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June 2004 - Peoples' Favourite Websites

Sorry I've not had time to sort or categorise these yet!

Daily hardware specials
www.scan.co.uk - Scan Computers UK
aria.co.uk - Aria Computers
komplett.co.uk

Hardware news
www.extremetech.com

Digital television news and comment
digitalspy.co.uk

Risc OS news and comment
www.drobe.co.uk

Another Risc OS news and comment site which seems less snidely unpleasent in tone than Drobe.
iconbar.co.uk

Reference sites
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
www.acronymfinder.com
wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/
www.howstuffworks.com
www.colourcountry.net/enquire/
www.1do3.com
www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/
www.itreviews.co.uk/

The Urban Legends Reference Pages always interesting and often provides the information required to de-bunk (or occasionally prove) the validity of the latest internet rumour or photograph.
www.snopes.com

Also for a quick look at a collection of current stories from around the world about unusual phenomena I take a peak at...
www.forteantimes.com

Another site I like and which I recommend to people who want an antidote to all the "where the Apollo moon landings faked" conspiracy rubbish (or who want to educate themselves on how much the "science" in a lot of Sci Fi movies is shall we say wide of the mark) is.....
www.badastronomy.com

Finally for this first selection I must mention a site I am sure most people know and one I can while hours away searching....
uk.imdb.com

The following site is not just for DVD's it is amazing what people post hear links to TFT Monitors, 256MB Compact Flash cards, TV's DVD Burners, Digital Cameras Etc.
www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/default.asp?Forum=223

The following link is more a site comparison table but well worth a look before buying some piece of consumer electronics.
www.lauriem.plus.com/bargain_basement.html

Financial Stuff and also posting's of bargains (eg Lite-on 52x CD Writer for 17.99gbp) and discount codes etc.
www.themoneybag.com

Gothic store selling jewellery, giftware, toys, clothing, t-shirts and replica weaponry.
www.darkemporium.com

A web manga which follows the exploits of nipponofile Piro and his sometimes delusional friend Largo. Through a series of mishaps they find themselves living in Tokyo but each sees it through the filter of their own obsessions. Dating-sim playing Piro enhabits a sentimental world of failing to undersand women and neurotic underachievement. First person perspective shoot-em-up playing Largo, on the other hand, enhabits a world of zombie hoards, the Queen of Darkness, Ninjas, Drunken monsters trampling the city and singing badly and implacible foes who work for Sony.
megatokyo.com

Although ostensibly about tall buildings the denizens of this sites fora tend to be interested in architecture and civil engineering in general. A gret place to keep informed about what notable buildings and infrastructure projects are being planned and to see photos of the ones already built.
skyscraperpage.com

ipcop.hopto.org

www.tldp.org

gallery.menalto.com/index.php

www.linitx.org/forum/

www.mini-itx.com

The following website is designed and maintained by one of our members. It provides support to people who have the condition Keratoconus.
www.keratoconus-group.org.uk

Certainly one of the best general news sites there is.
news.bbc.co.uk

The most popular search engine on the web.
www.google.co.uk

If you want to change your name, this is one place you can do so in the UK.
www.changename.co.uk

www.explan.co.uk/solo/market.html

topics.developmentgateway.org/ict

www.bisharat.net/introen.htm

www.kabissa.org

news.google.co.uk

theregister.co.uk

slashdot.org

adslguide.org.uk

userfriendly.org

dilbert.com

www.ntk.net

digiguide.com

newscientist.com

gizmodo.com

bbspot.com

rpmfind.net

www.webpagesthatsuck.com

www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/New_Index/news/news_text.htm

anandtech.com

tomshardware.com

www.ukho.gov.uk/easytide.html