Looking for a new source of on-line mapping products? Check out the folks at digital wisdom. They publish original titles, including relief maps, globe views, outline maps, and clip-art mapping images.

Happy birthday!

It will be up to you to decide whether this site offers convenience or is just an invasion of privacy. You can search for the birthdays of over 135 million people obtained from Public Records.

How fast was I going?

Here is a quick, and free way to determine the actual download speeds your are getting from your ISP.

Thanks to:

The Kim Komando Computer Show

By the skinny skin skin of your browser

At this very moment, you are probably looking at this article from a web browser. But why have the same old look? Now you can change the interface with the creepy sounding GUI called a "skin." There are lots of sites that provide skins, but Hotbar is a great place to start, and it is "Out of this World Scenery" group is almost related to GIS.

The invisible web

You may not realize it, but when you use a search engine on the Web, you don’t really search all the contents of the web. You search HTMl pages. But what if you want other information, such as databases and other hidden material? You need a different type of search engine. Search engines, such as Direct Search may be what you need.

Mapping jokes

Yes, there really is a site filled with mapping humor. For example:

Q. What do you get when you cross a cowboy with a mapmaker?

A. A cow-tographer.