Car Safety: This American site, hosted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute, is crammed with tons of useful information on car safety and related topics. The excellent car safety tests (various models released on the US market are smashed up in the interest of roadworthiness) may not be relevant to us basically because most of the models are not available here. But the 'Vehicle Ratings' is worth checking out purely for the brilliance of its concept. The 'Safety Facts' will be useful to most conscientious road-users, and special features on 'Teen Passengers in Crashes' and all kinds of topics, including aftermarket parts, airbags, bumpers, bicycles, motorcycles, roadside hazards and safety belt use, are full of illuminating information. The stringent test procedures, which are explained in detail, should also be of interest to local road safety authorities. The site is easy to navigate and the clearly-marked, well-designed pages load smoothly.

eMode's New Tests: Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Are you millionaire material? Do you have a sixth sense? Do you know datespeak? If these and other self-searching questions are constantly on your mind, you owe it to yourself to resolve them by taking the personality-revealing tests at this site. There're tests to let you in on everything from your intelligence (or lack of) and emotional character to your capacity for love and lust. The tests contain anything from a breezy 12 ('Do you know datespeak?') to an exhausting 65 ('The Passion Predictor') questions, though you might want to check the estimated times to see if it's going to be a short or long session. And some, like the 'Emotional IQ Test', 'IQ Test', 'The Identity Test' and 'The Ultimate Personality Test', were actually developed by PhD specialists so the results could be more accurate than you'd be inclined to admit. The site is updated regularly with a new test added at the top. There're also links to 'Top Tests', 'New Tests', 'All Tests', 'Romance', 'Personality', 'Health' and 'Career' in case the items featured on the main page fail to satisfy you.

The Internet Classics Archive: Dying to read the works of Plato, Sophocles, Hippocrates, Virgil and other classical philosophers, thinkers and sages? Then this text-based resource is the place for you. It lists "441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors", most of whose contents are available in full. Greco-Roman works, like 'The Iliad', 'The Odyssey' and Plato's 'Republic', make up the bulk of the classics. But 'Aesop's Fables', Omar Khayyam's 'Rubaiyat' and the works of Confucius, Lao-tzu, Sun Tzu, Ferdowsi and Sa'di are here as well in mainly crisp English translations. Readers are invited to comment on the works and many of the submissions make for some stimulating reading. The main page has two basic search boxes -- one for featured texts and the other for general searches -- and a list of useful resources. You may occasionally have some connection problems with the links but despite the mass of text, downloads are pretty swift.

POY: Celebrating photojournalism, Pictures Of the Year features harrowing images of the world in turmoil as well as heart-warming visual depictions of the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity. There's a pull-down contents box at the top from which you can select the "winning images" or the entries in the various categories -- 'Newspaper Division', 'Magazine Division', 'General Division', 'Canon Photo Essay', 'Fuji Community Awareness'. How fast the photos load depends on your connection capacity, but on average, it doesn't take more than a minute for the images to appear in full. The pictures here -- the best are in black and white, possibly the best format for artistic shots -- tell the story so there's not much text. But if you want to know more about POY or the selection and judging process, you can click on the relevant links. There's also a generous listing of related hyperlinks. A great place for serious snappers looking for ideas on capturing and preserving living images.

Protonic.com: Having problems with your computer? Not getting much help from the technicians at the local computer shop who're supposed to offer after-sales support? Well, don't lose heart. There's help online. Protonic.com, an "online community which provides technical support to computer users for free", might be able to tell you how to solve the problems on your computer that are giving you so much grief. All you have to do is use the 'Problem Title' box to describe your digital difficulty ("anything from hardware to HTML problems") and help will be on the way. But before you do that, you might want to check out the 'FAQ' section as the solutions to the most common problems can be found here. You don't have to worry about the reliability of the information as the tech-support volunteers who answer the questions are mostly published software/hardware experts. But be considerate and give as much as you take because "the database driven web-hosting and bandwidth we need to keep our site alive and kicking doesn't come cheap". You don't need to pay to do that, though donations are not discouraged. Just tell a friend about the site, put a link to it on your site or browse the recommended books.

Wolfgang Puck: Cooking is Fun!: Celebrity cook Wolfgang Puck offers not only recipes for a vast variety of dishes and tips on cookware and kitchen utensils but also tells you how you can have fun in the kitchen at this tasty site (the crisp images of the dishes featured are sure to have your mouth watering). Under 'Find A Recipe', you can browse through some of Puck's favoite offerings, while 'Cooking Tips' lets you in on secrets to better cooking. There's also a weekly menu listing that guides you through preparing everything from onion soup to baking strawberry shortcake (more great pictures here). Also, unlike many other cookery/recipe sites, Puck includes images to illustrate almost every main step of the cooking method. He gives useful aperitif suggestions as well. If you have a Pentium III or Pentium IV PC/laptop, you can also enjoy virtually glitch-free video clips from his TV cooking show.

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