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THE INTERNET MALL Shopping on the Information Highway A monthly list of commercial services available via Internet (C) Copyright 1994 Dave Taylor: see end for details Maintained by Dave Taylor (taylor@netcom.com) [issue #5, release for 1 April, 1994] Organized by floors: First Floor: Media, Second Floor: Personal Items, Third Floor: Computer Hardware and Software, Fourth Floor: Services. + Any line prefaced with '+' is new or changed in this latest issue. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ New Since Last Listing: learn the art of grant writing, get help with ++ ++ your dissertation, find out about Internet-on-a-Disk, buy survey ++ ++ software for Internet surveys, get a good deal on Motif, and gain a ++ ++ strategic edge for your business in China, all through the Internet! ++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FIRST FLOOR: MEDIA Books Looking for some Shakespeare or Dickens? You'll find the online version of Book Stacks Unlimited, of Cleveland, Ohio a great addition. Moe's Books of Berkeley, CA is an excellent used bookstore with over half a million titles specializing in rare, antiquarian, remainders and imported books. Available catalogs are photography, art monographs, fine press/literature and illustrated children's books. Contact them through email: moesbooks@delphi.com Future Fantasy, a bookstore of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery and Horror, is now on the net. You can browse their catalog and place orders through the Web. Use the URL: http://www.commerce.digital.com/palo-alto/FutureFantasy/home.html United Techbook Company of Longmont Colorado offers an online book service that encompasses over a million titles. You can connect, search for titles, and order books by using the command 'telnet utcbooks.com' with the account 'utc' (the password is also 'utc'). There are a number of specialty bookstores available through the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link: type 'gopher gopher.well.sf.ca.us' and choose 'commercial services' to find FringeWare, Extreme Books (catalog also available via email at 'catalog@mailer.extremebooks.com') and Nebula Books, an online science fiction bookstore in Canada. Powell's Technical of Portland, Oregon offers new, used, and antiquarian titles in fields including architecture, computing, communications, engineering, math, and physics. You can contact them through email: ping@technical.powells.portland.or.us Infinity Link Network Services offers an online catalog of CDs, video tapes, books, and laserdisks, all by connecting via telnet to columbia.ilc.com - log in as 'cas' at the prompt. Alternatively, use gopher by typing 'gopher columbia.ilc.com' An interesting alternative to modern printed material is electronic books, which are available for purchase through the aptly named Online Bookstore. Connect with gopher or WWW to marketplace.com. + The Please Copy This Disk project offers over 240 different (Mac or + IBM format) disks containing classic books and government documents + as electronic texts. The free monthly Internet-on-a-Disk newsletter + is also available: for information, send email to B&R Samizdat + Express at samizdat@world.std.com Publications and related from Statistics Canada, the national statistical agency of Canada, are now available through its Talon service through gopher, WAIS, email and anonymous FTP. Use your favorite connectivity package to connect with talon.statcan.ca Annex: Technical and Computer Books Softpro Books is a small computer bookstore with shops in both Boston and Denver and an online catalog of over 1000 titles. SoftPro is also available on the world.std.com gopher server (choose "Shops of the World"). You can also contact them through email: softpro@world.std.com O'Reilly & Associates, publishers of a wide variety of high quality books on Unix and Internet topics offer their books directly through the Internet. Point your gopher to 'ora.com' (e.g., 'gopher ora.com') or telnet to ora.com with the login 'gopher'. High Mountain Press Direct offers books on Unix, CAD, desktop publishing and geographic information systems topics. You can request catalogs and order titles by sending mail to 'info@bookstore.hmp.com' Artech House, a technical book and software publisher, offers hundreds of different technical titles - and some software and video tapes - via the Internet. Connect to 'gopher world.std.com' and choose 'Shops of the World'. One of the larger technical bookstores accessible online is Quantum Books, of Cambridge, Massachusetts with 20,000 titles on-hand and a database of 65,000 titles. The focus is primarily computer science, math and physics. Contact them by gopher: look in 'Shops of the World' after connecting with 'gopher world.std.com'. + Roswell Electronic Computer Bookstore is an extension of the retail + store located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The online database + includes over 5,500 titles and they can special order just about any + book in print. Web to http://www.nstn.ns.ca/cybermall/cybermall.html + gopher to gopher.nstn.ns.ca 70/ CyberMall or email: roswell@fox.nstn.ns.ca If you're in Canada and you're interested in computer books and other technical books, Roswell