short notes:
will brady's ruminations


2004-06-12
 
SITE INFO: GENERAL
About Short Notes | The title comes from a column I wrote while working at a small chain on weekly papers in the Adirondack mountains, some 20 plus years ago | As the title suggests, my intent is to try to keep to the gist of a subject, reserving more detailed entries to linked pages, either things created by others, or on my own | The latter such work can be found on my rondak.org website |
     Subject matter can and will vary, and may occasionally be all over the place | Much interests me | Similarly, I'm likely to share that which I find of interest, as well as other things I come across | More than likely, since I'm a serious kind of guy, you can expect the tone to be serious | What I'm getting at is that you aren't likely to find tabloid gossip fodder here [though I do have a link in the righthand column that may sate one's needs in that area] | I'm not without a sense of humor, so don't expect the tenor of the site to be completely gawd awful dull | I do want to keep you interested in content |
     Other Blogs I read | They're all over the place poltically and philosphically | While one might assume, based on my personal perspectives and points of view, that I stick to the left, I read many from the right as well as others off the charts | Evidence of thinking is my main criteria, not that the occasional addlebrain doesn't get added | Diversity is good |
     Other Links | These are a sampling of those I have saved | probably thousands saved, just not all done here | They reflect the subjects I have an interest in or knowledge about, and which I wish to share | Presently, the other links are in losely identified catergories, identified on the side by the rules between them | The sub-sections of the categories are more clearly defined |
     Finally, I have started a second blog Stuff About Art that shall shamelessly display my own works, as well as allow me to spout off my aesthetic opinions without them getting lost in the shuffle | As that blogsite matures, the links related to the visual arts shall be found on that blog |
 
 
CELEBRITIES
a most unique tribute to ronald reagan | B3ta says goodbye to Reagan
 
 
WEB SURFING RESULTS
Up close and personal | from Liron's gallery, the image on the left is found | Liron is a pretty good phototographer, and the rest of thre website warrants review | nicely put together | eesh.net also apparently hosts another site Bob the Angry Flower has succeeded in make me fritter away a lot of time I'd spend outdoors on this pleasant weathered day | Entertaining to say the least | Check out the archives for a fresh comic book visual style perspective on world news events as well |
 
 
ECONOMIC TREASON || CORPORATE CONTROL
Did Cheney cozy up cash to Nigerian resource officials? | I am shocked, shocked! that our eminent vice president would be a part of any such nefarious doings | [yeah, right!]
     While almost everybody in the media is asleep on their watch during the Reagan Funeral Extravaganza, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is ~thankfully~ still on the job
     here's a recent entry:
Friday, June 11, 2004 · Last updated 8:25 a.m. PT
SEC probes Nigeria bribery accusations
By KRISTEN HAYS AP BUSINESS WRITER
     HOUSTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission is formally investigating allegations that a Halliburton Co. subsidiary was involved in paying $180 million in bribes to get a natural gas project contract in Nigeria. Vice President Dick Cheney was head of the oil services conglomerate at the time.
     Halliburton on Friday announced that the SEC has started a formal probe. The SEC's informal investigation of the contract was disclosed in February.
     The SEC isn't alone in examining the contract, in which Halliburton subsidiary KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, is a 25 percent owner. Nigeria in February ordered an investigation, and a French magistrate has been probing the payments for months. The Justice Department is reviewing documents voluntarily provided by Halliburton.
     The company also has been under fire for allegedly overcharging the government on contracts related to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Halliburton says the company is a political target and denies wrongdoing.


there's more...
 
2004-06-11
 
POP CULTURE
Sergeant's Cabins, George's Mills, [Lake Sunapee], NHThings you can't see on the television | I've never seen an episode of the Sopranos, eschew the so-called "reality" shows, trivia game fests that people mistake for knowledge displays | Never, for that matter, watched more than half an episode of the Brady Bunch (perhaps for obvious reasons) | Spending time outdoors, under open skies (or, as the pix to the right suggests, under the canopy of trees) has a far greater appeal
     This said, in general, it can be expected that there won't be much about the boob tube on this site's entries |
music choices | My tastes vary | Right now I'm listening to a Brit musician Tim Hutton from a CD album entitled "Everything" | I found it in a manner typical of my search style ~ go into a store, not necessarily known for selling music, find the CD and tapes remainers rack and buy on hunch |
     Back to the current pick, full of minor chords, slightly discopncerting use of instrumentation, and thoughtful lyrics | Works for me |
     NOTE: My method of music selection has almost never failed | The exception: Once I got an album called "This Shit is Bad", music performed by somebody whom I guess had to be an AR producer's coke dealer and threathened to expose his habit if he didn't cut the record (was an LP) | You'd think I'd have taken heed from the title, it WAS bad, awful in fact |
 
