Free online travel guidesSpotted by Locals provides excellent free travel guides for cities all across Europe including London, written by local people. 
http://www.spottedbylocals.com/ Song Lyrics The Risa archive has an enormous searchable database of song lyrics: http://www.risa.co.uk/sla/ Oxford English Dictionary You can use the Oxford English dictionary for free online, here: http://www.askoxford.com/?view=uk To look up a word in the OED just enter it in the search box. Duckduckgo If you're worried about the increasingly monopolistic tendencies of a certain well-known search engine, give Duckduckgo a whirl. It's very good. You'll need to include UK in your search term for UK-specific searches, as they don't have a dedicated UK site yet. 
http://duckduckgo.com/ Royal Mail online postcode finder I've always found this quite handy: http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder Yousendit
http://www.yousendit.com/ If you want to send someone a file that's bigger than the size allowed on their e-mail server you can upload it to yousendit and the person you want to send the file to receives a link they can download it from by e-mail. It's free for up to 100MB. All the world's news on a pagehttp://newsmap.jp/ displays news from all around the world on a single page. The size of the boxes linking to the stories indicate how popular the story is and the boxes are colour coded according to subject. There's a separate tab for each country. A very clever idea. Jog the Web Jog the web lets people create their own annotated guides through the web, displaying the web pages alongside the comments made about them: http://www.jogtheweb.com/ These two guides are a good example of what can be done: Maths games - http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/1NJhMR6H1CSD/Math-Games Web 2.0 Tools for Kids - http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/z1O1GPxm4bCR/Web-2.0-Tools-for-Kids Hunch Hunch is an entertaining website designed to help people make decisions. It will ask you some questions on the topic you are interested in and then make a suggestion: http://hunch.com/ Guardian Top 100 Websites
The Guardian list of the top 100 websites for 2009 is an excellent guide to (mostly) free services and information on the web: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/18/internet-websites The list has proved so popular that they've compiled an additional list of reader-suggested sites: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/08/internet-blogging The top 100 list from 2006 is also still worth a look: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/dec/21/newmedia.media Some of the sites on that list have proved extraodinarily successful. And here's the Guardian Top 100 Websites list for 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/bes t-websites-internet Less interesting than previous ones. Telegraph 50 Best Websites The Daily Telegraph has also compiled a list of what they consider to be the best fifty websites here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7744046/50-best-websites.html Guardian Notes & Queries If you're after the answer to an obscure question, you might well find the answer here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries Website of the DayThis site is a treasure trove or interesting, entertaining and useful links: http://www.websiteoftheday.info/ It's a shame it's no longer going to be added to. wikiHowwikiHow is a Wikipedia style online encyclopedia of how to do things: http://www.wikihow.com/ It's very entertaining as well as informative. Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle lets you create an image of a piece text with the size of the words representing how often they've been used. Here's a wordle of the front page of this site: 
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