Employment Opportunities and Job Resources

Site:
http://www.wpi.edu/~mfriley/jobguide.html

Category:
Business and Investing

Review (in 1996):

Whew!  If you STILL can’t find a job after using this home page, something may be wrong.  (Have you checked your breath?)  Help-wanted servers, recruiter links, professional societies, government job listings… they’re all here.  Margaret Riley (this is also called “The Riley Guide”) maintains this employment resource out of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

A fine introduction explains how to use the Net to find an employee or a job; this is also a mini-course on Internet usage in general.  From government and business through arts and humanities, this guide tries to cover all the bases, with special emphasis on high-tech and computer employment.  It used to take days in the library to dig this kind of stuff up.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Solid Space

Site:
http://www.teleport.com/~shojo/Solid.html

Category:
Personal Home Pages

Review (in 1996):

A campy collection of oddments, this site offers diversions about music and pop culture artifacts.  The Fabio Page serves up typical pictures of the male model, replete with hokey romance-novel-inspired audio clips spoken by Fabio himself: “Your caress is my command”, “I listen to a solo, and I think of a duet”.  Learn of the sinister trimmings surrounding PEZ candy dispensers, or visit a mini-museum on ViewMaster slide viewers.

There’s also a monthly offering called “Awful Music”; on our last visit it lambasted an album called album called “Switched-On Bacharach”.  (“Every song on this alum should have “in outer space” added to the end of the title”, says the Webmaster.)

Even with the insults, this is much more amusing than offensive.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

The Unofficial Haitian Home Page

Site:
http://www.primenet.com/~rafreid/

Category:
Global Village

Review (in 1996):

Ralph Reid, a film student from Northridge, California, does an excellent job of conveying the essence of his native country with this site.  His “virtual tour” of Haiti takes you to the crowded Iron Market, to a Port-au-Prince boulevard during rush hour, and on a beautiful beach stroll, where you can practically smell the millions of discarded conch shells.

You can also check out Carol Guzy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs of Haiti, and groove to musical selections like Reginald Decastro’s “Pou ou Ayiti”.  History buffs will want to take this site up on its Haitian history course, while others may be more inclined to gravitate to the Voodoo section.  (Discover special days on the Voodoo calendar, like Legba Zaou, when “eating consists mainly of a black goat”.)

A fascinating page with a very strong flavor.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

WEB Personals

Site:
http://www.webpersonals.com/

Category:
Romance

Review (in 1996):

WEB Personals is a user-friendly site for anyone seeking love or just heavy friendship.  Date seekers and seekees are categorized in the appropriate straight or gay directory – you’ll even find a guide to what the initials mean when DWM seeks DDFW (there’s an abbreviation for cross-dressers, too).  The site enables you to browse or submit your ad, and the Love Hound will notify you of any suitable matches in case you don’t have time to check for yourself.

(Anyone who’s worried about good, clean dating fun on the Internet will be interested to learn that this site’s Open Forum was taken offline because “it had evolved to a point where the discussions offended too many people who prefer a more professional experience.”)

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Web Journal of Current Legal Issues

Site:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nlawwww/

Category:
Law

Review (in 1996):

Here’s an example of the legal profession using the Web to its full potential.  This journal from Britain’s University of Newcastle has everything one would expect from a respectable paper journal, from articles to case notes to book reviews with hypertext footnotes.

Typical topic for study: the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and its attempt to establish rules for corporate electronic data interchange.  Most articles are similarly on the cutting edge of information law, though not all fit that mold:  The Marginalisation of Gypsies was a lengthy dissertation on the prejudice against gypsies in the United Kingdom.  This is filled with interesting essays that will easily consume more time than you have.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Embassy of Iceland

Site:
http://www.globescope.com/web/iceland/index.html

Category:
International Government

Review (in 1996):

After a little digging, you will find that this page is full of useful, interesting, and sometimes strange stuff.  For instance: are questions about the proper disinfectant techniques for fishing equipment really that frequently asked?  Political junkies can read up on the “Althingi”, Iceland’s parliament.  Surfers will appreciate the map of Icelandic WWW servers and get a kick out of the links to almost 30 personal home pages of Icelanders worldwide.