 
CELEBRITIES || 21st CENTURY FEUDALISM
Ronald Reagan | Alright, I can't ignore this man's passing altogether, so here's some things to think about while awash in the accolades and airport terminal namings we can expect more of | 1- Top Ten Lessons for Counter-Revolutionaries What Ronald Reagan taught Dubya [from the American Prospect] || 2- Greg Palast's recollection of the fun Nicaraguan peasants had while entertaining Ronnie and Ollie North's drug running contras | Really folks, paying due respects is one thing, calling things for what they are is quite another | If you insist on the syrup, go to the Gipper's posthumous election site | ...oh, I'm sorry, this take's you to Dubya's house |
     UPDATE: The Radical Right has this wonderful way of self-censoring less than charitable accounts of their actions | as a result the Professional Woman's Sand Diego website displaying Mary Walker's interview was taken down | You can still find the interview Google cached here and posted at iPriority , a site that outs itself as a place for "developing from the inside out" |
 
2004-06-10
 
WILL BRADY'S GALLERY || SOCIAL COMMENT
Are You Fringe?
 
 
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY
Living Green | In keeping with my objectives of speaking to real options instead of merly ranking on the folks presently ruining ..er, running the planet here's a picth on a group that does something about more ecologically sensible options | The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association [NESEA] maintains an easy to maneuver website providing more than adequate starter info about making a transition between dependence on the power grid, polluting petrochemicals, or nukes and renewable energy resources for everyday energy production |
     The site maintainers help keep current on recent developments, links to sustainable and ongoing practical energy production, and by provding stories on ordinary people who make use of the technology that NESEA publicizes |
     A good starting point in anyone's efforts at going independednt from the oil cartels -be they foreign or domestic |
     solar electric can be practical | Lest you suffer from the illusion that converting to solar electrical home power is not affordable in northern climes, it may be helpful to note that as far back as the mid-1970s research conducted at then Clarkson College [now Clarkson University found that solar heating was cost comparable with an all electric house [then the most costly heating option]. That research assumed a 60% cloud cover during the year |
     more sustainable energy sources | Sustainable Building Handbook From Texas comes this incredibly valuable sourcebook on sustainable energy and building construction techniques | The purpose of the Sourcebook is to offer the practical information needed to implement the building practices promoted by the Green Building Program. The Sourcebook addresses a wide range of options available to architects, builders, and homeowners in seeking to create sustainable buildings | I would like to see more on how to convince local building and zoning inspectors that these practices do, indeed, meet proper building code specifications, and there is some of that, I just would have liked more |
     The Center for Resourceful Building Technology is dedicated to promoting environmentally responsible construction practices. It works as both catalyst and facilitator to encourage building technologies which realize an efficient and sustainable use of resources |
     silicon solar's cell technology     ...and get your kids in on the action | You can start by buying some mini-solar generation kits | Spend a couple of dollars on one of these inexpensive solar generators, [designed to power a CD player or an MP3 player] from Silicon Solar and you may find that little rasta boy or gangsta girl that moved into your kid's bedroom some months ago has found a reason for seeing that science is def! [Okay, I have about used up my rap argot vocablulary, but I hope you get the point] Get the kids involved in this too | It is, after all their future that these technologies are going to help sustain |
portions of this section first published 09 may 2002 and subsequently undated

 
 
DEMOCRACY || CORPORATE CONTROL
Florida Voting Protections | ...as if there were such a thing | The Tampa Tribune reports [7 June 2004] that the Jeb Bush machine, like the rest of the family, is still agressively prohibiting otherwise legal citizens from participating in the democratic process | Some talking points:
Today, as the 2004 election nears:

