For the Rest of Us
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Some web sites do one thing extremely well. Others blow it by doing many things so badly you want to cry. Here we list the addresses of sites to click on to carry out singular but sometimes, urgent tasks.
| IF YOU WANT TO... |
GO TO... |
| Learn to tie a tie | http://www.fashionmall.com/ media/mr/doc/howtotie.htm |
| Find bargains on all kinds of stuff | http://www.ebay.com/ aw/welcome.html |
| Buy close-out merchandise | http://www.andysgarage.com |
| Find financial aid for college | http://www.finaid.org |
| Keep your children happily occupied | http://www.kids-space.org |
| Find out how far apart places are | http://www.indo.com/distance |
| Decide whether to do a household repair job yourself or hire a pro | http://www.housenet.com/diy |
| Choose a breed of dog | http://www.purina.com/breed |
| Find an area code for a city or vice versa | http://www.inconnect.com/ ~americom/aclookup.html |
| Get the Zip code for an address | http://www.usps.gov/ncsc |
| Look up a word in the dictionary | http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm |
| Find a synonym | http://www.thesaurus.com/ thesaurus |
| Read FFWD's favorite online magazine | http://www.salonmagazine.com |
| Plan an extremely unusual road trip | http://www.roadsideamerica.com |
| Figure out what those abbreviations in online chats mean | http://www.angelfire.com/ pages0/jerbo/chat.html |
| See how much it costs to ship a package via UPS | http://www.ups.com/using/ services/rave/rate.html |
| ... and via the U.S. Mail | http://postcalc.usps.gov/ itds/owa/calculator.home |
| Get comparative quotes on life insurance | http://www.insuremarket.com/quotes or http://www.bestquote.com |
| Read quotable quips | http://www.lexmark.com /data/quote.html |
| Get lessons on almost any task imaginable | http://www.learn2.com |
