Let’s Do Lunch and Technolink

Fox Kids Worldwide Vice President Greg Economos and Reflection Digital Chief Executive Shawna Olwen will be the featured speakers at a Technolink Assn. luncheon Wednesday at the City Club in downtown Los Angeles.

Technolink is a coalition of business, political, academic and high-tech industry leaders creating linkage and resources for emerging and start-up companies.

For more information about Technolink or the luncheon, call (310) 826-3364 or visit https://www.technolinkassoc.org. Space is limited.

CYBERSPACE

* Party On: New Orleans isn’t the only place to celebrate Mardi Gras this week, because Mardi Gras mania has hit the Web too. Just check out https://www.lovenew

orleans.com/mardi_gras/. There’s a parade primer, carnival basics, customs, history, bead traditions and more. The Official New Orleans Mardi Gras 1998 Site (https://www.mardigrasday.com/) has a message from Mayor Marc Morial, a parade schedule, Virtual Bourbon Street, RealVideo cybercasts from Mardi Gras, a drink and recipe guide, the Mardi Gras Math Game and, as always, much more.

* NAACP Celebration: This month marks the birthday of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, which was formed in 1909 in New York after a riot in Springfield, Ill. If you want to read more about the NAACP, the oldest civil rights organization in the U.S., go to https://www.naacp.org. The site also offers news, action alerts, program information and state conference convention schedules.

* Planet Patter: Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system, was discovered in February 1930. Are you just dying to know its mass, diameter, obliquity, mean density and temperature? It’s all at https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov

/planets/welcome/ pluto.htm. The National Space Science Data Center has a Pluto fact sheet, images of the planet and a Pluto FAQ at https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/plutopage.html

* Remembering Waco: This week marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the 51-day standoff in Waco, Texas. In 1993, a gunfight broke out at a compound there when agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tried to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians. For a bio of their leader, David Koresh, who was born Vernon Wayne Howell, point your browser to https://www.boston.com/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/davidkoresh.html. The writings of Koresh are at https://www.davidkoresh.com. PBS’ site has the Inside Story, with pictures, a who’s who and a chronology of events at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front

line/waco/. And if you want to see what the ATF is up to these days, check out its Web site (https://www.atf.treas.gov/).

* Don’t Forget the Alamo: Today in 1836 the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio. You don’t remember the Alamo? The Untold Story of the Alamo (https://www.flash.net/~alamo3/) will fill you in on what happened. It includes biographies, a glossary, trivia, events and news. A tribute to fallen heroes such as Davy Crockett can be found at https://www.ansaldo.it/~paesani/alamo.html

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