GFlora is an online encyclopedia of houseplants and really a great resource.
Whether you live in Portland Oregon, or Portland Maine – you’ll find the best plants for your home and climate.

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One of the best parody websites, with wonderful merchandise. If you’re down or depressed – here’s a place guaranteed to make you smile.

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Here’s a destination where there’s almost every fact or figure you might want to know about any country, and quite a few you probably never heard of. One of those sites you start looking through, and can’t tear yourself away from.

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Just about anyone in the nation who is over the age of 8 can tell you where they were on September 11, 2001. And this site is an archive – not of professional reporters, but rather the email, the blogs and the posts and other reminiscences of ordinary people, like us, who will never forget what they saw and experienced that day.

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This is a site that gives you details of all the airline plans, hotels and cars – for your frequent flyer plans.
If you fly a lot for business, or even for pleasure, this site is very useful and one to bookmark.

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The home of the British Library in the UK, this site provides ordinary non-scholarly folk – like you and me – access to some of the most glorious ullustrated manuscripts of the past centuries. The latest masterpiece – The St. Cuthbert Gospel – the Gospel of St. John – the earliest known intact European book, dating from the 7th century. Fabulously well preserved, the pages look as though they were inked very recently – and not 1400 years ago!

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Art so Bad it makes you want to cry. This is a virtual gallery of some of the most awful art that’s out there. Not scribbles, or the stuff that’s on sale at roadside hotels on Sundays – but real paint on real canvas that someone obviously thought was good…… Think again – and for a good laugh head over to the Museum of Bad Art. You’ll be glad you did!

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So you’re moving to another part of the country – but you don’t want to drive there. How to get your car to your new place without breaking the bank, spending a fortune in gas, and increasing the wear and tear on your car. Put it on a truck!! Yup – here’s a place where your car can be its own space shuttle and piggy back its way to you – no fuss, no muss.

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Yup it’s a holiday weekend and you don;t know where to go. But Uncle Sam does – seriously. Here’s a great place to check out lots of wonderful places to get some R and R while visiting our glorious country. From sea to shining sea – you’ll find a place that fits.

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Schools back and there’s got to be a better way than books and lectures. There is.
Teach with Movies has lesson plans based movies and films. Think Civics taught through watching the classic “Twelve Angry Men”, or “All The President’s Men”. Or studying biology watching “Antz” or “Gorillas In The Mist”. This is a cool way to learn and one that most kids won’t forget.

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