May, and I had no idea, is PGA Free Lesson Month. When I read the announcement that the free lessons are for only ten minutes, I laughed. That would be just about enough time for me to learn which end of a golf club is which.

But I am assured that a ten minute lesson is good for focusing on one skill, and hey, maybe you need some help with your putting. (These free lessons are for everybody, not just beginning golfers.)

The Web site for free lesson month is at http://www.playgolfamerica.com/index.cfm?action=flm . There you can enter a zip code and get a list of professionals participating in the free lesson month. I entered WRAL's zip code, 27606, and got a list of about 15 professionals within ten miles of the zip code who are offering the free lessons.

I wonder if six people who want to work on the same thing could get together and get a free lesson for an hour...

Maybe you personally will never get to go to the moon, but that doesn't mean you can't send your name. NASA is inviting folks to submit their names to be sent to the moon via the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.

If you visit http://www.nasa.gov/lro you'll be asked to put your first and last name in a form. When you've done that you'll get a link for a certificate of participation you can fill out.

And what happens to your name? It's put on a database, which itself is put on a microchip and integrated into the LRO spacecraft. And off your name goes into space! The deadline for adding your name is June 27, though, so don't wait too long...

A new Web site brought to you by NC State wants to help you go native. No, it's not going to teach you to like boiled peanuts and fried okra. Instead, the site wants to help you create landscapes using native plants that are good for local wildlife. The site's at http://www.ncsu.edu/goingnative/ .

While this site will give you plenty of reasons WHY you should make sure your landscape has more native plants (more wildlife, low maintenance, etc.) the real information is in the HOW sections. The site walks you through four steps for designing and creating your native plant landscape. There's worksheets and plenty of information and links for each step.

You may be wondering which plants are native and which aren't. This site has both a list of native plants which attract wildlife and those which are invasive (the invasive list includes Kudzu, Bradford Pear, and Wisteria.)

(I think there's supposed

Is there ever such a thing as too much movie nostalgia? Perhaps when you start singing the "Saint Elmo's Fire" theme in the middle of a board meeting, but I'd bet you that at least a couple of people would start singing along. TVLand.com has launched a new tool to allow you to relive the movies of yesteryear -- a database of almost 1,000 movie trailers. It's available at http://blogs.tvland.com/movie_database/.

When you come to the page you'll see a trailer immediately starts playing -- in my case it was one of the Austin Powers movies but I don't know if that's random. You can browse the trailers by genre or by decade, or go through them alphabetically.

When I was growing up I watched a lot of marginal Disney movies. Like Gus and Unidentified Flying Oddball. Alas, the TVLand trailers database didn't have

Wayyyyyy back in 2006 I mentioned a site called In Pictures, available at http://inpics.net/ . This site sold downloadable tutorials for a variety of computer applications and languages. I mentioned it at the time because it was offering a free downloads period.

I was reminded of the site recently when another blog mentioned it. I went back and checked on it, and apparently the site no longer offers downloads. Instead, all the tutorials are freely available on the Web. Among the tutorials are several Office applications, open office, and some Web programming basics.

The appeal of these tutorials are that they are very screenshot oriented, with page by page instructions -- "Do THIS and THIS happens." You can't get deep into an application with this method, but it's a great way to get the basic functionality. Be sure to <a href="http://inpics.net/notify.html">sign up for new tutorial notifications</a>