The best and latest new sites on the Internet

Updated: Mar 15, 2022

Welcome to Australia's "Beyond The Black Stump" - online since 1995!

Issue 2 - Mar 15, 2022 Tweet this

Plant Guides
...Popular Plants From A To Z
Cleanup Pictures
...Remove objects, people, text and defects from any picture
What's Her Name
...Dedicated to reclaiming forgotten history of fascinating women you've never heard of
RSOE-EDIS
...Live world map of emergencies
Omni Calculator
...Your life in 2112 free calculators
Confusing Words
...Commonly Confused Words in English
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
...Enter a word, phrase, description, or pattern above to find related words
Food Timeline
...Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies?
Plantae
...The global plant science community
Nuclear Power Reactors
...Comprehensive database focusing on nuclear power plants worldwide
Brave Browser
...The best privacy online
Sartle
...Rogue Art History
Fishing Tips
...Best fishing tips and techniques
Typographic Scale Calculator
...Help you choose the right font size from a harmonious type scale inspired by the way music works
Climate Visuals
...Evidence-based and impact focused climate photography resource
Anagram Solver
...Free online anagram solver
Black Music History Library
...Articles, books, documentaries, radio broadcasts, and podcasts
Lightning Maps
...A community project with free lightning maps and apps
Early Pianos
...A research database dedicated to the worldwide cataloging of pianos built before 1860
Eucalypt of the Year
...There are over 900 eucalypt species across the continent

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Twitter Beyond the Black Stump
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Many more Sites of the Day, Week, Month etc., can be found here or here..or look in the barnacle encrusted treasure chest for Pirate Pete's previous picks!!

Issue 1 - Jan 24, 2022 Tweet this

Foto Forensics
...Is an image is shopped, cropped or otherwise altered?
Rare Flowers and Golden Butterflies
...Stories of women and magic from the Arts Centre Melbourne
XWord Info
...New York Times Crossword Answers and Insights
CSS Tricks Almanac
...CSS properties & selectors
12ft.io
...Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
Online Radio Box
...Free Online Internet Radio Stations
Explore LiveCams
...World's leading philanthropic live nature cam network
Cloud Lab
...Try your hand at classifying clouds and investigating the role they play in severe tropical storms
Photo Ark
...The power of photography to inspire people to help save species at risk
Introducing Becoming Artsy
...A new YouTube show takes you inside Getty
Skeptoid
...Taking on all the most popular urban legends and revealing the true science
DeepL Translate
...DeepL is a deep learning company that develops AI systems for languages
SheCodes JavaScript Cheatsheet
...A reference list of JavaScript variables, strings, and other attributes
ID Ransomware
...Upload a ransom note and/or sample encrypted file to identify the ransomware that has encrypted your data
The Victorian Archive
...Repository of scans, text and research based on the 19th and early 20th centuries
Stellarium
...Free open source planetarium for your computer
How to Sew on a Button
...Visual explanation
Early Modern Female Book Ownership
...Books owned by women between 1500 and 1750
Blitzortung
...Network for Lightning and Thunderstorms in Real Time
Desmos
...We're on a mission to help every student learn math and love learning math

Issue 8 - Dec 8, 2021 Tweet this

Scottish Register of Tartans
...Which tartan should I wear?
Lumosity Brain Training
...Improve memory, increase focus, and feel sharper
Astrobites
...Daily astrophysical literature journal
Chrome Extension Performance Lookup
...What performance impact do the Top 1000 Chrome extensions have when loading a website?
NASA’s Perseverance Rover
...Take a 3D Spin on Mars
CosmoQuest
...How do you want to explore our Universe?
All Cheatsheets
...Grouped, structured and packed with ready-to-use examples
Keep It Weird
...It’s dark. It’s deep. It’s alive. And it’s weird. You’re about to enter the ocean twilight zone
History of English
...The spoken history of a global language
National Museum of the Philippines
...Works of art, specimens, and cultural and historical artifacts
Vintage Soda Collector
...History and the art of collecting vintage soda
Science Based Medicine
...Exploring issues and controversies in the relationship between science and medicine
Useful Spy Books
...Books on espionage
Ocean Wise Research Institute
...Conducting scientific research in support of ocean conservation
What The Tag?
...Quickly find out which HTML tag to use
John Lennon
...Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs
The Science Pawdcast
...Fascinating Facts. Adorable Dog Stories. Science Guests that will blow your mind
Little Yarns
...Learning our first words on Country
Roadside America
...John Mar
Live Storm Chasing
...Interactive and immersive storm chasing experience

