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Kill Clippy for
those of you that don't like MS Agents
Price Comparison Engines:
Froogle
Fetchbook
PriceGrabber
PriceWatch
Nextag
MySimon
FatWallet
HomeStarRunner:
Flash cartoon recently featured in the
Daily Universe. I like StrongBad's
email about how it'd be if he were a
Japanese anime and where he helps write
an
English paper (sometimes the
system is down due to high demand.)
Optical Camouflage (from
Mike's List
of random internet discoveries) -- Here's a short
CNN blurb about it
Microsoft's
Terraserver,
Mapquest,
or
SpaceImaging
for overhead Satellite images
Despair.com has great "demotivational"
posters for
Apathy,
Laziness, and
Ineptitude for instance.
Microsoft Agents can be entertaining.
They're not all Clippy.
Two cool opensource programs (free software, free
code) :
Gimp
2.0
(compatible with Photoshop) and
OpenOffice (compatible with MS Office)
Unicode Pages:
Anyone can be Provincial
I
can Eat Glass Project
Unicode
Consortium
Anagram Generators: an
Anagram Generator another
Anagram Generator another
Anagram Generator
The
LDS Church Website has some less known
resources like
Audio Scriptures, help for
Employment, and
foreign language Church broadcasts
Ever been sure that a webpage used to exist or
said something different than it says now? Well
Google's
cache often preserves recent stuff and the
Internet
Archive's Wayback Machine works for a
lot of older stuff.
(Just in case the snow melts before you finish
your homework.) You can always go
Snow Bowling virtually.
Talmage Bulletin Board Quotes -- an FTP
server to download Word document copies of the cool quotes that get
posted by Dr. Shelley in the Talmage Building. See
Sunbeams for an example.
Did you ever wonder how a
carburetor works? Or the
internet? Or
laughter? Find out at
HowStuffWorks.com.
Not sure what a
carburetor is? Or how to spell it
even? Here's the best dictionary gateway I've seen:
OneLook.com
Trillian is a
good, free instant messaging client that lets you use MSN Messenger,
ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, and mIRC in one program.
Garth Hill's
Windows Shortcut Keys
are often very useful
Random Site of the Day: Are you good with
legos? This guy is better. Among other things, he created a
full-size (six foot by 3 foot)
working harpsichord out of regular legos.
Do you have a friend or a grandparent on a foreign
mission?
Cumorah.com has lots of interesting information on the
International LDS Church
You've probably seen the commercials for
Ready.gov,
but have you visited
ProvidentLiving.org? It's a practical
site that the LDS Church has put together about emergency preparation,
food storage, debt management, etc.
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