If you want to know the time…
… take a look at The World Time Engine.
Finding the time
If you want to know the time anywhere in the world, try The World Time Engine.
Free online books
Sometimes it is useful to find online texts of books. Most of them are out of copyright works, but not all. There are lots of places to look, but Just Free Books is a search engine that lets you search some 450 relevant sites at the same time. Well worth a look.
Journa-list
I've just stumbled upon journa-list, an interesting site that is intended to help members of the public find out more about UK journalists, what they write about, and who they write for. Type in a writer's name and read off what the site can find out about them: it gives you their most recent article, previous articles, and the topics they mention most. All very ingenious. I notice it says about me that I have "fewer bylined articles than the average journalist". It's true, too, especially when the survey is based on a survey of only 15 sites. Nice name for the site, too. I wonder how they thought of it?
Watch your step
The Press Complaints Commission, which organises self-regulation of the press in the UK, has a special site for its Editors' Code Of Practice Committee, where you can find a downloadable pdf of the Editors' Codebook. This is a detailed guide to the code and how it works in practice, including lots of examples of successful and unsuccessful complaints. Interesting and useful.
Behind you!
Should you find yourself writing about the ancient British theatrical tradition, here is a useful brief guide to the history of pantomime.
UK newspaper search
A new site called chipwrapper offers a search of UK newspaper sites, as well as their RSS feeds. The sites included are The Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Sun, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, and the Financial Times. The results of the search do not come up in date order, however, so you have to have your wits about you to use it. For current material you need to use the RSS feeds.
The Times It Is A'Changing
The New York Times has started making some of its archive content available free. It's a bit confusing, but the free material seems to cover 1986 to the present and 1851 to 1922 (because it's in the public domain). Stuff from 1923 to 1985 may be free but you will have to pay for some of it. More details from the NYT itself.