Computer Bookstore of Halifax, Nova Scotia has a catalog of over 7000 books available online. Use 'gopher' and connect to 'nstn.ns.ca' and choose items 8 and 4 to see what they have. Silicon Valley is a logical place to find a great technical and computer bookstore, but through the Internet, you can also get to Computer Literacy Bookstore by electronic mail: send a message to info@clbooks.com to learn more about this service. Looking for German language technical books and CDROM disks? JF Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung in Berlin now offers online CDROM and book catalogues, You can access them directly with gopher or the Web: use 'gopher gopher.germany.eu.net 70' or 'Web to the following: http://www.germany.eu.net:80/shop/jfl/jfl_kat.html The Magazine Rack Samples of many different magazines are available on the Internet, as shown below: "The New Republic" via 'gopher gopher.internet.com' "The Global Network News": http://nearnet.gnn.com/news/home/news.html "Mother Jones": http://www.mojones.com/motherjones.html "WIRED": http://www.ncb.gov.sg/wired/WoWWW.html "The Internet Letter" through the Web at: http://www.mtv.com/commercial_resources/internet_letter/index.html All these and more are also available by checking into the Electronic Newsstand. Try: gopher internet.com or telnet internet.com, login as 'enews'. Email info@enews.com for more information on the service. Branch Information Services also offer a variety of different magazine subscriptions. Connect with 'gopher branch.com' or 'http://branch.com:1080' "The Magazine For Adult Children of Aging Parents" is for anyone facing the questions, issues, and concerns from having an aging parent. Covers all aspects of eldercare, including the emotional costs of care. Sample articles and subscription form are available. Via the WorldWide Web: "http://www.service.com/answers/cover.html" ANSWERS. Music and Video Infinity Link Network Services offers a catalog of video tapes, laserdisks, CDs and books accessible by connecting via telnet to columbia.ilc.com - log in as 'cas' at the prompt. Alternatively, point your gopher there with 'gopher columbia.ilc.com' With an online catalog of over 80,000 titles, the Compact Disc Connection is perhaps the best of the current bunch if you're looking for some specific music. To visit this store, telnet zen.holonet.net and log in as 'cdc' at the prompt. The Virtual Record Store lists over 3500 CD titles, and can be reached at gopher: gopher.nstn.ns.ca or URL: gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca:70/11/e-mall For the lastest in MIDI software and hardware, including Roland, EMU, Korg, Tascam and Marshall, Horizons One can provide you a one stop solution. Inquiries and orders by email: midiwiz@interaccess.com Buying concert tickets is always a tricky concern, but did you know that companies like Planet Earth Management can sell you concert packages that not only include excellent seats but hotel space in town too? They're on the net: Pink Floyd is the current tour: pink@society.com, and on the way is the new Rolling Stones tour: stones@society.com for info. SECOND FLOOR: Personal Items Sunglasses, Shavers and More! catalog available through the Internet, though users interested in the Braun, Bausch & Lomb, Corning, Forchner and Victornox products will have to settle electronic mail only at this point: send a message to 'sunglass@clark.net' for a catalog. Games Looking for boardgames, perhaps older or unusual ones? Then a quick connection to Harmony Games, run by a veteran game designer, might be just what the virtual doctor ordered. Connect with gopher or WWW to marketplace.com. Handmade Crafts and Craft Supplies Dolls and santas, handcrafted traditional gifts, natural fibers and crafter's supplies are available through the Internet by connecting to McCrerey Farm of Pennsylvania. Use gopher to connect to telerama.lm.com. Looking the "Shopping Plaza." Florist If you're perennially late with flowers and other gifts for your significant other, you'll be delighted to know that there's now a a florist on the Internet. Grant's Florist and Greenhouse can be reached through the Web (http://florist.com:1080) or gopher; use 'gopher florist.com'. Adult Toys Okay, so you can get flowers, music, and books through the Internet, but what about that really special, unusual item you'd like to give your significant other? J.T. Toys offers an electronic sex and adult toystore accessible via gopher: connect to world.std.com and look in 'Shops of the World'. THIRD FLOOR: Computer Hardware and Software Software If you're a scientific type, you've probably already bumped into the book "Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing", but did you know that all the source code shown in that book is available to buy online in both C and FORTRAN? Connect with 'gopher cfata4.harvard.edu'. The Programmer's Shop is a ten-year-old company offering a wide selection of programming tools, with a catalog of thousands of different products. Also included in the list are applications, utilities, hardware, and more. Connect with them by 'gopher world.std.com' and choosing 'Shops of the World', or through email to progshop@world.std.com If you're looking for the BSDI version of Berkeley Unix for your