For those of you would like to send an electronic greeting with a bit of that old-time telegraph feel, take a look at this site. It's quite fun, and visitors can send retrograms for free.
Compare rate plans for Internet access, cell phones, credit cards, satellite TV and a host of other consumer services at this nifty one-stop, advertising-free Web resource that customizes pricing information according to end-user ZIP code and enables online purchasing. [CL]
Rome may not have been built in a day but you can put together the Taj Majal in an afternoon with help from this website, a printer, and scissors and glue. Among the other folding paper projects offered for free downloading are Mount Rushmore, a Jack-up Oil Rig and the Brooklyn Bridge. [CL]
While some might have a bit of a problem with office clutter, it would appear that many of the entries in this contest may have mountains of problems with clutter....
The Climate Action Network (CAN) is worldwide network of over 340 Non-
Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and
individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically
sustainable levels. The web site presents press releases; reports on
climate change trends, risks, and signals; and many other resources
illustrating their concern and their achievements.
If you thought the web browser wars were over, think again. The folks from Mozilla have just released a new version of Firefox, which while lacking a few of the developer-oriented features of its cousin Mozilla more than compensates in terms of speed and user-friendly functionality. Plus Firefox manages to avoid the security issues that make Internet Explorer problematic for all but XP-Service Pack 2 end users.
Looking for something to tickle their fancy -- send them one of these free digital pulp fiction ecards. Sure to please!
Perhaps you too have wondered how all those beautiful people have made it into the NY Times Wedding announcements page, published every Sunday. Well, this blogger doesn't spare any punches as he suffers no fools, and even takes on the Hamptons...good fun here!
Demo site for IGS web video encoding process that, its developers say, creates high-quality video streams at low data rates--the best of all streaming media worlds. Site features free samples in .mpg format.
Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! Some pretty amusing stuff here.