Bits & Pieces

These items are here because we've found them new, useful, or simply entertaining and haven't found a regular category for them on our site yet!

10 Minute Mail - 10 Minute Mail provides a temporary e-mail address that self-destructs in 10 minutes, and lets you receive and reply to e-mail sent to that address. This is handy for web sites requiring a valid e-mail address for their registration process, or any time you don't want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists. Best of all, it's free!

ABA Network - Your gateway to information on legal topics that affect your daily life.

Almanac - The Old Farmer's Almanac has published useful information for people in all walks of life: tide tables for those who live near the ocean; sunrise tables and planting charts for those who live on the farm; recipes for those who live in the kitchen (does this still happen any more?); and weather predictions for those who don't like the question of weather left up in the air.

Astonomy Picture of the Day - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Compliments of NASA.

Biblical Holidays - This site contains hundreds of pages about the Biblical Holidays and innovative ideas for celebrating them. Here you will find history, ideas, crafts, activities, articles, links, a list group, and tons of information about the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith.

Bird Identification Info Center - Fabulous bird identification center that is very useful for confirming that what you saw in your back yard really was a red-tailed hawk or a great blue heron.

Build It Solar - Plans, tools, and information to help you build solar projects that save money and reduce pollution - all free!

Car Talk - Click and Clack provide answers to your automotive questions with precision and humor. A Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe production.

Catalog Search - Search and browse mail order catalogs online.

Club Mom - ClubMom has only one mission: to serve, celebrate, and represent Moms. At ClubMom, Mom is the center of the universe. If you're a Mom, you're a member!

Consumer Product Safety Commission - CPSC helps keep American families safe by reducing the risk of injury or death from consumer products. Saving Lives and Keeping Families Safe.

Cooking for Engineers - Have an analytical mind? Like to cook? This is the site to read!

Deal Time - Deal Time is a free web site where you can comparison shop for items ranging from applicances, electronics and hardware to baby, pet, office supplies and a host of other products. Deal Time has information of more than 8,000 businesses in the U.S. -- both on and offline.

Earth Easy - Ideas for environmentally sustainable living. With every activity of our daily lives, we connect with the interdependent web of life on Earth. The health of our environment is a reflection of the choices we make.

eat the seasons - eat the seasons aims to promote an understanding of food seasons. Each week we list the seasonal foods that are at their peak, and share enlightening facts, useful tips and enticing recipe ideas picked from the web and our favourite books.

eNature - The eNature Online Field Guide is a searchable database for identifying more than 4,000 plant and animal species of North America.

Google Maps - National/International Street Maps. A very extensive street mapping site. Great for planning trips!

Horse-Country.com - A wonderful resource for those who ride. The server can be a bit slow at times but it's a great site. As Col. Potter on "MASH" used to say, "My three favorite things are horses, cowboys, and horses."

Hotels.com - Savings of up to 70% off regular hotel rates. The best prices at the best places. Guaranteed!

How Stuff Works - Articles explain how hundreds of things work, from elements of the human body to space-age technology.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory - This is a NASA site that is rich in information about the solar system, the Earth, the Universe, and technology. Great for those homework assignments! (opens in it's own window)

Letter from America - The World's longest running radio program was first broadcast in 1946. Now you can read Alistair Cooke's weekly letter via the Internet compliments of the BBC. A quiet Sunday morning, a hot cup of tea, Alistair Cooke's delightful insight -- now that's the pinnacle of civilization!

Make Stuff - If you love to make things, if you constantly have a project going in a back room, or cluttering up a kitchen counter, if you start making Christmas presents in June and you watch all those do-it-yourself shows on TV, we've got all kinds of recipes, formulas, craft projects, and ideas that you can make yourself.

Millionaire - The best the world has to offer.

Mother Earth News - The original guide to living wisely.

NASA Television - NASA TV provides real-time coverage of Agency activities and missions as well as resource video to the news media and educational programming to teachers, students, and the general public.

Online Conversions - Convert just about anything to anything else.

Online Speed Test! - Ever wonder just how fast your Internet connection is? Here's a test that will gauge your connection speed. Your speed is charted alongside comparison values for different types of connections. The test opens in a new browser window, and, after closing the test window, you'll find us waiting patiently, right here, for your return.

OpenDNS - OpenDNS makes your Internet experience safer, faster, and smarter for you and everyone using your network.

Prosper - The online marketplace for people-to-people lending. The way Prosper works is intuitive to people who have used eBay. Instead of listing and bidding on items, people list and bid on loans using Prosper's online auction platform.

Recalls.gov - A combined effort of six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions to create a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls.

Recipe Source - From a start of around 10,000 recipes, there are now about seven times that many! On line since 1993.

Renegade Gardner - Here you'll find information, products, services, and help geared toward the unique needs of northern gardeners.

Search Systems - Now over 7,725 free, searchable public record databases!

Systransoft - This site will enable you to translate web sites or pretty much anything at all between English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. You can even translate files on your hard drive. Very high degree of accuracy.

The Genographic Project - From National Geographic. When humans first ventured out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, they left genetic footprints still visible today. By mapping the appearance and frequency of genetic markers of modern peoples, we create a picture of when and where ancient humans moved around the world.

The Original Tipping Page - Have you ever wondered how much to tip or if a tip was required at all? The Original Tipping Page provides the answers to who to tip and how much to tip. Includes an online tip calculator.

The Sitter Cafe® - Where parents find sitters and sitters find work.

This to That - If you need to glue a piece of "this" to a piece of "that" and aren't sure of which is the right glue for the job, here's where you can find out!

Virtual Drugstore - Look up your prescription drugs and see what they are for, how they work, side effects, cautions and interactions.

The Wayback Machine - The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. Step back in time and surf pages from the early web!

wikiHow - wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. wikiHow currently contains 21,035 articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers.

Zip Code Finder - Need to find the zip code for a city? Here's a handy online zip code locator from the United States Postal Service (motto: When it absolutely, positively, has to have a 40% chance of being there by the end of next week)

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