sites; Roger Ridey travels under the volcano, and also discovers a Web full of creepy-crawlies

Viewing site: Your computer cuts you off from the real world, doesn't it? Not necessarily - you can now see what's going on out there with the help of the numerous live video cameras connected to Web. A good place to start is Charles Arruda's World Net-Cams site (http://in.net/ chucka/index.htm) which features live pictures from Hawaii, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco and many other places around the world. There is even a camera set up at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles. Look closely and you just might see a major motion picture star passing by. After all, Hugh Grant has been known to frequent this area.

Building site: What if you want to do more than just look at live images from Hollywood? What if you want to live there? Now you can, with the help of the GeoCities Homesteading on the Web programme (http://www.geocities.com/). Geocities seeks to foster "the spirit of community that is so vital to the future success of the Internet and the World Wide Web". With the help of their special home page editor, you can build your own home, which can then be located in a residential neighbourhood in virtual cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Athens or Paris.

Drinking site: After all that hard work building your house in the Hollywood Hills, you could probably murder a pint. And who better than the Campaign for Real Ale (http://www. camra.org.uk) to help you to find a good pub. The Camra page includes membership information, links to other Camra branches on the Web and a calendar of beer festivals in the UK, as well as providing the chance to purchase The Good Beer Guide 1996 and other local pub and beer guides.

Nature site: Scientists love sticking data on the Web, which is why Volcano World (http://volcano.und.nodak.edu) is an absolute treasure trove of exploding mountains. As well as links to newsletters and an "ask a volcanologist" page, it has pictures of hundreds of mountains and updates on current eruptions. The picture here, by Scott Rowland, is of Kilauea on Hawaii, which has been active since 1983. It shows just how bad for traffic management a lava stream can be.

Silly site: It's time to visit the Squashed Bug Zoo (http://194.159.1.18/zoo/zoo.html), where you can view a wide selection of splattered cockroaches, crunched beetles and even a few smashed small vertebrates. You can even submit your own squashed bugs to be included in this rather remarkable collection. Splat.

If you know of any interesting sites, e-mail details to network@independent.co.uk