Cool Links

Some websites that are probably worth a few minutes of your surfing time. Just click on the symbols...

Humour

"Dave's Web of Lies" - simple but brilliant
Home page of Dave Barry, the brilliant American humourist and author
Dave Barry again - his columns from the Miami Herald
All you ever wanted to know about toast but were too sensible to ask - Dr. Toast has the answers

 

Techie Stuff

Slashdot - News for neds, stuff that matters
The Register - Biting the hand that feeds IT
Techdirt - where I go for my daily digest of tech news
Code snippets, discussions, how-to articles. Just wat a developer needs
An interesting site featuring voice-synthesis

 

Art & Culture

The Internet Movie Database. I'm not the world's greatest film buff, but I think that this site is great. It's got a wealth of information about pretty much every film ever made (really)
TV Cream - a great source of trivia and nostalgia about British TV of days gone by
Streaming internet radio is something which I got into once I got a broadband connection. Live365 is where I tend to go most times, as they have such a wide variety of materia..
Despite the name, UseFilm.com covers digital as well as film photography.
Alnwick & District Camera Club - a local club of which I am a member.

 

Miscellaneous

The website for Peavey Electronics. It's not often I give out free advertising, but their amps are terrific - built like a brick outhouse, and a sound to match
Geocaching.com, which is the definitive site for the sport of geocaching
Racing Post on-line - a wealth of information about the Sport of Kings
The website for my home village of Glanton, Northumberland
An excellent site dedicated to the town of Alnwick, Northumberland
Ask any question you like via AllExperts.com, or even try subscribing as an expert yourself. I've done both, and think that this is a great website
Google - my current search engine of choice
Google's newsgroup archive (the erstwhile Deja.com) which acts as my auxilliary brain

 

If you find that any of these links no longer work, please let me know.

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