new site that offers free online access to a fully
cross-referenced collection of high-quality reference books, including
encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations and many
other subject specific titles. Xrefer includes more than 150,000
individual entries from 25 reference titles.
Until now, cross-references in online reference sites have only linked
to relevant information in the same title. But Xrefer contains cross-
references that link to relevant information contained within their
whole collection of books.
http://www.xrefer.com
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DIGGING INTO THE FUTURE
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Steve Feld, from Bronx NY writes:
Thank you for featuring our "Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling" web site
in Tourbus. The students at John F. Kennedy High School take pride
in announcing a major extension to their original project.
ArtiFAQ 2100 is designed to predict how art will influence our lives
in the next hundred years. Through probing past inspirations and
scientific methods students can use available data to make reasonable
predictions for the future. This project was created in response to
the Microsoft Challenge, and it was just announced that ArtiFAQ 2100
was selected as a Finalist.
http://library.advanced.org/13681/data/nyc
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Anita Garrett-Roe, from Corpus Christi TX writes:
I have a website for small clubs and organizations that would like to
have a presence on the web but do not have the money to put up their
own website. CLUBPRESIDENT.COM is free and the club can even make
make money by shopping from the advertisers. You can create your
own website for your club in about 4 seconds!
http://www.clubpresident.com
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I, GRANDMA
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Elyse Cole, from Haverford PA writes:
iGrandparents is the brainchild of two grandparents (with 16 grand-
children between them) who realized there was no focused site on the
Internet for grandparents to find information, interact with grand-
children, or discuss their concerns.
iGrandparents has an interactive forum for grandparents to meet,
learn from each other, and find grandparenting ideas.
http://www.igrandparents.com
That's all for now, see you next time! --Bob Rankin
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