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SciFi & Fantasy

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Cartoons/Animations/Art etc.

Aardman Animation the creators of Wallace & Grommit, and Chicken Run.
Abby's Art Page - cute cartoon strips featuring Reaperfox and Worryfox
Acid Reflux Comics - excellent "manga" strip about God as a teenage girl; odd but fun
Amy Brown - very nice fantasy artwork
Anime glossary - find out what all those Japanese cartoon terms mean!
"Brock-o-rama" - fan site for a Pokemon (human) character
Exploitation now - another strange manga-style comic strip
Etched in time, a site devoted to 1 man's Etch-a-sketch art

Dangermouse - site idolising a very British cartoon hero
General Protection Fault a cartoon strip about geeks ;)
"Huskie"'s anthropomorphic artwork site (mostly wolf based)
Kids' TV site - loads of 80s cartoon page links
Knotwork resource site - some nice patterns!

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (remember it? a cartoon from the 80s)
French MCoG website, includes mp3 files of music from the series
MCoG resources websites
Egroups, search for Cities of Gold as there are several discussion boards.

And best of all, if you enjoyed the series and can understand French, the complete DVD set is on Amazon.fr (the English soundtrack was apparently lost in a studio fire). You'll have to work out the series name in French though....

Ulysses 31 (another cartoon from the 80s, futuristic version of Homer's Odyssey)
Jump list of Ulysses 31 sites
EGroup discussion board

The Official Eric Schwartz website - (& MIRROR site) a cartoonist specialising in a combination of anthropomorphic animals and the AMIGA.
Sluggy Freelance another cartoon strip about geeks, with added spoof/parody
The Trumptonshire Web
Tintin website (you know, the old reporter/boy detective comic book character)
Watership Down - website of the new TV series

Not a cartoon site, more an arty site actually - David Rothwell Photopia (computer artwork)

My artwork

Angel, drawn for a birthday card
Tabby kitten, painted in acrylics

Juggle/unicycle lemur and juggle lemur
Lynx the "FlapCat"
Tiger

Wedding card

Cycling

Frank Patterson, artist famous for cycling illustrations
Sheldon Brown's cycles collection & glossary
The Tricycle Association
The Veteran Cycle Club - lots of old bikes (and trikes, quadracycles...)
Woking Cycle Users Group
UK Cycle Network
UK unicycle resource page

Unique choppers - very strange bikes!

Juggling

Not totally juggling - but the Beltane Fire festival page has juggling references
Circus Scene (Circussy type events and equipment).
Dube juggling equipment
Home of Poi - excellent fire dancing/breathing, etc page
Oddballs (juggling, unicycles, kite buggies...)
JONGL, a 3-d juggling simulator
Juggling FAQ database

Juggling Information Service
Shooting Stars - circus skills for kids!
What not to do on a unicycle.. some examples!
World's Most Dangerous Juggling Club
Vipa, UK juggling equipment supplier
Some photos: by boyfriend Julian firejuggling, and friend Ben firebreathing.

Linguistics

Best of British - a guide!
English/American phrase book
London Slang - usesful translation site!
The phrase finder - meanings and origins of phrases

Music

Experimental Instruments webpage - includes weird stuff like the Theremin and the Waterphone
Eddie from Ohio - folk music with sarcasm!
Great Big Sea - a really good Canadian band, doing odd modern versions of Irish sea-shanties (or something)
Indian Music forum
Mike Oldfield of "Tubular Bells" fame, see his 3D landscapes stuff
MP3.com
They Might Be Giants

Moxy Fruvous (a strange, Canadian sort-of folk/rock band thingy)
Fruvous.com
Moxy Fruvous newsgroup on Deja.com
Moxy Fruvous Playground - some very silly online games!
Jian's site (one of MF, going solo)
Jian's official site

"Weird Al" Yankovic, a very odd Canadian musician who spoofs others
Lyrics site

Vanessa-Mae (an excellent young violinist, with a tendency towards modern pop fusions than plain classical)

Coven's MP3s - Vanessae-mae MP3 files
The Four Seasons of Vanessa-Mae, the most up-to-date VM site I could find
The Red Hot Vanessa-Mae website
The Ultimate Vanessa-Mae website
The Vanessa-Mae website (Official page)
Vanessa-Mae, World's Best Violin Player

