Resources

Misc

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Outlines

• http://bitzi.com/
• http://scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page
• http://academia.edu/
• http://tvtropes.org [1]
• http://everything2.net/
• http://www.h2g2.com/
• http://rationalwiki.org/
• http://www.skepdic.com/
• http://metafilter.com/
• http://www.wisegeek.com/
• http://libsuccess.org/
• http://www.halfbakery.com/
• http://snopes.com/

• http://imdb.com
• http://0xdb.org/home

• https://diy.org/skills
• http://noexcuselist.com/
  • http://www.theuselessweb.com/

• http://wikia.com/
  • http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/
• http://wikivs.com/
• http://socialcompare.com/en
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

• http://wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1010

• http://googlewithoutgoogle.com/

• https://encyclopediadramatica.se
• http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Main_Page
  • http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/

• http://wiki.bluelight.ru/

• http://www.vouchercodes.co.uk/

• http://opencorporates.com/
• http://whocomments.org

• http://www.satflare.com/track.php

• http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/index.html

• http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage

• http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hb8qo/which_websites_do_you_usually_visit_when_you_are/
• http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1kza14/other_than_reddit_what_is_youre_number_one_goto/cbu5c54

• http://www.similarsitesearch.com/

• http://www.merzo.net/
• http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=200

• http://bluecabinet.info/wiki/Main_Page

• http://revyu.com/

• http://pective.com/

• http://www.diygenius.com/mind-expanding-documentaries/ [2]

• http://worldtracker.org/media/library/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609584

• http://nautil.us/

Web archive

• http://archive.org

Bookmarklet;

javascript:location.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+document.location.href;

• http://archive.is/

• https://gist.github.com/Asparagirl/6202872
• https://gist.github.com/Asparagirl/6206247

• http://www.archiveteam.org/
  • http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior
  • http://urlte.am/

Telephony

• http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/index.publisha

• http://www.saynoto0870.com/
• http://www.0800buster.co.uk/
• http://www.qxcall.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=111

Weather

• BBC Weather: Edinburgh
• Met Office: Edinburgh

• WeatherSpark

• School of GeoSciences weather station summary

• Will it Rain Today?
• Blitzortung.org

• earth :: an animated map of global wind, weather, and ocean conditions

• http://forecast.io/#/f/55.9542,-3.2028

Maps

Open Street Map

• http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1920901#map=11/55.9115/-3.2623&layers=C
  • OpenStreetMap

• OpenCycleMap
• Edinburgh CycleStreets
• Öpnvkarte - public transport map

• http://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#

• http://random.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodes/?zoom=7&lat=56.88042&lon=-3.16192&layers=B00T0F0F0F - postcode map

• http://live.openstreetmap.fr/ - live edits

• http://m.osmtools.de/

General maps

• Google Maps
• multimap
• multimap (OS data)
• Streetmap.co.uk

• http://wikimapia.org/#lat=55.9494401&lon=-3.1870651&z=14&l=0&m=s&v=9
• http://www.geograph.org.uk/mapbrowse.php?t=tolJ5oOXXJ0oOJFoOXXJfoMXbJqobXXJL5405owNwhuwbajahajuua&i=0&j=0&zoomin=1?93,95

Extra info

• Shaded Relief
• Wikimapia
• loc.alize.us
• Panoramio
• Virtual Globetrotting

• Google Maps w/ annotations
• geograph - photographs for every OS grid square

• Dusk / Dawn :: Sunrise / Sunset :: Calendar and Calculator
• Monthly Sunrise Sunset Times

• Sustrans Transport routes
• Edinburgh Traffic ViaMichelin

• The Megalithic Portal and Map
• Heavens Above Daily predictions for brighter satellites

• Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

• Automatic Packet Reporting System Stations Near Edinburgh

• GeoHack - Edinburgh - Meta, many map links, most already listed above.

• http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/

• http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=55.92336036707882&lon=-3.184176741757026&gz=11&oz=5&gt=1

News

• BBC News Front page
  • BBC News Video stream
• The Independent
• The Guardian
• EurActiv.com
• euronews | europa
• euronews | world
• New York Times Wire
• Wikinews

• El Reg Biting the hand that feeds IT
• Boing Boing A Directory Of Wonderful Things

• The Big Project News
• Chipwrapper Search UK newspapers

• BBC News: The Editors del.icio.us

• http://skimfeed.com/
• http://bitofnews.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

• http://positivenews.org.uk/

• http://thebrowser.com

• http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/
• http://archive.org/details/tv

• http://www.interfax.com/news.asp

• http://viz.ged-project.de/

• http://www.zcommunications.org/znet

• http://www.asiapress.org/rimjingang/english/
• http://www.chinasmack.com/
• http://www.indoboom.com/
• http://www.russiaslam.com/
• http://www.japancrush.com/
• http://www.koreabang.com/

• https://theconversation.com/uk
• http://cc.fullcirc.com/

History

• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

Library

• http://openlibrary.org/

• http://www.libraryspot.com/
• https://libraryelf.com

Logistics

See also Delivery

• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/12/21/2146200/the-magic-of-pallets

Humour

• http://www.b3ta.com/board/popular/

• http://www.theonion.com/

• http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Uncyclopedia:UnNews

• http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/

• http://www.sickipedia.org/

Progressive

• http://www.treehugger.com/

• http://inhabitat.com/

• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/issue/

• http://grist.org/

• http://blog.cat.org.uk/