You can pick up a recipe for fried crullers, or hear the Icelandic national anthem on audio, with accompanying trivia about the author, Matthias Jochumsson.  (But how did he manage to get the anthem to rhyme in both Islandic and English?)

A wonderful experience.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Scott's Page of Evil

Site:
http://rampages.onramp.net/~scottgl/index.htm

Category:
Personal Home Pages

Review (in 1996):

Scott's Page of Evil welcomes "all seekers of refuge from the banal recesses of home pages promoting goodness and light". Scott Glazer has pulled a switch on the usual cool bands/cool people/cool links idea and filled his personal page with things he hates - like Andie MacDowell ("Lucifer's actress"), Piers Anthony ("foul scribe of Hades"), and the French ("a whole nation of distilled evil"). He has a bit to say about organized religion, too (what page about evil would be complete without it?), and even he suggests that anyone easily offended should avoid it at all costs.

Visitors can leave their own evil ideas in a suggestion box, though Glazer admits that suggestion boxes may be evil in themselves. Funny and delightfully twisted.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

A Breed Apart

Site:
http://www.pcix.com/abap/index.html

Category:
Pets and Animals

Review (in 1996):

This top-notch greyhound page is what an online magazine ought to be. Fans and owners of the speedy pups should race here to see pinups of handsome dogs, learn about breed history, or submit their own stories. Retired greyhounds are available nationwide for adoption, and the terrific resources provided here can help you find your next pet (perhaps an old racer who didn't quite make the Hall of Fame in Abilene, Kansas).

Articles generally focus on greyhounds as pets rather than as athletes, though on our last visit we read about some hounds who were working on second careers as "therapy dogs". Lovers of other breeds can still find useful information here (like an elaborate recipe for "liver cake"), but they may wish to producers of "A Breed Apart" had a magazine for every breed.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Cyberspace World Railroad Home Page

Site:
http://www.mcs.com/~dsdawdy/cyberoad.html

Category:
Hobbies

Review (in 1996):

Whew! (Or, woo-woooooo!) This roundhouse is stuffed with steel wheels, club cars, and timetables. Don't expect toy choo-choos: it's a serious train site for serious train buffs. (And don't call it the home page - it's the "main manifest".)

Handsome photos (including "Things I Photograph Along the Rails That Most People Don't!) and graphics accompany a wide range of articles and newsletters; on our last visit, we found a huge article on the opening of the Steamtown National Historic Site in Pennsylvania, a copy of the Conrail Transportation newsletter, and an essay on traveling by steam train in China.

Site creator Daniel Dawdy includes online schedules for Amtrak, Via, and Chicago's Metra lines. Looks like a lot of old brakemen hang out here.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

CyberCafe

Site:
http://www.bid.com/bid/cybercafe

Category:
Food and Cooking

Review (in 1996):

At the CyberCafe, you can "get wired" amid all the features one expects from a real coffeehouse - except real coffee, of course. This informative site is loaded with enough facts and tips ohn beans and brewing to make even the most hopeless java junkie jitter.

Links are offered to an amazing number of coffee (and tea) retailers and wholesalers, enabling visitors to shop online for vanilla nut, Ethiopian Moka Harrar, or a Grindmaster espresso-cappuccino machine. And you can spread out the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, or check out Seattle coffeehouses in MotherCity Espresso.

Don't miss the site's mythical account of the discovery of coffee, which involves a goatherd named Kaldi, an imam from the local monastery, and a chorus of dancing goats.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

SurfWatch

Site:
http://www.surfwatch.com

Category:
Parenting

Review (in 1996):

This seems like a great idea at the right time. SurfWatch software lets parents and schools (and employers!) prevent access to sexually explicit Internet sites. You buy the initial software, then pay a small monthly fee for updated lists of naughty places. The idea is that rather than censor information all across the Internet (and what a ruckus that idea has caused lately), users can simply filter it out as it comes into the house. (The authors say it causes no problems with your browser, either.)

