Can you solve these Canadian historical mysteries?

Who actually started the fire that burned Montreal in 1734? Marie Angelique, a black slave was accused of the crime, tortured, hanged and burned in a bonfire. Was she really guilty?
One day in 1880, several members of the “Black” Donnellys were killed when their farm in rural Ontario was set afire. Later that night someone murdered another member of the Donnelly family. Who was responsible for this crime and why was no one ever found guilty of the crime?
If you’re a history buff, you’ll enjoy trying to solve these mysteries by researching the events.
Home page: http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/mysteriesen.html

Let the online games begin!

This is the best collection of free flash and java games I’ve ever found. I got started on Helicopter, and then went on to Desert Storm, and finally 50 States. Almost three hours disappeared into thin air! These games are truly addicting. You can do most of them quite well without a joystick.

Give it a try: http://www.addictingames.info/

Will this diet help reverse the rising tide of autism?

Donna Gates is a nutritional consultant, author and lecturer who has developed a program to help people overcome candidiasis and other immune system disorders. After many years of research in search of a cure for her own candida-related health problems, Donna wrote the book, The Body Ecology Diet. It combines the best of the concepts involved in Chinese medicine, macrobiotics, natural hygiene, raw foods and mega-supplement therapy.

Donna has conducted research with autistic children, placing them on a supervised diet containing fermented or cultured foods. With the establishment of a healthy ecosystem in the intestinal tract, the children begin to digest the high quality fats which enable their immune and digestive systems to gain the strength required to overcome infections.

Home page: http://bodyecology.com/index.php

Article about autism: http://bodyecology.com/autism.php

HowStuffWorks: a practical online encylopedia

HowStuffWorks is a fun site to explore and a great source of practical information.
Learn how to build your own computer by watching seven videos featuring step-by-step instructions. Find out how to do minor electrical repairs around the house. Get your stalled lawnmower running again using the tutorial on small engine repairs and maintenance.

There is a huge library of science and engineering topics. If you want to discover how autofocus cameras work, how GPS receivers work, or how diesel locomotives work, it’s all here on this site, in both print and video formats.

Home page: http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Direct links to some interesting articles:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/build-a-computer1.htm
http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-do-home-electrical-repairs.htm
http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-repair-small-engines.htm
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/buying-selling-channel.htm
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/timeshare.htm

Medical doctor investigates Phoenix, Arizona UFO reports

Lynne D. Kitei M.D. is well known as a physician and public health educator. She has held the position of Chief Clinical Consultant at the Arizona Heart Institute’s Imaging/Prevention/Wellness Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

On March 13, 1997 she, along with thousands of people, witnessed a phenomenon in the sky above Phoenix, Arizona which has been dubbed the “Phoenix Lights”. Eyewitnesses reported a silent, mile-long, v-shaped formation of lights. After seven years of researching the topic and gathering photographic evidence, Lynne has gone public on her website.

Very strange: http://www.thephoenixlights.net/

Protecting your children from automobile dangers

The Kids and Cars organization believes in the right of children to be protected from the preventable dangers which can arise when they are in and around a motor vehicle. This site describes various dangerous situations and what parents can do to prevent them.
Power window strangulation and hypothermia are two of the most common non-traffic events reported in the media.

Legislation to improve child safety features in motor vehicles is pending in the U.S. The site contains a video of Senator Hillary Clinton speaking on this topic at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2007.

Home page: http://www.kidsandcars.org/

Breaking news about inventors and their inventions

Nathan Ball’s invention is right out of Spiderman! His battery-powered Rope Ascender device, with a 250-lb carrying capacity, will allow firefighters or soldiers to “reverse rappel” up a 30-story building in 30 seconds. Nathan won the 2007 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his invention.

This site contains dozens of interesting stories about inventors and their technological projects.

Home page for the site: http://makezine.com/blog/

Nathan’s story: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/02/ask_nathan_ball.html

How to survive outdoor emergencies

With the increasing popularity of outdoor activities, children and adults need to know survival tactics and methods of avoiding and treating various injuries and conditions.
You’ll find everything you need to know on this site. Print out the information and save it in a binder to carry along with you on your next trip. It could help save your life.

