Up to date information is one of the major resources of the Web. News is taken off AP and Reuters Feeds, and sent directly to NCSA Mosaic converting programs, from where they are read by Web users. Here at MIT, we have the The Freshman Fishwrap (for local Athena users only) . Stanford also has a fishwrap-like news server available to the public via e-mail. MIT's on-campus paper, The Tech is also available. Usenet Newsgroups are also available on the Web, but I'd advise running a news reader program since you can't post to Usenet from the Web. Usenet, for those of you who don't know is a type of forum on the computers.

Ever since the Internet got started, one of the things you could get was a current weather map (don't ask me why, it's just a service that's always been there). However, sports just recently made their appearance on the Net and the Web. Try this site for the latest NBA scores and schedules. Baseball stats and schedules are here . And hockey stuff is here .

If you know of any more sites that I could put into this area, please contact me... my e-mail address is at the end of Section III.

Well, if you're in Boston, a T Subway Guide and a Map of Metropolitan Boston could come in quite handy. If you can see mountains and lakes and rivers around, you could probably use this awesome Digital Relief Map of the United States . Quite cool. If you're lost on MIT Campus, this map of the campus could be useful. Of course, there are convential maps like the ones at !!!!!! Carnegie Mellon University . Finally, If you know the name of the city you are in, you could try the MIT Geographic Nameserver, which has most US cities and towns in its database. Finally, if you're really desperate, you could try to locate yourself on Satelite images of the Earth, or use the !!!!!! You are Here server to find out where you are

Art and Museums

You call that modern art !! I could give my two year old finger paint and he could do that !!!

Now that I've managed to offend many connoisseurs of modern art (aw, who needs 'em anyways?), we'll talk about the multitude of virtual museums and art galleries that have sprung up on the web. The Honolulu Community College Dinosaur Exhibitis fun. In my opinion, the Louvre is one of the truly great museums of the world. The U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology has a collection of exhibits on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, and a "subway" to other online exhibits. The University of Vermont has a wonderful collection of Postcard Art. The Krannert Art Museum, located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, houses a collection of more than eight thousand works of art. The Vatican Exhibit of the Library of Congress is one of my favorite online places. The Soviet Archives Exhibit of the Library of Congress is the first public display of the hitherto highly secret internal record of Soviet Communist rule. The Palace of Diocletian at Split is an exhibit about a Roman palace in former Yugoslavia. The Art History server at Australian National University offers a variety of image collections and small presentations, including a Prints Database of prints, printmaking, chiaroscuro, etc. that can be searched. The Otis On-line Gallery Project has pointers to several ftp and bbs art collections. The Exploratorium, a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive "hands on" exhibits located in San Francisco, runs a server with several online exhibits. Strange Interactions is a professional collection of digitized art works by John E. Jacobsen. 1492: An Ongoing Voyage, of the Library of Congress, examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. Scrolls from the Dead Sea is another Library of Congress exhibit.

If all this looks familiar, it's 'cause I snarfed it from the WWW Catalog .. sorry

Then there's (what you thought I was done? I said multitude didn't I?) the Art Gallery and the aart gallery (yes, they are different) that both exhibit the works of various artists. The Smithsonian is also on-line: try their !!!!! preview document, and then you can go onto their archive from there. If you would rather go to the Air And Space Museuem, I can't help you, but you could go to a repository of Aircraft Images. !!!!!!!CROSSWIRE Images is a gallery of fractal-like modern-art. Then there's the EXPO, which in my dubious opinion is the best on-line museum that I've come across as of yet. !!!! Filter Art and !!!!! Genetic Art are more examples of computer-produced modern-art. ( Speaking of which, I wonder if a computer generated piece could fetch a price one of the so-called masters of modern-art are demanding ? ) The HEI Art Gallery is another small gallery displaying the works of a few select contemporary artists. The NCSA Digital Gallery is my second pick behind the aforementioned EXPO. This place deserves to be check out by explorers. Finally, the !!!!! UNC Virtual Museum is my third pick in this jumble of galleries and museums.

Thank God that's over !!

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