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HCI

Bad Human Factors Designs

A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.

Smith and Mosier HCI Guidelines

This report offers guidelines for design of user interface software in six functional areas: data entry, data display, sequence control, user guidance, data transmission, and data protection.

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website

Web usability site.

Shopping

Field Fare

Web site of Agrafreeze, Sevenoaks-based frozen food firm. I recommend their frozen unbaked croissants. Available from Polhill garden centre.

Polhill Garden Centre

Infrequently updated...

Borough Market

Annoyingly designed site fo Borough farmers market, near London Bridge.

Loot

The free ads newspaper

QXL Auctions

Auction site

eBay

UK site for eBay

Museums

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

Museum of steam and water, housed in a pumping station at Kew.

Science Museum

Science Museum, South Kensington.

Louvre

The Louvre

Royal Academy

Incredibly slow and annoying oh-so-clever-and-arty site. Does not conform to Web standards.

Sir John Soane's Museum

Fantastic, eclectic, small museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

Museum based around historic buildings, rescued & rebuilt. Now with the completed Downland Gridshell.

Ben Peach

Geological Survey tribute to Ben Peach, Victorian geologist. Including landscape paintings and drawings.

Computer Conservation Society

A BCS/Science Museum venture.

Computer History Museum

California-based museum

London Open House

Annual weekend event (mid September), when 500-600 buildings open up across the capital.

Media

Classic FM

Classic FM - playlists, live feed, etc.

Simpsons Archive

Clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news and information.

Radio 4

Ah, good old Auntie Beeb. Listen again to favourite programs.

Shoutcast

Internet streaming "radio" stations

Archers Plot Summaries

Summarised plots from the Archers

Holiday accommodation

Casa Buena

A typical Spanish casita (single storey house) in the old part of Oliva town, a working Spanish town approximately midway between Alicante and Valencia, just 2kms inland from the beautiful sandy beaches of Oliva Playa.

Oak Ridge Farm

The perfect place to relax and unwind in Cornwall. Holiday cottages set in countryside just inland from Perranporth.

CKD Galbraith Cottages & Castles

Large Self Catering Holiday Homes in Scotland

YHA

Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales)

SYHA

Scottish Youth Hostels Association

Other...

BuyDehydratedWater.com

Pure, refreshing, crystal clear, filtered, and compressed dehydrated water. Dehydrated water is compact, lightweight, easy to store, and perfect to take wherever you go. It's free of toxins, chemicals, lead, minerals, and almost every other dangerous substance you can think of. And best of all, it contains no calories nor any fat.

Computer Jokes

From Claudia's collection. Refreshingly free from pop-ups, pop-unders and Flash.

tomsrtbt

The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk. Kinda useful for rescuing broken Windows machines.

Time Service Department of the US Navy

The Official Source of Time for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a Standard of Time for the United States

Myers Briggs

Working out your Myers Briggs type.

JunkScience.com

All the junk that's fit to debunk

Dictionary of Units

This dictionary provides an account of the principal units of measurement to be found in use around the world today, and the conversion factors often needed to change them into 'standard' units of the SI system

New Scientist

New Scientist web site.

Strange Science

This Web site shows some palaeontological mistakes, provides a timeline of events, gives biographies of a few of the people who have gotten us where we are today, and lists resources you can use to learn more.

The Creative Science Centre

The focus of the centre is to stimulate enthusiasm and experience of science by providing ideas, resources and supervision to enable students to create experiments for themselves.

Exploratorium

Online mueum of science, art and human perception.

Snopes

Urban legends reference pages

Scottish webcams

Link page for webcams in Scotland

Riddles

Riddles and puzzles from job interviews. No solutions.

The Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia

Deception. Pranks, hoaxes, delusions, fraud. An encyclopedia for culture jammers - exposing the cracks in a culture where a sniggler can hide the semantic explosives.

404 labs

In praise and celebration of 404 Not Found pages

Safari

Skills in Accessing, Finding, and Reviewing Information. An Open University page.

The art of Turboing

Turboing refers to the actions of a customer who goes around the normal technical support process by contacting a senior person in the chain of command. This article describes the Art of Turboing: why you should do it, what it will do for you, and how to do it successfully.

Alec Tiranti

UK manufacturer and supplier of Sculptors' Tools, Materials and Studio Equipment, for Carving, Modelling, Mouldmaking, Casting & Restoration. Dedicated to supplying sculptors worldwide since 1895.

Facilitated Information Gathering

This article provides a practitioner's view of a technique used for gathering information from a group of Subject Area Experts (Business Partners and Technical Partners).

MIT's OpenCourseWare

A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.

Status of Regional Network Nodes (JANET)

Set of monitoring/status tables on the current operation of JANET.

The Degree Confluence Project

The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted to this web site.

Blowing up Files for Big Prints

Tutorial on digital photo manipulation, particularly interpolation.

Kid Of Speed

One womans illustrated story of riding around the wastelands of Chernobyl on a motorbike.

Literary Prizes

Page of literary prizes and awards (from Christchurch city libraries)

Tom Lehrer Lyrics

Lyrics and notes to Tom Lehrer songs.

Words of Innespiration

The lyrics and unplanned career of Neil Innes.

Project Gutenberg

The Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts). Present collection has more than 10,000 eBooks

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

History, personnel, lyrics, comments, discography, filmography.

Fabric Dying FAQ

Recipes for using dyes, comments, special techniques, types of dyes used, where to buy the dyes. Also info on stamping fabric, marbling, and tie dying.

The Phrase Finder

A list of the meanings and origins of over 2,000 English phrases and sayings.

Mad about mountains

Ann Bowker's Home Page with info on mountains and molehills across the world

The Solar Design Company

A UK supplier and installer of energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly heat & power systems.

Shoutcast

Streaming Internet radio hub.

Mark Fiore

Political cartoons (Flash)

Latin Phrases

Latin phrases and words used in English