December 16, 2004
Guardian's best 100 web sites.
The Guardian has published a roundup of a hundred great web sites. It features the five best in twenty categories. It's a long list. Here are the Art and Reference sections:
Art
The Internet Movie Database is the sine qua non for anyone interested in film. Easily searchable and full of information about any movie, plot, director, actor or crew member you could think of; reliably accurate. For opera lovers, Opera Base is essential. Check future schedules of singers or directors and find details of opera houses or festivals. The National Gallery's website is wonderful: you can search the entire collection with ease. Abe Books is the best and biggest place to look for and buy secondhand and rare books. All Music is a comprehensive database on all musical genres. Great for checking discographies and the like.
us.imdb.com
www.operabase.com
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
www.abebooks.co.uk
www.allmusic.com
Reference
The web is often the quickest place to look something up - if you know where to go. If you don't, you can always start with Jim Martindale's Reference Desk, an astonishing collection that has been 10 years in the making. Usually, however, you will probably want to look up a word, a phone number, a place or whatever. For words, try Onelook, which indexes more than 6m words in 981 dictionaries. It also has a "reverse lookup" to find words from their meanings. For longer items, the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia is online (the Britannica costs money). There are links to the world's online phone books at Teldir, which is now on the Infobel site. Finally, there are maps of just about everywhere at Multimaps.
www.martindalecenter.com
www.onelook.com
www.multimaps.com
www.infobel.com/teldir
www.encyclopedia.com
I'd also have to add RefDesk, www.refdesk.com, to the list. It's got everything and then some.
 permalink, posted by mike on Thursday, December 16, 2004 at 12:35 PM
January 19, 2004
Blogroll and links updated.
Finally updated and expanded the blogroll and link list on the home page. Added lots of new links of various kinds. Especially non-blogging related ones, such as news sources, various global organizations, the arts and so on. Along with some pithy comments about the increasing lack of objectivity and tolerance among so very many of the American sites. Just a personal opinion of course, but there you are.
permalink, posted by mike on Monday, January 19, 2004 at 12:13 PM
January 17, 2004
Blogging communities.
Via the always interesting Burningbird, who's from Missouri, was a link to a page of St. Louis bloggers. Which in turn had a list of different blogging communities. Mostly in the US, but one to Calgary in Albera, Canada, and one in London.
Austin, Texas.
Beltway Bloggers, Washington, DC.
Boston, Massachusetts.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Chicago, Illinois.
Dallas Ft. Worth, Texas.
Kansas City, Missouri.
London, England.
Los Angeles, California.
Madison, Wisconsin.
New York, New York.
Phoenix, Arizona.
San Diego, California.
Seattle, Washington.
St. Louis, Missouri.
Washington, DC.
Nothing from Oregon yet, where I live. But if you want links to Oregon stuff, bloggers and otherwise, try The Oregon Blog. They're in Portland. I'm in Eugene. Must be more bloggers here, but I haven't found them yet.
permalink, posted by mike on Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 04:28 PM
Globalization links.
The Guardian has a special page of links to various groups and organizations dealing with some of the problems caused by globalization. I'm not necessarily opposed to "globalization", and I don't agree with a lot of these groups, but I thought I'd reproduce some of the major links here. Just for the heck of it.
There are a lot of problems with globalization and internationalization, but there are a lot of good things. I like the world wide web a lot. :) I like being able to call anywhere and travel anywhere in the world fairly inexpensively. I like having access to various products from around the world. But that doesn't mean I think America should dominate it, or that I'm blind to the corruption, slavery, overthrow of democratic governments and other problems which corporate America and corporate Europe are creating. Which are serious, and which cause a lot of suffering and needless loss of life.
permalink, posted by mike on Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 12:46 PM
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CATEGORIES
LINKS / BLOGROLL
THE BLOGOSPHERE
Group blogs and centers
Wood s Lot. Maybe the most consistently interesting weblog out there. Superb selections on all sorts of topics, especially art and literature. Tons of links too.
