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| Fruit Machines | |
| Arcadia messageboard | A pretty crap message board relating to Fruit Machines (or "Slots", for my American visitors!) Occasionally has some useful information. |
| Stiffulation | A website mainly promoting my friend Clive's Fruit Machine Simulations and emulator layouts. |
| Fruit Forums | An excellent set of Forums relating to Fruit Machine Emulation. |
| Movies | |
| Dark Horizons | Previews and reviews of the latest movies. Also features links to trailers. |
| The Internet Movie Database | A fantastic site, carrying information about pretty much any film or TV series you care to think of! |
| Microsoft | |
| Microsoft | The Beast of Redmond! If you don't know who Microsoft are by now, may I take this opportunity to welcome you to Earth, and hope you enjoy your stay! |
| Hotmail | A free, web-based e-mail service |
| Microsoft Certified Professional | Microsoft's certification programme |
| Microsoft Support Knowledge Base | A good place to start if you have a problem with a Microsoft product (and, let's face it, you will!) |
| MSDN Home | The Microsoft Developer Network Homepage. |
| MSDN Library | The Microsoft Developer Network Library - useful information for software developers who use Microsoft tools. |
| News | |
| Ananova | An excellent news site, featuring some unusual stories, as well as the mundane. |
| CNN Europe | The European arm of Cable News Network |
| Sky News | The website of Rupert Murdoch's UK satellite news channel |
| Slashdot | Geek news! Need I say more? |
| The Register | Computing news, slightly less geeky that Slashdot! |
| Online Games | |
| Jasper | An emulator for the Sinclair Spectrum computer, written in Java. |
| PopCap Games | Some great games here, mostly puzzles and word games. |
| SiSSYFiGHT 2000 | This is, essentially, an updated version of Paper, Scissors, Stone. Nevertheless, it's quite fun! |
| Online Shopping (Clothes) | |
| Big Dogs | I found this company while staying in the US. They sell some very humorous parody T-Shirts, and other clothing with a canine theme. |
| The Big Man's Shop | Based in Cornwall, The Big Man's Shop specialises in clothes and shoes for large and tall men. |
| Online Shopping (Entertainment) | |
| Amazon.com | Probably the most famous on-line store on the net. Selling a wide variety of items from CDs and DVDs to books and computer games. Amazon.com are based in the US, so if you're in the UK, shipping can be expensive. |
| Amazon.co.uk | The UK arm of Amazon. Cheaper, in terms of shipping, but doesn't stock as many types of product as the US version. |
| CDZone | A useful site for buying hard-to find CDs. |
| Play.com | A fantastic site for DVDs CDs and video games! Based in the UK and the Channel Islands, prices on Play.com include shipping, and they sell region 1 DVDs as well as Region 2. They usually end up cheaper than either Amazon sites, but with a slightly smaller product range. |
| Star Wars | |
| Star Wars (Official Site) | Star Wars is probably my favourite series of movies, and the site is well laid out and has lots of information, although it can be slightly slow to load. |
| TheForce.net | The best of a whole load of unofficial Star Wars sites. TheForce.net features news about the movies, toys and expanded universe stories, as well as spoilers and other interesting tidbits. |
| Travel (International) | |
| British Airways | "The World's Favourite Airline". Yep, they're my favourite, too!! |
| Country Inns | I usually stay at the Country Inn in Woodland Park when I go to America. |
| Enterprise Rent-A-Car | My car hire company of choice in the US. There are probably cheaper options, but I'm happy with Enterprise. |
| Travel (UK) | |
| Multimap.com | An excellent site for finding directions and maps of the UK. |
| Railtrack | A useful site for finding train times in the UK and more. |
| Virii | |
| Symantec Antivirus Center | This is the home page of the Symantec Antivirus Research Center - a useful place to find out about all types of computer virus and how to protect yourself from them. |
| Virus Hoaxes | I don't know about you, but I hate getting warnings sent to me, warning me of a virus that turns out to be completely fake. This site lists all the common virus hoaxes that are sent around by people. |
| Weather | |
| Meridian TV: Weather | Local weather information for the South East of England. |
| Met Office Homepage | Weather Information for the UK |
| WWE | |
| Official Chris Jericho Home Page | One of my favourite "sports entertainers" of the WWE. He's got a pretty good singing voice, too! |
| The Unofficial Lisa Moretti Fan Club | Lisa Moretti is known as Ivory in the WWE. She's very entertaining to watch, is very pretty, and seems like a very amiable person, as well. |
| World Wrestling Entertainment | The largest professional wrestling organisation in the world. |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Barclaycard | Barclays Bank's Visa card. |
| Bloomberg Currency Calculator | Convert values between different currencies. Find out how much that $100.00 purchase from Amazon.com will cost in pounds! ;-) |
| British Telecom | The UK's primary telecommunications company. |
| FOREST | The Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco |
| Friends Reunited | An excellent site which helps you track down friends from school. |
| GenesConnected | Run by the same people as Friends Reunited, this site aims to help you generate your family tree. |
| The Internet Archive | Exactly what it says! The Internet Archive contains "over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present". |
| Orcs Nest | A damned fine Role Playing Game shop in London. |
| Susmans Best Beef Biltong | Ah... Biltong! Basically, biltong is dried meat (sort of a South African version of Jerky). I was introduced to this delicacy by a friend who'd been on holiday to South Africa, and was delighted to find that Susman's make and deliver biltong in the UK. |
| Universal Currency Converter | Another currency converter. They also provide code to allow you to provide currency conversions on your own website. |
| Your Dictionary | It's a dictionary... and it's online! Very useful, except that it does tend to provide American spellings, rather than British. |
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| Adult Sites (Not suitable for the easily-offended) | |
| Jacqui's Bedroom | I designed this site! It's probably best not to visit it if you're easily offended, though, as it contains nudity and suggestive wording! |
| lofty@brainache.demon.co.uk |