Informative: http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/

Are humans the product of off-world intervention?

After receiving a degree in psychology from Tulane University at New Orleans, Lloyd Pye trained with the U.S. Army as a Military Intelligence agent. Upon completion of his military career, Lloyd began research in anthropology, specializing in hominoids, which led him to the astonishing conclusion that humans could not have evolved on earth.

Lloyd published a book entitled Everything You Know Is Wrong—Book One: Human Origins, which proposes an Intervention Theory directly opposed to Darwinism, Creationism and Intelligent Design. He claims his theory is science based, supported by ancient historical records, puzzling details about megalithic structures located around the world, and recent discoveries about our own DNA.

Intriguing evidence: http://www.lloydpye.com/

Geologist predicts earthquakes with accuracy

Jim Berkland, working as a geologist with the California Government, made a prediction that a major earthquake would hit the Oakland Bay Area during the 1989 World Series. When the earthquake occurred as predicted, his employers suspended him and ordered him to stop making quake predictions.

After he retired, Jim began again to announce “quake windows” on his Syzygyjob website. He bases his predictions on tidal flooding tables derived from Lunar Perigee. When the moon is closest to the earth, gravitational pull on the earth is greatest, triggering quakes. Jim also monitors lost pet notices in the newspapers. Pets tend to run away from home when they sense an impending tremor.

Shocking site: http://www.syzygyjob.com/

Canadian contractor rescues ripped-off homeowners

Every day on his popular TV program, Holmes On Holmes, Mike Holmes puts the spotlight on shoddy renovations, explaining how homeowners have been cheated by careless and incompetent renovators.

Often Mike and his team have to tear out everything and start fresh, narrating the process to the viewers. This website showcases upcoming projects, including his charitable work, and videos featuring tips for homeowners.

Great site: http://www.holmesonhomes.com/

Surfing college students cash in on Internet boom

Frustrated with minimum wage jobs and long work hours, many students have looked to the Internet to supply much-needed income. Up until now it has been difficult to launch a profitable website because of the high up-front expenses and the expertise required to run it.

Canadian physician, Dr. Ken Evoy, has invented an all-in-one program called Site Build-It! which solves these problems. His system allows anyone to build a professional-grade website capable of generating significant income and paying for itself very quickly. Dr. Evoy’s daughter, Nori, began using his system as a teenager, and now earns enough money to pay all her college expenses. Read her story on this site.

Click here for details: http://students.sitesell.com/smallbiz28.html

Are you at risk of a heart attack or stroke? Find out here.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Canada has developed a personalized risk assessment tool designed to help you identify your risk of heart disease and stroke. After you complete the assessment questions, you will receive an action plan for healthy living.
Click the link below to get started now:
http://ww2.heartandstroke.ca/Page.asp?PageID=1689&Stream=Risk&media=fsi

E-mail large files for free on this site

Most free email services allow you to send attachments up to a 10MB limit. Ordinarily, if you wish to send a file of photos or text larger than that, you would have to break the file into separate smaller files and send them separately. With the Sendthisfile service, you upload files to their server. There is no file size limit and no limit on the number of files sent. You have the option of sending files in “secure” mode. When you fill in the e-mail address of your intended receivers, they will receive an e-mail inviting them to pick up the file you have uploaded.

There is a basic free account for occasional personal use. There are other paid plans for more frequent users, as well as business and professional users.

Recently I used the free service to send three separate 50MB files, which took about two minutes each.

Click here: http://www.sendthisfile.com/

Supermodels around the world

Supermodels.nl is the portal to a community of 734 supermodels and 34,000 fans. The site features a list of supermodels by first name, including brief profiles on each, and more than 42,000 portfolio photos.

This site provides news from the modeling industry, highlighting various models and their most recent agency associations. In addition there is a list of model agencies by country and models enlisted by them. There is also a list of photographers who work with supermodels.

