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Monthly Archives: October 2004
NCM – The National Coal Mining Museum for England
The National Coal Mining Museum is inbetween Wakefield and Huddersfield in Yorkshire, it’s great and it’s free. I’ve visited it several times and can recommend. For those of you not lucky enough to live in Yorkshire check out the virtual tours.
virtualbloodhouns reviews – StumbleUpon
http://virtualbloodhoun.stumbleupon.com/
Love the Churchill pic – did you know the Nazis used this pic in their propaganda with the caption ‘Wanted for Murder’?
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Obituary: John Peel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/music/3955369.stm
John Peel was responsible for bringing the best in music to generations of listeners. He will be greatly missed.
Global Rich List
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
At last I’m in the top 1% for something!
The Constitutional Monarchy Association
God save the Queen! – the case for monarchy
Index
http://www.unicaen.fr/rome/index.php?langue=anglais
Very much a work in progress but some of the images are good – the Curia for example. It does help if you can read some French though as I’ve encountered several captions en Francais.
Virtual Model of Ostia Antica
http://www.artrecon.com/Frames/GalleryFr_OstiaVM_ENG_1.html
A 3D model of the ancient roman port of Ostia which is quite nice but is not as interactive as I would like. Some interesting info though.
http://www.dayofdefeat.com/indexmain.php
Simply the best online first person shooting game on the planet. I play it regularly but I’m still not that good – time to renew my membership of the ‘Not terribly Good Club of Great Britain’. As Viz comic said ‘The British are the best at coming second. In fact if there was an Olympic event for coming second, we’d get the silver medal.’
Lycos Tripod – Multimania
http://members.lycos.co.uk/Tim_Bracey/fun/rogers.htm
It may be a little out of date but this site contains the text of Rogers Profanisaurus – the Viz comic’s collection of common (and made up) British swear words. Warning! Swearing, Profanity, Obscenity, and Sexist, Oh and did I mention Offensive?
Stanley Hollis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Elton_Hollis
Another page ‘wot I wrote.’
Open Site
Not a patch on Wikipedia, incomplete or out of date entries on the subjects I am interested in – e.g. China
YouGov – What the World Thinks
YouGov is an Internet polling site and I like it as I get ‘paid’ for filing in their surveys, but there is a catch, they only pay you once you have a credit of
Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/
If you like to roam the web bear in mind that if you were in the People’s Republic of China you couldn’t go where you liked. Find out if your favourite site is blocked in China – if you like news or ‘Adult’ content then it probably is.