Here are some more sites we like, which are older but still cool.
Stanford University is offering a
free on-line self-management workshop
for U.S. residents who have been diagnosed with heart disease, lung disease, or diabetes.
The workshop promises to "teach the skills needed in the day-to-day management of chronic disease,
as well as maintaining or increasing life's activities." Two trained facilitators, one or both of whom
have a chronic condition, lead each workshop. You join in on your own time, two hours a week for six weeks.
"By working together - as consumers, workers, manufacturers,
retailers, institutional purchasers - we can change corporate behavior and improve conditions
for sweatshop workers worldwide. One way to do this is by creating a people's marketplace".
Check out the Clean Clothes Connection, to learn
about clean clothes manaufacturers and retailers.
If you are looking for some safe, educational, on-line
fun for your children, try PBS Kids There are games, stories, songs, puzzles and
more from all of their favorite PBS children's shows - from Arthur to Zoom, From Sesame
Street to Cyberchase. There should be something for any kid, from the youngest computer
user to early teens. This will only be fun, though, if you can use a computer with a sound
card and speakers. A video card is nice, too, for some of the things on the PBS Kids site.
The town of Hermon has a great
community website, and a great community technology program sponsored by the school
department. Through the tax-supported Hermon.net program, every student, town employee,
and town resident can get free home internet access and e-mail. More than 70% of the
town residents take advantage of the program
Through a settlement
(.pdf) with the Public Utilities Commission, the phone company has
helped to wire all Maine schools and Libraries with internet access. In Hermon, the
Hermon.net program is helping to put clusters of nearly-free rebuilt computer terminals
in every classroom. You can read more about the program in the
Bangor Daily News, (but you'll have to fill out an obnoxious registration form to use
the BDN website).
Maybe your community could get similar programs going.
We know that nobody thinks court forms are "cool," especially child support forms.
We think our new interactive child
support worksheet is particularly neat, though. It
has the long complicated child support tables buried right in the form so that you
never have to look at them. You put in the number of kids and the income of the parents,
and the form looks up the child support amounts in the tables and does all the
calculating for you.
You will need the 5.0 or newer version of Acrobat Reader to use this form. There is
a link on our forms page to get it free from the Adobe
website.
Pine Tree's interactive forms are one of the most heavily used parts of the website.
we have almost all of the family law forms and small claims forms. They can be filled our
on your computer and printed for you to use.
Humorist
Madeleine Begun Kane has collected The Top Law Humor Sites for
2002 We're not really fans of lawyer jokes, but some of these sites are pretty good.
There are jokes, parodies, songs, cartoons, weird legal news, outlandish cases, and more.
We particularly like LawComix by lawyer-cartoonist
Charles Fincher.
We really like our new HelpMeLaw
website and its smart search
engine and digital library.
Try it out if you are looking for an answer to a legal
problem affecting low-income people in the state of Maine. Help us make
this site useful for our clients. Give us your ideas for improvement.
Use the Contact
Us button at the bottom of any page.
The Digital Divide Network and
MapQuest have a search engine that will tell you the free public internet access locations
within five miles of your location. Just put in your zip code and click submit, or use their
advanced search feature.
The search isn't perfect. Sometimes, if it searches a bigger area, it will leave out sites
right in the center of town. If you don't get good results, try using the advanced search
with a smaller search distance. Five miles seems to work best for us.
The website of the Digital Divide Network offers a range
of information, tools and resources that help practictioners stay on top of digital divide
developments. It also serves as forum where practictioners can share their experiences with
colleagues around the world. The Digital Divide Network looks at the causes and effects of
the divide from four distinct angles: technology access, literacy and learning, content,
and economic development. |
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Another
website we think has some pretty interesting stuff is Poverty
USA: America's Forgotten State, developed by the Catholic Campaign
for Human Development. Tour
Poverty USA or take the Poverty
Quiz. This site uses some simple technology to deliver a powerful
message.
Interested
in space? Visit the NASA website.
Check out their multi-media
gallery.
Watch live video from the space shuttle and other NASA
projects and events. Show your children the NASA
Kids website.
The
National Council on the Aging has created a benefits calculator. If you
take ten or fifteen minutes to enter information about yourself and your
financial situation, it will calculate what benefits you should be
eligible to receive. The benefits
checkup is strictly confidential. No personal information about you
is asked or retained.