Membership in the site is free and are able to post on forums and receive a newsletter containing background stories, news, and gossip. Members have unlimited and unrestricted access to the supermodels movie archive and “big scan” photos, as well as recordings of shows, interviews and other videos.

Home page: http://supermodels.nl/

Do you ever dine alone? SoloDining is the site for you!

For anyone who dines solo, this website contains a wealth of information. There are tips and strategies for eating alone at home, at a fast food outlet, or at a fine dining establishment. The site offers advice on efficient, low-cost grocery-shopping for one, a list of restaurants that offer “communal dining” tables, and reports on solo dining-friendly restaurants in Canada and the U.S.

Restauranteurs will find advice on making the solo dining experience more appealing for customers.

A helpful site: http://www.solodining.com/

The Classroom @ Sea Project: Drilling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Early in March, 2007, a team of scientists from Durham University, Cardiff University and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, will travel aboard the RRS James Cook to investigate an area of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge known as the Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone (FTFZ). The scientific team on board the ship is led by Prof. Roger Searle from University of Durham, Dr Chris MacLeod (University of Cardiff) and Dr Bramley Murton (NOCS).

Seismological research has determined that the FTFZ appears to be a gap in the crust of the Earth thousands of kilometers wide. The mantle, located in the interior of the planet, is typically covered by crust several kilometers thick. The crust thickness averages about 18 miles (30 kilometers) under the continents, but is only about 3 miles (5 kilometers) under the oceans. It is light and fragile. The mission will attempt to determine whether the ocean crust was dislodged by geological faults or never formed in that area.

This voyage of discovery has been designed as an interactive project for students. The site features a diary which, beginning March 5, 2007, will display accounts of onboard events of interest. The website includes informative modules describing the marine geology and biological environment. Teaching aids and reproducible worksheets are provided. In addition, the site gallery will contain photo highlights of the cruise. Students around the world will be able to e-mail members of the team and ask questions about the excursion.

Climb aboard: http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/classroom@sea/JC007/about.html

Psycho-Geometrics: Try this personality test based on geometric shapes

Dr. Susan Dellinger is the author of the Psycho-Geometrics system of communication. Her system combines the science of understanding people with the art of influencing them. Dr. Ellinger has acted as a consultant for many high-profile corporations, offering workshops designed to improve communications among staff through the implementation of her unique method of understanding human communication.

According to Dr. Dellinger’s system, your personality may be associated with one of the following basic shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, or squiggle.

As a test subject, you respond to the question, Which of the five shapes best describes you as a person? Your choice will be an indication of your personality type. When you do the test at the link below you will be amazed at how accurately the system categorizes your personality.

Of course, this system of geometric psychology is useful for identifying the beliefs, values and attitudes of employers, co-workers, employees, customers, spouses, and children. Armed with this critical information, you are in a position to modify your communication style in order to relate effectively to other people in your life.

Personality test: http://www.psychometricshapes.co.uk/

A video of Dr. Dellinger in action: http://www.drsusan.net/

Why more than 90% of small business websites fail

Today there are more than 100 million websites on the Internet. Small business owners pay a lot of money to have someone build a web site and host it. Then they're usually on their own to face the challenge of attracting traffic to that website. Potential buyers use search engines like Google and Yahoo to look for a product or service. If a website is buried below sixty thousand other sites in a particular search category, it has little chance of generating traffic. The site just sits there in cyberspace. This is the basic problem faced by the small business website owner. How do you construct a site which reaches the upper levels of search engines?

Dr. Ken Evoy, a recognized expert on website traffic generation, has developed a comprehensive web-building system called Site Build It!, which has produced sites so efficient that 62% of them score in the top 3% of all websites in terms of traffic ranking. In other words, traffic to these sites is higher than 97% of all sites on the Net. In fact, 35% of Site Build It! sites are in the top 1% of all sites on the Net. Predictably, these sites are receiving higher numbers of potential customers, which greatly increases profitability for their owners.

