Archive for March 2010
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Airline Tickets Online
The holidays are coming up and once again time for families to be together. If your loved ones are in another state, it’s also the time to start making those airline reservations. Why not avoid the lines at the airport and book your flight via the Web. It’s easy and convenient. Today we will run [...]
Nirvana — The Holy Cities of the World
Long before there were websites, there were sacred, religious sites. These cities, temples and other assorted places have become woven into the fabric of worship for all the major religions. For devotees of these traditions, a trip to the holy place can reaffirm faith, purify the spirit and fulfill a mandate of religious doctrine. In [...]
Finding Bed and Breakfasts Online
Best Westerns and Marriotts can get kind of boring sometimes: the rooms all look the same, they’re all brand new and sterile, and they have no real personality. Maybe that’s why more and more people are choosing to stay in country inns, bed and breakfasts and the like — places that may not offer satellite [...]
Soccer or Football, It’s the Women’s World Cup!
Begun in 1991 as an idealistic and somewhat low-key event, the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which begins June 19, will be the largest women’s championship sporting event in the world. Sixteen national teams were culled from 75 national qualifying competitions. Millions of people, in more than 100 countries across the globe, are expected to watch [...]
Game On! The NBA Finally Gets It Together
Just when you thought your life would indefinitely be free of 7-foot millionaires, the NBA Players Association made an 11th-hour agreement to play ball. Of course, we here at NetGuide were ready for this contingency and have located the best places on the Net to follow the abbreviated season.
Word for the Wise : Family words
On a recent program we lamented the lack of a term for the cozy place behind a waterfall. In no time at all we heard from a fellow who proposed the term cascave. You won’t find cascave in any dictionary, since the word was coined by the children of our correspondent. Cascave fits (or should [...]
Word for the Wise : Suppressive words
We heard from a fellow looking for the right word to describe the silencing and stopping of an uprising. He was torn between quell and squelch, but we came up with a few other terms, too. Let’s take a look. To quell is to overwhelm completely and reduce wholly to submission, to inactivity, or to [...]
Word for the Wise : Of mice and mouses
Today we investigate a question that has perplexed many a computer user: what do you call more than one of those small mobile manual devices that controls the movement of the cursor and selects computer functions? Everyone knows that one of those computer input devices is called a mouse,
Word for the Wise : Envelope
Supposedly, it was on this date in 1897 that the envelope seal was patented. We have nothing to say about that historic event; instead, we address the question of why the pronunciation \ahn-velope\ gets some folks so steamed up.
Word for the Wise : The Earl of Chesterfield
Today we remember Philip Dormer Stanhope, the British statesman, wit, and diplomat who was born on September 22 in 1694. The man who became the fourth Earl of Chesterfield is today remembered chiefly as the author of Letters to His Son, a book dispensing advice on manners, the art of pleasing, and the art of [...]
