Air Travel

Mirago - A huge list of resources for aviation & pilots. If you're travelling by air this might well be interesting.
http://www.mirago.co.uk/scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top%2FRecreation%2FAviation%2FResources

Ancestry

FreeREG
http://freereg.rootsweb.com/index.htm

Astronomy

US Navy Observatory - Astronomical Applications Department - Stuff about the Moon, Sun, Orbits etc (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/

Beauty

Online hair style testing system (you must allow pop-ups)
To un-install:
Click on MyComputer or Open Windows Explorer.
- Navigate to C:\Windows\downloaded program files\ OR
- Navigate to C:\Winnt\downloaded program files\ (if you are using Windows 2000 or Windows NT)
- Right Click the entry 'AimSP32 Class' and Select Remove.
http://beauty.ivillage.com/es/mom

Books

Satellite & Digital TV – Loads of interesting e-books (free and to buy) (thanks Bro !)
Installing Sky digital, motorised dished, DVD secrets.......
http://www.satcure.co.uk/book.htm

Scifi - Online readable sci-fi (Thanks Apples on my forum)
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/heinlein/heinlein1.html
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/silverberg5/index.html

Brights

A movement for all non-religious and non-mystical people.

A bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview.
A bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements.
The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview.

http://www.the-brights.net/
Forum
http://www.the-brights.net/forums/
A very good thread discussing Brights and other things
http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/forum/threads.php?id=359_0_23_0_C

Other websites related in some way

AlwaysBesideMe - A good source of quotes
http://www.alwaysbesideme.com/

Evil Biblical Stupidity - With various bible resources
http://members.aol.com/bbu84/biblicalstupidity/quotes.htm#2

Free Thought Radio - This is brilliant.
http://www.freethoughtradio.com/

LibertyOnline
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/
In particular, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine in 1794 (Thanks to Coxy on my forum)
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/AOR-Frame.html
Book available from Amazon new for £7.30

Losing My Religion
http://www.losingmyreligion.com/

New Humanist
http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/
Forum
http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/forum/index.php

Secularities - A fun site
http://www.secularsites.freeuk.com/Fun.htm

Skeptic's Annotated Bible (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

Transhumanism
http://www.transhumanism.org
 

Building

DIY Doctor – A huge list of conversions & quantities & sizes
http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/tips/tipsconversions.htm

Gravel Drives

DIY Doctor - Building a Gravel Driveway (Not very much here)
http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/Drive.htm

Paving Expert

An extensive website on all sorts of hard pavings (from gravel to tarmac).

Also a forum. A wonderful resource – Tony senior and junior McCormack- well done.
An excellent example of good website design
http://www.pavingexpert.com/home.htm
Gravel
http://www.pavingexpert.com/gravel01.htm
Gravel Gallery – Pictures of different types of gravel
http://www.pavingexpert.com/gravel04.htm
Guestbook
http://www.pavingexpert.com/vizbook/vizbook.htm

I've added my thanks to their guest book.

Rivar Sand and Gravel – Quantities
Good explanation of calculating the quantity of gravel for a drive, including delivery matters.
http://www.rivarsandandgravel.co.uk/Sheets/howmuch.html

Tarmac Planings

These are tarmac planed up from a road, and broken into small pieces. They can be used like type1 & type 2 stone.
Compact to the HAUC specification.
http://wottontarpaving.co.uk/prep.php

Good description of creating surfaces
http://handbooks.btcv.org.uk/handbooks/content/section/3781

Careers

LinkedIn - A networking system (Thanks Chris)
https://www.linkedin.com/

Cars

Car Care Clinic (with forum)
http://www.carcareclinic.com

Car Parts Finder
http://www.car-parts-finder.co.uk

1^st Choice Online - Used Car Parts
http://www.1stchoiceonline.co.uk

Children's Sites

Activities

AmazingMoms (Thanks alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/kidsart.htm
Playdough Recipe
http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/article_PP_playdough.htm

KiddyHouse (Thanks alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Craft/craftlinks.html

MMS (Thanks alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.mms.com/
 

For Children

CBeebies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/

Channel 5 TV
http://www.five.tv/

Hi-5
http://ninemsn.com.au/kids/hi5

For Adults

UK Mother – Various forums for expectant mothers all the way to mothers of young children
http://www.ukmother.com/forums/

UK Parents – Various forums for parents (related to children and other things)
http://www.ukparents.co.uk

Head Lice

HintsandThings
http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/nursery/lice.htm

Potty Training

Search for “potty training tips”

PottyTrainingTips

http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/preparing-tips.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/establishing-tips.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/giving-tips.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/maintaining-tips.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/helping-tips.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/when-to-start-potty-training.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/coloring-pages-help-explain.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/potty-training-works.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/drphil-potty-training.htm
http://www.pottytrainingtips.com/kids-love-potty-training-videos.htm

