Absolut Director: Dreaming of becoming a film director? Wanna work with Spike Lee on a film? Then this is the cyber soundstage you should head for. But first make sure you have a high-speed connection and your PC/laptop has a fast processor and gobs of memory to handle the heavy downloads. What you're supposed to do is simple. Just re-arrange the running order of a series of clips from the 1967 Japanese sc-fi film 'Girara', rewrite the dialogue on a special online program and add some background music. After that, you can compare what you've done with Lee's work and see how good or how bad you are. It's a fun way to learn how movies are put together, and with the addition of clips by more top-notch directors soon, this promises to be a really great interactive site for craft-conscious cineastes.

The Merck Manual of Geriatrics: A great resource of people coping with aging-induced disorders and those caring for them. The entire contents of 'The Merck Manual of Geriatrics' are featured here with all the topics hyperlinked and accessible from the main page. The manual leaves no stone unturned, covering just about every aspect of geriatrics -- everything from 'Biology of Aging' and 'Care of the Dying Patient' to 'Aging and the Cardiovascular System' and Sexuality'. Of course, it's not a substitute for a physician but as a free online guide to geriatrics, it's invaluable.

PostInfo: Want a quick guide to international postal rates, postal codes and other matters related to the still important snail-mail system? Then this is the page you should click up. Offering such tools as postal rate calculators (split by country), mail, address management advisory and links to official Web sites of postal authorities around the world, this site will be extremely useful to anyone who's had problems with mail delivery. There's a news section that features the latest headlines on postal issues around the world, and the pages featuring 'Geographical Resources' (maps and stuff), 'Mail Forwarding Services' and 'Address Management Companies' should be of interest to e-businesses with a global outlook. And if you want to share your thoughts on mail matters with others, you can do so in the readers' forum pages.

Sandia National Laboratories: Voice of Parasaurolophus Dinosaur: Keen to find out what a dinosaur sounded like 75 millions years ago? Then get a load of this page. It offers a "640K wav file" of a Dino soundbite "produced by computer scientists and paleontologuists using computed tomography (CT scans) and powerful computers". The low-frequency sound is a real source of wonder, and after thrilling to it, you might want to try downloading the accompanying 1.7MB dino movie if you think your PC or laptop is up to it. The page has an interesting aticle on the study of dinosaur vocalisation and the rare Parasaurolophus dinosaur whose voice is recreated here. There're also big JPEG images of the Parasaurolophus family and illustration of the computer modelling for the sound re-creation.

The Sixties Pop Diary: If you're stuck on Sixties music and everything connected to the pop culture of that decade, you'll love this site. It's a year-by-year guide that takes a look at the musical and cultural trends and vents that shaped the spirit of the era. You can pick any year from 1960 to 1969 for a summary of the most interesting events in pop or just explore sections like 'Records', 'Books', 'Genres' and 'Fashion'. There's also a search box that lets you look for topics at random though it's not as effective as exploring the site section by section. Links to other nostalgia sites like 'Rewind the Fifties', 'Super Seventies Rocksite' and 'Early Eighties Song of the Week' are also tagged at the end.

Stephen Hawking's Universe: The celebrated scientist explains everything from 'Antimatter' to 'The Uncertainty Principle' at this site that attempts to uncover the secrets of the cosmos for the common man. Topics are grouped under such sections as 'Strange Stuff Explained', 'Universes', 'Cosmological Stars' and 'Unsolved Mysteries'. From there, you just click from an alphabetical list to get a concise but illuminating description of a particular phenomenon. The great thing about most of the explanations is that they neatly clarify complex concepts without oversimplfying things. The 'Flash'-free site is tailor-made for classroom discussion, with a 'Teacher's Guide' and a 'Things To Do In The Dark' activity section. And if you have a cosmological mystery you want explained, just 'Ask the Experts'.

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