Interesting Internet?: (what would you add to this list?)
[From Philip Mc Starting around mid-June 2007 and now ongoing]

** How Stuff Works (added 27 Oct 2008)
http://hsw.libguides.com/

** Libraries and Books (added 21 Oct 2008):

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all Unusual Library
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/08/unusual-books.html Unusual books
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/bittersweet-art-of-cutting-up-books.html Bittersweet art of cutting up books

1. Baby Boomer web sites:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/17/earlyshow/saturday/main2490139.shtml

or http://eons.com/
or search with www.cRANKy.com

2. The Earth From Above (try Mali or India / Inde), fantastic photos

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/yann2/affichage.php

3. Listen to the Natives (digital natives), by Marc Prensky (January 2006)
(Some browsers will not permit access to this article about Digital Natives)

http://www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200512_prensky.html

4. Women in Art (500 years of paintings, morphed in less than 3 minutes)(Thanks, Gail)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

5. Reference sites

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/MARSBESTIndex.htm

UVa library Reference

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/reference/

6. Other Library sources

WorldCat. Look up any book (video?), and put in your zip code to see the nearest library.

http://www.worldcat.org/

Sign up with your email and make your own lists, click on My Lists after you sign up.

http://www.librarystuff.net/

http://www.librarything.com/

http://scholar.google.com/

Search “Around the World in 80 Days.” Click on the first one. Click on “)(More) About this book” Now scroll down all the way to the bottom and see Places Mentioned in this Book (such as Bombay, Calcutta, Allahabad, Patna)

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/

7. World66 – places you have been

http://www.world66.com/myworld66/

8. (On 8 Feb 2007) Google scanning project – now an even dozen with Princeton just joining. (University of Virginia had joined at the end of 2006.)

http://www.libraryjournal.com/clear/CA6414834.html?nid=2673#news1

9. Blogs

Terri’s (and Liz’s) in Tasmania

http://tasmaniacs2005.blogspot.com/

10. Videos (from Philip and others)

* Grouper Shared Videos (Mangos)

http://grouper.com/Members/Profile/SharedVideo.aspx?id=243639

* MySpace, click on Videos (indiafred)

http://www.myspace.com/indiafred

* YouTube, click on Videos (JungleFritz)

http://youtube.com/profile?user=JungleFritz

* Google Video, try searching "Philip Mc Woodstock" for some of “mine”

http://video.google.com/

* Or non-video Facebook (but you need to sign in to see it!)

http://uva.facebook.com/mailbox.php

11. Sound

* UVa student-run radio with pop, jazz, and classical music. Have a listen.

http://wtju.radio.virginia.edu/stream.rb

12. Still photos or slides

* The Earth From Above (try Mali or India / Inde), fantastic photos [second listing]

http://www.yannarthusbertrand.com/yann2/affichage.php

* Kamat’s House of Pictures (try History or Embroidery or Faces, etc)

http://www.kamat.com/picturehouse/navigate.htm

* A local Charlottesville photographer, Kaihui – insects and stuff

http://www.pbase.com/kaihui/root

* Webshots (nagpur59)

http://community.webshots.com/user/nagpur59

* Flickr (nagpur59)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philipmc/

* Everytrail.com (yatra) – a geotracking with photos

Ocracoke trip http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2733

Nags to Oc trip http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2737

13. Webcams

*University of Virginia’s Lawn look north to the Rotunda

http://www.virginia.edu/cgi-local/rcamcgi

* Workcam (use Internet Explorer browser only. During the work hours, Eastern time)

http://people.virginia.edu/~pm9k/workcam/live.html

* Druid or Home cam #1. Click on Single tab (24/7, any browser, Philip’s TV room and the living room, you (yes, you) can pan and tilt this camera)

http://druidphilip.viewnetcam.com/

* Druid or Home cam #2. Click on Single tab (24/7, any browser, just the living room, you (yes, you) can pan and tilt this camera, some may be able to use 2-way audio)

http://druidphilip2.viewnetcam.com:81/

14. Semester at Sea

Librarians:

*Jean’s Summer 2007

http://www.summer-at-sea.blogspot.com/

David’s Summer 2007

http://latoday2007.blogspot.com

* Erin’s Spring 2007

http://sea-ville.blogspot.com/

* Erika’s Fall 2006

http://librarianadventurepants.blogspot.com/

*Barbie Summer 2006

http://librarianatsea.blogspot.com/

Webber: Philip McEldowney (pm9k @ virginia.edu)
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