No demos here, but you can order the software online. To look at it another way, you'll have no more late nights trying to find all the sites the kids shouldn't be seeing.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Visible Human Project

Site:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural_research.dir/visible_human.html

Category:
Health and Medicine

Review (in 1996):

The National Library of Medicine has set out to map the human body in three dimensions in excruciatingly fine detail. Using the body of a 39-year-old convicted murderer who donated his body to science, researchers are collecting transverse images of the body at one-millimeter intervals. There are computer-generated "fresh-cadaver" images made by CAT and MRI scanning machines, plus the ever popular "frozen-cadaver" (cryosection) images, in revolting, fascinating color. (Cryosection means they deep-freeze the body and then, in essence, run it through a an extremely expensive deli-slicer.)

You can only view samples of the resulting images here; the complete set is so voluminous that you have to register and pay a pile of money to get it. But it's worth the visit just to contemplate the whole idea.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Site:
http://acnsun10.rhic.bnl.gov/RHIC

Category:
Physical Sciences

Review (in 1996):

This is Big Science, baby. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC to friends) is a 3.8 kilometer tunnel o' gadgetry that will collide subatomic particles called heavy ions at high energies to recreate the hot, dense plasma of quarks and gluons believed to have existed in the early universe. (Set it for defrost and it also works wonders with meatloaf.)

You'll find tons of tech talk here, but head right for the brief photo tour of the RHIC site (it won't be ready until 1999), which looks pretty much like a billion-dollar irrigation pipe full of space-age cartoony gadgets like the Grumman dipole magnet.

If you dig the RHIC, you'll probably also enjoy a visit to its parent page, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, for a look at similar Department of Energy brainstorms.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Fuji Publishing Group Cigar Page

Site:
http://www.netins.net/showcase/fujicig/

Category:
Shopping

Review (in 1996):

With the next annual StogieFest right around the corner, you might want to puff up on your cigar knowledge. (Brush those ashes off your vest while you're at it.) This jam-packed humidor of information from Fuji Publishing - gunning to be "the place for cigars on the Internet and outside of cyberspace" - is just the ticket.

Here, puffing surfers can download the Windows Online Cigar Guide (all 4MB of it), flip through pages of the Web magazine The Double Corona, browse smoking-related newsgroups, and - take a breath here - jump to a host of other smoky pages. (You'll be surprised at how many are out there.)

A "Cigar Brand Information" section will keep you abreast of notable cigar-makers and hook you up iwht a box of 25 Churchills (or whatever your pleasure).

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Flower Stop

Site:
http://www.rmii.com:80/fstop/fstopmain.html

Category:
Shopping

Review (in 1996):

This online fresh-flower market offers next-day delivery (in the U.S.) of bouquets, vases, and that grand standby, the single long-stemmed rose. (The blooms come from Pikes Peak Greenhouses in Colorado Springs, in case you were wondering.

Shoppers can frolic among an "Enchanting Alstomeria Bouquet" or "Exotic Orchids"; if necessary, they can select a "nice" clear plastic vase or a nicer etched crystal one for delivery. The "Romance and Roses CD Set" features two centuries of the world's greatest love themes ("for lovers only!") to accompany your flower purchase.

The prices are probably higher than your local florist, but this is still a nice example of online shopping. It's colorful, quick, and lets you see the product without provoking your allergies.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Propaganda Analysis Home Page

Site:
http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/home.htm

Category:
Politics

Review (in 1996):

Does "propaganda" sound like an out-dated, Cold War concept? Not so, according to Aaron Delwiche, who offers his own analysis on this page, based on the Institute for Propaganda Analysis created in 1937. Delwiche starts by identifying some familiar "propaganda devices" like Glittering Generalities (charged concepts like "love" and "freedom" used in a vaguely positive way) and the Testimonial (unqualified persons giving judgments, like "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV").

