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- The New York Times is the full service news source on the web. You can find editorials, film reviews, the crossword puzzle, metro news, and just about anything else here. Go to the contents, or just browse about. The Times is free for now, but you must register to get access to articles. The Times also has its own Navigator--which is a helpful collection of links to information resources all over the web.
- Surprisingly enough, one of the better "papers" on the web is my old home town newspaper, the ever popular Philadelphia Inquirer, but do yourself a favor and head right to the Front Page. The Inky is a Knight-Ridder newspaper. Check out K-R's list of news and news sources.
- The Boston Globe has expanded its article base on line. I bet you could even find Gammons' Sunday Baseball column here. Oh, Walter. It is part of something called Boston.com with lots of links to lots of Boston related stuff.
- The Chicago Sun Times puts out an electronic edition. It features Connected--a bi-weekly computer column and movie reviews from Roger Ebert. Also Chicago sports, entertainment and weather, which, by the way, is cold, cold, cold in the winter.
- And West of the Big Muddy, the San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner has a site called The Gate, get it? Funny how so many of these papers start off with sports--the gate starts off bragging about its sports page as well. Ah, how well the Web understands its market. The San Jose Mercury also has a site. This one shows up on Netscape's What's Cool list. Don't let that stop you, Morris.
- For just a quick skim of the"top stories," check out Yahoo's Reuters News Updates. These don't feel particularly local, but then, what does feel local about this crazy thing called Web?
- And if you must--Oh, must you?--USA Today delivers daily--except weekends?--to the web. Well maybe their sports columns will include daily baseball team reports.
FUNNIES
The Detroit Free Press, has a selection of funnies for free. The Detroit Free Press, has a selection of funnies for free. Of course there is a little Red Meat for your comic diet. The three mother lodes of comics, in no particular order are: King Features, including Zippy; UEXPRESS --Andrews McMeel Universal site, and big site home of the the world's most wanted superhero: Captian Ribman (the Captain has his own home too); and the Comiczone--the United Media site, and home of Rose is Rose. Your job is to figure out who which one has Doonesbury, and which has Dilbert, and whether anyone reads Alley Oop.
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