Free Mailing Lists!: Notify List - You've got a product list, or a Web site, or a church group, and you need to send out regular information to members. Here's a site that offers free one-way list sending (recipients can't send mail back) for any purpose (except spam). It's free, and easy to use. There must be a catch, but I haven't found it.

City Stories: CityStories - "There are a million stories in the naked city, and a million cities," this site says. This is the central site of a series of sites that allow you to post stories about your city, or someone else's. The idea is to get a feel for a city by reading people's experiences. If your city isn't listed, you can add it and start a new page.

Find a Search Engine: Need a search engine? SquirrelNet offers rankings and information about search engines for various purposes, as well as tutorials and guides to most ef-fective usage.

Identify Your Ketchup: This is one for the books- the Condiment Packet Museum. The site catalogs and displays condiment packets from around the world. Clicking on a photo gives you a close-up. There are condi-ments from all the leading chains, from numerous foreign countries, and assorted variations (Kosher, for example).

Rocklopedia Fakebandica: Remember Eddie and the Cruisers? How about Marvin Berry and the Star-lighters? Or Happy Kyne and the Mirth-makers? Maybe not-none of them ever existed. This is a meticulously-compiled record of fake bands from TV, movies, and other venues. An amazing amount of work has gone into this site, but one can be forgiven for wondering why.

Looking for a Good Book?: Book Crossing - The idea is you read a book, then "release it into the wild" for others to find and read. They read it, post a mes-sage/review at BookCrossing, and release it again. Over 300 books are shown as currently "in the wild" in Sacramento. Go hunting!

The View from Abroad: Newseum - We Americans aren't very aware of opinions outside the US. They can be hard to find because the American media don't cover them, either. But at this site you can see 158 front pages every day from 22 countries around the world-a very educational sampling of how others see the world.

Hungry?: Olen.com - When you're looking for fast food that meets particular nutritional requirements, this is the place to come to. Want a burger with less than 40 grams of fat? Fries with lots and lots of oil? The finder here, based on work by the attorney gen-eral of Minnesota, will help you locate what your body needs.

Location, Location, Location: Christie's Real Estate - While you're feasting on that burger, you can contemplate where you'd like to live when your ship comes in. Christie's can connect you to the real estate brokers who handle the world's great estates-for $30 million and down.

Lego My Lego!: Eric Harshberger actually does play with Lego blocks for a living. It started as a hobby, but he is now available for par-ties and weddings, or something like that. And yes, it does pay all his bills. Find out how and see examples of his work.

Just Released!: LSSU - The 2003 list of banished words, straight from Lake Superior State Uni-versity in Michigan-words and terms banished for over-use, mis-use, and gen-eral uselessness. Some examples: "un-timely death," "having said that," "weap-ons of mass destruction," "frozen tundra," and "got game."

Rate My Kitten?: Some people have way too much time on their hands. Like the people who put up pictures of kittens at this site so other people can come along and vote on how cute they are.

Disney Detritus: Yesterland - Remember the Old Matterhorn, Mike Fink Keelboats, and the Indian Trading Post? If you miss the attractions Disney-land has shuttered, you'll find them here at Yesterland.

Help!: The short chronicles of computerdom contain records of many horrible help-desk technicians, but this site, The Chronicles of George, detail the exploits of possibly the worst ever. George (ap-parently a real person) can't spell, write, or think coherently.