From bobrankin@MHV.NET Tue Dec 3 10:50:09 1996 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 02:23:52 -0500 From: Bob Rankin Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: TOURBUS - 3 Dec 1996 - Assorted Eclectica /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~\ | "Why | Surf When / You Can | Ride The | Bus?" / | \ |__________|__________/__________|__________|___________/ | \ / /______|----\ | Pandora Directive, Timelapse, Titanic. Learn how to |//////| | | get FREE interactive demo CD-Roms of these titles! |//////| | | Visit http://www.worldvillage.com/freecds.htm |//////| | | |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ Howdy all - I decided to devote today's posting to some offbeat sites that were brought to my attention by TOURBUS riders over the past year. It's an eclectic mix of useful, interesting and funny. 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A great example of some innovative use of the WWW. -- Doug Burg (doug.burg@mail.wdn.com) Limericks - http://www.webcom.com/texasred/garden.html - http://www.vertechinc.com/limerick.html ====================================================== While researching for our limerick contest, we discovered a whole subculture of limericks and nonsense poetry on the web. One of the sites is The Limerick Garden... -- Peg Kay (vertech@cpcug.org) Oh, here's a sample from the Limerick Garden. My kinda poetry. ;-) A silly old gardener named Pottem Complained of a frostbitten bottom. When it rained on his plants He remembered his pants, But whenever it snowed he forgot 'em. Zip2 Door-to-Door - http://www.zip2.com ======================================= Your Tourbus of today reminded me of a neato & zorch site I learned about a few days ago. You can type in a starting address (only for certain U.S. metro areas, unfortunately) and a destination address and it comes back within just a second or two with complete, plain English step-by-step directions for getting from the starting location to the destination. With step by step incremental mileage details to boot. And total distance and time. It is amazing. -- Nelson Bonner (nelson@redshift.com) Year 2000 - http://www.year2000.com =================================== Enjoyed the virus roadmap. Somewhat related but not quite a virus is the Year 2000 computing problem. We have a site with tons of stuff on it. The site was recently shown on CNN, and mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and in FORTUNE. -- Cliff Kurtzman (cliff.kurtzman@tenagra.com) +--------------------- GIVE HUMOR FOR THE HOLIDAYS ----------------------+ Randy Cassingham's popular "This is True" column has been collected into a book of more than 500 bizarre-but-TRUE news stories and hysterical headlines. 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