Blog Sisters, a group blog, with a-z links to individuals. More by the ladies at Blogs by Women.
Good community blogs at Boing Boing, Metafilter and Kuro5hin.
The Wibsite, wiblog.com. British bloggers.
Fairvue Central hosts the Bloggies, awards for best weblogs in different categories from all over the world. See the nominees for 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (in progress).
Iraqi blogs
Today in Iraq.
A Family in Baghdad.
Baghdad Burning.
Healing Iraq.
Salam Pax.
G in Baghdad.
Ishtar talking.
The Mesopotamian.
Iraq at a glance.
Hammorabi.
Nabil's blog.
Baghdadee.
Fayrouz.
Iraq the model.
Iraq and Iraqis.
Road of a nation.
Ihath - Losing myself.
Sun of Iraq.
Back to Iraq.
Individual blogs
Robert Hunter's journal.
Follow Me Here.
Caterina.net.
Avram's journal.
Rebecca's Pocket.
Alas, a Blog.
Weblog Wannabe.
The Rittenhouse Review.
Margaret Cho Blog.
The Oregon Blog.
Angry Bear.
Brad DeLong.
Dohiyi Mir.
Eschaton.
Hullabaloo.
Nathan Newman.
Orcinus.
Steve Gilliard's News Blog.
Tapped.
Tbogg.
Blogging communities
Lists of bloggers in these areas.
Austin, Texas.
Beltway Bloggers, Washington, DC.
Boston, Massachusetts.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Chicago, Illinois.
Dallas Ft. Worth, Texas.
London, United Kingdom.
New York, New York.
San Diego, California.
Seattle, Washington.
St. Louis, Missouri.
Washington, DC.
GENERAL LINKS, NOT BLOGS
News, magazines, reference
The sites where I do my usual news browsing, and get most of my articles and links.
Common Dreams.
Refdesk, info on absolutely everything. A comprehensive newspaper page, listed by US states and countries, and an encyclopedia.
BBC News, BBCi Home, BBC Radio, categories, history topics.
The World News Network, wn.com, gathers news sites from all over the world, country by country.
Wikipedia, online encyclopedia.
The Asian Times.
The Scotsman.
The Moscow Times. Russian perspectives and news. The Russia Post is a World News site with links to other Russian sites.
The Black Commentator.
Aljazeera Net in English.
Outlook India.
GENERAL INTEREST
History, literature, philosophy and other subjects, mostly related to the works in the Galileo Library.
Online Clarity. An I Ching community. Newsletter, readings, etc.
Sacred Books of the East. A 19th century project of eastern literature.
Bartleby.com. Great books online.
Bibliomania. Free online literature and study guides. Lots of classics and reading resources.
THE ARTS
Vincent van Gogh Gallery. Complete paintings and writings, and a nice arts links page. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Bob Dylan, live performances.
Grateful Dead, GD Radio.
David Byrne, radio station.
New Pages. Book and reading related center, lots of alternative publishing links and weblog.
Reading Rat. Reading center with lots of links.
Avid reader web ring.
The Louvre. Other Parisian museums.
The Web Museum, index of artists. Extremely high quality images.
August Rodin web org.
Mark Harden's Artchive.
Emile Kren's Web Gallery of Art.
Artcyclopedia. A fine art search engine. Historical and current, with a nice museum list.
Plagiarist.com poetry archive. Classic and modern plus news, articles, forums, etc. View a random poem.
Rotten Tomatoes. Film center, with collected reviews, ratings and forums.
Aint It Cool News. Movie reviews and previews from a fan's perspective.
Roger Ebert's film reviews.
Scott McCloud. The latest in the world of cartoonists.
YouTube. Video center.
MILD EROTICA
Domai.com. Eolake Stobblehouse's extraordinary, and extremely tasteful, paean to pretty girls, updated daily. Nudity yes, sex definitely not. Nice general purpose links too.
Simple nudes. Lots of links.
Vintage nudes. Pin-ups and other classics.
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