Old page of interesting links from mindspill.net version 3

• BBC British Broadcasting Corporation. Very impressive site for design and content. Has a good food section.
• Wired News Online home of Wired magazine; a tech mag.
• New Scientist Science news. Weekly.

• The Flash Mind Reader I love these things. The illusion of intelligence, or in this case, psychic ability.
• Zona 10 Photographs - Joel Peter Witkin Bizarre and freaky photos of deformed and mutilated bodies (not that bad).
• Political Compass A 3-5 minute test to determine your political leanings on a 2-dimensional scale, Libertarian/Authoritarian/Left/Right instead of the normal left-right scale.
• Ballooning into the Sky Cluster Balloon Flight Page. Cluster ballooning is when a crazy person attaches lots of little balloons to themselves until they take off.
• Frank Duff - A Coder in Courierland An article by an ex coder who gave up their job to become a cycle courier (this article is also at kuro5hin, where it's followed by discussion). I was instantly fascinated by this article because I'm both a coder and interested in cycling. I personally wouldn't ditch my job to become a courier, but it's romantic idea.
• The Word Spy A devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. Refresh the page for random examples.
• kottke.org This guy (Jason Kottke) quit his job as a web designer to maintain his site full time. I've linked to it because it's interesting and well written, but mainly because I admire anyone who pursues their interests with a passion.
• Boycott Gillette At first glance I thought this was just another conspiracy theory, but after reading this article from the Guardian I'm worried.
• BBC NEWS | Election 2005 | Issues Comparison of UK political parties, from the BBC.
• Channel 4 - Election 2005 - Manifestos Comparison of UK political parties, from Channel 4.
• The Association of British Drivers Fighting for driver's rights. I'm particularly interested in their arguements against speed cameras, because like them I believe they have no any safety benefits (indeed, often decrease safety) and hence are nothing more than a hidden tax.
• Drummerworld The definitive drumming site. It has information and media on all famous drummers, for example, the legendary Buddy Rich. If you want to be really impressed, check out the videos.
• Global Consciousness Project / EGG Project Collecting data from a global network of random event generators, they examine subtle correlations that appear to to reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world.
• Can This Black Box See Into the Future? Article about a random number generator that seems to be able to predict the future.
• Scientific American Science news. Monthly. Slightly more technical than the New Scientist, but also more brief and less entertaining.
• Google programmer creates Internet buzz with cutesy logos An old article which reveals that the event-themed Google logos are down to one guy who does it in his spare time.
• AskTheBrain.com An automated encyclopedia which tries to infer a set of information about whatever you've searched for. You get results ranging from the absurd to the accurate. I like it because of the idea.
• Make Poverty History A campaign with the lofty but essential aim of getting rid of poverty.
• About Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. If only I could believe that more businesses would follow this "corporate philosophy".
• Europe vs. America An essay on the differences between Europe and America. I'm glad I live in Europe.
• Urban75 e-zine Non-profit e-zine covering "youth culture". They have some great photos of cities.
• Sorry Everybody A site collecting apologies from Americans sorry about the recent 2004 Bush election result.
• Gist Books: Quotations Collections and Books by Quotable Authors Recommended books. Here for future reference.
• Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked Great. The US voting system is housed in a single insecure Windows box.
• It's Official: Election stolen Graphs showing the mismatch between exit polls and machine counts in the 2004 US election.
• Heart By the looks of it a human heart beating.
• The Independent Institute Non-biased research and debate on public policy (US).
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Fusion Research So they're nearly breaking even with power output/input.
• Tricks of the Trade Professional secrets from those in the know.
• Plustech A Finnish company that makes walking lumberjack robots. Check out the videos.
• Kite Aerial Photography Check out these brilliant 360 degree panoramas, taken from a kite.
• Adopt-a-Chimp "Adoption" program for the Fauna Foundation's chimpanzee sanctuary
• High Resolution Auto Images Images of cool cars.
• Ultimate Car Page Images, specifications and information about fast cars.
• Locks of Love Non-profit organisation that collects donated hair to make wigs for children that suffer from long-term hair loss.
• Panoramas.dk Stunning 360 degree panoramas, for example this one of Mount Everest.
• Satan's Laundromat "A photolog of New York, with an emphasis on urban decay, strange signage, and general weirdness".
• Why Dreams Are Forgotten After Waking From Freud's *The Interpretation Of Dreams* Chapter 1, Section D.
• Three dimensional medical reconstruction Collection of movie clips showing various 3D medical reconstructions.
• Angel Project 3D representation of video.
• newsmap A very impressive visualisation of current world news.
• Small-world Networks A recent discovery, which like most interesting mathematical models can describe a wide variety of physical situations.
• Above Top Secret News Network U.S. news from Above Top Secret (a conspiracy site).
• Nanotechnology - Foresight Institute A non profit organisation whos goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition.
• ShouldExist Repository of good ideas.
• Subliminal Advertising Explanations of the various techniques behind subliminal advertising.
