Free Movies Online

Movies are available for viewing - FREE - online. No, they're not new. Yes, some of them are great. There is a nice selection at EntertainmentMagazine, including:

"His Girl Friday" Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell (1940)
"Penny Serenade" with Cary Grant (1941)
"Heartbeat" (1946) stars Ginger Rogers
"Royal Wedding" (1951) aka "Wedding Bells" (UK)
(COLOR) with Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford
"Charade" (1963) Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1943)
Sherlock Holmes "Dressed to Kill" (1946)
"My Dear Secretary" (1949) stars Kirk Douglas

as well as a selection on movieflix.com, where they've got films like:

"Of Human Bondage" starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis & Alan Hale
all the old Dick Tracy and Robin Hood Series from the 1940s
"Lady of Burlesque" starring Barbara Stanwyck (1943)
"The Man on the Eiffel Tower," starring Burgess Meredith & Charles Laughton (1949)

Create Your Free Newspaper From Huge News Site

The folk at crayola.net offer a free service that's great for everyone: you create your own online newspaper from their ever-expanding, unfiltered international collection of sources. You even name your paper: Joe's Gazette, The Turner Family Monitor, etc. and provide a slogan -- you know, like "all the news that's fit to print."

Choose selections from around the world in areas of national, local and world news; oped, weather, info-tech; religion; health; science; lifestyles. There are more.

Even comics. Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. Columns. Ann Landers, Dave Barry, Rush Limbaugh, the New York Times Editorials .... Lots of stuff for you, regardless of whether you're red or blue.

Not only is this a free service, but a valuable one. Each day, the reader is provided an opportunity to read international perspectives voiced in a variety of locations, for example: the Jakarta Post (Indonesia); the Mirror and the Guardian (England); Kyoto News (Japan); Pari Business News Daily (Bulgaria); the Daily Star (Lebanon); and the Daily Telegraph (Australia), in addition to a large collection of top-tier American news sources (e.g., the New York Times, Reuters, etc).

Reading about the Tsunami from an American news source is one thing. Reading about it in the Jakarta Post is another.

You can also add your own sources. Anything with a URL can be placed on your personal, online paper.

There are some kinks with setting up the graphics, etc. and you may need to play with two-screen versus one-screen layout, things like this, before your personal paper is running smoothly. Once it's done, though, it's one click to crayon.net and a smile as you think about those subscription prices that you're not having to pay.

Easy and Cheap Recipes

There are several sites with lots of easy and cheap recipes. Cooks.com offers 38 options. Superchef Conyer offers a smaller list, but it's nice to have the estimated cost of the meal along with the recipe. CookCheap.com took down its recipe list for maintenance but promises to have it back up, soon. And, you might want to check out Rachael Ray's recipes for her TV show Thirty Minute Meals.