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2004-10-30
 
ON A LIGHTER NOTE...
Presumably a lighter note, that is, if suicide notes can be called that | Oh, and for those of you using Internet Explorer, you might have to scroll down the page to see this, since the folks at Microsoft apparently haven't been able to write code that lets you see an larger scaled image with the text | Go figure | and click on the picture itself to see the text clearer |
     My guess is that the yet to be suicider just bought a new computer, complete with Microsoft XP and all the updates, only to discover that MS Works was installed as the word processing program | He'd downloaded all his old MS Word files into MS Works and they immediately turned into useless gibberish | So, as a last gesture, he's turned on his old computer to write his last thoughts withe the ever-helpful MS Word paperclip icon whom we know as "Office Assistant" |
     Honestly folks, I don't take suicide issues lightly, but I couldn't help but laugh at this swipe at Microsoft's "helpful" pop-ups |
Pix credit: Found this at a Russian clip art site | I'm fascinated that most [but not all] the file names are in English, that the majority of the images appear to be of USA dollars and oil field related images | Oh and a couple of suprising things [one of a man giving the viewer "the finger"], a single picture of Vladimir Putin, one of two members of the Taliban [well, two bearded Middle Eastern looking guys wearing turbans], a cartoon image of Saddam but none of USA political figures |

 
 
LEST WE FORGET || ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

On November 2nd, VOTE!

If you have trouble on Election Day, call (866) OUR-VOTE, set up by the
Election Protection Coalition / People For the American Way |
 
 
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
here's a game your kids can play | Well, you could, too | Nobody's telling | What to do with an oil spill | The site was put up as an instructional tool for young children, as a collaborative effort between Miami University [Oxford, Ohio] and the National Science Foundation | The Foundation, incidentially, is still providing research grants to support the study of biodiversity | The downside to this is that the fund cycle is halfway completed, and they do not appear to be offering cometetive grants for next year | And the money awared only yesterday [19 oct 04] was for grants applied for in 2003 or early 2004 | It remains to be seen what, if any, federal funds will be awarded in the future for important legitimate studies in the sciences |
     Alas, even in this area, what happens on Tuesday shall have an impact in the outcome |
 
 
PNEUMONIA
Pneumonia is the "schizophrenia" of lung disorders | By this I mean it seems the term pneumonia is a catch-all for a wide range of lung disorders with vastly different causes, symptoms and manner of treatment | And I'm stuck with it |
     I am recuperating but the wait is interminable | I'm not a good patient | I told the doc I'll have removed all the wallpaper by my fingers come Monday | I see it more as unfairly limiting my many things to do | Bruce and another doc friend say I'm my own worst enemy ["Lemme move just one more truck load of firewood..." I'll tell them | I suppose I just don't know how to rest |
     From what I'm reading, and based on the symptoms, the kind of pneumonia I have is mycoplasma pneumonia | It has few symptoms but those it has include "violent" coughing attacks and barely discernable mucus, resulting in little coughed up | It is a fairly "common" type and about 20% of all cases of pneumonia are attributed to it | It is treatable with antibiotics |
     So it is waiting I have to deal with | ...back to copying CDs onto the hard drive I suppose |
     Bedrest! Bah! Humbug!
 
 
WHERE TO VOTE
It's too late to ask for an absentee ballot so you'll need to go to the polls | Rather than rely on some opposing party's "advice" you can find out where you have to go to vote by finding it at My Polling Place | If necessary, you can also call 1-866-OUR-VOTE | All this said, the website still reccommends you contact your city or county offices for the correct address for the polling site |
 
2004-10-29
 
LEST WE FORGET || ECONOMIC INJUSTICE / CLASS WARFARE

On November 2nd, VOTE!
 
 
THE ROAD TO PROGRESS

Intuit's Vibe | No Struggle, No Progress | by Frederick Douglass [1857]
The whole history of progress of human liberty / Shows that all concessions / Yet made to her august claims / Have been born of earnest struggle.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress / Those who profess to favor freedom, / And yet deprecate agitation, / Are men [and women] who want crops / Without plowing up the ground, / They want rain / Without thunder and lightning.