• Playing With Time Exhibit of videos recorded at different speeds, for example the blink of an eye slowed from a speed of 5/10ths of a second or spring regrowth sped up from a 4 month recording.
• Out There News "a channel for filmmakers, journalists and anybody caught up in the news to reach a world audience."
• What is Occam's Razor?
• A Bibliography of Non-Standard Logics
• Map of the Market Representation of the markets.
• MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
• Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers
• Alcohol Screening "How much is too much?" Evidently the amount I drink.
• Wet Pixel Info about digital underwater photography and imaging.
• Hedonism
• Book Crossing A whole-world book club. Nice idea. Whether it works or not is anybody's guess.
• Exploiting Peer-to-Peer Networking: I have lost all faith in humanity. Tracking downloads of resources with questionable titles.
• Bad Ass Movie Images
• nowords.org A site with some brilliant pictures. Micro photography, views of the Earth from space and various odd images created with Photoshop (or similar) by the looks of it.
• Clagnut Some guy's personal site. It's interesting, well designed and has some good links.
• Mosley meets Wilcox Cool original products for your home (mainly). I particularly like the One-a-Day calender and the Dip Lamp.
• Notebooks Writings by Cosma. I've found some very interesting and informing text there, such as Cellular Automata.
• Attn: Cmrarider This is a thread started on a US biking site. An unhappy customer airs his complaint, the whole thing spirals completely out of control and people jump on from all over the place (all over the world). It ends up with visitors from 30 odd different sites/forums (including the Hornet's Nest, where I found it) reaching an audience that must have approached 1/2 million. The guy's going to have real problems doing business again. Just goes to show the power of the internet.
• whatREALLYhappened.com News from an anti-war, anti-lie site. Biased I'm sure, but never-the-less thought provoking.
• Master Muscle List Reference for the muscles on the human body.
• Photos from the war in Iraq
• Donald Rumsfeld caught out
• Chernobyl tour Pictures taken by a woman touring through the Chernobyl "dead zone" on her motorbike.
• Skydiver in record Channel flight BBC news article on the first skydive over the Channel.
• Genome Biology Resources.
• AGIRI - The Path To Posthumanity Article about the technological advances we've made.
• megapixel.net Monthly digital camera webzine.
• Hyperspace and a Theory of Everything Nice introductory article about superstring theory.
• Human Nature Review Writings on human nature by members of leading universities and research institutions.
• Project Gutenberg Online book library. Contains text for books that have gone out of copyright.
• The full text to George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm
• George Orwell A collection of Orwell's best essays and newspaper columns.
• NationMaster.com "..a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations."
• ibiblio Online science library/archive.
• Gizmodo Gadgets weblog. I want every one of them.
• Genome News Network News about Genomics. They have a nice introduction: What's a Genome?.
• SiteSeer Scientific literature digital library. There is also a search page.
• Access Excellence A great resource for health and bioscience. Has articles like How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision.
• The Human Eye Detailed description of the human eye (from Kimball's Biology Pages).
• FBI - Freedon Of Information Act FBI records that are available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act (1975).
• Government Information Awareness Repository of information on individuals, organizations, and corporations related to the government of the United States of America.
• Virtual Body Take a tour around the human body.
• Parliament Live Live broadcasts from parliament.
• What The Papers Say UK news. Headlines are reordered according to the number of times they've been read.
• nature.com Home of the Nature publication.
• The Memory Hole "...exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known."
• tipsofallsorts.com Tips for everyday life. For example, there's these tips about hangovers.
• Euphoria, Depression, and Dysphoria: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly A Comparison of the Phases of Bipolar Disorder. Very well written.
• ERGO's Euthanasia World Directory Educational site from the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization.
• ABC news
• MBUK Home to Mountain Biking UK. The site's not yet finished, but it has some very useful forums.
• Aikido Styles
• Manchester Aikido Club The club I'm currently considering joining. It follows the Shodokan style (also known as Tomiki).
• University of Manchester Aikido Club I was a member of this club in 2002. Taught by Sensai Jon and Sensai Sarah, it's a very welcoming club. However, they study a Ki style (the Kolesnikov style in particular), which differs to my favoured style of Tomiki Aikido.
• The British Aikido Board The governing body for Aikido in the UK. The British Aikido Association is one of the founding bodies of the BAB.
• The British Aikido Association Promoting competitive styles of Aikido. I was a member when when studying Tomiki Aikido in London.
• AikiWeb Aikido information, news, articles and forums.
• Aikido links
• Textz.com An archive of free online books.
• Massage Free Basic introduction to various massage techniques.
• SMP Health Massage A rather complicated guide to massage strokes and routines (they go over the top with the lingo!).
• London Restaurant Review Editor and readers reviews. I went to Black Pepper because of a review recommending its fish stew, and they were right.
• The Temple of the Screaming Electron A site about information (whether you like it or not!).
• SciCentral Scientific research news.
• The Basics of Chess A 3-part chess tutorial.