Links for frequent reference

News and comment

• FactCheck.org, a.k.a. the Annenberg Political Fact Check
• The Identity Project: analysis and news updates from the LSE's Information Systems group

• BBC News: News front page (text-only version for fast access).
• Financial Times: UK news. See also
  • FT.com :: Arab-Israel conflict
  • FT.com :: Comment & analysis
• Arts & Letters Daily has links to some good articles from time to time.
• The New York Review of Books.
• The Washington Post, which has some well-written reports and op-eds.
• The New York Times requires a user name and password to access articles. Try "mary_ann_evans" and "middlemiss" if you can't be bothered to sign up.
  (I haven't used the NYT text version much yet but it seems useable.) I sometimes check the NYT Sunday Book Review.
• Mother Jones: political commentary from the left
• Website and online archives for The Guardian and The Independent.
• Liberal? Libertarian? spiked has an unusual mix of articles.
  (It's interesting to compare their own statement of intent with this profile by GMWatch.)
• Salon.com (restricted access to articles)
• MSN Slate
• The Economist
• Prospect magazine
• The Chronicle Review: a US weekly publication (the parent publication also hosts Arts & Letters Daily)
• bitterlemons.org - "Palestinian -Israeli crossfire"
• symmetry Magazine

Some weblogs:

• Adloyada - a partisan but sometimes useful corrective viewpoint
• Ben Goldacre's badscience weblog/column; also available from the Guardian
• Blood & Treasure - interesting (links to) reports on China, North Korea and other things
• Chris Lightfoot and his linklog
• Crooked Timber
• Daniel Drezner
• Dean Esmay
• Matthew Turner
• Pickled Politics
• Political Animal (Kevin Drum). See also his old blog at CalPundit for more in the same vein.

... and a list of more weblogs

• BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Listen Again
• BBC NEWS | Programmes | Analysis
• BBC NEWS | Programmes | More Or Less

Light relief

Local stuff

General and misc.

• BBC - Tyne - News
• BBC Weather Centre - 5 Day Forecast for Newcastle upon Tyne
• BBC: Tyne area
• Restaurants in Newcastle upon Tyne
• Cumberland Arms, Byker
• The Blue Room
• Cafe Scientifique - Newcastle
• public lectures at the University of Newcastle
• Website for the Northumberland Chess League
• National Student Accommodation Noticeboard
• (G 13-05-06) Reader's restaurants: Modern British in Newcastle upon Tyne

Films and theatre

• Newcastle Theatre Royal
• Metro listings for arts venues in Newcastle
• BBC - Wear -Entertainment - Theatre and Films
• Tyneside Cinema: this week's films
• The People's Theatre

Concerts,gigs and club nights

• Concerts at NCL
• Upcoming events at World HQ plus more stuff at the World HQ website
• ic Newcastle | what's on | music and gigs
• ents24.com's listings for live music in Newcastle

Other stuff

• FABULOUS FOODS - Soup Stocks - Recipes and Information
• The Independent Online Edition > Enjoyment > Food & Drink > Recipes
• Dragon Go Server (see also their links page)
• Chess Links from the Chess Café. See also the Chess Café Archives.
• The Ironic Times: because The Onion's developed mould.
• Daily Dose of Doonesbury
• biffonline homepage
• BBC Newsnight Review (low-graphics version)
• The New Yorker online. See also Tiger Beat: New Yorker archives.
• Dilbert: or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Hate The Office.
• www.snopes.com: debunking urban legends and other misinformation.
  See here for Daily Snopes.
• The Modern Word
• OG forum
• Londonist: Friday Film News
• The Arts and Books section of The First Post

Some weblogs for idle browsing:

• achtung baby!
• Blog of a Bookslut
• little.red.boat (Anna Pickard's weblog)
• moosifer jones' grouching (Mags L. Halliday's weblog)
• More Than Mind Games -- a refreshingly contrarian weblog on football, by James Hamilton
• Not Even Wrong: the loveably strident weblog of Peter Woit
• PooterGeek (Damian Counsell's weblog)
• Uncertain Principles (Chad Orzel's weblog)

See also the separate list of more weblogs.

English usage and etymology

• Online Etymology Dictionary

Maths

Mathblogs

• The Ars Mathematica weblog
• David Corfield's blog on the Philosophy of Real Mathematics
• Good Math, Bad Math
• Gooseania - weblog of a PhD student at Manchester
• Interesting Mathematics - John Roe's coarse geometry blog!
• John Baez's stuff and his online column This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
• MathCog Idiocy
• Mathematics under the Microscope reflections on mathematics and its practice from Alexandre Borovik
• Mathematics Weblog from the point of view of a sixth-form teacher
• The n-Category Café
• A Neighbourhood of Infinity
• The Orange Juice Files
• NeverEndingBooks - math/tech weblog of Lieven le Bruyn

Quick reference

Here's a list of some online maths journals (either free, or subscribed to by Newcastle University).

