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Index
Science, Nature, Computing
Aerial photographs of various bits of the world
Art
Wal-Mart
Tibet & Human Rights
Entertainment
News
Searching
Miscellaneous & Weirdness
Music
Nuclear Weapons
What Are The Chinese Up To?

Science, Nature & Computing

For environmental surveying, statistical software, fish catch recording, and an interesting web site featuring British & Amazonian fish. "Independent environmental specialists offering a complete research & analysis service including software development, population modelling, management plans, fisheries studies." Go

For gardening and poems to help a gardener through the long dark winter, try Chris's Garden: Go

For huge amounts of up-to-the-minute oceanographic information from the Pacific Ocean, and the implications for world climatic events, including El Niņo, visit the Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean (TAO) Project: Go

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Go

Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford Go

British Museum site index Go

Acme Klein Bottles: Go

Hands off the Grundys! Contribute to the Grange Farm Virtual Fighting Fund! Click

Bob Cerelli's Windows Page. Tips, facts, hints, problem solving, whatever. Software downloads too: Go

The Whole Internet Clipart Guide Go

Nature Photographs by Cor Zonneveld. A superb collection of photos of many different subjects. Go

For closeup floral photography, try www.closeshots.com

The Flora of Europe - a collection of plant pictures. Go

Internet Directory for Botany. A categorised and searchable collection of 4000 botany-related URLs. Go

Try my old friend Kev's pages for all sorts of things. For computing and secretarial services, other computer stuff, CDs books and videos, a feature on the North Dorset Downs Countryside Management Project, and high quality eye-catching web pages for business clients and entertainment purposes, go to www.varley.com. For Kev's own pages, with pics of lightning & crop circles, world class gardening, and all manner of links, head for Kev's Pages.

Are you worried about your privacy when you're surfing? You don't have any. Get over it. Then go to Anonymizer. See what they can find out about you just from you hitting their site, and then see how they can help you feel a little more relaxed about it: www.anonymizer.com.

Aerial photos from around the world

Fantastic pictures of US National Parks: Go

Obtaining Landsat Images Go

Terraserver satellite pics Go

UK's latest weather satellite pic Go

UK's latest Infrared satellite pic Go

Art.
For art and design, and a wide selection of art links, go to Jednet

Top-notch cartoons, photos and a host of other motorsport-related goodies, go and visit my friend Kimbo, at the Formula One Cartoon Archive

Wal-Mart.
The giant American supermarket chain Wal-Mart last year acquired Britain's Asda stores. Are Wal-Mart the providers of a huge range of wholesome quality goods at the lowest prices; major employers and benevolent contributors to communities' well-being?


Or are they monopolistic demons, abusers of employees in the 3rd World, despoilers of green-field sites and the world's largest retailers of handguns; and has the company's expansion in the USA been at the expense of vast numbers of smaller shops?

Check out the Council on Economic Priorities' Corporate Report Card: enter the name of the company you're interested in, and hit "Start Search".

The 2 questions above were submitted to a discussion group. Here's a very small selection of the replies: Go.

Perhaps you should throw the same questions at your own favourite group.

Tibet.
A collection of different aspects of Tibet covered here.

The Tibet Map Institute has large scale maps of various parts of the country. Go

CNN profile of the Dalai Lama Go

Outbreak of a mystery bone disease in China Go

Search bbc.co.uk for recent articles on the Dalai Lama Go

Fabled Tibetan waterfalls discovered Go

History of India & Tibet 30BD - 1453 AD Go

International Campaign for Tibet - Current News Go

Pics of Petroglyphs from Western Tibet Go

The Voice of Tibet - providing unbiased news to Tibet via short-wave radio broadcasts Go

Report on the building of a hydro-electric power plant at Yamdrok Tso in Tibet Go

Free Tibet Campaign stands for the Tibetans' right to decide their own future. It campaigns for an end to the Chinese occupation of Tibet and for the Tibetans' fundamental human rights to be respected. It is independent of all governments and is funded by its members and supporters. Go

The Office of Tibet is the official agency in Britain of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government-in-exile. Go

The Tibet Foundation aims: To make widely available the works and thoughts of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and to spread his message of peace and harmony; to further the understanding of Tibetan Buddhism and culture, and to work towards their continuity and preservation; to improve education and health care and to relieve poverty among Tibetans in exile and in Tibet. Go

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer page at the BBC Go

The late great Bill Hicks: Go

Dave Barry at the Miami Herald: Go

Bagpuss is online!!!!! Go

Lord Buckley Online Go

The Band That Money Couldn't Buy: Go

Stanley Unwin Explained: Go

Oxymoron Humour Archive: Go

News
AP Breaking News - the very latest: Go

For malicious scandal, and up-to-date world news, try the Drudge Report Go

CNN News: Go

Searching
Encyclopaedia Britannica Go

Miscellaneous & Weirdness
The Magical Calendar - A Synthesis of Magical Symbolism from the Seventeenth-Century Renaissance of Medieval Occultism Go

Title pages to Robert Fludd's books - Go

Alchemical symbolism, imagery and music Go

Have you ever listened to shortwave radio, and heard a tinny-sounding voice reading out apparently random sequences of numbers? What's that all about, eh? Find out: Go

Associated British Ports wish to build a huge dock development on Dibden Bay, near Southampton. Check out the opposition: Go

FL Horses - Your online resource for Horses!

Music
Nick Harper Go

Nomadland, the Michael Hedges website: Go

The home page of Isaac Guillory Go

The Complete REM Lyrics Archive Go

Rockin' Ryan's REM page - Go

Official Grateful Dead homepage Go

Robert Hunter's Grateful Dead Lyrics page Go

Here's another - just called Grateful Dead Lyrics Go

Excellent!! Found just what I want! The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, by David Dodd. Thorough analysis of the lyrics & their symbolism & references. Contributions by Hunter himself. Essays & theses. A really good site, packed with information. Go

The Grateful Dead Official Homepage Go

Feeling intense? Looking for a deeper meaning to everything? Try the Franklin's Tower Exegesis by Andrew Shalit. An extraordinary examination of the lyrics to Franklin's Tower - the song will never sound the same again. Go

After some good folk, blues and roots music in the south of England every July?? Try the Larmer Tree Festival Go

Artists, venues & gigs in London - see Acoustic London: Go

Live music at The Brook, Portswood Rd, Southampton: Go

Livewire - gig guide for the Bournemouth area: Go

Anyone for nuclear weapons?
The Bellona Foundation chronicles Russian nuclear and environmental issues Go

The FAS has a huge selection of information on interesting parts of the globe Go

In particular, they have a lot of surveillance satellite pics, and huge amounts of information about many nuclear forces and installations across the world. Go

Hmmm. I see. And what are the Chinese up to, Robin?
Weapons tests at Lop Nor: Go

China's Nuclear Arsenal: Go

Nuclear Weapons on the Tibetan Plateau: Go

China's Nuclear Activities in Tibet: Go

You've probably read recently about the revelation that huge amounts of US military information were illegally passed to the People's Republic of China. Read all about it in the US House of Representatives Select Committee report on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the PRC: Go

I'll to get around to adding some more links when I find them. I hope you'll enjoy these. If any are out of date, or moved, please let me know so I can change this page.

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