Alex's Favourite Fun Sites

URL

Description/Comments

http://www.virgin.net/cinema/whatson/

Cinema and film locator.

www.tapanda.com/freebies/competitions/competitions.htm

Contains links to a lot of competitions, they give you the answers as well.
They also have some other freebies.

www.emode.com

Contains a number of funny personality tests.

www.waitallday.com

A site that asks you to wait, then wait some more. I've set it as the start page on my computer.
Use the following link to set it as your start page.

www.gnute.com

This is an online search engine for Gnutella. Gnutella is a file sharing system like napster which lets you share more than just music files, and is spread over many servers so won't suffer the same legal problems as Napster.

www.mp3unlimited.net

A good site for downloading MP3s from, they have albums as well as singles.

www.mp3board.com

A search engine for MP3s, the ftp links don't usualy work but the others seem to.

www.rewind.org.uk

This site provides a comparsion of the American(R1), European(R2) and Australain releases of DVDs.
They also compare different relaeses within regions.

www.play247.co.uk

A good site for buying both R1 and R2 DVDs as well as CDs. They are based in Jersey so you don't have to pay extra to import US DVDs and CDs.
Their CDs are from the US so they sometimes contain different tracks from the UK ones.

www.core-man.com/reddwarf

The red dwarf reference Guide.

www.simon-turner.co.uk/reddwarf/rdpage.html

Lots of red dwarf triva and quizes.

www.snopes.com

Contains information on Urban Legends- Present day myths.

www.webspirations.net

Some inspiraring stuff. Warning: It has muisc.

www.soundcentral.com

Lots of good sound files.

www.007fonts.com

Lots of fonts.

www.freegames.org

Lots of good games.

main.penola.mtx.net.au/~allan

Some fun downloads and other bits.

www.lockergnome.com/midi

Lots of Christmas tunes.

www.cwn.org.uk/webcams

A webcam in Coventry.

www.hypermind.dk

This site contains lots of fun downloads, including games and screenmates.

www.eeggs.com

Easter eggs, this includes hidden features in films etc. An Easter Egg is something that has been hidden in a product by it's creator.

www.rubiks.com

An on-line Rubik's cube.

www.guyharris.com

Very amusing page might not appeal to every one's sense of humour.

www.drscience.com

Dr Science has answers for all questions quite funny.

www.techtales.com

This sites contains humorous stories, from real technical support calls, you can even listen to the calls using real audio.

This site has loads of good dos games.

www.amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.com

Great on-line book store, up to 40%, although postage is around £2.50. You can even use their gift service where they take the price off and put your personal message on the packing, for an extra £2.00 they will wrap it for you. Non UK uses use the second address.
If you have never used amazon.co.uk before then I can get you £5 off your first order (ok, I get a £5 gift voucher as well). Just email me and tell me the email address you intend to sign up to amazon with, and I'll reffer you and thety send you an email. That simple.

www.garethwhite.freeserve.co.uk

South Park Essentials - some great stuff.

www.botspot.com

This site has loads of links to 'bots' on the web, these include chatter bots that will have a conversation with you.

www.reddwarf.co.uk

The official Red Dwarf site.
Thanks to Swarajit Das for recommending this site.

www.jonhilt.enta.net

Has nearly all of the songs from Red Dwarf available for download.
Thanks to Swarajit Das for recommending this site.

www.reddwarf.nildram.co.uk

Loads of Red Dwarf info, including fan fiction.
Thanks to Swarajit Das for recommending this site.