Winter
Storms (Scholastic) - Learn all about storms
and check out a stormy timeline. Don't forget to try your hand at creating
weather with the Interactive Weathermaker! You'll be able to turn a
sunny day into a windy or rainy day. If you create the correct conditions,
you can make a blizzard - complete with a whiteout!
Battlebots! What are they? Comedy Central's
radio-controlled dueling homemade machines bring fathers and sons,
friends and foes together in an arena full of metal-crunching
booby traps...
www.computertips.com bills itself as the world's first
absolutely free online computer reference site. Tips and how-tos
for Windows, MS Office and the Net.
Shell Extension City. The "shell" is the look,
feel and function of your operating system. Extensions let you
change the defaults. (For instance, you can change what's on the
"context menu" that that appears when you right-click.
Every day new tweaks and files, mostly free, are announced here.
Be careful.
Snowtastic
Snow (Thinkquest Junior): Created by
kids. Learn about the ice age, winter sports, winter safety, the
science of glaciers, icebergs, and avalanches. Word puzzles, quizzes,
mazes, jokes. Add your own favorite books, poems, and activities
on the message board.
Billy
Bear's Winter Activities Learn how to make a snowman snowflake,
play winter and Arctic animal games, make a snow globe, print
coloring pages, download screen savers and desktop wallpaper,
work out some cool jigsaw and slider puzzles, and play great online
games such as Snowman Dress Up and Make a Snowman!
DLTK's
Winter Crafts For Children Patterns and instructions for
crafts projects such as snowmen, wreaths, penguins, and mittens.
Also: Coloring pages, e-cards, winter quotes and poems, printable
winter bookmarks.
Get out of town! See the world!
Get current conditions throughout the Northeast, weekly columns, tips and more.
A guide to getting your financial affairs in order.
A look back at the granddaddy of all winter storms.
