Welcome To Mark's Favourite Links

Here are a few of the sites that I have stumbled over while I've been on the net. If you find any that are no longer valid, then please Let Me Know.

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Links to Cacti related sites.

These are just a selection of my favourite cactus sites, for a much more complete listing take a look at The Cactus Mall home page.

Web sites.
- Cacti & Succulent specific.
  - Cactus Mall home page -- The best list of Cactus & Succulent links on the web !
  - Cactus and Succulent Resource Page -- Site aiming to provide information on the actual cultivation and care of Cacti and Succulents. Official mirror of The Cactus Mall home page.
  - Achim Hecktheuer -- Includes synonym list of Cactus genera & many photographs.
  - Au Cactus Francophone -- Yann Cochard's excellent site. Includes a great deal of photographs.
  - The Brazilian Cacti Project -- Very ambitious site dedicated to everything about the cacti of Brazil.
  - The Paradise -- Site dedicated to the Cacti and Bromeliads of Brazil.
  - Cactofilia -- Beautiful site created by Giovanni Quarella.
  - Clarke Brunt -- Cactus & Succulent Page including information on Cactus found in Chile and Mexico, including some excellent habitat photos of Turbinicarpus sp.
  - Essex (Ilford) Branch home page -- Information on Essex (Ilford) Branch of the BCSS.
  - Second-hand & Out-of-Print Books -- A list of books from Whitestone Gardens.
  - Mats Winberg - Succseed -- Excellent source of seed, info on Argentinien Cacti and MN field numbers.
  - The Cactus Center Club -- Spanish society with some 270 members from Spain, Latin countries and some from EU and USA. Spanish with English summary.
  - Geographical names -- Excellent site, by Krzysztof Wiktorowski, detailing the geographical etymology of many cactus names.
  - Chileans -- Home page of the journal dedicated to south American cacti.
  - Cactus - Succulent Literature -- Source of cactus and Succulent literature and seeds.
  - Marios cacti -- Site all about cactus and succulents.
  - Old man cactus -- Nursery offering some very nice looking plants.
  - Manfred Stöber -- Excellent site showing Mexican cacti in habitat.
  - Tomas Kriz -- Succulents: basic information about cultivation, SUCCULENTS CD-ROM, photo gallery, Art Gallery pen-and ink drawings of Succulents and Cactus, PDF format Book on succulent plants,list of families and genera, free screen saver!!, Moon phase, Publication, Language: Czech,English, Czech Republic
  - Troy Sigler -- Pictures and information on various cacti and Euphorbia, such as Carnegia gigantea, Cereus uruguayanus, Ferocactus herrarae, Oreocereus trollii, Euphorbia trigonum and many others. Links to other cactus sites and where to buy cacti. Cactus care and maintenance tips. Features "Add a Cactus", where people can add images of their own cactus to this site.
  - Visit the Texan Cactus Tour
  - James Pickering -- Mainly devoted to species of the smaller growing Brazilian genera -- Discocactus, Melocactus, Uebelmannia, Arrojadoa, Buiningia, Micranthocereus -- and some miscellaneous cacti. Included are genera notes, cultivational information and a Photo Gallery.
  - Cactus Graphics -- All the cactus graphics needs for cactus website builders.
- Specific Cactus Genera.
  - Ariocarpus -- Excellent site dedicated to this genus of "Living Rock".
  - Arthrocereus -- Andy Powell's site on this rarely seen genus.
  - Echinocereus -- Martina & Andreas Uhr's site dedicated to Echinocereus.
  - Echinofossulocactus -- Vlastimil Simek's site dedicated to Echinofossulocactus.
  - Escobaria -- Armin Pötschke's Escobaria site, also includes information on Mammillaria and Turbinicarpus.
  - Frailea -- Frailea Information Base.
  - Gymnocalycium -- Ulrich Creutzburg's site dedicated to Gymnocalycium.
  - Gymnocalycium -- Volker Schädlich's site dedicated to Gymnocalycium and offers reports, lists, maps, photos and much more.
  - Lophophora -- Site dedicated to Lophophora by Pierre Gambart.
  - Notocactus -- The Notocactus Information Exchange.
  - Brasilicactus Rico Kolodzey's page dedicated to Brasilicactus.
  - Notocactus -- The Internoto home page - English version.
  - Notocactus -- The Internoto home page - German version.
  - Notocactus Section Setacei -- Wolfgang Prauser's home page dedicated to the Setacei (Notocactus sp. related to N. concinnus, tabularis, agnetae etc).
  - Opuntiads -- Horticultural and Scientific information about opuntiads, especially USA Opuntia species.
  - Sclerocactus, Pediocactus, Navajoa and Toumeya -- F.Hochstätter.
  - Trichocereus -- K. Trout's site about Trichocereus.
  - Turbinicarpus -- The Turbinicarpus Information Exchange.
  - Turbinicarpus Gruppe -- Home page of the Turbinicarpus group, who produce the excellent Turbinicarpus journal "Turbi-Now".
  - Sergio's Turbinicarpus site
  - Turbinicarpus -- Gerhard Hojas's Turbinicarpus pages, includes some great photos.
  - Manfred Stöber -- Excellent site showing Turbinicarpus and other Mexican genera in habitat.
  - Turbinicarpus -- Armin Pötschke's site about the species of the genus Turbinicarpus and photos of plants in habitat and cultivation.
- General botanical links.
  - A Garden Place -- Excellent horticultural site.
  - World Climate Weather rainfall and temperature data -- Very interesting site which lists rainfall and temperature for many locations around the world.
  - Expedia.com -- Map creation site. Excellent way to find many of those elusive cactus and Succulent localities.
  - ICBN -- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
  - Internet Directory for Botany -- Every conceivable botanical link.
  - Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew -- Search the database information.
  - CITES -- Convention on International Trade In Endangered Species.
  - The Families of Flowering Plants -- Detailed botanical data on all Families of Flowering Plants.
  - The New York Botanical Garden Library's Online Public Catalog -- Searchable catalog of botanical documents - lists many Cactus books and other literature.
  - Roots of Botanical Names -- Find out what a plants name means. Excellent resource.
  - Graham Leatherbarrow's site -- A site about my city garden. Covering all aspects of hardy plant cultivation including attracting wildlife.
  - Sources for biological pest controls -- UK biological pest control suppliers,with a table showing which is cheapest for each product and information about the controls, by James Griffin.
Mailing Lists.
- Cacti_ETC Subscription by Email -
  Send an Email to listproc@opus.labs.agilent.com
  and in the body put SUBSCRIBE CACTI_ETC "Your Name"
- Cacti_ETC Subscription by web form