computer system, you can contact the BSDI company directly via electronic mail for information and catalogs. Use the Web and connect to www.bsdi.com or try 'gopher gopher.bsdi.com' + Motif developers won't want to miss the SWiM bundle, a complete runtime + and development environment for developing OSF/Motif 1.2.3 apps. From + Sequoia International, SWiM is available for Coherent, Linux, BSD/386, + FreeBSD and NetBSD. Contact the company for more details: info@seq.com. + SmartPoll is a multimedia, intelligent survey tool for conducting + polls over Internet. Sold as software or bundled with a server, + SmartPoll can also be purchased through a service bureau. Send email + to info@smartchoice.com for more information. Annex: CDROMs Software junkies already know about Walnut Creek CDROM: it publishes over forty different collections of public domain and shareware software CDROM disks ranging from X Window sources to Mac and PC programs. You can see their catalog by using 'finger info@cdrom.com' and order by sending mail to 'orders@cdrom.com'. CD Publishing Corp makes available a variety of different CDROM disks containing archival copies of Usenet, networking software for PC computers, and more. Gopher to gopher.cdpublishing.com for more information. Hardware Interested in a new PC that runs a version of UNIX? Then you'll want to check with Fintronic Linux Systems, a company that offers a wide range of PC systems with Linux, a free Unix-like operating system, pre-installed. Obtain their catalog by 'finger linux-sales@fintronic.com' Computer Modeling sells thousands of different computer hardware and software products, and offers computing consulting services too. Email info@compumod.com or gopher telerama.lm.com and choose "Shopping Plaza." Browse through thousands of brand name peripherals and software without leaving your desk: point, click, and email your order from DirectWARE at the lowest prices around! Gopher: gopher.nstn.ns.ca 70 or through the 'Web at URL: gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca:70/11/e-mall Computer Memory An interesting and unusual service from by CERAM Corporation is its automated CPU and RAM chip price quotes through email. This service encompasses Unix and PC add-ons: send mail to Catalog@Ceva.COM for more information. FOURTH FLOOR: Services Contracts, GSA, and other Government Documents Looking for sales and pricing information on products available through GSA contracts, indefinite delivery contracts, and open market? This is a great place to check: telnet netmark.com and use 'netmark' as a login name. Document Center is a hard copy document delivery service specializing in government and industry specifications and standards. info@doccenter.com or gopher doccenter.com, choose "Document Center" or, if you're using WWW: http://www.service.com/doccenter/home.html Looking for corporate or business contracts suitable for your small or medium business? FitzGearld Webber Marketing now offers many of their products on the Internet. You can see what's available through the 'Web at URL gopher://owl.nstn.ns.ca:70/11/e-mall or gopher.nstn.ns.ca with gopher + Indexing and Research Services + + Working on a deadline but out of time? If you're working on a book or + dissertation, our indexing and editing skills are at your service. We can + also research, abstract, and search online databases following your own + criteria. Finger njsmith@bga.com or send email to the same address for + more information. Credit Checks With all these electronic transactions flying back and forth, it was only a matter of time before a company came along to offer credit reporting services through the net too. Infotech Information Technologies of Charlotte, North Carolina now offer individual and business credit reports, Dunn & Bradstreet information, a social security locator service, arrest and conviction records and a whole lot more. Contact them via email at 'infotech@fx.net' Commercial Email Address Tracking Service If you've ever tried to send mail to someone just to have it bounce, you might be interested in this professionally maintained, easily searched commercial database of email users. To learn more about this service, send mail to 'sled@drebes.com' with the subject "info". Small Business Incorporation Running a small business and ready to incorporate? You don't even have to leave your terminal if you contact The Company Corporation, the largest on-line incorporation service in the world. Connect to them with 'gopher incorporate.com', Web to http://incorporate.com/tcc/home.html or email: corp@incorporate.com Transcripts Transcripts of various programs can be ordered directly through the Internet by connecting with Journal Graphics. To see their catalog, use 'telnet pac.carl.org', account PAC. Choose 'Information Databases'. International Trade If your company is involved in international import or export you might want to check out the International Trade Network, where for a minimal fee you can receive daily commercial trade leads through Internet e-mail and more. Send email to majordomo@world.std.com with the message "info intltrade", or drop a note to usa@world.std.com. + Asian Information Service offers a range of services, including news + monitoring, and document translation and