got linked on growabrain!!

(thank you india)

World Community Grid

"working to create the world's largest public computing grid
to tackle projects that benefit humanity."

("this ibm project is now @ over 50,000 users
and delivered over 39 YEARS of computer time YESTERDAY!")

(consider joining the linkfilter team!)

Donate Airline Mileage to Help Tsunami Victims

nice work, firedoglake!

Maps of an Imagined World Government

From Tangential University
via *.*
via coudal
via kottke

"Please distribute the following facts
about voting in the United States.

And tell your friends, because their TV won't"

What does 117,000 look like?

Karl Rove Sums It All Up for Liberals

iSerenity
ambient sound environments at your desktop

Bill Moyers:
"Our Democracy is in Danger of Being Paralyzed"

"I caught you a delicious bass."

Akiane - child prodigy, realist painter and world-renowned poet

a broad spectrum of radio dials!

FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS

Do this now.

You are about to meet the other people who live in your building.

Ten Things
President Bush Doesn't Want You To Know
About Scalia and Thomas

Lawyers Seasonal Greeting

From us (“the Wishor”) to you (“the Wishee”)

Reflex

How To Identify Your Own Style Of Writing

Bush Pays Lipservice to Vets,
Then Slashes Their Health Care

Sun Enters the 13th House

Critical Hope:

Radical Citizenship
in Reactionary Times

Counter-Inaugural 2005

Bush Isn't Going Away and Neither Are We!

huhcorp.com

We do stuff.

Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!

(i'm just sayin...)

What do you want to do with your life?

eigenradio's xmas product>

Funniest Commercials of the Year

Iraqi Construction Contracts
Awarded to Old Man Potter

Do-It-Yourself Light Kit

Yo! Check this out!

Wooden Toy-Castle Building Blocks

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide f

the roots of yule

2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

China Miéville's Socialist Christmas story

The Periodic Table

Among the Night People
by Clara Dillingham Pierson

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
by James Baldwin

Playlists for Joe Frank

100 Extra DOs & DONTs

50 ways to fix your life

kaki king video!!

The 90 Albums
That Make This Planet Earth Worthwhile

Basic Facts on Social Security
and Proposed Benefit Cuts/Privatization

Christmas Tree Nomenclature

(what about "Charlie Brown tree"?)

Eureka!
Or How To Break the Republican Majority Coalition

Jodies Coston's Free Online Photography Course

ohhh...How we work

OK...three more words: Spicy Maple Walnuts

Three words, y'all: Pillow Fight Flashmob

THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY

BY

H. G. WELLS



(just the pictures, here)

I'm having trouble doing this with all you guys watching!

Meet the Beastles!

Scared of Santa photo gallery

("i already have some toys...stay away from my house!")

MY BLOG...IT LIVES AGAIN!!

and...ACTION!!

A big, festive leftblank thankyou to the
Sandhill Trekker,

with hopeful regrets to Jess

Color Principles - Hue, Saturation, and Value

kuro5hin's Online Neuroscience tutorial

The Best Webcomics of 2004

Tortured Artist Test

The Year in Ideas: A-Z

God is cut from film of Dark Materials

PARK

(it's just like GROW ...but unpossible!)

The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th

YELLOWARROW:

[NOUN] A COLLECTIVE SYMBOL FOR PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.

[VERB] TO LEAVE AND DISCOVER MESSAGES POINTING OUT WHAT COUNTS.

UNFINISHED JOKES

Eye-Cue Test

If you had to pick your 5 Favorite web sites...

MASK MAKERS' WEB

Visual explanation of Coltrane's Giant Steps

Viewtiful Joe 2 has arrived!

SnowCrystals.com

The Romance of Orchid Discovery

:: INDIA: The Divine Visions ::

visionary sepia photo-gallery

The Fell Types

Bill Hicks Bootleg Archive

Why The Bleep Do We Blog?

To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
-Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Choose The Blue

"If each American who voted for John Kerry
spends $100 in 2005 on a Blue company
instead of a Red company,
we can move $5 Billion away from Republican companies
and add $5 Billion to the income of companies
who donate to Democrats."

practical UNIX tutorial

FiftyCrows
Social Change Photography

Writing on the Run ™
Life is your page!

"Spread these images around the internets"

Dan Rather is the sphinx of our time, and his riddle is
“Kenneth, what is the frequency?”

Shree Ganesh Photo Gallery

One Drop of Water
A book for the children of the new millenium

Theory of the Daily

"The domestic and the everyday
in literature, history, philosophy, and science."

shout-out to The Religious Left!

Transcendent and Spiritual Experiences of Scientists

'tis the season...

Why I Write

George Orwell, 1947

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy,
and at the very bottom of their motives
there lies a mystery.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle,
like a long bout of some painful illness.
One would never undertake such a thing
if one were not driven on by some demon
whom one can neither resist nor understand.
For all one knows
that demon is simply the same instinct
that makes a baby squall for attention.
And yet it is also true
that one can write nothing readable
unless one constantly struggles
to efface one's own personality.
Good prose is like a windowpane.
I cannot say with certainty
which of my motives are the strongest,
but I know which of them deserve to be followed.
And looking back through my work,
I see that it is invariably
where I lacked a political purpose
that I wrote lifeless books
and was betrayed into purple passages,
sentences without meaning,
decorative adjectives
and humbug generally.

Some Thoughts Concerning Sleep
John Locke, 1693

"Terms Used by Psychoanalysis"

"W

Wish-Fulfillment:
Definition on its way."

Miss Lonelynotes

digitized three-by-fives for writer-types

The 16 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

Eigenradio

providing statistically optimal pop since 2003

An Empire of More Than 725 Military Bases

I fear that in our own case
it has also gone too far.
In the last chapter of my book
I list four sorrows of empire:
perpetual war; loss of the republic
(in the sense of the loss of the structure of the republic,
which is the main defense of the Bill of Rights);
lying and disinformation by the executive branch;
and bankruptcy.
And I do not see any of these things
being reversed just yet.