Car clubs, jobs help and small intestines

This post has impeccable liberal credentials (you’d laugh if you knew me). The first two sites are new additions to the Gateway to Websites; the third is, for reasons which will become clear, unlikely to make it on to the Gateway.

Your car or mine
We read a lot of worthy stuff about responsible (read "less") car use, but some of the suggestions are a bit airy-fairy. CarPlus sets out to provide a practical solution to the problem. (From the Gateway select "Transport & tourism", then from the links down the page select "Road". Here you will find CarPlus).

CarPlus is a charity dedicated to encourage responsible car use in several ways, but the bit that caught my eye is their database of accredited car clubs, through which you book a car when you need one, and pick it up from a nearby parking place. The term "car club" encompasses voluntary organisations, but also commercial set-ups like Streetcar.

Local councils and car park owners are, it seems, increasingly making spaces available for club cars, so using the interactive search map you can find a convenient parking place and book your vehicle. Of course you have to sign up with the provider – full contact details are given.

Luckily for me, somebody else drives my motor (the number 13 if I’m going into the West End), but if you prefer to drive but don’t want the hassle of your own car, CarPlus is worth a look.

Just the job and how to get one
Some of us swear by the Guardian as a newspaper, others swear at it. But whatever you think of the rag itself, the Guardian website is excellent, and no part of it is better than Guardian Jobs. (From the Gateway, select "Education and jobs", then select "Jobs and careers".)

Now, however much we want to encourage you all to apply for jobs in the meejah, we wouldn’t include Guardian Jobs because it has all the trendy job ads (which it does). What makes it Gateway material is the advice on getting a job.

A click on the tab "careers advice" takes you to some valuable tips on filling in an application form ("read the blurb"), writing a CV ("keep it on one page") and interviews ("don’t allow your mouth to do all the talking").

There is a bucketful of good advice here [I was going to put the old Guardian joke about spelling mistakes here, but spellcheckers have taken all the joy out of life].

The height (or weight) of folly
WEIRDCONVERTER probably won’t help you with your studies, and it’ll never make the Gateway, but if you’ve always wondered how many inches long was the Great Wall of China, or how many human tongues you could lay end-to-end up the side of the Empire State Building, look no further than http://www.weirdconverter.com/

A selection of ludicrous comparisons is presented on the home page, but for further madness you need to click on "weight" or "length/height", where you can, for instance, select "spider monkey" and "baby grand piano" to compare their weights. Why? – pass…

Very silly – enjoy!