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ALm 6c COMPUTERS THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1996 eb heaven Wing rij I ill ii I l3XLJJLJJ ing it to APPLE gh gffit fe jxfararks gfttfcm directory jjjjj Eack Horn fka4 if.yn Open Psnm Trtd Cu.o Getting a handle on heritage with virtual Stonehenge BY ROGER WILLIAMS GO $5250 PowerMac 7500100 161GBCD with Apple 17" display Specials 1.2Gb hard drives $525 2.1Gb hard drives $1125 16Mb DIMM $279 32Mb DIMM $550 8Mb 72pin SIMM $139 16Mb 72pin SIMM $279 EE3 $2499 Performa 520075 8800CD with pre loaded software MS Word 6 Excel 5 Both together for $259 Microsoft whmi oo you to co tooAr-1 PLANS have been announced to put Stonehenge, one of the world's greatest monuments to the intelligence of man, on show with the aid of the latest computer wizardry. From the millennium, an expected 1.8 million visitors a year will be able to see the great stones close-up for themselves, thanks to virtual reality and the Internet. The plan, costing 50 million (SA98.6 million) for the first phase alone, was announced by English Heritage and the National Trust, owners of the monument and a huge area of Wiltshire downland around it. Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the chairman of English Heritage, said the virtual reality models on the Internet had been switched on on the eve SyQuest 88Mb $299 270Mb $460 Removable drives, with cartridge, cables software Open Thursdays a Macjs Plat? until9pm 4U AuSed 148 Military Rd, Neutral Bay Reseller Prices include sales tax. E3 Angels at my table Charlie's clever trio occupy just one site of many featuring heavenly bodies.

CD ROM of the summer solstice, when the sun rises over the "heel stone" east of Stonehenge. ACCEPT that I'm probably going to be in the minority here, but wasn't Highway To Heaven, with Michael Landon as the everyman angel, a fabulous TV show? Critics rave about how groundbreaking Seinfeld is, but they forget that Highway had God manifesting as a stuntman and supporting character. How innovative is It's a blot on our culture that He never got an Emmy nomination. I wouldn't like to assert that it was direct consequence, but angels have had great press in the last few years. They've been the subject of a major cultural resurgence, which appears to have started more or less at the same time that Landon hung up his TV wings.

Angels are big business nowadays, mostly in the kind of shops where you spend your time swatting away wind chimes and wondering what died to make that awful incense smell. The Index Of Web Residing Angels got my hopes up maybe they have a significant presence on the Net too. After all, if you follow the logic of Net philosophers and theorists, we may all be angels here, disembodied spirits roaming the digital ether. In reality, the site is more of an art gallery than a Holy Yellow Pages, a handful of paintings of the winged ones, pasted together from other Web galleries (with credit and links of course). Its bright moment comes with its cheeky postscript the last painting is one of" "the greatest Lucifer.

The Holy Angels, a classification and examination of the many types of angels, does tend to go on a bit if it's definition you're looking for, better to skip to The Skeptics Dictionary. Angels On The Net describes itself as "The World's Largest Most Dynamic On-Line Resource for the Angels," but it doesn't say how many actually use it. It contains stories, pictures and "angel music" (sadly, the Devil still has the best tunes). It also offers "an environment for companies and individuals to advertise themselves and a vehicle to be found by the people who they want to sell their product or service to." Or to put it another way, "we may have higher aspirations, but we also have our hand in your The site even charges to link to others golly, that's angelic. In the Angels Minimall, you can buy literature, art (mmmm, airbrush-ing), sculptures, pendants, meditation tapes and t-shirts among many other things.

On the Angel Resource Page, you can locate an angelic CPA or an angelic insurance salesman. There is some content: a bunch of stories, a letters page, readers' drawings and some background material, Work was under way to develop the technique so that the huge numbers who visit the site Av We Back-up your data to CD 21 IM'w The original fast reliable service for Mac PC Win. I I 1 'rom yur bard drives, tapes cartridges vaL uifu We also Hire drives 4 writers overnight sell Sony, Hf 1j HP, Yamaha, Kodak CD Writers and blank discs. HiiR.H 1 9954 9885 11 310 5200 450 Elizabeth St Surry Hills expected to grow rapidly from the current 700,000 a year could use virtual reality to help them understand the significance of the ancient stones and how they were built. it Studies showed that more than 1 GSOIVIt on CO-ffOM gut u.i We put your data on writable CD-ROMs.

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"And then after what felt like minutes, but only could have been seconds, a huge ANGEL figure appeared before me in this darkness. It really startled me. What a beautiful sight this was! It gave me a great sense of 'Everything is okay'." Angelic Encounters is similar, "a place of mystical true stories" which invites the drifter to "e-mail us your beautiful angelic or dolphin whale Your review of Flipper ought to suffice. Varian's Angel Dreams is an angelic appreciation society, with quotations of interest to angel fans, a collection of poetry and lyrics, some more artwork, downloadable angels graphics and links to more than 20 sites flogging angel products, like An Angel's Touch, which specialises in jewellery, gifts and greetings, and Lasting Impressions, which offers a customisable screen saver and angel computer magnet Me? I reckon Charlie's Angels is enough for anyone. casimirsmh.com.au wrr car park and visitor centre, together with the nearby A344 road, would be swept away along with "all the ugliness the 20th century has "ti on Transfer yur Video to CD-ROM with full screen TV quality pictures and sound.

Rockdale 02 599 2933 Glebe 02 552 1388 brought to this wonderful A new visitor centre would be INTERNET built four kilometres away, and JON CASIMIR but nothing with a sense of humour, and absolutely no jokes halo halo, what's going on 'ere The Angel Miracle Network proffers a "Today's Miracle" area, alongside its news and chat buttons. I was expecting something like "Greg Norman but the "miracle" was a story about some guy who'd been saved from drowning by a wolf. There are plenty of sites for those inclined to discuss their own experiences, to tell of personal visitations. These are like a cross between The X-Files and The Ricki Lake Show was abducted by strange and mysterious confessions by people you wouldn't want to sit next to on a long train trip. Angel Experiences, for example, is one woman's attempt to explain her own story (which begins with our most visitors would probably get no nearer the stones than that, he said.

inFmrnrttiRwi But eventuallv. after an even more exnensive second ohase cost ing 250 million million), he wanted the public to be "free to roam" among the circle of stones and 1.600 hectares of historic downland containing 451 other monuments. Press Association FINALLY faster connection, cheaper rates, wider regional access Here are some answers to a parent's prayers NET jfi Qpfeis Epk8 fiookmks Help How Do Sissjese Twins Pons? A.D.A.M.- http www magnet com au salesmagnet.com.au LIFE'S GREATEST MYSTERIES Ages 7 -14 Distributed by Dataflow RRP $89.95 Windows CD-ROM Siamese twins -v is if I A YOU have a child who is full of questions? "Where did my headache come from and will my brain be MODEMS CYBERCHILD at night? Rats! It dispels that one too. Well at least it does give the kids plenty of reasons to eat healthy food. Carolynn's favourite sections are those on optical illusions and dreams, while blood-sucking leeches and bacteria living on the skin are more Stephen's speed.

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