Parent Soup -Extensive set of pages – Too many adverts !
http://www.parentsoup.com/toddlers/potty/articles/0,,262585_260941,00.html
Forum:
http://messageboards.ivillage.com/iv-pspotty

Potty Training Solutions
http://pottytrainingsolutions.com/

Use charts

Pull-ups – Online Training Kits
http://www.pull-ups.com/na/index.asp
http://www.pull-ups.com/na/tools/pottytrainingekit.asp

Once Upon a Potty – Girl
5 star reviews £3.26
http://www.grandshop.co.uk/amazon/asinsearch_0694013889/

DVD Region 1 NTSC
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CBLBB/qid=1091125385/ref
=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-8360046-0827812

Amazon Books
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/legacy-handle-buy-box.html/202-8360046-0827812

Child Safety

Keywords to search for: Poison, Treatment, Ingestion, Children

Altonsa - Poisoning Prevention and Safety
http://www.childsafe.org.za
The page I liked was this one, but I can't find it on the new site: /childsafe/poison.htm

American Academy of Family Physicians
Oral Poisoning - Guideline for Initials Evaluation & Treatment
http://www.aafp.org/afp/980101ap/larsen.html

Merck - Treatment of Poisons
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section23/chapter307/307a.jsp

Merck - Poisoning in Children <<<< READ THIS FIRST
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section19/chapter263/263b.jsp#A019-263-1990

Toddlers - Making your home safe
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/safetoddler.htm

Clothes

An ebay seller "lootsale" (in Pakistan). Highly recommended.
"You pick your fabric, you get the three pieces of fabric they have chosen to put together. You then chose your design from dozens that they have available. You give all you measurements, even down to thigh, bicep and calf measurements, so you know it will fit perfectly. You can alter any design you like - say you like the trousers from style a but the top from style b, or you like style c but you want the top shorter (and you specify the length). If the fabric warrants it, it will be returned made up and also lined (lining material is at no extra cost). The last order I got they gave me a free gift of a handloom shawl, it is exquisite." (Thanks Moggy on my forum)
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ50QQsassZlootsale
This is their website
http://www.clickstitch.com/

Consumer

Stretcher - For saving money and time (Thanks alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.stretcher.com/

Conversions

SI Metric - Huge list of conversions
http://www.simetric.co.uk
Meters to Feet and Inches
http://www.simetric.co.uk/metres_to_feet.htm

Metric to Imperial Online Calculator (and lots of other conversions)
Doesn't convert 4.85 to 24'6”, only to 190.95” or 15.91
http://www.aggreko.com/customerctr/Unit-Converter---Metric--Imperial-Calculator.asp

Cooking

Cooks - Enter ingredients and get a recipe to use them
http://www.cooks.com

Exploratorium - How to create a basic sourdough starter (Thanks Raeven on my forum)
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/recipe-sourdough.html

Fankhauser's Cheese Page - Lots on Yogurt and cheese (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Cheese.html

GourmetSleuth (Thanks Rae on my forum)
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/index.asp

Great British Kitchen
http://www.greatbritishkitchen.co.uk/

Schmidling - Cheese making (Thanks MattandCarol on my forum)
http://schmidling.netfirms.com/making.htm

Southern Foods (Thanks Tammy on my forum)
http://www.southernfood.about.com/library/crock/blcpidx.htm

Curry Recipes

Chariotsatp (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
www.chariotsatp.co.uk/curry/ande_masala.htm

Cooks Recipes (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
www.cooksrecipes.com/lamb/shahi_korma_recipe.html

Cuzza (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
www.cuzza.com

Curry Frenzy (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.curryfrenzy.com/

Curry House - Everything you want to know about how to cook good curries (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.curryhouse.co.uk/
Korma
www.curryhouse.co.uk/rsc/korma.htm

Food in a  Minute (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
www.foodinaminute.co.nz/html/recipe/home.asp?recID=471

Net Cooks (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
www.netcooks.com/recipes/Breakfast/Egg.Korma.html

IVU (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
www.ivu.org/recipes/reg/indian6.html

Preserving

 
University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension in Lancaster County - Home Food Preservation: Canning, Freezing & Vacuum Packaging (Thanks Moggy on my forum)
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/foodpres.htm

National Center for Home Food Preservation (Thanks Owen on my forum)
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/dry.html
and
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html

SeasonalChef - How to dry Fruit (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
http://www.seasonalchef.com/preserves21.htm

Solar Food Dehydrator (Thanks Moggy on my forum)
http://www.i4at.org/surv/soldehyd.htm

Crete

Explore Crete – A list of personal website
http://www.explorecrete.com/mycrete/mycrete.html

Dictionaries

Allword
http://www.allwords.com/

Cambridge dictionary
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Dictionary
http://www.dictionary.com/

