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Favorite Links from Previous Months at CoolFamily.com:
Due to the nature of these links, some may be broken.
Fall Colors
Is it Fall already? We've collected these links to help you enjoy this fleeting season:

RED CROSS
Click here for the latest information and for donations

Home Directory Network
Extensive listing for all your needs. Includes a family website list.


Kaleodpscope Fun

Weekend Trip
Shawnee Hills Wine Trail
- Plan a grape escape to the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail. Click here to download map.

 


SKYPE
Skype is free and simple software that will enable you to make free calls anywhere in the world in minutes. Skype, created by the people who brought you KaZaA, uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other Skype users. If you are tired of paying outrageous fees for telephony, Skype is for you! Skype is quick and easy to install. Just download it, register, and within minutes you can plug in your PC headset and call your friends on Skype.

Anagrams
What's your names Anagram?

Reading Your Mind
Another one of those...How do they do that?.. websites.

Stupid Videos
There's a collection of everything on the web.

EBaum's World
Here's a site that will waste a few hours. Check out the games, e-news and more.

Jigsaw Land
Don't let your boss catch you on this site.

Tax Returns of US Presidents:
http://www.tax.org/THP/Presidential/default.htm

Easy Art
Turn your favorite photos into Art. Easy paint by numbers.

Photo Wow
Turn your favorite photos into Pop-Art.

Magnetic Poetry
Play On-line! Here are some fun sites to help you indulge the poet in you: 
Magnetic Poetry OR  Coffee Break Poetry  OR Kids Poetry

Great Stationary for your Email
Create custom email stationary. Brought to you by the free email/browser toolbar Hotbar.com. It's called E-Stationary.com. Click here for more information. $29 a year with a free trial. If you get hotbar.com for your email, it's got a direct link to e-stationary.

HP Ideahouse
Holiday fun with your digital photos. Go to HP Ideahouse and click on Home Fun. There's many, many projects for you to use. Make a photo album, get photo tips, personalized greeting cards, t-shirt maker, personalized cookbooks and so much more.

Getting Ready for OSCAR:
KILLERMOVIES.COM
With the Academy Awards coming up in Feb. here's a great movie database site.

Movies Unlimited
Stop by this site to f
ind the latest releases, cinema classics, out-of-print titles and more.

Oscar.com
Nominee List, Predict the winners. Great resource for your Oscars party.

The Greatest Films
Incredible amount of movie facts.

VeryBestBaking.com
Right in time for holiday cooking. This site is chock full of goodness.

BearShare.com
Here's another website competing with the file sharing craze.

Friendster.com
This is the site everyone's talking about. Register and list 4 or 5 of your friends. The site is based upon the notion that we are only 3 or 4 people away from knowing everyone else.

Get Your Halloween Tombstones!!!!!!!
It's that time of year to get your real spooky tombstones!
Click here to see the whole collection.

Ready for Fall ?
Here's a great site to help with that Fall Color Drive. www.foliagenetwork.com

Writing.com
This is a website where you can read and write stories and short stories and forums and all kinds of other writing activities. It's free to join and it comes with a portfolio for your work and a free email address. You can search for stories on every subject imaginable, or you can write your own. Tons of resources. Check it out.

Is it an Urban Legend?
Cruise this websites vast Urban Legends database. Find out if it's true or not. Go to www.snopes.com

Optical Illusions
Check out these entertaining tricks at www.optillusions.com

My Yahoo
Have you logged onto My Yahoo yet? It's a great home page that allows YOU to select the news and information you want. Customizable with about 80 different content choices. You can display your weather, movie and tv in you area, your horoscope, your stock picks and so much more. So far it's slightly lacking in the Sports catagory. Go to http://my.yahoo.com/ and start enjoying the internet as it was intended.

Google News
Up to the minute news available at http://news.google.com/.

Kazaa.com
Most popular music and file sharing software. Free Download. A dorm room must!

FREE DOWNLOAD:
Get Comet Cursor for your computer. Quick and Easy to use and lots of fun. 100's of cursor styles to pick from.

Golf Ball Art Contest-
What's your mark and why? Here's a fun contest to show off the unusual marks put on golf balls by it's owners.

Internet Movie Database
It's Oscar time and it's time to brush up on your movie. This popular site has all the facts.

Webshots.com
Free wallpaper software and 1000's of free picture downloads. Free e-cards too.

IMing your way around

Click here for the Basics to get you hooked.

Happy Valentines Day!
Here's a modern day love story brought to you from the NYTimes. Enjoy and have a great Valentines Day.

Pseudo Dictionary
This site is in the business of compiling words that people may use all the time that aren't in a normal dictionary. Includes slang, webspeak, and colloquialisms.

Text Translator
FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages.

Iceland and Greenland
Fascinating pictures and travel journal from coolfamily's own Donna.

Family History Project
A new site that celebrates the stories and memories of a family.


Gingerbread Houses
View this years creations.

My Card Maker
Use this site to create FREE personalized Holiday Cards with your own personal photos or stock photos to print. Fun and Easy to use.


Over population, over-development and misunderstanding leads to the destruction of wildlife. Here are two organizations devoted to helping out: 

Adopt a Manatee
Save a manatee. These are graceful river cruisers of Florida. 

Wolf Conservation Center
Wolves have been misunderstood and hunted to the brink of extinction. This organization provides haven, education and conservation.

Daylight Savings ends October 27
Discover why most of the world participates in some form of daylight savings.

