Cynthia Lee Katona, Professor - English and Women's Studies Departments
Resources: Miscellaneous
If you have not found what you are looking for on any of the other pages, or your topic does not appear to be under one of the other categories, you have come to the right place. This page contains all the links that could not be classified elsewhere in the website. If you have a site you think would be relevant to this site, please email Professor Katona with the site address and she will review it for possible inclusion.
Here are three additional search categories:
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- University College of Cork's server will tell you that scuba stands for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus." Type in an acronym or an abbreviation and it will be expanded to its full length. [Source: Prof. G. Reid]
- Blue Mountain Arts Greeting Cards
- The is a free site with greetings for every occasion from Easter to Nauroze, the Zoroastrian celebration of Spring. Simply click on a holiday or occasion, pick your card, fill in the names and email addresses of yourself and the recipient, and add a personal note. This is a good way to send a quick thanks to cyber sources who have helped you with research. [Source: Prof. C Katona]
- Cyndi's List of Geneaology Sites
- 14,000 links specializing in ethnic searches. [Source: Newsweek]
- The Death Clock
- You type in your birth date and general health, and you get the exact date of your death, and a clock pops up that ticks the seconds down. An unusual use of actuarial data on the web. [Source: Forbes]
- Health Watch
- Excellent consumer version of Medscape's professional site, run by former Journal of the American Medical Association editor Dr. George Lundberg. [Source: Money]
- Ipix
- This site features 360 degree photographs which you can manipulate with your mouse. It shows you what a virtual reality environment is like. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]
- Keirsey Bates Temperment Sorter
- Based on David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates' enduring tome Please Understand Me, this site posits four basic temperments (Artisan, Guardian, Rational, and Idealistic). Take the test to find out which one you are, and then read through the personality descriptions for more information. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]
- Microsoft Homepage
- The Microsoft Internet Explorer homepage is an excellent example of a high budget corporate site. Microsoft wants you to make this page your default start page for your browser and offers links to resources as inducement. Explore the Microsoft homepage and the links, noticing how the page projects an image of the company. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]
- The New Yorker Cartoonbank
- Thousands of cartoons on every subject, black and white, and color, available for use in publishing, advertising, and periodicals in both electronic and print media. [Source: New Yorker]
- Nolo.com Self Help Law Center
- Mention any popular legal subject, and Nolo Press is sure to be there. Its site includes advice on wills and estate planning as well as probate, living trusts, and funeral planning. [Source: Forbes Magazine]
- Recipes (Even Scholars have to Eat)
- A huge compendium of recipes. [Source: Newsweek]
- Sony
- The Sony site is an excellent example of how interactivity can be used on the Internet. It contains links to music, film, and electronics. Information can be found on musicians, their tour schedules, sound clips, record cover art, and music videos. [Source: Management on the World Wide Web]
- VolunteerMatch
- Organizations looking for help can post their volunteer openings on the site without charge. Would-be volunteers search opportunities by location, type of organization, and by whether the need is for ongoing commitment or one-time help. [Source: Business Week]
- Web Ideas
- This site presents one attractively designed new website each day. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]
- The Web Museum
- Based in Paris and dedicated to bringing fine art to the Internet, the Web Museum features an extensive image collection that includes 20th century art; medieval works; and famous works by such artists as Cezanne, El Greco, Renoir, O'Keefe, and Dali. [Source: MacUser]
- Wikipedia ("wiki" is Hawaiian for "fast")
- Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate "open content" encyclopedia. Read or contribute to 148,434 articles in the English language version. Non-profit site first created in 2001. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]
- Wired
- This is the site of the magazine that has managed to become the "magazine of record" for the modern techno-aware culture. It's aimed at technically-oriented professionals with disposable income, but many cyberpunk fans like the articles on network and future related topics. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]
Job Searches
These are public online clearing houses for employment. They are a good way to get information about salaries and openings, and they often list a variety of entry-level jobs. [Source: Prof. J. S. Kyne]
Arts and Entertainment
- Films
- Fine criticism, movie trailers, and film clips. [Source: Business Week]
- Internet Movie Database
- Biographies of actors, directors, lowdown on more than 150,000 flicks. [Source: Business Week]
- Movie Review Query Engine
- Best sources for movie reviews from hundreds of sources. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]
Search Engines
- All the Web
- A superpowerful search engine which is very fast, and may give you more information than you can use. [Source: Entertainment Weekly]
- Ditto.com
- This search engine confines itself to searching for images of the queried person or thing. [Source: Enterntainment Weekly]
- Excite
- This is a subject tree index. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]
- The most popular search engine on the Web. [Source: Prof. C. Katona]
- IxQuick
- Meta search engine for the web, MP3, news and pictures. [Source: K. G. Greenstein]
- Lycos
- This is a subject tree index. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]
- Resource List
- This is an enormous "home page" of resources listing search engines, reference sources, telephone and email directories, publications on the Net, commercial resources, entertainment/culture sites, sports and demonstrations. [Source: Prof. J. Dean]
- Webcrawler
- This is a subject tree search engine. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]
- Yahoo!
- This is a popular search engine which many people make their home page. [Source: Management on the World Wide Web]
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