Other Places of Interest

Links

These are places on the web which are related to things we do or organizations with which we are affiliated as well as sites around the New Haven area (except the humor links). Please visit them for further information.

Around the town:

• Kidcity Children's Museum in Middletown, CT.
• Bishop's Orchards in Guilford, CT.
• The Care4Kids program of CT, which provides assistance for families needing child care.
• Trader Joe's, our preferred grocery store. Vegetarian, organic, and kosher options available.
• David, a former New Havener who started a local playgroup, has a list of things to do with kids in New Haven and Hamden.

Media:

• Disney has FREE online games for kids, only requiring some free plug-ins like Shockwave and Flash (both from Macromedia, linked from the Disney site).
• PBS Kids has totally FREE online games for kids, only requiring some free plug-ins like Shockwave and Flash (both from Macromedia, linked from the PBS Kids site).
• Noggin.com, commercial-free TV for preschoolers. Available on cable or satellite.

Humor and random stuff:

• Useless Knowledge with trivia, quotes, and humor. Ice cream headache: The nerve center on the roof of your mouth overreacts to the cold temperature of the snow cone and tries to heat your brain. This swelling of blood vessels is what causes an ice cream headache, or what is more commonly known as "brain freeze" or "frozen brain syndrome."
• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia -- thought you knew a lot about words? Think again. Four is the only English number that has the same number of letters as the number itself.
• Funny2.com, particularly the Computer Haiku section: Having been erased / The document you're seeking / Must now be retyped.
• Am I Right? archive of misheard lyrics, such as "Hold me closer Tony Danza" by Elton John.
• The webmaster's site, where you can see just what a nut he is. A virtual cornucopia of information.

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