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As the weather seems to be one of our favourite topics of discussion there are countless websites devoted to it.
The Electronic Telegraph
has good coverage, but you'll have to register. It's currently free to
read, and hopes to stay that way, supported by advertising.
The Press Association has
well-laid out weather information from the Met Office, and though you have
to register, there are no charges currently announced. If you have already
registered, the link is here.
But if you like your weather data raw, here is
the link to a 512x512 satellite picture of the weather over Britain. |
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Up to the minute news and information (and weather) is now available in the Belfast Telegraph |
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One of Britain's most famous and respected institutions is the BBC. From here you can get online
television and radio listings - including those for World Service TV and Radio -
and much more. |
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The Press Association is Britain's biggest press agency, and this new Web site gives access to
mostly-UK based news, weather, sports and television listings. You'll have to register, but access is free. |
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The electronic version of the Daily Telegraph doesn't contain all of the newspaper, but there's
enough to be useful, particularly if you're a long way from home with an
Internet connection. Embedded links let you follow a story back through the archives. |
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Also useful is The Guardian OnLine Archives, which lets you search all the published
editions of the Guardian's Online section by keyword. |
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If you want to find whether your favourite British publication is online,
check the UK Media Internet Directory. |
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The Social Science Information
Gateway similarly points to resources in the UK and around the world
about everything from Anthropology to Statistics. Rather technical, but if
you're a social scientist it could be invaluable. |
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Baffled by SCSI, CDMA, FDDI, microkernels, SPECmarks and the like? Try
the Free Online Dictionary of
Computing |
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The Natural History Museum
has put information about its exhibits, a link to an online index to its
extensive library and links to earth and life sciences resources elsewhere
on the Web. |
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The Science Museum has been
disappointingly slow getting online - I hope that you will find
this new Web site is worth the wait. |
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The British Library is also online -
it has been for some time - but I didn't feature it as it has been rather dull until recently. Now you can look at the Magna
Carta or a digitised copy of Beowulf.
It's not the treasure trove of 7 million books online you might have
been hoping for, though. In fact, it hasn't even made its "OPAC" catalogue
available to the Internet at all, except using proprietary software across
150 academic institutions. The page to find out more about the catalogue (or
lobby for wider coverage) is here |