Ken's links
So I found myself using three different web browsers from two different places
(and it got worse). And I wanted to be able to see my vast
Netscape bookmark list when I had to use Microshit Exploder.
And if I found a site I liked at work I wanted to be able to get at it from home,
and if my PC was down I wanted to find my links on various web servers.
So, back in 1996 I wrote a page of links. I'd avoided it for almost three years but it
had become useful .
Links pages are a terribly anorakish, trainspotterly sort of thing to do. As I'm not
a trainspotter I can promise I won't talk about trainspotting. Or Star Trek. Well,
I'll try not to. Sometimes temptation can be a harsh mistress.
Useful stuff;
Christian links;
Biology, natural history, & bioinformatics links;
Other science links;
Political links (also cities and constitutions );
art, literature, sf;
Computers, security, cryptography & techy stuff;
Work;
People,
Places,
and Things.
I tend not to delete dead links from this so that in my old age I can tell my grandchildren
what sort of a nerd I used to be back in the early days of the Web. As I usually add things to the
top or bottom of lists but not the middle, each section is a sort of historical onion showing
what I was reading when. The list is getting very big but computers are getting bigger faster,
and when I tried to chop it up into smaller pages I couldn't get the energy together - I take that back,
by the time I got to 2004 the bioinformatics and genetics stuff had got overwhelming and
was moved out.
Oh yes, and I didn't put in some of the obvious links, like www.perl.com, or ftp.rtfm.edu, or www.google.com,
- well, I suppose I just did there, didn't I?
I'm sorry. This is so naff .
Useful stuff
-
The View from Nunhead Station and other
wiblogs
or not
or maybe.
- Rant of the Month and
Political jargon and
this page on Cix
and at work
-
BBK ITS and
regmenu and my
draft documentation and
Birkbeck webmail and
wiki
- shipboards,
St. John's
-
Flickr and
Facebook
-
SCI,
Language Log,
Oxford DNB,
Bad Science ,
Wikipedia.
- Bioinformatics at Birkbeck
-
BBC News was once
here
-
Avedon,
Langford,
xkcd,
T&PNH,
KenMacC.
-
/.,
reg,
nw,
digg,
io9,
BB.
IWC
- Hubble Advent Calendar
Christian links
- Bible
- Liturgy, worship
- Church of England Common Worship material including:
-
Common Worship daily offices with readings and seasonal material.
-
Morning Prayer
in modern language:
yesterday,
today, and
tomorrow.
BCP:
yesterday,
today, and
tomorrow.
-
Evening Prayer
in modern language:
yesterday,
today, and
tomorrow.
BCP:
yesterday,
today, and
tomorrow.
-
Night Prayer (Compline)
in modern language:
yesterday,
today, and
tomorrow.
Prayerbook language:
yesterday,
today, and
tomorrow.
- PCUSA lectionary for the day
- Prosphora Orthodox communion bread - great recipies!
- Theotech links to cyber hymnals and so on
- Praxis at Sarum - is this the insider's view
of Anglican liturgical bureaucracy?
- Church of England services including links to Common Worship texts and
BCP
straight from the horse's mouth, with RTF, HTML and PDF, and
some Canadians with
1662
At last the BCP online - why did it take so long?
- Liturgy Simon Kershaw.
-
The Cyber Hymnal has
songs to go with Scripture
- Family Worship kid's songs from Icthus.
- Psalters ... Sternhold and Hopkins, Scottish Metrical,
Brady and Tate AND MANY MORE!
- Oremus (focus is on lesser festivals of CofE)
- Search Kingsway Songs
- Textweek
- Together to celebrate Songs to go with Psalms
- Other books
- Local churches
- Anglican churches in Sunny Deptford
including St. John's with Holy Trinity
-
St. Nick's , the
Cathedral
and other Anglican churches in
Durham City
- St. John's College, Durham
-
All Saint's, Patcham doesn't seem to have a web site, though there is a picture:
here
-
A search for St. Matthias in Brighton led to the website of
the Parish of the Resurrection ,
which crashed my browser.
-
Other churches I've been part of for a shorter time:
St Antony's, Nunhead ;
St Laurence's, Pittington ;
St. John the Baptist, Southover ;
the
Lewes Road URC (once the Congregational church).
And pictures only of:
St. Hilda's, Brockley
-
Some churches I've been to now and again:
St John's, Woodbridge
(See also the entry in the fascinating
Suffolk Churches site);
St. Luke's, Prestonville ;
Bishop Hannington ;
Jesmond .
