Here is a 'mind map' of my interests:

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Science and Mathematics Teaching

Influential Ideas and People in Science

Big Iron - Mainframes and Computers

Web Design

NZ Politics

International Politics

New Zealand Art Scene

Cyberpunk

Fantasy Art on the Web

Caving

Poetry Sites

People

Gaming Links

Radio Stations

Television Stations

Newspapers

Risk Analysis

World War Two Websites

NZQA. New Zealand Qualifications Authority

Te Kete Ipurangi. (Literally: The Handbasket of Knowledge)

Algebra Help. Where technology meets mathematics. A high school (college) level algebra resource

The Maths Page. Elementary (primary) level mathematics skills

Geometry Net. Online learning resource - covering mathematice, science, literature, art etc. A very large resource

Periodic table. An interactive periodic table of the elements

Univerity of Akron, Chemistry. University of Akron chemistry curriculum. First year university chemistry

Queen of Peace high School Chemistry. Queen of Peace High School list of links. A large chemistry resource

St Joseph's College Senior Chemistry. Australian college level chemistry

Chemistry Text - The Net Equation. Very elegant chemistry site

ROCO Reed Organic Chemistry Online. Excellent molecule visualisation site

Drawing Lewis Structures. Lewis diagrams in chemistry

SAPS Osmoweb - Vitamin C. Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS) article on Vitamin C assays using DCPIP.

MIT OCW. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Open CourseWare. MIT curriculum material

Nature Magazine. Nature magazine, from the UK - one of the world's two pre-eminent science publications

Science Magazine. Science magazine, from the USA - the world's other pre-eminent science publication

SciTechDaily. New Zealand online science magazine from Vicki Hyde

Space Dot Com. The number one source of information on astonomy and the exploration of space

Microcosmos. Professor Douglas Zook's training initiative - to bring microbiology into the classroom

Gaea Hypothesis. A summary of the Gaea hypothesis as proposed by Jim Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

International Symbiosis Society. The society for scientists studying symbiology

Lynn Margulis. Mother of the Endosymbiont Theory

Douglas Zook. Fullbright scholar, founder of Microcosmos, prominant science educator and symbiologist

James Lovelock. Professor Jim Lovelock. Inventor of the ECD for gas chromatographs. Gaea hypothesis author

David Deamer. Origin of Life scientist, chemist, caver

Ben Finney. Anthropologist, and prominant writer on polynesian voyaging activities

Noam Chomsky. Linguist and author of "Manufactured Consent"

Freeman Dyson. World class physicist asnd futurist

Anna-Louise Resenbach. Extremophile microbiologist

Norman Pace. RNA evolutionary and structural biologist. Expert on RNAase P

Mark Poster. Historian, major proponent for the Internet as a democratising device

SETI @ Home. Seach for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence on your PC at home!

Stephen Wolfram. A world expert on computation and cellular automata has a theory that explains EVERYTHING

Beyond Thinking Sand and Tamed Lightning. EDS Fellow Jeff Wacker discusses pervasive computing

Unisys. Major mainframe manufacturer (I work on Unisys A-Series mainframes)

Don Gregory. Publisher on ALGOL and alll aspects of Unisys A-Series machines

Unite. Unisys A-Series Working Group on the MCP Operating System

DataBridge. Major datamining product for Unisys A Series mainframes

TPC - Transaction Processing Performance Council. Database benchmarking organisation

Software Associates. My brother's software company

One program in 571 languages. Many ways to compute the song about 99 bottles on the wall

Swarm Intelligence Computing. A new computational method for finding solutions to problems

Computational Intelligence. Unusual interesting new algorithms

Evolutionary Computation. Computer algorithms that evolve

Artifical Neural Networks. Also called ANNs. Machines that learn

Fuzzy Systems. Yes. No. Maybe

Nanotechnology. Machines visible only under the microscope, are now a reality

Smart dust. Ubiquitous computing - computers everywhere, computers so small they are like dust

Cuckoo's Egg. Tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage

Linux From Thing. An Unofficial Denbian/GNU/Linux server in New Zealand

SlashDot. News for nerds

Wired. Wired magazine

ZDNet. Where technology means business

ComputerWorld. New Zealand Computer Business magazine

Sybex. Computer programming book publishing company

Books 24 x 7. Excellent Online Book Repository

Apache Web Server. Internet's most popular web server. And it's free!

