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)