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Other links that aren't to do with Folk Music
This page: Disability related <>Internet/Computer related
Culture,
politics, and religion <> news and media
Disability related:
= VIA - Values into Action Organising and planning, and some good links
=Inclusion Press Home Page A Canadian site about civil rights, and social
inclusion. (I lifted the background for the Harlow Links page from this very
attractive website.)
=Gentle teaching
=Center on Human Policy - Links to just about anything good that's going on around disability rights and provision. American, as the spelling indicates.
Internet/computer
related
=www.arachnoid.com
- go there for the quotes and other goodies.There's also some
very good free software, and good advice about things
in general.
=Then there's Google search - which you can
adjust so it works in all kind sof languages.
=But one of
the most useful ways of finding things I've come across is the Open Directory Project,
which relies on a network of people
ferreting out and identifying sites relating to their
areas of expertise (I think it's
Australian.
And here are some freebies worth knowing about:
=Free Internet access: these are springing up like weeds now. I'm using
freeserve to host this website, but for most purposes ntl, which has the advanrage of being based in Harlow. It provides a permanently connected broadband (64kbps) connection, plus a separate phone line, and a good range of TV programmes on cable for just over £5 a week, with no internet bills at all. "Triple digital" they call it, and it's worth finding out about.=For a free "lifetime e-mail forwarding address" (which means you can change your access provider without all your e-mail getting lost, or needing to chase round telling people you've got a new address), try bigfoot. This also means you have an address you can give people which has a nice hairy sound to it. Except now they've cut it down to allow for only 25 messages a day - which means if you are getting lots of spam you can have a problem. So I try to only give this one to people I'd want to keep in touch with.
bigfoot can also give you a "free lifetime URL" for your website. which means once again you can switch access providers without losing contact with people. That is why I've now got two website addresses on my home page. So even if I start using some other server to host this website, which at present is at http://www.macgrath.freeserve.co.uk people can still find me at http://www.bigfoot.com/~kevin.mcgrath
=For other free stuff I tend to rely on .net magazine's CD-rom, which always seems to come up with something useful. For example Webferret is a very useful program. Ask it to look for something, and it hunts through all kinds of other search engines, and gives you a list of sites you can click on, with a brief outline of what they are about. Great fun, and it can save you hours.
=If you like silly dancing things on your computor, and other stuff like that, try the Centre for the Easily Amused, which has all kinds of entertaining oddities.
=Mind, they haven't got this one, which I found somewhere. Note the light in the background. I think it's supposed to be a marauding police car:
=Remember the Babel Fish in Hitchkiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Well the name has been used for a program that provides instantaneous translations of anything you like between five major languages - it really works, and so far as I can see the translation is pretty good. So it means you can browse sites which are written in French, German, Italian,Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese as well as English. Unfortunately they don't do Latin or Irish as yet. And it's all for free. Click on this to find out more - only 150 words at a time I'm afraid. But you can keep going back for more if you were dealing with a longer document.Just as an example, here is a translation into French of that last paragraph:
Rappelez-vous les poissons de Babel du guide de Hitchkiker de la galaxie? Jaillissent le nom a été utilisé pour un programme qui fournit des traductions instantanées de quelque chose que vous aimez entre cinq langages principaux - cela fonctionne vraiment, et autant que je puis voir la traduction est très bonne. Ainsi il signifie que vous pouvez parcourir les sites qui sont écrits en, allemand, italien, espagnol, portugais, russe, japonais, coréen et chinois comme l'anglais. Malheureusement ils ne font pas latin ou l'irlandais jusqu'ici. Et il est tout pour libre. Cliquetez en fonction ceci pour découvrir plus - seulement 150 mots à la fois j'ai peur. Mais vous pouvez continuer à aller chercher en arrière plus si vous traitiez un plus long document.
Which may not be perfect, but it's a lot better than I could do on my own.
And for an even wider range of languages (with less sophisticated translation abilities) try here.
And for a free search engine, try out the one I've linked with this site, and get on to atomz.com for a free one if you like it. And Sign my GuestBook - get a free one for yourself from the people who provided it.
Culture, politics, religion, what have you...
=The Internet Public Library a vast compendium of wisdom, and other stuff
=G. K. Chesterton - you could say the same for him. And try this for size.
=Dr Hunter S Thompson - another kind of wisdom perhaps.
=Another reason for not being anti-American - Michael Moore
And yet another - Garrison Keillor's Prarie Home Companion.
=Things of the spirit - two interesting links pages - Carl McColman's & Firewatch
=Arts and Letters Daily - an internet site for the intelligentsia. As with the Internet generally, a high proportion of rubbish, but at least here it's articulate rubbish. Updated every day. Articles, stories, reviews. All the way from New Zealand I gather. Lots of very handy links.
=And here's the sister site for the technologically inclined, SciTech DailyReview.
=And here are some really useful "gateways" - places to go to to get links to
treasurehouses of information, academic and practical - one is called PINAKES, and another is the Internet Resources Newsletter; and for American resources The Scout Report , which is nothing to do with Baden-Powell so far as I can see. But within 30 seconds going in through this I found my way to a site where you could get a kit for making a hurdy gurdy and one with annotated Grateful Dead lyrics. As I said, really useful stuff. (All courtesy of a letter by Roddy MacLeod to the Guardian's online section.) Another similar academic research orientated one is www.bubl.ac.uk/uk/ And here's Edge, another scientific one, which has some some fascinating discussions.And here is a page from Ireland with an amazing collection of links, recipes, pictures of cats and other good stuff , and a due appreciation of the Uncle books- the Owl Springs Partnership .
The Guardian or here
Daily Telegraph (and for the crossword)
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