short notes:
will brady's ruminations


2008-01-12
  pets
Bill's cat, Big Boy, sure likes helping empty the grocery boxes!


He even gets starry eyed about it!
Other cats enjoy this too:: Check out Brendon hams it up on YouTube and Kiri, the cardboard junkie

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  andy olmsted - and estabilshing a memorial fund
From Obsidian Wings: How to Help

by hilzoy

A member of Andy Olmsted's family has just written me to say that if people want to do something in honor of him, they can send donations to a fund that has been set up for the four children of CPT Thomas Casey, who served under Andy and was killed while trying to help him. The address is here:

Capt. Thomas Casey Children'€™s fund
P.O. Box 1306
Chester, CA 96020


Read hilzoy's full post about this effort. Other posts about Andy Olmsted are here and here.

CORRECTION: IN my recent post about Andy Olmsted's death, I mis-spelled his name. I also stated a misinterpretation of what he'd said about his own death, rather than his writings. I have since corrected that last post. |

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2008-01-11
  misfortune
On New Year's Day night a local man lost his house, some of the cats he lived with, and a life time's worth of his belongings. Virtually all of his documents were destroyed, from bank check books, birth records, phone numbers and addresses to people whom he knew far and wide - even his passport. In minutes he was rendered homeless. He was fortunate to escape alive. The next day, as the smoke cleared, he realised he had some identification, some of his credit cards were not destroyed. A car key was found. A handful of people in town have helped him out. Overnight use of a couch in someone else's home; clothing that fit, essential grooming items. One man took the time to do repairs on his car and get it working again. It has taken a week for him to sort out some basics and find a temporary place to stay, though that remains tenuous. Some of his neighbors said that he was very difficult to live near. That may be. He is not quick to speak to others and is easy to misunderstand. He was - likely still is - hermit-like. He could get angry at someone else with little apparent provocation. He was a collector of so much old stuff that what he had accumulated made a typical pack rat seem minimalist. He was determinedly protective of his privacy and would usher trespassers of his land with dispatch, sometimes in unconventional - even scary - ways. He kept to himself because that is - partly, how he chose to live; partly because it seems that few ever made the effort to get to find out who he is as a person.
Perhaps, as a result, only one neighbor family even attempted to find out if he was okay. Although he managed to escape wearing only night clothes, he had to call someone from another part of town to bring him something warm to wear, since he had nothing but what was on his back.
But you know, he's never actually harmed anyone. Working at labor intensive, low paying endeavors, he struggles hard just to get by - spurning human services "safety net" assistance, which always comes with strings anyway. He has an intimate knowledge of the plant and animal life around the area that I suspect few of his neighbors have any idea about. He takes solace in the animals around the area; so much so that even when people have abandoned pets near his property [and others have done this frequently over the years], he didn't like to see them suffer or starve.
Once you take the time to speak with him, he can be quite sociable with people as well, knowledgeable on many subjects, even funny. Not that many neighbors ever found this out. Most reprehensible, the worst in my book - was the woman who, in earshot of anyone nearby, spoke with malicious glee while he stood only yards away from her watching his life go up in flames.
She saw him standing there, shivering wearing nothing more than longjohns, a single sandal and a smoke smeared sweatshirt, yet she did nothing to assist him. In fact, she sounded happy to see his home, his property, all that he had accumulated in life, destroyed.
I wonder how she'd have felt if this devastation happened to her and no one offered her solace. She may have had reason for disliking the man, but whatever the source of the dislike, there is nothing that can justify her cruelty and indifference. Such actions on her part are disgusting and foul in ways that I cannot describe. Even vultures wait for their prey to die before feeding on the remains. I'm glad I know who she is and what she looks like. Like the Amish, I can shun her.

