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- Subject: n-1-4-020.08
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- The First Internet Hunt
-
-
- With something on the order of nearly 1.5 million Internet
- hosts now connected in "flat information space," there is considerable
- research, standardization and commercial activity underway to help
- everyone sort through the Matrix.
-
- There are also some people creating some fun activities that incent
- and teach teach users, and at the same time demonstrate the enormous
- and varied distributed information on the Internet. A few weeks ago,
- Rick Gates, Director of Library Automation at the University of California,
- Santa Barbara, Library <lb05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>, announced the winner
- of the First Internet Hunt held in September. Rick has provided
- Internet Society News with the following details.
-
- Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries at Babson College submitted the
- highest scoring entry. Rick says that the Internet Hunt has met with such
- enthusiasm it is now a monthly occurrence, and currently archived at an FTP
- site at the Coalition for Networked Information
- (<ftp.cni.org> /pub/net-guides/i-hunt).
-
- In announcing the results, the methods used in arriving at the answers
- are also published. Preference is given to answers that can be solved
- immediately using the Net. The questions posed for the first Hunt are
- listed below, together with the winning answers. Alternative answers
- are possible, but these were the best. In announcing the winner, Rick
- also announces many of the alternative answers. Together, they represent
- a really useful portrayal of Internet discovery tools and techniques.
-
- Internet Hunt
-
- 1. I'm leaving for Japan tomorrow. Approximately how many
- yen can I get for my dollar, give or take a few yen ?
-
- 126.23 (an end of August figure)
- Via Gopher access to Hermes.Merit.Edu
- to UM-Ulibrary and
- to the menu soc-sci, then
- ec bulletin board, then
- monetary stats.
-
- 2. A hurricane just blew in! Where can I find satellite
- photos of it's progress?
-
- For satellite photos,
- ftp to vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.
- The files are .gif files.
-
- 3. I'm taking a job as a social studies teacher at a high
- school in Denver, Co. Where can I find a list of local
- environmental organizations that could come speak to my classes?
-
- Access CARL (pac.carl.org). The Directory of Environmental
- Education Resources (DEER) is a joint project of Colorado
- Alliance for Environmental Education (CAEE) and Colorado
- Dept. of Education, as a service from Pikes Peak Library
- District. At Pikes Peak Lib. District menu go to #3 for
- Encyclopedias, Business and Reference (sources including
- DEER). DEER is 26. If you browse by title you will see an
- alphabetical list of programs focused on environmental ed.
-
- 4. My wife just got a job at the University of North
- Carolina. My specialty is computer/data processing work. Where
- can I find a list of jobs in that area of the state?
-
- North Carolina State University's CWIS, "Happenings," has a
- menu item, "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs," which contains the listings of
- vacancies posted by the North Carolina Office of State
- Personnel Vacancies. Category #5 is entitled "Data
- Processing." Beyond that, the CWISes of the University of
- North Carolina at Asheville, at Chapel Hill, at Greensboro,
- and at Wilmington also provide job listings.
-
- 5. How many copies of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" does
- the University of Nevada at Las Vegas hold?
-
- There are two copies in special collections at the Univ. of
- Nevada at Las Vegas. I couldn't get in through UNLV but did
- get in through Reno and found access to Southern Nevada which
- enabled me to look up Las Vegas.
-
- 6. Bill Clinton made a speech somewhere on Earth day this
- year. Where can I find the text of it?
-
- Via WAIS (quake.think.com), I searched Clinton
- speeches at sunsite.unc.edu. - clinton-speechess.
- Bill Clinton spoke at Drexel University in Philadelphia,
- PA on Earth Day in April 22, 1992.
-
- 7. I just read an interesting paper by a Bradley Smith in
- the Chemistry Department at the University of Western Australia.
- Is it possible to get an email address for him?
-
- Yes, his address is: bjs@crystal.uwa.oz.au
- Using the Internet Gopher X500 gateway, phonebooks
- directory, you can narrow to country, to Australia, to
- university, and then to Chemistry department.
-
- 8. Someone told me that there's a collection of software
- specifically for libraries stored somewhere in Canada called
- libsoft. How do I get ahold of this software?
-
- FTP to hydra.uwo.edu, directory libsoft.
-
- 9. Where can I find news, discussions, and perhaps
- eyewitness reports out of what used to be Yugoslavia?
-
- A good mailing list is the listserv SOC.CULTURE.YUGOSLAVIA.
-
-
- 10. Could you tell me how I can find the Washington address
- for the congressman from my district?
-
- Via WAIS I identified the Congress file from pit.mit.edu,
- and identified Robert J. Lagomarsino as the
- Rep from District including Santa Barbara.
- His Washington address is:
- 2332 Rayburn
- Washington DC 20515
-
-