They want the ocean / Without the awful roar of its waters.

This struggle may be a moral one; / Or it may be a physical one; / Or it may be both moral and physical; / But it must be a struggle.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. / It never did, and it never will.

Find out just what any people / Will quietly submit to / And you have found the exact measure / Of injustice and wrong / Which will be imposed upon them, / And these will continue till they are resisted.

The limits. . . are prescribed / By the endurance of those whom. . [are] oppress[ed]. / Men [and Women] may not get all they pay for in this world, but they pay for all they get.

If we ever get free / from the oppressions and wrong heaped on us, / we must pay for their removal. / We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, / and if needs be by our lives and the lives of others.
 
 
LEST WE FORGET || SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT

On November 2nd, VOTE!
UPDATE: ParaPolitics Forum with an article about the 19 October 2004 assault on unarmed protesters at a Bush rally in Jacksonville, Oregon | Using pepper spray and paintballs the citizens were "Silenced by the President" as Oregon Police Fire On Bystanders Watching Presidential Motorcade | Got a write up in the Crawford, Texas Iconoclast
 
 
HALLOWE'EN
Pumpkin Gutter, so far, has the most original carvings I've seen thus far | Gives me some ideas for my own | he doesn't actually hollow out the pumpkins but carves into the rind | Says that this also creates some interesting light effects once he's hollowed out the center and put in a candle ...well, I'm assuming he's using a candle |
 
2004-10-28
 
SUN TZU - THE ART OF WAR

A N  •  A T T I T U D E  •  T O W A R D  •  W A R F A R E

In joining battle, seek the quick victory ... I have heard tell of a foolish haste,
but I have yet to see a case of cleverly dragging on the hostilities. There never
has been a state that has benefited from an extended war.

Any deviation from this attitude represents military adventurism, and is
outrightly condemned. "...one who takes pleasure in military affairs shall
ultimately perish, while one who seeks to profit from victory shall incur disgrace."

SOURCE: from SUN TZU: The Art of Warfare | The first English translation incorporating the recently discovered Yin-ch"ueh-shan texts | Translated, with introduction and commentary by Roger Ames | Ballentine Books © 1993
 
 
LEST WE FORGET || VOTER FRAUD
On November 2nd, VOTE!
Walden ODell President of Diebold Corp
 
 
RATS RUN FROM THE SHIP
Click on the Diebold Voting Machine for a chance to see how it might work come election day

Republicans and Conservatives increasingly flee from Bush | Some examples:
   • Republican Switchers keeps track of newspaper endorsements [probably more accurate than polls at expressing public sentiment] as well as prominent Republicans who have come out of the closet and spoken against Dubya's election bid | Endorsements as of 10/26: Kerry leads 142 to 123, including 37 Switcher papers (compared to Bush's 6) |
   • American Conservative Magazine endorses Kerry | An opening quote:
Unfortunately, this election does not offer traditional conservatives an easy or natural choice and has left our editors as split as our readership. In an effort to deepen our readers’ and our own understanding of the options before us, we’ve asked several of our editors and contributors to make “the conservative case” for their favored candidate. Their pieces, plus Taki’s column closing out this issue, constitute TAC’s endorsement. —The Editors
   • Retired Judge Robert L. Black, in the Cincinnati, Ohio Enquirer stating that "...my loyalty to the party must give way to my love of this country. I consider it a patriotic duty to speak up when the future of our democracy is at stake."
   • Carl Worden, who identifies as "...a registered Republican since I pulled my first lever in a voting booth, and I've voted as a loyal Republican for Republican candidates consistently every year. I am 55 years of age. I am considered a right-wing Christian conservative and strict constitutionist..." says he's voting for Kerry after "...as the last straw..." an orchestrated Bush Rally kicked out two Republican shcool teachers wearing "Support our Civil Liberties" T-shirts [read the full story]
   • Charley Reese, a Conservative, possibly Libertarian columnist, who voted for Bush in 2000 says this: People who think of themselves as conservatives will really display their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting for Bush. Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get. Well, he fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice.
     It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to vastly increase the power of government, to show contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign outsourcing of American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and trade deficits don't matter, and that people should not know what their government is doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the most secretive president in the 20th century. His administration leans dangerously toward the authoritarian.
"
He advised his readers to check out John Kerry's website where he believes they will find postions of substance on many subjects |
   • DKosopedia, has published a list of Republicans who have endorsed John Kerry, as well as those Republicans who have publicly stated their reluctance to cast a vote for George W. Bush |
   • Even a white supremicist website, Skinheadz, [who once attempted to censor this writer] has touted on their front page [www.skinheadz.com] "anybody but Bush!" | Out of deference to a request from someone who identified himself as their attorney I have not provided a direct link to that website |
 
