These are some misc links that didn't fit anywhere else. The TV links are now over here.
Music Links
- Song Lyrics - song lyrics archive, searchable by artist.
- The Octopus's Garden - lyrics and resources for artists ranging from The Beatles to Eninem, via Pink Floyd and Elvis.
- The Offical Simon & Garfunkel Site.
- Paul Simon's Official Site.
- Art Garfunkel's Official Site.
- The Simon & Garfunkel Lyrics Archive.
- Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Simon Info (among others).
- Pink Floyd. Seems to be a portal, currently giving information about Echoes, the 30th anniversary re-issue of Dark Side and Nick Mason's book.
- Pink Floyd UK. Another portal, with links to slightly different sites.
- The Pink Floyd Hyperbase.
- Pink Floyd Online.
- Brain Damage - Pink Floyd and Roger Waters news.
- The Usenet Guide to Beatles Recording Variations - one for the anoraks, a list of variations in Beatles recordings.
- What Goes On - The Beatles Anomalies Page. Related to the Recording Variations pages, this site lists of all the bits that perhaps shouldn't be there.
- Doctor Demento - purveyor of fine musical parodies for over 30 years.
- The Doctor Is In - the unoffical home page for rec.music.dementia, all about Doctor Demento. Contains lots of lyrics for bizarre and very funny songs and has pages featuring "Weird Al" Yankovic and Tom Lehrer.
- The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site - very funny song writer and performer, known for both his parodies and original work.
- Al-oholics Anonymous - a Weird Al fan site.
- Windplayer Online Magazine (as I play the clarinet). Seems to have turned into an online shop since I last looked at it, selling subscriptions to Windplayer magazine, MasterClass books, prints and T-shirts.
- Sherman Friedland's Clarinet Corner - incredibly useful hints and tips for all clarinet players.
- The Really Useful Group - the site for Andrew Lloyd Weber's company, with information about all his shows.
- Cameron Mackintosh - a portal page for Cameron Mackintosh's shows (including Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Mary Poppins).
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Public Info Links
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Games
- Card Games - very extensive lists of the rules for just about every card games you could think of.
- Rules of Canasta - very comprehensive set of Canasta rules, hosted at the site linked above.
- Canasta.net - play Canasta on your computer. Also contains a list of rules.
- RPS-15 - a variation of the classic Rock-Paper-Scissors with 15 different gestures. At the same site, RPS-25. Some people just have too much time...
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National Lottery
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NASA Information
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General Links
This section has links that don't fit elsewhere, along with a few bizzare ones thrown in for good measure...
- Project Gutenberg Free eBook Library.
- University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Archive.
- The British Museum.
- The Science Museum.
- Central Intelligence Agency - publishers of The CIA World Factbook.
- Iceland Review - self-described as "the one-stop-shop for people looking for the best information on Icelandic culture, society and entertainment"
- World Wide Words - a site about interesting words, from the author of "Port Out, Starboard Home and Other Language Myths" (or "Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds" in the USA).
- TCAEP - part of a network of support sites for people in the fields of physics, engineering and technology, this site contains reference information about scientic contstants and equations, SI units, mathematical topics and astronomical information.
- NUMA - a case of life imitating art. The home page of National Underwater and Marine Agency from Clive Cussler's "Dirk Pitt" novels and founded in real life by, er, Clive Cussler.
- Lego Mindstorms - a complete computer-controlled Robotics Invention System.
- The Lego Club.
- Guinness Homepage.
- Fancy a Pint? - a guide to London pubs.
- Cadbury's Homepage - just for Hannah.
- Hotel Chocolat - a mail-order on-line chocolate shop! Hooray!
- The Welsh Chocolate Farm - to continue the chocolate theme, this is the Pemberton's Chocolates site. Pemberton's are based on a farm in rural south-west Wales.
- Choccywoccydoodah - the final chocolate link for now. Choccywoccydoodah are chocolate design specialists.
- UK Phone Info - contains searchable lists of current and old UK telephone area codes.
- Say To to 0870 - lists of geographical numbers for major companies. Usually large companies only provide 0845 or 0870 non-geographic contact numbers, which can get very expensive (0870 in particular).
- Money Saving Expert - a huge number of money saving tips and general advice. Well worth a look.
- X-Pilot Homepage
- Lists of Bests - searchable lists of the best books, movies and music.
- Subterranea Britannica - dedicated to "the study and investigation of all man-made and man used underground places.
- I Want One of Those.com - very good on-line gadget shop, selling everything from solar-powered phone chargers to Russian jet aircraft (at least, they did)! Well worth a look.
- Glorious Nonsense - Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky".
- Jabberwocky Variations - ever wanted to see what Jabberwocky looks like in Welsh or Latin? Well, here's your chance...
- The Internet Anagram Server.
- The '80s Server - all about the 1980's.
- Nostalgia Central - describing itself as "the number 1 A-to-Z of the 60's, 70's and 80's".
- I Used to Believe - a site all about those childhood beliefs we're now embarassed to recall... Some parts of this site are not suitable for children.
- The Bubble Burst - a site devoted to telling us what's happened to all those cheesy 80s and 90s "celebrities".
- Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down - a site devoted entirely to reviewing biscuits and comparing how well they survive the "dunk test"!
- Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans - along the same lines, this one reviews cafe breakfasts.
- The Gothic Gardening Page - say no more...
- The Official Asterix Site - in French, English, German, Dutch and Spanish.
- The Ultimate Drinking Game Home Page - a drinking game for every occasion. Surprisingly enough, some of these are not suitable for children. A Geocities site.
- The Urban Legends Reference - a comprehensive list of urban legends, some of which are not suitable for children or the easily offended/scared/worried.
- The Museum of Hoaxes - "an almost daily weblog about hoaxes, pranks, and fakery of all kinds."
- Schott's Miscellanies Online - the home page of Schott's Miscellanies. Seemed appropriate for a misc links page...
- HotAIR - the home page of "The Annals of Improbable Research" and the IgNoble Prizes.
- The Acronym Dictionary - some entries are a bit adult.
- Flags of the World - images and information about flags of the world.
- Car Talk - a US radio phone-in show, for car problems. Top Gear, with attitude!
- Seen This? - a Web User special feature, on bizarre sites.
- The Badger Song - very strange!
- Preparing for Emergencies - the UK Government's office site and the really rather good parody site.
- Thomas Scott's Home Page - the home page of the creator of the Preparing for Emergencies parody. Some of this is rather tasteless in places...
- Virtual Bubblewrap - just what it says on the label! Rather addictive...
- Kryptos - well worth a look, if you like code-breaking. (Krypos is a sculpture located on the grounds of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, comprising four panels with coded inscriptions.)
- Amusing British Place Names.
- Tech Digest - news, reviews and opinions blog on UK and European consumer electronics and gadgets. There's also Shiny Shiny, self-described as "a girl's guide to gadgets".
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