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  iraq quagmire
Some updates and observations

"I think it's a good thing to realize that this pain has been felt by thousands and thousands (probably millions, actually) of other people all over the world. That is part of the cost of war, any war, no matter how justified. If everyone who feels this pain keeps that in mind the next time we have to decide whether or not war is a good idea, perhaps it will help us to make a more informed decision. Because it is pretty clear that the average American would not have supported the Iraq War had they known the costs going in".

a quote from Andrew Olmsted's last post




  250,000 Civilians Dead in Bush's War. Juan Cole at Informed Comment gives specifics when the corporate jingo media doesn't even reflect upon this dire fact.
  Pentagon rush to drug up returning soldiers? Now, there's a solution! Keep traumatized service persons doped up and numb after returning back from taking part in thankless battle. Keeps the mental illness industry in business, and the powers that be get to give a big kick back to the drug companies that help finance their road to power. Nice!
  The smart soldiers are leaving the ranks of the military. Washington Monthly reports that
"...the top uniformed and civilian leaders at the Pentagon who think hardest about the future of the military have a more fundamental fear: young officers are leaving the Army at nearly their highest rates in decades. This is not a short-term problem, nor is it one that can simply be fixed with money. A private-sector company or another government agency can address a shortage of middle managers by hiring more middle managers. In the Army's rigid hierarchy, all officers start out at the bottom, as second lieutenants. A decline in officer retention, in other words, threatens both the Army's current missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and its long-term institutional future."
  Andrew Olmsted's final post. Serviceman Olmsted wrote about his observations of the war in Iraq for almost 5 years. This final post was put up by a friend, written last July with the intent that he be shared after he died. He was killed by sniper fire on 3 January 2008. He often said he did not want his death to be used for political ends. He commented regularly on politics, the war in Iraq and about Military conflict. He discontinued blogging on his own site in February 2007 after it was pointed out to him that he had been "...blogging in violation of a Department of Defense directive that restricts how much political activity soldiers may be involved with..."
     He was a thoughtful writer. He is remembered in a post on Obsidian Wings, where he posted under the pseudonym G'Kar. Although I believe he would say he died without remorse, his loss, is in fact, one more tragedy in the littered battlefield. Godspeed Andrew.
ABOUT THE IMAGE: I did this painting after Dubya's Daddy's war in 1991. It is part of a larger set entitled "Culture of Violence" |

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  gitmo
the decider needs his Regime changed!   

JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. In symbolic support, today this site wears orange.
     After hundreds of detentions and two Supreme Court decisions rejecting the administration's detention policies at Gitmo, the legal status of the detainees there remains unresolved and the fight continues to end unlawful detention and the denial of due process.
     Learn more about Guantánamo
     Torture was never written into the Constitution of the United States. What the war criminals running the Executive Branch of this nation have done to a handful of individuals, they would be happy to expand to practice on the rest of the citizenry. It's time to send them a clear message - that torture and denial of basic due process protections must be discontinued. At the same time, in so doing, that same message shall ring loud and clear to any and all who pander to fear as they race to take the mantle of power from Bushco and their sycophants.
     Take action. Do your part. Help close Guantánamo.
     IN symbolic support, wear orange today.

the decider needs his Regime changed!   

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2008-01-09
  environment

Eco-criminals seize arctic refuge for polar bears with the stroke of a pen. Not that the Bushco corporate criminals give a fig but only days before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is due to decide if the polar bear should be listed under the Endangered Species Act due to severe habitat loss from melting sea ice in Alaska's Arctic Ocean caused by global warming the Minerals Management Service (MMS), an agency within the Department of Interior (DOI), issued its Final Notice of Intent for the Chukchi Lease Sale 193 opening approximately 29.7 million acres of the pristine Chukchi Sea to oil and gas activities on January 2.
     Perhaps they figure it doesn't matter since many polar bears are already dying from heat exhaustion.
     Yet another reason why I believe that when the dust settles on this time in history, GWB's biggest legacy with not be his military adventure into Iraq but his scandalous refusal to do anything about the impact of global climate change.
PIX CREDIT: John Pitcher from Science News |

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2008-01-08
  copters!

