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Articles
- Pathology of the Hundred Acre Wood - A neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. milne
- D& D Requiem - The lost last episode to the Dungions and Dragons cartoon
Artists
- Drew Struzan - movie poster artist (Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones)
- Doug Chiang - Design director for the new Star Wars films.
- John Buscema - co-writer of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
Astronomy and Physics
Archives
- IPAC - NASA Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
- ISO Data Archive - Can crash some browsers.
- NSCA Astronomy Disital Image Library -
- JCMT Archive - At the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
- Skyview - The internets virtual telescope
Articles of Interest
- Aboriginal (Native American) Star Knowledge - The Constellations as named by the Native Americans
- Astronomical Coordinate Systems - As it says
- Brightest Stars - All stars brighter than third magnitude
- Common Errors in College Math - The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics
- IRAS PSCz Redshift Survey - The structure of the galaxys around us.
- Quantum Cosmology - at Cambridge
- Sigma Theory - Feature on how scientists describe the weight of a result
Astro-Search Engines and Journals
- Astronomical Journal - Journal of the American Astronomical Society
- Astronomy Search Engine - People, insitiutions, etc
- Astrophysics Data System - UK Mirror
- e-Print Archive - Includes physics, mathematics and computer science
- ESO Star Formation Newsletter - Monthly posting of new abstracts
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - of the USA
Institutions and Observatories
- Cardiff University - Department of Physics and Astronomy
- IAU - The International Astronomical Union
- International Dark-Sky Association - Protecting the night sky
- James Clerk Maxwell Telescope - The JCMT and SCUBA
- Starlink - Providers of UK Astronomy software and support
Misc Physics Websites
- Times to Come - Computation Physics
Other sciences
- Paleomap Project - Reconstructions of prehistoric land masses
- Periodic Table of Elements
- Plants of the Machiguenga - An Ethnobotanical Study of Eastern Peru
Popular Science
- APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics - Actually accurate
- Cosmiverse - The Space Portal
- Discover Europe - European portal for the documentry channel
Software
Space Technology
- Human Space Flight - at NASA
- Pegasus - World's first privately developed space lanuch vehicle
Statistics and Data Analysis
- Elementry Error handling - Correctly propergating errors in calculations
- Data Analysis Briefbook - AtoZ of common terms
- HyperStat Online - Online stats textbook
- Statlets - Java applets for statistical analysis and graphics
Web Utilities
- Celestial Sphere - A virtual planetarium
- Great Circle Studios - Sundial designers, the Sunmap utility and a solar calculator
Beer and Real Ale
- Space Hop - What happens to Real Ale in space
Cartoons and comic strips
Animation
- The Animaniacs Page - Heeeeelllllllooooo Nurse!! Disconnect your brain and stand by for the ANIMANIACS!
- Toon Zone - News about Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network
Daily Strips
- Dilbert - Includes List of the Day
- Garfield - Daily comics
- Liberty Medows at Creators.com
Weelky Strips
- Nova Machine - Eponymous Rock-Band Funnies.
- Rudy Park - IT fun
Comicbooks, Pulps and Graphic Novels
Annotations and Reference
- Comic Annotations - Annotations for Books of Magic, Watchmen, Sandman and the Suicide Squid Collection
- Comics Research Bibliography
- Comicbook Database - Search for a specific comic
- Jerry Bail's Who's Who of America Comic-Books - Now online
Covers and Galleries
- Heroic Images - Very slick site
- Loopy Joe's Comics Cover Index - a vast collection from 1930s to present
- Rule of Attraction - How women were drawn in US pulps, comics and cartoons
Companies, Resources and News
- Active Images Network - Comicraft, Gorilla Comics, et al.
- CBR - Comic Book Resources
- Comicon.com - The world's largest comics convention
- Comics Continuum - Updated Daily
- Comics International - the UKs leading trade press
- DC Comics - The Original Universe
- Silver Bullet Comics - Home of All The Rage
- Slush Factory - "The World's Coolest Comic Book Magazine"
Companies
- Beeps - The design house that did the graphics for the BBC series Space
Computers
General
- C|NET - Hardware, Software and Web features
Fonts
- Blambot - Free comic fonts
- Sassy Fonts - Free funky, techno, distressed, dingbat and symbol fonts
- Sci-Fi Fonts - From Sci-Fi 2000
- Witzworx - A comic font
Games
- Console Domain - UK Branch
- Gamasutra - The art and science of making games
- Game FAQs - A comprehensive games help/cheats
- Planet Baldur's Gate - Formerly Baldur's Gate Chronicles
- Soft and Fuzzy - Fan project to create a new Dizzy game
Hardware (normal)
- Cooler Master - Processor cooling solutions (i.e. fans)
- Creative - The Soundblaster mob
- KA7 FAQ - Unofficial KA7 FAQ
- Maxtor - Hard drives
- Mitsumi - CD Drive (guessed the specs of my PC yet?)
