Many people have visited the
InterScraper Loading Dock
 and wondered:

Just what is this all about?

It's a stream-of-web-consciousness
"thing" -- a catalog of sites that  I
thought might be useful in the future.
In a way, it is a kind of "blog", but it
has existed since before the word
"blogging" entered common use.

Recent Arrivals: What if every Hospital, Public Library, Public School, and Community College had a Fiber Connection? All we need is $10 billion! VeriChip -- Human-implantable RFID Chip Shift Happens -- Home of the Way-Cool "Did You Know" Presentation URLTrends.com -- Website Rankings in various search engines and directories Archive.com -- an ongoing, dynamic, digital archive of the Internet -- See Website Snapshots from the Past! dmoz.com -- "the largest, most comprehensive human-edited (open-source) directory of the web" Education Trust -- Shows Six-Year Graduation Rates Quia: A Website that is Chock-Full of Learning Games and Exercises Created by Teachers! PatchGuard -- Chinks in the Armor of Microsoft's New 64-bit Operating System Security Scheme Mississippi -- Believe It! A Great Inspirational Site About Mississippi WindowsForDevices.Com -- A Great Site with Info About Handhelds, Phone/PDAs, etc.! ATLAS -- Microsoft's New AJAX-compatible Client Side Web Development Framework ProcessLibrary.com -- Now You Can Finally Find Out What is Running on Your PC! Plone -- A Great Open-Source Content Management System! IT Facts Blog from ZDNet.com Free Standards Group -- Safeguarding the Future Through Free Standards (esp. Linux) National Vulnerability Database -- CyberVulnerability Database from NIST! InfraGuard: Guarding Critical National Infrastructure Through Information Sharing IT Conversations -- Listen to Leading IT Thought Leaders! Experts Exchange -- Find Answers to Your IT-related Questions PhidgetsUSA - All things that can connect to your USB ports! RFID, LCD, Motors, and More! Find a Patent with FreePatentsOnline.com Snopes.com -- home of Urban Legends and Internet Hoaxes LivingTo100.com -- Calculate Your Life Expectancy! Electronic Product Code (EPC) will Replace UPC (barcode) Labels in the Future! SpaceWeather.com -- What's happening nearby? or, Far, Far away...? Is Your DNS Act Together -- Check Your Records at DNSSTUFF.COM Help Stop Spam -- Implement the Sender Policy Framework for Your Email Servers Today! Need Graph Paper? Get it Here from MathematicsHelpCentral.com! Virtual U -- A Sim Game That Lets You Practice Runing a University! ZipDecode -- Visual Map of All Zipcodes -- Try it! Sacred Texts -- All of the World's Great Religious Texts in One Place Export.Gov -- The US Government Export Portal! Read Microsoft's Online Security Newsletter Great IT News Site! Google Labs -- Find Out What Service is Next from Google! Search WhatIs.TechTarget.com -- Awesome IT Dictionary/Resource! Google Zeitgeist -- Search Patterns, Trends, and Surprises! ELance.com -- A Better Way to Buy and Sell Business/Consulting Services! See Last Month's Top Ten Viruses and Hoaxes as Tracked by Sophos NSI Software -- Double-Take Gives You Real-Time Fail-Over Protection Keynote Systems - "The Internet Performance Authority" -- Tracks Internet Indicies The Advanced National Seismic System Tracks Earth Movements Across the Country! NameProtect, Inc. Provides Modern Trademark and Brand Protection Tools WiseNut.com -- a LookSmart.com powered search engine Jakob Nielsen's Site on Enhancing Website Usability Need Inexpensive Programming Talent -- Try Primate Programming Inc.! FindSounds.Com -- Search for Samples and Sounds! The Gutenberg Bible -- Digitized by the University of Texas American Fact Finder -- Awesome Site Population, Housing, Economic and Geographic Data from the U.S. Census Bureau Stock Market Yellow Pages -- Search by any Keyword, Use Multiple Focused Information Resources Plagued by Email Bounces -- Try SwitchEmail.com to Find Them and Reconnect... Infrastructure Products Directory from StreamingMediaLand.com JavaRanch.com -- a great place for tutorials, certification practice, and more! AlphaWorks from IBM -- Emerging Technologies! Einstein Archives Online -- The Ultimate Collection of Writings, Photos, Etc. Project Oxygen at MIT -- Pervasive Computing DefendAmerica.mil: U.S. DOD News About the War on Terrorism Michelin Embeds RFID Tags in Tires! Questia.com: World's Largest Online Library for Students and Faculty Compare Products, Prices and Stores at DealTime.com Shopping online? Try Froogle (from Google) Advisor.Com -- Great Tech Reference Site! Useless Facts -- Great Ideas for