FreeDict – English/Russian (and others)
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html

GuruNet
http://www.gurunet.com/home.jsp

Merriam-Webster
http://www.m-w.com/

MSN Encarta
http://dictionary.msn.com/

TheFreeDictionary Dictionary
http://thefreedictionary.com

TheFreeDictionary Encyclopaedia
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/

Wordsmyth
http://www.wordsmyth.net/

1000dictionaries.com – Links to various language dictionaries
http://www.1000dictionaries.com

Acronyms & Abbreviations

AcronymFinder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

 Thesaurus

Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/

Directories

EcoBusinessLinks – Masses of links to eco friendly products (from terry nappies to earth shelters)
This is well worth a look.
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com

1000dictionaries.com – Loads on this site, including “Today's most popular....”
http://www.1000dictionaries.com

1do3 – Quality hand picked links
http://www.1do3.com

DIY

Building, etc etc

Screwfix Forum
http://www.screwfix.com/talk

Ecological

Big Green Gathering
http://www.big-green-gathering.com/

Centre of Alternative Technology - Wales (Thanks Bevsere on my forum)
http://www.cat.org.uk/

Earthship - Info on building Earthship style houses
http://www.earthship.org/

EcoBusinessLinks – Masses of links to eco friendly products (from terry nappies to earth shelters)
This is well worth a look.
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com

Goodbye City Life - A wide variety of info on living in the country (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.goodbyecitylife.com/sitemap.htm

Life After the Oil Crash (Thanks Raeven on my forum)
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Index.html

National Geographic - Bee Decline (Thanks Raeven on my forum)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1005_041005_honeybees.html

Nottingham - A good list of links (including one for Penny Poyzer)
http://www.nott.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios/bibs/Greenis/A/0x80f3d2fe_0x0005b5c5.html

Otamatea Eco Village NZ (Thanks Steph on my forum)
http://www.otamatea.org.nz/

Permaculture NZ - A forum for people in NZ swapping ideas about sustainable solutions  (Thanks Steph on my forum)
http://www.permaculture.org.nz

Permaculture UK - Solutions for sustainable living - Magazine advert (Thanks Steph on my forum)
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/

Surviving Peak Oil (Thanks Raeven on my forum)
Lots of interesting articles
http://www.survivingpeakoil.com/articles.php

Yes Reed Beds - A very comprehensive description of all things 'reed bed' for sewage treatment (Thanks LJ on my forum)
http://www.yes-reedbeds.co.uk/
 

Florida

National Weather Service, Leesburg, Florida
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/FLZ044.php?warncounty=FLC069&city=Leesburg

Yahoo! Maps, Leesburg, Florida
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=69TGROp_0TpQ8rroZzjKtk35R9El7trJqZ46XXvfIva
MQw--&csz=Leesburg+FL&country=us&cat

Food

Greek style yogurt

Fage (apparently really good)
http://www.fageusa.com/home.html
And in the UK: http://www.totalgreekyoghurt.com/

How to make Greek Yogurt
BellaOnline - Just seems to be ordinary yogurt making !
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art17766.asp
OChef
http://www.ochef.com/r171.htm

One method seems to be to simply strain the yogurt when made to drain off the thin liquid.

Forums

MotheringDotCommune - The Natural Family Living Community
Cleaning tips, recycling etc (Thanks Steph on my forum)
http://www.mothering.com/discussions/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=311

NeoWin – Mainly computer related
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=idx

TV Forums

BBC A to Z List of message boards
http://www.bbc.co.uk/messageboards/atoz.shtml

Gardening

Centre for Alternative Technology - A HUGE list of tipsheets and books (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
Click here for list

HDRA - The Organic Organisation (Thanks Apples on my forum)
http://www.hdra.org.uk/

GardenOrganic (Thanks Apples on my forum)
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk
Weed control
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/search/sphider/search.php?query=weed+control&Go=Go&search=1

Square Foot Gardener - how to live on 1.5x1.5m (Thanks LJ on my forum)
http://www.squarefootgardening.com/

Wigglywiglers - Worms (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/

Hairdressing

Amazon - Haircutting books
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/202-0629192-3916640
Books:

Haircutting for Dummies
http://www.keratin.com review

UkHairDressers - Styles
http://www.ukhairdressers.com/diy/index.asp

Health

Bird flu

Medsafe - Data sheets for health professionals
Tamiflu: http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/Datasheet/t/Tamiflucapsusp.htm
Search here: http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/DatasheetPage.htm

Ministry of Health in NZ (Thanks Lil on my forum)
http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/238fd5fb4fd051844c256669006aed57/8465cc2d76dde16ecc2570de001d83a1?OpenDocument
Tamiflu: http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/238fd5fb4fd051844c256669006aed57/ec631106fca27ba7cc25707a0014ccf0?OpenDocument

