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Sections

This page has over 160 links on it now, so it's divided into sections.

• Sensible Links
• University Societies
• People I know
• Food and Drink
• Newsgroups
• Books
• Mostly Silly
• Music

Useful Sites

Some vaguely interesting sites which might possibly provide some useful information...

• The Institute of Astronomy, where I'm doing a PhD. for which...
• ...my supervisor is Chris Tout
• The IoA is part of Cambridge University...
• ...within which my college is Gonville and Caius
• An interactive Map of Cambridge (with pub search)
• Search Cambridge University and other web sites
• New Scientist web site
• NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Astro-ph (preprints of astronomy-related papers)
• Railtrack interactive travel timetable
• ...and you can buy train tickets here
• A German Rail Timetable (in English) which is often better than Railtrack for the UK.
• Rough Guides to lots of places.
• An interactive Flight timetable
• A slightly cheaper one
• Currency Converters
• Weather Forecasts from the bbc
• The Independent newspaper
• The Guardian newspaper
• Online Varsity
• The Cambridge Student Online
• The w3c's HTML Validator
• The Cambridge Cycling Campaign

University Societies

Here are some links to societies I am a member of, or go to meetings of, or used to go to meetings of, or some combination of the above.

• The Cambridge Guild of Assassins
• Sheila and her Dog
• The Old Sheila Page
• The C.U. Gilbert and Sullivan Society
• The Physics Society
• The C.U. Tolkien Society
• The Cambridge Union Society
• The C.U. Science Fiction Society
• Magsoc (St. Margaret Music Society of Queens')
• The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python Society)
• CULES (Light Entertainment Society)
• The Blest Sirens Opera Company
• CUCAS (Comics and Animation Society)
• Rocksoc

People I know

These are some of my friends.

• Chris (Jackson)'s Home page (food, music, yum)
• Mark Snellgrove (fishies, astrophysics)
• George Savva (kites, arse, beer)
• Emarkienna (lucid dreams, computer things)
• Mark Harman (what do you mean, the same person...)
• Charlie (computer things)
• Joe's Halibut Page (halibuts)
• Alex's Camgoth Page (goths)
• Tristan (Tristan's CDs and stuff)
• Tom (lots of discworld MUD stuff)
• Eve (dogs, art, shakespeare)
• Alex Churchill's Jellybaby page
• Kit
• Nadim
• Martin
• Jeremy
• Other IoA second years
• IoA first years (not necessarily a representative picture...)
• Chiark(Lots more ucam.chat people)
• www-stu(for a few other Caians)

Food and Drink

I like food. Chris (J.) and I have been visiting restaurants in Cambridge over the last few months and he's now created a nibbleable review page of them all.

• The Ethnic Recipe Ring
• Thai recipes
• Sunita's Indian Recipe Collection
• The Internet Chef
• Enter your ingredients and this site will find you a recipe for them
• The Red Hot Chili Paper
• The Scoville scale of chilli hotness explained (with pictures)
• Herbs and Spices
• Fine Cooking Magazine
• The I love Cheese web site
• Seafood Recipes
• Vegetarian recipes
• Fruit of the Day
• Noodles - I eat them for lunch
• Flower-based unusual recipes
• Chocolate Recipes
• Lindt make particularly nice chocolate
• Coffee Universe
• The 'infamous' Online Coffee Machine
• Cider making
• A mead appreciation site
• How to make mead
• Buy Absinthe online...
• ...or make it yourself

Newsgroups

I also read newsgroups. Some of them have web pages FAQs, etc. I'm at present trying to give up newsgroups, however. Below are all the newsgroups I can remember spending more than a few months subscribed to.

• alt.fan.pratchett
• ucam.chat
• rec.music.tori-amos
• cam.misc and other cambridge-based newsgroups
• The rec.music newsgroups
• rec.music.opera
• rec.games.roguelike.nethack
• The alt.aquaria newsgroups
• oxbridge.tat
• alt.fan.neil.gaiman (aka alt.fan.thingie)
• ucam.rec.games.assassin
• rec.humor.funny
• alt.books.poppy-z-brite

Book Things

I like books. Here are a very few book-related sites. And any other sites that belong in this category more than any of the others.

• LSpace (Terry Pratchett)
• The Sandman Annotations (Neil Gaiman)
• Dylan Thomas
• Poppy "Z" Brite...
• Nerve - a online magazine ('literate smut') which Poppy contributes to regularly
• Lenore - The adventures of a cute little dead girl.
• Shakespeare
• Salman Rushdie
• The Libyrinth - experimental 20th century authors, rather wonderfully presented
• A random Tolkien Links Page
• C.S. Lewis
• The Inklings - A webring
• Iain (M.) Banks
• Douglas Adams
• William Burroughs
• Jim Crace
• Angela Carter
• Mervyn Peake
• Gormenghast as adapted for television
• Ben Okri
• Irvine Welsh
• Gene Wolfe
• Robert Holdstock
• Tanith Lee
• Edward Gorey
• Thomas Ligotti
• The eldritch, cyclopean world of H.P. Lovecraft
• Edgar Allen Poe
• A.S. Byatt
• Amazon is an online bookshop (uk site).

Other Things

Here are some other sites, most (but not all) of them quite silly.

• I used to keep goldfish, so here is a site with information about them.
• Now I'm trying Other Fish
• Try life as Brad
• Create your own Lifeforms
• This is just odd
• The infamous Hamsterdance site
• Buy a Klein bottle!
• Scanned Cats
• The Darwin Awards - Evolution in action
• Amusing Paper Clippings and stuff - however, irritatingly designed for IE only.
• More Purity Tests than you can shake a stick at
• The Clangers
• Bubble-wrap based fun
• The Clare Witch Project
• Tickle Elvis
• Try Sheila's virtual dog-kennel as an alternative to Sheila and her Dog...
• Elfwood - a large amateur fantasy art site
• The Onion - a spoof newspaper
• Teletubbies - the official bbc site.
• The IoA Big Mug competition
• The Virtual Pooh-Sticks Server
• The dreaded Harry the Cornflake joke
• A Monty Python Webring
• Goth Clothing from the Black Rose
• Do silly things to a random webpage: Pootify it
• or Jesusify it

And Finally...

Here are some music links. At some point in the future there should be a fairly full link list for my, er, rather eclectic tastes in music.

• Tori Amos
• Vaughan Williams
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• Pink Floyd
• Inkubus Sukkubus
• Hole
• Garbage
• Skunk Anansie
• Kate Bush
• Aphex Twin
• All About Eve and other Julianne Regan-related things
• Radiohead
• An Opera site...
• ...and a slightly less reverent Opera site
• Massive Attack
• Portishead
• Porcupine Tree
• Dream Theater
• The Stranglers
• Chumbawamba
• nine inch nails
• Abba
• The Church
• A site about Musicals
• Sondheim
• Enya
• Pulp
• Lots of information about Classical Music
• Free sheet music
• The Orb

Er, and some others when I can find decent pages about them.
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