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 find
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. |
