SCREENONLINE
WWW.SCREENONLINE.ORG.UK
This website is the British Film Institute's definitive guide to the British film industry. ScreenOnline.org.uk is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.
Access to the single most extensive publicly available resource devoted to British film and television is entirely free.
However access to the audio and video content is limited. The only locations eligible to register for (free) access to Screenonline audio and video material on their premises are UK schools, public libraries, colleges and universities.
The timeline of British Television is a particularly interesting read starting with the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria on 22nd June 1897 to Business Secretary John Hutton ordering BSkyB to reduce its 17.9% holding in ITV to 7.5% on 29th January 2008.
The timeline is designed to give you an at-a-glance view of the key events in the history of the moving image in Britain.
NATIONMASTER
WWW.NATIONMASTER.COM
If you want some very general maps for travel statistics, charts and facts, then log onto Nationmaster.com, this is a giant yet easy-to-use site that encompasses maps and data on every country in the world.
The site creator built the site to promote education and understanding about the world and to make it easier to engage with the indicators that shape global commerce, health, politics and ecology. NationMaster.com provides you with a central location that allows you to compare countries on any statistic you like. View Ireland's Population Pyramid, Crime Statistics and Environmental statistics to name but a few.
As well as transforming dry facts into entertainment NationMaster has the added attraction that its collection of data can also be of genuine use to teachers, students, journalists and anyone else with a serious interest in the planet's statistical makeup.
All numerical data within the site was extracted from the CIA World Factbook.
GAMESPOT
WWW.GAMESPOT.COM
Whether you are a casual or hardcore gamer, this site is as serious about games as you are. GameSpot is incredibly focused on the needs of gamers providing news, reviews, hints and tips for virtually every console game on the market.
Essential if you are still up at 2am trying to find a way into the castle on Zelda. This site prides itself in reaching millions of gamers each week by offering alongside game reviews and news stories, previews of the hottest upcoming games, downloads, video streams, guides, cheats and hints. Joining the GameSpot community is free however if you want GameSpot total access it will cost $3.33 a month and for HD videos and game guides with GameSpot Plus it's an additional $1.66 a month. Take a breath and let it all sink in.
This site is extensive and if like me you haven't a clue, you soon will, once you spend some time browsing through GameSpot. So in short, no matter what you're into, this site has got every aspect of your gaming world covered.
