www.peter-tynan.org, my own little corner of the WWW
Happy´s Page, here you will find my alter-ego "Happy"
My Gopher site.
Barry. The personal web site of my friend Barry
Craig & Desyer. My friend Craig and his band
Frankie Roberto. A personal web site
Plasticsquirrel. AKA Dave Holwill ... musician and nutter
Jenny (aka Purplejenny). Her life, her art (very good it is too), her things and Hackney
Miranda. The personal web site of my friend Miranda
Miranda/Wendy Smith. Miranda's tribute to Wendy Smith
Rob & The Forbidden. My friend Rob and his band
Stevie C's Home page. My flat-mate
Willem My friend Willem & all sorts of wonderful stuff
Xyroth Lots of interesting stuff from Xyroth
If you like music, you should visit Bob Harris. Elder readers may remember Bob from the Old Grey Whistle Test, which he presented.
If you like music, you should also visit the
Internet Underground Music Archive
Also on the theme of great music may I recommend Laura Cantrell´s "Radio Thrift Shop", if your thinking of upgrading to a broadband connection the archives of this site should give you all the justification you need.
If you want to know what I get up to in my spare time try
The Sealed Knot (it's a fetish
thing)
If you got time on your hands you could browse the archives at arXiv.org
Book A Minute SF&F, There's a lot of science fiction and fantasy out there and very little time to read it in. Well sit back and relax, because your troubles are solved!
What can one say about George Formby? The man, the music, the films... The George Formby Society site is a must for George Formby fans everywhere :-)
Beowulf, what can be known about a unique poem in a unique manuscript, dated around the year 1000 a.d.? What do we know about the circumstances of its composition? Beowulf is both strange and familiar: it has some links with ancient classical poems like Homer's; 19th century ideas of it have been received and reworked in the course of the 20th century in academe, children's literature and adult popular culture; and yet it remains an ancient artifact of a culture whose world we can never share
Earth Observatory, the big picture on how our planet is changing.
Greanpeace, these people should need no introduction - ok, so they have a political agenda but that doesn´t mean they are wrong.
OneWorld, OneWorld is a community of over 1000 organisations working for social justice.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, "A blazing example of
what online journalism should be, using a website's freedom to set the agenda
and its limitless space to explore the issues."
Quote from the Sunday Times.
News Is Free, a personal news-portal, that collects headlines from 2384 sources around the web and lets you manage them in new ways.
The Brains Trust, one of the best satirical magazine on the web.
The Onion, the original and best - this US based satirical magazine has inspired many imitators - if you go take a look you will find out why.
Private Eye, the on-line version of Britain´s most respected printed satirical magazine.
Alternet.org, To quote my friend Jenny who recommend this site "A good, big, user friendly site of international news and global action".
Potlatch, An interesting site all about the caring and sharing society we all live in.
Zmag, The spirit of resistance lives - A good collection of well informed political writing, Noam Chomksy, John Pilger, George Monbiot and Susan George are amongst the many excellent writers featured.
Foundation for Information Policy Research, The Foundation for Information Policy Research is an independent body that studies the interaction between information technology and society.
Contact your MP. Never be afraid to contact your Member of Parliament, he/she is there to represent you and if you do not let them know your opinions they can not do that can they?
The Gimp is a FREE top notch graphics editing program that been around on linux for many years, but did you know there was a version of the Gimp available for Windows Users?
SeeThru is a utility that allows the background colour for the text under icons on the desktop be made transparent in Win 9x.
Tclock2, A damm useful Windows Taskbar and Desktop enhancement tool.
Cygwin, Cygwin is a *NIX environment, developed by Red Hat, for Windows.
Dev-C++, developed by Bloodshed Software, is a fully featured graphical IDE (Integrated Development Environment), which is able to create Windows or console-based C/C++ programs.
Trillian is everything you need for instant messaging. Connect to ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and IRC in a single, sleek and slim interface.
Openoffice.org develop & distribute a fully featured FREE Office Suite released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).
1st Page 2000, this HTML editing software is fantastic if you like playing with the code but not one for you WYSIWYG kids.
Shellnet is a Telnet & FTP program designed for accessing Shell accounts that use the Bash shell. NOTE: If you intend to use this with a shell hosted on a server running BSD you will need to contact the author to get a patched version of .exe file (the version you can download on the Shellnet website works fine connecting to servers running Linux).
PuTTY is a top notch free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
And finally a special thank-you to all those that helped test this site...
... thanks guys :-)