A supposedly comprehensive site of Y2K resources is online at . [Robert W. Neill , WebSiteDaily, 11Jul99. net-hap.]

Macintosh users can check the Macnologist site for Y2K bug reports and rumors. . [Geoff Duncan , TidBITS, 05Apr99.] (For specific software, see the vendor sites.)

The Year2000.com Bookstore lists more than 300 titles (via Amazon.com), including "The Bug Stops Here"; "Crisis Investing for the Year 2000"; "KRASH! How Y2K Could Sink the Stock Market"; "How to Profit from the Y2K Recession"; "How To Survive Y2K Chaos In The City"; "The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook"; "Lie-2K: Why the Alleged End-of-the-World Year-2000 Computer Crisis is Really Just a Hoax"; and "Fun With Y2K Stencils." . [Year2000.com, 25Aug99. Camille Petrocco.]

You can shop for Y2K and Millennium Gifts and Novelties at Yahtuki Alerts, . Their humor newsletter is available for a message to . [, NEW-LIST, 19Jul99.]

The Back To Eden eJournal is a monthly about country living and getting back to the Earth. Subject matter is similar to Countryside, Back Home, and Mother Earth News: gardening, cooking, small-scale farming and ranching, seed swaps, etc. Live a life beyond the sidewalks, where wonderful people share with one another. Send a "subscribe backeden" subject line t . [Glen Mentgen , NEW-LIST, 04Apr99.] (At one email issue per month, how long could it take to learn all you need to know?)

Survivalists may be interested in the Household Cyclopedia at . It's a pioneer book about how to amputate a limb, grow fibre, care for horses, birth children, build houses, concoct medicines, etc. [Curt Davis , WebSiteDaily, 03Nov99. net-hap.] (Then again, there are modern books on any of these topics. Check Amazon or the catalogs from Paladin Press, Nitro-Pak Preparedness Center, Major Surplus and Survival, etc.)

The Better Business Bureau is warning people about Y2K scams, including phony gold sales, credit-card magnetic strip "upgrades," and book safes sold by mail order to people who want to stash their cash at home. The latter provide a great resource for burglars: a list of homes with large amounts of money easily found on a book shelf. . [David Hayes and Finn Bullers, The Kansas City Star, 13Aug99. Year2000.com, 25Aug99. Camille Petrocco.]

----- "The conveniences and comforts of humanity in general will be linked up by one mechanism, which will produce comforts and conveniences beyond human imagination. But the smallest mistake will bring the whole mechanism to a certain collapse. In this way the end of the world will be brought about." -- Sufi prophet Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, 1922. -----