short notes:<br> will brady's ruminations

Perspectives on: human rights; environmental concerns; life as a visual artist; 21st century feudalism; progressive politics; aboriginal culture; new urbanism; permaculture; sustainable technology; non-traditional families; achievable utopias

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Dear readers: I have moved to http://willbradyjournal2.blogspot.com

my websites

• Short Notes [as of 2010 6/12]
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sites I maintain
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other links
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since 12 june 1999

and still hand-coding

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
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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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