Links
Here are some generally useful (and not so useful!) links for your delectation:
general reference
Longman Web Dictionary
Useful online reference for the English language.
About.com
An internet catalogue in which each subject area is put together by a "carefully trained and screened" guide (to quote the website).
The USENET Cookbook
A comprehensive database of recipes hosted, rather bizarely, by the University of Cardiff Department of Physics and Astronomy. Still, I suppose physicists and astronomers have to eat too!
Yahoo currency converter
Does excactly what it says on the tin.
onlineweather.com
Weather forecasts for the UK.
Multimap.com
Maps down to street level for the UK.
CIA World Factbook
Information on every country in the world.
UpMyStreet.co.uk
Community information site. Enter you postcode and find your MP, councillor, nearest shops, service, schools etc.
BT Directory enquiries
Yellow pages
Royal Mail
Find telephone numbers, addresses and postcodes.
National Rail
Train timetables. (I used to link to thetrainline here, but after an unfortunate incident for which I am still waiting for a refund after 2 months of promises, and the discovery that you can get cheaper tickets from train operater direct, I will never use thetrainline, and I recomend that you don't either.)
Internet Movie Database
Comprehensive information about movies.
sing365.com
Comprehensive database of song lyrics.
All-music
Comprehensive database of popular music.
Artcyclopedia
A searchable encyclopaedia of artists.
gay
Blith House Quarterly
A quarterly journal of gay and lesbian short fiction.
Gaydar
An interactive listing of gay men in the UK and arround the world.
A Lover Of Soldiers
This web site had extracts from a fascinating book by Steve Zeeland about sexuality in the armed forces.
Rainbow Query
A kind of gay Yahoo.
Elf Sternberg
Elf Sternberg is the author of "The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik", the largest science-fiction erotica collection available on the Internet, which includes characters of all sexualities.
elephants
Elephants Information Repository
Everything you wanted to know about elephants and more.
The Elephants of Cameroon
Join the North Carolina Zoo and a team of researchers on an interactive project to track and study elephants in northern Cameroon.
Elephant - from How to Get a Head Without Hunting
A fantastic Elephant's head made out of fuzzy felt for only $125! You know you want one!!
Elephant Polo
Featuring a elephant polo team called the Screwy Tuskers.
Elephant Gift Shop
Buy some oh so tasteful ceramic elephant sculptures (as it says on this website... "elephant sculptures are never forgotton").
The Elephants and Our Destiny
Deeply philosophical.