FAMILY

familyfun.com

Find games and how-to cooking videos for parents and kids along with hundreds of articles at this portal to Family Fun magazine

EAT/DRINK

foodtimeline.org

Wine has been around since 6000 B.C. but we've only had nachos since 1943 and Gatorade since 1965. Get more food chronology at the Food Timeline -- right up to deep-fried Coca-Cola in 2006. Yuck.

LEARN

drawspace.com/lessons

Whether you're a beginning, intermediate or expert sketcher, one of these dozens of free downloadable lessons on such topics as perspective, caricatures and the squirkling shading method ought to teach you something new.

WILD CARD

kosmix.com

This smart search includes an overview page that separates results into concise categories for more efficient browsing and has useful topic pages for each search. The experimental new engine is a good way to sift quickly through the Web's information overload.

-- Mónica Guzmán

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