Web treats

If you are entranced by the Web, you will enjoy Rule the Web, How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet -- Better, Faster, Earlier. It's not a Web for Dummies type of book. It assumes you know how to navigate the Web. The author is Mark Frauenfelder, founder of Boing Boing, an interesting blog full of oddities.

The book contains tips and recommendations on what you can do, and where, on the Web and on your PC. A few examples:

• Audiobooksforfree.com, free audiobooks
• BookMooch.com, an online community book exchange
• Ratemds.com, a rating site for doctors
• Zillow.com, real estate information including how much your house might be worth
• Tips on how to avoid drowning in e-mail (p. 283-6)

Alas, I don't think the book will help me with the milk I spilled on my keyboard this morning.