2004-10-27
 
LEST WE FORGET || CORPORATE CORRUPTION

On November 2nd, VOTE!
 
 
MASS TRANSIT
New York City's Subway is 100 years old! | Today is the anniversary of the opening of the NYC Subway system | So here's a brief tribute to this erstwhile transport marvel |
     New York's subway system was among the first, but it led to many others built around the world, with varying degrees of success | They may all get used, but some may question whether or not they help minimize urban sprawl | In New York, there's probably no doubt that subways help contain unchecked development |
     When I lived in New York City I never got lost on the subway | But then, I'm an inveterate map reader and have a good sense of direction, and I can't say this of others | I even moved the contents of an entire apartment from Brooklyn to Staten Island using the subway and ferry system | I had my share of other adventures, too, on the subways | Or, more accurately, on the platforms and attendant underground spaces, but those tales I'll reserve for some other occasion |
     But the subway system isn't just the platforms and vehicles themselves | And there are folks who do share their adventures and explorations into the nether spaces without hesitation | Forgotten New York has written about the subway system extensively | Photographer David Gallager has photos online of tunnels and trails accessible to the public | Julia Solis has written a book, New York Underground, about less visible parts of the system |
     Perhaps the most endearing of all the subway sites I came across, and one that has a totally fresh perspective is Sporkworld's Subway Poem, which rambles and meanders every bit as much as the Nw York sumbay system itself | Go see for yourself |
PIX CREDITS Old Subway: Forgotten New York | A Train: oursbrun's travel archives | Tunnel Pix: New York Underground | The map is from a Japanese site's list of maps || FINALLY... for info on adeventures into the urban underbelly [not just subway systems], check out Ars Subterranea or Dark Passage |
 
2004-10-26
 
IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
Billmon's Moon of Alabama have a write up recently entitled Red Lights Flashing, and you can be certain it isn't about the latest K-Mart special | No, it's about the American Economy, which Dubya says is "...on the march...," and that may be true, even if it isn't in an uphill direction | Some highlights:
     Doug Noland of Prudent Bear started his weekly Credit Bubble Bulletin on Friday with the words "It has the feel of an unfolding bear market." Martin Goldberg, author at Financial Sense, titled his Thursday market wrap-up "Something big is about to happen."
     For years the US has over consumed and under saved. Foreigners have financed the difference between consumption and savings so far, confident in US politics and the US economy. This is changing.
     The US war adventure in Iraq has helped to push oil prices up 100% in only one year. This is an oil shock for the global economy.
     Bill Clinton's 1992 Campagin slogan is even more apt today | Too bad Kerry's handlers hadn't thought to use it |
     Anyway, you may want to read the complete item Red Lights Flashing yourself, and draw your own conclusions |
 
 
LEST WE FORGET || IRAQ QUAGMIRE

On November 2nd, VOTE
 
 
NOTORIETY
I see that American Street gave a brief notice [well, two words and a link, actually] to this site as one of the "Progressive Peers" in Connecticut whose been writing about politics this season |
     Not certain if this means I'll be expected to stay on this vein or not; though I expect I'd be writing about politics off and on anyway | The picture is one of my "October Surprises" and came as part of an article on the pardoning of turkeys on Thanksgiving [that probably made the folks at PeTA happy]
And no, I'm NOT going to say who I think the turkeys in the picture | Probably us, if we vote a certain way come November 2nd |
 
