Date: 09-16-96 (02:11) 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to this week's selection of Picks, where we have a little piece of wisdom we'd like to share with you. A while ago (say for argument's sake 1983, when the movie Arthur was a big hit) this gem may have been like music to your ears. But we figured we'd remind you anyway. See, it turns out that if you get caught between the moon and New York City, there's nothing that you can do, really nothing that you can do. The best that you can do, as it happens, is fall in love. We know it's crazy, but it's true. This, according to Christopher Cross. If you follow. http://www.christophercross.com/ ____________________ The above mentioned is such a truism we've heard that in the next couple of weeks Geraldo Rivera will be dedicating several shows to the topic. We believe the series will be called, "Lunatics in Love: Is My Husband the Man in the Moon?" Or something like that. We also heard that his producers proposed a few others. Here they are: "Moon over Manhattan: Is There No Escape?", "My Lover is Cheesey But That's Amore" and "Mary Jo and Joey Buttafuoco: It's Just a Phase." Or something like that. http://www.geraldo.com/ ____________________ You're skeptical. Of course! Who wouldn't be? But we know what we're talking about. Afterall, we read it in line at the grocery store. Geez, it all over the National Enquirer. We wanted to know! http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ ____________________ We're making up stories here, but that's just because we want to be featured in StoryWeb, the "gateway to original entertainment content on the internet." StoryWeb reviews, rates and collects online narratives. They're presented nicely by genre, which includes Horror, Adventure, Romance, Real World and Sci-fi. Whether you're interested in the ratings or not, it's the place to visit if you're in the mood for online "Once upon a time..." Alas, we saw no place for totally cheesey. http://www.storyweb.com/ ____________________ Don't like online stories? You'd rather make your own Homemade Casket? Fine. Go ahead. Sure, it "doubles as fine furniture until needed." No doubt. And it is certainly a way to "simplify with dignity and economy." But remember: you dig your own grave. End of sermon. http://www.volcano.net/~johnstone/caskhome.html ____________________ More on digging graves: a group of archaeologists are on an expedition in the high Andes attempting to find and unearth frozen Inca mummies sacrificed more than 500 years ago. You can follow the group at Ice Mummies of the Inca, which includes frequent news updates, photographs, mummy backgrounders, reports on the history and culture of the Inca people and more. Recently the crew discovered female shawl pins that appear to be linked to sacrificial mummies. The site accompanies a current NOVA/PBS television special on the expedition. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/nova/peru/ ____________________ We hope that whatever artifacts the crew of archaeologists finds don't make their way into the oh so very unofficial Los Angeles County Coroner's Gift Shop. That would be wrong. http://home.earthlink.net/~rusty/www.coroner.com/index.html ____________________ The other PBS television show everyone is talking about also has a web site. THE WEST, an eight-part documentary series by Ken Burns and Stephen Ives (of Civil War fame), tells an epic tale of the American West. Ergo the name. This site complements the show and includes an interactive timeline of events in The West, an impressive clickable map, a guide to the series, links and more. More indeed; perhaps one of the greatest features here is that you can search the site for documents used in the show. Documentary documents, so to speak. A number of our searches returned fascinating and worthwhile results. We never thought we'd be saying it, but we're saying it: go West, etc. etc. (If you're interested, Gary Kamiya's Shame and Glory, a review of THE WEST series, appears in Salon Magazine.) http://www.pbs.org/thewest/ http://www.salon1999.com/weekly/west960909.html ____________________ Finally, a few words (from the newest frontier) about Web Pages That Suck. Conventional wisdom has it that one way to learn how do something well is to study what is done badly. If you agree, go here. Vincent Flanders has put together a series of, uhm, examples of what doesn't work with the purpose of helping "people design effective and aesthetically pleasing web pages." His philosophy: "if a person is exposed to bad web page design they'll be less likely to use these techniques in the pages they create." Which leaves us hesitantly suggesting only this: it's time to take your pick(s). http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com ____________________ (Our contest: We have one hundred Yahoo! t-shirts to be given away in some kind of Picks contest. These last two weeks we asked you to email us your ideas. You did. They're 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! This will probably be the last week of idea taking.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following sites were featured recently in our daily update, Yahoo! for the Day: ____________________ Suzanne Vega - includes lyrics, sound and video clips from her new album, nine objects of desire. http://www.vega.net ____________________ Captain Morgan Rum - yo ho ho and a voyage to the bottom of the web aboard the Cybership 2. http://www.rum.com ____________________ the GIST - subscribe for free personalized tv listings. http://www.theGIST.com ____________________ London's Philharmonia Orchestra - web site for two pianos and orchestra in E flat Major. Or something like that. http://www.philharmonia.co.uk ____________________ Go, girl! - bi-weekly magazine dedicated to getting women involved in sports. http://www.gogirlmag.com ____________________ babyonline - information service for parents and childcare professionals. Includes online Q&A about pregnancy and childbirth, childcare facility listings, archives, consumer advice and more. http://www.babyonline.com ____________________ Newsweek International - business resource center from Newsweek. http://www.newsweek-int.com ____________________ Good Morning Silicon Valley - daily tech and computer reports and updates from Mercury Center. http://www.sjmercury.com/gmsv/ ____________________ Eddie Bauer - you look casual, yet outdoorsy. How nice. http://www.ebauer.com ____________________ TABASCO - the one and only. Includes recipes, history, music, photographs and... hot stuff. http://www.tabasco.com ____________________ Bohemia AfterDark - alternative goth rap punk hiphop rockabilly from Warner Bros. http://www.bohemiaafterdark.com ____________________ Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta - a whole bunch of hot air in New Mexico. http://www.aibf.org ____________________ United States Civil War - helping to bring Civil War history to life. http://www.uscivilwar.com ____________________ Witness: Roads to Refuge - features the stories of those who survived the war in Bosnia as they attempt to put their lives back together and find their way home. http://www.worldmedia.fr/witness/ ____________________ The Mary Rose Virtual Museum - a British warship raised after more than 400 years on the ocean floor. http://www.synergy.net/homeport.html ____________________ Richard Dawkins - unofficial page dedicated to the zoologist, author and first holder of the "Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University". http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/ ____________________ Jolly Time Pop Corn - they've spent an awfully large amount of time thinking about pop corn and want to share. With you. http://www.jollytime.com ____________________ Harvard-Square.Com - a local guide. http://Harvard-Square.Com ____________________ Liz Claiborne: Curve - follow Jack and Shelley on their road trip around the country. http://www.taponline.com/curve/ ____________________ Roadside America - this land is my land? this land is your land? http://www.roadsideamerica.com ____________________ National Onion Association - was that really a recipe for "Ultra Moist Secret Chocolate Cake with Fudge Icing"? http://www.onions-usa.org ____________________ Nihon Sumo Kyokai - the Japanese Sumo Association. Can you say Akebono? http://www.sumo.or.jp/index_e.html ____________________ Dallas Cowboys - yeah, yeah, yeah. http://www.dallascowboys.com ____________________ Astrodienst Atlas Database - find the longitude, latitude and time zone of cities around the world. http://www.astro.ch/atlas/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feel free to stop by for the complete text that surrounds our list of Picks or simply for the list, whichever you prefer: http://www.yahoo.com/picks/ Also try Yahoo! for the Day, a way for us to get noteworthy sites to you as we see and add 'em: http://www.yahoo.com/picks/daily/ and Yahoo! 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