We now have a wiki for the School of Maths and Stats (local access only)

EPSRC grants classified by research topic
Or try Current EPSRC Support by Sub-programme in Mathematical Sciences

• Paul Garrett's notelets on functional analysis include valuable snippets on, e.g. vector-valued holomorphy, topological vector spaces, and other things.
• The Math Forum Internet Library at Drexel University
• Eric Weinstein's MathWorld, hosted by Wolfram Research.
  (You might also want to read the author's commentary on the shutdown of MathWorld in 2000.)
• Maths Thesaurus
• PLUS magazine
• MAA online
• The Banach Space Bulletin Board
• Volker Runde's Banach Algebra Resources
• Michael (White)'s papers and preprints, and the Math Reviews of: Items Authored by White, M. C.
• What's new at the arXiv (So'ton mirror)?
• Links to freely accessible analysis notes, via the Modern Analysis Online project at King's College London.
• internal info for postgraduates at Durham
• NBFAS -- the North British Functional Analysis Seminar.
• The LMS Newsletter
• London Mathematical Society events (see here for a calendar of events)
• Home page of the European Mathematical Society

Seminars

Internal seminars

• Pure Maths seminars at Newcastle
• postgraduate forum

Nearby seminars

• Newcastle-Durham: Joint PG Research Afternoon. Last meeting Nov 15th 2006.
• Seminars at Glasgow; see also this nifty Analysis Group Diary
• Graduate Seminars at York
• YFAG -- the Yorkshire Functional Analysis Group

Distant seminars

• Pure Maths Seminars at Lancaster
• Pure Postgraduate Seminars at Manchester
• QUB pure mathematics seminars
• The functional analysis seminar at Oxford
• Penn State GAFA Seminar (interesting introductory lectures in Fall 2005)
• The Probabilistic Operator Algebra seminar at Queen's, Kingston, Ontario
• A Free Probability Seminar at Texas A&M
• Carleton-Ottawa Joint Analysis Seminar

Techie stuff: Linux; (La)TeX; web design et al.

• GNU Emacs Manual - Regular Expressions
• named colours in dvipsnam.def
• Pipes and Redirection (from Oxford Maths Dept FAQ)
• extracting with tar and deleting with tar; backup options
• Unofficial ISS Linux Web Pages
• wiki manual for CVS v1.12.12.1

• an online TeXer
• AMS-TeX: documentation etc. for plain TeX hacking
• html codes for foreign language accents. keyboard help.
• Vi Quick Reference
• refcards.com - reference cardsfor various bits of software:
  • refcards.com -- xemacs
• The TeX FAQ
• dvips command line options
• LaTeX FAQ from Oxford Maths Dept
• CUED: Extending LaTeX (basic info on new commands, environments, packages, etc.)

• A List Apart (ISSN: 1534-0295)
• Jefrey Zeldman's Daily Report
• Notes on web development (from NCL comp. service)
• E-learning: news and comment at the Guardian's website
• The official RSS Specifications page looks both clear and comprehensive. I'm mainly interested in the info on displaying RSS feeds as HTML.

Travel information

Buses, coaches

• Stagecoach in Newcastle

Trains

• online journey planner for Tyne and Wear
• Tyne and Wear Metro and links to bus info.
  (some background information here)
• National Rail Enquiries Online
• Accessible UK Train Timetables
• Qjump
• thetrainline.com
• GNER
  • GNER - My Account
  • GNER.co.uk > On board our trains > Mallard southbound timetable
  • GNER.co.uk > Train times > Timetable alterations
• Virgin Trains: fares
• Qjump
• voyages-sncf.com | homepage in English and passenger's guide to SNCF

Planes

• cheap flights from UK to Europe and America | bmi
• Flybe.com
• Canadian airlines:
  • ZIP
  • Northwest Airlines
  • WestJet.com
• STA Travel || Flights

on arrival

• Argyle Backpackers hostel
• MasterCard/Maestro/Cirrus ATM Locator
• XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter
• Area Code Listings for the U.S.

University of Newcastle links

Library services:

• Statistics Library
• NCL library catalogue; also information on recommendations, store requests and inter-library loans
• Durham University Library
• COPAC
• links to other library catalogues

Faculty stuff, and the GradSchool:

• Handbook for Research Students and Research Supervisors - NUInfo
• NCL :: SAGE :: GradSchool
  (has some infor for current research students)
• Student Progress Section

HR, Finance, etc.

• NCL Finance Dept: Expenses and Benefits Procedures
• Staff Social Network - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Other links:

• Remote Application Service - mainly used to check Word files people send to me.
  The ISS help on RAS seems useful, as does the NCL staff info for RAS.
• University Almanack
• The University's Numeracy Support Project

Local services

• Envirocall Home Page
• City Cleansing
• Welcome to Newcastle City Council: Recycling

Some people

Some links to other people's webpages:

• Michael Batty
• Kate Davison
• Matt Daws
• Keith Goda
• Matt Heath
• Mark Kambites
• David Kribs
• Carlos Pacheco
• Pete Philipson
• Paul Ramsden
• Elizabeth Smith
• Stuart White
• W. Eryk Wolski
• Anthony Youd