======== The Scout Report ==
======== January 29, 1999 ====
======== Volume 5, Number 38 ======
====== Internet Scout Project ========
==== University of Wisconsin ========
== Department of Computer Sciences ========
== I N T H E S C O U T R E P O R T T H I S W E E K ========
====== Subject Specific Reports ====
1. Scout Report for Social Sciences and Business & Economics
====== Research and Education ====
2. The BSE Inquiry Home Page
3. Concordances of Great Books
4. World Bank Development Forum
5. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
6. What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching
7. Oral History Online!
8. Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
9. Learning Guide Five: Thresholds of Change -- Edsitement
10. PollingReport.com
====== General Interest ====
11. I'll Make Me A World
12. WWF 1998 Annual Report
13. Math in Daily Life -- Annenberg/ CPB
14. Crop Production -- Annual Summary -- USDA
15. The Bolshoi Theatre
16. CampusSafety.org
17. British Literature.com
18. Four Sites for the Super Bowl
====== Network Tools ====
19. HTML Tidy
20. McAfee's Virus Information Library
21. TechTool
====== In The News ====
22. Pentium III and Privacy
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====== Subject Specific Reports ====
1. Scout Report for Social Sciences and Business & Economics
Scout Report for Social Sciences
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/socsci/1999/ss-990126.html
Scout Report for Business & Economics
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/bus-econ/1999/be-990128.html
The ninth issues of the second volumes of the Scout Reports for Social
Sciences and Business & Economics are available. The In the News section of
the Social Sciences Report annotates eight resources on the disputed Child
Online Protection Act (COPA). The Business & Economics Report's In the News
section annotates nine resources on regulatory developments in online
investing. [MD]
====== Research and Education ====
2. The BSE Inquiry Home Page [.pdf, Word, .zip]
http://www.bse.org.uk/
In late December 1997, the British Government initiated an Inquiry under
Lord Justice Nicholas Phillips to "establish and review the history of the
emergence and identification of BSE and the new variant CJD in the United
Kingdom," and review and evaluate the actions taken in response. BSE
(bovine spongiform encephalopathy), more commonly known as "mad cow
disease," has been linked to at least 30 human deaths from CJD
(Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease), a human spongiform encephalopathy resulting
from eating infected beef. In late December 1998, the BSE Inquiry began to
publish a number of draft factual accounts based on its investigations. At
the site, users can download the full text of these in HTML, Word, or .pdf
format. Additional resources at the site include full-text transcripts and
witness statements, a dramatis personae and glossary, archived press
releases, and a BSE timeline. [MD]
3. Concordances of Great Books
http://www.concordance.com/
Beneath the no-nonsense text frontpage of this site lies a powerful and
extremely useful tool for literature scholars and students. Created by Bill
Williams, the Concordances of Great Books site features an online
searchable index of 86 authors and 200 full texts. Concordances are
generally used to search religious texts for the occurrence of selected
words, and the site does contain a number of religious works. However, it
also indexes a fine selection of American, European, and Classical
literature texts that are no longer under copyright. These include the
plays and sonnets of Shakespeare, the complete Sherlock Holmes, nineteen of
Charles Dickens' books, works by the Bronte sisters, Tacitus, Melville,
Gibbon, George Eliot, and many others. Users have four options: search for
one or two keywords, list words in concordance by letter, type in a
location in the piece to read the full text, or list words in order of
number of occurrences. Additional resources include a selection of related
links. [MD]
4. World Bank Development Forum
http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/
An electronic venue for "dialogue and knowledge sharing" among
international development community members, the World Bank's Development
Forum includes ongoing Development Dialogues, or discussion groups, geared
to share "high-value information" on key development issues. Each dialogue
is open to the public but varies in content, format, and duration.
