www.plastic.com - DO you ever wonder about the real inside story?

This site features people like university professors and similar experts to write articles getting far deeper into issues than any newspaper can ever manage.

Fairly heavy reading at times, but there are things like the background to conspiracy theories for some light relief.

www.cellar.org

THE people who run this site dedicate it to "well-rounded pegs in a world of square holes". It's a newsgroup site so you can post your own contribution to such subjects as "Did I have the most pathetic New Year's celebration in the world" and comment on the photograph of a duck going through a speed camera in a 30mph limit at 39 mph.

www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html

MICROSCOPIC photographs of the things some computer boffins put on silicon chips...

Forget Easter Eggs, would you believe Peanut's Snoopy or a glass of beer? These things are smaller than the naked eye can see. What's inside your computer?

www.ura.freeuk.com/sad.htm

YOU can join SAD via this site if you like. It stands for Surplus Army Division and is dedicated to "people who derive pleasure from wearing army surplus clothing".

You really must not miss the photograph of a waterproof poncho.

And in this office they think I'm weird!