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SCOUT> The Scout Report -- October 31, 2003
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======== The Scout Report ==
======== October 31, 2003 ====
======== Volume 9, Number 43 ======
====== Internet Scout Project ========
==== University of Wisconsin ========
== Department of Computer Sciences ========
== I N T H E S C O U T R E P O R T T H I S W E E K ========
====== NSDL Scout Reports ====
1. NSDL Scout Reports for the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences
====== Research and Education ====
2. National Crime Prevention Council
3. CDC: Cancer Prevention and Control
4. Pompeii: Portents of Disaster
5. Vindolanda Tablets Online
6. Political Theory Daily Review
7. Monastic Matrix
8. The Changing Face of Medicine
====== General Interest ====
9. The Internet Movie Database
10. Eugenics Archive
11. The Open Video Project
12. Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools
13. Scrapbooking 101
14. Places Online
15. University of Pennsylvania: University Archives
====== Network Tools ====
16. StudioLine Photo Basic 2.0
17. Xblog 1.1.3
====== In The News ====
18. Creator of Simpsons Alleges Fox Almost Sued Itself Over Parody
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====== NSDL Scout Reports ====
1. NSDL Scout Reports for the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences
The twenty first issues of the second volumes of the Life Sciences Report
and Physical Sciences Report are available. The Topic in Depth section of
Life Sciences Report annotates scary sites about Halloween. The Physical
Sciences Report's Topic in Depth section offers websites and comments on
Worldwide Glacial Melting.
====== Research and Education ====
2. National Crime Prevention Council
http://ncpc.org/
Growing out of the National Citizens' Crime Prevention Campaign in the late
1970s, the organization gained great publicity through its use of the
popular spokesperson McGruff the Crime Dog, and later became the National
Crime Prevention Council. Today the Council is perhaps the best known
nonprofit educational organization dedicated to crime prevention, and its
website is an important place for the web-surfing public citizens to gather
materials about working towards the prevention of crime in their own
communities. Many of these resources are brought together in the section
called Topics in Crime Prevention, accessible through the top right-hand
side of the homepage. Here visitors can browse for materials by subject
(such as bullying, civil rights organizations, and cybercrime), or by an
extensive list of subjects, including funding opportunities, crime
prevention, and violence prevention. Of course, visitors would be remiss not
to examine the section that tells about the genesis of McGruff the Crime
Dog, who has been one of the most enduring public service announcement
characters of the past few decades. [KMG]
3. CDC: Cancer Prevention and Control [pdf]
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/index.htm
Cancer continues to be of paramount concern to citizens across the United
States, and the Center for Disease Control has developed this well laid out
site to inform the general public about the numerous forms of the disease,
along with providing data about state and national statistics regarding the
most prevalent forms of the disease. Some of the more compelling material
released on the site includes a slide presentation on screening for
prostrate cancer and the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of
Cancer, 1975-2000. Visitors looking for information on specific types of
cancer will want to visit the Topic Areas section which features detailed
profiles and research information about breast, cervical, ovarian, and skin
cancers. Those looking for statistical information will want to peruse the
national data section that contains highly specific information about the
incidence of various types of cancer throughout the United States.
Additionally, data on cancer incidence by states is also available for
consideration here as well. [KMG]
4. Pompeii: Portents of Disaster
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/pompeii_portents_01.shtml
This BBC history news story by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the
disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, AD 79. Through the eye-
witness account of the Roman administrator and poet, Pliny, the author
articulately depicts the people's fears and the destruction caused by the
volcanic activity. The author explores the Romans' scientific understanding
and compares it with our current knowledge. Anyone interested in the history
of geologic events will find this Web site very intriguing. [RME] This site
is also reviewed in the October 31, 2003 _NSDL Physical Sciences Report_.