Currently, dialogues on violence against women, rural communications in
Africa, foreign direct investment, and social capital are active, with
archives maintained at the Join the Discussion page. Complete registration
is available online. Note: the World Bank invites the public to join the
following upcoming dialogues by February 1, 1999: Knowledge and Information
for Development (IKD), Gender and Law (GENDER-LAW), Les Consequences de la
Maternite Precoce sur l'Education des Filles en Afrique (EDUC-FILLES), and
Attacking Poverty (WDR2001), the first public forum on the World
Development Report for 2000/02. [MW]
To join any of the dialogues, send email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the body of the message, type:
SUBSCRIBE NAME OF THE DIALOGUE (e.g., SUBSCRIBE IKD or SUBSCRIBE
GENDER-LAW)
5. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law [.pdf]
http://www.bazelon.org/
Based in Washington D.C., the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is a
nonprofit legal advocacy organization for people with mental illness and
mental retardation. Operating on the principle that "every individual is
entitled to choice and dignity," the Center works to reform public systems
and provide fair access to housing, disability benefits, and health care
for adults and children with mental disabilities. In addition, the
organization has created this site which collects a number of mental health
law resources for lawyers, advocates, the mentally disabled, and their
families. These include legal decisions, articles, analysis, legislative
updates, and forms. Resources are grouped by topic, including ADA
(Americans with Disabilities Act) Issues, Aging Issues, Children's Issues,
Fair Housing Issues, and Mental Health Care. Visitors to the site will also
find announcements, a collection of briefly annotated disability and
advocacy links, and an internal search engine. [MD]
6. What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching [.pdf]
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/index.html
This online publication, created by Amy DePaul of the US Department of
Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, is dedicated to
the first year teacher. The site manages to articulate the primary
challenges and rewards of teaching in a clear and succinct way, using the
words of the teachers themselves. New and Veteran teachers respond to
issues ranging from professional isolation to differences in student
ability to the unexpected exhilaration of this demanding career. In
addition, educators offer tips of their trade, speak to ways that
administrators could facilitate their work with students, and let
universities and colleges know how teachers could be better prepared to
enter the classroom. The document is also available in .pdf format. [JR]
7. Oral History Online!
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/#collections
The Bancroft Library at the University of California-Berkeley has recently
begun a project to place portions of its oral history collection online in
full text. The transcripts will be marked up in SGML using the Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI), which will allow complex searches of the entire
text. In addition to the transcripts themselves, the remainder (photos,
prefaces, contents pages) of the published volumes will also be encoded to
provide complete access. At this stage, the Suffragists Oral History
Project, which offers the text of interviews with twelve suffragists and
women's activists for searching or browsing, is the only project available
online in complete form. Projects under construction include the Disabled
Persons Independence Movement and the BioTech Project. Among the future
planned additions are oral histories of the Free Speech Movement at
Berkeley, the Earl Warren gubernatorial era, and African-American Alumni at
the University of California. Historians of California and oral historians
will want to monitor the site as it develops. [MD]
8. Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm
Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings is an extensive
compilation of primary materials and annotated links related to
"twentieth-century genocidal and mass man-made killing occurrences."
Divided into fifteen sections, subject coverage includes topics such as The
Jewish Holocaust, War Crimes and Criminals, Yugoslavia and Kosovo, among
others. Most of the original documents in the compilation have been
uploaded to the site, facilitating navigation and research. Documents not
residing at the site are linked via succinct annotations. The compilation
is searchable and updated continuously by its creator Dr. Stuart D. Stein,
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of
West England. [AO]
9. Learning Guide Five: Thresholds of Change -- Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/guides/g_intro2.htm
The National Endowment for the Humanities's Edsitement Website (described
in the October 31, 1997 Scout Report) has recently added to its collection
of online learning guides. This new guide explores thresholds of change,
which include cultural and political thresholds such as those crossed by
African-Americans rising up from slavery, and some of the internal
thresholds individuals cross by courage, faith, and love. Nine lesson plans
are grouped into four themes: Escaping Slavery, Facing Opposition, Keeping
Faith, and Falling in Love. Each lesson plan is fully described and
utilizes online resources for background and primary materials. The main
page of each theme offers annotations for the Websites used and links to
additional learning tools. The four previous learning guides are accessible
from the main lesson plans page listed above. [MD]
10. PollingReport.com
http://www.pollingreport.com/
Provided by _The Polling Report_, a bimonthly public opinion monitor, this
new site offers very frequently updated polling results and data. Updated
whenever a new poll is released, the site provides a daily glimpse into
public opinion trends. Users may select from polls grouped in three
categories (Politics and Policy, Business/ Economy, or The American Scene),
browse the most recent additions, or choose from selected polls featured on
the main page. Current selections focus on the impeachment trial, the State
of the Union Address, and the 2000 presidential election. Additional
resources include a collection of articles on public opinion and survey
research from _The Polling Report_ and an internal search engine. [MD]
====== General Interest ====
11. I'll Make Me A World
http://www2.blackside.com/immaw/
At this site, users can preview "I'll Make Me A World," a six-hour public
television special, which will be broadcast beginning February 1. The
series is a production of Blackside, Inc. of Boston, and is being produced
in association with Thirteen/WNET in New York. Covering the time period
1900 to the present, I'll Make Me A World features the lives and work of
African-American writers, dancers, painters, actors, filmmakers, and
musicians, such as Quincy Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Spike Lee, Chuck D, Uta
Hagen, Bill T. Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, Ben Vereen, and Alice
Walker. At the Website, users can query a database of the featured artists,
using criteria including discipline, place of birth, and period of artistic
activity. For example, a search for female visual artists active in the
1930s retrieved biographical information on Gwendolyn Bennett, Gwendolyn
Knight, and Augusta Savage. These entries may include video clips, images
of the artists and their work, and links to sources of additional
information. All entries indicate in which hour of I'll Make Me A World the
artist appears (link to Airdates for the complete schedule). [DS]