* More than 43,000 Floridians are on the waiting list to have their rights restored, some of whom first learned in 2000, after voting for years, that they weren't legally entitled to vote. The restoration process can take years, and the list is growing, not shrinking.
* Hundreds of people wrongly removed from voter rolls in 2000, who never committed felonies or whose rights had been restored, may not yet have been put back on the rolls.
* A lawsuit charges that Florida's felon disenfranchisement is unconstitutional and affects up to 600,000 people.
* Despite all this, state officials have just sent elections supervisors in Florida's 67 counties another list of 47,000 names of individuals who may have committed felonies in the past, telling the supervisors to purge their rolls again.
* Some supervisors say they don't have the staff, expertise or money to do the purge without the same kind of errors as in 2000.
* Legally purged voters, meanwhile, won't find out about it until they get a letter from an election supervisor this summer - too late to have their rights restored for this election - or are turned away on Election Day.
* The vast majority of them are black and would be likely to vote Democratic.
* In Miami-Dade County, for example, blacks are 20 percent of the population but make up 65 percent of those on the 2000 felon purge lists.

there's more...

Might we say: "T-R-E-A-S-O-N" ?
 
 
Other Voices | on evaluating the performance of a president

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public
."


-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (1901-1909), speaking in 1918


Update on Joe Ryan's Abu Ghraib diaries | Thanks to a tip from billmon.org a link to "lost" diary pages of Joe Ryan, a so-called conservative talk show host and guest Iraq prisoner interrogator, who extensively documents the good times the questioners had in their job | Indymedia UK has pt up on their site pages from March 2004 | They also saved them as PDF files
 
2004-06-09
 
CORPORATE CONTROL
Ralph Nader on Corporate Interests | from the American Conservative interview with Pat Buchanan, 21 June 2004
"...what representative government is for, to counteract the excesses of the monied interests, as Thomas Jefferson said. Because big business realizes that the main countervailing force against their excesses and abuses is government, their goal has been to take over the government, and they do this with money and politics. They do it by putting their top officials at the Pentagon, Treasury, and Federal Reserve, and they do it by providing job opportunities to retiring members of Congress. They have law firms that draft legislation and think-tanks that provide ready-made speeches. They also do it by threatening to leave the country. The quickest way to bring a member of Congress to his or her knees is by shifting industries abroad.

Concentrated corporate power violates many principles of capitalism. For example, under capitalism, owners control their property. Under multinational corporations, the shareholders don’t control their corporation. Under capitalism, if you can’t make the market respond, you sink. Under big business, you don’t go bankrupt; you go to Washington for a bailout. Under capitalism, there is supposed to be freedom of contract. When was the last time you negotiated a contract with banks or auto dealers? They are all fine-print contracts. The law of contracts has been wiped out for 99 percent of contracts that ordinary consumers sign on to. Capitalism is supposed to be based on law and order. Corporations get away with corporate crime, fraud, and abuse. And finally, capitalism is premised on a level playing field; the most meritorious is supposed to win. Tell that to a small inventor or a small business up against McDonald’s or a software programmer up against Microsoft.

Giant multinational corporations have no allegiance to any country or community other than to control them or abandon them. So what we have now is the merger of big business and big government to further subsidize costs or eliminate risks or guarantee profits by our government
."

Never thought I'd be doing anything that would pay heed to multi-millionaire faux-populist Buchanan, but these are indeed strange times | Besides, he's giving the lone contender against corporate apologist candidates a chance to be heard | More than we can expect from FOX, Time Warner, Capitol Cities, and the rest of the sorry bunch controlling the information streams we casually call "the news" |
 
 
ECONOMIC TREASON
Is ENRON still the smoking gun in treason trials? | Jason Leopold's article on Counterpunch raises cautious optimism in me that the evidence is certainly there to indict the bastids who have been commiting treason against the USA populace for well nigh two decades | The article reports on info now public about Kenneth Lay, Jeffry Skilling, Dick Cheney and others worked, apparently in concert, to manipulate and inflate the costs of energy to California and other energy markets |
     Further providing an arguement that power should, indeed, belong to the people, since the rich and powerful are, obviously, not up to the task of managing that resource honestly | Of course, we still have years to go to correct this complex set of problems, but stuff such as this coming to light is a push in the right direction |
 
