This Page
is for the listing of cool places or things that I think
deserve more attention. At the moment it's a bit random and chaotic, as I
graft onto the page ideas that come to me in a bolt of intuition. In time,
I shall organise them by category types, add some wifty images and in general
show these pages in the glowing pearlescent light that I hold their subject
matter in.
- Amnesty International are a bunch of
really cool people doing really cool things. If you haven't heard of them,
you need to check them out. If you have, then I can't do much more to describe
them.
- The American Civil Liberties Union are
more cool people. They don't care if you're popular or not, they care about
people's rights. This has, of course, made them fabulously evil in the eyes of
certain politicians who bandy about the phrase 'card carrying member of the
ACLU' as if it were something bad.
- Polyamory is the shocking
concept that you can love more than one person at the same time. It does not
mean that you want to sleep with anything that moves. Trust me.
- Bisexualityis the shocking concept
that what you find attractive might actually appear in either gender. It
does not mean that you want to sleep with anything that moves. Trust me.
- Working Assets Long Distance is a phone
company. But they give a skim of their profits to charity, provide free calls
to your senator or representative in Congress, and do other cool things. I
like these people, and feel pretty good about giving them my money.
- Do you want to give to worthy charities, but sometimes feel that sending
money or getting a long-distance company is too much work? The HungerSite lets
you be charitable with a click.
Sponsors offer to donate a cup of food to the United Nations World Food Program
to people in need. How much easier do we have to make it?
- Powell's Bookstore used to be a God
among bookstores. They're still pretty cool, and they just seem to keep on
getting bigger. They're adding a tower to support more books. It's the largest
bookstore in North America, I'm told, and one of the coolest things about
Portland. Visit in person--the website just doesn't do it justice.
- The Snowden Environmental Trust doesn't
have a webpage just yet, but they're still very cool. A group who buys land
so as to preserve it, rather than waiting for the government to make laws
which it then breaks anyway. For the moment, their web presence is through
another cool page, the Dar Williams fan page. Dar Williams should be played
everywhere. Constantly. The only problem is, that would interfere with the
constant playing of
- Heather Alexander. Heather
is a goddess who plays fiddle, guitar, and the audience. She also blesses us
on a regular basis so that we don't get into auto accidents. While you're in
Portland visiting Powell's, consider a jaunt across the river to Vancouver
to see her perform
at R.P.
McMurphy's.
- The Shakespeare
Page is pretty much what it sounds like. It's the complete works, even the
sonnets, with a search engine attached.
- Project Gutenberg is, with any
luck, a saviour of literacy in a post-literate point and click society. Texts
which are no longer under copyright law are stored in simple text format for
public distribution. How much cooler can you get than that, and still be
wearing your clothes?
- Sluggy Freelance is the best online
comic-strip I've seen. It's funny, and the results are dependable--there's a
new comic every day. This addiction is Trip's fault.
- So in return, I addicted Trip to
Hellboy
who is a demon working for the government. When strangeness threatens to
engulf the world, a strange man will come and save it.
- This page shows absolutely no support for the
Industrial Workers of the World. Every good
American rejects their radical ideas of those who produce our goods having a
voice in the production. What's good for big business is good for America. Sit
down and shut up.
- Back in Oregon, I used to
dance a lot.
Well. Only about ten hours a week. But it was probably more time than I spent
on my homework. I haven't found anyplace in California as cool as that beat
up little corner of the Women's Building, or a teacher as hot as Barbara.
- Nearly four years after it started, I finally surrendered and started
watching Babylon Five
and am now a complete fanboy. I have a PsiCorp pin on my coat, and a t-shirt
that says 'Ivanova is always right'.
- Censorship and prior restraint make me twitchy, and I see the internet as
one of the last bastions of free speech. Which is why I find people like
The EFF terribly comforting. On a related note,
here's an article on one of those CyberCensors in action.
This, of course, does not apply to BESS
because my friend Larry works for them.
- The Onion is a hoot. They're probably
offending somebody right now, as we speak.
- Are you frustrated with the hypocrisy and waste involved in the War on
Some Drugs(tm)? There are others
who feel the same way. They can organise, why can't you?
- Project Censored are
willing to remind us of the price of a 'free' press. Sometimes it's hard
being a capitalist who wants to report the Truth to the American People.
Every year, these people publish what they feel are the top ten ignored news
stories of the year.
- Domestic violence
sucks. Everybody needs someplace to turn to when the home, traditionally a
safe harbour against troubles, becomes instead the prime source of them.
- Michelangelo's Good Times Penpal
has infected my boot sector, and wiped out my hard drive! Pass this on
to ten friends in the next 45 minutes and delete any mail with 'AOL4FREE'
in the subject line!!! (This site is nicely organised and contains cross-links
to many other sites, just in case they don't have the information themselves.)
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