12. WWF 1998 Annual Report [.pdf, 28p.]
http://panda.org/wwf/Report98/index.html
The World Wildlife Fund (last described in the October 9, 1998 Scout
Report) recently placed its 1998 Annual Report online. The world's largest
independent conservation organization has begun to move beyond promoting
awareness of environmental issues to developing practical and sustainable
solutions to current and future problems. In the report, the Director
General identifies three trends that must be addressed to halt
environmental erosion: the widening poverty gap, rapid urbanization, and
the growing influence of business and industry over governmental
regulation. The annual report is divided into topical sections, each of
which outlines relevant WWF conservation efforts, successes, and challenges
in different areas, including Brazil, Sea Change, Market Forces, Fresh
Water, and Raising Funds. Users may read the report online or download the
full text in .pdf format. [MD]
13. Math in Daily Life -- Annenberg/ CPB
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
What are your odds of hitting it big at the casino? Should you buy or lease
a car? How much will you have when you retire? All of these questions
involve math, and this latest addition to the Annenberg/ CPB Projects
Learner Online site (described in the September 12, 1997 Scout Report)
explores the use of basic mathematical concepts in daily decision-making.
The exhibit is divided into several topical sections exploring probability
and gambling, compound interest and credit cards, population growth,
geometry in the home, and ratios and recipes. In addition to an overview of
the topic, each section offers several links to selected related sites and
online tools, and two feature interactive learning activities. [MD]
14. Crop Production -- Annual Summary -- USDA [.pdf]
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/field/pcp-bban/
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) (described in the June
4, 1998 Scout Report for Business and Economics) of the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently released the annual summary
of US crop production. Available in text or .pdf format, the summary
contains "annual US data for acreage, yield, and production by crop." In
addition to statistical tables, the report includes reviews of crop
progress and the weather in 1998. Reports from 1995-98 are also available
in text format only. [MD]
15. The Bolshoi Theatre [Frames, Javascript]
http://www.bolshoi.ru/eng/frame.html
The Bolshoi Theatre site is a useful stop for anyone who wants to learn
more about this 160-year-old architectural landmark or its performances and
players. The site not only provides a calendar for this season (the
theatre's 223rd) and brief biographies for the current company, but also
offers much in the way of historical background and pictures. The About the
Bolshoi section is divided into three subsections -- History, Legends, and
Architecture -- which together review the basics of the Bolshoi's past. The
descriptions are all overwhelmingly positive, supplying a wide-ranging, if
uncritical, vision. We are told, for example, that the success of Fedor
Fedorovsky, Academician of Painting, is due in large part to his
"revelation of the inimitable national character and the power of the
people's creative spirit." Nonetheless, the site is a good introduction to
an esteemed institution. [TK]
16. CampusSafety.org [.pdf]
http://www.campussafety.org/
Provided by Security On Campus, Inc., "the only national, non-profit
organization geared specifically and exclusively to the prevention of
college and university campus violence and other crimes," this site
supplies information on campus crime and prevention for current and
prospective students, parents, and community members. Visitors to the site
will find campus crime statistics (in .pdf format), detailed summaries and
the full text of campus security laws, victim assistance and binge drinking
prevention resources, and links to recent campus crime news. Users can also
subscribe for email notification of site updates. [MD]
17. British Literature.com
http://www.britishliterature.com/
Created by unabashed Anglophile Christopher D. Ball, this site contains a
wide and varied selection of all things related to British literature. Fans
