The Society recently began another site devoted to the latest news on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Intelligence . This site is interesting both for its content and its heavy-handed corporate sponsorship. Beginning July 7, a team of sailors, led by travel writer Hodding Carter, will re-enact the voyage of Leif Erikson. Unfortunately, the corporate sponsor, Wisconsin's own Lands End, is too involved. Much of the background information has been written by Lands End copywriters.
Corporate sponsorship is a fact of life and often produces laudable results.
In this case, however, it almost sinks the boat. Mungo Park is a new online magazine published by Microsoft for the Indiana Jones inside all of us. Relive those days with the Virtual Frog Dissection Kit. We promise the smell won't stick with you. But beware, the server still might route you through Irkutsk.