Hoax-Busters: (sites that know if that email you just received, or that weird story you just heard,  is to be believed)

• Snopes Urban legends reference pages.

• Scambusters Internet scam resource center.

Tools, Utilities

• Pop-Up Stopper, by Panicware puts an end to those annoying pop-up ads, and it's free.

• FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface, and it's free.

Games:

• SAMOROST An excellent adventure/puzzle game for all but the very youngest.  ( If you get stuck, see our widely-plagiarized cheat sheet.)

• Funschool An extensive collection of educational games for all ages.

Friendly Competitors:

• Our friend Ann, at zumwinkle.com does truly wonderful graphic/web design.
• Shelley Doyle does excellent web site creation and maintenance, and provides setup, training, and support for a variety of home and small business IT needs.

• Parallax Design Group offers an impressive array of web and graphic design services.

• MySearchGuru specializes in low cost Search Engine Optimization. There's a lot of snake oil being sold in this arena, but MySearchGuru is legitimate.  They don't attempt the kind of tricks that can eventually get you banned by major search engines like Yahoo! or Google.

(stay tuned for more)