HERE are some more interesting web links from Frank Elson.

www.ag.auburn.edu/users/gparmer/articles/neon

ONLY in America would a bunch of students hire a Chrysler Neon car, throw together a nitrous oxide injection system for a few dollars then go out and drag race the thing. Naturally enough the standard engine with N/O pouring through it went like something very fast indeed.

Unfortunately it did not survive the day.

Of course I would never recommend such a thing. Completely irresponsible... but very funny.

www.wordsmith.org

HAVING made my living for nearly 35 years with words perhaps it is not surprising that I quite like them.

This site aims to bring the magic of words into everyone's life with articles, anagrams, simple teasers and 'a word a day'.

Subscribe and you will get a word and definition sent to your inbox every day. No fancy graphics here, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but remember that it takes words to say that.

www.thenakedsky.com

FOR anyone with an interest in astronomy.

Facts, figures and explanations of the planets, stars and constellations.

Strangely enough it is another simple site, without fancy graphics or advert pop-ups, like all the sites this week.

It's also another of those that I would definitely bookmark for the kids' homework.

www.flowstate.org/eartharchitecture

WHAT have former US President Ronald Reagan and Saddam Hussein got in common?

Both have lived in homes made of mud.

Adobe is taken from the Native American word for 'earth brick' but has come to be used worldwide for any house built from a mixture of earth and water -- mud to you and me.

Saddam grew up in a mud hut, Reagan paid over half a million dollars for a ranch house built using Adobe bricks, but the principle is the same.

This really is a fascinating site.

Do you have a favourite website? Tell me about it on felson@boltoneveningnews.co.uk