EVENTS

Digital Art: The American Film Institute is launching its first Digital Arts Workshop. The aim is to support production of original digital media art for the Web.

What’s in it for you? The public is invited to a series of five workshop events titled “Little Screen, Big Picture” that will feature presentations and discussions on cultural and technological issues. The series runs today through next Monday at the AFI campus in Los Angeles.

The events are free, but reservations are required. Call (213) 856-7691.

Economy Forum: Hewlett- Packard Co. Chief Executive Lewis Platt and Intel Corp. chief Craig Barrett will be in San Francisco this week to talk about how firms can best utilize computers and the Internet, at the Digital Economy forum.

For more information, check out https://www.businessweek.com

CYBERSPACE * Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor Day is Sunday, and the Web offers various ways to mark the anniversary. Pearl Harbor: Remember (https://www.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html) has battle maps, a timeline and survivors’ accounts of the attack. It also has information about the Pearl Harbor visitors center and the Arizona Memorial.

Speaking of the memorial, its official Web site is https://www.nps.gov/usar/index.htm. The memorial straddles the sunken hull of the battleship Arizona. The Pearl Harbor Naval Base’s site (https://204.34.197.106/) has a history of the base and Navy links. For a more detailed history go to https://brill.acomp.usf.edu/~mportill/assign.html

* Boys Town USA: Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town in Nebraska 80 years ago this month. The organization cares for troubled children (not just boys anymore) and for families in crisis. The Boys Town site is at https://www.ffbh.boystown.org

* Civil Rights: Forty-two years ago today, Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. But you probably already know what she did. To learn a little about who she is, point your browser to https://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html. For a biography that also talks about what happened that day and what came of it, check out https://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1. And for a kid’s-eye view, go to https://www.leap.yale.edu/lclc/town/stand/rosa.html.

* Cartoons, Part I: Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists’ Index (https://www.cagle.com) is not just an index of professional editorial and comic cartoonists. The site also has lesson plans to help educators use editorial cartoons as a teaching tool. Cagle is a syndicated cartoonist and the first vice president of the National Cartoonists Society. His wife, Peg, is an L.A. Unified teacher. Together, they offer a unique way for students to learn about current events, politics, government and irony, satire and metaphor.

* Cartoons, Part II: John Kricfalusi, creator of “The Ren & Stimpy Show,” recently launched what is being touted as “the first cartoon in Internet history.” The cartoon is about a widower who must raise his “idiot nephew.” Kricfalusi could be considered irreverent, to put it politely, so parents should note the cartoon is not for kids. The weekly animated online series (made with Shockwave) can be found at https:// www.spumco.com

* Local Help: The California Community Foundation has relaunched its Web site. The nonprofit group is a source of grant support for nonprofits serving the L.A. area. For information visit https://www.calfund.org

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