http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/Women.htm

The Women Mathematicians website is "part of an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics." Biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians and some photos are posted here. Over 150 names are currently listed and more are being added as the project continues. The mathematicians are listed alphabetically and chronologically or can be searched by keyword or name. They also list the names of First Ph.D's in Mathematics by Women before 1930 and Prizes, Awards and Honors for Women Mathematicians, and an extensive list of other Internet resources on women mathematicians and scientists. Contributions of biographical information or essays from those outside Agnes Scott College are also welcomed. [VF]

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/contributions/scharein/KnotPlot.html

The KnotPlot website, developed as part of a Robert G. Scharein’s Ph.D. thesis, offers an extensive "collection of knots and links, viewed from a (mostly) mathematical perspective." Most of the images were created with KnotPlot, a program used to visualize and manipulate mathematical knots in three and four dimensions. The KnotPlot program is available to download for free from this website along with some beautiful images created using the KnotPlot. The Mathematical Knots section provides a nice overview of knot theory and the mathematics behind knots for those interested in more than just the visual beauty of the knots. [VF]

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/why_no_math.html

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive offers a few explanations for why there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics. One explanation involves a woman...but after presenting evidence from the sci.math newsgroup's FAQ list, the author concludes that this is not a viable explanation and instead suggests that Nobel "did not create a prize in mathematics simply because he was not particularly interested in mathematics or theoretical science." Visitors to the website are invited to offer their own explanations and commentaries, which are also posted on this website. [VF]

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/built/hhintro.html

The Library of Congress offers this website, Built in America: Historic Building and Engineering 1933-Present in the United States of exhibits drawing from two large collections, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record. The collections include "measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites in the United States dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries." The collection can be downloaded as a single file or explored through the various exhibits, such as Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920. A collection of images organized by state is also available and provides a sampling of buildings and engineering technologies which range from windmills and one-room schoolhouses to the Golden Gate Bridge and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. [VF]

http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=90

The 2004 Science and Engineering (S&E) Indicators report, produced biennially by the National Science Board (also reported on in the May 10, 2002 report), is considered "the nation's most authoritative source for national and international science and engineering trends in education, the labor force, academia and the global marketplace, as well as nationwide and statewide expenditures for research and development." The NSF press release summarizes the findings and offers a link to the full (much longer) report. This 2004 issue is the first time that the report also includes a chapter with state-by-state breakdowns of key S&E indicators. [VF]

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=433

Reporters Without Borders, an association dedicated to restore "right to be informed" in countries where there is no freedom of the press, has posted this report called Internet Under Surveillance. They report on the "Internet police force" in China and cases where Internet users have been sentenced to life imprisonment for criticising a dictatorship. Their analysis links governments’ justification for Internet controls to the fight against terrorism and cautions against comparing the actions of "routinely authoritarian regimes and those that may make mistakes (which can be corrected)." Data is presented by country and includes an overview of internet usage, Internet laws, government activities, and links for more information. [VF]