Ansdell-Smith Family Links Page

Other places of interest (to us and perhaps to you):

We have found interesting things at these sites in the past but cannot guarantee that you (or we!) would like or agree with everything that is at them today.

Sections on this page:

• Science
• Medicine
• Find it on the Internet
• Music and speech
• Art
• This world
• Online Theology and Liturgy
• Radio
• Churches
• Christian Publishers and Retailers
• News
• Office and Admin Resources e.g. postcodes, phone numbers and stationary
• Humour
• Libraries and Information Resources

Science

• New Scientist
• Christians in Science
• How Stuff Works
• NASA
• Popular Science
• Quantum random bit generation service, Qrbgs

Medicine

• BMJ (British Medical Journal)
• MHRA
• National Library of Medicine (NIH MedLine) (US)
• TRIP Database
• UN AIDS information
• UK Department of Health

Find it on the Internet

• dmoz open directory project
• Google
• Google Groups, was Deja News Usenet
• Metacrawler
• Volunia
• Yahoo!
• Federated science search engines
  • techxtra.ac.uk searches 33 engineering, mathematics and computing collections
  • WorldWideScience.org content from government, research and academic sources
• Finding email and other addresses
  • Internet Address Finder
  • People.Yahoo

Music and speech

• Michael Card
• ChristianAudio provide downloadable Christian audio books in several formats, including DRM-free MP3. Includes material from Renovaré authors and conferences. The material is also available on eChristian together with some Christian eBooks, although not all are DRM-free.
• C S Lewis "Beyond Personality" 1944 broadcast at American Rhetoric (also at C S Lewis at BBC audio)
• Librivox public-domain audiobooks of out-of-copyright works
• Machinae Supremacy music to write computer programs by <grin>
• Magnatune music downloads and licensing. Available in WAV, VBR MP3, AAC, FLAC and OGG formats. No DRM. Licenses for commercial use. Many downloads are licensed under some-rights-reserved Creative Commons licensed. There's some good music, too <grin>
• SpartaOTR Old Time Radio Programs, for old radio programs (MP3 format) with facility to download files by ftp.
• Wellspring Music Group

Art

• The British Museum
• Guardian Unlimited Books
• The Natural History Museum
• National Museums Liverpool
• The National Museum of Science and Industry
• The National Gallery
• The National Portrait Gallery
• New York Review of Books
• Poetry Archive includes many poets reading their own works
• Smithsonian Index to online exhibitions and museums
• The Tate Gallery

This world

• Amnesty International
• A Rocha
• CAFOD
• EcoGeek up to ten stories daily about innovations that are saving the planet
• Energy Transitions Past and Future. A repost of Prof Cutler Cleveland's paper on transiting from one type of fuel to another. Includes considerations of energy density and energy quality. Posted to The OilDrum.com, discussions about energy and our future.
• Envirolink links to environmental information
• EPA, the USA Environmental Protection Agency
• Ethical Junction links to information about companies and organisations offering ethical and sustainable products.
• Evangelical Environmental Network
• Friends of the Earth UK
• Greenpeace International

Online Theology and Liturgy

• Aquinas: Summa Theologica
• Bible Researcher by Michael Marlowe
• CCEL, Church Fathers and other Christian Classics
• Common Worship
• Jubilee Centre
• Praxis Online

Radio

• BBC Radio (not all content is available outside the UK)
  • Podcasts
  • iplayer
• Federal News Radio
• UCB (United Christian Broadcaster)

Churches

• Cheadle St Mary's
• The Gate Dundee
• Frodsham Churches Together
• HTB, Holy Trinity Brompton, home of Alpha courses
• Main Street Community Church, Frodsham
• St Thomas Church, Sheffield and Philadelphia
• Soul Survivor

... and Christianevent.info for UK Christian Event and Festival information

Christian Publishers and Retailers

• Bible Gateway previously Bible Online (Gospelcom)
• Christian Book Summaries
• Christianity Magazine UK
• Church Pastoral Aid Society
• CPO - Christian Publicity Organisation
• eden.co.uk
• Jubilee Centre
• London Institute of Contemporary Christianity
• Sermon Index

News

• UK Met Office
• BBC News
• CNN Interactive
• The Economist
• The Telegraph
• Google News - news selected by Google from continuous scans of hundreds of news sources around the world.
• The Guardian
• International Herald Tribune
• Press Association
• Reuters
• Washington Post

Office & Admin resources

• BT including Directory Enquiries
• Charities Commission for England and Wales
• Companies House
• National Statistics from the UK Government
• Neighbourhood Statistics from UK National Statistics
• Royal Mail including postcode checks
• Streetmap and Google maps for UK Street maps
• Viking Direct stationers
• Electronic Yellow Pages business directory

Humour

• PBS Online: Cringely dry insights into IT
• Userfriendly computing cartoons
• Dilbert the engineer
• Ship of Fools

Books, Libraries and Information Resources

• Baen books low-cost and free downloadable and print books, mainly Science Fiction. Downloads are available in many formats, including RTF.
• Bartleby great books online
• British Library
• Chambers Wordgames crossword solver and anagram finder
• Crossword resources
• Dictionary links to a variety of dictionaries
• FOLDOC the Free Online Dictionary of Computing
• Project Gutenberg free books
• iTools translations, research tools and dictionaries
• Libraryspot online library index site
• One-Look Dictionary, over 680 dictionaries at a time
• Onlinebooks UPenn's index to freely-readable online books in English

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