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Have a knotty problem, a question about the meaning of life, a decision you cannot seem to make?  Found in Recipe du Jour's great newsletter:  The Magis 8-Ball.  Just ask a question out loud and wait for a solution.   (PS.  Wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge while we're at it?)

Here's another programmer with FAR too much time on his or her hands:  See Spin, found by son Zog.   Hint:  click on the man's figure to change things.  Actually I've had a lot of days like that recently; how about you?

The Magnet Wizzard provides everything you could want in magnets, including flowers, business cards, your own photos, holidays and Joe Picarella's wonderful animal paintings.  Click at right to take a look at all that Phyllis Barber has to offer.

Having a bad day?  Want somebody to "make nice" with you and pat you on the back?  (After all, you're probably doing the best you can.)  Found this in Recipe du Jour's great newsletter:  Automatic Flatterer

From Tupperware Manager Heidi Rosen:  "When you get a

Ever buy a car that turned out to be a lemon?  Here's a resource to help you:  David J Gorberg's Lemon Law Firm.  Take a look at the website and bookmark it to learn more about state lemon laws, problem cars and your rights if you get stuck in a "sour deal".  The firm offers free Lemon Law help for Pennsylvania and New Jersey consumers of defective cars.

 If you have any old movies, transfer them now before they deteriorate any  further; you'll enjoy them later on and so will future generations.  I'm still trying to track down old family photos I remember, to post on this website, and many have disappeared.  Preserve these memories.  Read the story about how I discovered Larry's business at How I Killed Two People with my Accordion.

Check out this new site:  The Beauty Bottle, with tips on makeup, exercise, body image and much more, including stuff for men!

Want to be a chef?  Thinking about making a career of cooking?  Or just be the perfect host or hostess and serve true gourmet meals to friends and family?  The complete guide to culinary schools can be found at CulinaryEd.com.

See this interesting and informative site for dog (and other pet) owners:  The Dog Parlor

Here's a great place with recipes, facts, ideas, fun for kids and a lot more.  See Stonyfield Farm's website.

Planning to breast feed but not sure you can do it?  Here's how at The Working Cow .  Valuable information from personal experience for the working & nursing mother.

Found this in Recipe du Jour's great newsletter.  Remember kaleidoscopes, those cardboard tubes with mirrors and bits of colored glass?  I think I got one every Christmas when I was a kid.?  Here's an electronic kaleidoscope.  Show the little ones.  Have fun.

Visit The Pet Arthritis Resource Center - a very informative site about arthritis in pets. Over 100 articles on treating arthritis and hip dysplasia in pets, the science backing glucosamine, a review of treatments, a pet arthritis newsletter, and much more.  Glucosamine is one of the good supplements and I personally can recommend it.   This is a very helpful site, especially for those with dogs.

Did you know the author of the Dr. Seuss series wrote a howler of a book called "The Pocketbook of Boners"?  I spent many hours as a child howling at it.  See some samples.  There's links to children's games and fun, too.  More:  did you know that Dr. Seuss's early work was advertising and political cartoons?   In addition, here's a collection of crazy reporting and hilarious headlines from Harvard News.  Have a look at  The Pocketbook of Boners & Harvard Headlines.

If you have small children who can use a mouse, here's a site contributed by ChefAl of Great World Chefs that they will love.    It's fun and will also reassure little ones who may find Halloween a mite too scary.  See Meddybemps Ghost Walk.

ZParadise.com has games and all kinds of activities for kids from 6 years up.

Visit The Treehouse - exploring the world around us - for family fun.

Save the Koalas!  Pictures, facts, science and a kid's fun page on this Australian site.

Do you like tea?  See the Tea Museum.

Here's all you and the kids wanted to know about squirrels at Squirrel Place.

Family First; a weekly newsletter/site featuring essential web stuff for the whole family.  Highly recommended.

Backwoods Home Magazine- Practical ideas for self-reliant living.  Not exactly a recipe site but great ideas on stocking food for emergencies at "Commonsense preparedness just makes sense" by Jackie Clay.