What was once Clarendon now seems to be the
Church of Christ the King (another browser-breaker).
And the same seems to go for some of the the many
Ichthus sites around (there is obviously
something about these new churches that my computer doesn't like - actually, on further
investigation it seems that I can't browse CCK after looking at The Parish of the Resurrection -
is this internecine cyberwarfare amongst the Brighton faithful?)
Pictures only for
St. Mary's, Broadwater
and lots of
church buildings in Newcastle .
St. Bartholomew's, Brighton
-
Churches that friends & relatives of mine have been associated with:
Emmanuel with St. Paul's, Bolton
(Bob Horrocks);
Hillington Park, Glasgow ;
St. Peter's Nottingham ;
St. Barnabas? ;
St. Mary's, Walthamstow ;
St Alfege's ;
Holland Road Baptists ;
St. Joseph's RC
Killyleagh, Downpatrick.
-
Anglican hierarchy in and around London
(the links are mostly to maps of the deaneries or archdeaconries)
-
And some websites I sort of came across:
Christ Church,Brighton meet at St. Matthaias which used to be my parish church, many years ago.;
The Annunciation, Brighton ;
Holy Trinity, Ripon ;
St. Mark's, Gillingham ;
Trinity Church, New York ;
St Michael's, Great Torrington (BDAC);
St James's in Bucks (SWEG);
St Ignatius, Montana .
- News, history,stuff
- Various personal views
- Discussions, arguments, teachings, theologies
- Steve Doel's Old Testament Classes for the Southwark Readers Course
- Encyclopaedia of NT textual criticsm
-
An Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation ,
and Fellowship of Scientists ,
and American Scientific Affiliation ,
and The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund's, Cambridge,
and Science and Christianity ,
and Roger Forster's and Paul Marston's Reason, Science, and Faith (which was at one time, and may still be, hijacked by some rather dishonest YECCies),
and the John Ray Initiatve who have online copy of
The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of Creation (John Ray, 1691)
-
Ian Ramsey Centre and
Peacocke's Templeton prize.
- What is a Presbyter? from the Methodist Conference
- Durham theology dept
website was set up by Michael Fraser who now has a list of 100s of
net texts here
- A list of
Theological Journals On-Line (would you believe there is an electronic
newsletter for hermits & solitaries?)
- The Ship Of Fools
has an index
and some bulletin boards -
why didn't I believe them when they said this site was good?
- The Door
- The Theologian Evangelical comment on stuff
- Affirming Catholicism ACs who can cope with women -
not to mention Anglo-Catholic Socialists
- Christian Socialist Papers from the Lamb (the pub!)
- Barmen Declaration
just one of very many interesting documents on the, er, eclectic website of
St. Andrew's Torrington
-
womenpriests.org
RC polemic, lots of good stuff (they are mildly unfair to Augustine, who looks quite cuddly compared
with Jerome - though even he could be reconciled with feminism if you believed that all men were
very nasty indeed and women should be kept from all contact with them.
- Jewish Encyclopaedia of 1906
- Lots of stuff by Newman
- Anoraks & BDACs
Science and stuff
- Living things Natural history, genetics, biology, diversity.
God put our ancestors in the Garden of Eden and showed us all the animals to
see what we would name them. How many of them will we name before we kill them? (Moved to another page because it got too big!)
- Space ... the final frontier ... sorry, at this rate I will
end up trainspotting.
- Insofar as not covered above.
Politics and stuff
Politics is life, so all the other sections are political.
What is it about Web pages that make almost everybody , including me
pontificate like
a Heinlein character? At least I haven't laid this out in flashing red
72pt Helvetica scrolling on a black background with occasional pictures of the
Sistine Chapel ceiling flashing onto the screen.
I can feel that trainspotting coming on.
- Politikon Zoon
(Living in cities, walking the streets, pushing the envelope of jargon to the house at Pseud's Corner and beyond)
- History
- Some writings about constitutions & rights-based government (all in English, pointing to varied sites that are useful for lots of other things)
- Elections, parties
- News, comment
- School stuff
Websites relevant to being a Governor in a supposedly failing
inner-city primary school
- Organs of the State
- Some comment and blog stuff (most of this is in other places on this list as well...)
- Other stuff
- The Voice of the Turtle: The Mao of Pooh
(In which One Hundred Acre Wood"s Central Committee undergoes a democratic regime change)
- Albion Awake!
Non-violent-nationalist-British-Israelite-anti-racist-Christian-occult-anarchist-monarchism.
(I'm not making this up)
- SIRC (anthropologising pubs and racetracks).
