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With the whole city - or should that be the world? - freaked out about atypical pneumonia, the humble PC can become your knight in shining armour - unless it succumbs to a virus too. Throw a mask on it and get surfing:
If you've always wanted to give a souffle a go but never 'found the time', have a look at www.epicurious.com. A food lover's paradise, it offers a huge range of advice on everything from etiquette to drinks, with step-by-step video lessons, a food dictionary and - particularly handy if you got into a spot of panic shopping this week - more than 15,000 recipes.
Between war and disease, there hasn't been a whole lot of room for other news in our lives, but one cunning Web site has managed to get its name in lights several times recently, particularly by publishing the original court transcripts of the hearing into the rape allegations against director Roman Polanski.
Investigative site www.thesmokinggun.com manages to get its hands on juicy confidential documents, mostly about stars, and will give you something to gossip about over the phone.
Superbly witty and intelligent site www.theonion.com strikes all the rights chords with its hilarious satires of current affairs. Take the story headlined: Saddam speech suspiciously mentions Nelly song from last summer. 'The CIA announced Monday that it suspects Saddam Hussein's latest televised address was pre-recorded, pointing to its suspiciously dated reference to Nelly's Hot In Herre, a rap hit from the summer of 2002. 'For the enemy invaders of Iraq, it soon will get truly hot in here,' Hussein said.
'He then went on to praise his elite Republican Guard, saying that they 'will leave the Americans as bewildered as Ozzy Osbourne trying to operate a television remote control',' the site reported.
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