HotSites --5Oct97


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In case anyone doesn't know about this amibitious project and invaluable resource, I list Project Gutenberg as one of the all time best of the internet. It represents the spirit of the early net when the ready and free access to and exchange of information was what the web was all about. You know, before banner ads and spam. In 1971, Mike Hart began the heady undertaking of putting the texts of books in the public domain on the internet. Now there are more than a thousand -- Bronte, Lewis, London, Shakespeare, and on and on. If you're connected, you've got many of literatrure's classics in your library.
http://www.promo.net/pg/history.html#top


The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a special events satellite image archive which includes satellite images of such world disasters as recent hurricanes, volcanoes, fires, and floods. The files are large, but worth the wait. http://www.goes.noaa.gov/special.html



The All-Internet Shopping Directory presents hundreds of top shopping sites, malls and stores, all in one convenient directory! There are 30 categories you can browse!
http://www.all-internet.com/



Writers' Resources

Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (1918). Online edition of the classic writers' reference. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

Grammar and Style Notes is an excellent resource by Jack Lynch, who descroibes himself as "a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania, working on a dissertation on eighteenth-century British literature, especially Samuel Johnson, with an interest in computing in the humanities (and in the department)." http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/grammar.html#grace



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