short notes:
will brady's ruminations


2004-11-13
 
GOOD NIGHT

 
 
WEBSITES
Checking in on old saved bookmarks
and I find that there's a few still alive and kicking |

 • H Kent Craig | Stumbled across this guy's site years ago when I was still using the old Prodigy dial up service | He used to have an extensive HVAC info collection and wrote in a sometimes hilarious recount | I find that he still does | Now with a blog, scroll down and get to the personal pages if ~for no other reason~ to find out where good BBQ can be found in North Carolina |
 • Richard Rongstad | Providing his readers with an extensive list of military related links, and one of the most diligently saved collection of letters to the editor I can think of | he says of himself:
"A man once told me; "You're dangerous". He tried not to sound too whiny, and he failed to conceal his dread with his snide attitude. What he was really trying to do was tag me as a loose cannon. I was happy. That meant I got to him. I knew then I had him back on his heels. They always squeal when you make 'em nervous, or you've got 'em in a vise. ...I didn't answer him. I guess what I could have said was; "Thanks. If you're not dangerous, you're not a threat to your enemies and no good to your friends." Or, I could have said, "Aw, shucks.""
 • Richard Gosden's essay Shrinking the Freedom of Thought | The subject discussed is "How Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Violates Basic Human Rights" particularly timely with the Sally Satel/Fuller Torrey push to get all Americans "assessed" for mental illness | Goes beyond the USA in implication | Saved by a Nowegian guy named Lundz, who has kept the piece online even after other sites went by the wayside | [ NOTE: So as not to lose this important essay, here's a new mirror site for the work ]
 • Project for the Old American Century | a non-profit grass-roots organization that strives to protect and strengthen our democracy through disseminating truthful and unbiased independent news stories untainted by corporate ownership | Develoepd as a counterweight to the Poderhitz / Wolfowitz / Rumsfeldian conspiracy to subvert human rights initatives, egalitarian values and a free nation |
 • Joel Pelletier's painting American Fundamentalists | Based on James Ensor's painting [1888] Christ's Entry into Brussels, 1889, his work is sure to stir the emotions, one way or another |

 
 
HOMELESS PEOPLE
Moyra Peralta documents the lives of people without domiciles in the book
Nearly Invisible


     ‘This is how we live. This is our everyday life. We don’t see it as something squalid, to be hidden - it’s perfectly normal to us.’ - (Mark, Holborn, 1997)

As I write this, I'm on the phone with someone who is telling me about extremists who are prodding the Bush administration to push his "Christian agenda" | While he's at it, let us not forget that the wealthy have less chance of entering heaven than a camel has of passing through the eye of a needle | Every single soul who lacks the chance to have decent food, medical attention, and ~ adquate housing ~ stands as testimony of the failures of the so-call Christian agenda of the rich

Get the Book: Nearly Invisible

 
 
SEASONS CHANGE
Had to come sooner or later


But I wasn't expecting snow two weeks before Thanksgiving | I still have wood to split! This photo was taken around 1000 hours [GMT zone 5] and already the snow is gone from the red maple, and the grass below it is once again green | That is, the part of the lawn that isn't now covered with fallen leaves |
 
2004-11-11
 
RED VERSUS BLUE
here's how Americans really voted |
     Cartographers Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman at the University of Michigan devised a map that shows how we voted by gradation, rather than by gross colorations based only on which side got more than 50% | Thus showing that the pure reds are considerably fewer in representation than the mainstream media would have us believe | They have an interesting website ~ Maps and Cartograms of the 2004 election ~ describing the detail to this projection |
     Now, an entirely different way of looking at this would be as Wonkette described a mostly purple nation, "God! our country looks gay!"
 
 
I'M A RADIOACTIVE...
...that's what I am, or what I could be if one of these babies capsized or had the straps holding their cargo come loose | That's right, each of the containers on the flatbed trucks that drove ahead of me down CT State road # 149 was carrying nuclear [New Que Lure] waste from the decommissioned Yankee Nuclear plant in Haddam Neck | It's a winding two lane road, folks | One that meanders uphill and down through tiny hamlets and rolling farmland |
     Thankfully, the drivers were not in a hurry | I saw no reason to be either | The trucks are from Maine | I don't know where they were headed, but it was away from the Interstate |
About Decommissioning Connecticut Yankee: NRC's FAQ on Decommissioning Reactors | Why CT Yankee dumped Bechtel "...due to Bechtel's history of incomplete and untimely performance and refusal to perform remaining decommissioning work." | Atty General Blumenthal says "What we have here is a nuclear management nightmare of Northeast Utilities' own making" || Sites that talk about readioactive decontamination: Decontamination procedure at an A-bomb testing ground | University of Reading | UK: Decontamination procedures | InstaCote's Decontamination Stripper |
 
