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- Darwin
Awards Official Home Page
- The limits to human endeavour know no bounds!
- Urban Legends Archive
- Myths are made of this. Separate reality from the weird and
bizzare(sic).
- News of the
weird
- Subscribe and get a weekly ration of weirdness.
- The Fortean Times
- It's subtitle says it all: "the journal of strange
phenomena"
- New
Scientist Strange Stories
- Forty year's worth of odd happenings - weird and bizarre
- The
Programmer's Quick Guide to the Languages
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- Acronym Finder
- Acronyms on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the
military.
- HotAIR
- Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research
- TechTales
- Technical Support funny
stories.
- Hobbes'
Internet Timeline
- Dates, graphs and links about the growth of the Internet
- Humor Search
- Good for finding those elusive light bulb jokes.
- The
American·British - British·American Dictionary
- Was it George Bernard Shaw who said "England and America are two
countries separated by a common language." ?
Visit these high powered research labs to see what technology is just around
the corner
Bell Laboratories
BT research labs
Microsoft Research Gateway Page
BBC R&D pages
The BBC's Tomorrows World Program
site. Not quite as good as when it was live
television.
Bootstrap Institute It's mission is
to help organizations transform into high-performance organizations, founded by
Douglas Englebart, whose technological firsts included the mouse, display
editing, windows, cross-file editing, outline processing, hypermedia, and
groupware.
Find out all about Colossus(the world's first computer) at Bletchley
Park
Join in Manchester University's
Celebration of the Birth of the Modern Computer
- Leo Computers Society
- In October 1947, the directors of J. Lyons & Company, a British catering
company famous for its teashops but with strong interests in new office
management techniques, decided to take an active role in promoting the
commercial development of computers. The result was the "Lyons Electronic
Office", probably the world's first genuine commercial computer to be built
and used on any scale.
- (Its is sad how the UK is a great innovator but never seems to turn that
innovation into commercial success.)
- The Lost Museum of
Sciences computing hall
- All sorts of links to computing history related sites.
- Virtual Museum of Computing
- Large collection of articles, books and website links about computing.
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Educational
All adults are really kids at heart!
Cool Places For Kids
- The
Geography of Cyberspace
- Useful web background information and links
- BBC education home page
- Good starting point for anything educational
- Internet
Resources for Children
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology (ERIC/IT), hosted
by the Information Institute at Syracuse University, has released a new
publication on Internet resources for children. This site provides links to some
of the best educational resources available online and describes over 50 high
quality, (mostly) annotated Internet resources for children in grades K-8.
Categories include art, current events, health, history, literature, math,
science, and more.
- Scientific American
- Website for the magazine covering everything from astronomy to genetics,
plus online extras such as daily news and Ask the Experts
- New Scientist
- British alternative to Scientific American
- Smithsonian Instiute
- The Washington based Smithsonian Institute is definitely worth an online
visit.
- BBC Science
- A good model on how to make science popular and interesting
- Particle
Adventure
- Award winning physics site that manages to make things like quarks,
fundamental forces and superstrings interesting to those of us without a nuclear
physics degree.
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Online Real Time Things
The Definitive Table of
Real-Time Traffic Surf before setting out to avoid that traffic jam.
Internet Weather Report If the
surfing is slow take a peek to find out why.
Internet Weather Maps See where
the web surfing was bad recently
The Weather Underground Fancy some
real surfing then check out the forecast
"How not to do it" sites
Satire
Fun to try out
Finally a word of warning, if you visit this page too often then you might
need to check out for Symptoms
of Internet Addiction
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