ROAD FOOD

If you retch at the thought of another fast food burger while you’re traveling, check out this site. RoadFood.Com lists and reviews the best and most memorable local eateries situated alongside the long and winding roads of America and Canada. Hungry travelers can search the Web site either by "State" or "Restaurant" to find great food along their route. Brave souls who have discovered a roadside gem of their own can post the eatery and publish a review online. http://www.roadfood.com/

HOT LAPTOPS

One of the problems with laptops is that they're often used on, well, laps! All clothing continually sheds fibers and dust, and a laptop or notebook can act as a mini-vacuum cleaner, actively sucking the fibers and dust from the user's trousers or skirt deep within itself. A lap desk ( http://tinyurl.com/rsgzy) can help; or, you can become a nudist. Or, you can regularly clean your laptop's ventilation system. It's easy once you plow through this very long article to get to the actual how-to-clean part! It’s probably worthwhile, though, since it can save you lots of money and burned legs!

IT'S A MYSTERY

Ever wonder why onions make you cry, or why hair turns grey? Get answers to all of those nagging, obscure questions at Everyday Mysteries, a Web site filled with fun science facts from the Library of Congress.

The site is divided into easy-to-search categories such as Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Zoology and other science-related areas of random interest. Once you are finished browsing through the extensive archives of information, you can submit your own esoteric query to the site's editors. http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/

COMPUTER STUPIDITIES

We are not alone! Lots of people have had lots of non-understood problems with their computers. Browse through the list of "stupidities," some of which may be funny only to the geeks in our midst, but I think you’ll enjoy most of them.

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/