- New Abolitionists
- Law Commission
- JILT One of Warwick's
electronic law journals.
- EarthFirst UK
- Corporate Watch
- Liberty for the People
Lots of links to things by Kropotkin & AIT stuff and so on and on.
- Eat the State
- Two kinds of socialism
- Biographies of the Left
This purports to be a collection of threats to Freedom posted here by
conservative Americans. It is so OTT that it is quite funny in places.
These guys ideas of dangerous lefties include Newt Gingrich
and Rush Limbaugh. Weird. I wonder if this was put up by socialists
as a joke. There are actually some links to the DSUSA and so on, so maybe...
- Mark Grant's (mostly)
anarchist and libertarian files at Unicorn.com.
I like the essays by Bob Black, who holds that "libertarians" are
just conservatives on drugs and that the workplace, not the state,
is the major site of oppression in modern society. Not all Americans are stupid.
- Anarchist archives
- the focus is on a page about Albert Melzer - and the rather more irreverent
anti-authoritarian saints & sinners
from those Seattle bleeders. Also the
Kate Sharpley Library at blackened.net -
lots of other stuff there as well.
- Jost van Steenis thinks that the way forward
is personal attacks on individual members of the ruling class in their own homes,
but some RTS folk point out that
our opponents are often much better at violence than we are .
- The Bureau of Public Secrets in which various people called Ken (not all of them Rexroth and none of them me) go on about situationism and stuff. Multiple translations of foreigg classics (most spectatularly Dao de jing).
More other stuff, of great cultural and scientific relevance
- The Gettysburg Power Point Presentation
- Boing Boing Cory Doctorow and others make lists
- Rather Good for Viking Kittens and Spongmonkeys.
- Dihydrogen mono-oxide - demand the truth!
- Project Freedom exposes, at length, the
conspiracy by Freemasons and Paedophiles to use electronic mind-control weapons, drug-dealers and
specially hypnotised psycopathic mass-murderers to impose a New World Order.
- Irational.org
- don't forget to check out their
Sainsbury's page
- Head-space Includes Circlemakers
which (as of August 1998) must be about the best-looking site on the Web.
- Saga-Shakepeare Myth Numerological
proof that the works of William Shakspere were in fact written by Snorri Sturlusson
and the Knights Templar.
- Entropy Gradient Reversal
- 720.org
- Dead People's Server A list of dates
of death (and links to other sites if relevant) of famous people who are or might
plausibly be dead. So the inclusion of anyone alive under the age of, say, sixty,
is perhaps a kind of gentle insult. (Oh him - is he still alive? ) And I
suppose the inclusion of anyone over the age of about 90 is probably quite satisfying
to them.
- Ad Busters
- Various instantiations of Sterling's & Kadrey's Dead Media project:
Islandnet and
Deadsite
(the HTML is pretty poor here) and
somewhere else
(where the HTML is crap ) The true quill is at the
Well of course except that
these days
this one seems to work better
(Check out the links to Rudy Rucker!)
and the more or less unrelated Media History
is, er, somewhere else. (this is all 1997 - maybe it is better later
- in fact by 2000 it seems to have all moved here )
- Don't mess with the Violent Pacification Society
Stuff and stuff
- texts
- sf
- Language, languages, words
- Typography, scripts, writing systems
- Graphics, Illustrations, cartoons, comics
- Mostly folk music and so on
- Mudcat
- Broadside Ballads at the National Library of Scotland
-
Reinhard Zierke in Hamburg has a Really Useful online reference to
(Mostly) English Folk Music
and an especially good index to songs sung by
Shirley Collins
- Shirley Collins has good links
- Folk Music Index
- Ballad Index
- The Digital Tradition despite the domain
name there is stuff about all sorts of folk music.
- Welsh folksongs
-
Some lefty lyrics
- Free Peace mp3s Great songs. Check out Soylent Gringo!
- XPDNC lots of links to union and labour stuff (for some reason the site has taken to refusing direct navigation to that page - I had to drill down from www.xpdnc.com )
- Sovmusic Deeply cool site of apparently unreconstructed Stalinists. There's something about the Song of the Soviet Tankmen that preys on the mind.
