Snopes.com

www.snopes.com

Anyone who has kids and an email address will get emails warn­ing you about what is safe and what isn’t. For exam­ple, last week folks on both coasts received emails about pup­pies need­ing homes, but it was a hoax. Today I got some­thing about the safety of the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser (famous among moms for get­ting crayon mark­ings off painted walls), and headed straight to snopes to check it out. Snopes is a great place to find our which for­wards are authen­tic, and which are false­hoods. Techies like my hus­band have been using it for years and it seems like the rest of us are just get­ting clued in to what a great resources Snopes is.