Trick #1: Would You Make it in the Big Leagues?

Want to see how you would stand up to a 90 mph fastball thrown by a major league pitcher? This site will test your reaction time to see how you would make out in the big leagues.

This is a good place to see how the old reflexes are working when you see the "swing batter" screen. Depending on your reaction time you will be rewarded with a strike, a ball, a hit or, if you have the reflexes of Superman - a home run.

Cheaper than going to the Neurologist - and a heck of a lot more fun.

Trick #2: Be an Instant Wizard

Want to wow your company with a magic show for the holidays? Here's an easy on-line trick you can amaze you friends with -- and you don't even have to know how it works.

Someone reportedly tried this out on the Great Houdini and even fooled the great one. Try it and have some fun for the holidays. Guaranteed to blow your mind.

Great Place #1: Evaluate Charities With Ease

It's the time of year when folks open their wallets and pitch in to help the many worthwhile charities. But how can you be sure that the group you are considering is functioning responsibly and on an economically sound basis?

You can get help at this great place which is the nation's largest and most utilized evaluator of charities. Their team of professional analysts examines thousands of America's best-known charities to help you with your charitable decisions. The site is easy to navigable by charity name, location or type of activity and also features donation tips, along with top-10 and bottom-10 lists which rank efficient and inefficient organizations in a number of categories.

Time Magazine, Forbes, Reader's Digest and Kiplinger's all agree that this is one great place.

Great Place #2: How Stuff Works

Ever wonder how TiVo sets work? How users set them up to skip through commercials? How the banking system insures your deposits? How REITs Work? Why snow is white? This great place has all the answers and is organized in sections like Communication, Computer, Electronics, Entertainment, Food & Recipes, Health, Home & Garden, Money, Business ,Credit and Debt, Financial Planning, People, Science and Travel -- just to name a few. Or you can do a simple word search to find out how Oliver R. Smoot became a standard of measurement.

Worth bookmarking for the day you really need to know how stuff works.

Published: January 15, 2008

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John M. "Jack" Peckham is the Executive Director of REcyber.com (the Real Estate CyberSpace Society). In that capacity he oversees the development and delivery of the latest up to the minute Real Estate Cyberspace tools, strategies, networking structures and services that the Society provides its members to leverage their effectiveness, visibility, professionalism and earnings. As host of Real Estate CyberSpace Radio, he provides over 40 hours of programming to help listeners integrate the power of the Internet into their daily business lives. He is the author of several real estate books published by Prentice Hall and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich including his latest Master Guide to Income Property Brokerage from Wiley Publishing. A columnist for the Boston Herald for nine years, his syndicated columns have appeared in over 100 papers nationwide. Jack loves to sell real estate has been involved directly in the sale of over one billion dollars in Real Estate. Today he sells in his jeans and fuzzy slippers as a one-man shop and has closed over $40,000,000 in sales on the Internet recently in 20% of his working time. The balance he spends directing the affairs of the 10,000 member Real Estate CyberSpace Society. The Society awards the RECS (Real Estate CyberSpace Specialist) Designation to members based on the current criteria. He served as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), is a Past President of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and has been honored as the Massachusetts State Realtor of the Year. You can reach Jack at or by calling 617-523-4441.