What Fires You Up?

10/05/2002

 

Note to all Fired Up Folks: Again abuzz is down. Who knows how many posts are again lost. I am wanting to get some actual answers about the reasons that this keeps happening. I'd like to know if this if due to sabotage, failing equipment, lack of maintenance, the host service or whatever the reason! It really is not fair to the 'community members' who keep coming back to abuzz! When the site is up again, I will post a question about this right away and hope we can start getting some answers other than 'sorry'... Thank goodness that we have ways to interact, not dependent on abuzz, right? Have a good weekend y'all! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 10/05/2002 06:32:00 AM

10/04/2002

 

love the 'dillo race. the swamp pig keeps on winning. a definite favourite. thanks, cobalt.

Anonymous 10/04/2002 05:07:00 PM

 

Texas Armadillo Race Note: Since a certain edentata is growing a beard, and it is coming in nicely, I may just have to start refering to him as "The Gray Knight", lol. See the link above for reason... This came from the thread squinney started, a second part to the first game of Hangman, Another Hangman, Anyone? http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.294201/discussion/ Oh yes, it is still "Strip Hangman". And anyone wanting testosterone humor can check out the revived "Length" thread there. I myself, retain all dignity with another new question there in abuzz When Good People Pass Out Bad Information... * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 10/04/2002 03:13:00 PM

10/01/2002

 

From abuzz today in the Reference Links thread: Thanks Ge! This is a clipped transcript of the suggested links in these threads: hhtp://home.con2.com/easysurf/homepg.htm Easy Surf http://www.searchability.com/ Searchability http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/BeyondWeb.html Berkeley Library http://www.blackmask.com Blackmask.com http://www.ivillage.com/ iVillage http://library.albany.edu/internet/ Albany Library http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction1.html#translate Your Dictionary From Tim King, 2001 I couldn't let this one go by without adding kudos to my old friend Aa, who first turned a lot of us Abuzzards on to the Cybereditions site over a year ago in the following question: http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.38531/discussion/Still my all-time favorite Abuzz question and certainly the most valuable http://www.4literature.net/ 4 Literature

BJ 10/01/2002 08:31:00 AM

9/30/2002

 

Links contributed from abuzz, LarryBS today! From abuzz discussion: http://nytimes.abuzz.com/interaction/s.293400/discussion/ Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/ Digital Librarian - a librarian's choice of the best of the Web http://www.digital-librarian.com/ Research-It! - Your one-stop reference desk - Search , Language, Research, Financial , Map, Internet Tools http://www.itools.com/research-it/ Voice of the Shuttle - Website for Humanities Research http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html The Great Books - Texts and Fully Searchable Concordances http://www.concordance.com/ The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/ Encyclopedia Mythica: An Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore and Legend http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/ a.k.a. - also known as - author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names... etc. http://www.trussel.com/books/pseudo.htm The Internet Theater Database http://www.theaterdb.com/ Movie Review Query Engine http://www.mrqe.com/ Lives, the Biography Resource http://amillionlives.com/ The Biographical Dictionary - don't miss the Master Biographer Challenge http://s9.com/biography/ Biography Center - index of over 10,000 biographies http://www.biography-center.com/ Caskets On Parade - Book of the Dead Database - Victims of the Grim Reaper http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/index.htm Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html Geographic Nameserver http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form U.S. Gazetteer - search for any geographical location in US http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer How far is It (as the crow flies, between any two locations on earth) http://www.indo.com/distance/ FAQ Finder: Your Guide to Finding Answers to Frequently Asked Questions http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/ http://members.tripod.com/~FAQ_Home/ Tripod.com FAQ Internet FAQ Archives http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ The Calendar Zone -- Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos! http://www.calendarzone.com/ World Wide Web Acronym Database and abbreviation list http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Internet Terms and Technical Support. http://www.webopedia.com/ Symbols.com - database of over 2500 symbols indexed graphically or by word. http://www.symbols.com/ The EncyclopaediaPottericahttp://www.harrypotterfans.net/potterica/index.html Guide for Finding Book Reviews http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/gen/bookreviews.html FindArticles.com - Free article search http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml A Glossary of Literary Terms http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm Bestseller Lists 1900-1995 http://www.caderbooks.com/bestintro.html Big Bands Database Reference Site for History of the Big Bands, Jazz and Swing http://nfo.net/index.html Auntie Bootz's Glossary of Movie Terms - What is the "Hey!Cody! Rule" and the "Fallacy of the Talking Killer?" http://bootz.batzbelfry.com/bootzrev1.html The Gates of Caerbannog - Monty Python REFERENCE Website - BUT! Enter only if ye be men of valour for the entrance to this webpage is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! BONES of full fifty men lie STREWN about its lair ... So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength come nae further, for DEATH awaits you all... with nasty, big, pointy teeth! http://www.pythonet.org/grail.html The Great Character Actor Index http://www.dougmacaulay.com/kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_1.php The Top 100 This-and-Thats of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/top100s.htm The Idiosyntactix Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia http://www.syntac.net/hoax/index.php WOW, GO LARRY! THANKS FOR ADDING YOUR LIST TODAY! * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/30/2002 06:26:00 AM

9/29/2002

 

Reference links from Walter, posted in abuzz yesterday. In italics are my comments about three of them, posted back into that same abuzz thread. Hi all, although a little late, here are my favourites (concerning this subject only -:) ) http://www.refdesk.com/ Ref Desk http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/reference_tables.html Wiley InterScience Reference Tables (Walter - thanks for the links! I liked the one for the Reference Tables especially. What a great resource for information in a useful format - Wiley InterScience.) http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/writerresources.html Writer's Tools and Resources (The Writer's Tools and Resources link is a good one for serious writers and readers, both.) All are 'mega links', so it's really easy to store them. More for fun (or historical interest): http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/ 1911 Encyclopedia (I've just looked in the 1911 encyclopedia. What a concept. One of the last times of 'modern times' that countries had global connections, yet no global war... Looking up a random page, I clicked on 'T' and got to 'tracery' where I learned quite a bit about stained glass today with many examples of famous cathedrals. One just would not ordinarily find such information readily available online or in print, of course!) * * * * * * * cobalt * * * * * * *

BJ 9/29/2002 11:14:00 AM