 
VETERANS' DAY
click on the images on the right to see the complete picture and the full size of the essay |
     When it is ended, it matters little who keeps the body count | The dead do not return |
     It really does not matter what the present conflagration, be it Verdun, Little Big Horn, the Mekong Delta or Fajullah; the outcome is the same | Death wins | Those who survive the battles, have to figure out how to deal with what they experienced singularly |
     Some do this better than others | Sloan Wilson's protagonist in the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, Tom Rath, copes with living with first hand memories of atrocities by, essentially, forgetting about them |
     Others, including many American soldiers who went to Vietnam, remain tormented by private, psychic demons even today | What is occurring even as we speak, in Fajullah, even the entire Middle East, shall, for the survivors, result in similar discontinuities in acceptance and denial |
     And whether or not the souls departed, or damaged, went to fight to "Good War" or to wrest precious resources from others so a handful of greed mongers live richly is secondary, for the moment, to the fact that people died | People suffered, and suffer the rest of their lives | And in both instances, their efforts, even if not fully understood what role each played in the large scheme of things, were valiant |
     So today, we pay homage to the veterans | Rest easy soldiers | Your efforts do not go unappreciated |
 
 
SOME SMART COOKIES
People with questionable decision-making skills |
     While looking at a house, my brother asked the real estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, "Does the sun rise in the north?"
     When another person jumped in and explained that the sun rises in the east (and has for some time), she shook her head and said, "Oh, I don't keep up with that stuff."
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     I used to work in technical support for a 24x7 call center. One day I got a call from an InDUHvidual who asked what hours the call center was open. I told him, "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." He responded, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time?" Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, "Pacific.."
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     So my colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria when we overheard one of the administrative assistants talking about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the shore. She drove down in a convertible, but "didn't think she'd get sunburned because the car was moving."
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     I was in a high school advanced physics class and the teacher was talking about a new military weapon that uses sonic waves on the battlefield to burst enemy soldier's chests. One InDUHvidual in the class spoke up and said, "Well that's stupid! Why don't they just wear headphones?"
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     My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car. It's designed to cut through a seatbelt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the trunk.
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     My friends and I were on a beer run and noticed that the cases were discounted 10%. Since it was a big party, we bought two cases. The cashier multiplied two times 10% and gave us a 20% discount.
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     I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area. So I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because they were trained professionals and I was in good hands. "Now," she asked me, "has your plane arrived yet?"
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My question: Do these people vote?
Thanks to: Ozzie Dangler
 
2004-11-10
 
AFTERNOON REVERIES
Around Middletown









 
2004-11-09
 
HOW THE VOTE REALLY WENT
NOTE to IE Users | You might have to scroll down the screen to see the image |

Proportionally, the size of the "red nation" is smaller than the physical size it takes up on the continent | Maybe this will be a comfort to some |
     And I have a question, one that's nagged me all election season with the "Red State"/"Blue State" stuff | Hasn't anyone considered it the least bit ironic that the political party most closely identified with routing out commies in the 1950s is now firmly linked in the public minds as the REDS? | Isn't it about time for a little "RED baiting"?, albeit slightly redefined | Just wondering |
THANKS TO: Ron's Log, who in turn, pointed me to Essays & Effluvia

 
 
BACK TO WORK
There's a pile of things to do after being out two weeks | Some people said they'd "...wait until Will gets back..." rather than talk with the staff who covered in my absence | That's a mixed blessing, to be sure |
     Yesterday, the tiny space I use as an office [and that also serves as the storage area for our program's records] was in even greater disarray than how I'd keep it |
     Here's what I missed:
        • A visit from CMMS [that's the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, who wanted to know the details about why a person in the Addictions Services was able to commit suicide while at the facility | While here, they took the chance to peek about at other aspects of how the place is running | Administration was more tight-lipped than usual about the "exit interview" after being here a full week |
        • A Freedom of Information request seeking documentation of all grievances received since 2001 that complained about doctors, the treatment they provided or other aspects of how they interacted with patients |
     My co-workers told be they were glad to have me back | I told them I was happy to see them |
 
