My Links

Music

• http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/
  American radio station, KCRW, that has great ‘live’ session available as streamed video. Specifically the show ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ has studio sessions by many acts like Badly Drawn Boy, Josh Rouse, SIA, Snowpatrol and Zero7. If you have broadband and love music it is highly recommended.
• http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/
  The official Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts site. 2010 will be my 13th time at the festival.
• http://home.planet.nl/~frankbri/
  Factory Records (and Les Disques Du Crepuscule) site with good photographic archive.
• http://listen.to/factory/
  Site about Factory Records, my favourite record label of all time.
• http://acrmcr.com/
  A Certain Ratio, one of my favourite bands of the 1980’s. Contains information about their recent activities.
• http://www.4ad.com/
  My second favourite record label of all time.

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Fun

• http://askaninja.com/
  Insightful podcasts on life from a ninja master.
• http://www.tokyoplastic.com/
  Some of the most original, and weird, Flash animation and interface design on the web.
• http://www.requiemforadream.com/
  Surreal site to accompany the surreal 2000 film ‘Requiem for a Dream’.
• http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/
  Very funny spoof of the pointless government site and leaflet.

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Bikes

• http://www.bmw-motorrad.co.uk/
  Official BMW motorbike site.
• http://ukgser.com/
  UK-based GS community, created by BMW GS enthusiasts for the benefit of likeminded individuals. Forum contains answers to most GS related questions.
• http://www.retrobike.co.uk/
  Classic mountain bikes.
• http://www.sheldonbrown.com/
  How to fix anything on a bicycle.

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Website design

Attention: If you sign up for a DataFlame web hosting account (paid annually) using the link below it will earn me £35. I recommend them as good web hosts and not only because it might earn me some money!

• http://www.dataflame.co.uk/
  The host of this site. American company but with UK hosting based in the UK (Ringwood). Very good support.
• http://www.alistapart.com/
  A List Apart, a huge resource for advice about creating CSS based designs.
• http://www.positioniseverything.net/
  Another excellent CSS advice site.
• http://www.csszengarden.com/
  Powerfully demonstrates what can be achieved with CSS. A simple page that the viewer can change the appearance of by selecting different style sheets.
• http://www.webmonkey.com/
  Webmonkey, a good place to start for website design advice.

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Various

• http://www.zen159730.zen.co.uk/Vegetarian_beers.html
  Unique site listing which beers are vegetarian. Thank you to the creator of the site!