From crispen@campus.mci.net Thu Sep 5 23:30:37 1996 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 16:43:43 -0700 From: Patrick Douglas Crispen Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: TOURBUS -- 5 SEPT 1996 -- INSTANT WEATHER & NEWS.COM /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|__________/ | \ / /______|----\ | WorldVillage presents Match.com - the premier Net |//////| | | matchmaking service! It's fun, safe & anonymous. |//////| | | http://www.WorldVillage.com/wv/square/html/square.htm |//////| | | |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TODAY'S TOURBUS STOPS : INSTANT WEATHER & NEWS.COM TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESSES : http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm weather@merc.com http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/ http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/roadmap.html http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/cookie.html instantwv@merc.com http://www.wni.com/yahoo/ http://www.news.com/ listserve@dispatch.cnet.com Your fearless bus driver is not so fearless any more. Back on August 15th we pulled our little bus of Internet happiness into "Mercury Mail," a free e-mail based news, sports, entertainment, and weather service (to see any of my old TOURBUS posts just visit the TOURBUS archives at http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm). Well, I decided to subscribe to Mercury Mail's "WeatherVane" service (weather@merc.com), and I received the following weather forecast this morning: Forecast for Tuscaloosa, AL Conditions from Tuscaloosa, AL at 6:52 AM EDT +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NOW: 68 F and Fog Pressure 757.94 mm Hg | | Humidity: 100% Wind N/A | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Thurs Hi: 85 F Lo: N/A Thunder/Sun | | Fri Hi: 95 F Lo: 65 F Thunder/Sun | | Sat Hi: 93 F Lo: 66 F Thunder/Sun | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | See http://www.merc.com/ for Mercury Mail services | | The Weather Channel, Inc. (http://www.weather.com/) | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thunder sun? THUNDER SUN?! Folks, I have no idea what "thunder sun" is, but I can tell you that the mere thought of thunder sun has convinced your normally fearless bus driver to spend the next three days in bed, hiding under my blanket. :) Actually, before I dive for the safety of my blanket I need to tell y'all that there has been a pretty major shake-up with the Web service at the University of Alabama. In particular, all of the addresses for my Web pages have changed (from "www.ua.edu" to "ua1vm.ua.edu" -- that's "you-ay-won-vee-em"). Here are the new Web addresses for some of my most popular Web pages: My Personal Homepage http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/ The Southern Word Page http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html The Roadmap96 Homepage http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/roadmap.html My Cookie Recipe Page http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/cookie.html With that said, let's pay some bills ... *-----------------* WORK FROM HOME - ON-LINE! *--------------------* No sign-up fee, inventory or previous experience! Put our website to work for you! Start your own business by trying our products, 30-days risk free! Bonus: Enjoy the products & results! Email: LifeEx@citi.net *---------* (800) 854-3861 *-----------* INSTANT WEATHER --------------- If you are interested in seeing if the "thunder sun" phenomenon is headed to your neck of the woods, you probably will want to take advantage of one of the Net's free instant weather services. For those of you in the US, you can get free, instant weather reports via e-mail from Mercury Mail by sending an e-mail letter to instantwv@merc.com with an airport code, zip code, or the city and state of a particular city in the SUBJECT line of your e-mail letter. (I tried to get the forecast for Berlin -- airport code "BER" -- and Mercury Mail sent me a rather weird looking error report). If you are not in the US, however, I am happy to announce that the nice folks at Yahoo! have an absolutely incredible instant weather service on the Web at http://www.wni.com/yahoo/ You can get weather reports by entering the city name or airport code, and Yahoo's weather service includes pretty much every major city in the world. :) NEWS.COM -------- Keeping up with the latest technology news can be a full-time job. Fortunately, the folks at CNet have created "news.com," the first online service devoted entirely to technology news. We're going to visit CNet in our next two tours (Bob is taking next week off, so I will be writing both posts), but you can access CNet's "news.com" site on the Web at http://www.news.com/ CNet's news.com site has 9 sections: Front Page (breaking news) The Net Computing Intranets Business Perspectives (Editorials) Newsmakers Rumor Mill Remember, though, that news.com only covers technology. If you are interested in finding out things like the latest shake-up at Sybase or the release date for Netscape Navigator 4.0 beta, this site is for you. For those of you who only have e-mail access to the Net, I haven't forgotten you. The nice folks at news.com also publish a weekly, e-mail based newsletter called "News-Dispatch" which gives you the latest technology news. To subscribe to News-Dispatch, just send an e-mail letter to listserve@dispatch.cnet.com with the command subscribe news-dispatch YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the body of your e-mail letter, replacing YOURFIRSTNAME and YOURLASTNAME with your first and last names. That's about it for today. Have a safe and happy weekend, and watch out for thunder sun! -------------------------------- TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY -------------------------------- PEGS - noun. A farm animal. Usage: "There's nothing wrong with computers, but they aren't pegs." (Special thanks goes to Yanira Wong for today's wurd) YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THE OLD SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY ON THE SOUTHERN WORD HOMEPAGE AT http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/word.html *-------------------------- BUY IT ONLINE --------------------------* Your Guide to Locating Products & Services Online Enter our "Can you FIND Goober" contest! 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