The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases etc (Thanks Singlefin on my forum)
http://www.promedmail.org/pls/promed/f?p=2400:1000

Healthy Eating/Losing Weight/Exercise

LowCarbFriends - A very active forum
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/

MamasHealth (Thanks mikenangie on my forum)
http://www.mamashealth.com/diets/wmyth.asp

RadiantRecovery - Are You Sugar Sensitive??? (Thanks Owen on my forum)
http://www.radiantrecovery.com/sensitive.html

Household

Sensor Systems - For remote sensing the amount of fuel or water in your tank (Thanks Apples)
http://www.sensor-systems.com

Import Export

Global Sources
http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/Gel-ink/a/9000000060152.htm

Greetings cards, herbal cosmetics, imitation jewellery, paper, pens
http://www.ritu-industries.com/index.htm
http://www.indiamart.com/rituindustries

ToTrade - Common Trade Terms and Abbreviations
eg FOB - The seller fulfills his obligation to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship's rail and cleared for exports, at the named port of shipment. Buyer bears all costs and risks of goods from that moment.
http://www.tdctrade.com/sme/iepract/sme_termabbr.htm

Information

HowStuffWorks
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Jobs

Codelance - Online forum for those who want code written to get in touch with freelance developers
http://www.codelance.com/

Freelance Xperts
http://www.freelancexperts.com/

Knitting

Not for me ! For my wife, and anyone else interested in knitting :)

WoolyRockers - Knitting for dolls (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.woollyrockers.co.uk/
A Pattern
http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring05/PATTblythe.html
 

Language Translation

For Maori, see the New Zealand Links Page

Babel Fish – Convert text in one language into text in another (even a whole web page)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Dictionary - Convert text in one language into text in another.
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html

Schnellsuche – A German site with a list of translation sites. None work ?!
http://www.schnellsuche.de/geld_sparen/uebersetzungen_GO.htm

Magazines

Reader Digest
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk

Maps

Escape Artist - Get the distance between, and map ref of, two points anywhere on Earth (Thanks Apples on my forum)
http://www.escapeartist.com/travel/howfar.htm

GEsource World Guide - Satellite images (Oregon)
http://www.gesource.ac.uk/worldguide/html/image_1451.html

Global stuff - wow !
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/glob1.htm

University of Texas Library
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html

University of Texas Library - By Country
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/country_sites.html

Medical

See also Child Safety

Baby Names

http://www.names2be.com/
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/children/names.asp

Best Treatments - Clinical Evidence for Patients from the BMJ
http://www.besttreatments.co.uk/btuk/home.html

eHow – Various health categories including 'Family Health'
http://www.ehow.com/list_1037.html

Family Doctor
http://familydoctor.org

Fibromyalgia Network - The Basics
http://www.fmnetnews.com/pages/basics.html

HomeBirth - All about home birth
http://www.homebirth.org.uk

MDAdvice.com
http://www.mdadvice.com/

Merck - Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp

Merck - Gas
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section3/chapter32/32b.jsp

Merck - IBS
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section3/chapter32/32a.jsp

MidwivesOnline - Information for Midwives & Parents
http://www.midwivesonline.com/

NetDoctor
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk

NHS Direct Online (Tel 0845 4647)
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/

National Library of Medicine (NLM) & the National Institute of Health (NIH)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov

Tip King – Traditional remedies for everyday ailments
http://www.tipking.com/Problem_solver/Traditional_remedies_for_everyday_ailments.htm

United States National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov

Winchester City Council Guide to Benefits
http://www.winchester.gov.uk/benefits/index.shtml

Breastfeeding Mothers

Alcohol & Breastfeeding
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/preg/a/aa000801a.htm

NHS Direct - Medicines during breastfeeding
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/innerpage.asp?Area=60

NHS Direct - Cough Medicines during breastfeeding
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/innerpage.asp?Area=60&Topic=449&Title=
Can%20breastfeeding%20mothers%20take%20over-the-counter%20
cough%20and%20cold%20remedies

Cradle Cap

Otherwise known as "infantile seborrhoeic dermatitis".

Generally, treatment is Olive Oil, left for a number of hours, and then rubbed with a toothbrush.
Seborrhoeic Dermatitis in Babies Including Cradle Cap http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/27000690/
Seborrhoeic Dermatitis in Adults http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068977/
Infant Seborrhoeic Dermatitis http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40024586/

Hand and Foot and Mouth Disease

Blisters on hands, feet & mouth, particularly in children.

DrGreene – Good description of what it is
http://www.drgreene.com/21_1103.html

NLM/NIH
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000965.htm

Odd things

James Carman Parsons Page on Milk & health tips
http://www.jamesthecarman.com/milk.htm

MoonCup - an alternative to 'tampons' (Thanks Steph on my forum)
http://www.mooncup.co.uk/

Paranoia

CharmingHealth - A serious personality disorder
http://www.charminghealth.com/applicability/paranoia.htm

SimilarMinds - A quick summary
http://similarminds.com/types/paranoia.html

Probiotic Foods

I thought I'd look and see whether the Yakult claims are justified - which seems to have led me on a trail of all sorts of probiotic strains. It appears that research shows that these do indeed work.