2004-06-08
 
IRAQ QUAGMIRE
Bush's Select Cadre | Mary Walker is a curious kind of Christian | Intensely driven, she played a role in the Dubya's White House efforts to absolve themselves from personal responsibility for being on watch when torture became standard as a management tool | Bet she sleeps well at night, so certain of her rightness in thought | But it's a real stretch believeing that her thoughts, writings and actions are in any way Christ-like |
     UPDATE 11 jun 04: The Radical Right has this wonderful way of self-censoring less than charitable accounts of their actions | as a result the Professional Weman's Fellowship / San Diego website displaying Mary Walker's interview was taken down | You can still find the interview Google cached here and posted at iPriority , a site that outs itself as a place for "developing from the inside out" |
 
2004-06-07
 
TRAVEL
ADIRONDACKS
Lake George retreat | So here's the first of the Adirondak campground pictures | Took way too many of the site itself and not enough of other things, though filled two digital chips and had someone burn a disk to get me more room |
     It was a "car campground" | You know, electrictiy, running water on-site, laundry and showers down the road | And under capacity, in between Memorial Day weekened and Americade, Lake George's annual biker fest | I took one spot in the midst of several and no one else pitched tent nearby, which was fine by me | Got some painting in as well as some of my own road trips |
second photo by Steuben, from an Adirondaks trip in 2003
     Also got to take two trips up to 13th Lake, a wilderness camping site where you haul in your gear and pitch your camp in designated spots | Got to use the "slow camera" and did a panoramic watercolor (in two parts) | The black flies were not that bad, especially when away from the lake itself | But both campsites that I'd have wanted were already taken when I arrived | Luckily, I hadn't taken down the other site so all was well in that department |
 
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blogs I check in on
thought provoking reads - many I agree with, but not all.


POV
[my top of the list]
 • Charles Henry Eldridge Adirondack Native
 • Al Fin
 • Defective Yeti
 • Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting with Jesus
 • Educate Yourself
 • Larry Barr / Rebel Wolf Online
 • Billy Miller's A Poor Wayfaring Stranger
 • Mike Power
 • Nightmare Hall
 • Nurse Ratchet's Place
 • Pam's House Blend
 • P Michaud
 • Pax Nortona
 • Path to Freedom
 • Clarke Lane
 • Ron's Log
 • Wood's Lot
 • Y Hate

[individual writers]

more personal
 • Al in the Country  • Curmudgeon Report  • Eramosa River Journal  • Frog Ponder  • H Kent Craig  • Dale Hobson  • Kestrel's Nest [now Twittering]  • Mickey Z  • Neurotwitch  • Other Stream  • Sarcastic Bastard  • Andrew Phelps  • Brenda's What's UP down South?

[personal/topical/news mix]
 • Angry Biscuit  • Kathryn Cramer  • Defective Yeti  • Something Completely Different  • UltraSparky

more topical/news oriented
 • Atypical Joe  • Charlie's Diary  • CT Blue  • Esoterically  • Feral Scholar  • Fouroboros  • Juan Cole's Informed Comment  • J-Walk Blog  • Happy Scrappy  • Obsidian Wings  • Pandagon  • Panopticist  • Space Coast Web  • Sphere  • Officialsay [stop sleeping]

more news than blog
 • Angry White Kid  • Corrente  • Plus... same gang, different material Corrente Wire  • Crooked Timber  • Current Era Blog  • Exiled Online  • Fire Dog Lake  • [in memory of Steve Gilliard] Group News Blog  • Digby's  • James Kunstler's ~ Clusterfuck Nation  • Le Speakeasy  • Mikhaela's News Blog  • No Quarter  • Stupid Enough Unexplanation  • This Modern World  • robot wisdom

cultural
 • Truck and Barter

science oriented
 • Tim Lambert's ~ Deltoid  • Greg Layden's Blog  • Mixing Memory  • PLoS ONE  • Space Coast Web  • Stuart Savory  • Verbumlogos

health + nutrition
 • Hakeem Alexander ~ Look again / Research  • Monika Woolsey ~ Nutritionist's Perspective  • John Crippen's ~ NHS Blog Doc | Great Britain  • Become Natural

