| Site Title and Rank |
Description |
Whatbird
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A very well thought out site that helps you to identify North American birds by taking the budding ornithologist through step by step key identifying characteristics. Includes samples of bird song recordings to aid identification and much more. Excellent! |
BBC
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If you're going to use a news, interactive TV and radio service, why not use one that is well respected for its quality of journalism, that isn't allowed to spam you with advertising and is paid for by the British tax payer? You can choose to listen to the excellent World Service in any of 43 languages. |
Radio Archive
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A slightly strange site in that it offers copies of radio programmes which have been previously broadcast on what it calls "free-to-air radio". At OGN we're not sure that this makes the site entirely legal, on the other hand no one seems to be complaining and this can be a brilliant resource if you are searching for some long lost documentary on an interesting band or a missing episode of your favourite panel game. Seems primarily to fill its archive with BBC material but there is other stuff there too. Uses Torrents and a membership scheme (donations optional) to maintain its downloads. |
W3 Schools
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Excellent web site for web site builders who wish to educate themselves further in HTML, Javascript, , SQL and much, much more. Dozens of tutorials for those who wish to teach themselves the skills for web building or for anyone needing a quick refresher on forgotten skills. Brilliant! A site in the truest traditions of the World Wide Web. |
MediaFire
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Excellent FREE resource for the swapping of files between you and your friends, co-bloggers, fellow group members or whoever. Extremely useful and simple to use. Highly recommended. |
LinkPopularity.COM
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A no nonsense, well designed site which allows a webmaster to quickly see how well his site is linked across the web. Simple and free to use, it quickly searches three major search engines and returns the result. While not definitive, certainly the sample search is large enough to give useful results. |
The SETI@home Project
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Join The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence by visiting this site. The idea to use spare CPU time by building a radio telescope data analyzer into a screensaver so that millions of people from all over the world can participate in this project is worth a ranking of 10 alone. The site is also designed and run in a very professional manner. |
Artcyclopedia
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Tremendous compilation of information on art, artists and art museums. Links to online exhibitions and other similar interest sites as well as breaking news from the art world and monthly magazine features. |
Cool Archive
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Fonts, icons, clip-art, sounds and much more available free. In addition there are free online applications for creating buttons, banners and logos for your web site. |
The Gutenberg Project
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The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms the vast majority of computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search at a cost so negligible it wont matter. |
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
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If you're looking to expand your knowledge about the medieval world, then this site has just what you're looking for. Very cleanly built and well categorized with detailed histories, maps, and source material covering the culture and geography of the medieval period. The rank would be even higher, but for the lack of a comprehensive search feature, which would make for an even more usable site. |
The Van Gogh Museum
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Finely crafted web site. Equally good for reviewing the museum before you visit or for re-living the experience afterwards. Includes a 3D virtual "walk-around" experience, the museum shop and, of course, the collection online with detailed commentary on each piece. Dutch, English and Japanese versions. The visiting exhibitions section is a little neglected. |
