For fax sake
FaxYourMP.com is one of the simplest ideas for a website and one of the best. Go to the site, type in your postcode and it tells you who your MP is and provides a form in which you type in your letter, add your name, address and email address.

The system emails you, just to check that you are who you claim and that you want to send a fax to your MP. Once you have given the OK, the fax is sent automatically. The service is free.

Do we need to send faxes in the age of the internet? Unfortunately, yes. Many MPs have been slow to embrace e-government, but also a fax is harder to ignore than electronic mail.

Want to send a fax to someone other than an MP? Go to www.Contactbox.com (which is also free) and www1.fax4free.com (which no longer is).

Pardon
One of the experts in France's Yahoo/Nazi memorabilia trial has felt the need to clarify the position he gave to the French court. Ben Laurie has posted an apology of sorts at www.apache-ssl.org/apology.html.

Paid-for-view
Fancy getting paid for voicing your opinions on computer hardware or mobilephones? Go to www.uk.ciao.com, a new consumer service that believes the best judge of hardware is people like you. The site pays 50p just for writing your first opinion, 10p for every opinion published, and a further 2p every time another user reads it (You will have to wait until you have earned £10 before Ciao pays anything). The site especially needs material on products in the Christmas market.

I spy
Journalismnet.com is a US journalism portal that should interest more than just hacks. It contains everything from world newspapers to subject-specific experts and personal data. It is stuffed with tips on how to get the most from search engines (it defaults to Google). And it even has a course in online espionage www.journalismnet.com/spy.

Dance on
Maybe it is because it is operating out of old Shoreditch train station that Puredm.com sees itself as the most underground dance music website.

The site, which launched last week, features an e-zine, chat rooms, a notable net radio station that, oddly, switches off at 10pm, and an online record label.

Ministryofsound.com has relaunched its clubbers' site with a breaking news service and improved radio station.

Go nuclear
The cyberactivists who brought us www.oilcompanies.org are now hosting a new site about nuclear testing, and waste dumping, by their old adversaries Shell. The site at www.nuclear-crimes.com pulls few punches, which is why Shell has responded with a flurry of solicitors' letters.

Shell says that the website contains a number of false and defamatory allegations, including an assertion that it operated a nuclear reactor in the 1960s at its Thornton research centre, and that the demolition of this fictitious reactor represented a serious hazard to public safety.

Centre point
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London has finally launched a website for its New Media Centre at www.newmediacentre.com. The site contains a variety of material on the Centre's projects as well as a comprehensive set of net art links and a free screensaver.

The ICA has also been hosting a monthly "networking and social event for the new media community": see www.cybersalon.org. Other information and listings for the ICA can still be found at www.ica.org.uk.

The right stuff
The Droplift Project is an anti-copyright site that "borrows' bits of television, movies, music, or other recordings and re-uses them to create works of parody, critical commentary and new art. The site is full of obscure ideas and notes on subversive activity, but some of the audio is sublime. The site is worth it for the "hour of slack" alone.

Not part of the project but of equal interest is the site at www.monsantos.com.

Pssst!
Although it is meant to be a site for art buyers, the new site at ArtRumour.com has such a pithy take on the contemporary art world that it is just as valid for the average punter. Steer clear of the lousy flash version, but do enrol for the excellent weekly newsletter.

New & noted
• Michael Portillo has a flash enhanced website at www.michaelportillo.co.uk - just check out the animated timeline.

• Need advice on where to drink? See www.liquid-life.com , a new bar portal.

• www.uproar.co.uk is a new online entertainment site that specialises in online gaming.

• There is a new site for Flash developers at http://exchange.macromedia.com

Six of the best Digital museums

The early web
www.dejavu.org
Console scrapyard
www.emulationworld.de
Central repository
www.archive.org
Computer Museum of America
www.computer-museum.org
Bletchley Park
www.cranfield.ac.uk/ccc/bpark
Apple history
www.apple-history.com