Politics
- Buy Blue: Who do the companies you buy from contribute to? Handy table on their Blue Christmas page (not just for gifts).
Boston-local stuff
- Poly Boston calendar of events
- Biversity Boston calendar of events
- Boston weather (from the Weather Underground)
- Boston weather (from Unisys)
- Free WiFi spots in Massachusetts (from wififreespot.com) (new)
- Massachusetts colour orthophotos (a nifty colour photographic atlas of Massachusetts) (new)
- boston.com movie listings
- The Boston Phoenix (movies, restaurants, etc.)
- Local dance information
- Club Passim and their calendar of events
- MassRouteOne.com
-
Red Sox schedule
This is useful for figuring out when traffic is going to be insane near Fenway.
Ecommerce and travel
- ShopWiki is an interesting approach to indexing ecommerce sites. (new)
- Computer Geeks
- Central Computers
- Baber.com, who have cheap barebone and used systems (as well as lots of other stuff)
- TC Computers
- PC Power and Cooling
- Price Watch
- Banana PC
- Downloadable music and other audio (including commercial sites)
- Other ecommerce bookmarks
- Travel-related bookmarks
Visual arts
- Visual arts bookmarks (painting, photography, clip-art, etc.)
Games
- Online games
- Mah Jongg links
- See also my other ecommerce bookmarks for online gamesellers.
News
- slashdot.org
- Google’s News index
-
WBUR’s
news page
(I also have a page with my favourite WBUR-produced programming) - Kevin Sites is a journalist embedded with a Marine unit in Iraq; his blog is full of firsthand news and pictures.
- Lawrence Lessig’s blog (US law and technology)
- Baghdad Burning: “let's talk war, politics and occupation.”
- PliNkIT! (new URL) — bookmarks formatted for PDAs
- piefriendly.com: sites designed for Pocket Internet Explorer
- Plastic (http://www.plastic.com/), vaguely like Slashdot for non-geeks
- David Bollier’s article Reclaiming the Commons, stuck here until I get a chance to read it.
- BBC News | BBC World Service
- CBC
- Print newspapers on-line
- Various weblogs I noticed at some point.
- Other news bookmarks
Astronomy and other sciences
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Low-tech magazine (new) discusses energy-efficient technology, with some forays into history.
- Botany Photo of the Day (new)
- Space Daily
- SciScoop, a Slashdot-style science and SF news site
- Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission
- Other astronomy bookmarks
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the coelecanth.
- Steve Warmack's Typewritten Book of the Not-So-Grateful Dead is a collection of pages about extinct animals.
- The Particle Adventure covers particle physics.
- bottomquark: Science and Technology News and Discussion
Comics and humour
- Today’s Ozy and Millie (with archive; also in Russian). D.C. Simpson also has some political cartoons at http://www.idrewthis.org/
- Diesel Sweeties
- Sinfest
- Freefall ( today's | last three )
- Something Positive
- Questionable Content
- Slow Wave
- Red Meat ( current | archives )
- Perry Bible Fellowship (new)
- Lucid TV is a twisted cartoon about doctors (new)
- Dykes To Watch Out For ( current | archives)
- Things [Margret and Mil] Have Argued About.
- I Am a Japanese School Teacher
- Other humour bookmarks
Reference
- The Wikipedia (English section or multilingual front page) is where I usually go to look up something (a historical figure, a kind of animal, etc.) I’m not familiar with.
- About.com is ad-supported, but a pretty good place to go to learn about a field of endeavour (e.g. a craft or hobby) you’re new to.
- DICT.org, an open-source dictionary server
- http://www.claimvfact.org/, a sort of snopes.com for conservative rhetoric
- Recipes and cooking
- freedict.de serves bilingual dictionary data for use with the DICT.org server
- Bollywood for the Skeptical, with a brief Hindi glossary and links.
- Project Gutenberg — public-domain ebooks
- The Online Books Page at U Penn
- ibiblio.org calls itself ‘the public’s library’
- Other etexts and electronic content
- Free and open-source software
- Downloadable music and other audio (including commercial sites)
- Tech-Recipes: Your computer how-to cookbook
- Homeownership bookmarks
- iPAQ (under Linux) bookmarks
- Agenda-related bookmarks (the Agenda was a Linux-based PDA)
- Linux-related bookmarks
- Linux security advisories
- PalmOS-related bookmarks
- Language and linguistics bookmarks
- Other reference bookmarks