The Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam announces a TeleText to
Gopher interface. Eindhoven University of
Technology announces a graphical TeleText to WWW interface with
clickable images of TeleText pages. This interface uses the TeleText to
Gopher interface in Amsterdam. At this moment only NOS TeleTekst (the
Netherlands) have given permission to distribute their NOS TeleTekst pages on the
Internet.
NOS TeleTekst is being broadcast on Dutch Television and it contains world
news, TV guides, consumer information, financial and (Olympic) sport news
and weather and traffic information. The TeleText pages are (of course)
in Dutch and may not be stored or redistributed by mail or news, see the copyright.
The software for both interfaces will become available in the future.
The Department of Economics at the University of Michigan has an economics server. Items
of interest include "economic FAQs about the Internet" and "economics
of the Internet" pages.
The Backgrounds Data Center
(BDC) at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is pleased to
announce its WWW server. The BDC is an archiver of Earth, atmospheric
and celestial background scenes. The BDC server currently provides
access to on-line Far Ultraviolet data (with more spectral regions
soon to be available), links to real-time weather data, and
"brochure-type" information about the BDC and its facilities.
The Engineering
Technology Department of Texas A&M University now has a WWW
server running on SERWEB software. This site will host information
about the department including online images and student information.
A WWW information server for the
3 November 1994 Total Solar Eclipse
is now available. Umbraphiles and eclipse chasers can find maps, charts,
tables, meteorological information, ephemerides, local circumstances and
other data related to the next total solar eclipse.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is pleased to announce
RPInfo, its campuswide information system.
RPInfo provides information about the Rensselaer campus and community
and serves as a gateway to many other information sources on the Internet.
The Obituary Page
which features information concerning recent deaths of famous, infamous
or otherwise interesting people is now on the Web.
The Computer Services Centre of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce a new WWW
server. This is the first one publicly available in Hong Kong. The server
now contains information about the University, a Housing Design project by
the Architecture department, several publications by the Computer Services
Centre, and some nice photos of the Campus and Hong Kong. You can also
access our existing gopher services and library catalog from the home
page.
The Global
Fund for Women (GFW) is now on-line. The GFW is an
international grant-making organization supporting groups that are
committed to women's well-being and full participation in society.
Verbiage Magazine is a new short fiction magazine on the
World Wide Web which pays (modestly) for stories.
Come read our full announcement and submit your best stuff
for publication! The first issue will follow in one to
two months.
The Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna/
Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia
has put together a nice hypertext version of the Markoff article
on Mosaic in the New York Times. See
Markoff article.
The
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
is now on the World-Wide Web.
IPAC exists to carry out large,
data-intensive processing tasks as part of
NASA's
infrared astronomy
program and to provide scientific and technical expertise
on those projects to the astronomical research community.
IPAC is part of the California Institute of Technology and the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The New Sun Newspaper, investigating the positive.
Check it out.
