By Gina Fraone
Every student gets tired of institutional
dorm food day after day. The week of
midterms and finals can be particularly
cruel: sometimes you get the worst crav
ings for your favorite snacks.
Luckily you can stay chained to your
desk around the clock by ordering snacks
online. Just make sure that chain is long
Food.com. This site has a search fe
that helps you find restaurants that
deliver. If you’d rather pick up the food
yourself, or just find a good place to eat,
Food.com’s search feature can also help
you locate restaurants.
For fresh produce, your favorite
canned soups, cereal and anything else
enougn so you can open
the door for the delivery
person. Also remember that
these sites will require a
valid credit card number.
Kozmo.com promises
to deliver any item you
order to your door in under
an hour for free. Their site
offers video and DVD
rentals, magazines, books,
snacks, meals, drinks, elec
tronic gadgets and even
household items.
Currently Kozmo only
services New York, Boston,
San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta,
Washington, D.C., Portland
and Houston, but is plan
ning to add more cities by
the end of the year.
If you’re going to school
you d want from a grocery
store, there’s Peapod.com,
which makes deliveries to the
following metropolitan areas:
Austin, Boston, Chicago,
Columbus, Dallas/Ft. Worth,
Houston, Long Island,
Fairfield County, Conn, and
the San Francisco/San Jose
area. All you have to do is
enter your zip code and then
shop. You can sort by price,
as well as by calories or fat
grams. After you select your
items, check out at “the reg
ister” and then pick a deliv
ery time.
There are other similar
services across the country.
HomeCrocer.com currently
services areas in, or very
near, Renton, Wash.,
Portland, Ore., Irvine,
in iviannauan, cnecK out
Urbanfetch.com. Like Kozmo, the site
promises to have your goods delivered in
under an hour for free. But unlike Kozmo,
they require a minimum order of $10.
Bonus: Urbanfetch also offers deep
discounts on items like best-selling nov
els and CDs. This is a particularly great
deal since there are no shipping costs
involved, as there are with sites like
Amazon.com. They also strictly enforce a
"no tipping" policy.
Ulf it’s the night before midterms and
ere’s no food in sight, check out
huiierton, Azusa, L.arson and ban Diego,
Calif, and Carrollton, Tex. And
Webvan.com services the San Francisco
Bay Area, Sacramento, Calif, and Atlanta.
The downside of all these home
delivery grocery services is the fee. For
Peapod.com, you must order at least
$60 worth of groceries to waive the
delivery free. For HomeGrocer.com, the
delivery fee is $9.95 for orders under
$75, and Webvan.com tacks on a $4.95
fee for orders under $75. •
Sportsline
Sportsline.com
This site was designed for the true sports fanat
ic: the site covers all the bases here, from col
lege football to auto racing. Sportsline not only
offers daily sports headlines, but has the week in
pictures, trivia, links to sports columnists around
the country, ticket giveaways, in-depth analysis,
chat rooms, fantasy leagues and more. It’s all
presented in an easily navigated format that gets
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Content: A Usability: A
NFL Fans
Nflfans.com
If you only think of one thing when fall rolls
around, then this is the only web site you need.
“For the fans, by the fans,” is their motto, and
NFL fans delivers. The site, sponsored by
Internet sports giant rivals.com, is basically a
well-oiled grassroots fan organization. The site
houses NFL headlines through its news engine,
links to hometown papers and fantasy leagues,
video clips of games and commentary, sections
on player bios and the history of the NFL. It also
has a vibrant message board where community
members discuss everything from personal picks
to the best hotel rooms on the NFL highway.
MDelano
Content: A- Usability: A
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