ATTABOYS AWARD CYBER-KUDOS.Byline: Dwight Silverman Houston Chronicle Last week, the coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. Attaboy at·ta·boy interj. Used to show encouragement or approval to a boy or man: Attaboy! That's the way to hit a home run! [Alteration of That's the boy!.] Awards for hardware and software were handed out to grateful captains of the computing industry. Now it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to make a handful of World Wide Web masters very happy. Here are the 1996 Attaboys for the best sites in cyberspace. Best Search Engine: Excite. At http://www.excite.com/ you can find what you want on the Web by asking in plain English Plain English (sometimes known, more broadly, as plain language) is a communication style that focuses on considering the audience's needs when writing. It recommends avoiding unnecessary words and avoiding jargon, technical terms, and long and ambiguous sentences. . Not only is Excite most apt to find what you're after, but it does so very, very quickly. Excite has begun adding reviews and categorizing sites based on locality with the domain of city.net. Best Commercial Site: You Don't Know Jack You Don't Know Jack is a series of computer games developed by Jellyvision and Berkeley Systems. YDKJ, promoted as the games "where high culture and pop culture collide," combine trivia with comedy. Netshow. Download the Windows 95 client from this Broderbund Software site at http://www.bezerk.com/ and play the snappy trivia game for cash prizes - and for free! There's a different set of questions every week, and they're just as difficult and hilarious as those found on Broderbund's ``You Don't Know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. Jack'' CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). titles. Ultimately, it's a pitch to sell you those programs, but you'll have a ball while you're being sold. Best Windows Site: Windows95.com. If you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. free, shareware or demo versions of Windows 95 programs, make http://www.windows95.com/ your first stop. Windows95.com uses the Windows 95 Explorer as its navigational interface, making it easy to find the software you're after. You'll find everything from Internet software to games to utilities. Best Macintosh Site: MacAddict. The Web site for the magazine of the same name at http://www.macaddict.com/ is both useful and entertaining. It's easily the most energetic of the Mac publications - both on-line and in print - and it is the Web home for Guy Kawasaki's Mac EvangeList mailing list. Check out the help page for solutions to your system woes. Most Entertaining Site: Imhotep's Circus of Fear. For sheer irreverence and bizarre goofiness, it's impossible to find wackier than the Circus of Fear at http://www.dnaco.net/(tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. )timh/. Best known for the ``Walter Cronkite Spit in My Food'' page, it's now also home to the Sosumi Corp. and the truth about aliens and chupacabras. And be sure to read Imhotep's conspiracy theory about why he was nominated for - but didn't win - the Cool Site of the Year Award. Best News Site: The Wall Street Journal. At first glance, The Wall Street Journal's site at http://www.wsj.com/ looks unimpressive. While it's got a simple, clean design, there's little visually to draw you in. But the developers of this interactive version paid close attention to organization, making it easy to navigate and sift through the Journal's vast resources. There also are plenty of extras on the interactive edition that make it worth the $49-a-year price of subscribing. Best ``Site of the Day'' Site: Project Cool. Glen Davis, who created the original ``Site of the Day'' concept with his Cool Site of the Day, moves on to Project Cool at http://www.projectcool.com/. Besides offering up a top-notch site each day, Project Cool features the Developer Zone with tips on how to turn your own Web site from mundane into magnificent. Best Personal Home Page: Walter Miller's Home Page. Here's the tale of a young HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. programmer forced to live in a trailer home near Austin, Texas, with his mutant grandfather. At http://pages.prodigy.com/Hell/walter/, it's a cross between Mark Twain, Ren and Stimpy and J.D. Salinger, with a touch of Beavis & Butt-Head thrown in for good measure. Start reading for the shock value, but you'll soon realize that the author - whose name is not Walter Miller - has serious literary aspirations. No graphics, but it doesn't need them. |
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