Creativity Web
Interesting site devoted to getting the creative juices flowing.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/%7Ecaveman/Creative/index2.html

This Day in History
Check this site daily for interesting facts and bite sized history. Shows where we've been and where we are going.
http://www.historychannel.com/historychannel/thisday/

Astronomy
Take a look at this site if you are out stargazing tonight. Add your zip code and this site will show you what you might see.
http://www.wunderground.com/sky/index.asp

The American Flag
Discover interesting facts about the flag by following this link: http://www.usflag.org/


Best of the Web
100 of the best sites for the year 2002. Yahoo Internet Life's annual list organized for your convenience.

Email Hoaxes-Have you been duped? Read this informative article about email scams.

ODD TODD: Animation newby whose taken the net by storm!

DVD Easter Eggs DVD movies include special 'hidden' out takes, interviews and special additions NOT intended for our eyes. Check out DVD Easter Eggs website to learn how to locate that hidden egg!

Froguts.com Great Flash site that transports you back to high school frog dissecting.


See our list of Keyboard faces

Disturbing Auctions!  Who are the people who put these items up for auction?? DisturbingAuctions.com searches out the most unusual items on the auction block. Hey! Keep that credit card number carefully stowed!

All You Can Read! Check out a whopping collection on on-line magazines. Something for everyone!

New Scientist- everything from neurology to astrophysics, this interesting site has great easy to understand science news and information.


Bumper Stickers- A must see!

Dessert Wizard. How long will it take to burn off those calories.

Spruce up your email. Here's a site dedicated to the signature file at the bottom of your email. www.coolsig.com

Just about everything for St. Patricks Day


Send Cyber Sonic Valentines.

 What's the history of Valentines Day? Find out here.

Have you seen the end yet!

Put it to the test: Will Your Love Last?? Take the quiz. Or try the Chinese Compatibility Test.


Can't come up with any New Year's Resolutions try: http://www.newyearsresolutions.com/

Get ANY Newspaper On-line. Connecting you to newspapers around the world. http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Rated #1 Genealogy Site: A natural for coolfamily.com: http://www.rootsweb.com


Going to a Party? Here's a supply of Trivia to keep that party going!

Santa Tracker-NORAD official Santa Tracker. Tracks Santa on Christmas Eve.

Weather at the North Pole, thanks to Weather.com

Write to Santa on-line- Coolfamily's own Santa writer.

Build a Digital Snoman! -Straight from Disney. Loads of fun.


The First Thanksgiving - Interesting facts about our American Holiday.

Butterball.com- Considered "Turkey Central"

Turn your speakers on for this one-Click Here

Urban Legends

CDC
Sort the facts from fiction about Disease
http://www.bt.cdc.gov

Compare Countries
Compare any two countries on 100 different demographics. Lots of fun. On another note try www.indo.com to find out how far any two places are apart.

Babel Fish
On-line language translation tool! Lot's of fun.

Halloween 2001 Links:

Get your real tombstones for Halloween

Find a Grave

Ben and Jerry's Halloween

Halloween Horrors

Ebay.com 
The online-auction site, is committed to raising $100 million in relief funds by accepting direct donations and by donating the proceeds of certain items, indicated with American flag icons.

American Liberty Partnership
A joint effort between Amazon.com, Ebay.com, Microsoft, AOL, Time-Warner, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems—acts as a gateway to several charitable organizations currently accepting donations.

WTC Memorial Quilt
They are constructing a quilt to commemorate victims of the attacks.

CNNfyi.com
Very informative site. Learn about facts, history and key players. 

September 11, 2001
Providing information about the tragedy.

Snopes.com
The tragedy and related world events. 

We here at CoolFamily want to extend our deepest sympathies to the victims and their families of the Sept. 11th disaster.

NY Firefighters Disaster Relief Fund

American Red Cross Relief Fund

The Salvation Army Disaster Relief Fund


Here is a collection of fun links. They are certainly worth your time.

False Advertising
http://parody.organique.com/

The Indexed Phobia List
http://phobialist.com/reverse.html

New Age Science
http://www.readingtoes.com/

The Muffin Movies
http://www.muffinfilms.com/

The Gender Test-How do they do that?
http://test3.thespark.com/gendertest/

Here's a Classic
http://www.mytrailerpark.com


Best Travel Sites:
Best in Travel:

Travelocity.com
Expedia.com
Best Bargain Booker

Hotwire.com
Best Hotel Booker

Quikbook.com
Best Last-Minute Deals

Travelzoo.com

LastMinuteTravel.com
11thHourVacations

Site59
Discount USA Travel
Hotwire
Orbitz
JetBlue
United E-fares
priceline.com


Be a Talking Head!
Now you can send your email with a little twist. FREE Download, quick and easy to use called FaceMail. This technology sends a virtual person using text to speech technology. A great application that will get better in the near future, when you can send a talking head of yourself with your own voice. Try it, it's lots of FUN!! 
Click here:
http://www.lifefx.com/FaceOfTheInternet/index.html

More Email Fun:
http://www.pagetalk.com/index.phtml
Send your voice through email!! It's free and easy!

See Earth From Space
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov
Click on low-res photos.

Watch Buildings Implode
http://www.implosionworld.com
Yes! There is a website for everyone.

Global Explorer
Type in your address. See your house from a satellite. 

Northern Lights Forecast
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/curtis.html
We may not be able to be there, but here's a photo gallery sure to please.

First Solar Eclipse of the Century
Thursday, June 21 at 8:30am Eastern Daylight Time. This phenomenon is only visible from the southern hemisphere, but this great site allows viewing of the actual eclipse. www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse 

 Favorite Fitness Sites

Real Age- Check out this site to see if you are living the 'good life'. Take a 15 minute survey of your lifestyle; it'll add or subtract years from/to your age. Their daily email newsletter is valuable as well.

 

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