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INTERESTING PLACES
TO VISIT ON THE INTERNET

by Nancy Preffitt
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Computer Stupidities

The biggest bug in any computer sits on the chair right in front of the keyboard...that's right, you. The mistakes users and experts alike make with hardware, software and usage are gathered, grouped and exposed at Computer Stupidities, where anyone with a mouse will feel right at home. This site will make you feel less stupid - or at least not alone with your computer problems!

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/


Grammar and Language Courses

If you think the irregular verbs and quirky spelling of English are tough, try learning Estonian. It has one present tense, three pasts and no future. According to YourDictionary.com's Grammar and Language Courses, it's one of the world's most difficult languages to master. To start the lesson, or to learn Akkudian, Finnish or Mayan for that matter, scroll through the list of over 100 languages, click on your choice, and be taken directly to online lessons with audio clips for pronunciation and practice, find off-line resources on CD ROM and in books and related links to foreign language newspapers, radio stations and dictionaries.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html


Mystery Portal

If you're a believer in ghosts, this is the place for you. Even if you're not, you might become one after visiting Mystery Portal! Mystery fanatics with investigation notes of their own or oft-told family tales that make little ones duck their head under the covers at night can share their creepiest suspicions with others at the Mystery Portal.

Haunted Britain, UFOs, crop circles, ghosts of all kinds and even haunted airfields are fodder for the fans of mystery who gather here to read the features, updates, articles and reader submissions. From UFO photographs to legendary "earth mysteries," like the shape-changing fearsome demon dog of English folklore, the offerings are detailed and often accompanied by first-person notes and evidence.

http://www.mysterymag.com/


The Virtual Cave

Nature has an astounding way of using its own power to relentlessly whack away at its own creations to recreate them. Witness The Virtual Cave, where visitors explore solution caves dissolved from solid rock, sea caves carved by the ocean, erosional caves made by particles whipped by wind and water, and lava tube caves formed by flowing lava.

The amazing variety of caves is explored in words and images without risk of violating the caver's motto to "Take nothing but pictures and leave no trace of your visit." If the keyboard isn't tactile enough for you, links to the US Show Caves Directory and the National Speleological Society can guide you to safe and respectful visits to real live caves.

http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/

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