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Identity and Pacific rim culture clashes are at the heart of this innovative Web fiction. The storyline builds from the journals and e-mails of a Japanese woman born in Australia who visits her mother in Japan. As hypertext, the story is not linear but is seductively fascinating all the same. Being a work in progress, it grows, too, in depth and breadth. Characters develop online in ways subtly different to a text-based narrative. Although much of the story is textual, graphics play an important role - a deeper one than mere decoration. Surfers who routinely click links before graphics finish downloading should get out of the habit here, otherwise they may miss more than they bargained for. The site is updated each week and the author (in real life an Australian living in Japan) offers an e-mail address for contact. Reader input has a habit of finding its way into the story.
Roslin Institute Online
http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/
Home to Dolly the Sheep, the Roslin Institute is a major centre for biological and genetic research, with a mission statement "to understand and improve the productivity, breeding and welfare of farm animals". News and details of research programmes are available online, not all of it cutting-edge transgenic science. For instance, an eight-year programme into the humane transportation of poultry, conducted by the institute and partners, resulted in the launch of a controlled-ventilation transporter designed to minimise stress among the birds. For anyone wanting to investigate the issues surrounding applied bio-science, the site offers abstracts of its own papers and links to other sites.
What's Going On
http://www.whatsgoingon.com/
An online almanac which doesn't concentrate on the mainstream is a useful resource. For example, you may or may not have wanted to go cheese rolling on Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire last week, but if you'd known about it beforehand, you could have made an informed choice. Visitors to What's Going On knew about it. The site reports on festivals, celebrations and events that might not get picked up in other places. It aims to be a resource for smart travellers seeking unique experiences on the road. The idea is to explain what happens, how to get there to witness it, and who to contact to find out more. Each day there is a nominated "Coolest Place on Earth Today" - Cooper's Hill last Monday, before that it was the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco. This weekend? Montana Mule Days, where mules and donkeys compete to show what they can do, looks a good bet.
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