W E B H I T S

Allow me to recommend these web sites...

Music

• The Francis Was Here music directory - A selection of musicians I would like to recommend to you.
• The website of the Sage music hall in Gateshead.
  
• The website of Durham's Gala Theatre
• NE-Alternative.com - news, information, reviews and gig listings for the North-East of England's alternative music scene.

• NPR radio broadcast on the subject of "Music and the Brain"
• "Exploring the Musical Brain" (Scientific American, January 2001)
• "The Basics of Psychoacoustics with Respect to Localization" (Illumin, volume 5, issue IV, 2002), an article on how we hear sound.
  

• Amazon.co.uk music
• CD Universe
• CD Baby - a little CD store with the best new independent music.
• Concepts of Durham - the best value independent record shop in the north east of England.
• MVC music - "More to your door".
• Virgin Megastores music.

• The iTunes music store (requires Apple iTunes)
• NME - all your music news, reviews, features, pics, competitions.
• KarmaDownload - discover the best in new and emerging music from the world of independent labels and artists.
• TuneTribe.com - independent download specialists championing cutting-edge music and new bands (including unsigned artists) as well as classic back catalogue.
• Big Noise Music store - part of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. The site aims to deliver the best and widest choice of music for download on the web, with at least 10p in every £1 you spend there being donated to Oxfam to overcome poverty and suffering around the world. The site currently only works with Internet Explorer.
• Napster. Unlimited and legal access to over 1 million tracks.
• Wippit - Subscription-based service offering unlimited downloads to keep and burn, from a selection of 60,000 titles.
• HMV Digital
• Calabash Music - the world's first fair trade music company.
• Boots 'n' All Travel world music store - For Your Next Trip: Load Your iPod with Fair Trade Music from Around the World.
• The official, multimedia-enabled website of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Useful general interest websites

Featured personal websites/weblogs/rants

• The website of Mr Markis Johnson from Ontario, Canada.
• One from the archives: Stu Horswell's cod philosophy and pseudo-wise words (courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
• Aristotle's Lyceum in Cyberspace, a site by a certain Jeffery Winkler on physics and other scientific and anthropological topics.
• A Frank Guide to Homeland Security Alert Levels from the blog of Mr Frank J. He's a rabidly right-wing Republican with a gun fetish, but he's funny.
• Alex Breure's Osama bin Laden gallery. This link is dedicated to the inhabitants of Islamabad, Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Mombasa, New York, Bali, Istanbul, Madrid, London, Birmingham, Sharm el-Sheik and all other innocent people who have suffered at the hands of pseudo-Islamic terrorism.

Other interesting stuff

• Streetmap.co.uk
• PEACEFIRE, an organisation that is against net censorship because censorship software doesn't do what it sets out to do (and probably can't).
• The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure - an organistaion that campaigns against the patenting of software.
• webmaster forums - webmaster resources - a global online community for webmasters. Webmaster forums, resources and much more.
  
• Free online broken link checker
  
• Summit Media's Search Engine Spider simulator
  


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