2000 Archive of 'Got 5 Minutes'

2001 Archive of 5 minute browse

Jamie Oliver the Naked Chef includes recipies, a diary and his music.

Oxford Companion to Wine on Wine.com - US based with international wines.

Travel Envoy Wine Guide is a world wine directory with tasting notes.

Time for some satire with The Chaser (how does your salary compare with Kerry Packers?) and Herd of Sheep

Dr Karl's homepage is an interesting diversion from the science section on the ABC.

NASA satellite tracker is the geek peek of the week.

Track satellites in real time.

Mystic Medusa will provide your star signs with syle and flair.

H2G2 - the earth version of the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy?

The Olympics is the flavour of the minute, see also the CNN Olympics site.

The Games is a fantastic series, see the apology from a John Howard.

Silly2000 is an alternative to the games.

Choice magazine analyses products for the valueaholic

Dr Seuss produced more than Green Eggs and Ham - see the political cartoons.

The Rijksmuseum has an interesting site.

See their virtual tour and recent acquisitions.

Monkey was a cult television show that had incredible quotes and bizarre characters. Check out the site information and cast.

Life magazine - 1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Photography Awards have stunning photos, see both the single photos and photo essays in each category.

Kamat's Potpourri is a mixture of photography, writing and cultural tour of India.

See more about the site

Urban Cinefile is full of movie reviews, features, interviews and news.

Check out the FBI's most wanted top ten list.

There is also a large list of fugatives.

A free example of online learning is to teach yourself to type with easytype.

Box Offfice Actresses has Carrie Fisher, Salma Hayek, Meg Ryan, Madonna, Nicole Kidman, Whoopi Goldberg, and Sigourney Weaver among others.

The Austin Powers site doesn't take itself too seriously.

It will test your download speed, as it uses flash technology extensively (I love the laugh in the evil section).

Noir Alley has the films, the gallery, the slang, and the story.

Atmospheric and a classy looking site.

Cuisine magazine has beautifully photographed recipies, wine ratings, and a fun wallpaper gallery.

The Hubble showcase is a collection of some of the best pictures that the telescope has taken.

Other galaxies are out there.

The Coffee Kid is designed exclusively on the subject of coffee.

Obsession with style.

The Drudge Report was the first to break the Monica Lewinsky scandel.

The site may be less reliable but more interesting than traditional media.
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The Amphibia Web lists frog species including those missing in action and some of the reasons that this may be happening.

I loved the stunning pictures. Seen a mountain mist frog?.

The Creole and Cajun Recipie Page has an introduction to cajun cooking including a dish which is worshipped in New Orleans, Gumbo.
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Gullivers Travels has the text of the book, a bibliography of Johnathon Swift and images used in various editions.

Try a different perspective from the mainstream media.

A loose cannon on popstars is one of the more interesting articles around .....

It was a dark and stormy night...

The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest produces some of the worst prose in the english language on purpose.

See why, and view past winners

Healthy Eating is a massive website aimed at improving information on healthy eating.

More about the organisation.

See cereals and grains in their April newsletter

More about terra.

See Terra's images and data.

The Discovery Channel has a special on climbing everest.

It includes a virtual tour (takes a while to load and requires flash).

Warning. You may want to turn off your speakers.

Box Office actors section has biographies of stars.

See mike myers, steve martin, jackie chan, alan rickman, sean connery, or robert de niro.

Terence stamp and mel gibson are the oz contingent.

Salon Magazine is well written and has frequent new content.

Check out their arts and entertainment or people sections .

Politcs 2000 is a little more serious but it's their articles and specials are most worthwhile.

The Time Digital 50 has biographies of technology's 50 most important faces.

Who would have thought that Steve Jobs, Pokemon and Bill Gates would survive happily in the same list.

But it's not all about commercialisation of the web, the father of Linux is there too.

Reaching New Heights has the history of sky scrapers (US based) where you can see the worlds ten tallest buildings.

The site is produced by the History Channel.

The James Brown Page from Funky Stuff is a comprehensive tribute to James Brown that has a professional feel.

It includes interviews, lists of books, videos, tour dates, a pictureshow and, most interestingly, samples from James Brown Songs and the songs that they were used in.

If you want to hear the samples and songs, you need Real Audio to hear them (the basic version is free).

Real Audio is a piece of software which plays music in it's own format.

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