Delwiche goes on to illustrate by citing such noteworthy offenders as Newt Gingrich and the John Birch Society, although an annotated list of propagandisms would make these more enjoyable.

This site is as much a rhetorical as a political site, but it's great cerebral reading either way.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Military Secrecy

Site:
http://www.portal.com/~trader/secrecy.html

Category:
Military

Review (in 1996):

"Despite the end of the Cold War, billions of dollars are spent in secret each year, without any accountability to the taxpayers". So says site author Paul McGinnis, who offers amazing links like "How Code Names Are Assigned". (A name "must be chosen with sufficient care to ensure that it does not express a degree of bellicosity inconsistent with traditional American ideals ...")

Visitors can download a virtual model of the Voyager (the so-called "mystery supersonic aircraft"), and amateur spies will appreciate the listing of radio frequencies for various military contractors. There's a few guides on how to assert your rights under the Freedom of Information Act to get documents from the U.S. government (and tips on traversing that incredibly twisty maze).

This page is fun, fascinating, and a testament to free speech in America.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

E-HAWK

Site:
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/history/ehawk

Category:
Military

Review (in 1996):

Okay, so the name "Electronic Headquarters for the Acquisition of War Knowledge" is a long way to stretch for a snappy acronym (E-HAWK). But the page, compiled by two grad students at the University of Kansas, is a military bugg's delight. E-HAWK catalogs U.S. and NATO home pages, along with hard-to-find military science files (like the "CIA Guide to Guerrilla Warfare" in Nicaragua).

Meanwhile, the "Officer's Club" has a great listing of veterans associations and reunion registries. If you're looking for a historical perspective, check out E-HAWK's sister site, Mil-Hist, for a wealth of battles, blitzes, and bombardments. The site uses more than its share of odd color schmes, but it's an impressive independent effort.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Free Burma

Site:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/freeburma/freeburma.html

Category:
International Government

Review (in 1996):

"The country of Burma has been under martial law since 1962", announces this site, and since the late 1980s, the country has been known as Myanmar. This politically-charged page has a wealth of information on the country (whatever you want to call it): news stories, general national info, and a wonderful photo album of popular hero Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who was under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 for resisting the military junta.

An absolutely charming "Sights & Sounds" folder captures fleeting Burmese scenes, like the eggplant salesman who's seen it all, but escaped to the border. "He doesn't talk anymore. He just sells eggplants."

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Virtual Jerusalem Tour

Site:
http://www1.cc.huji.ac.il/md/vjt

Category:
Global Village

Review (in 1996):

The Hebrew University hosts this tour through one of the world's oldest and most culturally rich cities. Step into "The Jerusalem Mosaic" for a concise record of the City of David, home to some of the greatest archaeological finds of this century, and the locus of Jesus' final ministry.

Enter the Haddassah Hospital Synagogue for a bird's eye view of 12 stained-glass windows designed by painter Marc Chagall, representing the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Remarkable photographs of the "new" and the "old" cities' landscapes show just how much of the original architecture still remains, while the city itself forges into the 21st century, its residents now facing some of the hardest political and social realities of its long and colorful life.

A find for archaeologists, theologians, historians, and travelers.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Human-Languages Page

Site:
http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html

Category:
Global Village

Review (in 1996):

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? No? How about Gaelic? Tagalog? Urdu? Yo, didn't they teach you anything in school? Make up for it at the Human-Languages page, a colossal archive of Web sites about (and in) foreign languages. Depending on dialect, you may find Arabic learning tutorials, a Latin dictionary, or Bulgarian poetry.

The Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive holds dozens of dictionaries and word lists, and even provides pointers to Aboriginal software applications. Students of Cantonese will find instructions and software for displaying Chinese characters on Unix, Mac, or Windows platforms. An astonishing number of languages represented, right down to Rastafarian patois and Klingon. (Yes, Klingon.)

