It's wonderful to rediscover a site that has slipped off your bookmarks. This site is semifamous for its institute ("Where we bring pop culture history back to life so we can cruelly beat it to death again"). I'm currently in love with Postcards of the American Motel and Great Eats. It's kitschy and a wonderful waste of time.

All my troubles seemed so far away

www.YesterdayLand.com/

Here's a pretty site that confirms our love affair with the past and assists the great American obsession with reliving childhood. Some of us pulled a Peter Pan and never grew up. But for those with mortgages, kids and credit card debt, this site might help you escape reality for a few moments. If the Saturday Morning Cartoon section doesn't send you, I don't know what will.

Death to pop-ups

TechnoErotica.net/mylog/optouts.html

People, it seems, are vexed by pop-up ads. Oh sure, if you're guessing Web addresses and end up in a pornography pop-up trap, you can either go into your preferences and turn JavaScript off or shut down your browser. But that's hardly ideal. Advanced geeks using browsers such as Netscape 6 can open up the configuration files with a text editor and turn pop-ups off. Again, that's hardly ideal. So here's a link to a collection of opt-out links. Follow them and you can turn off the X-10 ads and the like.

Caffeine buzz

www.CoffeeGeek.com/

I'm a snob and freely admit it. I can't stand water out of a tap, bad food, flying coach and supposedly gourmet coffee. In fact, that should be a tipoff: Any place that claims to sell "gourmet" coffee probably is hawking something awful, which is why I love CoffeeGeek. It's visually attractive, but the articles are where the action is. Here you'll find reviews of high-end coffee creation gadgets and information on making the perfect caffeinated beverage.

Sniffing out scams

www1.ifccFBI.gov/

Here's one more great resource to add to your myriad links that keep you up to date on the nastiness that lives online. It seems that when some folks fire up their browsers, the electrons from the cathode ray tube temporarily disable the parts of their brain that sniff out when somebody is trying to take them for a ride. There are oodles of goodness contained here. For instance, did you know that just more than 61 percent of the complaints received by the Internet Fraud Complaint Center were related to online auction fraud? Rather than eBay, it's eNoWay in my house unless I'm armed with my American Express and its rock-and-roll online fraud protection policy. It's a billy club for the 21st century.

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