On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Nano Nano wrote: > Watching a program on PBS, I decided I wanted to read about Stonehenge. > Off to google, I go, searching for "Stonehenge". Didn't like the > results. Tried Google directory, Yahoo, and Teoma: didn't like any of > them. > > The experience I wanted was a deep, rich, complete, authoritative, > well-annotated, and well-accepted "Library-like" experience reading > about Stonehenge: names of the best scholars, the names of the most > influential histories and critiques on the subject, in short the sort of > experience I would get at a University Library, only faster. > > The internet is nothing like that. I am lucky in than San Jose has > opened a San Jose State's University library to the public: even though > it is not a world-class university, the quality of the knowledge > available there *blows away* what I can find on the Internet. Did you try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge They tend to have decent links. Then again, sometimes a public library is the best place to look. If I wanted an overview of the English Civil War, weaving, or anthropology, the local library will probably be one of the easiest ways to find that information. However, if I want the biography of Haruki Murakami[1], a study of the Gilyak[2] language, or the latest PHP documentation[3], the web will probably be faster and more in depth. ~ Jesse Meyer [1] Japanese author. Writes some rather unusual books. [2] One of the few languages on earth that can't be traced to any other language. [3] PHP has some rather good documentation on their homepage. -- icq: 34583382 | Nethack 3.4._3_ is out! http://www.nethack.org jabber: dasunt@theoretic.com | "And how can man die better / Than facing msn: dasunt@hotmail.com | fearful odds / For the ashes of his fathers / yim: tsunad | and the temples of his gods?" ~ Babington
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