
Last updated 23/09/2008.
Endorsements
Amnesty International: Fighting for your rights and those of
others.
Cambridge University: The best university
- anywhere.
Liberal Democrats: The political party for our generation.
Shelter: Charity for the homeless.
The Big Issue:
Brilliant concept, even better magazine.
Urban75: Rave-footie-green-photos & useless games
Useful Software
Ad-Aware:
Exorcise malicious 'spyware' programs from your PC.
Apache: Free and wonderful
web server software.
IrfanView:
Free and cute little image/multimedia viewer.
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird: Browser and email software.
Screen Ruler:
Measures objects on your screen in pixels.
SiSoft Sandra:
Computer benchmarking and testing software.
Winamp: Highly customisable MP3 player.
WordWeb: Free dictionary and thesaurus.
Zone Alarm: Free personal firewall.
Useful Websites
Archive:
The Wayback Machine, storing everything online for ever.
BBC News: The
best news site on the web.
Google: No
other search engine comes close.
Guardian
and Independent:
Refreshingly left-liberal newspapers.
Lorem Ipsum:
My own web font experiment.
UK Streetmap:
Clearer maps than Google.
Webmonkey:
Guide to website design.
Web Museum:
Online art archive.
Mostly Harmless Fun
B3TA: Internet
humour archive
Despair Inc.:
Disinspirational posters.
Longest
Email Disclaimers: Honestly
Mullets
Galore: Tribute to a mistaken hairstyle
Ninjai: Cute,
beautiful and violent cartoon
Skepdic: The
sceptic's guide to the paranormal
Skeptic's
Annotated Bible: Useful anti-fundamentalist site
Starwars
ASCII-mation: Someone actually made this
Places I've Worked
SCI: Professional sales outsourcing agency based in London
CUSU: Cambridge University
Students' Union
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation
Man Bytes Dog: IT solutions
providers and multimedia designers
People I Know
Chris Yiu: Extremely slick website by an extremely slick guy
Debbie Putt: A
totally bizarre site for killing time
Ian Cowley:
Hardened Compsci
Martin Keegan:
Politics, computers and alcohol in a blender
Martin Lucas-Smith:
My predecessor at CUSU
Richard Cohen: Some excellent warped photos and large film guide
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