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"W" topics at IPL are all melded into this "W" list
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Wall Street Journal -- This online version of the newspaper
has two sections: one is for subscribers
and the other has free
articles. There does not appear to be any archives -- so the
pickings are
slim if you are looking for general information on
a subject. It is a wonderful
newspaper -- but has limited use
online as a source of information.
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Wave Energy / One of the NY Times selected IDEAS OF 2007.
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Wayback Machine -- archives almost all the significant websites ever put on the Internet. It is quite incredible.
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We Didn't Start The Fires -- A splendid .wmv file that focuses on news events of the 40s 50s and 60s. I am told that the Billy Joel song is a philosophical statement pointing out that change is a basic element of all life and the universe itself. See " Balance".
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Weather "According to the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, there have been more than four times as many weather-related disasters in the last 30 years than in the previous 75 years. The United States has experienced more of those disasters than any other country." In the 5/31 edition of the NY Times (nyt)
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Weather: Five-day weather forecasts for cities around the world (ans)
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Web Searching / The IPL guide to the best search engines and catalogs on/for the Web, with tips on how to use them effectively. (ipl)
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Web Technologies / Looking for image editors,office software suites or other applications to soup up your social networking activities? The tools you need are probably available for free on the Web. Browse this collection of web-based applications to find innovative and popular examples of Web 2.0 technology, most of which are even suitable for novice users. (ipl)
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Websites
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most
popular -- BY Alexa -- "The Web Information Company". Alexa tracks all websites and puts together variousinformation about the
traffic at
each
of the 100,000 most popular websites. You will find these three important topics on the top bar -- (1) Search / (2) Traffic Rankings / (3) Directory. "Search"
takes you to << http://www.alexa.com/search?q= >>.
At the bottom of that page, you will find a link to "Top 500 Sites" --
click on that and you
will get to links to the meat of the site. Click on "browse -- by subject"
and you can find the most popular site for any subject. Bookmark that page
<< http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500 >> because
it is sometimes hard to find your back. (Alexa kept taking me back to pages
I did not
want)
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Wedding
Day, The --
an operetta
starring Jefferson DeAngelis and Lillian
Russell
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Weight (health and diet) (nyt)
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Wikipedia -- Be warned that wikipedia is not the place to go for new thinking. The following is a direct quote from wikipedia. "Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position. This means that Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions or experiences. Citing sources and avoiding original research are inextricably linked: to demonstrate that you are not presenting original research, you must cite reliable sources that provide information directly related to the topic of the article, and that directly support the information as it is presented."
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Wikipedia, Finding Content: Try the 7 methods listed immediately below. Then check out #8 below if you are interested in reading about some of the troubles we had trying to figure out how the site works.
1) Window searching -- Go to <<http://wikipedia.org/>> and use the search widow there. If there is an article, page, category or content with that exact title, you will be taken there. Almost any single word or simple phrase will work. This is particularly good for finding all sorts information for specific places like cities. Type any city name in the window and click and you will get to a page with that title and various related information.
2) FUTEF searching for topics: searching for topics in Wikipedia. Read the "about" page at the link on this line, it is for the "FUTEF" site. In our first test, the FUTEF search box was superior to the Wikipedia alphabetical index when searching for the topic "indexing". The Wikipedia index did not have the word "indexing -- however we found exactly what we were looking for by typing "indexing" into the FUTEF search box.
3) Browsing the site's A-Z index: Another way of finding content -- When you are at what they call "Main Page", click on "A-Z index" at the top of the right column. That will take you to an enormous 2-symbol index of what appears to be subjects (there are no words telling you what this is an index of -- it could be subjects, contents, articles, categories, portals or whatever. In any event the 2-symbols evidently take you subject matter that begins with those 2-symbols. Just browse and click.
4) More than 4,000,000 pages can be found by going to
<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages>>. Each of the 4,000+
printed lines on that page is a launching-line. Each launching line is a
link that goes to a target page that has about 1,000 topics. The topics
on the target page are in alphabetical order between the two topics on
the launching-line. This is the online equivalent of the headings in a
phone book, dictionary or encyclopedia. The total number of topics is
therefore more than 4,000,000 (4,000 lines x 1,000 topics / line).
5) All topics: An index of all wikipedia topics<<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Topical_indexes>>
6) A-Z lists of more than 250 popular topics: on alphabeticalist.com --
most of these links go to wikipedia topics (see "wp" suffix)
<<http://www.howto-ville.com/A-Z%20lists.html>> By the way, just
one of those A-Z lists goes to 2,900 topics from the NY Times -- and
each of those topics leads to hundreds of good articles.