writers + artists
 • Kathryn Cramer  • Eric Drooker  • Michael Nobbs  • Pound  • queer bohemian  • Spunk Library  • John Scalzi's ~ Whatever  • Wood's Lot  • UltraSparky

eclectic
 • Boing! Boing!  • Wilson's Almanac  • ZudFunk's Blogroll

not active - still online
 • Celebrity Cola  • F-Train  • Buzz Stuff  • John Strain  • Just an Inkling  • Love and Rage  • No Milk Today  • Querylily  • Rayz' Journal + Rants  • Unquiet Mind

gone - regrettably
 • Andrew Olmstead  • amnesia insurance  • Philipp Lenssen's Feeeds  • Moon of Alabama  • That Colored Fella  • V-2-dot-org


HEAR / OPINION

[news sources]
 • Aljazeera  • AlterNet  • Capitol Hill Blue  • Crooks & Liars  • Free Speech TV  • Focal Point  • The Gadflyer  • Google News  • CBC - Iceland Daily News  • Indymedia UK  • My Way  • New Left Media  • Now Public  • Official Wire  • Online Journal  • Plime  • Politico  • The Morning News  • Public Radio International  • The Raw Story  • Rense  • Indybay, San Francisco CA  • New Hampshire Gazette  • Sploid  • I am TRex  • World News Network

[publications / periodicals]
 • The Atlantic  • Countercurrents  • Counterpunch  • Fairness + Accuracy in Reporting  • The Economist  • The Guardian  • Human Nature Review  • Miller-McCune  • The Nation  • National Geographic  • The New Yorker  • Ode  • Seattle Post Intelligencer  • Truthout  • Pravda  • Public Eye  • Q News  • Village Voice  • The Wall Street Journal  • The Wilson Quarterly  • YES! Magazine  • Z Magazine

[internet radio / audio media]
 • Wilson Almanac's Radio Bandwidths
 • ABC - Australian Broadcast News  • BBC - British Broadcast News  • CBC - Canadian Broadcast News  • WAMC - Albany NY  • WPKN - Bridgeport CT

[media watch]
 • columbia journalism review  • Conservative Web Watch  • Dart Center - reporting on trauma & violence  • cjr's "Who Owns What"?  • Media Monitors Network  • Video Vote Vigil

[essays / critical thought sites]
 • AAAARG.ORG  • Edge  •   • Wood's Lot

[hyper-vigilant]
 • Counterterrorism Blog  • Cryptome  • Jerry Pippin

[information geeks]
 • The Agonist  • Grey Literature Report  • Resource Shelf

[commentary - left]
 • Scott Bidstrup  • Jim Hightower  • Noam Chomskey  • Orcinus  • Mike Palacek  • ratical.org  • Regressive Antidote  • Think Progress  • TPM Cafe
[commentary - in between]
 • Blogcritics.org  • Citizens for Legitimate Government  • Denis Horgan  • In The Fray  • Lawrence Lessig
[commentary - right]
 • American Prospect  • Kathleen Parker  • Andrew Sullivan  • Town Hall

[manifestos]
 • Abolition of Work
 • Class War
 • The Cluetrain Manifesto
 • Wark's A Hacker Manifesto
 • Earth Charter
 • A Call to Economic Justice
 • Orcinus' Media Revolt
 • Net Neutrality
 • Shrinking the Freedom of Thought
 • The Social Phenomenon of Blogs

[news as humor]
 • Cecil Adams' Straight Dope  • Mark Fiore's Fiore Blog  • Mikhaela Reid's Boiling Point ~ a News Blog  • Damn Interesting  • Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World  • Garry Trudeau's Doonsbury

[man bites dog / humor]
 • BuzzFlash  • College Humor  • The Onion  • The Daily Howler  • Morons  • Yankee Pot Roast

[gossip]
 • Gawker

COSMOS
[spirituality]
 • Council on Spiritual Practices  • Druid Journal  • The Equinox Project

[separation of faith + state]
 • Americans United for church-state separation


IN THE HEAD
[psychiatric hospitals - history]
 • POTN's Abandoned Hospitals

[first person account keepers]
 • Marian Goldstein's Different Thoughts  • Jim Gottstein  • Gianna Kali's Beyond Meds  • Kangaroo Court | Archives pre 1/1/05  • Mind Freedom's 1st Person Accounts  • Psychiatrized  • Psych Survivor Archives [CA]  • Songs of the Survivor

