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Platticus-Maxs favorite websites – StumbleUpon
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.’
Why this brain flies on rat cunning – Science – www.theage.com.au
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.
Datalude Internet Security Hong kong
http://www.datalude.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3&Itemid=27
Passwords can be either too easily cracked or too difficult to remember. This page from my friends at Datalude, an Information Security Company based in Hong Kong, gives some tips and suggestions that you may find useful including a ‘sensible password generator’
The Cynics Sanctuary
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?
Robot the robot man baby cartoon
http://www.robottherobot.com/manbaby5/slideshows/b-animation2.htm
I tried to restore this but it didn’t work….
Catchy tune and good animation make this a very entertaining cartoon.
kb-ganeshs favorite websites – StumbleUpon
http://kb-ganesh.stumbleupon.com/
Wayback machine link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080917181934/http://kb-ganesh.stumbleupon.com/
Some very good links can be found here – thumbs up!
*Stumbleupon is no longer with available
The Times | UK News, World News and Opinion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,10349,00.html
Update: Now behind a paywall
A ‘Who’s who’ for the UK and although it is not as extensive as I would like these lists are up to date.
Spank the Monkey | Online Games
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/spankthemonkey.php
Amusing interactive flash animation, see how fast you can spank him etc.
latons favorite websites – StumbleUpon
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
Online calculator converting feet inches and fractions of inch to metres or meters mm cm and km
http://www.simetric.co.uk/feet_to_metres.php
Useful for those of us who live halfway between Metric and Imperial worlds
Dictionary of Difficult Words
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.
The Black watch in Iraq
http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/mediacentre/2003/iraq/fieldops/
Content no longer available – probably gone for a re-brand rather than write about an unpopular war
A well produced account of the actions of the British Black Watch Regiment in Iraq late March and early April in 2003.
args favorite websites – StumbleUpon
http://arg.stumbleupon.com/
Wayback machine link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081010045026/http://arg.stumbleupon.com/
Seeing those politicians in drag was a hoot! Keep it coming!
The Black Watch – Royal Highland Regiment
http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/
‘Watch and Pray’ – The motto of the Black Watch Regiment has never been more appropriate.
Whatever your views about the conflict in Iraq I hope you will join with me and wish these brave British soldiers the best as they fight Bush and Blair’s war.
As their Commanding Officer said on the BBC recently that they had beaten Napoleon and Hitler and their reputation was built on sucess so they are more than equal to the task.
ebaum’s world:Funny Videos, Funny Pictures, Flash Games, Jokes
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:
The Rockall Times
http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2004/11/01/bin-laden-video.html
(Another site that’s no longer active but the archive.org link should work)
This made me laugh outloud. Bin Laden will certainly be adding Rockall to his list of targets.
Latest news, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
Thumbs down for the Guardians idiotic email campaign to influence the recent US election. The Guardian has been referred to as a ‘watermelon’ – green on the outside, red in the middle and lacking in substance. Read the Telegraph instead.
China Study Group
http://chinastudygroup.org/
Wayback machine link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040927084608/http://www.chinastudygroup.org/
more news about the world’s most populous country
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.
Very good museum for school children to visit.
For those of you not lucky enough to live in Yorkshire check out the virtual tours.
virtualbloodhouns reviews – StumbleUpon
http://virtualbloodhoun.stumbleupon.com/
Wayback machine link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050214032940/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 – are you in the top 1%?
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>
The Constitutional Monarchy Association
Le Plan de Rome
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.
Update: now just in French
Virtual Model of Ostia Antica
http://www.artrecon.com/Frames/GalleryFr_OstiaVM_ENG_1.html
Wayback machine link:
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.
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
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?
Stanley Hollis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Elton_Hollis
Another page ‘wot I started.’
Open Site
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 – 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 large enough credit.
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.
BBC/OU Open2.net – Home
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.
Derek Anthony Seagrim – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Anthony_Seagrim
I Like this page because I edited it!
The writings of John J Reilly, well worth reading
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.
The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
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.
British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1638-60
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.
Bill Cheall – 6th Green Howards
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.
Hook Norton Brewery Company Limited
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.
China’s Great Leap Upward
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.