Links to Fish keeping & Fishing related sites.

Web sites.
- Tropheus Basics -- Great site dedicated to this wonderful group of fish.
- The British Cichlid Association
- The Cichlid Room Companion
- FINS home page -- Fishkeepers Information Services.
News groups.
Mailing Lists.
- Catfish mailing list.
  Send an Email to catfish-request@uunet.ca
  and in the body put SUBSCRIBE "Your Email Address"

Links to computer graphics related sites.

3D Artist -- 3D Artist Magazine home page.
Atlantis CyberSpace -- Virtual Reality Entertainment.
IHT Gruppo Editoriale S.r.l. -- Computer Gazette.
M.C. Escher Links
NewTek -- The makers of Lightwave.
Nova Design, Inc. -- The makers of ImageFX & Aladdin.
Pixar -- The real makers of Toy Story !!
Silicon Graphics -- Silicon Graphics' Silicon Surf.
Scanning info -- Excellent source for information on using a flatbed scanner.

Links to HTML related sites.

Web sites.
- Specifications etc.
  - W3C -- The World Wide Web Consortium.
  - HTML 4.0 -- The official recommendation for HTML V4.0.
  - Stylesheets -- Information on the various specifications of stylesheets.
  - Web Design Group -- Great resource for webmasters.
  - ALT text info -- Tom Neff & Eric Bohlman on HTML IMG tag ALT attributes.
  - BrowserWatch -- The leading site for information about browsers & plug-ins.
  - Java -- Information on the Java programming language.
  - Macromedia: Shockwave Center
  - Microsoft Internet Explorer
  - Submit It!
- Validators.
  - HTMLCheck -- A Perl script to validate HTML source.
  - Weblint -- A Perl script to validate HTML source.
  - James Clarks NSGMLS -- The ultimate validator ! A program, for various platforms, that checks your HTML, XHTML etc. against the SGML DTD's.
  - SP Wizard -- A Windows 16/32 bit GUI front end for the above. Makes using NSGMLS much easier.
- HTML Activism.
  - Best Viewed With Any Browser
  - People Against Under Construction Images
News Groups.