[psychiatric clients' rights]
 • Bazelon Center  • Center for Public Representation  • Dendron/MindFreedom
 • Law Project for Psych Rights  • U.S. Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

[info on psychotropics]
 • Ecologia Cognitiva | Portugese
 • Monika Woolsey ~ Nutritionist's Perspective

[self-help/recovery]
 • Freedom Center | Northampton, MA  • National Empowerment Center  • Copeland Center for Wellness + Recovery  • Natn'l MH Self Help Clearinghouse

[mental health info sites]
 • Mental Health Matters  • Psychiatric Drugs  • Ctr for Mental Health Services [USA]

[alternate views on treatment]
 • Peter Breggin  • John Grohol  • Hakeem Alexander's Hypno Athletics  • Hooper's Forensic Psychiatry


[health care reviewers]
 • Health Care Renewal

REGIONAL
[connecticut]
 • Connecticut Weblogs
[NYC metro]
 • Gothamist  • Bitter Queen's A History of Gay Bars in New York  • Jeremiah's Vanishing New York
[Southeast USA]
 • Southern Studies


LBGTF
news/opinion
 • Atypical Joe  • Pam Spaulding  • Andrew Sullivan  • Towlerroad  • Independent Gay Forum  • Michelangelo Signorile
media reviews
 • LBGT Books, Films & Videos
personal blogs
 • Brave Creatures  • Butch Jax  • Eramosa River Journal
erotic/adult content
 • Buff Tufftalk  • Drub

PLACE
 • Urban-ism  • we-make-money-not-art  • New Urbanism

COMMUNICATION + GRAPHIC DESIGN

[comment]
 • Dave Gray's Communication Nation  • Design Observer  • Jason King Design  • Mandarin Design  • Panopticist  • Speedbird

[html coding tools]
 • CSS Zen Garden  • Page Tutor's HTML Basics  • HTML special character codes  • Hex Hub's Color Codes
 • Page Tutor's 1536 Colors Chart

[typography tools]
 • DaFont's Free Downloadable Typefaces  • Linotype's Font Explorer X  • Typo Generator

[photography tools]
 • Photoshop Tips & Tricks

['zines]
 • foto 8  • JPG Magazine  • U & lc

[geek links]
 • Lee Fleming's Resources  • Software Tips & Tricks

VISUAL ARTS + ARTISTS

[art magazines + blogs]
 • Arts Journal  • Art News  • Art Knowledge News  • Issac Buie's The Simple Connoisseur  • Wood's Lot
[art supplies]
 • Dick Blick  • Jerry's Artarama  • Trekell & Co.  • Utrecht Art Supplies

[group sites]
 • Artween  • Concept Art  • Rational Painting

[collage]
 • J. Long's Die Mythographer!  • Judy Wise  • Toyen [Marie Cerminova]

[installation artists]
 • Hirokazu Fukawa  • Remy Jungerman

[interactive media]
 • Sébastien Chevrel

[painters / print makers / illustrators]
 • Eric Drooker | Painting / Illustration / Graphic Novels  • James Gurney | Landscape / Illustration  • Peter Hocking | Portraiture  • Gerard Huber | NeoClassical  • Rockwell Kent | Illustration / Painting / Social Comment  • Diego Rivera | Murals / Social Comment  • Jim Riccio | Painting / Illustration  • Street Anatomy | Medicine / Art / Design

[photographers]
 • Joey Lawrence  • Drasko Bogdanovic  • Chromisa  • Ian Grey  • Chad Kleitsch  • Ed Roppo's Rusty Jam

[sculpture]
 • Louise Bourgeois  • Alexander Calder  • Marisol Escobar  • Henry Moore  • Robert Rauschenberg  • George Segal  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens  • Gustav Vigeland

[street art]
 • Banksy  • Roadsworth  • Wooster Collective

[art centres]
 • I-Park

[arts marketers]
 • Zhibit.org

[intellectual property rights]
 • Creative Commons

ENERGY
[sustainability blogs]
 • Rebel Wolf's Energy Self- Sufficiency Newsletter
 • Watthead
 • 
 • 

