Politics (all new)
- Electoral-Vote.com
- FiveThirtyEight.com (simulation-based electoral projections)
- Interactive electoral maps: CNN - Politico - NPR - 270towin
- Daily Kos
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)
- Massachusetts colour orthophotos (a nifty colour photographic atlas of Massachusetts)
- 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.
- Computer Geeks
- Central Computers
- RecoupIT sells refurbished computers and electronics.
- 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
- Honeyville sell dehydrated and freeze-dried food in bulk. Freeze-dried strawberries are a yummy snack.
- chocri (new) let you construct chocolate bars to your specification from their bases and toppings.
- Downloadable music and other audio (including commercial sites)
- epubBooks provide free ebooks in ePub format, and have a page with links to commercial ebook sellers. (new)
- 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! — 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
- Sky and Telescope has (among other things) observation guides telling you what’s interesting to look for in the Northern Hemisphere sky this month. (new)
- Low-tech magazine discusses energy-efficient technology, with some forays into history.
- Botany Photo of the Day
- 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
- Diesel Sweeties
- Sinfest
- Freefall ( today's | last three )
- Something Positive
- Questionable Content
- Slow Wave
- Red Meat ( current | archives )
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Captain Excelsior
- The Book of Biff
- Other humour bookmarks
Reference
- Wikipedia (English section or multilingual front page)
- 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)
- MX Toolbox provides a lot of useful tools for email and network administrators, such as the ability to check multiple blacklists for your server (new)
- Linux-related bookmarks
- Linux security advisories
- PalmOS-related bookmarks
- Language and linguistics bookmarks
- Other reference bookmarks