Science, History, Natural History & other animal/plant etc. stuff

All about frogs
Aquatic frog forum
Astronomy sites of interest
Aven Armand - A French stalagmite showcave
Bristol Zoo
"Capitolium", a live webcam over Rome's historic buildings
The Eden Project - Biodomes in Cornwall
Fluffy's Frog Pond - Xenopus resource site
The History of the Roman Empire - handy page with timelines, etc
Insects - lots of info about them!
L & H Frog Journal - Dwarf African frog info
Masters of Photography - useful anf interesting site
Mystical Places

Pipid Frogs
Postcode plants database - plants by postcode (Natural History Museum)
Royal Horticultural Society
Wicken Fen (Cambridgeshire)
"Where's Lucky?" site (actually pet insurance, but the "doggy" touches are cute!)
Xenopus-related anecdotes by pet owners

Online Shops

Aquatics Online - Useful UK site
Amazon.co.uk - a good place to buy books, CDs, videos......
Blackstar videos
CD Now
HMV music
Kitsch - unusual gift ideas!
LUSH - great handmade cosmetics (with mail-order option)

SciFi & Fantasy

Star Wars
Diary of a Crazed Mimbanite - great spoof Star Wars cartoon strips
Jedi Knight.net, a Star Wars fans' area
Star Wars official web site (includes stuff on new film)
StarWars kids - a Star Wars trivia & info site

Harry Potter
The Harry Potter Galleries - a useful resources site
The Harry Potter Message Board
The Leaky Cauldron, Harry Potter news site
The Serverus Snape fan page (devoted to one of the "Hogwarts" teachers)
Warner Bros UK Harry Potter site, and US version.

alt.fan.pratchett Terry Pratchett fan newsgroup on Deja.com
Andromeda - a scifi bookshop in Birmingham. I think you can order books using the website.
Brian Froud's Faeries (did the character desings for Labyrinth, the Dark Crystal, etc.)
Bristol University SciFi Soc
Castle in the Sky - a great Sailor Moon fan site!
Fantasy miniatures site - good place for buying your dragon/fantasy related miniatures
L-space, a big Pratchett fan/onfo archive site
The Last Unicorn - details of a possible film version of the classic tale
Lord of the Rings or find your Hobbit name or elf/dwarf/orc name!
Lord of the Rings journal - spoof "secret diaries" - very silly!
Pandromeda, fractal fantasy landscapes (and chat area links apparently) - very pretty!
Paul Jennings website (children's fantasy author, wrote stories for the TV series "Round the Twist")
Periodic table of comicbook characters.. strange....
Pulp fiction covers (includes some scifi) - send as postcards!
Red Dwarf - a fan's site, with .wav files
Reddwarf.co.uk - looks like an official site, includes news and merchandising
Robert Lewellyn's home page (Kryten from Red Dwarf)
Round the Twist website (lots of features about the show)

Small Films (home to Bagpuss, Clangers, Noggin the Nog......)
The Dreaming Neil Gaiman resourse site (fantasy author)
Tiny Planets - website for a little kids' CG series
Waning Moon - an odd tips/discussion site for Goths & Wiccans

Useful

Computer-related

Barebones - HTML guide
BITS (Bristol Uni society) page, includes HTML info and other resources
Blueberry Hill - home to Gid's games and various things. E-commerce site

Flaming text - great page to create web page buttons and use strange fonts for your designs
"Imaging the Imagined" - animations, raytracing and other interesting stuff
Java documentation
The Register - amusing IT related news
Robotic hand project - a student's website
RGB hexadecimal colour codes

Some other miscellaneous websites (possibly useful)
80s Nolstalgia - vaguely interesting nostalgia site
The Bead Shop (London), main site
Deja.com - useful for newsgroups
Family Search - research your family tree!
Foorum - newsgroups, no account needed to post
Guide to Sydney - a great complete city guide!
London Transport webpage and LT Museum
Merstham online (and main gateway to the site) - the place where I work!
Multimap - web map of the UK
Royal Mail website
Science Museum, London
Snopes - debunks internet myths/urban legends!
Surrey cinema & films
Surrey Online - useful local info
St Justin - nice Cornish pewter jewellery
The Magic Eye - remember this from the 90s?
Virgin trains
UK Railways (or a more interesting Steam trips site!)
UK weather forecast

 

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