Miscellaneous, non-fibro, links

Do you want to find out if that email you got is true?

The mail about a new virus or the mail promising you that if you forward this letter to every one in your address book, the cancer society will donate 3 cents per letter to little sally's treatment, or if you forward this letter to 7 people you will get free clothes from the gap etc.

99.9% of these letters are hoaxes or urban legends - the same letters have been going around on the internet for years. The free trip to Disney land? How would they track all the email? Or Microsoft paying for you to forward mail? The hardware and software to track the emails alone would make this cost prohibitive. Now you can go to these sites and see just which (if any) of the letters you have received is true.
Urban Legends
http://ciac.llnl.gov/
http://www.kumite.com/myths/

If you have any doubts about a hoax, *please* check its validity on one of these sites.

A website full of positive news from around the globe: http://www.positivepress.com/index.php3