Grinnell Workforce Center

What kinds of things are currently available on the World Wide Web?

I've put together a sampling of typical pages in some of the most common categories. First, here are some representative pages on topics of interest to the Grinnell Workforce Center:

Lists of job openings; advertisements of job openings; development offices; classified ads; career information from prospective employers; advice on writing resumes; advice on interviews; notices about job fairs; automated job-search tools.

The following pages give some idea of the diversity of the World Wide Web:

Sandwich shops; software companies; clothing stores; book sellers; telecommunications services; personal ads; commercial scams and pyramid schemes.

Colleges and universities; high schools; resources for teachers; alumni associations; adult education groups.

Government agencies; research laboratories; office-holders; libraries; countries, states, regions, and cities.

Farmers; amateur radio fans; musicians; political candidates; classic car enthusiasts; dog lovers; TV preachers; basketball fans; and ordinary folks.

Movies; television shows; computer games; outdoor recreations; magazines; contests, sweepstakes, and giveaways; joke collections; and recipes.

News services; newspapers; news magazines; weather forecasts; telephone directories; dictionaries; information about health, sports, current events, physics experiments, economic policy, cosmic occurrences, and foreign languages.

Literary societies; poetry collections; historical documents; biographies and works of great philosophers.

Computer freeware; collections of graphics and backgrounds; computer magazines; advice, information, and on-line help about computers; computer users' groups.

Art exhibits (including exhibits of computer art and photography) and galleries; architects.

Finally, here are some of my own favorite links:

American Voter '96 (Congressional Quarterly) ... Amnesty International ... Anagram generator ... Astronomy picture of the day ... The Center for Defense Information ... CSICOP ... EPIC Cryptography Policy pages ... League for Programming Freedom ... Majority '96 ... Mirsky's Worst of the Web ... Molly Ivins column ... Mother Jones ... National Public Radio ... Natural Resources Defense Council ... Office of Human Radiation Experiments ... Penn and Teller ... James Randi hotline ... RISKS Forum ... The solar system ... Sunrise and sunset ... Mark Twain ... U.S. Bureau of the Census ... U.S. national debt ... U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock time ... U.S. population ... USPS ZIP+4 lookup form ... VOTELINK ... Vote Smart Web ... The World Lecture Hall ... World population ... The Year 2000 Information Center ... Zero Population Growth

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created January 16, 1996
last revised October 23, 1996

John David Stone (stone@math.grin.edu)