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Here's a list of my favorite sites on the World Wide Web.  Click on them to check them out.  Just be sure to return to Jach Spake!

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Google - If you want to find anything (lost friends, medical issues, names of old movies, etc.) this is the place to go!

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Yahoo! - My favorite choice for e-mail.  Until recently, I could crow that it was an e-mail service you could latch onto from any PC... until my firm shut down access to third party e-mail accounts due to virus fears.  L

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Chronicle Custom Comics - Here's where you can build your own customized comics page!  The Houston Chronicle's website ingenuously builds the URLs for the comics you choose into your own personal URL that's saved on your PC.  This is how I get to see strips like Mutts, Luann, Rose is Rose, and 9 Chickwood Lane that aren't in my local newspaper.  My custom comics page is the FIRST web page I visit each day!

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Forgotten New York - You can take the boy out of Brooklyn but you can't take Brooklyn out of the boy.  Yeah, I can always visit my old high school's website or Classmates.com, but if I want to see the old sights and scenes of the five boroughs of NYC, this is the place to go!

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Ruby the Knishman - This one will be really out of left field for most of you.  Ruby was a fixture in the East New York section of Brooklyn when it was a Jewish shetl.  For the uninitiated, shetl is Yiddish for the old Jewish communities of Eastern Europe before World War II.  Ruby sold knishes (potato pies, for you gentiles) at street corners, city parks, and schools.  He was a true "character" who had a rough-hewn exterior with a heart of gold.  During the summers he would follow his customers up to the bungalow colonies in the Borscht Belt (that's the Catskills Mountains in New York State's Sullivan County) to ply his trade.  His sales tactics were legendary as were his off-color jokes.  The out-pouring of heart-felt love and adoration as people reminisce on this web page about the guy is amazing.  Now, just imagine my wife's best friend's surprise to find that her long-deceased dad, Ruby, had his own website!!!

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This is a great site for comics news and information!

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A great site for comics web ring!

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Another great site for comics news and info!

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Find great comics sites with this search engine!

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You know, I could go on and on and on... I must have a few hundred web sites on my Favorites list.  There's everything from the fannish to the serious, from investments to entertainment.  I'll list more here as I deem them to be indispensable to others and when the mood strikes me.