of Dickens, Bronte, Auden, and their countrymen and women will find author
profiles (some under construction), short articles on various mediums and
historical eras, brief pieces on over 50 literary locales, photos,
downloadable traditional music in MIDI format, reading suggestions, and a
number of related links. A useful site for introducing students to
personalities and elements of British literature, but perhaps best suited
for personal use by enthusiasts. [MD]
18. Four Sites for the Super Bowl
Superbowl.com [RealPlayer, Windows Media Player]
http://superbowl.lycos.com/
NFL.com: Super Bowl XXXIII [RealPlayer]
http://www.nfl.com/sb33/
ESPN: Super Bowl XXXIII
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs98/superbowl/
Super Bowl ads: computers, wrestlers and lingerie
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news/ap/990127/ap-superbowlad.html
Super Sunday is fast upon us, which means limitless pregame hype and
analysis, a hopefully exciting match-up on the field, and unbelievably
expensive television commercials (an average of $1.6 million for 30
seconds). Superbowl.com, the official Website of the Super Bowl, offers the
latest news (in text, RealAudio or Windows Media Player), team reports,
videos, player biographies, message boards, and interactive games. The
NFL's site also offers news, team reports, and analysis. In addition, the
site takes advantage of the league's archive, with a multimedia section
containing film highlights from the season and photo and video highlights
from last year's Super Bowl. As with the other two sites, ESPN offers a
wide selection of feature stories on the game, but also provides more
detailed analysis, with scouting reports, playoff rosters, depth charts,
stats, and playoff histories. Super Bowl records, lists of past MVPs and
winners, and a photo gallery round out the site. An estimated 400 million
people worldwide (140 million in the US) will watch the Super Bowl, making
it one of the most lucrative few hours of the year for television ad
salespeople. These spots have also been used by companies to unveil new
products (such as the Mac in 1984) or launch major new ad campaigns. For
those who are interested but don't want to be surprised, Associated Press
Business Writer Skip Wollenberg's article (provided by Yahoo!) reviews some
of the new commercials that will appear on Sunday. [MD]
====== Network Tools ====
19. HTML Tidy
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
Is your HTML embarrassing? Do advanced users point out shortcomings in your
HTML Web pages? Or do you just want to tidy your site up? HTML Tidy is a
simple yet effective utility that examines HTML files for errors and can
report these errors or even fix them. Further, this utility, created by
Dave Raggett under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium, goes
beyond repairing errors by providing an automatic conversion of HTML into
XML, a "pretty printer" to indent your HTML for easy readability, and
several other handy features. This utility is provided as a standard,
Unix-esque command-line program which facilitates bulk processing of files,
but a separate Windows GUI is also available. HTML Tidy is available as an
executable for Win95/98/NT and the BeOS. The source code is freely
available and can easily be compiled under numerous Unix systems. [CL]
20. McAfee's Virus Information Library
http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/query.asp
McAfee, the well-known anti-virus software company, offers this free
library, containing information on over 40,000 known PC viruses. Virus
details include their source, how they infect your computer, and how to
remove them. Users can search for viruses by keyword or browse by category.
The site also lists new viruses, the year's top ten, and hoax viruses.
Although in most cases the instructions for virus removal include the use
of a McAfee product, the site is still an excellent source of virus
information. [MD]
21. TechTool
http://www.micromat.com/micromat/techtool.html
TechTool is a powerful system-level utility from MicroMat Computer Systems
that provides a variety of useful diagnostic tools for any Macintosh
(System 7 or higher). It can analyze system files for damage (through
System 8.5.1), store and zap PRAM (parameter memory used to store system
level settings), and aid in saving and rebuilding the desktop database.