Dr Ozone. The online god of website graphic design, Adobe Photoshop guru Doc Ozone

Lynda's Browser Safe Colour Palette. Palette of colours that be reliably displayed on websites without dithering

Laurie McCanna's Photoshop tips. Basic tips and tricks when using Adobe Photoshop

MyJanee's Photoshop Tutorials. Basic Adobe Photoshop tutorials from the Photoshop Goddess

Hands On tutorials. Advanced Adobe Photoshop tutorials from Doc Ozone

New Zealand Labour Party. New Zealand's main centre-left political party

New Zealand First Party. New Zealand's conservative right wing party, currently given to racist policies

New Zealand National Party. New Zealand's main centre-right conservative party

New Zealand Greens Party. New Zealand's main conservation party

New Zealand Alliance Party. One of New Zealand's minor liberal left wing parties

New Zealand United Future Party. Small conservative centre-right party, with Christian values

New Zealand Progressive Coalition. Centrist party built round the personality of Jim Anderton

John Pilger. Australian Investigative Journalist

Michael Moore. American critic offers his own slant on US foreign policy

No Blood for Oil. BBC report sheds light on US foreign Policy regarding oil supplies

The Onion. The Lighter side of politics - Satirical Magazine

NZ Arts Monthly. New Zealand Monthly Arts Magazine

New Zealand Arts Calendar. Daily listing of art events in New Zealand

Arts and Letters Daily. Daily list of artistic and literary snippets

The Matrix Reloaded. Movie where cyberpunk meets martial arts, with an excellent wardrobe

Bladerunner. Movie by Ridley Scott, based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K Dick

Jin-Roh. Anime by director Hiroyuki Okiura, with script writing by Mamoru Oshii

Avalon. Movie shot in Poland, from a script by Mamoru Oshii. Game players find that reality itself is only a game

Patlabor. An anime (Japanese animated movie - a cartoon for adults) where cops in giant robots keep the peace

Tron. A Hollywood movie about people stuck inside a computer

Akira. *The* Classic Anime. Akira is about future Tokyo, beset by human mutant atomic bombs

Final Fantasy. The first feature movie who's main character is completely computer generated

Lexx. Canadian / German television program where a giant space ship destroys planets

Neuromancer. Canadian author William Gibson's classic book about the web, hackers and street samuri

Count Zero. Gibson's second book of the Neuromancer trilogy. Many real people are fictionalised in this book

Mona Lisa Overdrive. Gibson's third book in the Neuromancer trilogy. Great stuff

Idoru. Gibson's book about virtual a pop star

Taking the red pill. Philosophical discussion of the meaning of the movie: The Matrix

Wyrd Sisters. New Zealand Pagan shop and fortune teller

Elfwood. Internet resource of fantasy art from voluntary contributers

Freon Dreams. The work of Meilin Wong

Pete Hobson. Online photo album of third generation caver, and cave diver Peter Hobson

Ogof Ffynnon Ddu. A virtual caving trip through this huge cave system in Wales

Auckland Speleo Group. ASG home website

Nikau Cave. Website about a small tourist cave in New Zealand - Nikau Cave

Auckland Poetry. Home of Auckland poets, Auckland, New Zealand

Four by Two Publishing. Judith McNeil's Publishing House

Kasia Gawlak. Weblog and personal webpages of Kasia Gawlak, a Foothills (q.v.) inhabitant known as Tigerlily

The Periodic Table of Poetry. Poetry about elements in the periodic table

Massey University Writery. Virtual hangout for Massey University writers

Dark Maiden. The obsessed poetry of Duana R. Anderson

The Sidewalks End. American Poetry and creative writing e-zine

Dylan Horrocks. Home pages of cartoonist and friend, Dylan Horrocks

Mark Doherty. Pages of Dr Mark Doherty, Immunologist, roleplayer, landlord and raconteur extraordinaire!

