Links

Friends websites

1. Uncle Roger's Dairy Farm ...A Sheep Dairy farm, if that isn't a contradiction - they make fine Ewe's cheese
2. Jeremy Andrews (Jaz) riding his way around the Americas
3. "Jared Waddam's Homer page" - has his own dohmain name
4. Guy Griffith-Jones' biznus - C1 espresso
5. Oliver Huggins' biznus - IT LINK

Reference

1. NZ Reserve Bank's CPI Inflation Calculator - calculate how much more you should be paid since your last pay rise to buy the same amount today
2. TradeMe - Auction site - also good to figure out the value of second hand gear
3. Virtual Super 12 - try to pick the winners of the super 12 competition and beat your friends
4. The CIA factbook - info and stats on all the counties of the world
5. Artchive an art reference site (beware of popups though)
6. Check up to date Highway Information on the AA site
7. List of all the Internet Country Codes - so now if you go to a site www.cheapholidays.hr, you'll know it's in croatia
8. Movie Mistakes - If you think you've spotted a flaw in the plot of a movie or seen a wristwatch on a caveman on screen - see if anyone else has noticed it
9. Christchurch city street maps
10. refdesk.com - a portal page to TONS of reference sites
11. ditto.com - a visual search engine, find heaps of images here
12. Andy's Anagram Solver
13. A Dictionary portal page has anagram/scabble/thesaurus/dictionray ect.
14. Lotto results
15. "Rolling Stone" mags site - Music authority
16. Trivia knowledge base
17. Newspapers and Radio Stations of London
18. Has some online apps such as unit conversions calculators etc
19. NZ Technology Headlines
20. "Ananova" Cyberchick reading the news

Science

1. John McCrone Fascinating articles on conciousness, brain workings, Freud, Apes, Feral Children etc
2. lunaranomalies.com site - Explains away a lot of the evidence of fake lunar landing conspiracies
3. Earthquake site - updated often
4. Website to "The Planets" BBC TV program
5. skymaps.com - print out skymaps to look at the stars at night
6. Yoursky - a more informative and customisable but less well presented skymap
7. SOHO - the Solar and Heliosperic Observatory - real time pictures of the Sun's activity courtesy of NASA
8. The "NEAR spacecraft" website - the one thats circling the asteroid EROS... met it on valentines day ... You know the one !
9. "Nikola Tesla - Man Out of Time" inventor scientist electical bright spark

Funny

1. We come in peace - Funny 'sketched-creature-thing' in animations (needs sound & flash, slapstick sort of humour).
2. Starwars played by thumbs! etc
3. Just plain stupid thinks people have said
4. Computer helpdesk experiences with the computer illiterate, seriously disturbed and just darn-right stupid public
5. ASCIImation - Star Wars movie entirely in text!

Strange

1. kronia.com Ever wonder why those little specs in the sky called planets were delegated God status by wee natives who hadn't invented telescopes - here's an explanation
2. What's in a name? a rose by any other name should smell so sweet, - Here's a site which can take your name and reveal you inner most secrets - Just a good bit of fun .... or is there more to it than that !?!?
3. "Roswell Rods or Sky Fish" ...Mulder, Scully, GET OVER HERE!! - UFOs, greys,.. They're old hat. Get paranoid/fascinated/spooked by this one

Cool sites

1. Vidlits.  Video Literature - as they say themselves "well told tales"
2. Javascript and flash Arcade Games. Checkout all the old classics.(Like Space invaders)
3. Being smart - a beings art
4. Dude Studios - creater of star dudes (the 3min version of Star Wars in flash) has some great new creations
5. Smurf the web - Convert ordinary (but not too complex- like javascript etc) web pages to positively smurfilicious pages!
6. Requiem for a dream - Art site (strange)
7. Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy's adventure game, translated for the web (can't save it though)
8. "Mr-T homage" Links to 'Mr-T vs Highlander' ..and vs everything. People really do have alot of time on their hands don't they!
9. "Fatkid" - truely twisted (south-park-esque) animations featuring Mr-T
10. "CHiPs" - that's right Jon and Ponch
11. Games and Javascript nonsense for the terminally bored.{ from the above site}
12. "Bowienet" a cool site
13. Remember "Seamonkeys" (Havoc does) well there not just a thing of the past, they have a web presence -has some sea monkey games

1. traceroute.org trace the path access to an IP address takes from various countries
2. Whois to look up websites' addresses, owners etc.
3. Every wonder what those "file extensions" stand for?
4. List of all the Internet Country Codes - so now if you go to a site www.cheapholidays.hr, you'll know it's in croatia
5. Sheilds up Check your ports aren't open to the internet so hackers can't get into your machine
6. Reverse DNS lookup - put an IP address in and it tries to find the name of the site
7. Javascript source
8. "Addme.com", Adds your page to search engines - a free site
9. Metadata generated by META builder2 http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html