Issue 7 - Oct 23, 2021 Tweet this

The Beatles Bible
...All you need is love
WebBrowser BookmarksView
...Simple tool for Windows that displays the details of all bookmarks stored in Chrome and Firefox Web browsers
ClearURLs
...Removes tracking elements from URLs
Aboriginal Launceston
...First People’s Lifeworld
Aussie Bushwalking
...Helps bushwalkers find new walks, share walks and track conditions
Hiking 101
...Tips for your next hike
Online Shipping Calculator
...Find the cheapest way to mail a package
The Daily Aus
...We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news
Old English
...Designed to help you read Old English, whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced learner
The Best Jokes
...Daily portion of jokes. New jokes every day
All Trails
...Find your next trail
The Size of Space
...Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
Mapping The Missing
...The geography of true crime, Australia's missing people and mysteries
Lets Grow Stuff
...Designed to help the beginning gardener learn the tools of successful vegetable and herb gardening
Math Teacher & Student Resources
...An array of free, interactive, real-world resources
O Joy
...Select a low-res photo or Memoji to enlarge it and improve its quality
BASIC 10-liners
...small Atari games
Your Brain
...What is the brain? What does it do?
AFL Feeds
...AFL news aggregator
Bear Cam
...Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park 2021

Issue 6 - Sep 6, 2021 Tweet this

The Museum of American War Letters
...Showcasing extraordinary correspondences from the American Revolution to the present day
Reading Time
...Children's book news and reviews from The Children's Book Council of Australia
Pioneers
...500 Years of Women in British Art
Shape Catcher
...Let shapecatcher help you to find the most similar unicode characters
Vessel Finder
...Founded as a vessel tracking service provider in 2011
Australian Wildlife Conservancy
...From koala rescues to aerial burns to vegetation protection and more
Email is Good
...A site about email productivity
Flim
...Search Movies, Acors, Directors
SoloLearn
...Learn to code for free!
Teacher Guides and Lesson Plans
...Free, high-quality Teacher's Guides for more than 600 of our books
Gwulo
...30,000 pages about old Hong Kong
Genetics Unzipped
...The Genetics Society Podcast
Women Up
...The radical six year program that lifts up the women artists in La Galleria Nazionale
Interesting Engineering
...Engineering is more than machinery and code
Kids Math Talk
...Part podcast, part blog, and all about math
Everything You Need To Know About Emoji
...What are they, technically speaking?
JustWatch
...What do you want to watch?
Word Up
...One word at a time
Wildlife Thailand
...Wildlife & National Parks of Thailand
CSS Tricks
...A website all about building websites

Issue 5 - Jul 23, 2021 Tweet this

OEIS
...On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
U.S. Secret Service
...Special agents focus on protecting top U.S. and visiting foreign officials, and investigating financial crimes
Virtual Cockpit Tours
...Climb into the airplanes in our museum virtually to see what it is like to be in the pilot’s seat!
Mathologer
...Enter the world of the Mathologer for really accessible explanations of hard and beautiful math(s)
Australia’s Defining Moments
...120 Defining Moments in Australian history
Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
...Optical illusions teach us about our visual perception, and its limitations
150 Science Experiments
...Fizzics Education
Vi Improved Text Editor
...An interactive tutorial for learning the basics of Vim
American Miltary News
...Issues related to the U.S. military, global foreign affairs, current events and cultural topics
BAKE-onomics 350
...The sweeter side of economics
Paraprosdokian
...40 Funny Sentences You Won't Expect
Paraprosdokians
...200 Funny One Liners
How To Recognise Clouds
...he International Cloud Atlas, 1896
Fungi Map
...Mapping the distribution of fungal species over time around Australia
Tiny Helpers
...A collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers...
Calendly
...Calendly helps you schedule meetings without the back-and-forth emails
Collaborating for Indigenous Rights
...Explores the campaigns waged in postwar Australia to overturn discriminatory laws and expose racism
History of Pies
...The purpose of a pastry shell was mainly to serve as a baking dish, storage container, and serving vessel
What's Special About This Number?
...Annotated version
Lets Enhance
...Powerful AI to increase image resolution without quality loss

