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2,000
toilet seat lights to fit 10,000 bowl
heights - how did you ever manage
without one? *****
Bizarre
stuff you can make in your kitchen
- Bizarre stuff you can make in your kitchen!
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Craziest
Websites on the Planet Featuring
"Dr Crazy" winner of the Short
Attention Span of the Week site in April!
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Ferrets
Online: "Introduction to ferrets
and links to other ferret sites of interest"
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Fun
with Grapes - a microwave lightshow.
No responsibility accepted if you are
daft enough to do this. ***
Guana
Guana, Hopper, Brownie and Bumpy -
The story of four very special (and spoiled)
green iguanas *****
Jockie 'n
Rossie go to Majorca a tale of simple
folk following football *
The
Boot Jack Stand: Ideal for the removal
of any boot at any time *
Ugly sites, daft sites and truly imaginative
stuff from Inept
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Web
Police - No, I didn't believe it either
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Fascinating
and Useful Information
Anstruther
Lifeboat Station An absolute must
for East Neuk fans *****
Budget
Holidays Guide to Sleeping in Airports:
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Edinburghers
Biographies: Adam Smith, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Elsie Inglis and more. **
Edinburgh
Pub Tour: Really swish but there are
over 500 more pubs than they feature **
How
many female breeding pigs in Scotland?
the Scottish Office knows, and you can
too! **
Live
pictures from Davis Station Antartica
- Fascinating, but not a lot to see at
night! ****
Potatoes
Online a fascinating site for all
you spuds freaks *****
Royal
Canadian Mounted Police - A wee charging
Mountie gif and lots of Mountie pics.
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Sedgwick
County Fire Department Kansas For
firefighter fans. * (male vote) *****
(female vote)
Subway
Navigator - Find your way round any
subway in the world. It even told me how
to get from Cowcaddens to Buchanan Street.
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Tayside
Police Good evening and welcome. Info
on how to get to the 1999 Open Golf and
warnings in five languages about the perils
of illegal parking and how tee'd off you'd
get about being towed away. **
The
Kingdoms of Lowland Scotland Did you
know that Strathclyde Kings claimed descent
from Ceretic Wledic? (Some Kings claimed
descent from Macsen Wledig (Magnus Maximus),
but this appears to have been due to confusion
with Ceretig.) *****
Universal
Currency Converter - Even has Euros
to Pounds. Really Handy. ****
What's
the traffic like in Seattle? Freeway
cams - have a look at Snoqualmie Pass!
(Our favourite - don't know why) *****
Humour
April
Fools on the web - hours of malicious
fun! ***
Asterix:
Competitions, Stories and Wallpaper (Thanks
to The Scotsman) ****
(Big
Tamsh Unoffichial Language Learner)
- Learn to shpeak like a film shtar -
Unfortunately this site (at Heriot Watt)
has gone. We say bring back the speak
like Sean Connery site - it was magnificent.
*****
Eric
Idle Drove My Car: Enough said.
Though you could click on the words at
the very bottom... *****
Fistful
of Spikes: Allegedly Spike Milligan's
homepage **
Ham(p)ster
Dance This will really cheer you up!
"Why do you misspell hamster? It's
not supposed to have a 'p' in it! If you
don't think hampster has 'p' in it, then
you've never owned a hampster! ;-) Everything
here is named with a 'p' because the name
of the original HampsterDancer is Hampton
Hampster, a little hamster from Canada"
- *****
Fishy
Dance More of the bizarre same - but
have fun pausing your mouse over the fish
and giggling at the comments ****
"Kissthisguy"
funny, bizarre and downright daft misheard
song lyrics ***
Music
Scottish
midi tunes Just in time for the parliament
sing-a-long. ***
Sheena
Easton's OFFICIAL Homepage: No cheap
imitations here. **
Political?
Cuba's
Website: It's worth it just for the
rippling Java lake in the opening banner.
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Pretty sites
Art
Center College of Design (Pasadena
Calif.) Some lovely wee touches and a
new pic every time you go in! *****
Caledonian
MacBrayne "Hello there! What
a beautiful day. And warm too. A grand
day for going to sea. Indeed, yes. Anyway,
welcome aboard the Caledonian MacBrayne
web site. I'm here to tell you all about
the west coast of Scotland..." it
says. ***
Monet's
home, garden and village - Some lovely
stuff and lots of strobing (why?) Monet
posters. LA Times "Times Pick"
May 1997, so they say. ****
Perth
College My niece works in a restaurant
in Perth. Ask if your waitress's name
is Jenny. ****
Scottish
Council for Voluntary Organisations
Nice birling logo and design, I think
anyway. Unfortunately the re-design is
not as nice as the old one. Was *****,
now ****
Secret
MI5's
secret site Well, not really. *
The
CIA's kids homepage Honest! ***
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