On his site, Dr. Evoy briefly describes and explains how his system operates to deliver the high volume of traffic required to achieve success.

Worth reading: http://webhosting.sitesell.com/smallbiz28.html

Linda Moulton Howe’s Earthfiles—environmental and paranormal mysteries

Linda Moulton Howe, an investigative journalist and editor of Earthfiles.com, is an Emmy Award-winning TV producer. Linda’s site reports news on scientific and environmental events. Today’s stories include the mysterious and growing disappearance of honey bees and amphibians. There is also a report on the “Noah’s Ark” seed vault, installed by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, inside a mountain at Svalbard, Norway, designed to archive seed samples of the world’s plants in the event of a global catastrophe. Linda's site features extensive files on UFOs and the aerial drones that are now appearing in our skies.

The site’s archive, accessible by subscription, contains stories about crop circles, ufo incidents, cattle mutiliation, and other unsolved mysteries. Podcasts are available on a number of topics.

Fascinating information: http://www.earthfiles.com/

BLDGBLOG: Architectural conjecture—Urban speculation—Landscape futures

This blog is entertaining and informative. One entry describes a brand of tiles employing patterns based on highway interchange designs. You could have your bathroom walls look like a road interchange in Barcelona or Bogata.

Another entry describes a vertical cemetery in Santos, Brazil, which looks like a skyscraper from a science fiction film.

Other entries speak about urban problems, like China’s “cancer villages”, whose inhabitants are becoming victims of extensive water and air pollution. There was a reference to “Chinese Death Vans”, mobile execution-by-injection clinics that serve small villages unable to afford to send criminals to major cities for execution by firing squad. Apparently this system makes the harvesting of organs more efficient too.

It’s a keeper: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

Consumers bite back at arrogant retailers

Do you have a consumer complaint about a product or service? Post it to the Consumerist website and watch their agents go into action. They investigate complaints, put pressure on the offending merchants by writing a story about their misdeeds, and often gain satisfaction for consumers.

One of today’s top stories on the site is about problems customers of Verizon Wireless is having with some clients’ accounts. Rather than suffer in silence, customers are using the power of the Internet to battle this giant.

The Consumerist site also contains articles designed to educate shoppers. Here are a few titles of articles on the site today:

“50 ways to save at the grocery store”

“12 ways to save on utilities”

“Investing basics: the savings account”

“Easy, cheap DIY cleaning formulas”


Keep this site handy: http://consumerist.com/

Downloading of music MP3 files with no copy restrictions

Puretracks, a Canadian-owned company, today made available 50,000 tracks with no Digital Rights Management restrictions. You can burn them, e-mail or copy them to your computer, MP3 player, or cell phone. Although the songs are from minor labels, there is hope that major labels like Universal and Warner will work with their artists to drop the digital locks on some of their music for promotional purposes.

Home page: http://www.puretracks.com/content/viewer.aspx?cid=GlobalNav_Home

Scientists to embark on North Pole Inner Earth expedition

Dr. Brooks Agnew, who has a PhD in physics, is leading a North Pole Inner Earth exploratory team of 33 scientists in late August of 2007. The $2 million project will utilize a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker, the only civilian vessel capable of making the 20-day round trip.

Seismographic analysis has determined that the crust of the earth is up to 800 miles thick, and that there are vast cavernous chambers within parts of this crust. Previous North Pole explorers have speculated that there is a polar opening in the crust of the earth leading to a vast underground area. Dr. Agnew’s team will attempt to find this opening and employ high tech gear to investigate the extent of this “inner earth”.

Fascinating site: http://www.ourhollowearth.com/VoyagetoHollowEarth.htm

Why build just a website when you could build a business?

If you’re interested in starting up an Internet business, beware of the bargain website trap. A cheap website is worthless if it fails to generate a high volume of qualified traffic. Dr. Ken Evoy, an expert on business website construction, offers some valuable tips for novice and seasoned entrepreneurs alike. His Site Built It! system demonstrates what it takes to deliver large numbers of qualified visitors to a website.

