On the left is a Digital Totem. Rick Dobel's got a dozen of them, a portfolio of digital photography and artistic philosophy at his site. Click on the Totem.

SiliconFilm: has developed the means to keep your 35mm SLR current. Plug a cartridge into your camera instead of a roll of film, take 24 pictures and download them to your hard drive. It's about time.

The dusty back shelves of the library used to hide photographic collections of anatomical studies, probably for medical students but for a much younger crowd they were a titilating window into what lay just under the skin. The 1918 publication of Gray's Anatomy is now online, and it's free! The Discovery Channel does it better, but this guy did it first.

There's a new game for girls online, the object of which is to physically attack and majorly dis your enemies until they are totally mortified. The playground ain't what it used to be, either.

Business.com: The B2B site that paid US$7.5 million for the name alone! Take a look at what else venture money hath wrought.

Gridded Population of the World: the distribution of human population graphically demonstrated without political demarcation.

If you'd like a little more detail than what you saw on the infomercial, HerbMed provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health.

The future of advertising on the Internet: This ad for Xerox's Tektronix brand printers includes a half-dozen thought provoking articles on making, using and publishing digital graphics. And they do just like they say.

More Forms: This site contains forms from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts, as well as forms from state courts on topics ranging from adoption to divorce to civil harassment. Also available are civil and criminal subpoenas, summons, complaints, affidavits, and schedules.

Do It Yourself Forms: Fill in the blanks and let HotPaper create a printable form, business card, envelope template. In MSWord format, downloadable and ready to print. A usable internet application!

"The Diagnostic Solution Guide enables you, the IT professional, to find solutions through an interactive conversational dialog-which helps describe and define your IT support situation." From Microsoft, it's a Clippy the Help Wizard clone for Systems Administrators!

CrossRef: The central source for reference linking.
"The world's leading scientific, technical, and medical publishers are collaborating to form a service that will link reference citations to the online content that those references cite, typically located on a different server and published by a different publisher.

At the outset, more than three million articles across thousands of journals will be linked through CrossRef, and more than half a million more articles will be linked each year thereafter." This is what the Internet was designed for.
 

Anybody can take advantage of the commercialism that abounds on the Net. Wanna feel like an entreprenuer? Get yerself one of these!

When I found out they were giving little shopping widgets away I just had to have one. And every time anyone clicks on it CNet is gonna send me two cents! So come back often, and do all your shopping right here in the Local Knowledge corner on the Mango Season Page, Logc2K at Weaverlane.com. Y'all come back and see me some time, y'hear?

At Bibliomania, you'll find searchable access to the full text of classic world literature and important reference texts. This means you can easily find specific authors, passages, themes or words. You can browse through the books or read them online.

Before you buy one, compare images created by dozens of different digital cameras at Imaging-Resource.com.

Grae and CherylAnne at frame37 have composed an exciting photographic experience. Their work, a mixture of fortuitous timing, technical proficiency and an overiding sense of control and balance is sweet to the eyes. To visit their gallery click on the star.