From: yahoo-picks-request@yahoo.com
Subj: Yahoo!'s Picks of the Week (September 9, 1996)

Here's the latest email installment of Yahoo!'s Picks of the
Week. Thank you for your interest in our feature. As always you can
access these picks online at:

http://www.yahoo.com/picks/

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Welcome to this week's selection of Picks, declassified and hot off
the press thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. Well, okay, not
really.  But we like to pretend. On the other hand, if you would like
to peruse what once was private but now is public (in a federal
government sense of the word), head on over to The National Security
Archive. An independent, non-governmental research institute and
library, the NSArchive is where you'll find declassified
U.S. documents that shed light on anything from the Nixon-Presley
Meeting (Elvis wanted to be a Federal Agent at Large!)  to the Cuban
Missile Crisis and a handful of White House e-mail in-between.

 http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/
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We're also eggstatic to report that the National Geographic Society
recently hatched its newest online creation, Dinosaur Eggs. So: where
to begin with the bad yolks? The Society may have put all its eggs in
one basket with this one, but they're definitely not walking on egg
shells in the process. The site offers a hard-boiled look at fossil
researchers and dinosaur hunters (eggheads, perhaps) as they scramble
to open fossilized eggs and reveal the embryos inside. Does this make
them modern day poachers? We'd like to know. We'll let that thought
incubate for a while and, in the meantime, without trying to hen peck,
we really think you should take a crack at this great site.

 http://www.dinoeggs.nationalgeographic.com
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We know it's rotten, but we're on an (egg) roll and there's more! As
it happens, the American Egg Board has come out of its shell with the
Incredible Edible Egg World Wide Web Site. Most eggcellent. Here,
you'll find recipes (some of which don't go over easy, see: egg salad
pizza cones), basic egg facts (and you thought Albumen was a band
name!), egg safety and the potentially eggcentric, yet interesting,
Eggcyclopedia.  Mmmm, egg-salady.

 http://www.aeb.org/
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What? You don't like eggs? You'd prefer to learn how to remove all the
seeds from a watermelon? Fine. Go ahead. But let us seed this thought
in your mind: although the site is useful, you've made us a little
melon-choly.

 http://www.best.com/~storm/me/melon/mellon1.htm
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In other fruit related news (and, as it happens, from the shameless
plug department), the Big Apple and surrounding areas has a new
guide. Take a bite out of Yahoo! New York, the latest in our harvest
of regional web directories. You know the routine. Find a searchable
index of local sites, as well as New York message boards, a guide to
nightlife (courtesy The Village Voice), local news and sports coverage
(WCBS), the Daily Dish (New York Daily News), theater listings and
info (Playbill), classifieds and a whole tree (grows in Brooklyn!) of
other... stuff.

 http://ny.yahoo.com/
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Now, a serious note. We realize that in these politically charged
times its only fair to offer both sides of the story. The story in
this case is something we covered in last week's selection of
Picks. We're sure you can imagine the severity of this matter and so,
without further ado, we'd like to do what is just, correct and noble,
that is: call attention to the oh so official Macarena Free
Zone. Thanks to Smile, part of the Sacramento Bee's online presence,
you can cultivate your Anti-Macarena-ness here.

 http://www.sacbee.com/smile/macarena/macarena.html
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Barbie doesn't Macarena. If she did, we'd know about it. Afterall, we
have been to The Barbie Chronicles. Created by photographer Dean
Brown, the site takes "a capricious look at the Plastic Darlin's
infamous days... and nights." Here you'll find a series of often
hilarious photographs of Barbie doing what she does best. Which seems
to be anything and everything. Our favorite is Barbie's History of
Art, which brings new meaning to our understanding of Whistler's The
Artist's Mother, Gauguin's Tahitian Caprice, Manet's Olympia and a
whole slew of other objets d'art.  Isn't there a phrase written
somewhere, Ceci n'est pas une Barbie Doll? We just don't know.

 http://www.erols.com/browndk/
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While on the topic of not knowing things, if you don't know the
location of the nearest ATM machine, try VISA's new ATM
Locator. Exactly what it sounds like, the site allows you to pick a
state from a graphical map then specify your street address (and more,
if known) and it'll throw back the three ATMs closest to you. You can
also choose to view the locator's worldwide listings, which are
informative but not as specific as the U.S.