Take a look at Ken’s site: http://buildit.sitesell.com/smallbiz28.html

Use your computer to make free voice and video calls

SightSpeed is your doorway to free, unlimited voice and video chat. You can record video messages for use as video email or embedded in a blog. Hold voice and video chats with Windows and Mac SightSpeed members around the world. SightSpeed 5.0 was PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for September 19, 2006, based on exceptional video quality.

A business version of SightSpeed is available for $4.95 per month. Multi-party video conferencing and priority technical support come with this model.

At the present time, I’m using Skype, but I’m planning to try SightSpeed and compare the video quality, especially during times of high member usage.

Take a closer look: http://www.sightspeed.com/

An interracial dating opportunity

Although interracial dating is the focus of this site, many members may just wish to have an Internet friendship with people from other cultures.

In the Blog section of the site, open to the public, members write about their experiences with interracial dating, recording their thoughts and feelings. Other members are allowed to comment on blog writings and exchanges can occasionally become quite emotional.

Success Stories recount how members have met someone, have become friends and expanded their knowledge of people from other cultures. Many have decided to date. Still others have fallen in love and are happily married.

The Forums are open to the public and describe both the advantages and the possible issues for those who get involved in interracial dating. It’s not always an easy thing—especially for the families of the individuals concerned. Topics also include “family”, “friendship”, “health”, “jokes and anecdotes”, “religion”, “romance” and many more.

Basic membership in the site is free, as are lifetime ads. Feel free to browse the site before you join to determine whether interracial chatting/dating is right for you.

This site could change your life: http://www.InterracialMatch.com/i/af5026400

Kathleen Keating reports on End Times

Kathleen Keating is an investigative journalist who reports on paranormal topics from a spiritual perspective. Her topics include the predictions of visionaries, forecasts of disasters coming to the U.S. and the world. Keating’s podcasts are carried on the Enigma Radio Network. She is the author of many Catholic/Christian themed books. Her latest work, Torn Sky: Project Jerusalem, is an “end times” novel featuring characters attempting to make sense out of the chaos of today’s world.

Home page:
http://kathleenkeating.com/news/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Some of her Enigma Radio Network podcasts may be heard here: http://www.podango.com/podcast_episode/26/10349/The_Enigma_Files/09262006_The_Enigma_Files_with_Kathleen_Keating

Alex Jones warns about the coming U.S. police state

Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist, controversial radio talk-show host, and documentary filmmaker. He grabbed headlines when he publicly questioned the mainstream media account of the September 2001 terrorist attacks. Jones has produced films on topics ranging from the New World Order, government-sponsored terrorism, and the imminent establishment of a police state in the United States. A new film by Alex Jones, Terror Storm, exploring documented cases of government-sponsored terrorism, is available on Google Video.

The Infowars website contains shocking news items about the extent of surveillance in society, the proliferation of RFID (wireless) chips, the transition to a cashless society, the trend to embedded microchips, and the machinations of the Illuminati. Jones points to the accelerating convergence of advancing technology and the political ambitions of the “elite”.

A scary site: http://www.infowars.com/index.html

Dave McMurtry Changes lives in Colombia, S.A.

Dave McMurtry visited Colombia, South America, for three months back in 2002 and observed first-hand the plight of families displaced by civil strife. He noted that seventy percent of the population of Sincilejo, which is located 2 hours by road from Cartagena, consists of displaced people living in huts constructed of scrap wood and metal. Dave decided to help some of these people by building 25 permanent houses, including the infrastructure for sanitation facilities. Dave seeded the development with his own time and money and has watched his new “village” grow beyond his expectations as additional money has flowed from interested supporters. The project includes a counseling center designed to utilize the skills of the unemployed in the construction of the houses.

In an effort to keep his friends, family, colleagues, and the general public informed about his progress on the project, Dave set up this blog. Anyone wishing to contribute financially may do so by donating via the site to Habitat For Humanity, which has created a special account for Dave’s project, and undertaken to issue tax receipts.

An inspiring story: http://www.helpdavechangelives.org/