America's Career InfoNet - Occupational and employment information from America's Job Bank. Includes overviews of the job market for the U.S. and for all fifty states. Profiles over 750 specific occupations, including detailed salary and wages information by state and county from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Beethoven, Ludwig van - 1770-1827 - An insightful and intelligent series on the nine Beethoven
symphonies written by Timothy Mangan, the classical
music critic of The Orange County Register
BirdSource - site allows birders
to record their observations with special programs that
include Feeder Watch, the Great Backyard Bird Count,
Warbler Watch, and the Broad-winged Hawk Survey, in
order to assist ornithologists "define bird ranges,
populations, migration pathways, and habitat needs."
Contains a collection of maps that chart a variety of bird
species' population with "data from the turn of the century
to last week." The data from the National Audubon
Society's Christmas Bird Count is available for the past 99
years.
Tree of Life, The - site organizes,
surveys, and displays the diversity, evolutionary history,
and characteristics of all groups of living organisms. The
great Tree has roots, a trunk, stems, and branches that
connect each organism to all others. Coordinated and
edited by David R. Maddison of the University of
Arizona, this attractive and expertly managed site has over
1300 pages housed on 20 computers in four countries,
and is authored by biologists from around the world.
Originally intended for professionals, the site has evolved
into one for non-biologists as well.
Women of the West Museum - "purpose is to discover and explore
the continuing role of women in the development of the
American West." The first online exhibit is There Are No
Renters Here: Women's Lives on the Sod House Frontier,
which examines the life of homesteaders in 1870s
Nebraska through the photographs and letters of the
Oblinger family. There is also a Woman of the Week
feature, an Educational Resource Center, descriptions of
the museum programs, and a story quilt with each block
describing the life of a pioneer woman.
Your Country - site that allows you to easily compare the various characteristics of any two countries. Make your choices, select the
comparison (birth rate, exports, total land area, literacy, etc.) and the
site does the rest. Did you know that the birth rate of Cambodia is
1.33 times that of Zimbabwe? Or that the United States has *far more*
unpaved airports than Australia? How about this: while Namibia is over a
thousand times larger (in total land area) than Singapore, the southern
African nation has less than half of Singapore's population.
Linux Weekly News - "Bringing you the latest news from the Linux World. Dedicated to keeping Linux users up-to-date, with concise news for all interests."
Linux Standard Base- "The goal of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) is to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant Linux system."
