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Y-Life Daily Bulletin: December 13, 2000
Note: If your e-mail reader doesn't show the URLs below as links, visit the Yahoo! Internet Life home page at http://www.yil.com. (If you use AOL, click <a href="http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70390:8593142"<here</a< for our home page.) -- DAILY NET BUZZ -- Give us one minute, we'll give you the Web. Today's best links for: Supremes hand Al Gore the Golden Fork ... Aimster - a Napster for AOL IM's ... Hacker bilks Creditcards.com ... Fandom.com: From protecting to antagonizing fansites ... "Onion" reveals best 2000 albums ... Forward: How many ways can you say "dead-end job"? ... Bartender spews delicious bile in "Slate" diary ... NYT's ancient (1993) first-ever Net story ... Earth - from space! http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70391:8593142 ******************************************************************* Barely got time to breathe? Is "on the go" your life motto? 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You might be the person with the strength, stamina, and general dorkiness to win the World Mouseclicking Competition. http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70395:8593142 -- YAHOO! INTERNET LIVE: TODAY'S EVENTS -- Expensive darlings: Pop veteran Cher TV Moms: Florence "Brady Bunch" Henderson and Jane "Malcolm in the Middle" Kaczmarek Wizards of Durham, N.C.: Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski SAD people: Seasonal Affective Disorder experts Alex Cardoni and Doris LaPlante Democrats by birth and marriage: Human-rights activist Kerry Kennedy Cuomo Chefs at Lespinasse: Christian Delouvrier Mother/daughter mystery-writing teams: Mary and Carol Higgins Clark Inexplicably famous people: A member of the "Real World New Orleans" cast http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70396:8593142 -- FREEBIES, BARGAINS, AND CONTESTS -- Today: A free mousepad, 15 percent off customized mugs, and a chance to win an iMac DV. http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70397:8593142 -- TODAY'S TIP: ASK THE SURF GURU -- Today: A reader writes, "Can I update all my Netscape Bookmarks at the same time? With nearly 500 of them, I don't have time to check each one individually." Whoa there, Mr. Busy Bee, you don't *have* to check those bookmarks individually, says the Guru. You can check them all at once, and you don't even have to download any confusing programs to do it. http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70398:8593142 -- FORWARD/JOKE OF THE DAY -- Today: It's a surprisingly long list of "I used to be a ____ but... " jokes, the prototype of which being "I used to be a barber, but I just couldn't cut it." Can you guess what wacky twist a math teacher would put on that statement? A gardener? A musician? A person who makes mufflers? There's only one way to find out... http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70399:8593142 -- SHAREWARE: THE DAILY DOUBLE DOWNLOAD -- Practical: It's a breeze to create animated .gif files for your Web site with CoffeeCup GIF Animator. Playful: Blackjack Interactive doubles as a screensaver and a playable blackjack game. http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70400:8593142 -- YOUR YASTROLOGER -- Your horoscope, plus sites to match your sign. http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70401:8593142 -- THE Y-LIFE WEEKLY MUSIC NEWSLETTER -- Time is the essence Time is the season Time ain't no reason Got no time to slow Time everlasting Time to play b-sides Time ain't on my side Time I'll never know Burn out the day Burn out the night I'm not the one to tell you what's wrong or what's right I've seen signs of what music journalists Steve Knopper and David Grad went through And I'm burnin', I'm burnin', I'm burnin' for you http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?70402:8593142 Happy surfing! Josh Robertson Associate Online Editor Yahoo! 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