Links from crataegus.me.uk

Links are gathered here mostly for my own reference, as a long set of occasionally-wanted bookmarks; I make no comment on how far I'm interested in, support, or approve of any of them. I'm not maintaining this list as a public service, and will not on any account add links suggested to me by e-mail.

News and Information

• Duck Duck Go, a search engine; Google, likewise.
• Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia.
• The BBC homepage, BBC news, BBC weather for Cambridge.
• Weather from Cambridge from the MET Office.
• Newspapers: The Guardian, Cambridge news, the Independent, the Telegraph, the Economist, Politico, and the New Statesman.
• German newspapers: Süddeutsche Zeitung, die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and der Spiegel.
• More newspapers: Die Presse, Der Standard, Wiener Zeitung, Salzburger Nachrichten, Rzeczpospolita, and Gazeta Wyborcza.
• Bellingcat.
• The law at HMSO. Tax Returns at HMRC. Postage prices at the Royal Mail. Postage track and trace.
• Cambridge City Council, and the all-important bin information.
• Government statistics.

Computing

• Pyxplot, a graph plotting package.
• W3 Validator, for finding mistakes in web pages.
• The PHP Manuel, which explains PHP (for making the mistakes in the first place).
• Debian, a GNU / Linux distribution.
• Simple SAML authentication software which can be used for interfaces with Raven.
• Unicode charts.

Mathematics

• Ask NRICH, a (now sadly defunct) web forum for maths questions. Mathworld, with lots of maths.
• A site on the history of mathematics.

Science

• Botanical Key, for identifying wild flowers online.
• Webelements, an online periodic table.
• Physics simulations from the University of Colorado.
• CHaOS (demonstrators), and CHaOS (public page), a student-run hands-on science group.
• The Naked Scientists, who produce science radio and podcasts. Also the Cambridge Science Centre.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
• The Digital Astrolabe, giving ephemerides.
• Physics problems.

Religion

• Parish of St Mary the Less in Cambridge, the Diocese of Ely, and the Church of England.
• Cambridge Churches Homeless Project.
• A Church Near You, for finding nearby (C of E) churches, and plotting parish boundaries.
• Morning Prayer for today, according to the Church of England's Common Worship book. (Also Evening Prayer and Compline.) More collects and readings for saints' days.
• The Ship of Fools, a web forum of a self-styled magazine of Christian unrest.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library, online texts. The online works of Newman. The online works of Chesterton.
• Assorted poetry on the liturgical year. Also recipes.
• The Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Radio and Television

• BBC Radio 3; BBC radio 4.
• BBC iPlayer, ZDF Mediathek, ITV Player, ORF TVTHEK, ARD.
• NDR Kultur; German Radio.

Transport

• National Rail Enquiries.
• More rail enquiries: Deutsche Bahn (who know about all of the trains everywhere, more-or-less); Oesterreichische Bundesbahn; PKP; Trenitalia; Eurostar.
• Rail advice.
• Megabus.
• Ferries: Stenaline.
• Bicycle maintenance information from Sheldon Brown.

Charities

• The 11th/9th Cambridge Scout Group, part of Cambridge District, which is in Cambridgeshire Scout County.
• Scoutbase, resources for Scout leaders.
• CUSAGC, Cambridge University Scout and Guide Club.
• Romsey Mill, a Cambridge charity.
• Christian Aid; the Medaille Trust.

Shops

• Amazon and Ebay, for buying things.
• J and M sewing, who supply useful things like cassocks.
• Brian Jordan Ltd, formerly of Green Street, which sells sheet music and music books. Also Millers (who tune pianos).
• The Eagle Bookshop in Bedford, possibly the most wonderful (and hence dangerous) second-hand bookshop in the world.
• Old pens for sale. Also newer pens.
• Mackays of Cambridge (for hardware et c.).

Languages

• Der Duden online.
• Translation into English from German, French, Italian, Polish, or Latin.
• Sometimes better translation (Linguee), from German, Polish, and Italian.
• Memrise.
• Classical texts and translations. (And some more.)

History

• Lots of information about the Habsburgs.
• The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, and the Maxwell at Glenlair Trust.

University of Cambridge

• Selwyn College.
• Hermes webmail.
• University lookup service.
• Newton, the University of Cambridge's online library catalogue.
• University of Cambridge term dates.
• The resources page and teaching page for the Department of Physics. Also extra information about examinations.
• The Zoology Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
• The Botanical Garden.
• Moodle site for IA Mathematics for Natural Sciences.
• (Semi?-)official advice on supervising, from the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, and from Maths.

Music

• Concert calendar for Cambridge.
• The English National Opera, and the Royal Opera. A database of performances of opera.
• The Contemplator's folk-songs page.
• The National Pipe Organ Register.

Amusing Things et c.

• xkcd comics and what-if questions; Bad Machinery comics.
• Unnecessary depth of discussion on concertinas, fountain pens, and sloe gin.
• Some assorted random blogs, on history, comedy, quotations, archives, miscellanenous things, misuse of science, more history, linguistics.
• TV Tropes, which has a somewhat wider scope than its name suggests.
• Odd maps.
• Warnings against giving the working man work to do; the perils of living in the suburbs.
• How University committees really make decisions.
• Warnings about a very dangerous chemical.
• I tend to think that Twitter is for twits, but some accounts are at any rate sometimes amusing: travel information, the president of Russia, mistakes, North Korea, ...
• ...and some are even informative; accounts broadly on lexicography, history, a church, animals, the law, foreign affairs, ...

Things that I administer

• Little Abington Scout Campsite and Training Ground website.
• Servers' rota for Little St Mary's Church. (Whilst anyone can view the logging-in page, with information about the liturgical significance of the day, only LSM servers, who have accounts on the system, can log in.)
• URL for the defunct Eucharistic Ministers' rota for Farm Street Church.
• Supervision information on this website.
• Kitty programs for Coleridge Road and for Caer Peverel. (Access is restricted to the people concerned.)
• Index to this website.

Things that I use (of even less interest to anyone else than the above)

• Gmail.
• Exchange Online which has replaced Hermes.
• CamCORS, the University of Cambridge's online system for supervision reports. Also CamTools, and the Subject Moderation Interface.
• Control panel for the Abington Campsite website, and others that I administer.
• Penguin Internet Ltd, which hosts the above. Penguin's client area.
• Sole gin truffles recipe.
• Trinity Hall Supervision Rooms (booking program). Now also Jerome, performing the same function for Jesus.
• Halifax online banking and shares; YBS. Metro Bank.
• O2 accounts.
• National Blood Service donations.
• Easy Fundraising portal.