Happy 1999,

In numerology, the year 1999 is a 1. It represents a chance for a new beginning. May god bless you with a year of health, peace, understanding, joy and prosperity.
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The world population is doubling every 40 years. Every second, 5 people are born and 2 people die; a net gain of 3 people. When I was born, there were 2,253,398,000 on the planet.

INTERESTING SITE - 6 Billion Human Beings
http://www.popexpo.net/

This site offers a fascinating look at the world's population and was created by the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, France.
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Looking for the "lowdown", the skinny" or the "dirt" on someone. It may not come as a surprise that everything has a price tag, but wait until you see what information your money can buy!

INFORMATION PLEASE - You can't hide!
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/hide.htm

This information was taken from the pages of Windows Magazine, December 1998 and shows how much information you can find out about someone, with a little cash.
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How tired are you of going to a geocities.com site and seeing that annoying banner come up? Or better yet, what about all of those annoying banners that litter the information highway. Would you pay a few dollars
to have them gone FOREVER?

USEFUL UTILITY - @Guard (free trial, $30 shareware)
http://www.atguard.com/

@Guard comes with a pre-defined blocking list of URLs that are links to advertising servers. When you load any HTML page in your browser, @Guard scans the page for the URL strings specified in the URL blocking list. Any HTML statement that contains a matching URL string is removed from the page by @Guard before the page is displayed in the web browser.
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My New Year's wish is that each of you would tell 3 of your friends about The Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter.
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If you are stuck in a body, interested in anatomy, or know someone considering a career in medicine, you will enjoy this site.

UNUSUAL SITE - Virtual Autopsy
http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/VA/titlpag1.html

Your first case is an 80 year old male who had been admitted two weeks ago with chest pains. Despite your colleagues' best efforts, he died. Given his case history, it is up to you to determine the cause of death. Check
out all of the resources available to you and venture a verdict.
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In advertising, the creative mind on occasion misses its target. This site offers ad campaigns which never quite made it out the door.

ENTERTAINING SITE - The Advertising Graveyard
http://www.zeldman.com/ad.html

My favorite ad is for the German Beer from the Hoboken Brewhaus which says, "Have one of our authentic bock beers and you'll feel like you are in Germany. A few more and you'll feel like invading Poland."
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For years, many of us have relied on the reviews and recommendations of Consumer Digest Magazine. Now there is an online version.

USEFUL SITE - Consumers Digest Online (free trial issue, $15.97 per year)
http://www.consumersdigest.com/

Consumer digest helps you stretch your dollars by telling you "Best Buy" lowest prices from local merchants all over the U.S.A.
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If you have a website and want to get feedback from your visitors about any topic, check out this site.

COOL SERVICE - Vox Populi
http://arsdigita.com/voxpopuli/

Vox Populi is a free service that allows you to set up polls on your own website and calculate the results. You control the content, the look of the result pages, as well as how you want the poll to function.