Hardware (Odd)
- Compubrick - Computer cases made from Lego
- Illustrated Guide to Breaking Your Computer
- LEGO Related Sites in Academia - Universities using LEGO in their research programs
Hardware (retail)
- Computer Prices UK - Comparative lists of UK hardware prices
Internet Connections
- Cable Modem Centre - UK Cable Modem news
- nthell.world - An NTL lobby site
- NTL Broadband FAQ - Buried deep in their site
Internet politics and policy
- AnyBrowser Pages - A compaign for non-browser specific WWW
- Browser List - A list of alternate Browsers on many different OSs
- Deja Vu - (re)creating web history
- ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Internet People
- George Goble - 1998 winner of the IgNoble Prize for Chemisty
- Erik Selberg's Home Page - One of the original authors of Metacrawler
Javascript and Java
- Website Abstraction - Cut and Past Javascript
LaTeX and BibTeX
- BibTeXing - By Peter Neuhaus
- CTAN - Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
- Introduction to Tex - A simple introduction to Tex, LaTeX and AMS-Tex
- LaTeX and BibTex - General links
Numerical Methods
- Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77 - The Art of Scientific Computing
- Second-order differential equations - Runge-Kutta-Nystrom
OS: Linux
- Apache Week - A free resource for the Apache webserver.
- LOAF - Linux On A Floopy
- Linuxnewbie.org - The first stop
- Linux Documentation Project - The second stop
- Linux Printing
- Red Hat - One of the most popular distributions.
- Slackware - The Slackware Linux Project
- All WinDOws Tricks Independent Windows tricks and secrets
Programming Theory
- Hypermedia Image Processing Reference, - image processing resources with JAVA interaction
Programming Languages: FORTRAN
- FORTRAN functions
- HP FORTRAN 77/iX Programmer's Guide - Good general reference
- Intrinsic FORTRAN functions
- Introduction to FORTRAN - A Reference Manual
Ray Tracing
- Galen's Ray Traced Worlds - Raytraced images with a space theme
- ITRC - Internet Ray Tracing Competition
- Mega-POV - A patched version of POVRAY
- Moray - A wireframe modeller for POVRAY
- POVRAY - Persistance of Vision ray tracer homepage
Reference and stuff
- AFW FAQ - Usenet Signatures
- Jargon 4.2 - Computer programming/hacking related jargon
- Port Numbers - Port Number and protocol reference
- Search Engine Watch - Behind the scenes explanations
Search Engines and Portal sites
- Direct Search - Designed to for material hidden behind portal sites
- Excite
- Google Groups - The old Deja News archive
- Infoseek - or Go, or whatever.
- Links2Go - Keyword mapping
- Lycos - Lycos
- Open Directory Project
- Yahoo UK - Nuff said
- Yahoo Geocities - My web hoster
Security
- EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center
- User Authentication - Setting up passwords for the Apache webserver.
Software
- Active State - Perl for Windows
- Analog X - Professional free software and music
- Dave Central - Shareware, Freeware, Demos and Betas
- Driver Guide - Online driver archive
- HTML-Kit - The editor that I use
- Moon Software - Small free utilities for windows
- UK Mirror Service - Mirror over over 150 FTP sites
- WinWAP - WAP Browser for Windows
Software: Linux
- GnuPlot Central - The GNU plotting package
- gnuplot - The gunplot manual
- RPM Find - An RPM repository
Software: Web Browsers
- Lynx - A port of Lynx for Dos/Windows
- The Unofficial Netscape FAQ - All you need to know
Web Design
- Cool Homepage.com - "The only know cure for Designer's Block"
- developer.webtv.net - Guidelines for pages viewable of WebTV
- List Apart - For people who make websites
- Rich In Style.com - Online CSS support tables
- W3 Schools - Online web tutorials
- Web Developer's Virtual Library - Encyclopedia of tutorials, articles and discussions
- Web Review.com - Cross Training for Web Teams
- Webby Awards - Presented by the The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
- Webtools - Professional advice
Web Servers
- 404 Research Lab - ...All Errors, All the time...
