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- The Electronic Policy Network
- HMO, BCCI, NGO, HUD... the flood of acronyms at The Electronic
Policy Network (EPN) bodes well for those in search of substantive
political reportage. Article after article is packed with
hard-hitting leftist analysis of just about every political issue on
the map -- ready to waylay conservatives with in-depth research and
good old-fashioned common sense. There are four sections at the
site: Economics & Politics, Welfare & Families, Civic
Participation and Health Policy. Each addresses the myriad issues
central to the current political, economic and social state of our
country, that go generally underreported in the mainstream media.
The depth, density, and quality of the information at EPN suggests
that it will remain outside the ken of most Americans. "Providing
you with timely information and leading ideas about national policy
and politics," EPN leaves no stone unturned, no myth
intact.
- Fidel `96
- Funnier than an exploding cigar, the Fidel `96 site hinges its
running political satire on one simple platform: Elect Fidel Castro
President of the United States. And while Castro hasn't announced
his candidacy yet, you can join the campaign or even support the
cause with your dollars: check out campaign merchandise, especially
the colorful Fidel `96 bubble gum cigars.
- Hawai'i -- Independent
and Sovereign
- For anyone interested in online activism, nationalism, direct
democracy, or even just the land under their feet -- the "aina"
as Native Hawaiians call it -- this site is a required stop. The
case and the cause are stated here in no uncertain terms: "In
1893, the United States illegally overthrew the Hawaiian government.
Until today, the Hawaiian people lack a recognized form of
self-governance. In 1996, we have a choice. The Native Hawaiian Vote
asks all Hawaiians, 18 and over, in Hawaii`i and oversees - 'Shall
the Hawaiian people elect delegates to propose a native Hawaiian
Government?'"
- Court
TV Home Page
- Court TV's Internet entrant, the Court TV Law Center, is a good
source of law information. The site's basic utilities are a search
engine and a glossary of legal terms.The home page, like any good
table of contents, organizes the site by departments and features.
Also featured is a special area on the Telecom bill, containing many
articles about various aspects of the legislation and what it would
mean to Internet users. It has various historical cases in which you
are invited to identify the facts, make arguments, and decide the
case. This is the kind of stuff that law students live for. The
library section isn't Harvard Law, you couldn't use it as a
substitute for Lexis, but it does have articles and files on cases
that would be of interest to casual users. Under the Newsmakers
reference, you can find out the legal gossip on your favorite stars.
- Editor and Publisher
Interactive
- The site combines an online version of Editor & Publisher
, the print magazine, with links to a wide array of reference sites,
accessed from a Research page. You'll find home pages for newspaper
companies, free news services, research facilities, press
associations, wire services, major online services,.... If it has to
do with news, it's here. The E&P Interactive Online Newspaper
database comprises over 1500 entries. The News Page features lead
stories from the E & P print edition, and a summary of news
items on information technology from Educom, a Washington, DC-based
consortium of colleges and universities seeking to transform
education through the use of information technology.
- First Monday
- First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal about the Internet, on the
Internet, covering a breadth of issues as they relate to the new
technology. The touchstone of every article is the Internet and the "Global
Information Infrastructure." Past issues of First Monday
are archived in the Index. The site also features relevant book
reviews and interviews. The journal is available in three forms:
monthly, via the First Monday listserver; as an annual CD-ROM
containing all articles published that year; and, of course, at the
Web site, where you can subscribe, read the journal, and submit
manuscripts for publication. Paper versions are available upon
request.
- Totem
- This Italian architectural zine is an eye-catcher that makes good
use of the latest in new media, while at the same time keeping its
design clean and simple. The table of contents is laid out on a
colorful checkerboard image-map with shockwave elements built-in.
News headlines and alternating images flash on and off in the
squares. The calendar is laid out in horizontal frames, so that you
can browse the competition timeline, say, then tabulate over to the
events schedule with a click on the menu. Interviews with architects
are the mainstay of Totem's original material. Downloadable audio
files allow you to listen to them when you please. The Forum is a
platform for discussing ideas online and the Archive stores back
issues.
- Today's Calendar and
Clock Page
- This site is nearly graphically barren, but infinitely compelling.
As soon as you enter, you're hit with a barrage of numerical data to
help you set your bearings across the space-time-history continuum.
Once you digest the date stamps -- 25 of them roll out as soon as
you load the page -- you can move downward to 62 different links
designed to put time into historical, cultural, religious, and even
astronomical perspective. Some links serve purely utilitarian
purposes. For example, IslamicTimer 2.1 is designed to help the
Muslim faithful plan their days around times of prayer and The Moon
Phase Page, provides you with an image of how the moon will look
from earth based on time coordinates of your choice. Other links
predict impending doom. The National Debt Clock keeps a running
tally of the depth of our monetary mire. The World Population Clock
tells us that the globe is burgeoning to the tune of 6 billion
souls, and by 2050, 9.5 billion earthlings may be jockeying for
elbow room.
- Christ in the
Desert
- Home page to a Benedictine cloister in northwestern New Mexico,
the Christ in the Desert site is like an oasis. The artwork alone
makes this site worth a stop, from the Santa Fe-style illustrations
to the tremendous exhibit by photojournalist, Tony O'Brien. There
are brief asides on monastic topics such as Gregorian Chants,
psalms, liturgies, and scriptoria, as well as a look at the various
handicrafts produced by the brothers. Links also connect to
scholarly resources. In the news section, visitors can keep up with
the monastery's straw bale house construction project. Workshops are
being conducted simultaneously in "sustainable
building." Visitors who wish to stay at the Abbey are
encouraged to e-mail for reservation materials, and there's ample
information provided online as to costs, rules, schedules, and the
like. The most surprising feature of the site has to be "scriptorium@christdesert,"
the registered trademark of the monastery's fledgling Web design
business.
- SubSITE
- Not your old time religion, by any means, but The Church of the
Subgenius is what! The Campus Crusade for Bob! The Campaign for
World Wide Slack! Take a drive into the mind of Bob Dobbs; learn all
about the fictitious former salesman turned deified, disembodied
head; discover for yourself the hypnotic thrall of the slack ethic;
bombard yourself with strange, twisted images that have no apparent
connection to anything; visit the "Things to Want and
Buy" catalog for the latest in DobbsWear and Slack
Threads; send checks, if you must, to the First Stangian Orthodox
MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti, Resurrected.
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