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Popcorn - Intriguing Sites for You

See what pops up at you! The PIE delights in bringing you a wonderful mix of intriguing sites, most of whom do not fit easily into other categories. We have just begun this page, and there is no order, so you have to stir through them all.

This also means you should come back often because you never know when something will catch your eye and drag you off in exploration. We also invite you to let us know about any sites you find intriguing. Just remember that this is a family site. See our Terms of Use.

Now dive right in! There are no calories, and the flavor's great!

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Active.com Plan for progress: their event registration service and ActiveTrainer training programs, newly synchronized, will help you set a fitness goal and achieve it in 2001. Find a league. Calendars. (Added 12/30/00)
National Hospice Foundation Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care at the end-of-life, hospice care involves a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient's needs and wishes. Support is extended to the patient' s loved ones, as well. Help for when you need to make final healthcare decisions for yourself or a loved one. (Added 12/30/00)
Framingham Heart Study Click on "CHD Risk Prediction Score Sheets." These score sheets will help you determine your risk of developing one of the following: angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, or coronary disease death. Real eye-opening information. Plus links to much information at the National Institute of Health and other organizations. (Added 12/30/00)
Your Cancer Risk Your Cancer Risk estimates your risk of cancer and provides personalized tips for prevention. It doesn't tell you if you'll get cancer or not. Anyone can use Your Cancer Risk, but it's most accurate for people age 40 and over who have never had any type of cancer. Harvard Medical School (Added 12/29/00)
CSE HTML Validator Lite version for free. Professional version available as trial download. Best HTML validator around. When designing a website, you might be surprised at the many subtle errors you may find in your code. A must program for professionals. (Added 12/16/00)
DownLoad32.com The shareware download site. This site contains over 40.000 shareware and freeware programs in eleven categories. (Added 12/16/00)
EXT Search Search for file extensions. If you don't know what kind of file you have, then go here and find out from its extension. Has 1,525 different ones and a bulletin board to ask about new ones. (Added 12/16/00)
Dads Today The community for dads and dads-to-be. (Added 12/16/00)
Parenting.com They've given birth to a brand-new website, dedicated to making pregnancy and parenthood smarter, saner, and easier. Parenting.com is full of useful tools, real-life wisdom, and a rich database of solutions, strategies, and answers from trusted sources, including doctors, parents, and child-development experts. It's a one-stop resource for moms and dads. Includes the "BabyNamer." (Added 12/16/00)
ABC News Great globs of news of all kinds, including live broadcasts of TV and radio programs. Includes Sam Donaldson's show, Disney connections, Political Points show, and straight news articles. (Added 12/16/00)
Time and Date.com Customize and create your own Personal World Clock for up to 16 cities or locations around the world. The World Clock Meeting Planner will help you not wake up your friends in other time zones. (Added 12/16/00)
AdCritic.com Created for those who find advertising more than just an annoyance between TV shows. Advertising is a part of every culture. With 96% of households with TVs, and only 92% with running water, it's no wonder. Here is where you will find practically any ad you have seen on TV. At least that is the goal. And soon you will be able to tell the world what you thought of the ad. You can vote on it, comment on it, discuss the underlying innuendoes, and hopefully even get your comments read by some of the leading advertising agencies in the world. (Added 12/16/00)
Beginners Central The internet is all about information. This site is dedicated to helping people learn to use that information in a coherent manner. Beginners' Central is based on a chapter by chapter structure, you may skip to any chapter you're interested in, or if you wish, you can start at the beginning and work your way forward. (Added 12/16/00)
Time Cave The idea is simple: drop an email message into the cave and tell it when to come out. It'll stay there for as long as you'd like, within reason. (We wouldn't want any stalactites to dissolve it, now, would we?) So for days, weeks, months, and even years, the Time Cave will hold onto your message. Once the message's time comes, it's speedily sent on its way back toward you (or whoever you addressed it to). (Added 12/16/00)
The Yuckiest Site The yuckiest site on the Internet. For kids by Discovery.com. You get to select your yucky setting, either Extra Slimy or Plain. First there was mud. Then there were worms. and now there is Yucky! Test your skills with Whack-A-Roach. All you need to know about barfing, belching and blackheads! Plus mad scientist fun in Yucky Labs! Your kids will love it. You probably won't! (Added 12/16/00)
KidScience Science and nature for kids. (Added 12/16/00)
Optical Illusions Tremendous collection of optical illusions. You'll even amaze yourself. (Added 12/16/00)
TellMe This is a free service. You can dial 1-800-555-TELL and get lots of reports on restaurants, movies, stocks, airlines, news, sports, traffic, weather, horoscope, and so on. You do this with simple voice commands and the system is very user-friendly. You don't have to sign up at http://www.tellme.com ; but if you do, there are a few questions to answer, and then the service provides some expanded options (still for free). (Added 12/16/00)
FreeTranslation.com FreeTranslation.com is an easy-to-use site for rapid translations where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages. To and from English, French, and German. English to Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese. (Added 12/16/00)
EgoSurf Ask EgoSurf to find your name -- or anything you want -- on the web. (Added 12/16/00)
Wizard Stationery Here you can learn how to make your own e-mail stationery using Outlook Express. Once you've got the skills - download from a huge selection of graphics and sounds to use in your new creations! There's almost 1400 animated gifs, background textures, page dividers and midi files - everything you need to construct that stationery masterpiece! (Added 12/16/00)
quickbrowse Don't Just Browse the Web - Quickbrowse It ! TM Combine your favorite sites into a single Quickbrowse Page. Get your Quickbrowse Pages email-delivered daily. Reviewers say: qb.com is "easiest", "slickest", "best" & "first" (Added 12/16/00)
Airline Seat Maps Look up the seating chart of your flight. This site has all of the airlines and the seating charts of all of their planes. It's remarkable how these change from airline to airline for the same aircraft. (Added 12/16/00)
Dr. Seuss Went to War A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss. Because of the fame of his children's books (and because we often misunderstand these books) and because his political cartoons have remained largely unknown, we do not think of Dr. Seuss as a political cartoonist. But for two years, 1941-1943, he was the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM (1940-1948), and for that journal he drew over 400 editorial cartoons. (Added 12/15/00)
TechTutorials.com For all of you techies or wanna-be-techies, this is the site for you! The directory of free computer and networking tutorials for the I.T. professional. The directory currently contains 1477 free tutorials! (Added 12/15/00)
Microsoft Reader Do you like to read? There's still something about the feel of a good book that a laptop can't simulate, but the Microsoft Reader comes close. Download this rather hefty file at http://www.microsoft.com/reader.
University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center Go to the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ . There you'll find at least 1,200 free ebooks available covering a wide range of subjects. The site typically "ships" about a third of a million ebooks each month.
eBook Directory Look further at the eBook Directory, claiming some 12,000 books free for the download at http://www.ebookdirectory.com.
Barnes & Noble eBooks If you can't find your reading material above, buy an ebook at http://ebooks.barnesandnoble.com/ms_reader/ . (Added 12/15/00)
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