De Radio 4 Top 400 - The favourite classical pieces as voted for by Dutch radio listeners. Certainly a handsome proportion of religious works in the list. (PDF)
100 Best Last Lines from Novels - How great can a last line be? I’ve read some of the works on the list and can’t say any are [...]
If it’s good enough for Shatner - Old school computer advertising, as dug out of the back issues of vintage computer magazines. William Shatner, Roger Moore, and the cast of M*A*S*H all offered their images to promote various relics of the golden era of computing.
Is black the new green? - Do websites with black backgrounds [...]
Plugoo - Talk with your site visitors through your favourite instant messenger with this blog plugin. The idea’s a nice one, though there would appear to be plenty of potential for abuse.
Spheers - Fancy downloading your brain? Alright, that’s not quite the idea, but spheers.com, currently in beta, seems to be offering a way of [...]
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” - A wonderful website devoted to one of the most important pieces in Beethoven’s career, and the history of the symphony. Courtesy of Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the website also features works by Copland, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
Flash Earth - View the Earth using Google Earth, [...]
Book Glutton - Another social internet site, this time designed around the premise that it’s good to read together. The site offers members a chance to form and join reading groups, enabling them to discuss and annotate the book while they read.
ControlC - This website provides a way to save a copy of everything [...]
On History by E.J. Hobsbawm
The Complete Illustrated History of China by J.A.G. Roberts
