http://www.scenta.co.uk/whatthatsong/
Excellent! Name that tune, I got 9/10 for the Stranglers. Test your knowledge of your favourite band.
Update: focus of site has changed after 16 years but still worth checking out
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
If you live in the UK and want to stop junk mail being posted to your address then this is the site for you. It’s not 100% effective but it’s better than nothing.
“The Mailing Preference Service (MPS) is a free service set up in 1983 and funded by the direct mail industry to enable consumers to have their names and home addresses in the UK removed from lists used by the industry. It is actively supported by the Royal Mail and all directly involved trade associations and fully supported by The Information Commissioners Office (ICO).”
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
If you live in the UK register your phone number here and stop those annoying unsolicited phone calls. When you do get one, like I did last night you can get their details and then turn the tables on them by saying that you ARE going to report them. 9 times out of 10 they hang up, only a few are big enough to apologise
“From the site:
The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is the UK’s only official ‘Do Not Call’ register for landlines and Mobile numbers. It allows people and businesses to opt out of unsolicited live sales and marketing calls.
It’s free and quick to register a telephone number.
Did you know that there are 390,000 Jedi Knights in the UK? It’s official.
Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin produced some of the most enduring British children’s animation in the 1960s-1970s. On this site you will find The Clangers, Pogles’ Wood, Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss, and Noggin the Nog with my personal favourite character ‘ Nogbad the Bad’.
There is something cold about a site that gives graphs and charts knowing that each point on each graph was someone’s son or daughter. Stalin said ‘A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.’
http://platticus-max.stumbleupon.com/
Way back machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060103094637/http://platticus-max.stumbleupon.com/
Keep it coming – quality links as the lady said ‘don’t miss this one.’
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/06/1102182227308.html?oneclick=true
Sounds like science fiction or a wind up. A brain grown in a petri dish that can fly a jet fighter but apparently it isn’t, it’s real – scary.
Update: I suspect that this site isn’t updated often if at all
“A Cynic is a spy who aims to discover what things are friendly or hostile to man; after making accurate observations, he then comes back and reports the truth.” Who can argue with that?
http://laton.stumbleupon.com/
Wayback machine link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071208161108/http://laton.stumbleupon.com/
loved the link to the mini golf – keep it coming
http://www.simetric.co.uk/feet_to_metres.php
Useful for those of us who live halfway between Metric and Imperial worlds
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/
Update: Site no longer functions – no way back machine link as it wasn’t good anyway
Pretty sure this site quietly died. So in it’s place I’d recommend the Oxford Dictionary of Difficult words.
Available (of course) from Amazon:
The original site I reviewed on StumbleUpon wasn’t that good as it didn’t have disestablishmentarianism or antidisestablishmentarianism.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/roadblock.html
Nice game if you like spatial / logic puzzles.
Unfortunately no longer available but there’s still plenty of vintage stuff to keep you amused:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Found a site that does the same thing:
https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i
<s>At last I’m in the top 1% for something! </s>
http://open-site.org/
Not a patch on Wikipedia, incomplete or out of date entries on the subjects I am interested in – e.g. China
Update: no surprises it’s no longer online, no wayback machine link because it wasn’t good enough to start with
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/
Wayback machine link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051123125736/http://www.johnreilly.info/index.html
Nice section on Eschatology: The science of the Last Things and the writings of John J Reilly. It’s mostly text and well worth reading.
Lovely collection of images collected over 30 years.
From the site: “The Visual Telling of Stories. You can go to the main gate or shuffle about in the Samplers till you get some hang of the place. It was started in 1996. Material is added every day. It is far bigger than you could ever imagine.`”