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Chronicle of Artistic Failure in America
Depressing but compelling.
www.artisticfailure.com/

The Galileo Project
The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise.
galileo.rice.edu/index.html

WhiteHouse.org
The officious web site for the White House and President George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America and a True Christian?.
www.whitehouse.org

Red State Rabble
A skeptic's dispatches from the flyover zone. Indispensable for following the foibles of the creationism/intelligent design crowd.
redstaterabble.blogspot.com/

Reviews of Books.com
"What we?ve attempted to accomplish here is to track down book reviews that are available for everyone on the internet, without having to register or pay to read them. ... We prefer reviews that deal with each book at length, but sometimes settle for smaller reviews when lengthier ones are unavailable."
www.reviewsofbooks.com

JOHO: Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization
Free newsletter about the Web's effect on just about everything.
www.hyperorg.com

Bartleby
"The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse, providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."
www.bartleby.com

Ftrrain.com
A web site by Paul Ford, divided into two broad sections: Story and Theory. The first section contains narratives, oddments, parodies, dialogues, short plays, and the second holds amateur explorations into understanding how language works with (and against) digital technology.
www.ftrain.com

St. Mark's Bookshop
"St. Mark's Bookshop was established in 1977 in New York's East Village, a community of students, academics, arts professionals and other eclectic readers. Our specialties include Cultural Theory, Graphic Design, Poetry & Small Press Publishers, Film Studies and Foreign & Domestic Periodicals & Journals."
www.stmarksbookshop.com

Eyesore of the Month
James Howard Kunstler illustrates his sardonic critique of modernist planning and architecture. One picture is worth a thousand words.
www.kunstler.com/eyesore.html

The Book of Bob
Near-comprehensive index of Bob Dylan song lyrics and miscellany.
www.slopbucket.com/bob/tbob/index.html

Bose-Einstein Condensation
". . . a new form of matter at the coldest temperatures in the universe: predicted 1924, created 1995."
www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/

NetFuture
"NetFuture is an electronic newsletter with postings every two-to-four weeks or so. It looks beyond the generally recognized "risks" of computer use such as privacy violations, unequal access, censorship, and dangerous computer glitches. It seeks especially to address those deep levels at which we half-consciously shape technology and are shaped by it. What is half-conscious can, after all, be made fully conscious, and we can take responsibility for it."
www.netfuture.org

Arts & Letters Daily
Links and more links to "philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes, gossip . . . "
www.aldaily.com/

National Geographic Map Machine

www.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine

Panoramic U.S. Maps
Large collection of 19th-century panoramic maps ("bird's-eye views") of U.S. states, cities, etc. Part of the Library of Congress's "American Memory" site, "Historical collections for the National Digital Library".
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panmap.html

Common Dreams News Center
"Breaking news and views for progressive-thinking Americans."
www.commondreams.org/

The Onion
"America's finest [satirical!] news source."
www.theonion.com/

The Contemporary City in Ruins
"Before a building or town decays into the Romanticised, ivy clad ruin that we might associate with the idea of the ruined town, there is the intermediate stage, the formation of the archaeological ruin. There's a certain genre of photography that captures the decay we see around us in the run-down, dilapidated parts of the towns that we live in, showing the process of decay."
traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/71/Home

WNYC Reading Room
A collection of first chapters from books recently discussed on WNYC-FM, one of New York's NPR stations.
www.wnyc.org/books/

Edge
"To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."
www.edge.org/

Despair, Inc.
"It began with one man's dream. A dream of the perfectly-realized American company. A company that would create dissatisfied customers in the process of exploiting demoralized employees while selling overpriced and ineffective products to remediate the problems caused by the very process itself."
www.despair.com

The Unrepentant Marxist
Wherein Louis Proyect, unrepentant but critically minded Marxist, reflects and polemicizes on sundry political and cultural topics.
louisproyect.wordpress.com/