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All the best leads into travel, GPS, motor racing, the Ginetta car, photography, video/hi-fi, investment, communications journals and newsletters, the D&RG railroad, shopping/radio/TV on the net, plus general and other stuff.

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General

UK telephone directory (phone book) http://www.bt.com/
Language translator http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Time (good stuff, useful for US time zones as well)
http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/index.html
Consistently good search engine as a backup to Google http://www.alltheweb.com/

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Travel

Rail timetabler
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk
Maps 1
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
Maps 2
http://www.multimap.com
Flight planner
http://www.ebookers.com/
Easyjet
http://www.easyjet.com/
Ryanair
http://www.ryanair.com
UNESCO World Heritage sites http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/
Foreign Office (UK)
http://www.fco.gov.uk
State Dep't (US)
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html
Highest roads in UK
In preparation elsewhere on this site
Highest roads in N. America
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/co/highroad.htm
UK Hotels and Guest Houses
http://www.a1tourism.com/uk/index.html
UK farms
http://www.stayonafarm.co.uk
Walking
http://www.go4awalk.com

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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)

Good set of refs http://gpsinformation.net/
Garmin http://www.garmin.com/outdoor/index.html


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Motor Racing

 
 
Autosport http://www.autosport.com/
UK Circuits http://www.bmrc.co.uk/
 

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Ginetta

Ginetta links Elsewhere on this site
 

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Photography

Scanner links http://scantips.com/scanlink.html#10
Digital photography http://www.imaging-resource.com/INDEX.HTM
Digital Photography Review http://www.dpreview.com
Grays of Westminster (Nikon) http://www.graysofwestminster.co.uk/
Professional photographs of Lochcarron area of Scotland http://www.lochcarron.tv

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Radio & TV stations on the net

List http://wwitv.com/

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Shopping on the net

Maps and guide books 1 http://www.elstead.co.uk/
Maps and guide books 2 http://www.stanfords.co.uk
Films, printer stuff, etc http://www.7dayshop.com
DVD's http://www.play247.com
Electronics stuff
Car books http://www.motorbooks.co.uk/
Walking/outdoor 1 http://www.ellis-brigham.com
Walking/outdoor 2 http://www.field-trek.co.uk
Walking/outdoor 3 http://www.george-fisher.co.uk

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Video and Hi-fi

Reviews http://www.audioreview.com/reviewscrx.aspx

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Investment links

British company data http://www.hemscott.com/EQUITIES/INDEX.HTM
Silicon Investor - go to stocktalk http://www.siliconinvestor.com/index.gsp?nocookie
US charting service (now Lycos) http://www.bigcharts.com/
Yahoo finance http://finance.yahoo.com
Yahoo UK http://uk.finance.yahoo.com
UK share data (via ticker look-up) http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/
Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/

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Communications journals and newsletters

BT Technology Journal Being revised
Bell Labs Technical Journal http://www.lucent.com/minds/techjournal/
The Reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Red Herring http://www.redherring.com/
Light Reading (Optical) http://www.lightreading.com/
Internet and Technology http://www.investors.com/editorial/Tech.asp
Infoworld http://www.infoworld.com/
3G News http://www.3gnewsroom.com
Wireless News Factor http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com
TechWeb http://www.techweb.com/
Telephony Online http://www.telecomclick.com/news.asp
Network World http://www.nwfusion.com/index.html
Byte http://www.byte.com/
Wired http://www.wired.com/wired/current.html

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Railroads

D&RGR http://www.drgw.net/

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ICT History - WWII crypto info, Telecoms etc

Station X http://www.bletchleypark.org
Colossus rebuild http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk
The "Y" service http://www.garatshay.org.uk
About Alan Turing http://www.turing.org.uk
Telephones http://www.britishtelephones.com/
Old BT http://www.lightstraw.co.uk/ate/

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International Press

Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/default?
Iraq Daily http://www.iraqdaily.com/
The Star (Malaysia) http://thestar.com.my/
Bangkok Post http://www.bangkokpost.com/
Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/
Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/

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Mini-"PC"s and related

Hush Technologies http://www.hushtechnologies.net/
Apple http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore
Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
 
Quiet PC http://www.quietpc.com/uk/
Mini-ITX http://www.mini-itx.com/
Via http://www.viavpsd.com/index.jsp
Mini-Box http://www.mini-box.com/

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Stuff not covered above

Annual UK beer festival http://www.gbbf.org.uk/
Runrig http://www.runrig.co.uk/
Big game park cams http://www.africam.co.za/
 
Spam defences http://www.samspade.org
 

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