Interviews: My Bookmarks Peter James is an author whose books include Faith, Denial and Prophecy.
He co-founded Pavilion Internet, one of the UK's first internet service providers
[from The Daily Telegraph, December 2000]
Speedtrap.com
I'm strongly
against speed cameras. They are not about road safety so much as an
iniquitous stealth tax on motorists. This site maintains the anarchic
traditions of the early days of the Net, by telling you the positions
of all cameras throughout the world.
www.speedtrap.com
Extropy
This is
a fabulous research site for me on many of science's wildest developments
- from uploading human brains into computers to robot surgeons a few
atoms tall that will enter our bodies and deal with damage or diseases.
Extropians believe the human flesh and blood state is temporary and
we will progress into the era of post-biological man.
www.extropy.com
Ivanhoe
This is
one of the great web sites of the internet. It contains constant updates
of all medical advances in the world - new developments in cancer treatments,
migraine treatments, diabetes and so on. If you sign up, they e-mail
regular news bulletins to you. Well-presented and invaluable.
www.ivanhoe.com
The
Ultimate Taxi
Jon Barnes
has had everyone in his Colorado cab from the Pope to Ivana Trump. This
is one of those wonderfully pointless sites that exists for sheer fun
as part of the serendipity of the net, like people in the early days
who put on pictures of coffee percolators, or goldfish going round in
their bowl.
http://www.ultimatetaxi.com/
Internet
Movie Database
The internet
movie database is the most complete film and television research resource
I've found. Informative and huge fun, it has a serious database that
I've yet to defeat and a facility that I love: you can look up your
favourite quotes and get the correct wording. Surf it again, Sam!
www.imdb.com
What
doctors don't tell you
This site
gives a wealth of hard-to-get facts about medicine and drugs as well
as regularly highlighting proven alternative approaches. It can be hard-hitting
and quite alarming at times, but I've never heard of any pharmaceutical
company or medics suing the site, which gives me the sense they can't
be too far from the truth.
www.wddty.co.uk
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