5. Vindolanda Tablets Online
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/
Written in ink on postcard-sized sheets of wood, the Vindolanda tablets
constitute a fascinating record of life in Roman Britain in the area of
northern England around Hadrian's Wall during the first and second centuries
AD. The tablets and the accompanying visual and printed materials were
brought online through the collaborative efforts of the Centre for the Study
of Ancient Documents and the Academic Computing Development Team at Oxford
University. Visitors unfamiliar with the world of Roman Britain would do
well to go first to the Exhibition section which contains helpful areas
devoted to the world of military life during this period, the tablets
themselves, and the excavations at Vindolanda. The Reference section also
provides a great deal of context to the commentaries contained on the
tablets, providing information about the military units in the Roman army
and important dates and events in early Roman Britain. The heart of the site
is dedicated to the tablets themselves, which may be browsed by number or
searched by such variables as title, author, English translation, or
commentary. [KMG]
6. Political Theory Daily Review [pdf]
http://www.politicaltheory.info/
Developed and maintained by Alfred Perez, a PhD student at the New School
for Social Research in New York City, this site is designed to be "a central
space on the Web for the study of philosophy and politics." The homepage is
laid out in three columns of text, separated into three sections: Newsroom,
Town Square, and Ivory Tower. The Newsroom area contains a host of
hyperlinks to recent developments around the world, including pieces of how
blogs are transforming presidential politics and agricultural reform in
Venezuela. The Town Square area includes links to germane newspaper and
periodical articles, and on a recent visit included links to articles
dealing with student activism on college campuses and a review of Paul
Krugman's new book, The Great Unraveling. Not surprisingly, the Ivory Tower
area contains links to recent academic pieces on political theory, and
includes reflections on the recent passing of Edward Said and a work on the
"military-entertainment complex." The site is rounded out by a page devoted
to links dealing with political think-tanks and related organizations. [KMG]
7. Monastic Matrix
http://monasticmatrix.org/
In the past several decades, there has been an increased interest in the
participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval
Europe, and the Monastic Matrix website (last reviewed by The Scout Report
on March 24, 1998) is a collaborative effort that seeks "to collect and make
available all existing data about all professional Christian women in Europe
between 400 and 1600 CE." The site is divided into eight sections, which
contain materials on the type of religious communities formed by women,
visual materials relevant to these types of communities, and a rather
detailed bibliographic section that currently contains over 8000 citations
of materials related to medieval religious women. The bibliography is well
organized, as visitors may elect to browse the citations by author, title,
keyword, type of work (monograph, article, etc.), or language. [KMG]
8. The Changing Face of Medicine [pdf, Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
The Changing Face of Medicine is a new exhibit at the National Library of
Medicine that explores "the many ways that women have influenced and
enhanced the practice of medicine." The online version of the exhibit is
quite extensive, and includes a resources section with downloadable lesson
plans, a lengthy list of suggested reading, and a students' guide to a
career in medicine. There are four groups of lesson plans for various grades
(K-2, 3-4, 5-8, and 9-12). Topics covered include human senses, the
circulatory system, adolescent health, and medical careers. The site also
offers four online interactivities -- fun, multimedia features "that use
games and learning modules to bring issues of science and medicine to life."
[RS] This site is also reviewed in the October 31, 2003 _NSDL Life Sciences
Report_.
====== General Interest ====
9. The Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
Last reviewed in the May 6, 1994 edition of The Scout Report, the Internet
Movie Database has grown by leaps and bounds in the past nine years.
Containing literally millions of pieces of information, users looking for
information from films such as Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight to more
contemporary fare can merely enter the title of the movie into the IMDB
search engine and a complete record will be returned. Along with basic
information about each film, users can often read comments from other users,
full cast and crew details, lists of awards and nominations for each film, a
plot summary, trivia about the film, and filming locations. Of course, this
process can be repeated for actors, directors, and cinematographers for
those seeking information about persons in the film industry. From the
rather detailed homepage, users can also learn which films are due to be
released shortly in theaters, and which films are due out on DVD and VHS.
Another fun feature is the IMDb top 250 Films, as determined by users
ratings and comments. Of course, users also can browse the ignominious IMDb
bottom 100 Films for a look at those films that generally did not receive
"two thumbs up" upon their initial release. [KMG]
10. Eugenics Archive [Macromedia Flash Reader]
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Science, a human endeavor, seems to be ever-struggling between the
possibilities of technology and the limitations of ethics. No other single
event in the history of science demonstrates how the use of data and
evidence were construed to massage ethics to fuel a reproductive war against
the lower classes. As the introduction to the issue states, "...new
immigrants were seen as troublemakers, and the eugenicists purported to have
data showing that the problem was in their genes. The solution to the
problem was simple -- selective immigration restriction." The somber topic
of eugenics is covered exceptionally well in this website from the Dolan DNA
Learning Center, a part of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. A
series of links leads visitors to exhibits highlighting such issues as the
scientific origins of eugenics, the social origins that married social
Darwinism with genetics, sterilization and marriage laws, and much more.
