Editor's Choice

Random Selections from Spinning the Wheel at URouLette

Elegant in design and chock-full of good information, this site was awarded four stars by Magellan, the McKinley Group's online Internet directory.

Among other things, the Harvard Computer Society offers The Complete Harvard WWW Directory. A nice feature here is similar to URouLette: Select a Random Student Page. This takes you on a visit to any one of the several hundred Harvard students listed with World-Wide Web pages. From one of those random sites, I learned the NY Times has a fabulous new Home Page. You have to register -- but it's free (at least as of this writing). Thanks to Wendy Seltzer.

(The McKinley Group has reviewed and rated - with one to four stars - over 40,000 sites of its some 1.5 million listed sites. With headquarters in Sausalito, California, the organization was founded in 1993 by a team of international publishers, technologists, and information specialists committed to delivering a navigational and informational directory for the Internet.)

Student Site Reviews

Jacob Michaels

EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://www.eff.org/

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an organization set up to help resolve problems with the use of the internet while still protecting civil liberties. The Web page provides information about the Telecommunications Act, specifically the Communications Decency Act part of it.

-- From Electronic Frontier Foundation Graphics Archives

-- Editor's note: A rich site. Be sure to check out its fabulous Icon library and graphics archives. As is often the case, I found some of the most interesting material at this institutional site in its personal home pages. The Board, Staff and Volunteers Home Pages of the Electronic Frontier Foundation both gives it a human face (Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple is there, for instance) and provides links to such notables as John Perry Barlow, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and Denise Caruso, New York Times columnist.

Danielle Centoni

Freerange Media http://www.freerange.com/

The site described Freerange Media as "a web production and internet services company," which sounded ominously like another advertisement style home page--you know the type, completely devoid of anything interesting. However, once I cruised around exploring different links, I found it to be one of the most fun, creative and exciting sites yet! First of all I found Galaxy, a "guide to worldwide information and services," which had a listing of everything you can think of including info about non-destructive testing to amateur radio. Later on I found a listing for jokes and mad-libs, those fill in the verb, noun and adjective games. I'm including one for your amusement:

"I Went for a Walk Yesterday, I went out walking, and somehow ended up in Central Park. I saw hibiscuses and galopogos turtles--It was crazy! But I started getting cute hungry, and needed to find by way home. But no matter where I drowned, I couldn't see the path. I decided to go around the rusty cabby up ahead, and discovered that led back home! I was plowed. At dinner, when I told my psychedelic story, my streets looked at me with chewy expressions. Then they forbade me from ever jogging again".

-- Editor's note: A terrific site for journalists on the Internet. Check out the link here to the Christian Science Monitor, a site created by the folks at Freerange Media.