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Autocade
JY&A Media’s new international wiki on cars, with professional
editing and accurate information—while still accepting input
from the public
Austin Rover Online
The best Austin Rover site we've seen. If you're in to the BL
era and think about the opportunities that the Harold Wilson government-force-merged
company missed, this is the site. Pardon the spelling errors
but Keith Adams’s site has a wealth of information about prototypes
and development stories of everything from the TR7, Princess and
Allegro to the unreleased Rover P8 and Pininfarina 1100. We’d
love to see some mention of the Australian and South African BL
cars and missed opportunities like the Leyland P82. In mid-2005, it charted developments nearly daily as MG Rover went into administration. A virtual treasure
chest for the car nut Auto Bild Online
Exclusive scoop photos, road tests, and archives are here. We've
yet to see better than this site, from the publishers of Germany's
weekly Auto Bild. Should whet the appetites for the printed
version and spread Auto Bild goodwill in countries where
the title's not available.
Autocar
It’s taken years for the world’s first car mag to get
online. It’s now here, and not a moment too soon. An excellent
site
Autoindex
This is the site that resembles something we would have put together
if we were ever in that market-place: a global guide that is not
biased toward any one country. There are some holes and tiny errors
with the smaller-volume countries (Australia, Brazil, South Africa)
but otherwise, it is fairly comprehensive. The URL is owned by Detroit
columnist Paul Lienert
Autototaal
Look at every car on the Dutch market. This is one of the most complete
and up-to-date car databases on the internet, complete with photos
and Dutch-market prices
Car and Driver
Yet another excellent auto magazine that's on the web. Many features
are from the printed issue—but at least it's current
The Car Connection
Highly informative North American site on the latest models, complete
with regular road tests and a daily update
Car Design News
One of our favourites, sponsored by the Academy of Art College.
An examination of the automotive industry from a design perspective.
Regularly updated, including motor show news and design analyses
of the débutantes
Car Mag Reviews
Julian Walls catalogues and reviews car magazines to help people source the right articles for their research—a very clever idea, we think
Carview
If you ever thought the Japanese car industry was hard to follow,
the guys are Carview have databased what they could. Need more on
the 1986 Toyota Camry? Click
here. In Japanese but indispensable to the car boffin
Compact Power
This Colorado Springs, Co. company, with backing from Korea’s
LG Chem, specializes in R&D for advanced battery packs and has
found success in the famous Pike’s Peak race with a car piloted
by third-generation racing driver Jeri Unser
Detroit News Autos
One of the best round-ups of US and worldwide automotive news on
the web
Electrifying Times
Not a particularly attractive site but its content warrants its
inclusion. The magazine is dedicated to electric cars and hybrids—increasingly
valid since the New Zealand government began its hybrid programme
in the late 1970s and the world now following. An antidote to the
gas-guzzlers out of Detroit
How Stuff Works—Auto
Channel
This may sound like a Popular Mechanics-type website but
it’s better, including a car guide from the editors of Consumer
Guide, detailing plenty of US-market models and starting, in many cases, from their founding
Microsoft CarPoint
Comprehensive look at the US car market. Good for the buyer who
needs to know about what's at the dealership right now
Motorbase
It has started off as a hobby site, but look to see Motorbase grow.
It aims to be an encyclopædia of motoring, not just of car
makes and models, but people, too. There’s also an ecommerce
section, classifieds and an owners’ gallery
Nissan Museum
Nissan’s latest slogan might be ‘Shift_the future’,
but it doesn't stop the Japanese automaker from celebrating its
past. This Nissan Museum shows the history of several model lines,
including old home-market brochures. There are omissions—where
are the prewar Bluebirds?—but a wonderful trip to the days
when Nissan first really began feeling international success
Tesla Motors
Already famous for its electricity-powered roadster, upstart car
company Tesla was featured several times on Jack
Yan’s blog and in Lucire
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| Best of the Internet |
The Cool Tricks
and Trinkets Newsletter
Charles Kessler, the man behind the successful A1 Discount Hotels,
had been publishing this newsletter for many years. For some inexplicable
reason, we just subscribed to his emails but never linked the site.
Not only is Mr Kessler one of the busiest men out there, he finds
time every week to put together this newsletter and writes to his
readers personally when they enquire—a true American gentleman.
