How to Wash a Croc and Other Cool Stuff

Birdwatching
For everything from bird calls to how to pick out a great pair of binoculars, there is no better site for bird watchers than the Cornell Ornithology Lab's All About Bird's Web site.

Great Seats
To get really good seats to the hottest show on Broadway, try going to the box office two days before the show you want to attend. The producers and stars of shows typically get a pair of seats—they're called "house seats"—set aside for every performance. If they don't use them for any given day, the tickets need to be returned to the box office 48 hours before curtain time. If you time it right, those seats could be yours.

Great Music
There are numerous online sites where one can download free music, but none more comprehensive when it comes to American and world folk music than the Web site of the Library of Congress.

When you're tired of that (fat chance), there's always free stuff at Amazon.com. And here. And here.

Great Books
Bookfinder.com searches online book sites for new and used titles, including Abebooks, Alibris and Amazon, and lists the results by price, low to high

Great Photographs
You can order a lot of things from the Library of Congress but get this: you can order museum quality prints from the original negatives of photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression, including work by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Cost of the print? As little as $50 or up to around $150 depending on size of the photograph, quality of paper and other variables.