Healthy Food
http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/content/view/143/59/

Yakult
http://www.yakult.co.uk/
News-Medical - Effect of prebiotic and probiotic foods on health - Says "With probiotics we find two types of bacteria, Lactobacillus casei and Bifidobacterium bifidum which are present in yoghourts and milk products that are partially fermented"
Guide to the gut - free pdf file - This is good
From Somerfield 7 pots cost £3.45 (25th Feb 2005)
http://www.yakult.co.uk/guide_to_gut.aspx (click on Digestive Health, then The Digestive System)

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=4249
PhotoTour - Candida & Probiotics - Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota - Including research done to show it survives into the gut.
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/candida/shirota.html
Including a table of probiotic strainas
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/candida/summary.html
Lactobacillus plantarum 299v (Lp299v) - Marketed by 'Probi AB' as 'Pro Viva'. See http://www.probi.com/
http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/candida/lp299v.html
Pulsus (The Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology) - Results of a test on 'Lactobacillus casei Shirota' for relieving constipation - it seems to work
http://www.pulsus.com/Gastro/17_11/koeb_ed.htm

ProbioHealth - The product contains the 'KE-99 lactobacillus casei' bacteria.
This is a very informative website. They make quite a few claims, including: "Very helpful in treating symptoms of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), inflammatory bowel, colitis, Crohn's Disease, yeast infections, bloating, and lactose intolerance!"
Relief from IBS: http://www.probiohealth.com/ibs_treatment.html
A 30 day supply of tablets is $19.95 including postage (=£10.46) (25th Feb 2005), which works out at £2.44/week
http://www.probiohealth.com/

Growing them
PubMedCentral - Production and Regeneration of Lactobacillus casei Protoplasts - Very technical paper !
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=241664
Influence of cultural conditions on the production of bacteriocin by Lactobacillus brevis OG1
http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/PDF/Pdf2003/JulyPDFs2003/Ogunbanwo%20et%20al.pdf

SeedsOfHealth - What is Kefir ? (Thanks Alpinekea on my forum)
http://www.seedsofhealth.co.uk/fermenting/kefir.shtml

Toilet Related things in Children

KeepKidsHealthy - Frequent urination
http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/symptoms/frequent_urination.html

MayoClinic - Constipation
http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HQ00416

See also "Infrequent Voiders" & "Voiding Dysfunction in Children"

MedHelp - Forum (looks very good) - Infrequent Urination of 4 year old girl
http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/urology/archive/880.html

ChildAdvocate - Overflow urinary incontinence
http://www.childadvocate.org/1b_medicalrisks.htm

Akron Children's Hospital - This has some very good pdf file articles
Voiding Dysfunction in Children - This is a very good description of voiding infrequency
http://www.akronchildrens.org/tips/pdfs/SI738.pdf
Constipation
http://www.akronchildrens.org/tips/pdfs/SI719.pdf
Toilet Training
http://www.akronchildrens.org/tips/pdfs/tp303.pdf

Money

BankSafeOnline - A site dedicated to safe banking online, with the latest scams, a list of software, and advice on safe surfing.
http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/

Financity - Pension Calculator
http://www.financity.co.uk/financity

Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Main page
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/

Fullermoney - About global money matters like exchange rates, stock markets, commodities (Thanks Apples on my forum)
http://www.fullermoney.com/x/default.html?cotd=y&id=5748

Pension Calculator
http://www.pensioncalculator.org.uk/pages/home.php

Investment Comparative Tables
Enter what you want from your investment and get a list of the best.
I think this has few bugs – but it is new !
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/tables

Money Facts
http://www.moneyfacts.co.uk/

Motley Fool
http://www.fool.com/

Motley Fool – UK
http://www.fool.co.uk/

MSN Money
http://money.msn.co.uk/Default.asp?MSID=ec0b0b3465f9477db0ad8f11baa8bd06

MSN Money - Pension Calculator
http://money.msn.co.uk/Bank_Plan/pensions/tools/pencalc/default.asp?
MSID=f8ced1e79d0448188c9d9ccd6dc27f62

This Is Money – Consumer Issues
http://www.thisismoney.com/

Money Transfer Methods

The options:

