NCM – The National Coal Mining Museum for England

well worth a visit:online or in person

http://www.ncm.org.uk/

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.

Very good museum for school children to visit.

For those of you not lucky enough to live in Yorkshire check out the virtual tours.

Day of Defeat: WW2 FPS

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 Rogers Profanisaurus

Parental advisory

http://members.lycos.co.uk/Tim_Bracey/fun/rogers.htm

Wayback machine access:

https://web.archive.org/web/2018*/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It may be a little out of date but this site contains the text of Rogers Profanisaurus – the Viz comic’s collection of common (and made up) British swear words.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?

Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/

No longer works use this instead:

http://www.chinafirewalltest.com

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.