nntk links

Useful links

Here are a few links to some pages I find valuable - some relate to subjects touched on in this site, others concern anything else that interests me! The descriptions are mainly quotations from the linked site.

General interest

  • Need to Know - < *the* weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk >
  • SETI@home - is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
  • The Planetary Society - was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman to encourage the exploration of our solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life.
  • National Secular Society - is the most radical voice in the secular humanist movement; it is the national campaigning arm of the secularist movement in the UK.
  • Positive Atheism - discussing the history, ethics and philosophy of atheism.
  • Obliquity - astronomy. genealogy, cats and computers on a site designed by David Harper and Lynne Marie Stockman; I was at university with David, many years ago!
  • Home of the Underdogs - immense resource for all those computer games you thought were lost in history - download now and relive your past...or mine, at least!

Music

  • Alan Bush Musical Trust - a charity, established in October 1997, "to promote the education and appreciation by the public in and of music and, in particular, the works of the British composer Alan Bush (1900-1995)".
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams Society - to substantially widen the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
  • Sofa Sound - An Official Peter Hammill Website.

Battle of Arnhem

Internet gaming

These sites offer free turn-based internet games. You do not have to be online at the same time as your opponent. Make a move, then your opponent is notified, either by email or by checking his/her game status screen. You can play as quickly as you like - many moves per day to one move a month.

Try them out! Search for the user IanM on the sites and invite me to play a game against you!

  • ItsYourTurn.com - play online games: chess, backgammon, draughts/checkers, battleships, Othello, Connect 4, Go - and many variations.
  • Stan's NetChess - Correspondence Chess in the Internet Age.

Wargaming

  • The Wargamer - recognized as the leading web site for the coverage of war and strategy gaming. Huge site with an enormous amount of information, resources and links.
  • HPS Simulations - developers of the Panzer Campaigns and Squad Battles series.
  • Battlefront.com - publishers of the Combat Mission series, TacOps, Strategic Command and (formerly) Airborne Assault.
  • Matrix Games - produces, markets and publishes historical wargames as well as other computer gaming products. Revamping Airborne Assault as Highway to the Reich.
  • Shrapnel Games - board and computer wargames, including Armoured Task Force.
  • ConSimWorld - wargaming news.
  • Home of the Underdogs - as mentioned in the general section above - does include many classic wargames for download.