Reflections through Cyberspace

The race is on for 22 of the UK’s most popular locations to be immortalised on the world famous board game, Monopoly. The communities of the UK’s villages, towns and cities will be rallying together to vote for the chance to be included in the ultimate list of UK locations.
For over 70 years the official [...]

Here’s a website I’ve just discovered, related to books - LibraryThing.
LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read [...]

Here’s an interesting website I came across recently: The Phrase Finder
It includes a phrases thesaurus and also meaning and origins of phrases and sayings.
More about it here

Here’s a way of searching the internet with the help of a live human guide: ChaCha Search
What happens is that you can chat with a guide, who will find what you are looking for according to your requirements. What’s more it’s still free. Interesting idea.
Read more about it here

A new interesting website which I discovered from Owen: Shopaholic? Me?

I just came across this interesting website - Walkit. All you have to do is put in from where you are starting your walk to where you want to stop and it gives you a lot of details on how to get there including a map, as well as other interesting facts such as distance, [...]

Some time ago I discovered this website which is all about London and it’s updated daily. It includes news and photos related to London and it’s one of a number of websites I visit daily .
Today they featured this pic from someone’s collection of newspaper headlines. I had a look at the other photos and [...]

Whilst in London I found a book printed by the English Heritage at the flat where we were staying. It is a handbook about places of interest around the UK. I found their website and it is full of details and pictures as well. I particularly found interesting the online resources section, especially the Images [...]

I came across this very interesting website about London while I was there a couple of weeks ago. Informative both for those living there and for people visiting the city. It has the facility to search for places, eg. nearest police station, nearest hospital, nearest parking, etc..It also has live traffic information, where you could [...]

This would look great with my books : book clocks