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RADIO

Akoo.com - (7 channels) - A good place to start the search for your favourite web radio station.

BBC Radio - (5 channels) - Allows you to chat with fellow listeners and interact with the BBC's national stations.

CableMusic - (7 channels) - Very funky in appearance and music.

Guitars & All That Jazz - A unique radio station devoted to Guitars, Jazz and adult standards.

KCRW - excellent radio station based in San Francisco for new and alternative music, with huge audio archive section.

Koko - (13 channels) - Hub site for some local radio stations.

Musicplex - (62 channels) - Good range of formats with the chance to sample album tracks.

Musicradio - (5 channels) - Allows you to sample some of what's being broadcast on digital radio.

NetRadio - (120 channels) - An amazingly wide choice of music through a single site.

Radio Now is a good starting place for those who are new to internet radio.

Stormlive - (1 channel) - Technically very advanced but only one channel.

Virgin - (2 channels) - Good selection of added extras with highlights and interviews.

vTuner - Helpful guide to what's hot and what's not with a useful search engine.

With Musicovery.com you can use the really simple interface to start a radio broadcast of music that match your mood or the tempo you desire. The control panel sits on the left of the screen - use the tabs labelled mood and dance to choose how you want to define your music selection. Mood is the most interesting, allowing you to click to place the locator anywhere from calm to energetic and dark to positive. If you like some genres more than others then use the tick select boxes in the list below, or choose the era that pleases your ears using the date slider above. .

REFERENCE

Almanac - Various odds and ends including a galaxy of astronomical resources.

Fact Monster - The web's biggest free reference site for kids ages 8-14 that provides entertainment and educational resources. It combines the contents of an encyclopaedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once.

Info Please - Reference heaven.

RELAX SITES

Computer Rage

Feng Shui Tips

RELIGIOUS SITES

Al'Qur'an was Sunnah Society

Baha'i

BBC Religion

British Humanist Association

Chief Rabbi

Church in Wales / Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru

Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints / Mormons

Covenant of the Goddess

Greek Orthodox - Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Holy See site

International Shinto Foundation

International Society for Krishna Consciousness

International Zen Association (UK)

Religious Society of Friends / Quakers

Russian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate

Salvation Army UK

Scientology

Select Smart

Seventh Day Adventists Church UK & Ireland

Shi'a Muslim

Sikhism
The Board of Deputies of British Jews

The Catholic Church of England & Wales
The Church of England

The Islam Page

The Methodist Church of Great Britain

Unitarian & Free Christian Churches

United Pentecostal Church International

RELIGIOUS SITES (ITALY)

Vatican - Check information about the Pope John Paul's doings and the latest from The Holy See, in any one of several languages.

ROBOTS

A Robot Named John - Probably one of the oddest, most surreal sites you're likely to come across. Have fun seeing what objects you can click on to make the most out of the weird robotic, animated world of John and his metallic friends.

Anthony Daniels - Meet the man behind C-3PO at Anthony Daniels' website. It has excellent behind-the-scenes images.

BBC: Robot World - BBC's own robot micro site. The best feature is the Build-A-Bot section, where you can construct your own e-robot.

Channel 4: Robots - Create your own software robot to tackle hazardous 'zones', or surf the small site to pick up some robot-related facts.

ROYALTY

Etoile's Unofficial Royalty Site - The place to go on the internet for anything related to royalty.