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Art
(well sort of!)
Art Crimes: Writing on the Wall http://www.graffitti.org
A diverse collection of graffiti art, showing the works
of people with little to say speaking their minds.
Dancing Baby
http://www.viewpoint.com/features/baby/
Does this need any explanation?
Joke Wallpaper http://jokewallpaper.com
Corny background for your desktop.
World Wide Art Resources. http://wwar.world-arts-resources.com
The biggest index of everything arty from real galleries
and online exhibits, to more obscure things such as belly
dancing and clock collecting!
Books
Amazon Books http://www.amazon.com
Over 2.5 million titles, searchable by author or title,
is what this site boasts. Lower prices in the USA mean that
careful UK shoppers can pick up some bargains even allowing
for Postage.
The Bookpl@ce http://www.thebookplace.com
UK High street chain Dillions goes online. Not quite as
many titles, but this site is UK based so that's probably an
advantage.
The Internet Public Library http://ipl.sils.umich.edu
Online Books
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/books.html
Complete texts lay in obscure archives all over the
net, these two links to thousands of titles.
Project Gutenburg http://promo.net/pg/
Fifty years after authors die, their copyrights pass into
the public domain. Project Gutenburg is dedicated to making
as many worksd as possible available online. Not all works
are old, however, as some have been donated.
Shakespeare http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
The complete works online.
Comedy
Archive of Useless Facts
http://www.lads.com/key/facts
Stuff you didn't want to know but are probably glad you
do!
Comedy Channel http://www.aentv.com/home/chcomedy.htm
Live and archived stand-up comedy in Real Video
Complaint Letter Generator
http://www-csag.cs.uinc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint?
Someone upsetting you, but stuck for the right words? Put
their details through here for an instant dressing down.
Laughweb http://world.std.com/~joeshmoe/laughweb/
Jokes sorted into categories and rated by readers.
Entertainment
Contest Guide http://www.contestguide.com
Loads of competions to enter.
See also http://www.contestworld.com
& http://www.intervid.co.uk/prize/
Kissgram http://www.kissogram.com.au
Send someone a greeting. Not just kisses but wriggling
butts, pouting drag queens, hatching eggs and more. Not in
the best taste, but so what?
Peeping Tom http://www.coolbase.com/peepingtom/
Spend some time looking through some of the many camera
on the Net. Tick that off the list of things to do and then
"get a life".
UK National Lottery http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/
Statistics, winning numbers, draw details, everything you
want to know except the six that matter.
Zodiac Forecast http://www.bubble.com/webstars/
Have the Daily Mail's Jonathon Cainer read your stars.
Now compare his forcast with http://www.efd.lth.se/~e91ju/astrologi/astrofaq.html
Ezines
(internet magazines)
http://www.fhm.co.uk
Britain best and fastest growing magazine. The features
from the mag, interactive games & competitions, Bar Room
Jokes, True Life Stories and some of the best from previous
months.
MAXpower
http://www.erack.com/nwoman
FHM is really for the boys, so to balance things out,
here's one for the girls!
The Smoking Gun http://www.thesmokinggun.com
Celebrity shame dug up from police records complete with
photocopied sources.
Fashion
Clear Plastic Fashions http://www.clearplastic.com
For those with nothing to hide.
Designer City http://www.designercity.com
London fashion and lifestyle with input from Cosmo and
Esquire
Fashion Net http://www.fashion.net
More than a wardrobe full of fashion links.
Food
and Drink
Beer Info Source http://www.beerinfo.com
At last beer is treated with the same respect as
wine.
Chocolate Lover's Playground http://www.godiva.com
Meander into chocoholisim.
Crazy Vegetarian http://www.crazyveg.com
Lighthearted, but meat free.
Fillet http://www.fillet.com
Weekly tales of fodd snobbery.
InternetChef http://www.ichef.com
Over 30,000 recipes, cooking hints and kitchen talk.
Over the Coffee http://www.cappuccino.com
Enough coffee trivia, reviews and anecdotes to keep the
caffeine levels up.
The Real Beer Page http://www.realbeer.com
Links to things drunk and disorderly, home brew recipe
books and a gallery of labels
Spice guide http://www.spiceguide.com
An encyclopedia of spices covering heir orgins, purposes
and tips on what goes best with what.
Top Secret Recipes http://www.topsecretrecipes.com
At least one commercial recipe reveal every week they
claim. Do you really want to know what goes into a Big
Mac?
Games
Connect 4 http://www.cyberus.ca/~pomakis/c4/
Challenge the machine to connect 4, or as many as you
like.
Pc Game Finder http://www.pcgame.com
The top games search engine.
Sega http://www.segacom
http://wwwsegasoft.com
Product news, tips and games to play online. A few PC
demos such as Sonic and Rally Championship are available to
download.
WebGames http://happypuppy.com/compgames/webgames/
Play against the computer or remote opponents on a
variety of games.
You Don't Know Jack http://www.toasted.com
The wacky trivia game. You can download the software free
and play against other players over the Net.