- The history of the Russian National Anthems - exhaustive set of recordings of every version each of the half-dozen or so songs that have been a Russian national anthem in the last century or so, as well as other pieces opf music that quote them, or from which they may have been derived (including the UK and Danish anthems) and a whole heap of Tchaicovsky and Glinka and the anthems of each of the SSRs. Some of these songs make your hair stand on end
- Radical songs
- Union Songs Lyrics, links, but no downloads that I could find
- AWS Impressively giant Italian anti-war site with links everywhere. Navigation is hard though. Things often aren't where you would expect. There are loads of MP3s and video clips, many linked to on other sites, but lots of the links and some of the files are duds. And its hard to tell which links are recordings and which not so I ended up looking at the html source... and then gave up. But there are hundreds of songs, many with alternative translations into different languages. Avanti Popolo!
- Protest Records mind-bendingly braindead "interface"
- New Songs For Peace is a UNESCO front! Some fun music though
- Armchair General the Tankie's Friend - has lots of Civil War and Great Patriotic War songs (many are in fact links to Sovmusic or hymn.ru). Read it and weep for the fallen.
- other bits of art
People, Places, and Things
Last is not least in this file. URLs here also appear under subjects they are useful
links to. "There are images to remember people, places, and things"
- People
(NB putting someone's page in here doesn't have to mean that I know them - it might just be
that they have links to stuff I want to read - also I have deliberately left in some dead links - bad netiquette, but this is a historical document you know...)
- Places
-
Kosmograd has maps! And spaceships! And
These stunning Leningrad/St Petersburg photos
Shiny!
-
Some SELondonista bloggery:
853 ,
Bob from Brockley ,
Brockley Central ,
Caroline's Miscellany,
Defend Education in Lewisham ,
Deptford Dame ,
someone who takes photos of insects at Stave Hill ,
Save Catford ,
Deptford SE8ker ,
Blackheath Bugle ,
Transpontine ,
Camberwell Online ,
The Trees Around Nunhead ,
and my own The View from Nunhead Station.
-
And from slightly further afield:
Diamond Geezer ,
Faded London ,
Route 1 to 499 ,
Rus in Urbus .
- Geobytes distance tool
- Glasgow Daily Photo (from Jackie)
-
The jolly spaceheads at CASA/Bartlett/SpaceSyntax flatter Charles Booth
Googlemaps of London lifestyles
Apparently we are Multicultural, which is hardly a surprise. Less stupendously there is a map of connectedness to the Internet which doesn't include Brighton (Hove abuts Peacehaven)
and another map showing that Labrador is more isolated than Newfoundland. Or was it Nova Scotia?
They can tell you
how to create Google Maps to display your data
And I don;t know whether to put these links here, in the politics section, or in the IT-related list.
- Urban rail maps
- Tram fan site with piccies of
Lewisham
and much else
- Strange Maps
- Democracy Two
- The Register Googles Earth! Other stuff at
bbs.keyhole.com and
ogleearth.com/.
- Derelict London waterways
- Truly mega photos of
Barcelona
- Locations of Ladykillers
- Links to
Castaneda collection maps at U. Texas .
Lots of
old maps of London
and
Roelof Odden's
Map Bookmarks which
link to thousands of cartographic sites from Geography department at Utrecht
(were here ).
- timmonet Bloody good pics
of Newcastle - focus is on Cruddas Park housing estate in Elswick (been there, done that, there were no T-shirts)
- Pete Marshall's photos of Industrial London Wow!
- Comebackalive
for Americans who want to walk the Hemingway
-
Despite being on Geoshitty this is a good set of links to plans
for transport in London
- Streetmanagement buses in London
- Multimap Brilliant! Fast, and it has all the postcodes
... so you can find Acorn listings in Up My Street
... and feed the whole thing with postcodes from the postcode finder
(which has an irritatingly smarmy requirement for cookies).
- digistreets
- The demolition of Barkway Court
- Streetmap UK
- Knowhere
- Kemptown
-
Lewisham Council and a
really nice little guide to the place.
- London Net
Masquerading as a tourist guide and click-through kiosk, this shows every
sign of being run by a clique of unreconstructed lefties making a quick
bob or two out of being cleverer than the bastards.
- Metropole
(English language magazine about Paris and France)
- A Scot in France
- French holiday ideas (show this to Tim)
- Fonyod & Balaton
- How to find British Universities
- British Museum
- British Library (dinky domain name)
- London University
- The Bunker
- Kemptown history back up the tree for lots of Brighton links of a better sort
- Bad Aibling via Peter Gutmann
- Congo Cookbook
- Things
At last, the trainspotting.
Sometimes you just haff to be naff. On your first visit to a new city, you act
in the role of a tourist. You visit museums and walk round other people's churches
and take photos of department stores and talk to strangers
in pubs and generally behave in a way that you would never dream
of in your home town. Do you remember getting your very first CD player? If you were born
before about 1960, you probably got a Dire Straits album to play on it.