 http://visa.infonow.net/usa.html
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Finally, Dave Barry in Cyberspace. Throughout this month, the recently
revamped Yahoo! Internet Life site is publishing excerpts from Dave's
hilarious new book. We learned from chapters already online that: the
ancient Egyptians used numbers to build the pyramids and keep score in
bowling, there's more to Stonehenge than meets the eye and Da Vinci
was pretty much ahead of his time. The rest you'll have to read
yourself.  Excerpts appear every MondayWednesdayFriday, through
October 9. Future installments include "How To Buy A Computer" and
"The Evil Genius of MS-DOS", amongst others. There's only one small
thing left to say. What is it? Take your pick(s).

 http://www.yil.com/yil/dbarry/index.html
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(Our contest: We have one hundred Yahoo! t-shirts to be given away in
some kind of Picks contest. Last week we asked you to email us your
ideas. You did. Some people emailed URLs, but that's okay, even though
you should send those to suggest-picks@yahoo.com. The ideas are
great. We'd love to see more. Again, if we use your idea, you'll get
the first shirt. Email dumb-contest@yahoo.com. Thanks!)

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The following sites were featured recently in our daily update, Yahoo!
for the Day:
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That Thing You Do - and the way you do it. Includes video and audio
clips of the new movie, and a rock 'n roll trivia game.

 http://www.thatthingyoudo.com/
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Stimorol - chew on this. Includes an "interesting" history on the
making of Stimorol.

 http://www.stimorol.com/
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Arcadium - community of users and developers dedicated to getting the
most out of the latest and greatest cutting-edge games. Free
registration.

 http://www.arcadium.com/
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EDGE NFL Match Up - previews, predictions and a weekly analysis of NFL
games.

 http://www.nfledge.com/
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NFL.Com - sporting a new look.

 http://www.nfl.com/
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Williamson-Dickies Mfg. Co. - workwear and jeans. You, too, can sport
a new look.

 http://www.dickies.com/
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The Mutual Fund Investor's Center - educational information, facts,
results, profiles and more to help you understand mutual funds.

 http://www.mfea.com/
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alphaWorks - IBM's online laboratory for Internet technologies begins
"Java Week".

 http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/
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Ross Perot '96 - here's the deal, see: the official campaign site.

 http://www.perot.org/
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National Association of Letter Carriers - where to turn when e-mail is
down.

 http://www.nalc.org/
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Westminster Abbey - place of worship and house of kings (and queens).

 http://www.westminster-abbey.org/
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The Baseball Statistics Page - I did not know that. And that. And
that.  And that.

 http://www.cloud9.net/~jcg/
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Miles Davis & Gil Evans - Sony revamps their site, with session
photos, sound files and more.

 http://www.music.sony.com/Music/ArtistInfo/MilesDavis/
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Iggy Pop - includes video, previously unreleased sound clips, a
pictorial Iggy timeline, and more.

 http://virginrecords.com/iggy_pop/
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2 13 61 Records - Henry Rollins' independent record label specializing
in an eclectic mix of music, spoken word, and audio books.

 http://www.21361records.com/
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Mungo Park - new from Microsoft, interactive expeditions and
adventures around the world.

 http://mungopark.msn.com/
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Robert F. Kennedy Memorial - "working across the country and around
the world to carry forward Robert Kennedy's mission."

 http://www.rfkmemorial.org/
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News.Com - the latest from c|net, short-takes on breaking stories to
in-depth examinations of hot issues and trends.

 http://www.news.com/
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Ploughshares - the great literary journal goes online. Samples from
current and recent issues, including the latest, Fall 1996.

 http://www.emerson.edu/ploughshares/Ploughshares.html
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PlanetOut - a worldwide online community of l/g/b/t people. Includes
live chat rooms, news, shopping and more.

 http://www.planetout.com/
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Tokyo Stock Exchange - information on listed companies, member
securities houses, TSE rules, movement of the Tokyo Stock Price Index,
and more.

 http://www.tse.or.jp/eindex.html
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Alzheimer Research Forum - non-profit organization established to
support the information needs of researchers and to promote openness
and collaboration with colleagues worldwide.

 http://www.alzforum.org/
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Time Vista - the online resort for small business from the marketing
department of TIME magazine.

 http://pathfinder.com/timevista/
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Girls Town (the movie) - "this ain't no 90210..."

 http://www.octoberfilms.com/girlstown/index.html
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American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - dedicated
to alleviating pain, fear and suffering in animals.

 http://www.aspca.org/
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The Dinosaur Society - provides grants for research in the dinosaur
sciences. Includes information on current digs.

 http://www.dinosociety.org/


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