This site has evolved from a puzzle-solving and projects resource page to a Catholic forums and concordances launchpad with a focus on Christian unity, but puzzlers don't fear, the aforementioned resources have simply been moved further down the page. If you want to make any comments or suggestions, mail me!

Forums

Catholic Cyberforum This and the Totalcatholic site are my favourite fora, good either if you're Catholic or wondering about the Catholic faith (no strings - honest!)

Catholic Cyber Net Web page attached to Catholic Cyberforum, I really reccomend you explore this

RC Alive

Totalcatholic Forum from the publishers of the Universe, Catholic Times and Catholic Life.

Anglican Mainstream Discussion Forum John 17:11

forums.xt3 A Catholic/Christian forum geared towards the younger end (that's me done for, then!)

Christianity - Catholicism Forum A bit of a mouthful; run by about.com, an interesting interface between Catholics and non-Catholics.

Life Messageboard Messageboard of a pro-life charity that is in great need of some pro-life common sense. (Currently closed down due to anti-life vitriol)

Catholic Community Forum For an in-depth look at the Catholic faith.

Cambridge Evening News Current affairs section of the messageboard, where issues concerning the beginning and end of life sometimes do crop up.

Daily Express As above, except a comments facility instead of a messageboard. Ditto the Sunday Express.

Concordances

Vatican website Bible Concordance New American Bible translation: click on the letter that the word you want to find starts with, then use the "find" facility of your browser (usually in the "edit" menu) to locate the word in the resulting list.

Catechism of the Catholic Church An excellent resource forming both an introduction and study guide to this wide-ranging and deep book, a basic "rule-book" for Catholics and invaluable guide for Christians of other denominations. For the concordance function, press "alphabetical" at the top of the screen then proceed on the same lines as the Vatican Bible concordance above.

Crosswalk A fully functioning concordance which searches through all books of the Bible. Contains several translations, including the Douay-Rheims, for those looking for quotes from a Catholic translation. Also contains the Revised Standard Version.

BibleGateway A concordance within each book of the Bible: quick loading, quick search. Unfortunately no Catholic versions, but has a passage look-up facility.

Code of Canon Law Catholic version, check it out.

The Koran I've put this Quran concordance on the site because I think we need increasingly to be able to find our way round these scriptures. I've found the Rodwell and Sale translations useful.

Selected poems Shelley; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Keats' The Odes of 1819; Blake's Songs of Innocence and experience; lyrical ballads by coleridge and poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

British and Irish Authors on the Web An exhaustive list of writers over the past 2 millenia arranged by date of birth from Matsuoka University. Not a concordance as such, but entries are often hyperlinked, sometimes to concordances.

Publications and Resources

The Universe You can have these news headlines sent to your inbox.

The Catholic Herald A good Catholic broadsheet.

Catholic Life A monthly by the publishers of the Universe: check out the links.

The Scottish Catholic Observer Sister paper to the Catholic Herald.

Church Times Anglican weekly.

The Tablet Left-leaning, but beware: occasionally goes too far - I no longer read this regularly.

The Pastoral Review Has a searchable facility back to 1996. Check it out.

Evangelical Catholic Apologetics A huge and wide-ranging site; I suggest you explore it.

Puzzle Solver

Allwords Crossword Solver - my favourite, all you need to do is to input the length of a word and at least one letter. Gives links to definitions, but be prepared to wade through all the answers. Also gives links to some pretty good dictionaries.

OneLook - strictly a meta-dictionary linking to a group of dictionaries, this supports the use of wildcards, and I include it here because I've found it invaluable when more puzzle-specific programs have failed.

The Anagram Engine - put in some letters at random and you'll see how powerful this engine is. Also a scrabble solver. (There is a crossword Solver but I prefer Allwords.)

