Discovery Bay, Hong Kong, before Disney Inc ruined the view https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Discoverybayhongkong.jpg/640px-Discoverybayhongkong.jpg Discovery Bay, Hong Kong 2003.
http://baldrin.stumbleupon.com/ Update: Grabbed a screenshot and a wayback machine link https://web.archive.org/web/20111211094513/http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/Baldrin/reviews/ Anyone who understands 'revolving-door algorithms'... gets a thumbs up…
Warning: Snowflakes and those easily offended please don't read http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2005/02/21/linguistic-test.html More NSFW humour from the pages of the Rockall Times…
Universe Today Group Pool on Flickr http://www.universetoday.com/am/uploads/2005-0218planet-full.jpg Update: Originally this was a hotlink to a particularly impressive photo which is…
Exo-planets - in 2005 they were still quite rare http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/12_new_planets.html?1822005 Summary - (Feb 18, 2005) In the last month planet…
Rooster and Bamboo by Xu Beihong http://www.chinapage.com/painting/beihong/beihong04.html Update: Original page has vanished so I tracked down another copy of the painting
Cromwell at Marston Moor, by Victorian artist Ernest Crofts http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/war/ Update: Original no longer accessible so here's an alternative full…
http://www.nc.uk.net/ https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum Useful resource for educators in England. Update: The nearest I could find to the original link is this.…
Haven't been able to post recently because my house was burgled and the buggers stole all my computers (x2 laptops…
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/nira.htm From the web site: "Suspected of receiving funds from sympathizers in the United States and of attempting to buy…
http://www.usni.org/Seminars/AnnualMeeting/04/annualmeeting04LehmanQA-2.htm No longer available but the quotation stands on its own... From the page: "Finally, there are places in the…
Chocolate muffins made by moi http://food.hubcom.net/cgi-win/recipe.exe?1 Who needs to buy cookbooks when there are sites like this? Update: back in…
http://www.howardwfrench.com/photos/Guangzhou-Nan-Hua-Xi-Jie-neighborhood/neighborhood_1 unable to trace these photos - you'll just have to read through French's articles on China to see them.
https://www.howardwfrench.com/reportage The web site of Howard W French who is a senior writer for the New York Times. Plenty of…
The Avocet Jetpod VQSTOL http://www.avcen.com/ Makers of the Jetpod which is '... to all intent and purpose a low-cost world-class…
http://randomcarbon.stumbleupon.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050308224046/http://randomcarbon.stumbleupon.com/ Welcome aboard!
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ The Home Office, twinned with Mordor. Tony Blair continues to eat away at the rights of free born Englishmen.…
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/plpk.html Updated: https://chineseposters.net/posters/g2-14 Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius (1974) The girl is holding a paper which says 'Criticize Lin Biao…
http://mrpopo.stumbleupon.com/ Update: Click here to visit on the way back machine Thoughtful stumblings.
http://www.nethouseprices.com/ Brits are generally obsessed with the value of their homes. Indulge yourself, how much did that house on your…
http://www.tech-blog.org/story-2786.html Update the original is lost but this 'revolutionary' design will have fallen by the roadside like all it's predecessors:…
http://www.davidicke.com/ The lad's done well since he was goalie for Coventry FC. I used to have a t-shirt that bore…
http://www.stonehenge.org.uk/gallery/pic01.htm
"Stonehenge is the UK’s Unmissable Wonder" http://www.stonehenge.org.uk/ Nice commercial site about Stonehenge, complete with a timeline and some good photos.…
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/colditz.html If you are interested about the History of Colditz as a World War II POW camp then this is…
http://www.colditz-4c.com/ Update: can't find this on the wayback machine Colditz: See the Castle, fall in love with the town
http://www.redorchestra.clanservers.com/ ...and the winner is... https://youtu.be/MgLxsx5Al9o Red Orchestra This game has a distinctly chilling but yet beautiful aura about it.…
http://robmanuel.blogspot.com/2005/01/u2-vertigo.html Update: Can't track down the original but the blog, although not maintained anymore is still there to see: http://robmanuel.blogspot.com/?view=timeslide…
http://www.b3ta.com/patrickmoore/ ...and he does you know. Cheesey animation which means something to stargazing Brits.
Rabindranath Tagore, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941 http://www.indolink.com/Poetry/tgorIndx.html The above link no longer works, so here's an alternative https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rabindranath-tagore…
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=626&date=20041116 Update this links works: https://www.thelocal.se/20041116/626-3/ It's a funny old world, well Sweden anyway... "I'm no homophobe: my aunt lived…
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/textsearch?width=4&text=William%20Blake&height=5&image.y=17&image=Change%20dimensions&y=0&x=0&image.x=17&start=2&idx=2 One of the manuscripts accessible from the British Library: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_2_a_xvi
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/ Update: http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/49/%20;%20charset=UTF-8 This should work, if it doesn't try the British Library Catalogues and Collections page: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues-and-collections An incredible…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang 公来何晚，当围城时，大节未亏，百世流芳；公去真迟，神州沉沦，壮志难酬，此恨绵绵 'Profoundly mourning Zhao Ziyang's death：You came too early. When we were in a crisis, you didn't betray your…
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/believeitornot/derrenbrown.html Update: now available as an 'on demand' show https://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown-the-specials/on-demand/38958-001 This show was amazing, Mr Brown is a very clever…
http://drjosephrock.blogspot.com/ In the footsteps of Joseph Rock is the journey of Sydney blogger Michael, following the footsteps of 'bad-tempered and…
In memoriam for my dear Mother who died recently... Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from…
https://www.scenta.co.uk/ 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:…
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…
Google Desktop running on Windows Vista http://desktop.google.com/?promo=rpp-gds-en-uk-5 The idea of Google knowing what's on my computer, my complete web history…
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