News on the Net

Exchange ideas with soap fans around the world and catch up on everything about your favourite show with SOAP HEAVEN: http:// www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2533/

IF you want to know whether swans really sing when they are going to die or why rainbows are curved, this is the place. Thousands of questions and answers on every possible subject to make you the swot of the pub quiz team. WHY FILES: http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/ index.html

MORE than 200,000 hits a week are scoring at the No 1 Trouble Street site based on the satellite TV youth soap. Competitions, celebrity gossip, live chat rooms and an agony aunt. It all spells...TROUBLE: http:// www.trouble.co.uk

LIVING with a 28-hour day, six days a week means Mondays can be eliminated. It also means Thursdays will be pretty dark all day. Don't laugh. It gives you a 56-hour weekend - eight hours longer than now. 28- HOUR DAY: http://www.kaplan.com/cellar/28hours.html

SAVE money on going to the cinema by inviting your friends round and acting out a blockbuster in your living room. Whether it's Star Wars, Trainspotting, Die Hard or hundreds more, the full scripts are here. Plus TV scripts and contests. SCRIPT-O-RAMA: http://www.script- o-rama.com/

GAME ON: POWER SOURCE (pounds 4.99 PlayStation. Sony). Not-to-be- missed Prince's Trust charity disc with demos of games like Porsche Challenge, Tomb Raider, Exhumed and Monster Trucks. Rating: 92 per cent.

NEWS ON THE NET e-mail to david@nataraj.demon.co.uk DAVID HANCOCK

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