GOV
 • World War 4 Report
 • Reason Public Policy Institute
 • State + Locals Govs

LAW
[legal resources]
 • EFF's Legal Guide for Bloggers
 • FindLaw
 • Law.Com
 • Law Guru's Knowledge Base
 • JURIST: Legal Dictionary
 • regulations.gov
 • Scruffy's State Statutes
 • Univ of Houston's O'Quinn Law Library
 • A Public Defender

[law & philosphy]
 • distributive justice
 • DeNovo - Not active since early 2008
 • Legal Theory
 • Volokh Conspiracy

[intellectual property issues]
 • Creative Commons

[liberty interests]
 • The Agonist
 • American Civil Liberties Union
 • Canadian Civil Liberties Assn
 • Center for Democracy + Technology
 • Electronic Frontier Foundation
 • ALA's "Patriot" Act Updates

[rights concerns]
 • The Bill of Rights Institute
 • Center for Constitutional Rights
 • Human Rights Watch
 • People for the American Way
 • Prison Legal News
 • Southern Poverty Law Center
 • Stanford Center for Internet and Society

[rights of disabled persons]
 • Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
 • Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
 • Mouth Magazine
 • Center for Public Representation
 • Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

[resources]
 • U.S. Hunting | Fish & Wildlife Service
 • U.S. Hunting | Fish & Wildlife Service
 • IAFAW Fishing + Hunting Permit Fees
 • U.S. National Wetlands Inventory | Fish & Wildlife Service
 • U.S. Bureau of Land Management | Department of Interior
 • U.S. National Park Service | Department of Interior

[archery/bowhunting]
 • Archery World
 • Bowsite
 • Bowhunting.net
 • Bowmasters
 • Bowyers & Fletchers Guild [UK]
 • Hunting Society's Archery Links
 • Principles of Archery
 • Primitive Archer

[firearms/hunting]
 • Firearms: Technical + Training Manuals

[outdoors/orienteering]
 • The Backpacker
 • Adirondack Hiking Trails
 • Go take a hike!


FREE TIME

[bodybuilding]
 • A to Z Fitness  • Amateur Wrestling News  • Better Body  • FitLike [UK]  • Testosterone Nation

[food]
 • He Said : She Said

[futuristics]
 • Future Scanner

[travel]
 • Travel Blogs [dot] org  • Hobo Traveler  • Lonely Planet  • Proper Course  • Sailing Anarchy  • VagaBlogging  • Where's Bender?

[urban spelunking]
 • Wikipedia describesp;Wi Urban Spelunking
 • Kelm + Rodenbaugh's Abandoned Missile Base
 • JAN JÖRNMARK Deserted Places
 • JAN JÖRNMARK Deserted Places

[other distractions]
 • Weirdsmobile

REFERENCE

   Dictionaries, Grammars,
   and other online language resources

[English Language]
 • Acronym Finder
 • Blogossary
 • One Look's Dictionary Search
 • Etymological Dictionary
 • JURIST: Legal Dictionary
 • Slang City Dictionary
 • Word Spy "The word lover's guide to new words
 • Thesaurus
[Other Languages]
 • Jennifer's Language Page

[Literature]
 • Indeterminacy
 • Poem Hunter

[encyclopedae, etc]
 • About
 • CIA World Factbook
 • RefDesk
 • Project Gutenberg
 • Project Gutenberg - 2004
 • Nation Master [stats]
 • Questia
 • Wikipedia

[atlases, maps]
 • Digital Topo Maps
 • U S Census Bureau Maps
 • USGS Land and Map

[documents]
 • Bill O'Rights
 • Magna Carta
 • Unversal Declaration of Human Rights

[Postal Codes]
 • Canadian Postal Codes
 • International Postal Codes
 • USA Zip Codes
 • Universal Postal Union

[weather]
 • Foote's Forecasts
 • NOAA National Weather Service | USA
 • Weather Channel
 • The Weather Underground

[Weights and Measures]
 • Measurement Conversion Charts
 • RefDesk's Weights and Measures Resources

[translators]
 • Bablefish Translation Service
 • IM's Online Translation Portal
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