Useful Web Pages
For the benefit of Mr. Polli among others, here is a collection of potentially useful and/or vaguely interesting pages available on the Web.
Navigation and net info
Internet Society, statistics, CIWA Gateway, Starting point, Google, Yahoo, Excite, ArchiePlex, Curlie, and so on. What exactly are URLs and would you call the doctor if you found one?
Lists and servers
Larry Schankman's URL List (including guides to various parts of the net), Roy's list, etc. Man, this section is getting thin these days. Memo to self: beef it up with more lists!
Newspapers, magazines and journals
What about all those journals and on-line magazines you were promised? Some of the more interesting or informative electronic versions of paper publications are: Private Eye. The Electronic Torygraph. The Independent. The Grauniad. The Financial Times. The Belfast Telegraph. Loaded. Also the productions of Future publishing, who have on-line versions of much of their stuff at Futurenet.
These are pure web mags, with no hardcopy counterpart. The most important issues of our time are discussed in earnest in Men Only. Excellent! Crossroads is also available for your perusal. Archives of CMC, a purely fact-based, technical online mag are available and well worth a look.
Miscellaneous Others
Ho hum. Here are some pages with plenty of educational value and a fair smattering of artistic merit. Or is it just assorted nonsense - I can never remember. Best of British. Ninety Nine Lists. 4 Million Bucks. What is the date? Monochrome WWW Gateway. Local bus routes and times. National Rail Travel Information. Vote anyone but labour.
Food and drink
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Pub
Finder.
British Coffee
Association.
Wadworth.
Clay Irving's guide to Beer in NYC.
Hmmm, those are actually all drink links, not food.
Film, radio and television
Here is a link to the Internet Movies Database. You can use forms to search the database for just about anything.
Comic Relief. Babylon 5. BBC1. BBC2. ITV. Channel 4. Channel 5. Absolute Radio. Fantasy Radio. 6Music. Click. Note: We are delighted to welcome back Channel 4 listings as they have finally, finally seen sense and abandoned their horrible flash interface.
Music
The Maughan Amplifier Company. Guitar Archive. Malmsteen. Steely Dan and the Fever Dreams mirror/archive. Morris Quinlan Experience. Trish Elphinstone Quintet. Pluck (musical comedy theatre). Zum. Paco Peña. Fretwork. Goldberg Variations. Still Got The Blues, except in major (YT).
Online Games
Rebelstar (requires Java, but for once, it's worth it). Runestone is a great example of a pure HTML5 game. Highway Encounter. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at the BBC. Mousebreaker have a huge collection of Flash games on their site.
Afterplay - retro games on "any" device. Freemium, but worth a look.
Offline Games and other resources
Nexuiz. Shellshock. History of Rogue. A discussion about text-based games at HN.
People worth links
Unfortunately, Munro's page appears to have vanished from the Hertford server. One can only hope (!) that this is a temporary tragedy.
Some other dead wood has been trimmed, so here are the still-active links:
- Salleee Maughan
- Chris Pownall
- Matt Woodman --- slaaaaaag extraordinaire! (This page seems to have vanished from the met department - where has it gone, Woody?)
- Marc Stringer
- Tim Polli
- Jessica Cheung - now believed to be at NPL, but no page available.
- John Pelan
- Macartan Cassidy
- Aaron Golden
- Pamela Cowan
- Robin Darby
This page was supposed to grow over time, but seems to have stagnated due to my ever-increasing workload. The idea was to achieve a dynamic list of things of interest which you can add to your hotlist as desired. Unfortunately, now that the web has become the domain of the evil one, precious few surfers even know what a hotlist is these days. A very sad state of affairs.