delivery. We have an excellent + database on China offering China-related information in a variety of + formats. Tell us your needs, and how we might help! Contact AIS + by sending mail to: jsweeney@uclink.berkeley.edu Telemarketing Telecommunications and information marketing is a booming business, and INFOMARK, a consulting company that can help you design your own marketing strategies, is online. You can purchase a copy of their "900" number source guide by connecting either with gopher or WWW to marketplace.com. Email-based FAX Service Need to send a FAX but just don't have a FAX machine or FAX modem handy? Then AnyWare Associates' FAXiNET might be just the service for you. Once you're subscribed, you can send email that they auto- matically FAX to the specified party or parties worldwide. For more information, send email to info@awa.com Real Estate You can do just about anything else, and now National Real Estate Services of Vancouver, BC, Canada, is publishing their franchise database of over 20,000 real estate listings. More connectivity is on the way, but today you can connect through the WorldWide Web with the URL http://www.gems.com/realestate/. Travel Agency Tired of the local surroundings and ready to leave your computer behind and soak up some sun? The wholesale tour operator Mexico Resorts & Tours is now on the Internet, with their focus on unusual tours to Mexico and Central America. Individuals to large groups, you can find out more about the services by sending email to travel@magma.com Annex: Training and Education Video Training If you're still puzzled about the possibilities of the Internet, you can now order a videotape from Baltimore-based New Technologies covering all the tools and techniques of surfing the so-called information wave. For more information, drop a note to nti@clark.net Sagacity Learning Universe You can do just about everything else through the Internet, so why not learn at a virtual university? Sagacity Learning Universe is offering just this service to Internet users, initially focusing on Future Studies, with more to come. Contact Tom Abeles at tabeles@tmn.com or use gopher to connect to tmn.com to learn more. + Grant Proposals + + Internet Works, Inc. offers Online Interactive Workshops on Grant + Proposal Planning and Writing. In addition, online consulting services + are available in the grants area and in the use of the Internet. For + more information contact Herb Wylen (hwylen@access.digex.net) **** Notes on the Internet Shopping Mall **** This listing is maintained by Dave Taylor, who is responsible for the specific prose in each listing. If you disagree with anything stated, have good or bad experiences with any of these services, or, most importantly, have additional services to add to this list, please send me electronic mail: taylor@netcom.com. Please note that I am in no way able to guarantee the legitimacy of any service listed herein and am in no way liable for any good or bad experiences you might have. Caveat emptor! The criteria for being on this list are that the company must be on the Internet, must have products that they sell and customers must be able to order through the net directly, either by gopher, wais, www, or email. Excluded from this list are Internet service providers themselves and contract technical support from companies. This list is available through a variety of mechanisms: type 'finger taylor@netcom.com' for information on how to obtain the most up-to-date copy. Finally, this listing and compilation of material is (C) Copyright 1994 Dave Taylor. Permission to distribute this list and the info within is granted providing the entire list remains intact, including this copyright notice. If you're going to publish it, let me know! All trademarked items are the sole legal property of the registered trademark holders and are used with that understanding. *****************Table O' Contents
No one else was hurt in the fatal explosion but four players and three officials at the Moscow Candidate Masters' Chess Championships were sprayed with blood and brain matter when Nikolai Titov's head suddenly blew apart. Experts say he suffered from a condition called Hyper-Cerebral Electrosis or HCE.
"He was deep in concentration with his eyes focused on the board," says Titov's opponent, Vladimir Dobrynin. "All of a sudden his hands flew to his temples and he screamed in pain. Everyone looked up from their games, startled by the noise. Then, as if someone had put a bomb in his cranium, his head popped like a firecracker."
Incredibly, Titiov's is not the first case in which a person's head has spontaneously exploded. Five people are known to have died of HCE in the last 25 years. The most recent death occurred just three years ago in 1991, when European psychic Barbara Nicole's skull burst.
Miss Nicole's story was reported by newspapers worldwide, including WWN. "HCE is an extremely rare physical imbalance," said Dr. Anatoly Martinenko, famed neurologist and expert on the human brain who did the autopsy on the brilliant chess expert. "It is a condition in which the circuits of the brain become overloaded by the body's own electricity. The explosions happen during periods of intense mental activity when lots of current is surging through the brain.