• Wire Transfer: Fast, costs, to a specific account
• EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer): Fairly fast, Free, Limited country availability
• To a specific account / From a specific account
• Draft: By post, Free, To a specific account
• CHAPS: Same day, in £ in UK, Costs
  See http://www.apacs.org.uk/payment_options/chaps.html
• BACS: Takes a few days, Sometimes Free, Costs with some banks
  See http://www.apacs.org.uk/payment_options/automated_payments.html & http://www.bacs.co.uk
  • Direct Credit:
    http://www.apacs.org.uk/payment_options/automated_payments_2.html
  • Direct Debits: Instruction to bank to allow someone else to withdraw money from your account
    http://www.apacs.org.uk/payment_options/automated_payments_4.html
  • Internet & Phone: Online & Phone instructions to do BACS transfers
    http://www.apacs.org.uk/payment_options/automated_payments_3.html
  • Standing Order: Instruction to your bank to make regular payments to a specified destination using the BACS system.
    http://www.apacs.org.uk/payment_options/automated_payments_1.html

The main sites are:
BACS: http://www.bacs.co.uk
APACS: http://www.apacs.org.uk
BanksSafeOnline: http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/

Foreign Exchange

Main markets:
http://www.ac-markets.com/en/forex-market/main-currency-markets.asp

The main currencies of the world are:
AUD - Australian Dollar
CAD - Canadian Dollar
CHF - Swiss Franc
EUR - Euro
GBP - British Pound
JPY - Japanese Yen
USD - US Dollar

NZD - New Zealand Dollar

Source of data:

The University of Chicago - A list of sources
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/busecon/guides/Currencies.html

2002 to 2005 for US$ versus a list
http://www.stat-usa.gov/online.nsf/vwNoteIDLookup/NT006EC716/$File/G5A.TXT?OpenElement

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/1998/1098lead.pdf

OZForex - This goes back to 1990, for many currencies. It creates a table for one currency pair. <<< This is the best so far.
http://www.chartflow.com/ozforex/historybasic.asp

XeTrade - note the restriction on use.
http://www.xe.com/ict/
 

Music

Live Sites

Sites you can play music on, and listen to it :)

iD1G1T.com - Search for a song/album, and listen to it (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
http://id1g1t.com/s1/

For example:
Abba:
Gold: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=376
Arrival: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=368

Waterloo: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=370
Abba: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=371
Super Trooper: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=372
The Album: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=373
The Visitors: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=375
Summer of Sam: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=8079
The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert: http://id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=9543

Xmas album: http://www.id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=28560
Various Artists - The Box Hits '98 - Volume 2: http://www.id1g1t.com/s1/album.cgi?album=19316

Popcorn by Hot Butter:
Transglobal Underground - Various Artists - Desert Roses and Arabian Rhythms - Natacha Atlas - Mon Amie La Rose

Download.com (Thanks Owen on my forum)
http://music.download.com/

Last.FM (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
http://www.last.fm/

Live365 (Thanks Moggy on my forum)
http://www.live365.com/

Live Site - A long list

See this forum thread

http://xsao.net/ - Reasonable quality, RealPlayer, works on dialup - Only seems to work on Internet Explorer

http://cdzinc.com/cdzinc.html

http://www.musixzone.com/index.php - Good quality, but no good for dialup

www.music4you.99re.com - this uses RealPlayer, isn't good quality, but works well on dialup

www.cdzlimited.net

www.singingfish.com

www.archive.org - This has a range of audio things, from politics to 'Yonder Mountain String Band'

www.hbo.com

www.killsometime.com

www.danceage.com - Good list of stuff, with a range of qualities. The fairly poor quality sound still drops out a bit on dial up.

www.winmx.com - gone

http://www.funiran.com/music/index.php - I think this is Iranian music ! I helps if you can read Iranian

www.blackplanet.com - Huh ! No music I can find,

http://www.pandora.com/

Music Download Sites

Apple iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/

James Bond Theme Tune Downloads
http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/title-themes.php

Karma Download (You can listen to short clips free)
http://www.karmadownload.com/

Napster
http://www.napster.co.uk/

On Demand 2 (OD2)
http://www.ondemanddistribution.com/

Tesco - 30 sec samples
http://www.tescodownloads.com/

Wippit
http://www.wippit.com/

Woolworths
http://www.woolworths.co.uk/download/

Music Sites

Aphextwin - XLTronic
http://www.aphextwin.nu/

Artemore for MIDI music, lots of classical (mostly in Italian !)
http://www.artemotore.com/englishversion.htm

Bit Torrent (uses other peoples computers to get music data)
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/

Captain Dave
http://www.captain-dave.com/index.htm
http://www.captain-dave.com/Captain_Dave's_Rock_and_Pop_Memory_Lane/
http://www.captain-dave.com/Captain_Dave's_Rock_and_Pop_Memory_Lane/U
%20Thru%20Z%20ROCK%20POP%20index.html

Excite MP3 Search
http://www.excite.co.uk/search/mp3/

Freshly Mixed
http://www.freshlymixed.com/

FullBlownKirk
http://www.fullblownkirk.com/fbk/samples.htm

FunWavs
http://funwavs.com/movie/sounds/

Idil Biret - Loads of classic music downloads, including Rachmaninov
http://www.idilbiret.net/Archive/musicarchive01.htm

