Internet Items
Maori Land Court Site - www.maorilandcourt.govt.nz - This new site went live late last year. Features include: the ability to download editions of "Te Pouwhenua"; answers to frequently asked questions about succession, trusts, Maori reservations and incorporations; being able to lodge enquiries with the Maori Land Court on-line; access to the Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993; lots of information about the Land Court; and full contact details for Maori Land Court registries.
Special Education Website - www.tki.org.nz - This new website is for people who are interested in special education. The site has a range of information for families, whanau, classroom and specialist teachers, assistive technology teams, employment groups, therapists and students with special education needs. It has been designed as an "accessible area", meaning it will be technically accessible to a wide range of users including people with disabilities or people with old technology or slow Internet connections.
Government Services Portal. As a part of the E-government programme it's been decided to set up a new government Internet portal. The new portal, a centrally managed website, will help people and businesses (from NZ and overseas) to find out when and how to interact with government without needing to understand how government is structured. The portal is scheduled to be live by 1 July 2002.
Over the next few months, teams from the E-government Unit in the State Services Commission will be working with representatives from the community and business to make sure the portal is organised to suit as many search needs as possible. A prototype of the portal is being built and will be tested with a wide range of users in and out of government.
Photography Tips - www.photographytips.com - Get better results from your camera with some help from PhotographyTips, which bills itself as the Net's number one guide to better photos.
Online Handel - http://gfhandel.org - The great baroque composer George Frederic Handel finds a home in cyberspace. This site lets you browse through recording release info, anecdotes and other backgrounders.
The Webby Awards - http://www.webbyawards.com/main/ Hollywood has the Academy Awards, TV has the Emmy Awards, and the Internet has the Webby Awards. Most of us are interested in finding great sites, and that's what the Webby site emphasises. In 2001 (the 5th Webbys), there were 30 categories of winners (each with a People's Choice awards as well), including games, kids, personal Web site, weird, and best practices. As you might expect, some sites are history now. Some of the 2001 category winners are:
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Wankel Engines - www.rotaryengineillustrated.com/ - Felix Wankel's 1950s rotary combustion chamber engine is said to be superior in every way to the standard internal combustion engine, but has never gained widespread acceptance. It exists in commercial form - in Mazda's RX-7 sports car, for example - and has a small, but hard-core group of supporters. The Rotary Engine Illustrated site has a decent history and links to additional resources for anyone interested in Wankel engines. Thanks to "Netsurfer Digest"
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - www.bulwer-lytton.com/ - In the words of "Netsurfer Digest's" Reviewer... "World's wittiest contest site, lair of rebellious loquacity, repository of so much winning hot air it warms the globe, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a mecca for creative writers and open-minded readers who thumb their noses at literary critics and other traditional authority figures to honour, enjoy, and nourish outlandish, often hilariously warped twists and turns of postclassical imagination. Common sense be damned. Laws of physics and logic, time and place, relax or dissolve in ever-growing archives of brief but impudent blarney. Metaphor moribund in modern literature takes on new life from realists and fantasists armed with index cards, clever craft, and preposterous flights of ridicule from the ninth dimension. This is arguably the most entertaining site on the Web. Think you have a great first sentence for an imaginary novel? Think again. Bulwer-Lytton winners have you beat. By far. Hemingway has been aped, of course, to perfection. In a hurry? Hie thee to the Lyttony of Grand Prize Winners. Talk about enlightenment. It's positively gemological. What point! What flourish! What lofty tradition of defiant grit, what singular devotion to tortured verbosity, what startling vistas of recurrent glory proliferate from one server port across all the world that acknowledges ink!"
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