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Some of Pete MacKay's most interesting, most favorite, and/or most fun sites...
Margaritaville Seafood
According to the Jimmy Buffett folks, seafood is to Margaritaville like bait is to fishing, or like songs are to sailors. Click here to download (or get mailed) a $1.00 off coupon for any Margaritaville Seafood Shrimp product:
www.Margaritaville-Shrimp
Online search engine Google has come up with their own financial news site to compete with MSN Money and other sites operated by Yahoo and AOL. Click here to check it out:
www.google-finance
First there was Google Earth. Then there was Google Moon. Now you can Google Mars. You'll see Martian maps that were taken by NASA's orbiting Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor. Global Mars does not provide driving directions, but you can check out The Red Planet in three formats:
www.Google-Mars
You can add "organic coffee farmer" to Jesse Colin Young's resume. He lives in Hawaii and runs an organ coffee farm in Kona, Hawaii. For more information and to order Jesse Colin Young's "hand picked, organically raised Morning Sun Pure Kona Coffee:
www.jesse-colin-young-coffee
The original lunch counter type diners were most often decommissioned and converted old railroad dining cars, relocated to permanent locations. Click here for "everything diner":
www.diner
24 photographs the editors of Time Magazine have picked as the photos that best capture the year's biggest news stories. It was a year of many tragedies, so be forewarned that a number of the photos are rather graphic. You'll need Flash Player to view the slide show of photographs. If you don't have Flash Player, you'll be prompted to download it.
www.time-photos-2005
Visit the continuing adventures of Wally The Wonder Dog, as seen through Folk Artist, Cartoonist, and Ceramic Potter Tom Edwards.
www.wally-ware
The PetsMobility company has developed a bone-shaped cell phone for dogs called PetCell, enabling dog owners to talk to their best friend over a two-way speaker. If you have $350 to $400, you too can get your dog wired when the PetCell hits the market in early spring. For more information:
www.PetCell
Show your own movies on line and actually get paid for it!
www.revver
B. R. Cohn Winery
Bruce Cohn learned all about wine making by reading wine making books while he was out on tour as the manager of the Doobie Brothers.
To find out about B.R.Cohn wines, including the "Doobie Red" series of wines:
www.doobie-red
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
The Johnston Ridge Observatory has set up a "live" real time Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam located about 5 miles from the volcano at an elevation of about 4,500 feet. The VolcanoCam updates the volcano's activity approximately every 5 minutes during daylight hours, so you can follow any volcanic activity or any changes to the appearance of the volcano.
www.mount st.helens-volcano-cam
You'll see a panorama of three images of a research camera set up on the north rim of the crater of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. The images are updated every 5 minutes.
www.kilauea-volcano-cam
Mars Rocks!
There is a tradition at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to play "theme" music to accompany their various space missions. To check out what they've picked out and played for the current Mars Rover missions:
www.marsrocks!
Free on-line tax prep software if you meet the maximum income limits:
www.irs-free-software
www.Eyeball!
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