HOT SITES
Community
Soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who use e-mail to stay in touch with family and friends can expand their efforts at this new community site on the Lycos network. They can write online journals, post photos and invite their comrades and others to join them.
http://troops.tripod.com
Search
What’s your identity on the Web? Find out by typing your name into this new, free search engine. It summarizes what the Web has to say about you based on the results it returns. Not sure you like how the Web portrays you? Take control of your online image by creating your own summary. Also works great for finding out about blind dates and potential bosses.
Fun and games
Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameBoy, Windows PC. No matter what platform you play video games on, this site has cheat codes, hints and tips to help you figure out how to help Lara Croft escape from a deadly trap or advance Mario to the next level.
Instead of writing about his life, or politics, or technology, or some other overdone topic, this guy dances. That’s correct. Every day, this self-described “computer geek” posts a video of himself dancing to a song he likes. This guy’s no Baryshnikov, but the T-shirts he’s hawking look cool.