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Cool places to visit on the World Wide Web.

Weather watching

www.weather.com

Stormwatchers can have a field day tracking weather patterns via all manner of maps and charts, including the made-for-TV Doppler radar maps, satellite images and just plain, old-fashioned weather maps with arrows, little cartoony clouds and whatnot. The Weather Channel has all sorts of useful information about the weather and related things. There are reports on fall foliage, allergy alerts, gardening and aviation. In fact, you can track U.S. flights by entering the airline, departure airport and arrival airport to see if there are any delays.

Airport sleepovers

www3.sympatico.ca/donna.mcsherry/airports.htm

If you're traveling on something less than a gold card and happen to get stuck in an airport -- or maybe you're simply a cheapskate -- you should check in with the Budget Traveler's Guide to Sleeping In Airports, a collection of reports filed by correspondents from around the world. Compiler Donna McSherry has organized airports' snoozibility in alphabetical order, ranking them from Good to Hell.

Talkin' baseball

www.harrycarays.com

It's World Series times, and the Cubs are home alone. But those seeking a Cub fix can check out a site featuring legendary broadcaster Harry Caray. Catering to your every need, Harry Caray's restaurant proves that anyone who opens a bar across from Wrigley Field can't be all that dumb. There's a "Holy Cow!" sound bite on the site and a gift shop for the clothes horse.

Everywhere are signs

www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jlin/signs/

Unfamiliar traffic signs driving you batty? California Institute of Technology student James Lin has given us U.S. and Canada Highway Signs, a compilation of road markers in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, all the Canadian provinces and Yukon Territory. He said he put the site up after seeing comments about the odd shapes and colors of highway markers on Internet newsgroups.

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