Steven Thomas. The personal web pages of Steven Thomas

Foothills Talker. Longest running online chat program. Written by Burble (Simon Marsh) and based on ew-too

Mayanmar Dot Com. The Burmar contact site run by Thant Zin

GHQ Models. One of the premier manufacturers of 1:285 pewter miniatures. They stock many other products also

Battlefront Models. Manufacturer of World War Two 1:100 scale miniatures and "Flames of War" wargaming rules

Piraeus Games. Home of Piraeus Games, my gaming business. Future expansion of titles is planned

  ABM. The first Piraeus Games title - ABM - Anti Ballistic Missile. A play by email nuclear wargame

  Adlertag. Arial Warfare 1939-1945. Wargaming rules

  Harpoon. Episodic Diary of friend's Harpoon Wargaming Campaign

Wei Chi / Go. Running a Java Applet, this site allows people to play Go with people round the world

Metal Knights. A multiplayer online wargame set in a post apocalyptic future

The Russian Campaign. Jedko's (later Avalon Hill's) classic boardgame of WWII's Eastern Front

Board Game Geek. A website for people who collect and play boardgames

Above the Fields. Software for automating Play by email boardgames

Gamers.Com. Online gaming magazine, computer games, roleplaying games, console games

Adventure Gamer. Online gaming magazine, computer games, roleplaying games, console games

New Zealand Wargaming Federation. New Zealand's putative blanket organisation representing all wargamers

Wellington Warlords. Wellington based wargaming club

Hutt Miniature Wargames Club. Wellington based wargaming club - in the Hutt valley

The Christchurch Wargaming Club. Christchurch's main wargaming club

South Auckland Miniatures Wargames Club. One of several Auckland wagaming clubs - this one based in Drury

Waitakere Miniaure Wargames society. One of several Auckland wagaming clubs - this one based in Waitakere

The Hawke's Bay Wargames Club. Hastings based wargaming club

New Zealand Wargaming Resources. Resource page for New Zealand wargamers

Auckland Wargaming Club. One of several Auckland wagaming clubs - this one based in central Auckland

Auckland City Guard. One of several Auckland wagaming clubs

Wanganui Irregulars. Wanganui based wargaming club

Manawatu Miniature Strategists Society. Palmerston North based wargaming club

Otago Miniature Tacticians Society. Dunedin based wargaming club

North Shore Wargames Club. One of several Auckland wagaming clubs - this one based on the North Shore

Tauranga Wargaming Club. Tauranga based wargaming club

A.M.E.R.I.C.A. Auckland University roleplaying club

Science Fiction & Fantasy Club. New Zealand Science fiction fan club

The George. Parnell, Auckland based commercial radio station specialising in electronica

Student Radio BFM. Auckland University student radio station

Wellington's Radio Active. Wellington radio station, once part of Victoria University Student's Association

BBC. The famous 'Beeb'

BBC World Service. Compare domestic BBC programming with this product designed for foreign consumption

Triple J. Australia's best by far radio station

New Zealand Radio Station Listing. Listing of New Zealand's radio stations

Virgin. Britain's Virgin Radio Station

Fritz. German radio station - try it, it's good!

BBC. British Public television broadcasting

BBC World Service. British Public television broadcasting, designed for foreign viewers

DW-World TV. Deutsche Welle World Television - from Germany

Blomberg International TV. American TV station that delivers 8 times as much information as usual

CNET Today. IT Technology TV

Fox News. America's FOX commercial broadcaster (No video feeds...)

CNN. America's CNN. Ted Turner's television station

MSNBC. America's NBC commercial broadcaster

CBS. America's CBS commercial broadcaster

ABC. America's ABC commercial broadcaster

Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera television. Great if you can read Arabic

The Onion (USA). Great online newspaper

The London Times (UK). Great Britain's Times newspaper

The Guardian (UK). Great Britain's Guardian newspaper

The Independant (UK). Great Britain's Independant newspaper - notoriously radical and left wing

The Sun (UK). Great Britain's largest circulation newspaper, featuring naked breasts on page three