C'est le grand home-page!

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

The Completely Unauthorized Hugh Grant Page

Site:
http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kritzber/new/hugh/hugh.html

Category:
People

Review (in 1996):

This page satirically "devoted" to the suave-yet-stumbling actor is thin on material, but a real kick in the pants (something Mr. Grant once could have used on Sunset Boulevard). Site creator Blake Kritzberg really doesn't worry too much about the facts; Grant's eye color is listed as "blue, green, or brown. Most likely blue or green", and his nationality is "evidently British". But then, the facts just wouldn't be as fun as a filmography that includes titles like The Unbearably Sexy Babe Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.

Kritzberg also replaces Grant photos with her own crude sketches, and insists that no pictures of Grant's Four Weddings and a Funeral co-star Andie MacDowell will be accepted, "unless she's being squashed under Gerard Depardieu or something similarly unpleasant".

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

PC Travel - Airline Ticketing

Site:
http://www.pctravel.com

Category:
Travel

Review (in 1996):

PC Travel turns out to be a "Pretty Convenient" way to book an airline reservation. No matter where you are, no matter where you want to go, this online travel agency (a service of American Travel Corporation) is just the ticket.

After creating your user profile (which must include a Netscape browser and a major credit card), you can choose your favorite airline and your favorite bulkhead seat, put in your request for a vegetarian lunch - even reserve a rental car. Tickets are then shipped via overnight mail.

A nice tutorial for new users is included here, too. This isn't the only spot on the Web offering airline tickets - and surely dozens more are coming - but it's one of the smoothest.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Interactive Age

Site:
http://techweb.cmp.com/techweb/ia/current/

Category:
Magazines

Review (in 1996):

Interactive Age makes online business its business. Once published in paper form it's now a digital magazine, featuring daily trade stories like "Bug Hits AOL Chat Room" and "Tying Networks to Cable Modems". Its strength is coverage of trends in the hot new Web business, making it a good read for gold-rush types. There's no sports section, but we found golf, tennis, and commercial links, plus a column titled, "Tabloid Webism: A Penny a Peek".

Includes a terrific library of Web sites of the top 1000 North American companies, as well as the magazine's choices for the top 25 commercial sites on the Net.

On the horizon, look for more opportunities to hobnob with industry leaders like Bill Gates in discussion groups and chat sessions here. An authoritative source, and useful every day.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

World of Otis

Site:
http://www.otis.utc.com:80/Index.html

Category:
Companies on the Web

Review (in 1996):

This earnest, often unintentionally funny site includes an escalator-safety page, which recommends extra caution for bifocal wearers (huh?). But the History of the Elevator is kind of fun, reminding us that without elevators there'd be no such thing as skyscrapers (or, for that matter, the opportunity to stand around and make new friends waiting for the elevator).

The information here about the Otis company reveals that it manufactures not just elevators and escalators themselves, but something it calls Modernization Products, like a system of infrared beams to detect passengers entering and exiting the elevator (so that the doors won't close on latecomers). We also found out that its elevators service 60 of the world's 100 tallest buildings, and read an intriguing discussion about how the elevoids use the elevator to install the elevator.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

The Year 2000 Information Center

Site:
http://arganet.tenagra.com/cgi-bin/clock.cgi

Category:
The Internet

Review (in 1996):

The arrival of the millennium is expected to give fits to many computers and software programs, as the "chickens come home to roost" for short-sighted programmers who calculated years based on two digits instead of four.

Many people expect problems with the obvious software, like spreadsheet applications or payroll databases, but the Information Center wants everyone to know the trouble will be deeper than that. Using software that simulates the turn of the year 1999, they've found that few system-level programs "know" that the year 2000 is a leap year (and hey, probably 85 percent of data processing officials don't know this, either). And consider financial projection software that gives estimates for sales five years in the future: it's already in trouble!