2004-10-25
 
PNEUMONIA
Reading the description didn't make me feel any better but it takes the mystery out of the illness |
Pneumonia is the inflammation (swelling) of the lungs. The lungs are filled with pus or other liquid. Because of the liquid, oxygen can't get to the red blood cells. The following is the process in which this disease occurs:
      * The walls of the air sacs are destroyed.
      * Red blood cells, plasma, and white blood cells fill the sacs.
      * The area of the lung that this is occurring now becomes inoperable.
     The hacking cough that accompanies the condition makes me pariah at work; nobody wants a sick employee at a hospital | So I've stayed home since last week | Energyless on Thursday and Friday | Saturday I break the rules and went to the Open House at I-Park | Sunday and Monday pretty much a bust, though today I was well enough to copy about 50 CDs onto the hard drive and did some paperwork |
     My guess is that by Wednesday I'll be pretty much pulling off the wallpaper as a distraction, for I do seem to be getting better | ...ever since the doc gave me some potent antibiotic, that is | but he still wants me to cough |
 
2004-10-24
 
WAR POEM by Lincoln Kerstein
T E N T - M A T E S
It's
no cinch to live together
    In a field three acres square
With your noncoms and your officers
    Sleeping and eating there.
Soldiers aren't chosen wisely
    To be four-season friends;
Neither lovers nor companions,
    We were picked for rougher ends.
hence our interest seems to lessen
    In snapshots of buddies' wives,
Nor are we all-absorbed by
    Incidents in lurid lives
Which startlingly resemble
    Our own grim or comic tale
But which, on other lips than ours,
    In passion, tend to pale.
From living in each other's laps,
    From sniffing at each other's pores,
From glimpsing every function of
    The human mechanisim's chores,
From dozing next to unloved flesh,
    From swimming in the common stew,
We're trigger happy to the touch
    At our compulsive rendezvous.
I do not mind my own shit.
    Why then avoid another's?
Answers are articles of war:
    Men are seldom brothers.


SOURCE: Rhymes< and more Rhymes of as PFC by Lincoln Kirstein | New Directions Press | © 1964 || IMAGES: Photos from the internet | Sketch from USA Civil War Sketchbook, Henri Lovie 1862 |
 
 
WEBSURFING
Here's a sequence of pages I went to while while surfing | The sequence started, incidentally, with a single intentional jump | That jump was to
[1] "Is That Legal?" | An item on the page Military Service: You Can't Tell the Players without a Program! drew me to the next two pages:
     [2] Green Space | Sally Greene's page, with an item entitled Patriot Acts [a read on which politicians and pundits actually did any mititary service] took me to
     [3] Yale Law School and and article by Vincent Blasi entitled Milton's Areopagitica and the Modern First Amendment about the origins of the liberal tradition in supporting Free Speech |
Then I backtracked to Ms Greene's Page, opening up two [4 + 5] blog links she has listed
     [4] Balkanization, where I read about How the Supreme Court makes decisions and of pundits who finally have begun questioning the sincerity of Dubya's "faith" | But I also found the piece on Citizen Soverignty of interest so I hopped over to link [6] below |
     [5] Since I've found Dave Neiwart's blog Orcinus enlightening in the past I wentthere to read yet another piece on Michelle Malkin and her questionable credibility when championing the WWII use of Internment Camps with the Japanese [question: does she know something we don't? ...an trying to soften the blow?]
     [6] Citizen Soverignty is, I learned, a non-profit "...whose purpose is to deepen citizen involvement in American political life" | I scanned the site briefly and bookmarked it for later review |
     [7] Evr mindful of Bruce's maxim ~ namely, not to get obsessed with political blogs, I took a jump from Orcinus to Wood s Lot, where I was not disappointed | There I found items about Brazilian sculptor Lygia Clark, a wonderful painting by the French Painter Achille Etna Michallon [1796-1822] [which I've added here] and, finally, a link to a Gutenberg Project e-book, [8]
     [8] The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times, by Alfred Biese | Since I'm down with a bad could [pneumonia in one lung] I've printed out the e-book to read |

     That done, I figured I had to check my e-mail and do stuff about the house |
 
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blogs I check in on
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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
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 • 

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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