7) Wikipedia's A-Z index; http://wikilookup.info/info/guide/abc.html#Z
8) Troubles, warning and confusion
9) Wikipedia v. Brittanica as reported by "Nature"
10) Wikipedia lists of topics
11) Wikipedia mystery lists
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Wired Magazine -- Technology "... a collaborative site ... all kinds of projects,
hacks, tricks
and tips on how to live, work and play better". From Wired.com. By the
way,
if anyone knows what they mean by "a collaborative site" let
us know by sending an email
to the "contact" address.
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Wood
products
for
sale / see "handmade products" on
this list (under "h").
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Word Category Lists: Categories that words belong in, including nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs (ans)
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Word Links -- Hundreds of them. Most are used for teaching reading to beginners.
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WordNet: A semantic lexicon of word connections and related words such as a-okay, Emile Gaboriau, zoftig, more » (ans)
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Words -- an essay of the "number of words" and "the size of the average vocabulary"
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Words (22) --- One of the 18 main categories at answers.com
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Words,
the 25 most popular -- Use them for teaching reading. On the
average, one word from this list will be every third word in any written
material.
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World (includes sub-topics: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States) (from Big Think)
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World Clock -- A very interesting website. Shows various world statistics over any current period of time.
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World History: The Fertile Crescent to The American Revolution, High School Level / The Great Courses
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worldcat.org --- "The world's largest network of library content and services. Over 1 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide."
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Writers: 5/12/08 -- A writer gets revenge by doing well. (nyt)
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Writings and Speeches of the Great Thinkers -- http://www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/
The Harvard Classics ... William Jennings Bryan ... historical documents
... monumental literary and philosophical essays ... scientific papers ... Francis Bacon ...
Edmund Burke ... Cicero ... Confucious ... Darwin ... Descartes ... Einstein
... Benjamin Franklin ... the debates between Lincoln and
Douglas ... John Milton ... Thomas Paine ... Plato ... Margaret Sanger ...
Adam Smith and on and on and on.
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The top of this column (between the horizontal rules) contains good but unusual information on worthwhile "W" subjects that otherwise might not be noticed because they are not prominent on "important" websites.
- Walking -- an essay by Henry David Thoreau
- Walnut
ink or dye,
how to
make
it
- War in Iraq --
Perhaps
our
country's
worst
blunder?
- We Didn't Start The Fires -- A splendid .wmv file that focuses on news events of the 40s 50s and 60s. I am told that the Billy Joel song is a philosophical statement pointing out that change is a basic element of all life and the universe itself. See "Balance".
- Websites, how-to
--
primary
sources
of how-to
information. Contains
links
to the most popular
how-to
sites on
the
internet.
- Wedding
Day, The --
The 1897 operetta
starring Jefferson DeAngelis and Lillian
Russell
- Wikipedia -- Be warned that wikipedia is not the place to go for new thinking. The following is a direct quote from wikipedia. "Wikipedia does not publish original research or original thought. This includes unpublished facts, arguments, speculation, and ideas; and any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that serves to advance a position. This means that Wikipedia is not the place to publish your own opinions or experiences. Citing sources and avoiding original research are inextricably linked: to demonstrate that you are not presenting original research, you must cite reliable sources that provide information directly related to the topic of the article, and that directly support the information as it is presented."
- Wisdom -- a few quotations
- Wisdom -- a short discussion
- Wisdom
and
Courage.com
-- A
web
of
information
about
the
war
in Iraq
- Wood
joining -- a .pdf on blind doweling
- Word Links -- Hundreds of them. Most are used for teaching reading to beginners.
- Words -- "9,000 Phonetic Words" -- check out all the links at this target page
- Words -- an essay of the "number of words" and "the size of the average vocabulary"
- Words -- check out all the word-oriented links at this target -- lots of interesting word-related stuff
- Words of wisdom and other inspirational material
- Words, Special English: 1500 words developed by The Voice Of America
- Words,
the 25 most popular -- Use them for teaching reading. On the
average, one word from this list will be every third word in any written
material.
- Words, the 100 most common printed
words -- use them for teaching reading
- World Clock -- A very interesting website. Shows various world statistics over any current period of time.
- Wrestler -- He is amazing
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