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Not a patch on Wikipedia, incomplete or out of date entries on the subjects I am interested in – e.g. China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
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 large enough credit.
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.
The Open University is a great British instituition. Created to enable mature students to study part time but it’s not just for Brits. This site has some interactive features like the Virtual Planisphere and the online Digital Microscope that are quite cool. Well worth a look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Anthony_Seagrim
I Like this page because I edited it!
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.
http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML
A way of showing the difficulties representing Chinese using the roman alphabet. There are so many homophones that a poem can be written in Chinese employing just one phoneme.
You can listen to the poem in Mandarin and Cantonese using real player which opens outside your browser.
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/
Now only accessible on the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080725004111/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/
Good site for info. about , the English/ British Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate of the original Old Nol. Learn how Britain functioned without a monarchy.
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=5163486976&searchurl=tn%3Dfighting%2Bdunkirk%2Bhamburg%2Bgreen%2Bhowards%26sortby%3D17%26an%3Dbill%2Bcheall&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2
Like so much of this old content it’s no longer available – but this:
http://www.bardsabode.com/TheGreenHowards.pdf
has some of the content and is worth a look.
Bill Cheall’s war memoire is also available on Amazon:
First hand account of what it was like to be a British soldier in the Second World War, including descriptions of the Dunkirk evacuation and D-Day.
http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/
This was my local brew and is like mother’s milk to me. The brewery is well worth a visit and is set in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. The factory is powered by a steam engine and it is believed to be the last steam engine in the UK still in daily use for its original purpose.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005B4B6-1CEC-1F5D-905980A84189EEDF&sc=I100322
So China will have a man orbiting the Moon during the next Olympics (Beijing 2008)and will land there in 2010. Another major player enters the space race, watch out NASA you have a rival.
a photographic archive of Leeds, Yorkshire, UK including the first ever moving image in 1888 on Leeds Bridge. Your chance to view some cinematic history.
http://www.danwei.org/
Unfortunately, no longer online . However, thanks to the wayback machine achieved copies can be seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/danwei.org
Media, advertising and urban living in the People’s Republic of China.
http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/welcome.html
Unfortunately no longer online – instead I’d recommend using the Pleco app instead
The best site I’ve come across for learning Chinese – you’ll need to tweak your browser settings to get it to work properly though – make sure that it is set to handle simplified Chinese.
Features:
Dictionary search,
Flashcards / Review list,
A wide variety of sound files so you can hear words and phrases,
Flash – Talking maps, family trees, colours charts,
Account creation & storage so you can practice what you have learnt.
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http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/brum.php
Update:
This site has evolved in a good way.
If you want the classic site click here:
http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2012/12/a-new-dawn.html
No, not Birmingham Alabama! England’s second city.
http://www.nicemeal.com/ – The internet changes, now this site is for food delivery in Ho Chi Minh city
(Used to be) Extensive range of Chinese recipes.
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.`”
Tourist info site about china from the Chinese govt.