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 October 1999
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Business
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If you ever meet a financial advisor you'll notice one thing - they
all have fancy calculators that make complicated transactions easy.
The rest of us are usually not so lucky but now, thanks to the Web,
anyone can get access to a wide range of specialist calculators and
tools that make financial planning a breeze. There's 122 calculators
in 12 categories on this Website to help you along.
The GovSpot is a comprehensive directory to hundreds of US Government
Websites. But more than just a Web directory, there are also special
sections like Government 101 where you can learn about American
history, the branches of the federal government, our leaders and
general civics, and the Campaign 2000 page with lots of information
about the upcoming presidential elections.
Art
The Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Art
This site brings the beauty of Japan's traditional cultural art
forms to life on your computer screen.
Split into five levels,
the museum covers fine arts, crafts, the performing arts,
traditional pastimes and the martial arts. Within each level
are rooms that explore each art form.
Visitors can read a
description of each in English, and view pictures
illustrating arts like puppet theater, bonsai, painting, swords
and sumo.
This site from the Smithsonian Institute is the online part of a
ten-year initiative to research, preserve, and present the history
of jazz. Fire up your audio player to enjoy interviews and jazz clips
and check the exhibition schedule to see when related events are being
held in a town near you.
Films
Cine Machine
Bookmark this site because you'll need it on the weekends, when it comes
time to choose a movie! Cine Machine is a movie review search engine
that has the ability to access various movie-related Web sites and
find out what people are saying.
You won't find any Oscar-award winning movies here but rather the
worst movies of all time. This site offers a complete guide to the
world of bad movies with reviews and reader chat plus votes and even
a B-movie quiz.
Internet
The Big Hub
State Of The American Newspaper
From the American Journalism Review's Newslink, this is a special
report on the state of the American newspaper industry. Thirteen
different sections look at, among other things, how a change in
business strategies has affected the Chicago Tribune's newspapers,
the loss of the independent newspaper and reducing coverage of State
affairs as states get more power. There is also a story by former
CNN foreign correspondent Peter Arnett about foreign news has lost
the battle to local coverage.
Fans of the Google search engine will love these features! Just click
on "more Google" on the front page and scroll down to find three
specialist search engines offered by the site. You can run a search
against a database of sites connected with Stanford University,
Linux-related sites or those with Government or US Military domain
names.
Internet Events Board Re-launches
Live On The Net has relaunched with a new look but still provides
a great guide to everything that is happening on the Internet. You
can find details of all the live netcasts that are going on today
from baseball and talk shows to live radio and Webcams.
GuruNet.com
Software
Keeping Your Bookmarks Private
Webroot Software has taken the wraps off version 3.0 of its Internet
privacy software, Private Bookmarks. The software allows users of
Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer to securely store bookmarks
and protect them by password. The software is primarily aimed at users
who share a computer with others, such as children, co-workers or
roommates. The software costs $29.95.
Desktop Traveler
The Millennium Bridge
London's first pedestrian bridge being built in more than a century over
the River Thames in London, now has its own live Webcam that you can
actually operate real-time. The Webcam offers views of London and the river,
as well as the construction progress of the bridge, which connects St. Paul's
Cathedral area with the Globe Theater replica on the South bank. The site is
backed by London's Financial Times newspaper organization and appears to be
done in Shockwave.
NOVA/PBS Online Adventure-"Mysteries of the Nile"
Catch the update to the last winter's NOVA/PBS Online Adventure
"Mysteries of the Nile" where the NOVA team tried and failed to raise
an obelisk in Egypt using only the methods available to the ancients.
Beginning August 27, access live dispatches as the team reassembles
at a quarry in Massachusetts to give it another shot, this time with
a 36-foot-tall obelisk and a new plan for raising the giant stone.
WebCams Around the Web
Turtle Farm Live Online
Lobsters In Cyberspace
Cam-unity
The Internet has led to the creation of thousands of virtual
communities where people come together to talk about all manner of
things but what you may not know is that there is a growing cammunity
out there too - a network of Webcams that enables you to catch live
glimpses of different parts of the world and even spy on people at
work. Cammunity is a guide to this virtual world and the treasures
it offers.
Science
Australia's Lost Kingdom
Measuring Asteroid Impacts
As we enter the new millennium, the Torino Scale is Earth's new way
to gauge the potential damage that may occur in the event of an impact
from asteroids or other objects from space. As the Richter Scale
measures the strength and potential damage from earth quakes, the
Torino Scale will now be used to measure the potential for damage
from objects striking Earth.
ChemWeb
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Business News Americas (BNA) has launched what it says is the first
daily news service in English covering Ecommerce in Latin America.
BNA Ecommerce covers the Latin American region with news concerning
e-commerce systems and operations form the largest international
corporations to the smallest online operators in each Latin American
country. 
Oh, the Humanity! 
Another in the growing selection of search engine cum all-in-one
portal sites, The Big Hub offers users a meta search engine, specialty
search services, news, stock quotes, weather and, of course, free
Web-based e-mail.
GuruNet.com has launched the first public beta version of its free
new instant information service. The user points to any term in any
Windows application, and GuruNet analyzes the pointed-to text in
context and pops-up a simple window without linking or leaving the
current document. You'll have to download a 700 kilobyte file to use
the service which currently includes licensed content from American
Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus and other dictionaries from
Houghton-Mifflin, the Columbia Reference Encyclopedia from Columbia
University Press, sports data from STATS, and news, stocks and company
profile information from NewsAlert. 
The world's only commercial turtle farm is online with a new Webcam
network that offers a view of the facility and the turtles. They
broadcast live pictures of the turtle hatchery, pick-up tank,
man-made turtle beach and other areas. It's all part of the farm's
effort to use the Internet to show the world one face of commercial
turtle farming.
What was Australia like 110 million years ago? This online exhibition,
based on a real exhibit at the Australian Museum, seeks to discover
by analyzing clues from fossils. You can find out some more about
the conditions that enabled some unique animals to develop in
Australia and when, how, and why Australia's animals and environments
have changed.