W E B H I T S

Allow me to recommend these web sites...

Tea

Tea History and Cultivation

• World Tea News
• Planet Tea - "the most comprehensive tea information on the Internet from some of the tea industry's foremost authorities and consultants."
• The website of the UK Tea Council
• The Origin of Tea, an entry in the weblog To Blog or Not To Blog by Rock.
• The Chinese Tea Culture Online Museum.
• Paper Street Teas Blog has news of new tea products and recipes.
• Tea Review - Tea Reviews and News has reviews of various teas, written by a largely UK-based community of tea lovers.
• Birger Nielsen's Tea Related Web Resources, a truly encyclopaedic collection of links to tea-related sites.
• Diane D. Blackman's Beginner's Guide to Tea on the Web, another tea encyclopaedia.
• Hou De Tea Blog, maintained by the Taiwanese company Hou De Asian Art and Fine Tea.

• The website of Mellow Monk, importers of ecologically friendly green tea.
• Seven Cups Fine Chinese Tea
• Bramah's Museum of Tea and Coffee in London.

• Fairtrade standards for tea cultivation.
• Tea Break: a crisis brewing in India - a May 2005 ActionAid report on poor conditions and poverty pay among tea workers in the Indian tea sector.
• "Labour in WSF - Globalisation and its Effect on Tea Plantation Workers" - an article by Sindhu Menon and Shivani Sen on the website of the Delhi-based trade unionist organisation, the Centre for Education and Communication (CEC).
• "Bonded Labour and the Tea Plantation Economy" - a September 2000 article by Souparna Lahiri in Revolutionary Democracy Journal.

• Fairtrade-certified teas
• Equal Exchange Organic Fairtrade Teas from Darjeeling and Assam, blended and packed in Calcutta.
• JustTea platform - the website of an EU-funded project promoting the adoption of improved social standards, fair trade practices and new market opportunities in the tea industry.
• Traidcraft online store teas and coffees section
• Yorkshire Tea, the tea range of Taylor's of Harrogate.
• Ringtons Tea
• Clipper Teas
• Twining's Tea of London.
• Traidcraft Tea
• The UK site of Tetley Tea.
• Lipton Tea.
• Barry's Tea.
• The website of Oregon's Stash Tea Company.

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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