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Past Featured "Useful Website of the Month" links

EARTH 911 - Earth 911 delivers actionable local information on recycling and product stewardship that empowers consumers to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to sustainability. If you have hazardous or recycleable materials for disposal but don't know where to take them, just visit www.earth911.com, enter your item and zip code, and the nearest locations for drop off will be listed for you! Both the Earth911 site and 1-800-CLEANUP toll-free hotline are provided at no cost to the user or taxpayer.

Healthfinder.gov - healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies.  If you search for information on cancer, AIDS, or any other illness at one of the Web's search engines, you're likely to find thousands and thousands of documents, arranged in an order having nothing to do with reliability, relevance, or the other concerns you've likely got when researching a disease. How do you make sense of all the health information on the Web? With a simple interface and a well-organized collection of links, healthfinder® serves as an excellent gateway to the seemingly endless amount of medical knowledge on the Net.

Metropolitan Mosquito Control District - The MMCD provides a variety of services to 2.7 million people living in an area covering 2,800 square miles in the seven county Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota metropolitan area. Counties included in the District are Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington. This public education website offers information, contacts and links to resources for the public to learn about health issues and control techniques for mosquitoes, ticks and other biting insects. The MMCD is funded by property taxes. In 2007, District programs are expected to cost the owner of a typical $250,000 home an average of $13.10 per year.

Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public website. This Web site is provided as a public service by the U.S. Department of Justice ("the Department"). Using this Web site, interested members of the public have access to and may search participating state Web site public information regarding the presence or location of offenders, who, in most cases, have been convicted of sexually-violent offenses against adults and children and certain sexual contact and other crimes against victims who are minors. The public can use this Web site to educate themselves about the possible presence of such offenders in their local communities.

Google Earth 4.2 now with Sky - Most internet savvy web surfers have used Google Earth which combines satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Previous versions of Google Earth have allowed users to zoom in from outer space to view our planet, right down to our homes in many cases! With Google Earth’s new Sky feature, now you can turn that perspective around and explore the wonders of the heavens. View images of distant galaxies and nebulae from the Hubble Space Telescope, learn about the movement of the planets and the lifecycle of the stars, and more. Click this link to Learn more about Sky 

TwinCitiesFreeMarket.org - The Free Market is a listing service for residents who want to give or get free reusable goods for the home, garage and garden, it is part of an effort to reduce the amount of reusable goods being thrown away. The Free Market program, launched in 1997, was the first web based exchange program in the nation targeted specifically to residents and that addresses the specific needs involved with residential exchange of reusable and durable household goods. Since its inception the Free Market has facilitated more than 13,000 exchanges of durable goods, diverting nearly 2,000 tons from the waste stream. The Free Market currently has over 75,000 active users nationwide.

Metacritic.com - Metacritic compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for film, video/dvd, books, music, television and games. Their unique Metascores show the critical consensus at a glance by taking a weighted average of critic grades.

WebSudoku.com. If you are like me and have become addicted to the sudoku puzzles in the newspaper, here is a website just for you! Millions of puzzles that can be played either online or printed for personal use are available for free, sorted by difficulty; Easy, Medium, Hard and Evil. Enjoy!

Wikipedia - Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link

ZABASEARCH - The Free People Search and Public Information Search Engine. I’ve found this website very helpful in my efforts to locate people with whom I’ve lost contact. ZabaSearch does not gather or generate information. ZabaSearch quickly accesses public information and displays what is available in the public domain. Many people assume ZabaSearch controls the information found in ZabaSearch results pages. However, ZabaSearch simply serves as a search engine in locating available public records and does not create the records found.

Zillow.com - Free, Instant Real Estate Valuations and Data for 67,000,000+ Homes (...and you don't have to enter any personal info and no one will contact you)