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mariposa-digest       Saturday, January 11 2003       Volume 03 : Number 002



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  [mariposa] NLC: My year in links                        [rawhite78@aol.com]

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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:48:49 EST
From: rawhite78@aol.com
Subject: [mariposa] NLC: My year in links

Well, It is January,  and I am cleaning up the links in my favorite places, 
putting the ones I found last year into the proper folders. I have a habit of 
just saving them, and filing later...
Anyway, here is a brief look at a few (very few) of the things I saw online 
last year. Personally, I am always curious about other people's travels (in 
real life and web) so, I thought I would share a few... (I must stress this 
is not a top then list, just a travelogue)

1. <A HREF="http://www.wilderness-survival.net/">Wilderness Survival: Could You Survive the Wild? - An ebook covering all 
aspect</A> If I remember right, this is a cheesy survival quiz based on the 
Army's survival book.  Not a good survival book for the average civilian who 
gets lost in the park, but contains some solid info.  I do not agree some of 
the question on the quiz, but sort of interesting.. if you take it, let me 
know how you did.

2. <A HREF="http://www.concrete.com/index.htm">Concrete Info - Everything about Concrete</A>  This site will tell you 
everything you ever wanted to know about concrete, including an online 
concrete calculator to figure how much concrete one would need..(simple to do 
in your head anyway, length x width, x height, divided by 27 will be the 
number of cubic yards..)

3 <A HREF="http://www.trailjournals.com/gbookv.cfm?trailname=129">Trail Journals 2002 - New Version</A>  Trail Journals of people that have (and 
are in the middle of) hiking the 2700 mile Appalachian Trail (and the Pacific 
Trail)  Very interesting, if you are into hiking.

4. <A HREF="http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jpr/buddhistmonks.html">The Buddhist Monks of Vietnam</A> Concerns the monk that set himself on fire 
and silently burned to death in the street in protest.

5. <A HREF="http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/hitch_hiking">Hitch-hiking - Suite101.com</A>  Not the hitchhiking site I wanted to list, 
but the other keeps timing out... Anyway, info on hitch hiking.

6. <A HREF="http://www.taoism.net/">True Tao Home Page</A> Actually, I think this is a site that did not get filed 
last year, but has a rather interesting flash intro, and many solid articles 
on Taoism.

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trouble keeping serious, often scowling on pomp and solemn things, but sounds 
rather nice.

8. <A HREF="http://www.witchvox.com/">Witchvox: 10 January, 2003 - 3:19:57 PM</A>  Another site that did not get 
filed last year, but a very informative site concerning Wicca and Paganism. 
Slanted to teach, inform, not convert or preach. A must read for people with 
open minds, or even for Christians that want to understand other faiths.

9. <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/default.stm">BBC News | WORLD</A> yet another older link, but a way to get unAmerican 
biased news of the world, while keeping it easy to read.

10.  <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/~BradBanner/texas.html">Texas Links</A>  A page of Texas stuff, and many, many links of Texas 
related things. A must read if you have a Texan you are trying to understand. 
:-)  (actually, another older link, but the page is maintained by a family 
here in Merkel.  Surf the net, and out of all the people online, find a page 
from someone else in merkel, lol)

11. <A HREF="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/">The On-Line Books Page</A> Entire books online! Mostly old, old, and some 
rare books, but interesting anyway (older link)

12. <A HREF="http://www.llamaweb.com/">LlamaWeb, Llama Information on the Internet!</A> Want to raise llamas? 

13 <A HREF="http://www.topozone.com/">TopoZone - The Web's Topographic Map</A>  Online, free topo maps of the US.  
Pretty good site. The maps I have from the USGS match up with these online. I 
cannot remember, but I think this site also has satellite and Arial photos of 
the US too. So, if you do not live in the boondocks, you might be able to see 
a bird's eye view of your own home online. Searchable by city names, so you 
do not need grid numbers and all that.

14. <A HREF="http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/index.htm">Q and A Index</A> Want to know the origin and/or meaning of some odd word or 
phrase, check here. From "; <A HREF="http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-six1.htm">At sixes and sevens</A> " to "<A HREF="http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-zil1.htm">Zilch</A>     " you can 
find hours of interesting reading here.

15. <A HREF="http://www.bored.com">http://www.bored.com</A>   A way to Waste hours of your life online... 
Ranging from odd, funny, interesting to plain stupid.


So, anyway, that is part of my year in links.  I did not check every link for 
linkrot, but they all worked sometime during the last year. :-) I would be 
intrested in reading some of the places that you have have been online this 
year.

Rowdy

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