2004-11-07
 
WEBSITE MAINTENANCE
New Web Links Page Unveiled | It's taken a long time to do this, and I knew it needed to be done, because my old links pages have become totally unmanagable | It's actually been available with the link from the right side of this page for about fopur days now | I just never made it official |
     The structure is simple | Find the subject of interest, click on the appropriate letter, and you'll find links on a particular topic |
     Those items listed reflect my own interests and specific sites I've found while searching different topics | I welcome suggestions but don't ask me to do research on subjects not already listed |
     You'll find some pages have not been completed | Likewise certain topic heads haven't been filled in yet | I'm still transferring things | Since I had the past week off from work, the process has gone along at a nice pace | This will slow down come Monday [tomorrow]
     I want to mention a couple of other sites that drew my attention during this process | First and foremost, Innvista a site developed by a family of four in their free time, sharing links and resources as they learn them | Additionally, the web presence of About, Wikipedia and Questia for their easy to navigate reference sites |
     That said, here's my new Web Links Page | Let me know what you think |
 
 
NEWS BLIPS
Counterpunch speculates on Life Without Arafat | If Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's illness and unexpected departure to France represents the end of an era... it is because the absence of Arafat, even as a living symbol, is a matter of great consequence. But we must not indulge in misrepresenting the Palestinian struggle by reducing it to the legacy of one man.
     Arafat -- whether deliberately or not -- managed to associate himself with every hardship faced by Palestinians over the decades. From his early years as a student activist in Cairo, in 1949, to the momentous formation of the Fatah movement in 1965, Arafat was always present | His legacy is one of undiluted symbolism -- a symbolism at once substantial and meaningful |
THE FULL STORY |
State of Emergency declared in Iraq | BAGHDAD, Iraq — The government declared a 60-day state of emergency throughout most of the country Sunday, as U.S. and Iraqi forces prepared for an expected all-out assault on rebels in Fallujah. Insurgents escalated a wave of violence that has killed more than 50 people the past two days | Heavy explosions were heard in Baghdad as government spokesman Thair Hassan al-Naqeeb announced the state of emergency over the entire country except Kurdish areas in the north. | NEWSMAX: THE FULL STORY |
Archer Daniels Midland trade with Cuba boosted | HAVANA - Cuba agreed at an international trade fair in Havana this week to buy nearly $100 million in food products from several countries, including about $30 million from the United States | Many agribusiness giants at the fair have made a large percentage of the American farm sales since Cuba in 2001 began taking advantage of an exception to the U.S. trade embargo that allows the transactions on a cash basis | THE FULL STORY |
Pfizer's Celebrex Linked to Deaths | Documents from Canadian health authorities show that Pfizer Inc.'s painkiller Celebrex is suspected of contributing to at least 14 deaths and other heart and brain side effects, according to the National Post newspaper in Toronto. The documents include more than 100 adverse-reaction reports on Celebrex over the past five years, including five strokes and 19 cases of heart attack, cardiac arrest or heart failure. | THE FULL STORY [P.S. Check out the Celebrex adverts on the sidebar]
Britain's largest drug company unveils plan to push 'happy' pills | Health campaigners accuse the firm, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), of putting profit before the therapeutic needs of patients by attempting to broaden the market for the drug which has been linked to a spate of suicides | THE FULL STORY |
Extremist William Pryor may gain permanent U.S. judgeship | Senator Jeff Sessions said he expects the White House to renominate Pryor to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which would trigger another debate in the Senate about whether to confirm Pryor for the lifetime post.
     Pryor, Alabama's former attorney general, was placed on the bench by President Bush during a holiday break in February after opponents in the Senate prevented his confirmation from coming to a floor vote. His term expires at the end of next year unless the Senate acts.
     Pryor has advocated the view that the Constitution should not apply to some of the most critical issues pertaining to individual rights and freedoms | That these matters should be decided by the states, based on majority vote, regardless of whether constitutional rights are violated. Pryor’s ideology would effectively advocate an America in which individual citizens may have fewer constitutional rights depending on where they live
| THE FULL STORY [P.S. More about Willim Pryor] |
 
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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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