Incompetech - Free MP3 downloads
http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Jokes - Funny sound files
http://www.jokes.thefunnybone.com/waves/

Larry's Songs of Praise and Worship (without words you can't tell it's religious !)
http://larryholdermusic.org/

Mantaradio
http://mantaradio.com/

ManyThings - Loads of Midi links (well worth checking out)
http://www.manythings.org/midi/

Midi Database
http://mididb.com/

MikesRadioWorld - Listen to over 3000 radio stations on worldwide
http://www.mikesradioworld.com/index.html
Christmas Music (Thanks Alpinekea on my froum)
http://www.mikesradioworld.com/xmas.html

MPeg Radio
http://www.mpegradio.com/

Napster Midi - Leads to some good music midi downloads (including Pink Floyd)
http://pages.prodigy.net/ehammer/nabsterindx.html

Pro Music – Worldwide Directory of Authorised Digital Music Services – A long list of legal download sites
http://www.pro-music.org/musiconline.htm

Sound America
http://www.soundamerica.com/

Sound Effect - Some free stuff
http://www.sound-effects-library.com/free/free.html

Ultimate Midi
http://www.ultimatemidi.com/

Watmm - Music forum
http://forum.watmm.com/
List of links - with comments
http://forum.watmm.com/index.php?showtopic=1734

Zanda Howe
http://www.xandahowe.com/

Children's Songs

Northern Pine - Sing a Song – A list of children's songs
http://www.northern-pine.com/songs/

Teddy Bears Picnic
http://www.northern-pine.com/songs/tbpicnic.html

Research Sites

For finding 'that tune you can't quite remember'.

Every Hit
http://www.everyhit.com

One Hit Wonder Central
http://www.onehitwondercentral.com

Whats That Tune - Find tunes heard on adverts (Thanks Coxy on my forum)
http://www.whatsthattune.co.uk/index.asp

Organs, Synthesizers & Pianos

Electrone site/forum
http://www.electone.com

Yamaha EL-90 User manual (only the first 37 pages and scanned images - so quite big)
http://www.usersmanualguide.com/yamaha_audio/electronic_organs/el-90

Yamaha - El-70 Users Manual (click on 'Manual Library Home (top right) and search for el70) (6 pdf files)
These files are the same as the one above, but all 6x are available here.
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/manual/english/result.php

People

Angie Diggens - The Multimedia page has samples you can listen to.
http://www.angiediggens.co.uk/home.htm

News

Reuters
http://www.reuters.co.uk/

IT News

The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/

Wired - A good mix of technology news and culture/politics and straight news
http://www.wired.com

Other Peoples Sites

Eileen, Andy, Nathan and Megan Sutton
http://www.eilands.com/index.html

Miles Mendoza's Website of the Day (from BBC radio 2)
http://www.websiteoftheday.info/

Pet Recipes

PatryWiz
http://www.pastrywiz.com/archive/category/pets.htm

SimplyPets
http://www.simplypets.com/pet-recipes/

CooksRecipes
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/category/pet-recipes.html

PetPeoplePlace - Medicinal Recipes:
http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/pet_recipes/

CdKitchen
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/cat/6/0.shtml

Matt Lakes' recipes:
http://www.mattlake.com/recipe.htm

Pictures

Photographs of things

This site has lots
http://www.acclaimstockphotography.com/search_terms/rose.html

Satellite Photographs

Cities Collection - Outstanding Astronaut Photography of Cities Taken During Spaceflight
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/cities/default.htm

Pictures of Peniche Portugal

http://www.pbase.com/diasdosreis/peniche

http://www-phil.tamu.edu/~gary/portugal/peniche.html

Satellite images of Earth

Fantastic images of Earth
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?img=nasa.evif&opt=-l&lat=
39.283350333719&ns=North&lon=9.48403476977132&ew=
West&alt=9000&tle=&date=0&utc=&jd=&imgsize=600

Space

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020710.html

Nebula, Space travel etc
http://www.webshots.com/search?query=Space&start=36

Publishers

Freelance Writes
http://freelancewrite.about.com/cs/gettingstarted/

Perseus Books Group
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/science/index.html

Writers Resource - Publishers' Submission Guidelines
http://www.authorlink.com/aguide.html

Writers Services
http://www.writersservices.co.uk/index.htm

Write Words - UK Writers Community
http://www.writewords.org.uk/directory/detail_page.asp?
subtypeid3=1434&directory_id=5004

Radio

Baghdad Radio
http://www.baghdadradio.com/

Live365
You need cookies enabled
The Live365 player seems to be a pop-up window ?!
http://www.live365.com/index.live