TechTool can also show a wide variety of information about your Macintosh,
including the date of manufacture, hours of use, general hardware
configuration, and a listing of all devices on a network. [PMS]
====== In The News ====
22. Pentium III and Privacy
Boycott Intel Campaign Page
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/
Intel Pentium(r) III Processor
http://developer.intel.com/design/pentiumiii/
"Going Private," -- PCWorld Online
http://www.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,7521,00.html
Privacy Analysis of Your Internet Connection
http://www.consumer.net/Analyze/
On January 20, Intel revealed that every one of its new Pentium III chips
would include a unique Processor Serial Number (PSN), which would help
online vendors positively identify users. This announcement was immediately
met with strong condemnation by privacy groups, who argued that the unique
PSN represented a significant threat to consumer privacy. Three
organizations, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Junkbusters,
and Privacy International, quickly organized a campaign to boycott Intel
and any computer manufacturer that includes Pentium III processors. Intel
responded by stating that the chip would be shipped with the PSN off as the
default setting, the reverse of their original plan. This has not satisfied
the privacy advocates, who met with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
yesterday to lobby for a recall of the chip, which is already being shipped
to computer manufacturers. The Boycott Intel Campaign page, a cooperative
effort by the three privacy groups, lays out their concerns, the reasons
for the boycott, and why they are unsatisfied with Intel's proposed
solution. Intel's Pentium(r) III page offers the technical details of their
new chip (although the PSN is not mentioned). Users concerned with online
privacy issues will enjoy Carol Lane's article in a recent issue of PCWorld
Online. Lane offers an overview of the privacy threats inherent in using
the Internet and gives tips on safer surfing, blocking spam, and email
security. Consumer.net, a consumer information organization, supplies a
free privacy analysis on-site. By visiting, users will learn just what
information sites can collect about them. Additional resources concerning
online privacy can be found in Signpost, the Scout Report's database. These
include the FTC's About Privacy site, which posts reports, news, and
congressional testimony; Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit
consumer education group offering a number of privacy resources; and the
PRIVACY Forum, a moderated discussion list relating to privacy and the
information age. [MD]
====== ======
== Index for January 29, 1999 ==
====== ======
1. Scout Report for Social Sciences and Business & Economics
Scout Report for Social Sciences
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/socsci/1999/ss-990126.html
Scout Report for Business & Economics
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/bus-econ/1999/be-990128.html
2. The BSE Inquiry Home Page [.pdf, Word, .zip]
http://www.bse.org.uk/
3. Concordances of Great Books
http://www.concordance.com/
4. World Bank Development Forum
http://www.worldbank.org/devforum/
5. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law [.pdf]
http://www.bazelon.org/
6. What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching [.pdf]
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/index.html
7. Oral History Online!
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/#collections
8. Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm
9. Learning Guide Five: Thresholds of Change -- Edsitement
http://edsitement.neh.gov/guides/g_intro2.htm
10. PollingReport.com
http://www.pollingreport.com/
11. I'll Make Me A World
http://www2.blackside.com/immaw/
12. WWF 1998 Annual Report [.pdf, 28p.]
http://panda.org/wwf/Report98/index.html
13. Math in Daily Life -- Annenberg/ CPB
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
14. Crop Production -- Annual Summary -- USDA [.pdf]
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/field/pcp-bban/
15. The Bolshoi Theatre [Frames, Javascript]
http://www.bolshoi.ru/eng/frame.html
16. CampusSafety.org [.pdf]
http://www.campussafety.org/
17. British Literature.com
http://www.britishliterature.com/
18. Four Sites for the Super Bowl
Superbowl.com [RealPlayer, Windows Media Player]
http://superbowl.lycos.com/
NFL.com: Super Bowl XXXIII [RealPlayer]
http://www.nfl.com/sb33/
ESPN: Super Bowl XXXIII
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs98/superbowl/
Super Bowl ads: computers, wrestlers and lingerie
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news/ap/990127/ap-superbowlad.html
19. HTML Tidy
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
20. McAfee's Virus Information Library
http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/query.asp
21. TechTool
http://www.micromat.com/micromat/techtool.html
22. Pentium III and Privacy
Boycott Intel Campaign Page
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/
Intel Pentium(r) III Processor
http://developer.intel.com/design/pentiumiii/
"Going Private," -- PCWorld Online
http://www.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,7521,00.html
Privacy Analysis of Your Internet Connection
http://www.consumer.net/Analyze/
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