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In this issue: Blogathon 2003
Web site recommendations: IT/maps/misc

Some people run or cycle for charity, I've decided to blog for it instead.
(I know, it's shocking!:)  I am participating in Blogathon 2003, which
means that I have committed to staying up for 24 hours straight to blog
and thereby collect donations for Planned Parenthood.  To find out more
about this event and the organization, please see my Blogathon '03 page:
http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03
Please consider supporting this cause.  You can donate by clicking here:
http://www.blogathon.org/Pledge.php?p=78
Thanks!
If you have any questions about all this, please let me know.

And now onto some links.

Where Are They Now?  Search Engines We've Known & Loved - helpful timeline
of search engines
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175241

How Netflix decides who gets a movie next from the queue
http://dvd-rent-test.dreamhost.com/

Does 'True' Warchalking Really Exist? - if you can prove it, you can win
this bet
http://www.niftyc.org/bet/

Political Artivism Collection - "activism possible through hypermedia"
http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/polart.html

Bloggers Gain Libel Protection
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html

Oxford Univ Press offers developing countries free (or greatly reduced)
access to many journals
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jnls/devel/

College Rivalry "Universities will do almost anything these days to land a
star professor who can bring instant prestige, attract large donors, and,
oh yes, even do some teaching."
http://boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0629/coverstory_entire.htm

Extreme weather prompts unprecedented global warming alert
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=421166

Women and heart disease
http://www.womenheart.org/

Anti-Semitism in Israel
http://virtualjerusalem.com/news/infocus/?disp_feature=y4IF7E.var

What you should know about "zero-percent for life" credit cards
http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/01/pf/banking/q_zeropercent/

Inside Iraq's National Museum
http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?art_id=1368

Historic Cities - old maps
http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/
&
Ancient Maps of Jerusalem
http://maps-of-jerusalem.huji.ac.il

Need a US map to work with?  Here's an outline free for use
http://www.io.com/persist1/projects/sketchgfx/us_map.html?pop-up&size=632,432

Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/02/chile.science.reut/index.html

For cooking:
Ingredient Substitutions
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ftfeb01.htm
&
Preparing Healthy Food: How To Modify A Recipe
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5543.html

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation - a parody
http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

Word Search Game - online interactive
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/summer/wordsearch/index.htm

Battleship Flash game
http://www.funsilly.com/free-online-games/battleship.html

Today's quote:
"Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual,
throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the
individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
age, national origin, or residence. We believe that respect and value for
diversity in all aspects of our organization are essential to our
well-being. We believe that reproductive self-determination must be
voluntary and preserve the individual's right to privacy. We further
believe that such self-determination will contribute to an enhancement of
the quality of life, strong family relationships, and population
stability."
From Planned Parenthood's Mission Statement
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about/thisispp/mission.html

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From E-BLOG: Always password protect! [7/2/03]
See http://www.esztersblog.com/archives/00000361.html for underlying
links or to comment

Some people very close to me got completely robbed recently. The robbers
took jewelry, anything that was made of silver, who knows what else... and
three laptops. The number of issues that comes up for the victims is
countless. It will probably take weeks if not months to realize what all
is missing. Most of what was stolen was very personal; objects passed down
from generation to generation, personalized mementos, too many things to
list.

One thought I had is that I hope email programs and Web sites they visit
with sensitive information were not set up on their machines to recognize
passwords automatically. As though all the loss wasn't enough, wouldn't it
be just horrible to then think people may be downloading your email and
moving things around in your bank accounts? And what a mess to lose all
that intellectual property and communication (I dearly hope their digital
photographs are saved on CDs!). Maybe it's not a crazy idea to add a lock
to one's computer at home. But where would you keep the key if not at
home? Always on you even when vacationing abroad? This may be where
friends come in the picture. Leave some essentials with someone at another
location.

This reminds me of something a friend of mine did recently. She was taking
precaution in case of a different robbery. She was going abroad and wanted
to make sure that in case she got robbed during the trip she wouldn't be
completely stranded. So she made copies of the important pages in her
passport, copies of her credit cards (front and back) and some other
documents. She then left these with me. In case something did happen, she
could call me and I could help in getting the material/information to her
or whomever.