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Editor's note: With this issue we inaugurate a regular feature, introducing readers to some of the best sites (in our opinion) on the World Wide Web. If you've discovered a site everyone should visit, let us know. Compiled by Richard Bleiler hblad128@uconnvm.uconn.edu
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com
The New York Times' website requires its users to register, but
there are no charges to browse the day's newspaper. The news
stories often contain information that does not appear in the
various print editions of the newspaper.
Electionline
http://www.electionline.com/
Electionline presents the significant and late-breaking national
political news; it is updated daily. Links to news stories and to
related sites are provided.
Toll-free Directory
http://att.net/dir800/
No comprehensive white pages are available, but the toll-free
(800) numbers are readily accessible via WWW. Easy to use menus
permit searching for the toll-free number of a business by name
and category; simple boolean searching is also possible.
FINWeb -- A Financial Economics WWW
Server
http://www.finweb.com/
FINWeb lists Internet resources providing substantive information
concerning economics and finance-related topics; it provides
links to electronic journals, working papers, financial
databases, and other financial and economics World Wide Web
servers. FINWeb is one of the finest WWW Business sites and has
been rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point
Communications.
Corbis
http://www.corbis.com
Wholly owned by Bill Gates, Corbis is a constantly expanding
database containing electronically available images and links to
other image archives. An excellent subject index provides access
to the images, which are frequently breathtaking.
Mirsky's Worst of the Web
http://mirsky.com/wow/
Hideous graphics. Revolting backgrounds. Grotesque sentiments.
Tawdry displays. Anybody can make mistakes in judgment or err in
the choices of colors, but it takes a special talent to be
consistently terrible. Mirsky carefully searches the web for its
poorest examples, those that can be used as displays of how not
to do a web page.
The Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall
http://www.doonesbury.com/
Politics, chat, charities, and business: all of the activities
and functions of a real town hall, but one in which every page is
surrounded by the often satirical illustrations of Garry Trudeau.
Classic reprints enable viewers to relive the past without the
nasty chemical side-effects.
Hershey Foods Corporation Homepage
http://www.hersheys.com/
The place for chocolate lovers to go to satisfy their urgings.
Here one can find a history of chocolate, information on Milton
S. Hershey, a tour of the factory, an electronic cookbook, gift
items, and information about new products. Those planning a
pilgrimage can find information on Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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