Quotes and Speeches 10 GB Ethernet Alliance www.3G.co.uk: 3G News and Information The Biometrics Consortium -- US Govt. Focal Point for Biometrics Technology AdAware - Cleans/Removes Spyware and Scumware Componnents From Your Memory, Registry, and Hard Drives High Performance Computing Research from IDC NUA Internet Surveys - Online Internet Surveys, Demographics, News, Statistics, and Market Research Internet Explorer Tips & Tricks at IEInfoSite from the U.K. Dynamic DNS -- Let's You Use a Domain Name, Even if Your IP Addresses Changes Dynamically! Microsoft's Security Page Bill Gates message about Trustworthy Computing Trustworthy Computing White Paper from Microsoft Are you facing a difficult question or murky future? Ask the 8-ball for an answer! Archive.Org -- See your website in 1996! Ballistic Magnetoresistance (BMR) will enable Hard Drives to store 1000 times current capacities. Microsoft .NET home GotDotNet.com -- a great set of .NET resources Association for Professional Researchers for Advancement Free Online Non-Credit Courses from Univ of Washington Online Certificate Programs from the Univ of Washington EasyInternet -- World's Largest Internet Cafes (using variable pricing and yield management) FreshAddress.com -- no more lost email addresses... New Chips Let Everyday Items "Talk" to each other -- RFID Story Do you Blog? WinCustomize.Com -- Win XP Skins, Styles, Icons, etc. TrendSetters -- The Future is Here! Colorgenics -- Take the Personality Test Now! Play Checkers Online and Bet on the Winner -- a new Internet Business Model Acronym Finder Will you have to place a loved one in "Silicon Pines" (an assisted computing facility)? IBM Scholars Program (includes DB2, Informix, and Domino!) Microsoft .NET Developers Community (DevHood) VALS modeling of consumer motivations and segmentation You Are Where You Live: Check out this Zip Code-based Market Segmentation Tool called PRIZM AllTheWeb.com: A Next Generation Search Engine Google.com: A Next Generation Search Engine Available Bathroom? Check the Random Hall Bathroom Server from MIT The Next Big Thing: a useful guide to ebusiness strategy Scout Report: One of the best guides to the Web (for finding reliable resource sites) Use BusinessWeek magazine's Salary Wizard to find out what you might make! 100 Top Places to Work in IT (from ComputerWorld) Price's List of Lists: One stop source for lists/rankings of all kinds! Dynamic Environmental Scan Resource Page from Cal State University World Future Society Great Quotations and Motivational Links from CyberNation Edu.Com: Great Academic and Student Pricing! Cisco's Internet Statistics Page InternetStats.Com: A wide variety of Internet Stats and Links to other reports MSDN: Web Authoring Workshop Building a Shopping Cart Tutorial (4 articles from WebReview.com) 4GuysFromRolla.com: Great ASP Tips, Advice and Resources Top 20 ASP Spots on the Web 21st Century Workforce Commission Report: A Nation of Opportunity: Strategies for Building America's 21st Century Workforce Dept of Commerce Report: The Digital Workforce: Building InfoTech Skills at the Speed of Innovation Federal Government Site on the Digital Divide The Final Firing Line Debate at Ole Miss -- E-Commerce Taxation Keep up with developments in E-Business through DotComAdvisor.Com Make a gift to your favorite charity through Helping.Org Process credit cards with Power2Sell.com ExplorNet.Org: Integrating Technology into the Classroom by Refurbishing Old PCs HeadCount.com: Internet population statistics dMarie Time Capsule: What happened on your birthday? The Computer/Coke Dilemma -- A New Way to Keep Either Your PC or Your Coke (you choose) Cold! Interactive Salary Guide/Calculator Karnak: A New Breed of Search Engine SearchEdu.Com: Over 20 million pages indexed and ranked in the .EDU domain The Dictionary of Occupational Titles from the US Dept of Labor Slashdot -- The place to go if you can hack it... NSA Monitoring is old news...x Flight Tracker!! Let's you track airline flights in real time! Bluetooth: The New Standard for Distributed Communications? Hoosier Civic Pride: View Video of Local Governmental and Civic Meetings from Bloomington, Indiana Great Government Document Links of U. of Louisville Where to buy online? Shopper.com! Check out LinuxJournal -- "The Premier Linux Magazine" World Wide Arts Resources: Definitive Arts and Culture Information Center/Gateway WetCanvas.Com: Your Cyber Source for Artist News and Education Woody's Office Watch: Bugs, Patches, News, Etc. www.essential.org: Home of Ralph Nader's Organization