I hate the sound of helicopters
          be it troop burdened hueys stirring red clay
          or civilian medevacs lighting down on the school parking lot

For me copters in the air mean only one thing
          disaster drills that are real

At night, especially
          that clattering whirr
          breaking the silence
     lights blinking in advance
     afore the searchlight clicks on looking for a landing pad

Once, the clatter heralded napalmolive nightmares
          thundering replacements for beyond exhausted grunts
          followed by frantic retreats bearing frag wounded soldiers back to base
     or Stateside,
Depending

And now it ain't much effing different
Only last mothers' day, two of 'em came
          settling their haunches on the air strip down the road
          to retrieve two souls
     one merely shocked
     the second, her body alive only in basic functions
          the soul having already moved on


This is no place for Sky Team Eight
          Blissfully blathering traffic patterns
          for the benefit of commuters who watched in tv
     prior to leaving work
     no playful anchor banter about kids' softball teams
or fave recipes
          Nope. Here it's just a grim reaper landing so that the lost soul might start the journey heavenward
a bit sooner
          even if the ultimate destination
          is, as an end run, less glorious

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  in the headlights

During the frenzied brilliance of intoxication
we often say things that
in the sober light of the morn
are stupid and obtuse

How often that faux brilliance causes hurt.
When slashing across another's soul
the frenzy appears as a cheap food coloring trick
even though the wounds course deep

What of the outcome
how thoughtful one might be
in hindsight
after the Spirit has been dashed
when compassion and kindness were dealt near fatal blows
during the drunken surge the eve before.

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2008-01-06
  declines in literacy
Americans are reading less and less these days. According to a recently published study conducted by the [USA] National Endowment for the Arts:

Teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.
* Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.
* On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading.

Americans are reading less well – reading scores continue to worsen, especially among teenagers and young males. By contrast, the average reading score of 9-year-olds has improved.

* Reading scores for 12th-grade readers fell significantly from 1992 to 2005, with the sharpest declines among lower-level readers.
* 2005 reading scores for male 12th-graders are 13 points lower than for female 12th-graders, and that gender gap has widened since 1992.
* Reading scores for American adults of almost all education levels have deteriorated, notably among the best-educated groups. From 1992 to 2003, the percentage of adults with graduate school experience who were rated proficient in prose reading dropped by 10 points, a 20 percent rate of decline.

The declines in reading have civic, social, and economic implications – Advanced readers accrue personal, professional, and social advantages. Deficient readers run higher risks of failure in all three areas.

     * Nearly two-thirds of employers ranked reading comprehension "very important" for high school graduates. Yet 38 percent consider most high school graduates deficient in this basic skill.
     * American 15-year-olds ranked fifteenth in average reading scores for 31 industrialized nations, behind Poland, Korea, France, and Canada, among others.7
     * Literary readers are more likely than non-readers to engage in positive civic and individual activities – such as volunteering, attending sports or cultural events, and exercising.
     "This report shows striking statistical links between reading, advanced reading skills, and other individual and social benefits," said Sunil Iyengar, NEA Director of Research and Analysis. "To Read or Not to Read compels us to consider more carefully how we spend our time, since those choices affect us individually and collectively."
     While no single government agency or entity can solve the problem of declining reading rates, the NEA national reading program, the Big Read, is one response to these findings. The Big Read is designed to restore reading to the center of American culture by providing citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities. In 2007, nearly 200 communities nationwide are participating in the Big Read, reading one of 12 classic American novels such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. The NEA presents the Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. For more information, visit www.neabigread.org.
     To Read or Not To Read assembled data on reading trends from more than 40 sources, including federal agencies, universities, foundations, and associations. Primary sources include the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the University of Indiana, Bloomington, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.


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Dear readers: I have moved to http://willbradyjournal2.blogspot.com
my websites
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sites I maintain
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short notes' links
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other links
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since 12 june 1999

and still hand-coding
short notes: will bradys ruminations at Blogged
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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