This is good reading for gurus, futurists, and accountants.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

More Aquatic Ape Theory

Site:
http://huizen.dds.nl/~seismo/aat.html

Category:
Earth Sciences

Review (in 1996):

Was there a time when our evolutionary ancestors lived in marshes as sea-apes? (Or sea monkeys?) The question is explored at length on this page hosted by Hollander Maarten Fornerod. The idea - called AAT, or "Aquatic Ape Theory" - is still considered laughable by some, but has a surprising cast of supporters like Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) and Daniel C. Dennett (Darwin's Dangerous Idea).

Maarten smartly keeps a running score of anthropologists both for and against AAT. A generous helping of comments and citations help shed light on the theory, even if it's all a bit on the academic side: "Perhaps the best suggestion is that the exertions involved, in a hot climate, required the maximum development of the cooling system by evaporation of sweat." We know the feeling.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Pizza Hut

Site:
http://www.pizzahut.com/

Category:
Companies on the Web

Review (in 1996):

Pizza online! That's right, the Pizza Hut Server in Wichita, Kansas, actually serves up piping hot pies to Internet customers at selected cities around the U.S.

The "electronic storefront", as they have dubbed it, lets diners choose toppings, size, etc, and leave an address for home delivery. (Type in your phone number to find out if the service is available in your area.)

Check out the Sample Menu to see what's available - not only can diners select from an array of sizes, toppings, and kinds of crust, they can issue such directions as "no cheese" or "extra sauce".

Not sure what you're in the mood for? A few pictures of their specialty pizzas are included at this site, although it isn't as glossy as the menus you get when you actually go to Pizza Hut.

We recommend pepperoni with mushrooms - but make sure they hold the gopher.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.


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The 19th Hole

Site:
http://www.sport.net/golf

Category:
Sports and Fitness

Review (in 1996):

Here's some consolation if you're stuck at a computer terminal, but long to be teeing it up. With pin placement by Texas golf enthusiast "Jimbo" Odom IV, the site offers complete tournament updates, player profiles, "Sandy Bunker's Golf Tips", and so on.

We like "The Golfers Wake Up Call", a comic strip created by late-night person "inspired by my ability to get up at any hour to play golf and my inability to get up early to go to work". Sound familiar?

Get golf updates during the big events and check out some of the golf jokes (gee, only a million or so) in the lounge. Southpaws may link to the National Association of Left-Handed Golfers, too. Unusual scorecard collection; good links to other "cool golf sites".

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Burlingame Online's PEZ Exhibit

Site:
http://www.spectrumnet.com/pez/

Category:
Hobbies

Review (in 1996):

With its cult following, PEZ candy has invaded the Web here with an exhibit of roughly 175 dispensers. Before entering the exhibit, we learned that PEZ is an abbreviation of the German word for peppermint, and that the seemingly addictive little bricks were created by Austrian Eduard Haas in 1927 as a cure for smoking, no less. At that time, they were marketed for adults in plain, characterless dispensers known to collectors as "regulars".

The page includes a diagram showing how to properly insert the pellets into the dispensers, and ads for PEZ collectibles like the out-of-production Smurf dispenser.

The collection includes the usual suspects - Miss Piggy, Foghorn Leghorn, and Daffy Duck - along with stranger entries like Mr. Ugly, Wounded Soldier, and Diabolic. Sorry, no Marie Antoinette.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.

Adobe Systems

Site:
http://www.adobe.com

Category:
Computing

Review (in 1996):

Graphics designers and desktop publishers may want to jump through their computer screens and live here (although we hear the food is bland). Now that Adobe has swallowed competitors like Aldus and CoSa, this site offers just about every software tool a designer could imagine.

Where do you start? We suggest downloading the free Acrobat Reader software; it's becoming useful all over the Web as more sites provide Acrobat documents, which are print-quality files that can be viewed on many platforms. (For example, we happen to know that the IRS site has many downloadable tax forms in Acrobat format, which are just as official as the ones you pick up at the post office.)

With that in hand, you can download product brochures and support documents until the digitized cows come home.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.