Essential Information TV Free America: More Statistics About Television Watching Than You'll Ever Need HowStuffWorks.com -- answers to all your questions, not just computers, but also engines, water towers, VCRs, Your Body, etc.! WhatIs.com -- great technical reference site! www.ecommerce.gov -- the Department of Commerce Electronic Commerce Resource (incl. report on The Emerging Digital Economy The Programmers' Directory -- more than 3,000 links related to application development Federal Elections Commission Contribution Database Visit PCGuide.Com for PC Technical Reference Resources Generation Y uses Bolt, do you? Generation Y uses Alloy, do you? See the future: MicroDisplay Report Learn2.com: When you need to learn how to do something, check here! FCC Web Site regarding Parents, Kids and Communications (including filtering) Wearable Computing Intro Page from MIT MicroOptical Wearable Computer Displays Southern Game Calls (web site by Brett Estes!) Device Driver Links from MrDriver.Com HTCPCP: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol!! There is a lot of attention being drawn to the "World's Smallest Web Server" lately. Have you seen "Duh-2000" (monthly contest for Y2K quotes)? Internet Hoaxes/Urban Legends website provided by the Dept of Energy Careers at Ernst & Young Internet History/Timeline (excellent!) The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook webpage Indiana University Center on Philanthropy Yahoo's Most Wired Colleges and Universities for 1998 (UM #36!!) Do you have a WIRED Dorm Room? ResumeBlaster: Send Your Resume to Thousands of Recruiters The "Official" XML FAQ Page TicketMaster: Seats with Views! WorldWideNews: Look for Newspapers from Countries Around the World The Internet Traffic Report Free COBOL Compiler from Fujitsu! Free Online Books Search Engine: Over 7,000 Titles! Web Site Redesign articles from HotWired GemStar: The Search Engine for the Digital Convergence? This could be huge! Check out WaveTop! It's built into Win 98. ADeveloper.com: FREE Web Site Development Resources Intertainer: On Demand Videos/Movies via network! Go for IT! The US Govt. Web site for Building America's IT Workforce CollegeAtHome: Distance Learning Directory India's Software Industry get educated! Distance Learning Directories, Newsletters, Resources, Virtual Universities Gazette California Virtual University: 1600 courses online! Texas Board begins to License Software Engineers! Civilian Astronaut Corps! The Life of King Edward the Confessor -- from Cambridge University -- One of the best executed web documents in existence! Kelly Holmes' Scrabble-interface: InterScraper Hall of Fame Candidate! The Psychology of CyberSpace Origin: A Global IT Provider -- Career Opportunities JavaPro Magazine: Excellent! Salon 21st: Technology and Culture from SalonMagazine CAUSE Page on Retaining, Retraining, and Recruiting Information Technology Staff CIO Magazine Issue Dedicated to the IT Staffing Crisis (Jan 1, 1998) National Skills Standards Board (created by Congress) Looking for a device driver? Try the DriverZone. Cyberspace Law Bibliography (with links!) from UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy COCOMO II Project The Data Warehousing Institute Skills 2000 from Microsoft: Job Descriptions/Profiles, Career Expos and more CareerTech: Peterson's Guide for Engineering and Computer Careers CareerBuilder: Great Career Resources including job descriptions and diagnostic tests CareerAgent from ComputerWorld!! Information Technology Association of America U.S. Government Electronic Commerce Web Site HTML Tutorial Zone from Wired Magazine! The Wired World of Paul Allen (Bill Gates' former partner at Microsoft) OpenScape Group: Coalition of people working on the freely released source code from Netscape The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Influential Article on Open Source Code Software Development (for example, Linux) Housing Facts and Figures from the National Assoc. of Home Builders (NAHB) Salary Survey for MIS Faculty Positions in 1998 EdSitement brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. (funded by NEH). RoadCoders: Handheld Software Development Resources! Check-In: Security software for PalmPilot Mobile Account Manager software for PalmPilot Aportis Technologies: makes software products for wearable and carryable (PalmPilot!) devices. The Pilot Newspaper Daily: Create your own daily newspaper with top headlines for viewing on your PalmPilot ETexts for PalmPilot Web Ring! MacDuff: A Collection of Classic Short stories in PalmPilot format! The MegaMath Project (by LANL) U.S. News Graduate School Rankings: 1998 Edition The BillBoard: Bill Gates' Speeches, Columns, Email, etc. Jobs for Programmers: Check this placement site out! CNN Computing News! California Virtual University Computer Shopper magazine's NetBuyer Site! The Monster Board: For Job Seekers Links to 150 Salary Surveys Salary Zone! -- from ZD Internet Magazine WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management NeoWorx: Makers of the NeoTrace Graphical TraceRoute program Connected: An Internet Terminology Encyclopedia/Reference -- Wow!! WOW!!! Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb)-- You won't ever need another movie information source! FloydRadio plays Pink Floyd 24x7 BestJobsUSA: Today's hot jobs for IT professionals! PalmPower Magazine: Tips and Techniques for Palm Pilot Users More Pilot Software links from the PalmOS web site PilotZone: More PalmPilot Software Pilot Gear: Great Directory for PalmPilot Shareware IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering Software Process Newsletter The Wacky Patent of the Month The Internet Invention Store Invention Dimension (from MIT) 100 Years of Radio (1895-1995) ILINC: Instructor-Led Computer-based training (both LAN and WAN) Tools Poems from the Planet Earth Archive Desiderata by Max Ehrmann How much RAM do you really need? See this study from Samsung. Linux Resources Linux Counter: Online User Statistics Worldwide Pundits: Links to your favorites via Slate Magazine's Pundit Central! National Zoo Animal Photos IT Staffing Shortage from Information Week MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity): An automated tool for detecting software plagiarism International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) Virtual Online University (Athena) Interactive Learning, Inc (online learning) Ziff-Davis University: Online Computing Education Instructional Technology links from Yahoo! Partners in Local-State Information Systems: Lessons from the Field (NY study) VONet: Virtual Organizations Research and Newsletter Looking for a Web Host? Check out The Ultimate Web Host List directory/rating service SurplusDirect: Web Auction of Previous Generation Hardware, Software, etc. Teaching Information Systems with Active Learning (from ISWorld) Have you joined a WebRing yet? Do it now! Ziff-Davis BrowserUser: Netscape, IE, etc. -- great site! The Netscape Unofficial Frequently-Asked Questions site Internet Virus Hoaxes (Good Times, PenPal, etc.) InvestSmart: Include free trading simulation site for groups IC Direct: Great Prices! John Bear's Guide to Distance Learning College Degrees S & P 500 Probabilities based on Market Conditions Real Eduction, Inc. Builds Virtual Universitys Workstation: Windows NT Web Site Windows NT Tips, Registry Hacks and More Windows NT-Plus: Support Center Windows-NT.com: Tips, Tech Support, Help Desk Paperbits Support Center for Windows NT Beverly Hills Software Windows NT Tech Support Center Dr. B's (Bregman - Univ of Houston) Courseware Pages in Operations Mgmt. Collaborative Learning Annotated Bibliography MIS News Mining Company Computer Science and Engineering Textbook Catalog from nearly all publishers! (searchable) VectorVest: Stock Analysis and Recommendations Commerce Business Daily Online!! DiskTrend: Market Research on the Disk Drive Industry OxfordCenter.com: News for Oxford, MS Earthlink: A Real ISP CBOE Data Screen Z Auction: Giving www.onsale.com some competition! Economeister: Great Current Market and Economic Outlook Site! WWWebster Dictionary from Merriam-Webster IEEE Computer Society: Digital Library (17 journals including IEEE Computer and IEEE Software Wall St. City: The Investor's Supersite! TechWeb: Killer Technology News, Stock Information, and Classifieds Fed. Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: Technology and Economic Expansion (remarks before Congress) StockFever: Nice Interface BugNet: Software bugs... PriceWatch: Find the best prices on PCs, peripherals, etc.! Forget the Huddled Masses: Send Nerds! (Businessweek article on shortage of IT workers) Labor disputes in the era of cyberspace -- Decide for yourself: Former and Current Employees of Intel organization Activist City: Check out the Institute for Global Communication (everyone needs to hear both sides of the issues, right?) Can you surf the big netwaves? Take the Net Test! (from MCI) History of the Internet (from the Discovery Channel) The Advanced (infamous) Nerdity Test Check out some CEO paychecks! Let's debate the ethics of