Victims are highly intelligent people with great powers of concentration. Both Miss Nicole and Mr. Titov were intense people who tended to keep those cerebral circuits overloaded. In a way it could be said they were literally too smart for their own good."
Although Dr. Martinenko says there are probably many undiagnosed cases, he hastens to add that very few people will die from HCE. "Most people who have it will never know. At this point, medical science still doesn't know much about HCE. And since fatalities are so rare it will probably be years before research money becomes available."
In the meantime, the doctor urges people to take it easy and not think too hard for long periods of time. "Take frequent relaxation breaks when you're doing things that take lots of mental focus," he recommends.
(As a public service, WWN added a sidebar titled HOW TO TELL IF YOUR HEAD'S ABOUT TO BLOW UP:)
Although HCE is very rare, it can kill. Dr. Martinenko says knowing you have the condition can greatly improve your odds of surviving it. A "yes" answer to any three of the following seven questions could mean that you have HCE:
Then University of Illinois has the answer for you. It's like e-drugs for World Wibe Web: http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/cgibin/ryl - The Uroulette World Wide Web Page.
Use this page to randomly shoot around the net. It's so Zen.
> I have a small e-zine (circulation ~20) that covers absolutely > whatever my mind thinks of, and very often includes interesting > signposts on the info-parking-lot. I will be including your > Mall List, and a copy of your finger in my next issue (dated > 11/28, delivered 11/29). I will also include you in the dis- > tribution (just this once) so you can see what/why.
Totally cool with me as long as you include the copyright, TM and other legal mumbo-jumbo. Thanks for asking!
> By the by, Elm is my mailer of choice (as if I'm the first > person to tell you that) and I guess you could say I'm a big > fan (at least as far as the e-world is concerned).
I use it too. :-) Dave
[netcom.com] Dave Taylor (taylor) Home: /u1/taylor Shell: /bin/csh No mail. Dave Taylor (taylor) is not presently logged in. Last seen at netcom3 on Tue Nov 29 05:19:29 1994 Plan: Hello! If you're looking for a copy of my Internet Mall list of commercial Internet services, then there are a variety of ways to obtain it: FTP to 'ftp.netcom.com' and look in '/pub/Guides': both compressed and uncompressed versions live there. You can request a copy through email too: send a message to 'taylor@netcom.com' with the SUBJECT 'send mall'. Usenet readers will find it in the group 'alt.internet.services', and the official gopher bookmark is: Type=0 Name=The Internet Mall (the latest issue!) Path=0/gopher.welcome/peg/INTERNET ASSISTANCE/mall Host=peg.cwis.uci.edu Port=7000 If you're looking for URL's, the official one (which isn't too thrilling a Web document) is: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/Guides/Internet.Mall There are other Web-ized versions that I have no direct control over, but are public services provided by other net users: http://www.kei.com/imall/ http://www.elf.com/gilly/mall/mall.intro.html Finally, there are a couple of mailing lists that you'll want to know about too: join IMALL-L and you'll get the Mall every two weeks automatically, and join IMALL-CHAT and you can discuss commerce on the Internet, and specific vendors, with others. To join either, please send email to listserv@netcom.com with 'subscribeTable O' Contents' If you're wondering whether I'm the same Dave Taylor who wrote Elm, RAYS, the books "Global Software", "Teach Yourself UNIX In A Week", co-authored "The Internet Business Guide" and writes for Internet World, Mac/Chicago, InfoWorld and more, well, I am. :-) Want free information on my books? Mail me a message with 'send TYU' 'send GS' or 'send intbiz' for helpful informative blurbs on the books. Feel free to drop me an email message if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas or just want to say Hi.
Basically, the "Visible Man" is "assembled digitally from thousands of X-ray, magnetic, and photo images of cross sections of the body" of Joseph Paul Jernigan. "The National Library of Medicine unvieled the "Visible Man" Monday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America."
"The digitalized cadaver will be available for free to anyone who gets permission from the library. But the data is so extensive that dowloading it takes up to two weeks of uninterrupted time on the Internet, and up to 15 gigabytes of storage space, enough to accomodate about 50 times the contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica."
They don't say how to ask for permission, but if anyone's got a spare 15 gig's of hardrive, I'll certainly find out. ;)