You can subscribe or read the latest issue at his site
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| Entertainment and Culture |
Avidiva
Proof that JY&Aers have lives outside this company: Jennifer
Hamilton’s girl group, wowing them across New Zealand
City-Kultur
A cool list of culture links, cleverly laid out in a pull-down menu
CommandN
A Canadian blog that has BitTorrent video feeds covering technology
trends
The Cool Hunter
The coolest items available, presented in blog style
The Fourth Turning
The authors of The Fourth Turning theorize that the United
States runs on a cycle of 80–100 years, and this century will
bring challenges that will make the nation face the issue of its
very existence. The web site dates from 1997, yet remains poignant
today Hoochie-Coochie
Co-founded by our friend Jack
Martin Leith, Hoochie-Coochie is an erotic game for imaginative
adults that anyone can participate in, thanks to its website Joi Ito’s Web
A blog from an internet pioneer worthy of listing—Mr Ito has
invested into Technorati and other high-tech ventures
Logictivity
The site of author, futurist and speaker Jonar Nader, the man behind
the chilling novel Z
The London Review of Books
Arguably the finest literary review publication in the world, now
online with a tasteful design and articles from the current and
recent issues
MAP
magazine
Graphically intense Australian media magazine based out of South
Brisbane, Queensland focuses on the people and their spirit rather
than how much they make. The web site is funky and grungy—the
concepts of air travel and a van delivery are great
MASQ
A very talented string quartet based in Romania. Download samples
and read about the quartet from this easy-to-navigate site
Ode
A magazine about positive change in our world, published in English,
Dutch and Portuguese
Palais de Tokyo
Found by our friends at Lû, a new Flash-driven site
for contemporary art, with exhibition news and more. Palais de Tokyo
has art, a restaurant and a boutique in Paris
Sulekha
India is one of the major players in the computer industry, and
potentially, the World Wide Web. As proof, check out Sulekha,
the web magazine for the Indian subcontinent
3 a.m. Publishing
An entertaining and well designed site featuring popular and cutting-edge
journalism, ebooks and short stories
Theme
The tagline is ‘Contemporary Asian culture’ but Theme
goes a bit further than that. In the issue we saw, there was
plenty of environmentally conscious articles, and global style.
(Thanks to Dan Gordon
for mentioning it on his blog)
Transparency Now
A site dealing with transparency but featuring its applications
in popular culture, such as television shows and the news
Woohoo.dk
Leading Danish portal that guides users to other leading sites on
news, sport, lifestyle, email and mobile phones, plus celebrity
news care of its sister site, Kendte
Yale Review of Books
America's first undergraduate review of books from Yale University,
distributed free to the university community and the surrounding
New Haven, Conn. area
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| Food |
Epicurious
What started off as an online Bon Appetit has since swallowed
Condé Nast Traveler Online, so now you don't just
dine, but do so in the best spots. Our view: the best mag that Rochelle
Udell's had a hand in
Peaceworks
Founded by Daniel Lubetzky, PeaceWorks produces fine foods and gifts
made by Arab and Israeli companies. A diverse group with either
Arab or Jewish backgrounds sit on the board of directors: the company
promotes understanding by setting an example
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| Humour |
Chicken or Egg
Which came first? Have your vote or leave a message
TV Dregs
You’d never write home about the design of this site, but you’d
still pore over it for ages. For anyone who’s followed British
TV, and enjoys this sort of humour, TV Dregs takes a hilarious and
fictional (though presented as fact) look back at the forgotten
shows of the UK’s postwar history. There’s everything
from a Supermarionation sitcom called Fab … Liverbirds Are
Go (1969) to Hi-de-Hi Uncut (2002), set at Maplin’s
newest resort: a Club 18–30 on the Greek island of Rhodes
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World of Lily Wong
After a stint in the UK during a time when he suspected he made
the Beijing Politburo hit-list for his political satire in a certain
English-language newspaper, Larry Feign's back at it, drawing cartoons
in Hong Kong under a new masthead. Welcome back, Larry! There's
a whole new bunch of creeps to poke fun at!
