| Site Title and Rank |
Description |
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. |
XE.com
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"The World's Favourtite Currency Site " - says it all really! Quick look-up grid across all the major currencies giving you the up-to-the-minute exchange rate between them plus a simple to use converter. As in almost every case, simple is best and most preactical and the front page of this site gives you exactly what 99% of people using the site want. There's more beneath if you care to plumb the dirty depths of international currency exchange. |
King Arthur and Mythical Avalon
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This is a Site devoted to King Arthur and the myths and legends associated with his life and the ancient Island of Avalon. It also features interesting pieces on Wicca and Glastonbury as well as the area of England known as Avalon, The Summer Isle. |
Play.COM
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A purely commercial mail order site but if you live in the Uk its always hard to beat for prices and service on a range of goods including DVDs and console games. Ordering is straightforward - unlike many other sites which are intent on tying you into a membership and bombarding you with spam mail. |
CricInfo
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Quite simply the most up-to-date and complete free source of stats and news from the cricketing world. |
The Tips Bank Metric Converter
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Excellent Imperial to metric conversion tables (and vice versa) including those tricky US gallons and just about every other unit of measurement you can think of. Simpl and easy to use which is exactly what we like at OGN! |
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. |
Internet Movie Database
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Extremely useful resource for anyone interested in film. Cross-referenced searches allow quick and easy information retrieval on a variety of film topics and people. Sadly, becoming more and more commercial. |
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. |
Kuro5hin
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Technology and culture from the trenches. The individual user gets to have their say on the issues of the day and everyone else decides if its good enough to hit the frontpage. |
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. |