(If you couldn't quite
bring yourself to do that maybe you got a Meatloaf album). You bought the Dire Straits CD
or Bat out of Hell and you played it for weeks because it was the only CD you had
and everyone played it. (As far as I know Bat Out of Hell 2 was only
bought by people trying out their first CD player). You bought one of those CDs
even if your normal musical tastes ran to Mr. Fox, the Pink Fairies, New Model Army,
Kraftwerk, the Etchingham Steam Band and Richard Wagner.
It was just like that with personal links pages. There was a role-play element to them.
You had to behave like the sort of person who'd put up personal links pages on the Net.
You had to blend in, go with the flow, act like a Netizen (horrible word).
And the Net was full of people who want to talk about the weather, or guns, or trains
- sometimes it seemed to be run by the kind of middle-aged men you see in newsagents
sneaking a peek at the magazines with pictures of stealth bombers inside.
In other words trainspotting and Trekkiness. (I'm neither a trainspotter nor a
Trekky. I am a free fan!)
So, inevitably, having finally
made a prat of myself and written a
list of URLs (oh.. this is so embarrasing - at least I didn't call them
Hot Links ) I have to include:
-
- CIA factbook
- Encyclopaedia Britannica a grotesquely badly put together
website, painfully slow, visually tedious, littered with cruddy advertising but heaps of
articles, as long as what you are interested in isn't too recent. (Nothing on DGGE :-)
- Online dictionaries
Sheldon Brown and the Harris Cyclery have
more background on bikes than any other website I've seen.
Park Tools have heaps of howtos.
- uboat.net
- Bismarck & Tirpitz & other big ugly German ships
-
- The basement of Warehouse 23 .
-
Pretty pictures of nasty planes at
Jane's military aerospace
vectorsite and
FAS , of course.
Also a list of Military Aviation Movies
and some prints
-
Some enthusiasts sites about
Bomber Command and
Barnes Wallis and
big old bombs
- Cliff Stoll sells Klein Bottles
- Underground base and tunnel links
- The rules of sprodzoom
- Usenet Oracle
- Experts Exchange Home Page
- Sickeningly,
Ed Dunn's HTML song , the
Geek Code , and the
BOFH
- BOGUS
Biological and Other Unsupported Statements. A free Java error with every page.
- Motley Fool
- ERRI in Illinois. news about "emergencies". Very
US, gung-ho & all-American, but useful links about stuff like CBW.
- Esoteric.com
- The Met Office and
the Shipping Forecast and
map and
lots of other weather links
- USS Salem US Naval museum - contains
some of the naval data that used to be kept by Andrew Toppan. Great site, but dead slow -
Sperry Marine
have links to dozens of naval museums.
- Andrew Dunford's
British Military links.
- Some techy bang-bang links:
Railguns ,
Rand
-
Electromagnetic bombs of interest not just for the free-power-nuts meet NATO
techymadness of it all but for the utter reliance of the strategic thinking on
"Warden's 5-layer model of Strategic Warfare" which has the "leadership" and
central C 3 as the ultimate, vital strategic target, an "inner ring"
more important than the economic infrastructure or the population. So Napoleon
goes to Moscow, Harris to Berlin, & Clinton to Belgrade.
See Airchronicles Archives
for lots more stuff from Maxwell USAF.
-
And at last... the trains!
Clive Feather's utterly unspotterly
rail links (his other pages could have fitted into at least 4
other sections of this list)
Track-plans of the London Mail Railway ,
Railtrack: Travel Information and
Welcome to Timetables On-line!
Last update
November 2008 (lots of little changes over the past months, and the top end shuffled)
March 2008 (a bit more news and stuff, re-order some of the liturgy resources)
February 2008 (I'm sure I missed some... but anyway, just added xkcd and perhaps more skiffy soon)
April 2007 (left-wing song links),
February 2007 (Languages rearranged, writing systems, more Good Stuff, some liturgical links),
November 2006 (Language Log, Langfordiana. lists),
September 2006 (more churchy stuff and the wonderful Language Log),
March 2006 (catching up on bits & pieces + changes for wiblog),
November 2005, (a few people),
4th February 2005, (new computer links page),
18th November 2004, (More Poetry),
29th September 2004, (a few new & repaired political & other links),
19th May 2004, (reordered bioinformatics again, added some new sysadmin and so on),
16th January 2004, (reordered some bioinformatics links & spawned another page)
19th December 2003, (added lots bioinformatics links but they need organising)
various dates 2003,
(1996 seems long ago).
