Maps, Aerial Photographs and Geocaching:

• Mapquest - the mother of all consumer mapping and driving directions web sites.
• Terraserver - Microsoft's aerial photo and map site. If you use their driving directions, will your car crash?
• Geocaching - hunt for hidden objects in strange locations using your GPS receiver. Finally, a nerdy sport that makes you get up fron the computer and go outside.

• Commodore 64 in a joystick - available through QVC.
• Manual for the above (PDF format).
• Commodore One - recent privately-developed upgrade to the C-64.
• Atari Flashback retrogame console - 20 built-in Atari 2600 and 7800 games.

• Spybot Search and Destroy - software to locate and destroy spyware on your computer.
• Ad-Aware anti-spyware - Spybot's major competitor.
• Slashdot story on anti-spyware.
• PC World Story on anti-spyware.
• AVG AntiVirus Free Edition - free anti-virus software for Windows.
• Windows Support Center - non-Microsoft site w/loads of info and links about problems with various versions of Windows. Large sections on security and parasites (viruses, worms, spyware, etc) and what to do about them.

• Longs Trains - the only combined Longs Drugs and model-railroading supply store on the planet! Strange but true.
• Franciscan Hobbies - trains, planes, boats and automobiles. Scale models, of course.

• TinyURL - generates short URLs (web addresses) out of longer ones for easier inclusion in e-mails and on web pages.

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