Good riddance
According to a new website, as much as 60% of UK household waste can be recycled. But with resources spread in different locations, knowing how to achieve such a virtu ous target is a tricky business, especially if you are new to an area.

Unless you go the web that is. Lots of useful sites are now online to help you achieve a greener home. Recycle More is a central directory for recycling. Everything from the location of bottle banks to mobile phone deposits has been collated to create a highly useful and efficient site. To find a map of your nearest recycling units, all you have to do is tap in a postcode. There is also a directory of more than 700 UK companies who support recycling.

Elsewhere, Rethink Rubbish is full of tips on how to stop junk mail flooding through your letterbox, and how to cut paperwork in half. Some of the suggestions are very simple, such as using a mug instead of a plastic cup each time you visit the coffee machine. If you still need convincing of the importance of recycling, there is a good section explaining how little tricks like that can have huge ecological benefits.

You can earn a little extra money from recycling, too. A pair of sites from the aluminium industry - Alupro.org.uk for adults and the lighter Cashforcans for kids - tell how and where you can make money from old aluminium cans. You won't get rich, with a market rate standing at 45p for 60 cans, but many schools and charities already do well out of the scheme.

Free text
Ebooks can cost a fortune and, unlike paperbacks, you can't lend them to your mates once you have read them. Not all authors are happy about it and a few hundred, mostly academics, have begun to donate their texts to a new website that promotes the sharing of electronic books. Although it has only been up for a couple of months, Textz offers more than 3,000 books and essays online and is seeking more. The texts can be downloaded or simply browsed on the website. Among the many scholarly texts are whole books by recently expired authors such as Douglas Adams and Kathy Acker. There's also a wealth of older masters including Emile Zola and Oscar Wilde. www.textz.com

Requiem
Wednesday will be the first anniversary of September 11. Among the many commemorations to the victims of the attack will be a 24-hour choral tribute on the internet. The Rolling Requiem will consist of choirs from around the world performing Mozart's Requiem for 24 hours. The first choir will begin at 8.46 am in New York - the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center - and then roll across the different time zones. More than 125 choirs have signed up but, sadly, so far no choir from the UK is involved. There is still time to register one at the site. www.rollingrequiem.org

SMS poetry
Fans of Online's SMS poetry competition, held last year, might like to look at One Sixty, a new online magazine devoted to poems of less than 160 characters in length. You can upload your poems via text message or to the site. www.centrifugalforces.co.uk/onesixty

Flame on
Avant rockers The Flaming Lips have a new website to help promote Yoshimi, their new album, and Christmas on Mars, their first foray into film. It is surprisingly content-heavy, for a record company site, with an impressive video archive and chat rooms. It also has its own media player, which allows you to listen to, but not keep, the new album, and watch some splendid animation while you do so. www.flaminglips.com

Weblog ethics
Rebecca Blood, the author of the excellent Webloggers Handbook (Perseus Publishing), has proposed a set of six rules to provide a basis of ethical behaviour of blogging. Blood believes that the "weblog's greatest strength - its uncensored, unmediated, uncontrolled voice - is also its greatest weakness."

She argues that without a voluntary code of conduct, the medium could fall victim to serious misinformation or simply never get taken seriously enough. What's nice about her proposal is that her six points are as straightforward as a Delia Smith recipe. Only publish what you know to be true, for example; if you make a mistake, admit it publicly; and if you can link to a source, do so.

Doubtless, more zealous bloggers will see this as a step towards conventional journalism, but Blood says she would welcome your comments.
www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html

New & noted
· Mr Spock's photography: www.leonardnimoyphotography.com
· Excellent e-zine for electronica: www.noiseloop.com
· Forum for serious gaming: www.gamestudies.org
· Children's art: www.papaink.org

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