The Garbo archives at UVassa (Finland) offers a select collection of shareware, freeware and public-domain programs for MS-DOS, plus smaller amounts for Windows, Unix/Linux, X11, Mac, Next, and Sinclair QL. Topics include archivers, virus scanners, utilities; math/stat programs; educational games; AI/NN files; Turbo Pascal and other programming; editors; terminal programs; linguistics; astronomy; and information files. and , plus about 30 mirror sites. For a history, get . [Timo Salmi , comp.archives.msdos.announce, 05Sep97.]

The SoftSEA Shareware/Freeware Programs Center is . [Network News, 02Aug97.]

Kris Kunze runs a shareware website called "Oddities, Curios, and Rarities for Macintosh," at . You can download a simulation of a stapler, or hypnotizing, spinning yellow wheels, or an animated stick figure, or a simulated lobster that squeaks appreciatively when you pet it. [, TidBITS, 15Sep97.] (Kunze says there's nothing like this in the Windows world. "The cold, grey corporate machine strides into the infinite night, filled with a frigid unswerving purpose, dragging its empty and corrupt creators into the dawn of an emotionless void." Or, as he says, "studies have shown that we Macintosh users often lack important enzymes required for the stable processing of thought.")

-- Ken