Favourite/Useful websites

cannedmoose · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: Favourite/Useful websites

I'm making this one a sticky, because favourite and useful websites always come in handy, so hopefully we can make this into an interesting resource... don't have to be about Cyprus, just try to keep it clean (Memo!).

To start it off, here are 3 of mine...

1. Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/index.php

The goal of the project is for intrepid individuals to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories are then posted on the site. The lengths that some people have gone to are sometimes extraordinary. It's also a good way to see the world from the comfort of your desk. There are 700 left to go, see if you live near one... (unlikely)

There are only two in Cyprus Smile

One in Troodos, the other near Agia Napa...
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=35&lon=33
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=35&lon=34

Also plenty left if anyone's planning to holiday in Greenland this year
http://www.confluence.org/region.php?id=787

2. Fallingrain
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/

Want to know what the weather is like in Osaka or Ougadougou, Winchester or Whitehorse, this website has weather information for tens of thousands of cities, towns and villages all over the world.

3. E-Radio Greece
http://www.e-radio.gr/

If you like Greek music, this is a great site. Links to dozens of radio stations in Greece (and Cyprus), including my favourite Radio Arion which plays all the latest Greek stuff. Well worth a listen

cypezokyli · Ministerial Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2344

e-radio.gr i use every single day.

my suggestion to those interested in quality greek music, go for the station labelled, greek electric. they are not that electric, on the contrary...
(for some stupid reason, mythos and diesi dont work for a month now.)

you can also get a couple of world music/ethnik radio stations.

any suggestion, on turkish stations? mostly interested in traditional music.

Crash Test Dummy · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:16 am Post subject:

www.TalkCyprus.org

Its so cool Cool

cannedmoose · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

Crash Test Dummy · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject:

1. WiseNut
www.wisenut.com

Probably the most advanced search engine about.

2. HowStuffWorks
www.howstuffworks.com

Does exactly what it says on the tin

Bullika · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com/
a website created by travellers about almost every country on the planet. You have upto date info on border crossings, conditions on the Karakoram highway, what to avoid in some countries... Its updated daily.

http://sumeet.info/India/
Which states in India have you been to? Whether its Utter Pradesh or Nicobar, you can generate your own map.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/legalizecannibisnow/
Legalise Cannibis Now! (Northern Cyprus)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northcypruslibertariansociety/
North Cyprus Libetarians

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sosyalistgrupkktc/
North Cyprus Socialist Group

http://www.google.com/language_tools
Online Translator, translates sentences and whole essays into numerous languages at the touch of a button.

Dhavlos · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject:

Ah, if your going for a translator...these are good:

www.wordreference.com - translates words

www.verbix.com/languages .....select a language, and click on the conjugate online button! Brilliant stuff for linguists...but it doesnt do greek conjugation online..

brother · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject:

Excellent thread, will be making my contributions soon. Wink

cannedmoose · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:

Another good one for those intrigued by statistics is:

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

It's a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a compilation of data from sources such as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.

You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables.

Very handy and interesting.

Bullika · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

cannedmoose · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

That's because it's focus is on legally recognised states Memo Wink

Organisations such as the CIA, UN and OECD don't tend to collect data and report on unrecognised states, too sensitive politically.

Bullika · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

cannedmoose · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Off the top of my head (far from an exhaustive list because there must be loads...)

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (obviously)

Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia enclave in Azerbaijan)

Trans-Dniestr (split from Moldova)

Abkhazia (split from Georgia, although not sure if this has been resolved...)

Taiwan (Republic of China)

Chechnya (split from Russia)

Somaliland (split from Somalia, the northern area that was formerly a British colony... it works very well as a state, but everyone refuses to recognise it, even though it has maintained stability while the rest of Somalia is anarchic)

Not sure of its name, but the Tamil-controlled area in Northern Sri Lanka

Palestine

That's all that I can think of... unless you include silly entities like Sealand (http://www.sealandgov.com/), but these hardly count as functioning states.

Bullika · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject:

Dhavlos · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject:

If you go on the BBC website, they usually have things about political entities, and territories etc