Another link to a related site, DNA Interactive, further stresses that while
the eugenics movement has since passed, "Coming to grips with the past
failings of eugenics may allow us to move with greater confidence into the
new gene age." Certainly a fascinating look at a troubling era in social
history, this site offers a wealth of background knowledge as well as posing
critical questions for today and beyond. [JPM]
11. The Open Video Project [QuickTime]
http://www.open-video.org/
While many digital image projects and archives offer a few brief video clips
of historical and other interests, the Open Video Project contains close to
2000 digitized clips and complete short films, and will be of great interest
to those researching visual culture. Sponsored and developed at the
Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library
Science and the University of North Carolina, the project began in 1998 with
approximately 195 video segments. The archive available here provides video
clips from a variety of sources, including quite a few obtained from U.S.
government agencies. The entire archive may be searched by keyword, or
browsed by genre, duration, or thematic collection. There are some rather
compelling files to peruse here, including a collection of classic early
television commercials (including one for Jello), a short silent film titled
2 A.M in the subway, and an educational film titled A is for Atom, produced
by the General Electric Company. [KMG]
12. Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
Getting high school students interested in poetry can be a formidable task,
so this helpful website created by the Library of Congress will be a welcome
addition for many educators. Poetry 180 presents 180 poems, selected by
Billy Collins (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), with the hope that high
school students will read one of the poems a day, one for each school day in
the academic year. All 180 poems are included on the site, and the list
includes poems by contemporary poets such as Martha Collins, Jane Kenyon,
George Bradley, Edward Field, and Thomas Lux. Another nice feature of the
site is a brief list of suggestions by Collins on How To Read a Poem Out
Loud, which includes a number of helpful hints on how to effectively deliver
poems. Finally, visitors can sign the online guestbook here, or just view
the entries from other visitors. [KMG]
13. Scrapbooking 101
http://www.scrapbooking101.net/
While creating scrapbooks has long been a favorite pastime and hobby,
interest in this form of self-expression has picked up in recent years.
Designed by LeNae Gerig, this website offers some introductory materials on
how to get started with the creative process involved in making a scrapbook.
The site is divided into five primary areas, including general information
about terms related to scrapbooks (such as buffered paper and sheet
protectors), supplies needed to create a scrapbook, the use of photographs
in scrapbooks, basic techniques, and uses of patterned paper. The supplies
area is a good place to begin, as it lists the importance and use of some
basic supplies such as various adhesive materials, sheet protectors, and
journaling tools. The techniques section offers some helpful hints on how to
create a layout for a scrapbook, journaling, and the creative touch afforded
by vellum paper. Overall, the site will pique the interest of those hoping
to learn some basics about scrapbooking, and may inspire a new collection of
personal and family memories. [KMG]
14. Places Online
http://www.placesonline.org/
The practice and discipline of geography has always had an intimate
preoccupation with places and how human societies modify and shape them in
accordance with their own interests. In keeping with that tradition, the
Association of American Geographers has created the Places Online website to
provide interested parties with access to the "world's very best place-based
websites." The criteria for inclusion on the website is that worthy sites
must provide original quality content, contain a substantive geographic
content, and employ interesting and user-friendly formats. Visitors may
begin to look for sites by clicking on an interactive map of the world,
browsing by region, or in some cases, by continent. Coverage over most of
the globe is quite good, with additional material to come on countries that
are currently not featured on any available place-based websites.
Additionally, visitors may elect to search the contents of the site by
keyword or exact phrase. [KMG]
15. University of Pennsylvania: University Archives
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/
Many colleges and universities have carefully maintained archival
collections that are consulted by historians and alumni interested in
learning first-hand about their storied pasts. Not many institutions of
higher learning can boast of such a nice collection of online materials, and
certainly this website serves as a good example to others looking to develop
such a collection. First-time visitors will want to take a look at the
digital image collection, which contains 725 images depicting the campus in
West Philadelphia, along with maps, slides, and sketches. Along with
performing a simple search, visitors can browse a list of topical
collections. Another good feature located here is a reproduction of an 1895
article from Harper's Magazine by Francis N. Thorpe that contains 18
illustrations within its 21 pages. Visitors looking for historical sketches
of Penn's history and development will want to browse the section that
offers numerous essays, including titles dealing with urban renewal and the
university's gradual expansion over the 125 years. [KMG]
====== Network Tools ====
16. StudioLine Photo Basic 2.0 [Windows Operating System]
http://www.studioline.biz/EN/news/photo-edition-basic-1/default.htm
This latest edition of StudioLine Photo Basic allows users to manipulate and
modify up to 200 photos using its rather novel image interface and catalog
system. After adding photographs to the archive, users can find images by
their descriptions and any combination of system, camera and user tags. Most
of the capabilities from the professional version of Photo Basic are also