Issue 4 - Jun 8, 2021 Tweet this

The Pano Awards
...Panoramic pictures awards
Kiddle
...Safe visual search engine for kids
141 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
...Fascinating!
Blacklight
...Who is peeking over your shoulder while you work, watch videos, learn, explore, and shop on the internet?
The Book Trail
...Find books set in the location you choose
WEEKLYPEDIA
...A digest of the most-edited Wikipedia articles and discussions from the last week
50 Words
...50 words in Australian Indigenous languages
MinuteEarth
...Science and stories about our awesome planet!
Cookbooks and Home Economics
...America in the early decades of the 20th century covering topics on cookery, textiles, family and home, budgeting, domestic sciences, and many other delightful topics
Explore Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia
...Engage with the oldest surviving culture in the world - cultures that are ancient and living
ISS
...Iconic Service To Science
vegancheese.co
...Vegan and Plant Based Cheese Resource
Skin Skool
...Discover products with similar ingredients and make better buying decisions
How To Cake It
... Each episode includes the A-Z process and recipe of making one of a kind edible creations
Open Source Cookbook
...Repository for users to share and search for recipes
The Seven Wonders Of St Helena
...The ancient world is not alone in having Seven Wonders
Royal Australian Historical Society
...Promotes the study of Australian history with a particular focus on New South Wales local and community history
Play Chess Online
...Training, playing, studying and even watching Grandmasters play in tournaments
eBird
...Discover a new world of birding...
Convert Case
...Simply enter your text and choose the case you want to convert it to

Issue 3 - Apr 21, 2021 Tweet this

Map of Indigenous Australia
...An attempt to represent all the language, tribal or nation groups of the Indigenous peoples of Australia
Climate History Australia
...Unearthing Australia’s climate history
Climate History Australia
...Help create Australia’s longest daily weather record
Amoeba Sisters
...Biology demystifing science with humor and relevance
Loclock
...Time around the world
Women'n Art
...Remembering forgotten women
Chess
...Play and Learn Chess
Chess 24
...The goal remains to deliver the world’s best chess experience
Experience Classical
...Classical Music service from the BBC
Quote Investigator
...Who said that ?
She Can STEM
...Showing girls how cool science, technology, engineering, and math can be
Not Always Right
...Stories about customers who just don’t know when to shut up
Documentary Mania
...Simply the best Documentaries
Key Biodiversity Areas
...Keep nature thriving
Australian Cyber Security Centre
...Advice and information about how to protect you, your family and your business online
The Story Graph
...Will help you to surface the best books that fit your current mood
Digital Atlas of Ancient Life
...Identify and better understand fossil species from particular regions and time intervals
Code Ranch
...A friendly place for programming greenhorns
LegalTech
...Search for LegalTech tools, events and more, in your area, in your language
Van Gogh Worldwide ...Explore Vincent van Gogh's artworks

Issue 2 - Mar 2, 2021 Tweet this

Australia's National Heritage List
...Natural, historic and Indigenous places of outstanding significance to the nation
Finding Your Ancestors
...Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW
Science News for Students
...Providing age-appropriate, topical science news to learners, parents and educators
ACRE
...Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
Dinosaur Pictures and Facts
...the internet's largest dinosaur database
The Treasury of Lives
...A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya
The 19th News
...Nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy
Shorty Awards
...The best people and organizations on social media
Why do cats & dogs ...?
...A visual exploration by cat & dog lover Nadieh Bremer
Space Age Museum
...Celebrates the Cultural History of our Voyage into Space
Cinetrii
...Cinetrii analyses reviews to infer possible inspirations behind a film
Codex Atlanticus
...Explore the largest existing collection of original writings and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive
...Digital archive and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century
Library Thing
...A home for your books
New Southern Garden
...Part radio show, part podcast, and part gardening revolution
40 Free Cartoon and Comic Fonts
...Funkier, stylish and fun to look at
A History of Punctuation
...How we came to represent (through inky marks) the vagaries of the mind, inflections of the voice, and intensity of feeling
AUSTLANG
...Information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
Greater China Archival Resources
...Aims to provide stable reference to the born-digital content originating from Chinese archives
WOCN
...Women of Color Network

Issue 1 - Jan 10, 2021 Tweet this

Kids Invent Stuff
...Where 4-11 year olds have the chance to get their invention ideas built by real engineers
Symbololology
...Non-keyboard characters
Music Map
...Providing the ultimate genealogy of popular music genres
The Atlas of Moons
...Over 200 Moons in our Solar System
Websters 1913
...Connoisseur's reference to American English - a dictionary for writers and wordsmiths
Discover Egypt's Monuments
...Virtual trip through Alexandria, Aswan, Cairo, Giza, Luxor etc
This vs That
...What is the difference between this & that?
Wow Science
...Searching out the best primary science activities
Let's Go Live!
...Stay curious - family-friendly science and education videos
Ask Nature
...Create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet
Book Club for Kids
...Free, 20-minute podcast devoted to middle grade books and readers
Forms Design
...Best practice, research insights and examples
Science Sparks
...Bursting with easy science experiments for kids of all ages
Story Online
...Award-winning children’s literacy website
Neopronouns
...Created to make pronouns that feel like home
Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy
...Relating to the practice of astronomy and to social uses and representations of astronomy
Rostype
...Free Fonts to download for both personal and commercial use
Endangered Species
...General education on endangered species
Aboriginal History of Yarra
...Explores the relationships between the Traditional Owners and Settlers through the early years of Melbourne’s establishment

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