New Zealand Herald (NZL). New Zealand's largest daily newspaper

News.Com (Australia). Australian news site

China News People's Daily (China). Chinese official government daily newspaper

Singapore Straits Times. Premier Singapore Newspaper

Middle East News. News from the middle east

Samchar.Com (India). News from India

Asahi Shimbun (Japan). Japanese daily newspaper

Daily Yomiyuri (Japan). Japanese daily newspaper

Mainichi Daily News (Japan). Japanese daily newspaper

Shinmai Shimbun (Japan). Japanese daily newspaper

New York Times (USA). News from New York, USA

The Village Voice (USA). Greenwich Village Newspaper, New York, USA

The Washington Post (USA). Washington Post, Washington D.C. United States of America

The Boston Globe (USA). Boston, United States of America

People Magazine (USA). American Tabloid journalism

Pravda (Russia). The Famous Russian newspaper - now in English!

Regulation Run Mad. The Board of Trade and the loss of the Titanic (PDF file)

No End to Errors. Medical Misadventure in the USA - article in the Washington Post

Risk Management Today and Tomorrow. New Zealand State Services Commission Risk management report

The Cave Creek Incident. Anne Isaac's well reasoned discussion of this personal tragedy

Hyperwar. Hypertext History of World War II - HAS EVERYTHING!

WW II Chronology. Chronological treatment of World War II

BBC. BBC World War II site

OnWar.Com. World War II site. Includes the old Panzerkreig Tanks of WWII site

Valour and Horror. Canada in WWII

Defences at Sitka, Alaska. Matthew Hunter's site

Britain at War.

Hitlerjurgend. German 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjurgend

Soldbuch.com. Dutch volunteers wihin German Waffwen SS units

Panzergrenadier. German Panzergrenadier Division Organisation

German Fallschirmjäger 1936-1945.

Battle of Britain July 1940. Battle of Britain July 1940 Athens Forum 8723

Operation Barbarossa, Russia June 1941. Area51 Cavern 2941

Bataan, Phillipines January 1942. Prisoner of war site for Bataan Campaign

Stalingrad, Russia August 1942. Pandora site

Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands August 1942. Erols

Kursk, Russia July 1943. Pipex site

Ortogna, Italy December 1943. Netwave site

Normandy, France June 1944. Encyclodedia Brittanica site

Saipan, Pacific June 1944. Brian Blodgett site

Forgotten Battles. Obscure Conflicts During World War II

Marauder.org. Merril's Marauders 5307th Composite Unit (Burma)

US 4th Armoured Division. United States 4th Armoured Division

US 6th Armoured Division United States 6th "Super Sixth" Armoured Division

US 4th Infantry Division United States 4th "Ivy" Infantry Division

US 9th Infantry Division. United States 9th "Old Reliable" Infantry Division

US 63rd Infantry Division. United States 63rd Infantry Division

US 70th Infantry Division. United States 70th "Trail Blazers" Infantry Division

US 83rd Infantry Division. United States 83rd Infantry Division

US 103rd Infantry Division. United States 103rd "Cactus" Infantry Division

US 104th Infantry Division. United States 104th "Timberwolf" Infantry Division

US 99th Infantry Division. United States 99th Infantry Division Newsletter

BWRH Regiment in the Chindits. Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment in the Chindits

US 746th Independant Tank Battalion. United States 746th Tank Battalion

US 150th Combat Engineer Battalion. United States 150th Combat Engineer Battalion

Achtung Panzer. History of [German] tanks and the people of the Panzertruppe

Photographs from AFV Museum. Photographs of Armoured Fighting Vehicles from AFV museum

Higgins Boat.org. United States LCVP - Higgins Boat

Russian Armour of World War II. Viktor Plotnikov's site

WW2 Carriers. Aircraft Carriers of World War II

Bovington Tank Museum. AFVs of World War II. Almost unreadable site

United States Government Printing Office. United States Government Printing Office (Search Engine)

Fuhrer's War Directives. War directives From the Fuhrer's Military Headquarters

Old Eagle. Memorabilia: World War II Propaganda Posters

Advanced Squad Leader. Official site of the popular WWII boardgame.

Advanced Squad Leader Mailing List. Paul Ferraro's ASL pages

Many more links to follow.