termpapers-on-file.com Let's debate the ethics of cheater.com EE Site: Electronics Design and Technology Network Wow! The Virtual Job Fair AeroTek: IT Professionals on Contract (has a Memphis, TN office) Upside.Com Online Financial News in Tech Business The Wharton (U.Penn) MBA Program The MBA Roundtable Qualitative Research in MIS (an MISQ Discovery document) Balanced Scorecard Toolkit The MacroGalleria: A Cyberwonderland of Polymer Fun! Catalog of MBA-ware from the Management Software Association Directory of 4-year Colleges and Universities by State (from U. Texas) Directory of Community Colleges by State (from U. Texas) Electronic College on Process Innovation from DOD DTIC Internet Index Security Hole in Microsoft Internet Explorer DailyStocks: Your one source for links to nearly all free news/stats/etc. Have you Listened to the Internet Business News Network? Insider Trader information Home of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine For investors: The Option Page Home of the cartoon Non Sequitur Top 100 Computer & Software WWW Magazines & Journals MBA Central: Job Searches and More! KARK-Little Rock: First TV Station in country to regularly broadcast live news over the net New Top-level domains (.firm, .store, .web, etc) Wall Street Research Net: Wow! Find a lot of company information Interactive Quote Net: Great Technical/Data Charting Japanese Candlestick Patterns (Technical Analysis) American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) -- includes Assessment Forum Technical Analysis Charting Site (with Java!) IS/Network Manager Salary Survey from Network Computing magazine The Motley Fool: Online Investment Financial Forum Microsoft's Academic Cooperative The Internet Gaming Zone: Home of multi-player interactive Hearts, Bridge, Spades, Chess, Checkers, Go, and Reversi Announce your own books/articles in A Business Researcher's Interest The Latest Manifestation of A Business Researcher's Interest Fischer Micro (Scott Fischer: UM Grad) Medical Matrix: The Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources The Hardin MetaDirectory of Internet Health Sources Thrive@Pathfinder: The Healthy Living Experience ParentsPlace.Com: Parenting and Child Health Resources OncoLink: From the Univ of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Medscape: Free In-depth articles on lots of medical topics MedicineNet Free Medical Reference Official American Medical Association Page The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (editor's page) The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (publisher's page) PC Zone//Mac Zone Stock Quotes from NASDAQ's server Web Page Design Guidelines from UTexas (the courage to be simple?) The Homeschooling Zone Information Systems Research (the journal) PC Financial Network: Pull up major wire news Briefing.Com: Stay Ahead of the Market with important news Silicon Investor (www.techstocks.com) Zacks.com: Analyst Consensus on Stocks (wow!) Learning Over the Internet (list of links from IAT) Web Course in a Box (from IAT/VCU) Web Course Tools ("an easy-to-use environment for creating sophisticated WWW-based courses") Virtual Teaching Experiment in Higher Education reports that in a stats. class, virtual students performed better. KeySource: Best of the Net (news sources, references, etc.) IBM Patent Server Searchable Patent Database (since 1971) Teletraining Institute: Training for Distance Educators Robert Half (information systems recruiting firm) 1997 Computer Industry Salary Survey TV Tonight The Computer Paper (Canada's largest monthly computer magazine) Telapex Internet (local ISP) Water Valley Interchange (local ISP) Journal of MIS (incl. keywords, abstracts and more!) SensAble Technologies (input device of the future?) MIT Entrepreneurship Competition ($50K) Guerrilla Marketing Online Census of Agriculture: 1982, 1987, 1992 International Journal of Electronic Commerce New Chalk newsletter for web-based college courses Other Floors of the Interscraper Brian's Old Demo List Business and Career Calls for Papers Companies on the Web Conferences Gophers Hardware and Software Home Pages Information Systems Teaching-Related Sites Interesting Web Sites I.S. Programs/Centers on the Web Journals Magazines on the Web MIS People on the Web News Sites on the Web Organizations Other Documents Publishers Research Related Some of the Original Starting Points Travel Various Government Web Sites World Wide Web Info. WWW-related "Stuff" Scenario Planning Links {{** Have you ever seen a 13th floor button in an elevator? **}}