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0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Mar 2, 1997

Pop star George Michael is setting up his own web site in cyberspace this week to attract talent to his new record label Aegean. Wannabes will be able to upload 30-second soundbites of their latest songs to the site. If George likes them you'll be invited to send in a full tape. The site is also packed with video footage and digital quality audio of George's hits. He said: "This is the first Web site to give music fans exactly what they want. No waiting or downloading."

IF you are wearing odd socks go straight to the Bureau Of Missing Socks. Devoted to one of the world's oldest mysteries, there's a database of socks missing around the world plus an online survey.

THE All New Liz Hurley site, which uses Java script, plays the hit Take My Breath Away while you catch up on the latest new films. You can download acres of pictures of Liz in provocative poses but strangely there are none of Hugh in a BMW off Sunset Boulevard!

GET more emotion into your e-mail by typing smileys to let the reader know how you feel. You read a smiley by titling your head to the left. Some popular ones are: Happy :-) Sad ;-( Winking :-> Sarcastic :-?

GHOSTBUSTERS from York University challenge the weird and the wonderful at the SpookySoc web site. Find out about UFOs over York and the ghost of a dead son who appears on television.

BOOKMARKS

GEORGE MICHAEL: http://www.aegean. net

MISSING SOCKS: http://www.jagat.com/ joel/socks.html

LIZ HURLEY: http:// www.cafenet.co.uk/ jimbo/hurley.html

SPOOKY: http://www. york.ac.uk/socs207/

ON THE NET: e-mail to david@nataraj. demon.co.uk

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