www.tate.org.uk
Who would have thought a collection of modern painting and sculpture, housed in a disused power station would so capture the imagination of the British public? But the Tate Modern has become the attraction to queue round the block for this summer. Part of the art of museum visiting is planning your trip to ensure you see everything you want, and this elegantly minimal site will let you do the necessary homework.
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www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/ ciao/interview
A great starting point from the University of Cambridge for those worried about following Laura Spence out of an Oxbridge interview and onto the front pages of the papers. Hints and tips on passing the interview and avoiding the shame of having to make do with Harvard. link »»
www.pokemon.com
Find out why Sandshrew and Poliwag are being officially retired. Marvel at the fact that Pokemon Stadium has shifted one million copies in just three weeks on the Nintendo 64. Admit you are 35 and don’t know what the hell it all means. Find out more about the millennium’s biggest craze on this official site. link »»
www.royalty.about.com
So do you think the BBC’s decision to pass on covering the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday bash is trendiness gone mad or an admission that we are in the 21st century not the 17th? Read the latest on the great summer debate, check out the gossip on our rulers, and have your say in the lively chat rooms. link »»
www.herbaldave.com
Summer days, hazy blue skies, the heady scent of flowers in bloom and … aaacchhooo!!! … hayfever. No laughing matter if you’re one of the millions of sufferers for whom there is, seemingly, no effective relief. Herbal Dave’s site looks at every alternative remedy under the sun, from nettle leaf to ionised air.
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www.willhill.com
This great British institution is now based in Antigua to avoid the not-so-great British betting tax of six per cent. If you have any cash spare after Euro 2000 you can take a punt on Wimbledon, the Olympics, Formula One … or trap racing and Aussie Rules for that matter. Minimum bets, 1p, no tax and no smoky betting shops.
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www.epo.com
If only you’d been able to take a stake in the initial public offering of search engine Yahoo back in 1994. Think how much you’d be worth now. That’s the premise of www.epo.com, which will email you details of every new technology IPO as the news breaks worldwide. But remember, for every Yahoo there’s a boo too.
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SITE SELECTION
Lost for words?
Many an argument on semantics, phonetics, linguistics, not to mention spelling, has been resolved by checking that ultimate authority ‘The Dictionary’. But which dictionary? As glossaries mushroom on the net, there now seems to be a lexicon for every conceivable specialist interest. Here are a few of our favourites.
www.1000dictionaries.com
They actually sell themselves rather short with the
name. This site is in fact a portal to more than 2,500 dictionary sites, covering everything from arts to business, computers to food, law to music. Coverage spans the tiniest specialist sports glossary right up to the mighty Websters. The only thing they have in common is they’re all free.
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www.wordcentral.com
About as far from those dust-laden tomes as it’s possible to get. Word Central is a colourful cartoon explosion from Merriam-Webster – the aim being to make words, their meanings and their uses, fun. The site’s pages have a high-school theme, moving from lesson to lesson, playing word games and learning at the same time.
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www.skepdic.com
From abracadabra to zombies, the Skeptic’s Dictionary gives fascinating and detailed explanations of everything slightly arcane or left-of-centre … and then proceeds to explain why they are all complete bunkum. This is written by skeptics mind, not lazy cynics, and there are some convincing and hilarious arguments on here.
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www.peevish.co.uk/slang
Would you ‘adam and eve it’, an ‘ace’ site that we ‘accidentally on purpose’ found while, we ‘anoraks’ were surfing the net one ‘arvo’. Alright we admit it, we only got as far as playing around with the A’s in this online dictionary, but we’re ‘absobloodylutely’ sure the B to Z of this most amusing site of current and archaic British slang is ‘tip top’ too.
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