Here's a bunch of nifty stuff I've come across over the years of playing around on the World Wide Web.

Mi intellectual property is not su intellectual property. Who's reading your email? Who's viewing files you've got saved on the network drive? With Pretty Good Privacy, nobody but you and the people you give access to! The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, after all. Not only is this public-key encryption ultra-secure, and virtually uncrackable, but you can download it for free as evaluation software and try it yourself...get it before the government decides you shouldn't have it. http://www.nai.com/

Do you have U.S. Savings Bonds lying around, collecting dust, er, interest? Find out how much your investment in America is worth at the Treasury Department's Savings Bond Wizard site, and download the cool Savings Bond Wizard software that'll make it easier for you to inventory and evaluate your stash of bonds. http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sav/savwizar.htm

Project Gutenberg is working to transcribe all our printed literature into digital media to preserve it for perpetuity. Check out some electronic books, and learn how to do your part at one of their sites. http://www.gutenberg.net/

A great paper for Chicago guys and gals. The Chicago Reader has comprehensive listings for movies, performing arts and galleries across the city, news of the weird, the ever-popular READER MATCHES classified ads, savage love, SPACEFINDER...oh, and lots of cool articles and occasionally coupons and stuff. http://www.chireader.com/

Ever need info on a movie or an actor and you just don't know where to look? Try the internet movie database. Find info you didn't know, or add (true) trivia to their growing list of information about movies and actors. http://www.imdb.com/

One radio station that operates by its own rules. Chances are you won't be able to tune into FlamesRadio from anyplace, but you can always listen to them on the world wide web via real-audio. http://www.flamesradio.com/

Here's a couple monthly college rags for your perusal. Nifty topics, wacky stories, and occasionally cool contests and promotions. http://www.linkmag.com and http://www.umagazine.com/

Caffeine, a useful servant but a wicked master. Learn all you'll need to know about caffeine and it's chemical relatives at the Caffeine FAQ page aomt.netmegs.com/coffee/caffaq.html

Here's a groovy webspace for all kinds of queer folk lookin' for all kinds of stuff. http://www.planetout.com/

NO, thankfully AOL hasn't cornered the market on online chat just yet...there are alternatives. Do you like web-based chat rooms? Check out GAY dot COM and find somebody to chew the fat with. http://www.gay.com/

…even better is Internet Relay Chat, or IRC. A good sound program, idiot-proof user-interface and near-universal compatibility with operating systems and ISPs. Yes, it spans the PC/Mac schizm as well as numerous international boundaries...making it fun to download and use...and it's FREE! http://www.mirc.co.uk/

Hotmail...not only do they give you free web-based (and anonymous) email accounts, but they also specialize in about a bazillion different ways to keep your email box FULL of cool stuff. One of my favorites is the "Classifieds 2000" service. Check it out. http://www.hotmail.com/

Yahoo isn't just a search engine...you can also get news, directions to your next destination, and it's also a great way to meet people through yahoo clubs personal ads and chat rooms. http://www.yahoo.com/

A great queer magazine that tries to stick to the issues in its issues. http://www.advocate.com/

One of my favorite radio programs has a website full of all kinds of interesting information about "the unknown" …whatever that means. Even if you don't stay up in the middle of the night to listen, at least check out what's going on on the web at http://www.artbell.com

You may agree with me in the saying "hugs, not drugs" but you'll still find the information archived at the Lycaeum to be oh-so fascinating http://www.lycaeum.org

Pulled across the sky each day on a chariot pulled by winged horses? No. We know know that the sun works in much more complex and mysterious ways than that. Visit the skycams at this site and get up-to-date images of what's going on on the surface of our very own sun. The pictures and links here are way cool if you're into astronomy and physics and even cooler if you're into looking at beautiful natural images http://www.maj.com/sun/index.html