About Puzzles A fascinating and expansive site devoted to puzzles and people who love them, where you'll find lots of puzzle-related pages and software. Heavy on ads, though. Below you'll find the puzzle-related postings in the forum:

Dictionaries

thefreedictionary.com Loads of dictionaries and a couple of encyclopaedias, including Wikipedia.

Infoplease Not only dictionaries, but bios and encyclopaedias too. Like most of these sites, American English only.

The Glossarist Comprehensive listings for glossaries plus a search-engine if the term you're looking for is that bit more arcane. And, just to keep you going, Flamenco glossaries here and here.

Brewer's Phrase and Fable This standard is powered by the bibliomania e-bookshop.

Latin resources

Encyclopedias

Wikipedia The world-famous encyclopaedia, rated by Nature as just behind Encyclopaedia Britannica for accuracy. Sister project Nupedia is stil a work in progress.

The Catholic Encyclopedia Some excellent articles on world history and things religious. Those interested and with access to a reference library may like to compare topics in this (1913) version with the New Catholic Encyclopedia of 1967.

The Jewish Encyclopaedia Written between 1901-1906, as far as I am aware this is the only Jewish Encyclopaedia available online free. The homepage states they are in the process of updating it.

Massive Online Encyclopedia of Islam What more can I say? I tried to find "veil" on here and was frustrated, but "modesty" was very enlightening. I would appreciate feedback.

The CIA Factbook - The famous resource on international issues, you have to see it to appreciate its depth.

Guinness Book of Records

The Encyclopaedia of Marxism - In my opinion the best resource if you like your wine red.

Online Resources - Religious

St Philip Howard's, Cambridge

Our Lady and the English Martyrs

Knights of St Columba British Catholic Knights - for US/Phillipines, look at Knights of Columbus.

Roman Catholic Diocese of East Anglia

Diocese of Ely

The Catholic Church in England & Wales

Church of England General Synod Contains a statement from the co-chairs of IARCCUM

The Vatican (Holy See) website. Apparently designed by the same sadist who gave Rome its traffic system. I get round this site using its quick list, or else use Google Advanced Search.

The Anglican Communion Official Website Can they lend their webmaster to the Vatican?

Association of Interchurch Families

Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church.

Roman Catholic-Methodist dialogue A snapshot.

Perpetual liturgical calendar Okay, it only goes up to 4099, but it works for me.

The Human Rights Act 1998 Check out Article 9.

Theopedia

Online Resources - Other

Stagecoach Buses for all over the UK.

BBC Radio 2

Cambridge Vue Cinema

British national and regional Newspapers Also a selection from overseas.

Worldwide Newspapers Read your horoscope in every language.

Catalogue of Internet Resources Strathclyde University's academic resources base - has to be explored to be appreciated.

Britannia An American gateway for British history, heavy on ads, but a lot of good resources here.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook Paul Halsall's comprehensive compilation of history sources, I have found this extremely useful.

BioInfoBank Library A useful way to access recent peer-reviewed clinical articles, many of them pre-publication.

New ScientistGood science, but also an instructive experience of evangelical atheists who want to chase people of faith out of science and education.

Scientific American Balanced science from people whose first priority is the advancement of knowledge and its application.

The Spectator Regardless of your political outlook, you will find the highest quality writing here.

The Economist No ideological axes to grind, just reportage on financial matters and problems in the societies in which we spend our money.

HTML Colors This chart of numbers and names is immensely useful.

Train Times Very useful, but if in doubt check by phone, on 0845 748 4950. For the tiny stations, trust the phone rather than the website.

Tube journey planner Indispensible for getting round London

Frixo Real-time traffic reports, updated every 3 minutes from a variety of sources, including the government's official Highways Agency site.

BNF Online

Currency Converter

Philosophy

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy All the philosophy encyclopedias you'll ever need; interesting presentation.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Less cramped presentation is easier on the eye than the above.

Importance of Philosophy Original, quirky presention but, like New Scientist, a major use is education as to how much evangelical atheists hate people of faith.