Live365 Review
http://www.ciao.co.uk/www_live365_com__Review_5112168

Live-Radio.net - Huge list worldwide
http://www.live-radio.net/info.shtml

KZION – religious type songs related to the Latter-day Saints (LDS)
Sounds pretty good on dial-up
http://www.kzion.com

Ocean FM (Portsmouth area) - Not very good sound, but stereo
http://www.oceanfm.com/

WN Broadcast
http://www.broadcasts.com/

Recipes

Seafish - Sprats
http://www.seafish.org/plate/details.asp?catid=2&recipeid=335

Satellite Television

Schedules

Information

Tele-Satellite International Magazine
http://www.tele-satellite.com/

SatSecure - Satellite & Digital TV
http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/index.html

SatSig - Home Page by Eric Johnston
http://www.satsig.net/
Satellite finder - dish azimuth and elevation pointing calculator
http://www.satsig.net/ssazelm.htm

Search Engines

Big Search Engine Index
http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/

Google
http://www.google.com

HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com

Lycos
http://search.lycos.com

My Search (uses Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves & LookSmart)
http://www.mysearch.com/jsp/home.jsp

Seeds

Chiltern Seeds - A massive list of seeds at good prices. Some very unusual seeds.
Also very well written descriptions.
http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/static/Chiltern-Seeds.htm

Shops

CD Wow - They ship internationally and are really good on price
http://www5.cd-wow.com/

Sowing a New Lawn

Patten Seed Company Guides to Seeding a New Lawn

Sowing & watering
http://www.super-sod.com/info-csnew.html
http://www.super-sod.com/info-zznew.html

Watering
http://www.super-sod.com/info-water.html

Pre-Germination (also known as seed conditioning or priming)

Pre-Germinating Grass Seed (IOWA State University Horticultural Notes)
http://www.iowaextension.com/peterson/CHS13.pdf

Pre-Germinating Grass Seed
http://turfgrass.hort.iastate.edu/extension/preseed.pdf

Pre-Germinating - Buffalograss
http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/horticulture/ec1245.htm

Hand Direct Sowing Data Sheet
http://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/NR/rdonlyres/3F661298-BD29-
46D4-8246-CE233F2F2AF9/445/Nicheseeding.pdf

The Garden Helper
http://www.thegardenhelper.com/lawncare.html

You Can Have a Beautiful Lawn
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/plantsci/landscap/h244w.htm

Tips

Dri-Pak - manufacturer of basic cleaning products - Explains how you can do everything with basic products
http://www.dri-pak.co.uk/index.html
CleaningTasks
http://www.dri-pak.co.uk/cleaningtasks.html

eHow
http://www.ehow.com

HintsandThings
http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk
Cleaning tips
http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/spareroom/survival.htm

How To Clean Anything – Not so keen on this.
http://www.howtocleananything.com

TipKing – Loads of categorised tips from 'Beauty' to 'Use It'. This is very good.
http://www.tipking.com

TV

iFilm - Various categories of films etc. Very fast even on dial-up.
http://www.ifilm.com

Downloadable stuff (Thanks Mutznuts1 on my forum)
http://www.suprnova.org/

UK Nova (Thanks leroy on uk2nz)
http://www.uknova.com/

TV 4 All - Watch TV stations on your computer from all over the world
http://tv4all.com/portal.htm

Schedules

Broccoli Media - List of TV guides for the world
http://www.broccolimedia.com/bmp/links.html

Technical things

NetCentral
http://www.netcentral.co.uk/satcure/cable.htm

Wrights Aerials
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv
Useful ref: http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/reference.html

Washing Machines

HowToMendIt
http://www.howtomendit.com/

HowToMendIt – Washing
http://www.howtomendit.com/questions.php?ID=40

UK White Goods - This has an extensive forum (check which areas you can read without permission) & reviews and other info on the website  (Thanks Bobadoodle on my forum)
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk

WasherHelp
http://www.washerhelp.co.uk/

WasherHelp - Forum
http://www.washerhelp.com/

WasherHelp – Drum bearings
http://washerhelp.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18&view=previous


Our washing machine:

(Creda 1000 Supaspeed Ecowash Model 17086)
http://www.hotpointservice.co.uk/index.html

Keywords:
creda hotpoint washing machine drum bearings pictures

Writing

Ideas4writers (Thanks Nonie on my forum)
http://www.ideas4writers.co.uk/
 

Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer

DX& Software
http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/~bensondj/html/dx7software.html

FM-Alive
http://www.fm-alive.com/
DX Manager (ver 1.1 5.1MB, ver 2 needs .NET framework to be installed)
http://www.fm-alive.com/DX%20Manager.aspx

Sound Of Music - With several voice downloads and free software
http://www.soundofmusic.se/synth/dx7/dx7.htm

The DX7 - Free Software
http://www.thedx7.co.uk/2nd%20page.html