NOTES

WELL ... here we go again.  The announcement last week that Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in 
Cleveland, Ohio, will be having four flights a week to Iceland from both Icelandair and WOW airlines 
spurred me to think about updating this website.  So I am going to try after a long period - and more 
dead links.  What I am doing first is to post all the news links I have accumulated the last couple of 
years; they will be in a new section at the top. Most of them should still be good.  A few will be 
duplicates of existing links and these will be weeded out eventually.  But, to start, all will be 
unorganized. When I can, these links will be moved, one by one, to appropriate categories.  Then I 
will review the dead links and see if they have been replaced or are available on the Way Back Machine 
(available at the top of the page next to this, of you want to try on yout own).

August 29, 2017



GREETINGS, ONCE AGAIN. After about four years of mostly neglect to this site, I have actually started to make it (relatively) current.  
As of a few days ago, I started updating according to these priorities:

   1) Add the several hundred links I have collected in the interim (even though some of them may be already dead);
   2) Replace dead links with archived copies, if I can find them (usually via the Way Back Machine); and
   3) Delete any dead links if I cannot find an archived copy or something relatively close via Google.

There are no illusions that this task will be difficult (if you are an academic, do you have a TA who would be willing
to aid in the effort?).  In the first three days of the first priority, probably no more than about ten links have
been added over a dozen hours.  It takes time to search the original source for a place to put the link, to correct
the inevitable mistake formatting the link, and to verify that it works.  Working a couple hours a day will likely
take a year.

Suggestions, correction of errors, and the like are no problem: dreith@kent.edu .  Thanks.

2016 January 12




NB:

I have just returned from an eighth (yes, I love the place) trip to Iceland.  As noted earlier, many links here are 
dead.  However, I am so refreshed that I will be adding some great new links to this site and will be updating and 
getting old ones back in shape.  Remember that most anything found here, even if seemingly dead, probably is archived somewhere.  That is the purpose of the Way Back Machine, which is otherwise linked at the top of the site.
10 June 2012



Today is February 16, 2010, and I just randomly checked a number of links
on this site.  As I suspected, even more are now dead.  I guess that is to
be expected.  What I intend to do is to  upload some new links I have
collected over the past year and then get busy trying to fix or replace
the dead links.  I will work over the next year to do what I can.  If you
know of a successor link to anything that is dead, please let me know at
dreith@kent.edu .  And just remember that anything is dead can probably
be resurrected at the "Way Back Machine" address on the main page (and
be careful of the " " there since that really messes up your search if you
enter them twice.  Thanks, all.


This site has been dormant for over 18 months (as of December, 2008), and
I am just now wondering what I should do with it.  I recently did a Xenu scan
of the site.  What the scan revealed is that there are 7104 links on the
site, with 4710 good links (66.3 percent) and 2394 bad links (33.7 percent)
and there are seventeen different reasons for the bad links found here.
In other words, about one out of three links you check will be a dud.  Per
an explanation below, some of these are salvageable and others can still be
found, but still others are probably lost for good.  My apologies if you
are a victim in this regard.  If you do the math of ten minutes (probably
more) per correction for the bad links, it adds to over 200 hours of work.
So ... I am unlikely to attempt a repair of all the busted links; more likely
is that I will simply delete all such links.  Less likely, but still possible,
is that if this is the only link that appears on the site, it (the site) has
been disbanded - it's been a lot of fun and too much more work.  But if
there is something you really want, take its URL to the Way Back Machine
( http://www.archive.org/index.php - also listed at the top left of the
main page here), where it is likely you will find an archived site.  Google
rules the world these days, anyhow (and, in fact, it might be faster to
find what you want there than rather than searching here). The site has
always been intended only as a personal resource and was put online so that
I could access it anywhere.

Takk og bless.

                                                    December 17, 2008



The redundancy of information here is intentional because of the
transient nature of links.  

The pages here are best viewed with the following parameters:  a recent
version of Internet Explorer (IE), with a text size of "larger" (under
"view" in the bar above), and with a screen resolution set for 800 x 600
pixels.

This work remains primarily a bookmarks list - perhaps it should be called
a bibliographic portal - for my own personal research, but has been modified
to a degree to accommodate some external interests that developed when I
learned it had been discovered through various search engines and being
used by others (which is fine).  The links here have no political bias,
i.e., they include Government of Iceland policy sites as well as sites
which oppose such policies; the environment and fishing policies are just
two examples of such differing philosophies that will be found here.

Many of the dead links found at this site are being left there for 
particular reasons.  Even though they may be unavailable now, there is 
a possibility that they can still be found.  Go to the WayBackMachine
of the Internet Archive and type in the URL address of the missing link 
and see if it might be available there.  Further, I have learned that
broken links are sometimes temporary for technical or other reasons and
often return after a few days.  In addition, using a search engine with a
specific word or term (such as the title of what cannot be found here) often
leads to a cached site.  I have also discovered that English-language sites,
particularly in Iceland, change addresses often; if you backspace to the
parent site, the link there to the English version will often be found and
likely under a different address.  Lastly, the very title of a link may
serve as inspiration for a search on the topic, even the specific link with
a new URL perhaps; the web is a trove of serendipity (please let me know if
you find such a new link).

I am also considering linking only to the Icelandic version of a site,
even when there is an English version.  The reason is that the English sites
very often change addresses, while the Icelandic address is constant but
includes a flag link to the English version.  If you get an Icelandic site,
then please check on that page to see if an English version exists.

The intellectual level of the links here runs the gamut from elementary
education through university, private, and corporate research.  I am especially
happy to encourage the work of the kids, in Iceland and elsewhere, represented
here.

This website has been constructed solely as a bookmark in support of my
research interests as a professional geographer.  Its use by others is for
casual interests and purposes only and will be used with the understanding that
I will not be held liable for any damages resulting therefrom.  Further, this
website contains links to third-party websites.  The linked sites are not under
my control, and I am providing these links only as a convenience, and the
inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement of the linked site by me.  

I want to express my thanks to Baldwin-Wallace College for their hosting the
original version of this website and to both Yahoo and Geocities and also to
Kent State University for giving me space for the current editions.  It seems that
all Internet sites are transient (hence the reason for this caveat page).  I hope
it will stay around a little while yet; my most permanent address is here if
you would like to be advised of any new address.