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Issue date: Dec 19, 1999
Last-minute Web shopping
12 great gifts and where to get them
Last
week's Best of the Web
Best of the
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Plan New Year's Eve online
Haven't made your plans yet for the millennium? The Web can help.
CelebrateY2K.com
www.celebratey2k.com
Listings for parties around the world.
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Online: Millennium Madness www.frommers.com/millennium/
millenniummain.html
Travel deals to let you ring in the millennium in the Caribbean
and other exotic locales.
Times Square 2000
www.timessquarebid.org/ new_year/index.htm
Information about celebrating in Times Square, a countdown clock
and live pictures on New Year's Eve.
Yahoo! Countdowns
dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/holidays_and_observances/year_2000/countdowns
Links to countdown sites worldwide.
Greenwich 2000
www.greenwich2000.co.uk/ millennium/events/webcam2000.htm
Watch millennium parties around the globe through Webcam links.
Last-minute
holiday help
You still haven't finished your shopping and preparations? These cyber-services
can speed up the process:
Put some pizazz in your holiday cookies with Photo Cookies (www.clubphoto.com).
Your most cherished images are "frosted" onto a batch of sugar cookies.
You get 24 personalized cookies for $46.95; processing and Fed-Exing
takes about a week. Similarly personalized ornaments, chocolate
wreaths and other goodies also are available.
Giftspot.com, a personalized service site, provides online gift
certificates, shopping suggestions and greeting cards, as well as
links to leading e-tailers like eToys, eBags and Gear.com.
Exactone.com,
mysimon.com,
RUsure.com,
www.brodia.com and
Dealtime.com
shop for you. Pick your item and these sites promise to find the
best online bargains.
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