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Links to other sites that I’ve found
interesting
(All recommendations, characterizations,
and classifications
are purely subjective and are offered without justification
or apology.)
| Of a Serious, Scholarly, Literary, or Philosophical Nature | |
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Silva Rhetoricae. The forest of rhetoric. The most complete source I have seen for rhetorical figures and other leafy branches in the groves of literary learning | Collected Thoughts. A showcase of great ideas from thinkers of our past, and a forum for the free discussion of those ideas. A lot of broken links, though. |
| Wikipedia. A multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open-content encyclopedia. | Plagiarist.com. Poetry, articles about poetry, and a place for both scholars and students to comment on poems. |
| Legends. History, literature, folklore, fiction, the arts. | Rhyming dictionary. For that poetic emergency. |
| Ibiblio. The public’s library and digital archive. A well-stocked source of public-domain materials. | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A comprehensive index to online and offline topics, designed as a dynamic reference work |
| Rainflower.
A directory of Zen and Buddhism resources on the Internet. | Sanskrit Academy. Practice your Devanagari. |
| Philosophy Pages. A resource and guide for students of Western philosophy. | Generation Terrorists. Interesting selection of quotations. |
| Open Directory Project. The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. | Figure and ground. One of the concepts that help me order “reality” as I perceive it, interestingly explained here. |
| Of an Intriguing, Diverting, Illuminating, or Humanitarian Nature | |
| Google Answers. A brilliant concept, brilliantly executed: customers ask, researchers answer, Google takes a cut, and anyone can read and comment. One of my top favorite online diversions and a seriously good resource. | American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE). The bookseller’s voice in the fight against censorship. Home of kidSPEAK!, the successor to Muggles for Harry Potter. |
| Unique and interesting websites. Google Answers researchers supply links in response to a questioner's request. | Timepiece. A view of time’s passage that turned my understanding of time inside out. Needs Java plugin to run. |
| Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A SF-based sorority of service to the community, irreverently disguised. | Zen Hospice Project. Help with the work of dying. |
| Mark Harden’s Artchive. A virtual art museum. A CD is available, and a modest sponsorship donation gets you a password to an ad-free version of the site. | Schickele Mix. Peter Schickele and his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach, are one of my heroes. Deep musical knowledge served up in manageable portions with a helping of broad, quirky humor. |
| Netflix. DVD rental service that is as good as it sounds. I believe in supporting commercial enterprises that deliver what they promise | Webby Awards. Best of the Web. This is how I found “All Your Base Are Belong to Us,” a nominee in 2002’s “Weird” category. |
| Marbles. Good game, but addictive. And Bubblet is even more so. | The Yak Site. Interesting-sounding guy who went everywhere on his bicycle. |
| Urban legends. Before you pass the story on, check here. | Virus hoaxes. Before you pass the warning on, check here. |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights. | Rudiments of Wisdom Encyclopaedia. Thousands of cartoons covering almost everything there is to know. |
| Peter G. Balazsy. Unusual photographic art work featuring nudes. Look especially at the “Living-Water” group. | Perpetual calendar. Find out on what day of the week the American Revolution began or your ninetieth birthday will occur. |
| Internet trolls. If you’ve been plagued by them, read this analysis. | TV Tome. A good source of historical information on television shows. |
| Of a Curious, Humorous, Bizarre, or Mind-Boggling Nature | |
| How Much Is Inside. How much product does a can of shaving cream or a tube of lipstick really deliver? Rob Cockerham knows. Also visit his main page — and check out the pranks. | Terence McKenna, as memorialized in the Vaults of Erowid. Terence wrote knowledgeably on hallucinogens, shamanism, and voyages of the mind. |
| Peeps theatre. See Romeo and Juliet in stunning brevity, performed by a company of marshmallow chicks. | Rum and Monkey. Meaningless tests and other wasters of time. |
| Anagram server. Any expression anagrammed. Try your name. | All your base are belong to us. I laughed myself silly. The kids said it was just dumb. |
| Of a Personal Nature | |
| Dick’s page. | Dick’s Mensa pages. |
| Damon’s page. | Your page? |
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