Government
sites
Active Most Wanted http://www.gunnyragg.com/crimes.htm
A compendium of fugitive listings including the FBI's top
ten most wanted.
The British Monachy http://www.royal.gov.uk
The official House of Windsor site, slightly stuffy so
perhaps you should try
http://www.royalnetwork.com
for a bit more fun.
CCTA Government Information http://www.open.gov.uk
Where to find any UK government authority. Just scan the
list, make your choice and soon you'll be falling
asleep.
Central Intelligence Agency http://www.odci.gov/cia/
If you've ever watched TV or read the weekly news you
won't recognise what you find here. This must be a different
CIA. The truth is out there... but not here.
Her Majesty's Treasury http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
Another gripping British site for insomniacs only. Read
press releases, speeches, economic forecasts and the budget.
Is your tax going to a worthy cause?
Lists
100 Hot Websites http://www.hot100.com
The hundred most visited sites each week. Not totally
accurate but close enough.
Top 50 UK Web sites http://www.top50.co.uk
The same but British!
Music
All Music guide http://www.allmusic.com
A massive music database with biographies, reviews and
keyowrd links to related sites.
Canonical List of Weird Band Names http://home.earthlink.net/~chellec/
Just be thankful this wasn't around when your parents
where choosing baby names.
The DJ http://www.thedj.com
Choose from over 70 RealAudio channels.
Dotmusic http://www.dotmusic.com
UK and world wide charts and gossips.
Lyrics Server http://www.lyrics.ch
Search a massive lyrics database by title, artist or
text.
MIDI Farm http://www.midifarm.com
Thousands of synthesized tunes, TV themes and film
scores.
The Rough Guide to Rock http://www.roughguide.com/rock/
The world best rock encyclopedia online. Developed on the
web using fans as contibutors.
Virtual Pipes http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5704/fav.html
Midi bagpipers ! Aaaaaarrrgghhh!
Nature
Britsh Trees http://www.u-net.com/trees/home.htm
Apparently there are only 33 native British trees. Find
out about them here. Alternatively be more practical and
join the Toptree Initative. I did.
Cool Dog Site of the Day http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~ito/d/dogmark.html
You have to wonder about someone who loves dogs this
much!
The Hamster Page http://www.tela.bc.ca/hamster
An online guide to hamsters and their short lives.
Natural History Bookshop http://www.nhbs.co.uk
Browse the world's largest enviromental bookshop.
Plant Ark http://www.planetark.org/new/worldnews.html
Daily environmental news.
News
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk
The sort of service you would expect.
Drudge Report http://drudgereport.com
This is where the Lewinsky avalanche started. Drudge has
the knack of leaking by email, before the major press.
Electronic Newstand http://enews.com
A directory of over 2000 magazine homepages. Try also
http://www.britishmagazines.com
Megastories http://www.megastorie.com
Backgrounds and behind the scenes reports on many of the
worlds big stories.
This is London http://www.thisislondon.co.uk
Online version of London's daily, the Evening Standard,
which doubles as a "whats on guide" to the capital.
Personal
Pen Pal Directory http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Relationships/Pen_Pals/
Exchange email with strangers. (alternatively just send
me a message)
Politics
British Parties
http://www.labour.org.uk
http://www.libdems.org.uk
http://www.conservative-party.org.uk
Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.co.uk
Greenpeace International http://www.greenpeace.org
Radio
BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk
Rapidly becoming as big online as it is on the airwaves.
Click around and you will find BBC TV, radio and World
Service sites. Catch Radio 1 online. Dip into education,
news, sport or music.
Capital
Radio http://www.capitalfm.co.uk
London's favourite radio station was first
now on the web and still leading the way with an award
winning web site Lots of features, competitions and a chance
to E-mail the D.J's if you're sad enough! If you are away
from London and missing Capital then you can listen live on
the web via Real Audio.
Virgin Radio http://www.virginradio.co.uk
Tune in to London's Virgin FM live, again via
RealAudio.
Science
& Space
Cool Robot of the Week http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html
Clever ways to get machines to do our dirty work.
Earth Viewer http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
View the Earth in space and time.
NASA http://www.nasa.gov
The top level of NASA's huge web presence. It's projects,
databases, missions and discoveries are strewn across the
web, but you can find them from here if you have the time.
If you remember the space missions of the 60's this could
bring back some memories.
Web-Elements http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/
Click on an element in the periodic table and check it
out in depth.
Television
http://www.foxhome.com/trustno1
The truth is out there! If you are into the X-files,
check out this site.
To get the best out of it make should you get
"shocked" first. (see link below)
Shopping
This needs a whole page of it's own web_shopping.htm
Utilities
Real Audio http://www.real.com/
Want sound with your pages? Get your copy of Real
Audio here and join in the experience.
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave
Many sites have now had the Shockwave treatment.Get
your copy of the plugin here. It's free after all!
Weird
Science and Mad Scientists
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird.html
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/mad.html
Free energy, cold fusion aura , anti-gravity and
otherstrange stuff.
If that wasn't enough for you then try a search on yahoo,
just enter a subject in the box
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