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http://www.fax4free.com

Fax4free is a service that (duuuuuh) lets you send faxes for free.  You must first sign up for their service, and in the process they will give you a unique phone number somewhere in the U.S. (probably not local to you) that you can use to receive voice mail messages and faxes.  Anything left on this number will be forwarded to your normal email address as an attachment.

Now any time you want to send a fax, you can send it free through their service to any fax number in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Australia.  Here's how:  login to their web site using the user name and password you registered, click on Sending and Receiving Faxes, click on Send a Free Fax, and you will get a big form.  Fill in the names, countries, and phone numbers of multiple recipients, a subject, and optional text for the cover page.  For the text of the fax you have two choices: compose the wording on the web page with the mini-word processor at the bottom of the page, or prepare a text file or word processor document on your personal computer and type in (or browse to find) the name of the saved document, and they will upload it to their site.

The fax will be delivered promptly, just as though you sent it from your own machine.  The only clue that it was sent through fax4free is that the bottom half of the fax header page will have an ad for their service.

http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/tm.html

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic

http://trademarks.uspto.gov/access/search-mark.html

http://www.uspto.gov/teas/index.html

The first link above is to the main trademark page of the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.  Read the brochure on the second link if you are interested in basic information about trademarks.  The third link is to their search engine.  If you are curious to know whether anyone has trademarked a particular word or phrase -- possibly because you are thinking of starting a business by that name -- then type it into the search engine and see if it has been used.

The fourth link above is an online application system that you can use to submit a trademark application.  Many businesses never apply for trademark protection because they are too lazy to fill out the paperwork, so now you don't have any excuses because the online form isn't that hard.  The price, however, is high enough that you won't want to grab names just for fun.

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov

Jr. Skulker MediaHound suggested this site as another interesting one for government information.  It sounds very familiar to WebSkulker because he has heard radio ads for years saying to write to some address in Pueblo, CO, for a catalog of government information for consumers, and this is no doubt the same agency.  They have detailed online brochures on topics such as Cars, Children, Education, Employment, Federal Programs, Food, Health, Housing, Money, Small Business, Travel, Recalls, and Scams/Frauds.

http://cnn.com/2000/US/03/07/silly.putty

Did you know that it's the golden, or 50th, anniversary of Silly Putty?  Go to this page and watch a streaming media tribute to the substance.

Submitted by Jr. Skulker Marvelena Quesada

Definitions by Gender

THINGY:
female: Any part under a car's hood.
male: The strap fastener on a woman's bra

VULNERABLE:
female: Fully opening up one's self emotionally to another.
male: Playing football without a helmet.

COMMUNICATION:
female: The sharing of thoughts and feelings with one's partner.
male: Leaving a note before suddenly taking off for a weekend with the boys.

BUTT:
female: The body part that "looks bigger" no matter what is worn.
male: What you slap when someone scores a touchdown, home run, or goal.  Also good for mooning.

COMMITMENT:
female: A desire to get married and raise a family.
male: Trying not to pick up other women while out with girlfriend.

ENTERTAINMENT:
female: A good movie, concert, play or book.
male: Anything that can be done while drinking

FLATULENCE:
female: An embarrassing by-product of digestion.
male: An endless source of entertainment, self-expression and male bonding.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Good: Your son studies a lot in his room
Bad: You find several porn movies hidden there
Ugly: You're in them

Good: You give the birds and bees talk to your daughter
Bad: She keeps interrupting
Ugly: With corrections

Good: Your daughter got a new job
Bad: As a hooker
Ugly: Your coworkers are her best clients
Way ugly: She makes more money than you do

Good: Your wife is pregnant.
Bad: It's triplets
Ugly: You had a vasectomy five years ago.

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