Website Utilities and Validation
- Blogger - Weblog service
- Cool Text - Online graphics generator
- Doctor HTML - Free for single page processing
XHTML/HTML
- XHTML.org - Reference material and links
XML
- Archiving and Information Services - XML conference proceedings
- 4XT - Resources for the XT parser
- Extensible Markup Language - From W3C
XML Languages
- AIML - Astronomical Instrument Markup Language
- Gemini Observatory Project - i.e. the Pit
- ADC Scientific Dataset - Including the Extensible Data Format
- PhysicsML - Physics Markup Language
- SML - Spacecraft Markup Language
XSL
- MSXML FAQ - Unoffical Microsoft XML FAQ
- XSL FAQ - Maintained by Dave Pawson
- Zvon XSL Tutorial - A huge number of examples
Ethics, Politics and Society
Human Rights
- Fantasy World Order - From oxfam
- Human Rights Internet - An interner gateway for human rights issues
Politcal Institutions
- Cardiff Info - Cardiff County Council website
- Europa - The European Union On-LIne
- UK Online - UK Government portal site
- UN - The United Nations
Friends
- Box UK - A web design company owned by some friends.
- Chocolate.Custard.Org - Emma the black belt origami expert
- evil super brain - The brain (shudder) of Ben Weston.
- Mr Flibble's Page of Fun - A unique view of life from Chris.
- Post-Infinity - The art of Andy Main-Reade
- Zutlewurble's MTB Photography site - Roy's biking and photosite
Forteana and the Fringe
Conspiracies
- www.fnord.org - Encyclopaedia of DiScOrDiA!
Ghosts
- Rent-A-Ghost - Rent a ghost on free trial offer
Mythology
- Arthurian Biographies - including historical analogues
- Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore and legend
Phenomena
- Circlemakers - Really cool crop circle website
Geek Stuff
Geek Humour
- Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide
- Bill Gates Character Sheet - Gates as a RPG character
- A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
- Infinicorp Transgalactic - Babylon Park and other sci-fi parodies
- Sapringer Central - The best Star Trek parady on the net
- Security Warning for Alien Invaders - CERT warning against threats to the mothership
- Scooby Doo on B5 - Those pesky kids
Legacy stuff from the early days
- The Armory - They use to host the British Starfleet site.
- Bunnyhop - A now defunct magazine for the e-Generation
- The Well - The remains of the Well original gopher site.
Humour/Entertainment
Games
- J Games - Includes online Connect 4
- Site with no name - Assorted silly flash games and stuff
Lyrics
- Cabin Fever - From Muppet Treasure Island
- Swinging on A Star
Name Generators
- Hobbit Name Generator - I'm Olo Overhill
- What's your pokename? - I'm Polivee
Spoof/Odd Stuff
- Bad Fads Museum - The 1970s lives on
- Bebert - The butcher of Gnomes (in French, Google translation into English)
- Engrish - Japanese English translations (personally I'd like to see the gaffs that go the other way)
- Killing the CueCat - Your Guide to Catricide (destroying barcode scanners)
- Obscene Interiors - Interior design reviews of amature porn shooting locations (figure blanked out)
- Villains UK - Your one stop world domination emporium
Widgets
- Ask Kosh - The wisdom of a Vorlon
- Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator
Journals and online magazines
- Annals of Improbable Research - Research that cannot or should not be reproduced
- Massive Edge - Defunct e-zine
Justice League
Animated Series
- Justice League Authority - From the Warner Brothers animation archive
- Meanwhile at the Hall of Justice - From Toon Zone News
- World's Finest Headlines - Batman and Superman related animation news
Movies and Television
News and Resources
- BBC Online - The main BBC UK portal
- Digital Spy - Cable, TV and Communication News
Shows
- Ian Hickson's Salem Site - The cat from Sabrina
- Time Team - Official Site
Titles
- Forbidden Planet - IMDB ref
News
- BBC News - The world's leading news broadcaster.
- Electronic Telegraph - One of the first online newspapers
- IGN - e-generation news and entertainment site
- Independent - Independent UK news
Reference
- Dictionary.com - Essential word reference
- refdesk.com - One stop reference desk
- Whos Alive and Whos Dead - Not a spoof