Fresh Direct comes through with a very cool and easy way to pick a recipe and automatically order all the needed ingredients.

Eons.com, the recently launched community site for baby boomers, has been called the MySpace.com for the 50 plus crowd. But what makes MySpace, well, your space is the customization elements and the attitude. Eons.com, while still an interesting site, reminds me more of my old employer iVillage.com. But while iVillage is a site with content, message boards and tools aimed at women, Eons.com offers all that stuff for boomers (in larger sized fonts if desired).

Here’s a suggestion for your next book group: an email mystery called “Daughters of Freya.” What’s an email mystery you ask? It’s a story told through a series of emails from different characters sent to your inbox, “as if the characters copied you on the emails they are sending each other.” You receive a four to five a day over a three week period, leaving you unable to skip ahead to find out what happens. There are also links to newspaper and magazine articles, detective reports, photographs and other items that contain clues to the mystery. Intrigued? Not yet? The story synopsis might reel you in.

A recent article in the New York Times talked about how important video sites like YouTube were to upcoming elections. Apparently, Senator George Allen, a republican presidential hopeful was videotaped calling the videographer, a man of Indian-American descent, a “macaca” (a term I’ve never heard but apparently is an offensive racial slur). The tape became a hit on YouTube and then made the rounds on TV and newspapers. The article goes on to debate whether video sites like YouTube and Google Video will have positive or negative effects on future campaigns. After reading the article I went to YouTube to view it. But by now it was long buried in YouTube’s thousands of videos that are uploaded to the site every day.

If you’re a fan of the New York Times Metropolitan Diary section, then you’ll love Overheardinnewyork.com. It’s hysterically funny, and really gives you a good slice of life in New York.