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Trains, El Nino, Mr Toad's Wild Ride and more!

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Welcome back, I hope I can make your Internet browsing a little more interesting and fun this week.

Early last year when I did an article on trains I missed one site that I recently stumbled across that has lots of neat train pictures. Another Lackawanna Express has load of train pictures. Sadly many of the links in the original article have disappeared. If you want to find the active links you can shortcut the search yourself by visiting my Links section. Accessing the links section requires that you become a member at Suite101.com but becoming a member is easy and free. Just enter an email address and pick a password and that's it. We promise not to sell, give or otherwise divulge you email address to anyone.

Regular readers will know that I'm a big fan of Java games. The kids section of the U.S. Coast Guard page has the Coastie Kids Java Games. This site also has a kids chat area that is unsupervised but does automatically remove some bad language you type in.

As I was writing this article there was a piece on the radio about the closing of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disney World in Florida on September 7th. Turns out they are going to replace it with a Winnie the Pooh ride. This Toad site has links to both the original and the Disney version of the story. Which one do you prefer?

I found a really neat Java applet this week at the NASA site JTrack - 3D pops up a separate window where you can click and drag, highlight satellites and do other cool stuff. This one is a must see.

I had been planning on doing a story on El Nino but never found the right site that wasn't too boring but was also informative. This week someone sent me the URL for El Nino - A Child of the Tropics. This site is part of the ThinkQuest project. This Internet based project and contest is for 12 to 19 year olds. Teams of two or three create webpages as teaching and education tools for teachers and students around the world.

The last site for this week is The Slug Crossing. This site will help you gardeners with recycle/reuse ideas for your garden. The slug you see below came from this site. .

If your need some more kid friendly sites check out some of my past articles or drop in on Kids on Suite101. This page gives you links to other kid friendly topics and links on Suite 101. Well that's it for now, see you all next week.

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