included, such as the diverse line of filters, effects, and batch processing
capability. Users can also share thumbnails via email, and automatically
create web galleries in addition. This version of Photo Basic is compatible
with all systems running Windows 98 and higher. [KMG]
17. Xblog 1.1.3 [Macintosh Operating System]
http://bitcom.ch/products-xblog.html
With all of the blogs available online, many users may be interested in
putting their own up too -- if they haven't done so already. This handy
little application allows users to publish their blog quickly by setting the
server, creating a template, and adding their entries, all with just a few
clicks. Users will appreciate the simplicity of the application, although
there is little documentation about the application currently available
online. Xblog 1.1.3 is compatible with all systems running Mac OS X. [KMG]
====== In The News ====
18. Creator of Simpsons Alleges Fox Almost Sued Itself Over Parody
Fox Sought to Sue Self, Simpsons Scribe Says
http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20031029-091743-7849r.htm
The Simpsons Archive
http://www.snpp.com/
The Simpsons.com
http://www.thesimpsons.com/
Matt Groening?s Top Ten Episodes
http://animatedtv.about.com/library/weekly/aa010700a.htm
NPR: Interview with Matt Groening [RealOnePlayer]
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1476480
Metroactive Arts -- Life before Homer: An Interview with Matt Groening
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.02.00/groening-0044.html
In an interview with Terry Gross of National Public Radio this week, Matt
Groening (the creator of The Simpsons) commented that the Fox News Channel
threatened to sue Fox Entertainment (its sister network) over a recent
parody of the right-wing news channel. In this particular episode of the
Simpsons, a rolling news ticker ran along the bottom of the screen, in the
same fashion as on the Fox News Channel. The ticker displayed a number of
headlines that parodied the channel's right-leaning perspective, such as Do
Democrats Cause Cancer?, JFK Posthumously Joins Republican Party, and Oil
Slicks Found to Keep Seals Young, Supple. Groening noted in the interview
with NPR that "We called their bluff because we didn't think Rupert Murdoch
[the owner of Fox] would pay for Fox to sue itself. So, we got away with
it." Groening went on to note that "Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do
those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon
because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news." [KMG]
The first link leads to a recent news piece about the supposed lawsuit from
this week's Washington Times. The second link will take visitors to the
delightful Simpsons Archive, which though not the official site, presents
synopses of all the episodes, along with thousands of pieces of arcane
information about the long-running show. The third site is in fact the
official site presented by the Fox Network, and likewise, contains a
staggering amount of material about the Simpson clan and the rest of the
residents of Springfield. The fourth site is a feature that originally
appeared in Entertainment Weekly where creator Matt Groening offers a list
of his ten favorite episodes of the Simpsons, which is not surprisingly
capped off by the much-lauded Bart the Daredevil program that appeared in
the second season. The fifth link will take visitors to the audio archive of
NPR's popular program, Fresh Air, where they may listen to the October 23,
2003 interview with Groening. The final link will take users to an interview
with Groening from 1986 (culled from the archives of the Metro, a weekly
newspaper in Silicon Valley) where he talks about his work and life -- which
included the rather funny comic strip Life in Hell at that point.
====== ======
== Index for October 31, 2003 ==
====== ======
1. NSDL Scout Reports for the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences
The twenty first issues of the second volumes of the Life Sciences Report
and Physical Sciences Report are available. The Topic in Depth section of
Life Sciences Report annotates scary sites about Halloween. The Physical
Sciences Report's Topic in Depth section offers websites and comments on
Worldwide Glacial Melting.
2. National Crime Prevention Council
http://ncpc.org/
3. CDC: Cancer Prevention and Control [pdf]
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/index.htm
4. Pompeii: Portents of Disaster
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/pompeii_portents_01.shtml
5. Vindolanda Tablets Online
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/
6. Political Theory Daily Review [pdf]
http://www.politicaltheory.info/
7. Monastic Matrix
http://monasticmatrix.org/
8. The Changing Face of Medicine [pdf, Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/
9. The Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
10. Eugenics Archive [Macromedia Flash Reader]
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
11. The Open Video Project [QuickTime]
http://www.open-video.org/
12. Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
13. Scrapbooking 101
http://www.scrapbooking101.net/
14. Places Online
http://www.placesonline.org/
15. University of Pennsylvania: University Archives
http://www.archives.upenn.edu/
16. StudioLine Photo Basic 2.0 [Windows Operating System]
http://www.studioline.biz/EN/news/photo-edition-basic-1/default.htm
17. Xblog 1.1.3 [Macintosh Operating System]
http://bitcom.ch/products-xblog.html
18. Creator of Simpsons Alleges Fox Almost Sued Itself Over Parody
Fox Sought to Sue Self, Simpsons Scribe Says
http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20031029-091743-7849r.htm
The Simpsons Archive
http://www.snpp.com/
The Simpsons.com
http://www.thesimpsons.com/
Matt Groening?s Top Ten Episodes
http://animatedtv.about.com/library/weekly/aa010700a.htm
NPR: Interview with Matt Groening [RealOnePlayer]
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1476480
Metroactive Arts -- Life before Homer: An Interview with Matt Groening
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.02.00/groening-0044.html
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