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Here are pointers to online resources that I have found to be very useful for a variety of things. The first one may be news to you. Babelfish translates back and forth among English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, but judging from the results into English, it only gives users a rough idea of what is being written in one of the other five tongues. The first three book search engines have hundreds of independent bookstores as members, and for the URLs I have the proprietor of Gutenberg Books in Rochester New York to thank.
The search engine list is not exhaustive, but these are the ones that were in my bookmarks or I knew off the top of my head. To be truthful, AltaVista is the one I use almost exclusively. Mapquest is great for finding the location of street addresses and getting directions to drive there. Lycos also has an online map facility. The calendar irregularities page pertains to the change to our current calendar (took place in 1752 I think) and could be helpful for all those who insist on retrocalculating the appearances of Halley's Comet and the like. The greeting card generator used to be quite handy, but I haven't used it since the summer of 1998. The reincarnation links are there because so many people interested in Atlantis seem to have an interest in reincarnation as well.
Daedalus Books Online - Order good books and music at discount
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Museum of Science and Industry
American Museum of Natural History
Freaky Freddies Free Funhouse of Free Stuff
Ideal Weight?
ideal if you've been webbing all day
WhoWhere?
(see also the major search engine main pages)
Deja News
interface to the Usenet and free email
Delphi
free forum and homepage
The Globe
free chat interface
Sunken Civilizations message forum
SiteOwner.com
there's an easy way to submit your URL
Lycos Email
free email and homepages, upgrade to POP and SMTP
Net@ddress
free email
White Ice
$20 a year for filtered email using POP and SMTP
Online Hoaxes List
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
examples of those ridiculous spam messages
Email Greeting Cards
Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards
free, ideal if you can't go to the store because you're still reading this
Paul McFedries Neologisms (humor)
Email Lists
HTML for Dummies
a weekly email list signup form online
Reincarnation
Subject: The dough truth
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:30:44 -0600 (CST)
From: [ name omitted ]
To: Jokers
Is Bread Causing Global Warming?
I love our readers. They send me such good stuff! Larry P. Gries e-mailed the message below. It was e-mailed to him by John Ray, who may be the author. No government, no matter how stupid, can ever really conquer a people who laughs at its idiotic pronouncements.
A recent Cincinnati Enquirer headline read, "Smell of baked bread may be health hazard." The article went on to describe the dangers of the smell of baking bread. The main danger, apparently, is that the organic components of this aroma may break down ozone (I'm not making this stuff up).
I was horrified. When are we going to do something about bread- induced global warming? Sure, we attack tobacco companies, but when is the government going to go after Big Bread?
Well, I've done a little research, and what I've discovered should make anyone think twice....
1: More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.
2: Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3: In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4: More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5: Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!
6: Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis.
7: Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after only two days.
8: Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.
9: Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10: Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11: Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12: Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.
In light of these frightening statistics, we propose the following bread restrictions:
1: No sale of bread to minors.
2: No advertising of bread within 1000 feet of a school.
3: A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4: No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5: A $4.2 zillion fine on the three biggest bread manufacturers. Please send this e-mail on to everyone you know who cares about this crucial issue.
Remember: Think globally, act idiotically.
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