Collected Sites of the Week


2003

New feature!

Site of the Week (July 27-August 2):
Literary Locales
More than 1,000 picture links to places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors
Sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State University

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/places.htm


Site of the Week (August 3-9):
The Indo-European Database

Learn about Today's Language, Today's Root and Today's Member
http://indoeuro.bizland.com/atoday.html


Site of the Week (August 10-16):

AudioBooksForFree.com

Listen online or download to your MP3 player!
Defoe, Maupassant, Twain, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu, Hawthorne, Collins, much more
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp
Fun link: Italy? Taiwan?


Site of the Week (August 17-23):
Favorite Poem Project: Video collection
Hear and see ordinary people read their favorite poems and tell their life stories
http://www.favoritepoem.org/index.html
Fun link: Dubbing "Friends" into Swedish, German and Japanese


Site of the Week (August 24-30):

The Walt Whitman Archive
An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman¡¦s vast work
easily
and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/
Fun link: Horsey chorus


Site of the Week (August 31-September 6):
Page By Page Books
Hundreds of free classics formatted for comfortable online reading
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com
Fun link: Shockwave bowling


Site of the Week (September 7-13):
The Gutenberg Bible
at the Ransom Center

Admire Gutenberg's great first work up close,
almost 600 years after it was first bound
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/
Fun link: Run the maze without getting smashed


Site of the Week (September 14-20):

Funwavs.com
Movie Quotes, Sounds and Wavs
http://funwavs.com/
Fun link: Shooting the fly



Site of the Week (September 21-27):

Strictly Personal:
The Columns of Sydney Harris
(1917 - 1986)
http://www.zianet.com/deanma/
Fun link: Interview with God


Site of the Week (September 28-October 4):
GemRecords.com
Links to MP3 downloads, homepages
in all musical genres; lots of world music
http://gemrecords.com/
Fun link: Powers of ten


Site of the Week (October 5-11):
Oddmusic.com
A source for unique & experimental music, instruments, players and listeners
http://www.oddmusic.com/
Fun link: Monkeying around


Site of the week (October 12-18):
Protected Areas on Taiwan
http://www.giee.ntnu.edu.tw/island/islandengweb/protect.htm
Fun link: Web photo catalog


Site of the Week (October 19-25):

Britain Express Virtual Tour of England
http://www.britainexpress.com/Where_to_go_in_Britain/tour/
Fun link: Word P. I.



Site of the Week (October 26-November 1):

The Open Video Project

Access nearly 2,000 free videos online
http://www.open-video.org/
Fun link: ExtremePumpkins.com


Site of the Week (November 2-8):

The Infinite Mind

http://www.theinfinitemind.com/mindprgm.htm
Fun link: Personality test (in Chinese)


Site of the Week (November 9-15):
Radio B.A.C.H.

Bach's music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; links to other stations; from Poland
http://www.platforma.pl/bach/eng/index.phtml
Fun link: How to fold a shirt (in Chinese; Japanese)


Site of the Week (November 16-22):
Grimm Fairy Tales
Illustrated and narrated in English, French and Italian

http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main
Fun link:The Down-Under-Wha Didgeridoo Orchestra



Site of the Week (November 23-29):
sakartvelo.com
All about Georgia
No longer updated, but still worth a visit; try "Food and Wine"
'
http://www.sakartvelo.com/indexOLD.html
Fun link: A chicken trying to communicate with a duck (in Chinese)


Site of the Week (November 30-December 6):
hikercentral.com: Taiwan
http://www.hikercentral.com/regions/asia/taiwan.html
Fun link:
MPR's The sounds of Minnesota


Site of the Week (December 7-13):
Musica Viva
Free sheet music, midi files of ancient music

http://www.musicaviva.com/
Fun links:
MPR: Fine print Photographs


Site of the Week (December 14-20):
The Hymns and Carols of Christmas

Incredibly rich collection of links

http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/index.htm
Fun link: Japanese Engrish


Site of the Week (December 21-27):

Christmas.com's WorldView
Read about Christmas around the world
http://www.christmas.com/worldview/
Fun link: Charles Kellogg's bird calls


2004

Sites of the Week (December 28-January 3):

Victorian Parlour Games

Links:
1 2 3 4



Site of the Week (January 4-10):

Western Yugur Folktales
http://home.arcor.de/marcmarti/yugur/folktale/folktale.htm


Site of the Week (January 11-17):
MyLanguageExchange.com
Find someone to practice any language with online!
http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/
Fun link: Happy year of the monkey (Flash)


Site of the Week (January 18-24):
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year's customs in English
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
Fun link: Chinese character test ¿ù§O¦r¬D¾Ô


Site of the Week (January 25-31):
Living and teaching in Taiwan
http://users2.ev1.net/%7Eturton/teach_index.html
Fun link:
Happy year of the monkey (II)


Site of the Week (February 1-7):
Fresh Air online
Interviews with writers, actors, more
http://freshair.npr.org/guest_info_fa.jhtml?name=index
Fun link: : Taiwan anime (1)


Site of the Week (February 8-14):
Speech and hearing resources
http://www.mnsu.edu/dept/comdis/kuster4/part55.html
Fun link: The honeymoon is over downs (warning: contains vulgar language)


Site of the Week (February 15-21):
radio RTÉ, Ireland (archives)
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/archive/
Fun link: Otherworldly voice mail message (in Southern Min)