Bookmarks of the rich and famous

September 1998
Internet Magazine

Net celebs open up their browsers and share the secrets of their bookmarks with the Intemet Magazine readers. This month it’s everyone’s favourite spoon-bender…

Uri Geller

Having shot to fame using the power of his mind to mess with the cutlery drawers of TV viewers, Uri has put the paranormal on the map. As well as football psychology, he’s recently become a devotee of the Net where many of his areas of interest find a natural home. “For a parapsychologist, the Net is a revelation,” he enthuses. “It has ended intellectual isolation, and put researchers in touch with thousands of like-minded people.”

Uri’s five favourite Web sites…

1) Mamma

www.mamma.com “All my research starts here. It’s not the fastest search engine, or the most stable, but it combines findings from Yahoo, Infoseek and Excite.”

2) The X-Zone

www.x-chronicles.com “Just the best graphics I’ve ever encountered. If you’re into alien dreams and teteporting UFOs, visit Rob McConell’s paranormal pages. They’re based on his Canadian radio show.”

3) Postcards

http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/postcards/ “Email in colour. A slowish upload, but once you get there, there’s a choice of hundreds of virtual postcards, which you can dispatch for free to any email address.”

4) The Koestler Institute

http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/kpu.html

“Well-organised site explaining the work of the Koestler Parapsychology Institute at the University of Edinburgh. Online experiments, fascinating archive and loads of links.”

5) The Aviary

www.brotherblue.org/brethren/bbaviary.htm “An informal network of US Government and military officials with a shared fascination for UFOs. So the conspiracy theory goes, its 12 members are dedicated to creating a smokescreen around CIA misuse of extra-terrestrial technology.”

Want to know more about Uri Getter?

Check out his own site Uri Geller’s Psychic City at www.urigeller.com, or e-mail Uri at [email protected] Uri Geller’s Little Book of Mindpower is published by Robson Books at £2.50. His Weird Web column appears every Wednesday in The Times Interface section.