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Surfing Into Father's Day: Internet Provides Ways to Honor Dad
Aired June 15, 2001 - 08:37 ET
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COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR: This is a free reminder for you: Sunday is Father's Day. In case you're still looking for some last- minute gifts or cards or something, Allison Tom is here to show you how you can use the Web as a resource. Some great ideas for you here.
What have you got?
ALLISON TOM, CNN INTERACTIVE CORRESPONDENT: We've got a number of things. We're going to show you some of the high-tech and the low- tech aspects of what you can find online.
The first one we're going to show you is sending an electronic greeting. So you can go to egreetings.com, and they have a lot of different choices for you. Here we have, for instance, 12 cards that have come up on our screen. You can select which one you would like for your father. We picked one here, which shows you the animation, which is kind of fun to see.
MCEDWARDS: That's cute.
TOM: You can personalize these, so that you can send your own personal message to your father, and all you have to is send it, for instance, your name, so we could say, From Colleen.
MCEDWARDS: It would be sent to my dad.
TOM: We could send it to your dad. You can say something, whatever you like, in the subject line.
MCEDWARDS: Something really original, like "Happy Father's Day, Dad. I hope it's warm in Canada."
TOM: We'll leave it as "Happy Father's Day." Then you can type in your message and send it off.
There's also another site, Blue Mountain, which you might be aware of.
MCEDWARDS: Yes.
TOM: They have a lot of different cards you can send as well, and we found some fun interactive ones. If your father likes to golf, for instance, all you have to do is click on any of these objects here, and you can swing. Hopefully, we will get a hole in one... MCEDWARDS: That's great.
TOM: ... which we did. And there's a lot of animation that you can include.
If you're looking for maybe some other, original gifts you'd like to have the family participate in, you can go to this site here, where we have some other ideas. You get a list of different ideas you can go to. One of them, in particular, is making your own pop-up card. What they do here is they give you the descriptions of what specifically you will need, and then they'll also walk you through as to how you can do it. That might be a fun project to do at home with the kids, with your brothers and sisters.
MCEDWARDS: You make it offline. You just get your instructions from the handy dandy screen.
TOM: Exactly, the instructions are just going to be online.
If you're looking for a restaurant to which you might want to take your father -- granted there's only a couple of days to make our reservation -- you can go here to this restaurant guide, restaurantrow.com. They will list some of the top cities and places that you can go to, and you can also make your reservations online. You can select the city that you're going to. They'll give you the specific breakdowns as to what the name of the restaurant is, and some of them will offer the menu.
Again, you can make a reservation online, but keep in mind, they will charge you.
MCEDWARDS: That's a great resource. I've never seen that.
TOM: Right. And if you don't want to pay for it, you can just pick the number off the Internet and then put it on.
Last but not least, if there's a Father's Day brunch you'd like to cook at home, ivillage.com has all the details here, and they also include a summer frittata that you can cook for your father.
If not -- and again, you have a couple more days still -- you can buy ties on line. So we have a couple of different wacky ones that you can choose from.
MCEDWARDS: The old standby, the Father's Day tie.
TOM: The old standby, that's right. Again, you can pick any one that suits your father, and of course, here at wildties.com, we have lots of fun, artsy ones.
So many choices for your father.
IN case you forge all the links that we have, we also have them up on cnn.com, under our sci-tech section, so it's easy to remember.
MCEDWARDS: Good to know. Check that out if you want to double check and want to surf away into Father's Day.
Thanks very much, Allison. We appreciate it.
TOM: Thank you.
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