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| Movies and Celebrity |
Codesign:
The Italian Job
If you’re a fan of the film—the Michael Caine, not the
Mark Wahlberg, one—enjoy this tribute site, which features
everything from the (slightly incorrect) lyrics of ‘The Self-preservation
Society’ to sound bites (e.g. Caine’s ‘You’re
only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!’). Well designed,
too
Internet Movie Database
The ubiquitous and long-running movie site, originally built up
through individual contributions
Kendte.dk
Denmark's Hollywood and celebrity site but without the mean streak
that's normally found in this genre. It's exceedingly popular with
both sexes thanks to its up-to-the-minute news and has useful links
for film, music and sport
Transparency Now
A site dealing with transparency but featuring its applications
in popular culture, such as television shows and the news
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| Museums and Exhibitions |
Fondazione Prada
The Fondazione Prada presents two exhibitions, dedicated to new
projects, annually, with accompanying books. This site previews
these
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
An exercise in good identity and web design. The MMA's current web
site is tasteful and ties in nicely with the museum itself, while
an all-new site is slated for 2000
MoMA—the Museum of Modern Art
Check out the collection, exhibitions, books, research projects
and everything (and we mean everything, including where to eat)
that makes up New York's Museum of Modern Art. This site is beautifully
done
National Gallery of Art
The collections at Washington's National Gallery of Art belong to
the people of the United States. The site itself is a delight: accessible
information, beautifully presented, and a useful preview to the
exhibitions. Past special exhibitions dating back to 1941 can be
searched, too
Whitney Museum of American
Art
A beautifully designed and easily navigable site, though we're a
bit iffy on the logotype spacing. Typography aside, it's comprehensive
and even has info on past, present and future exhibitions
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| Radio |
 Groove FM
Our favourite Wellington, New Zealand radio station, playing jazz,
acid jazz, lounge, swing and other real music
Radio Active
It started off as a student station but built up a cult following
with its mixture of music and content. Check out Radio Active 89FM
at this link, with RealPlayer
Radio.se
One of the few Windows Media Player-cast radio stations that we
could readily find from Stockholm is Radio.se. Not quite as hip
as Metro FM but has a good mix and the usual European RDS information
on what song is being played, in a wee pop-up window
Radio Stella
A great pop-music mixture from this Helsingborg-based commercial
FM station. In Swedish
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| Television |
The Mary & Rhoda List
The daily mailing list where you can relive and chat about The
Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda and classic television, as well
as the TV movie Mary & Rhoda
Transparency Now
A site dealing with transparency but featuring its applications
in popular culture, such as television shows and the news
TV Ark
Billy Ingram’s TV Party
site, linked here since the 1990s, gives a wonderful insight into
the United States. TV Ark does the same for Britain, saving advertisements,
bumps and opening sequences for some of that country’s most
loved television TV Party
Most of us here are old enough to remember most of the old shows,
some popular, some forgotten, that TV Party reviews. Be prepared
to spend ages reading up on everything from Shaft to Happy
Days
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| Travel and Region-specific Sites |
Lucire:
Volante
The travel section of JY&A Media’s fashion magazine, Lucire,
with comprehensive features
Seekom
A great new system of online bookings. It's not what you'd expect.
Until now, most accommodation booking systems are probability-based,
but Simon Casey has come up with one that is real-time. The bed-and-breakfast
industry has jumped on board this system in New Zealand and frankly,
we think Simon's on to a world-beater
Bali Paradise Online
Everything you need to know about getting around Indonesia's jewel:
the best sights, where to stay, where to shop, and more
BA Tours
Indochinese travel guide specializing in travel planning and tour
package services
California Coastal Records
Project
Aerial photographs of the California coastline—pick a spot
using the map, or feed in latitude and longitude, and the aerial
photograph, regularly updated, will appear in the main window. There
are 10,000 images here, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Pt Reyes,
Pt Sur and the Queen Mary
Destination-Unknown
Shopping for accommodation in New Zealand
Liechtenstein Online
A highly comprehensive guide to Liechtenstein, news, culture, media,
radio and TV, computing, links—and more
NetLondon.com
A London-specific internet directory of everything you need to know
about the city, including guide maps, books and events
Noosabiz
From Australia's Sunshine Coast, this lifestyle site has useful
info on the region, its activities, restaurants and cool links.
Wonderfully designed
NY-News.com
Portal to Manhattan and New York with a collection of well chosen
links, from sports teams and weather to city transportation, events
and shopping
Oberösterreich Online
One of the coolest general-interest sites from Austria. There's
news, weather, and sport, plus cultural reports on music, dance,
literature and art
Pariscope
Pariscope takes a look at the capital of France. This is the best
site we've seen on the city and doesn't force you to download endless
pages of tourist photos
Park Tower Suite
From the designers of the Spaarne 8 guest residence comes the new
Park Tower Suite, revamped from an 1870s home in Haarlem
Rheintal Online
The latest news from around the world and information for the Rheintal
region from this well-designed and functional Swiss portal
Te Taura Whiri i
Te Reo Maori
The Maori Language Commission of New Zealand. New Zealand has two
official languages and Maori is not given the prominence it deserves
in its own nation—for instance, the banknotes are monolingual
in Aotearoa. The Commission is charged with furthering the language
TravelShop
The global travel guide on the internet. Redesigned in September
1997, it's even nicer to browse. In two languages, English and German—and
fluently so
TripleE
A travel agency with a difference: part of your travel purchase
goes towards environmental programmes to combat greenhouse gases
which contribute to global warming (flying and car rentals contribute,
so it's an ideal way to do something about it). The Travel Cool
programme was unveiled at the UN Global Climate Conference in Den
Haag in November 2000
What's On Christchurch
Lifestyle site with all about what to do in Christchurch, New Zealand
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