Links to Internet related sites.

Search engines.
- Alta Vista WWW Search
- Deja News -- Hunt through Usenet postings.
- eXcite WWW Search
- HotBot WWW Search
- InfoSeek WWW Search
- Lycos WWW Search
- Magellan WWW Search
- OpenText WWW Search
- Webcrawler WWW Search
- Yahoo! WWW Search
- Yahoo! WWW Search -- UK Specific.
- UK Plus WWW Search -- UK Specific. -- Only lists UK sites.
Miscellaneous.
- Demon Internet -- My IAP.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Internet Information Center (InterNIC)
- Web Robots/Spiders -- Information on web spiders & robots.

Links to magazine sites.

Dr Dobb's Journal -- Programming in many different languages.
Future Publishing -- Home of net magazine.
Web Developer magazine -- All about Perl, Java & HTML.
Web Techniques magazine -- All about Perl, Java & HTML.

Links to miscellaneous sites.

Thurrock History Society
Black & Decker -- Makers of DIY tools & accessories.
Great site for Crossword addicts -- Enigmatist.
Excellent series of DIY faq's
Jet Propulsion Lab home page
NASA home page
FBI -- The real Scully & Mulder.
Richard Dawkins -- Author of various books on evolution.
Perry-castañeda Library Map Collection -- Maps of every country in JPEG format. Also versions of ancient maps.
United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva
CITES -- Convention on International Trade In Endangered Species.
Bibliomania -- List of books, for which copyrights have expired.
The Quotations Page -- Find the exact wording and author of popular quotes.
Graham Leatherbarrow's site -- A site about my city garden. Covering all aspects of hardy plant cultivation including attracting wildlife.

Links to music related sites.

Web sites.
- Chemical brothers
- Erasure -- Official Mute pages.
- Depeche Mode -- Official mute pages.
- Mute home page -- Home of Depeche Mode, Erasure etc.
- Gary Numan - NuWORLD -- The Official Gary Numan Web Site.
- Kraftwerk -- The originals.
- Leftfield
- MacCrimmon's Revenge -- Celtic/World music band.
- Marc Almond -- Great voice and all round star.
- Orbital
- The Prodigy
- Shamen - Nemeton -- The official home page.
- Tangerine Dream -- The official home page.
- Underworld
- Music Resources on the Internet
- AllNoise.com -- New talent site for unsigned talent across the UK. Musicians, bands, poets, comedians and story tellers all welcome!!!!
News Groups.

Links to the Delphi computer language related sites.

Web sites.
- AdvStringGrid home page -- Excellent StringGrid replacement.
- GExperts -- "Must Have" add ons for the IDE.
- Snoop- Memory Leak Checker -- Debugging aid.
- The Delphi API Library
- Delphi Pages
- efg's Computer Lab
- The Unofficial Newsletter of Delphi Users
News Groups.

Links to PC related sites.

Web sites.
- WinFiles.com Windows Shareware Collection
- Arachnophilia Home Page -- HTML editor and web site development system, much better than the other cack !
- HTML-Kit -- HTML editor and much, much more.
- PCFlank -- Check the security of your PC
- Gibson Research -- Home of "Trouble in Paradise"

Links to the Perl computer language related sites.

Web sites.
- Perl home page
- Perl org site -- Perl Institute home page.
- Perl CPAN -- Full list of Perl modules etc. -- Main site.
- Perl CPAN -- Full list of Perl modules etc. -- Your nearest mirror.
News Groups.

Links to scanner related sites.

Web sites.
- Wayne Fulton -- Excellent source for information on using a flatbed scanner.
- DPI Electronic Imaging WWW Site
News Groups.
- comp.periphs.scanners
- alt.comp.periphs.scanners

Links to science fiction related sites.

Web sites.
- B5 Lurkers Guide -- Main site. Note new address
- Babylon 5 -- Official home page.
News Groups.
- uk.media.tv.sf.startrek
- uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5

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