9.10  SOME INTERESTING WWW SERVERS 


AREA CODES

http://www.xmission.com/~americom/ Ever wondered what the area code is 
for Watertown, NY, or the country code for Andorra?  Help is now as near 
as your keyboard.  AmeriCom, a long-distance company, has created a Web-
based server with info on some 80,000 cities around the world. 

ART

http://www.wimsey.com/Pixel_Pushers/  The Electronic Art Gallery in 
Calgary is exactly what it sounds like.

BOSTON

http://www.std.com/NE/boston.html  An online guide to the city that 
modestly calls itself the Hub of the Universe, from restaurant and movie 
listings to car-repair recommendations and neighborhood profiles.

CALIFORNIA

http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual-tourist/California.html This 
is your basic tourist-info center just over the state line on the 
Information Highway.  It offers everything from traffic and road-
condition reports to maps and pictures of tourist attractions. 

CHINA

http://www.ihep.ac.cn:3000/ihep.html  This is the People's Republic's 
first Internet connection, run by the Institute for High Energy Physics 
in Beijing, providing everything from e-mail addresses of Chinese 
scientists to information on Chinese regions and a directory of foreign 
companies in Beijing.

DINOSAURS

http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos1.html  Look here for images of 
dinosaur skeletons. 

DUBLIN

http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/dsg_people/czimmerm/pubs.html  This is "the 
definitive review of Dublin's watering holes.''

ENVIRONMENT

http://www.econet.apc.org/lcv/scorecard.html  See how your local 
congressman/woman is ranked by the League of Conservation Voters.

http://polyn.net.kiae.su/polyn/manifest.html  A group of researchers at 
the Kurchatov Institute for Atomic Energy in Moscow have created a World-
Wide Web resource devoted to the Chernobyl melt-down. 

GAMES

http://wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk/GamesDomain  The Games Domain is the place to go 
for information on dozens of computer games.  Resources include lists of 
hints for specific games and an online games magazine. 

GOVERNMENT

http://www.fedworld.gov  FedWorld is a gateway to dozens of federal 
information services in the U.S., some free, some requiring a fee to use.  

http://thomas.loc.gov  The Library of Congress's Thomas (as in Thomas
Jefferson) service lets you look up pending bills by keyword and read
the Congressional Record (back to January, 1994).

LAW 

http://www.law.cornell.edu/lii.table.html   Cornell University's Legal 
Information Institute provides a variety of law-related documents, 
including information on specific legal issues and copies of U.S. Supreme 
Court decisions. 

http://venable.com/vbh.html  Venable, Batejer, Howard and Civiletti is a 
Washington, D.C. law firm.  Its Web server includes online newsletters on 
various legal topics. 

LEGOS

http://legowww.itek.norut.no/catalog/index.html   Yes, it's a set of 
documents (with pictures) all about the little plastic blocks with the 
pegs on top. 

MOVIES

http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviewquery.html   You can search for 
filmographies for particular actors and directors here.

http://bvp.wdp.com/BVPM/ The Buena Vista Pictures Web server has 
information and photos of current Disney and Buena Vista Pictures movies 
-- even some QuickTime loops for Macintosh owners (caveat: those are 
large files).

MUSIC

http://www.music.indiana.edu/misc/music_resources.html  This resource at 
Indiana University will help you find Web sites devoted to virtually 
every type of music and band. 

NEW ZEALAND

http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/mjw/NZ/MainPaige.html  Your personal 
guided tour of New Zealand, complete with pictures of its cities, scenery 
and people, begins here.

PATENTS

http:/town.hall.org/patent/patent.html.  This database, run by the 
Internet Multicasting Service, lets you search for U.S.-issued patents 
from 1994 on. 

REAL ESTATE

http://www.gems.com/realestate/   Real-estate listings from several 
cities around the U.S. 

SLOVENIA

http://www.ijs.si/slo.html  Learn more about the former Yugoslav republic 
in words and photographs. 

SMALL BUSINESS

http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov  The U.S. Small Business Administration uses 
its Web site to provide tips for businesses and lists of available 
resources. 

SOUTH DAKOTA

http://www.state.sd.us  All you ever wanted to know about the state, from 
tourist attractions to pending legislation, can be found here.

SPACE

http://sspp.gsfc.nasa.gov/  Look here for info on discount space flights 
from NASA, like the "Get Away Special" -- only $27,000 to launch a 
90-pound cannister aboard a space shuttle. 

TIME WASTERS

http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless.html  It's amazing what some 
people are using the Web for.  There's the guy in California who's 
connected his hot tub and refrigerator, so you can check the temperature 
in both; people who let you send messages to their cat; digital cameras 
that take periodic snapshots of coffee pots.  Paul Phillips has assembled 
links to them all. 

WINE

http://augustus.csscr.washington.edu/personal/bigstar-mosaic/wine.html 
Look for information about the grape beverage here. Besides links to 
other Internet resources, it also lets you leave tasting notes for other 
enthusiasts, and provides information on wineries in Washington 
state.