Web Sites: Some Current Favorites

These are sites that delighted me when I first encountered them and continue to delight me today. Enjoy!

• Glen Little's page gives you a good place to start finding out more about the Bah�'� Faith.

• If you haven't seen an IPIX photo bubble yet, you've got to check out this new web technology. Start by downloading the plug-in for Netscape 4 or Internet Explorer 4.
• If you want a good guide to your net surfing, check out the Internet Tourbus. It emails you regular suggestions about what's really interesting, useful, or just plain fun on the Internet.

• Looking for something in or about South Africa? Then check out Ananzi South Africa, an award-winning search engine devoted to South African content. (The other South African search engine that I previously recommend, Aardvark, just never seemed to take off.)

• Hunting for someone's email address? Try this service that queries multiple search engines.
• Find the movie review you need (or, more likely, scores of reviews of the movie you're thinking about) by using the Movie Review Query Engine.
• This movie review search engine links you to the Internet Movie Database, which is full of useful (and not-so-useful) information about films. For example, after enjoying the Boston-area scenes in Good Will Hunting recently I was surprised to see Ontario, Canada, acknowledged in the credits. The IMDb told me that the interior scenes in the Harvard dorms were actually shot in Toronto! (I didn't think they looked familiar!)

• My current favorite for virtual greetings cards is Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards. Their cards are animated and musical, and they celebrate lots of topic events with special cards. (They even had one for Naw-Ruz on March 21st, the Persian New Year that Bah�'�s around the world celebrate, too.) Prairie Frontier also sends nice virtual cards. They don't do animation or sound, but they have some lovely designs, they are easy to customize, and the service emails you a confirmation when the recipient actually collects the card.
• To order a real greeting card (personalized and posted for you from the U.S.), try American Greetings.
• Design and send your own electronic postcard with the help of Kodak's digital imaging site. (The system actually sends the recipient an email message with a web address where s/he can view the postcard you create.)
• You can also send a virtual bouquet to someone you love (or even real flowers).

This page was last modified on March 22, 1998.