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Day 2 
Research Exercises

 

 

 

 

 

Tertiary Research
what can you find about the owners of these sites?

www.skrewdriver.net

www.randallterry.com

The Washington Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Database Research

find a database of fish and look up a trout!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image research

Find a map of the Paris Underground

Find an image of Elvis Presley meeting Richard Nixon

Use Corbis to find a picture of a Japanese Temple

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Research

Find sound clips of various national anthems 
(nb. why not try the Tower Records Site for this!)

Find a sound clip of the Japanese Bullet train (the "shinkansen")

Find a Real Media clip of your favourite band

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communities Exercise
Using Google or Google Groups find

What football team does Osama Bin Laden support?

Find Local Peace Protestors

Find people using the weight loss drug Xenical

Find Newsgroups about Crohn's disease

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Undercover research

use "the Cloak" to search for something on Google

 

 

Anonymizer

username: billanon
password: anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Email Trace Exercise
I received this spam email at my NTL World account. 
Use the headers to trace it back to its country of origin.

Return-Path: <salimahmed@gmx.net>

Received: from officepc ([194.164.89.108]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com
(InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP
id <20030221150132.VENQ4022.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@officepc>;
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:01:32 +0000

Received: from [195.92.195.173] (helo=cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk)
by officepc with smtp (Microsoft SMTPSVC #1)
id 458FBC-35BA54-06; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:59:09 +0000

Received: from [200.74.139.138] (helo=mail.yahoo.com)
by cmailg3.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1)
id AF232B-DAE094-B5; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:59:06 +0000

Return-Receipt-To: "Salim Receipts" <salimahmed@mygb.net>
Reply-To: "Salim Ahmed" <salim.m.ahmed@ukonline.co.uk>
From: "Salim Ahmed" <salimahmed@gmx.net>
To: "Recipients" <salimahmed@gmx.net>

Subject: Calls to Pakistan, India and other destinations without subscription
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:59:11 +0000
Message-ID: <EE4FDE4CE2AD4EEFAE7DACFC57F14F5@yahoo.com>

Subject : Calls to Pakistan, India and other destinations without subscription

From : Salim Ahmed salimahmed@gmx.net


Do you have friends and family in Pakistan, India and other places that are
difficult and expensive to call? A new service that has not been advertised
before allows people outside of the UK to have their very own UK telephone
number without any subscription or any payment whatsoever! Then whenever you
wish to call them you simply dial their own personal UK number without
paying standard rate international call prices. Only top quality connections
are used for this service, so that calls are always reliable.

The unique thing about it is that it works by allowing international numbers
to be called via a UK number. There is no restriction on the quantity of
numbers that can be applied for or the number of calls made. However unused
numbers will be erased.

In order to make it as easy and convenient as possible, you can call our
automated service 24 hours per day and a number will instantly be allocated,
allowing calls to be made immediately.

The cost of calling our service is 50p per minute from landlines, but can
be much cheaper from mobile phones, as this number type is often charged
at the same cost as calling a mobile on a different network. As this number
type is often classified as a mobile number, you will usually be able to
make calls when you are at work or other places where premium numbers are
blocked.

It's so easy to use this service, just follow these instructions:

1) Call the number 07031 947 047 and wait a second to connect.
2) You will now be told what your own number will be and you will then be
prompted to enter the international number it should be directed to.
3) Once you have entered the international number and confirmed it, the
system will initiate a call to the destination number to allow you to
be reassured that calls will go to the intended number.
4) The number is now allocated and ready to use!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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