Miles Mendoza's Website of the Day ... and more!

Wimbledon and Glastonbury

>> BBC Sport: Tardis Tennis Game
By popular demand, here's the link for one of my favourite online games which first appeared on BBC Sport a few years before Doctor Who returned to our screens. The game aims help restore our national pride, by pitting Great Britons John Lennon, William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria against one another on Centre Court! No other game combines vintage Sci-fi, the thrill of a well executed backhand volley and the great figures in British history.

>> Five Live: Wimbledon Interactive Map
Our lovely colleagues over at Five Live have put together this nifty aerial zoomable map of the whole Wimbledon compound featuring clickable icons for relevant audio and video clips.

>> Glastonbury 2008 on the BBC
Having never made the long journey to Pilton, I prefer my festivals in the comfort of Website of the Day Towers. I'm especially looking forward to footage of Crowded House on the Pyramid stage (and on Shaun Keaveny's show) tomorrow afternoon. You'll find full details of all BBC coverage on air, online and on digital TV on the always excellent BBC Glastonbury site.

Walkit / YMail / Cheddarvision

>> Walkit.com
The UK’s excellent online route-planning site for pedestrians has just expanded its service to include interactive walking maps for Leeds Derby, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Type in any two points in the cities it covers to get a walking route map and journey time between them.  Each route also includes an estimate of the number of calories the walker will burn, and the amount of carbon saved by not travelling by taxi, car or bus.
>> Read Miles’ original review

>> YMail
Yahoo’s webmail service has just launched new ymail addresses. If you’re currently saddled with a cumbersome email address with lots of surplus dots and numbers you may find you can get yourname@ymail.com address if you sign up quickly. The front page does say that current yahoomail account holders may switch to a ymail address, but doesn’t explain how to do so. I’m waiting to hear back from Yahoo, and will post instructions here when I get them.

>> Cheddarometer
From the people behind last year’s Cheddarvision webcam comes this new site aiming to devise the perfect cheese sandwich via a sophisticated mathematical formula. You’re asked to enter your choices of bread and filling … the computer then looks at all the variables and calculates the correct thickness of each ingredient to arrive at the perfect cheese sandwich.

>> Wimbledon: Official site
>> Wimbledon on BBC Sport

Paul McCartney / Beatles / Liverpool 08

In honour of Sir Paul McCartney's imminent 66th birthday:

>> Listen again to highlights from Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Sound Gig
(audio expires 2000  on 14th June 2008)
>> Watch video of Paul McCartney interviewed by Janice Long
>> Documentary: Don’t Start Me Talking About The Beatles
>> Documentary: The Day John Met Paul
>> Magical Memory Tour (Share your Beatles memories)
>> Liverpool 2008 on the BBC

Euro 2008

>> Euro 2008 – Official site
>> BBC Sport: European Championships Video Archive
>> Five Live: Who Will You Support Interactive Map
>> The Silly Season