I hope this note finds you in the best of health and spirits.

While hurricane Georges was causing widespread destruction this week, I came across a fascinating download for tracking its progress.

COOL WEATHER APPLICATION - Tracking The Eye (Free download)

http://www.gencode.com/hurricane/hurricane.htm

Tracking The Eye is a hurricane tracking application that can connect to the internet and get storm coordinates with the press of a button. Their extended Internet service sends real-time Satellite Images, Storm Coordinates, Tropical Weather Outlook, Tropical Weather Discussion, Strike

Probabilities, Public Advisories and Forecasts directly to Tracking The Eye to be viewed on a colorful map and saved to your computer. Pretty nifty! (Free download)

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With all of us becoming more and more dependent on email, this service really fills a need.

COOL SERVICE - CoolMail - Retrieve your email via the telephone.

http://www.planetarymotion.com

CoolMail is the first service of its kind to be offered anywhere, which enables you to manage your e-mail messages from any telephone without a computer. You can place a call from any phone via a local access number and have your mail read to you by an automated voice. Prior to using the

service you must listen to a 10 second advertisement. A reply feature is also available.

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COOL MUSIC SITE - MOUSEJAM

http://www.mousejam.com

MOUSE JAM is an interactive music jam, no talent is required, just select your jam and click like a MADMAN.

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While on the subject of mouse clicks, If you suffer from wrist soreness and pain from clicking your mouse, check out.

HEALING HARDWARE - MouseTool (Free download, registered version is $19.95)

http://www.mousetool.com

MouseTool is a software solution to a serious hardware problem: long hours spent using a mouse can lead to permanent debilitating injury of the wrists. MouseTool clicks your mouse buttons, so you don't have to.

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SOOTHING SOFTWARE - Wind Chimes (shareware: $20)

http://www.syntrillium.com/windchimes/index.html

Wind Chimes allows you to configure any number of instruments that can have wind-chime like activity: everything from bird sounds or the ocean on a stormy day to violin / sitar combinations. The extent to which the sound is configurable in tempo, volume, pitch and number of notes/instruments is

pretty amazing!!! Contributed by my associate, Cat Hebert, http://www.virtualdrama.com

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One of most popular programs in the early days of television was "20 Questions". I remember looking forward to watching it each week with my family and waiting for the contestants to ask, "is it animal, mineral or vegetable".

COOL LEARNING SITE - 20 Questions

http://come.to/20Q

This is an experiment in Artificial Intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows about and all questions that it asks were entered by other people using the program. Twenty Questions is a learning system, the more it is played, the better it gets.

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For the past 3 years, this has been one of my favorite sites on the net. If you are looking for an academic bot, search bot, shopping bot, chatter bot, stock bot or news bot, there is something here to make your life easier.

MOST COOL and USEFUL SITE - Botspot

http://www.botspot.com

Bots and Intelligent Agents will allow you to do routine tasks in an automatic function thus allowing you greater time for the more important things at hand.

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COOL CONCERT - MusicFest 98

http://www.ear1.com