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If you would like a more intelligible email address check out HotMail (www.hotmail.com). This free service will give you a personalised email account and gives you an easy format to read and write messages. Spice up your email address with a customised one (www.iname.com). Emails written to your original address will be sent to your "real" email address.

Get to grips with all those internet acronyms: a list of the meanings of all those three letter abbreviations (TLAs) used on the internet can be found at (www.sarnia.com/tech/
class/email/acronyms.html).

You can't say email is an unemotional form of communication. Those strange :-) symbols found littered over the internet are known as "smilies" and express how you are feeling. A list of almost 2000 is at (www.astro.umd.edu/
~marshall/smileys.html). Get a free home page on the web from GeoCities (www.geocities.com). You can post almost anything--information about yourself, research projects, pictures, stories, even music. The GeoCities world is arranged into different neighbourhoods in which you can put your pages; for example, Paris for romance and poetry, Area51 for science fiction, and Yosemite for hiking and other outdoor activities. If your effort is good enough, maybe it will get published in Net.Philes.

If you want to write your own web pages you need to learn a language called HTML which allows you to include text, pictures, sound, and links to other pages. To make life easier web pages can be created using an "HTML editor," a list of which can be found at ( www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_
Internet/Software/Internet/World_Wide_Web/HTML_Editors/).

More information on web publishing can be found at (www.boutell.com/faq/). Medical education

The Medical Mycology Research Centre is an interesting site detailingpathogenic fungi, including a vast array of coloured slides (fungus.utmb.edu/).

The Synapse Publishing Company has provided a small library of heartsounds featuring the organ in various stages of disrepair (www.medlib.com/beats/00b10000.htm).

What better way to revise than to settle down with a cup of tea and a crossword? Look up Cyberounds' quiz on dementia (www.cyberounds.com/question/). Food for our future

The implications of biotechnology on the future is the topic of Food For Our Future (www.foodfuture.org.uk/index2.htm). This site balances the possible benefits, like increased crop yields, against the concerns about possible consequences of gene manipulation without descending into scaremongering. Neuroscience

The Global Brainstem 97 shows some of the advantages the internet has over learning from textbooks. This site is an enhanced version of a current neuro-anatomy textbook where you learn the brain's anatomy interactively.

You are then tested on what you learn (www.anatomy.wisc
.edu/Bs97/TEXT/BS/contents.htm).

A site introducing the basics of clinical neuroscience can be found at (thalamus.wustl.edu/course/). Neuroscience and electrophysiology are also reviewed at The Neuron and the Nervous System (eleceng.ukc.ac.uk/~sd5/
research/nn_index.html).