Links

An old list with a few new additions at the top.

English-language Turkish media

• Agos
• BGN News (Bugün)
• Bianet English
• Daily Sabah
• Hürriyet Daily News
• Today's Zaman

General

• Haaretz
• The St. John’s Review
• PDF to JPG online converter - Convert PDF to JPG for free
• Türk Matematik Derneği - Sözlük
• St. John's College (reddit)
• Yabancılar Şubesı, İstanbul Emniyet
• The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection | Open Culture

Advice

• Advice Goddess (Amy Alkon)
• Carolyn Hax
• Cary Tennis
• Dan Savage
• Dear Prudence (Emily Yoffe)
• Gentleman Scholar (Troy Patterson)
• Miss Information
• Miss Manners (Judith Martin)
• Social Q's (Philip Galanes)

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Note added, May 25, 2009: I don't use this page as much as I used to. Links may be dead.

Included on this page are:

• Language and languages;
• Periodicals;
• Radio;
• HTML (references for web-page composition);
• Texts (documents I have saved in my own directories);
• Museums;
• Humor;
• Cars or not;
• Busy-ness;
• Other.

Political

• Leftist Links
• Peace and Freedom Party
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Dissident Voice
• Occupation Watch
• Jihad Unspun “A clear view of the U.S. war on ‘terrorism’”
• No Logo
• Oilempire.US “Election coups, 9-11, fascism, World War IV and the peak of oil”
• truthout “News Politics”
• American Constitution Society
• Grassroots Leadership
• Antiwar.com
• WWW.WHITEHOUSE.ORG (satire)
• GWBush04.com (satire)
• www.PantsOnFire.net

Language

• Dictionnaires français
• Perseus Project Home Page (Berlin mirror, Chicago mirror) : Greek and Roman Materials
• Herbert Weir Smyth, Greek Grammar
• English
  • Etymology Dictionary
  • Common Errors in English (Paul Brians, Washington State University)
  • Roget's Thesaurus (on Bartleby)
  • Guardian Style Guide
  • alt.usage.english FAQ
  • Fowler, The King's English (Bartleby)
  • Dictionary of Difficult Words
  • On-Line English Grammar by Anthony Hughes
  • Grammar Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • The Internet Grammar of English, University College, London.
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing, Charles Darling, Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut
• Esperanto
  • The Esperanto League for North America
  • Kanada Esperanto-Asocio
  • Learn to Speak It Like a Native (a Geocities site; includes the sixteen rules).
• Turkish (There were three links here, but they all died, as I was kindly informed by somebody who suggested, as an alternative, Learning Turkish.)
• Linguistics
  • Word Grammar home page

Busy-ness

• US Embassy in Ankara (text-only)
• Federal Voting Assistance Program
• METUMail
• International Faculty Group at METU
• yabancilar-l
• Canada Trust
• State Employees Credit Union of Maryland (SECU)
• Türkiye İş Bankası
• St John's College
• St John's College Unofficial Alumni Homepage
• SJCAlums.com

Media

Aljazeera

• Periodicals
  • Dailies
    • The Guardian (UK)
    • The Washington Post
    • The Globe and Mail
    • Haaretz
  • Weeklies
    • Washington City Paper
    • San Francisco Bay Guardian
    • Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo
  • Magazines
    • Counterpunch
    • Z Communications
      • Z Net
    • The Nation
    • Stay Free!
    • Monthly Review
    • Istanbul? Yes, Istanbul (online column by somebody who wrote for the now-defunct Istanbullshit)
    • Left Business Observer
    • Covert Action Quarterly (2003.6.18: site says "under construction; visit soon; November, 2001", and has articles from the Spring/Summer 2000 issue)
  • Features
    • The Straight Dope
    • News of the Weird
• Radio
  • Pacifica Radio
    • KPFA, 94.1 FM, Berkeley (Ogg Vorbis)
    • KPFT, Houston (MP3)
    • WPFW, 89.3 FM, Washington
    • Save Pacifica
  • CBC Radio (Ogg Vorbis)
  • CJRT, 91.1 FM, Toronto
  • WRNR, 103.1 FM, Annapolis
  • WFMU, New York (Ogg Vorbis)
  • Radio France (this page unaccountably does not activate the following links as links):
    • France Inter
    • France Info
    • France Culture
    • France Musiques
    • FIP
    • Le Mouv'
    • Hector
    • La CityRadio de Paris

HTML

• HTML info (a page I compiled about some technical details of web-pages)
• WC3 home page for HTML
  • HTML 4.01 Specification
  • Style Sheets in HTML documents
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 1
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
• NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Web Pages That Suck
• HTML Help by The Web Design Group (founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide)
• HTML Resources (lists of links from the HTML Writers Guild)
• Alan Wood's Internet Home Page (unicode resources, character entity references)
• HTML Tag list by Rob Schlüter. Descriptions of tags in use and the browsers (Netscape and Microsoft) they work in; the site doesn't seem to have been edited since 1998.
• Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW
• Unicode Home Page
• Cookie Central
• The Ultimate Guide to Cookies (by Who Is Hosting This?; link added November 18, 2016)
• DEAD LINK: How Web Servers' Cookies Threaten Your Privacy. On the Junkbusters site.
• Numeric code character entities (december.com—a “communications company”)
• Special characters (similar to previous; Webmonkey)
• Some things in my directories:
  • A chart of 729 colors
  • Special Entities
  • Entities for Symbols and Greek Letters

Texts

Things I have saved for various reasons:

• R. G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art
• Mallick on Americans
• Responses to Mallick
• Earl Shorris, On the Uses of a Liberal Education
• H.W. Fowler, humour
• Environmentalist jailed in Texas (because of a pot conviction; Globe and Mail)
• The 'Judeo-Christian' myth (by Skipp Porteous, from Free Enquiry)
• A review by Sandro Graffi of The Forgotten Revolution by Lucio Russo (pdf file; from the Notices of the AMS)
• Articles from the Guardian Weekly:
  • Washington Post on so-called free trade (Europeans and genetically modified foods)
  • Mother strangles daughter's rival
  • Swordsman runs amok in church
  • homophone quiz
  • Every catastrophe has a silver lining
  • Green Man bounces back
  • Holocaust claims 'impossible' (report from the Irving trial)
  • Kiddy thinks (How do babies manage to learn so much, so quickly?)
  • US trained butchers of East Timor

Museums and art

• 24 Hour Museum (UK)
• National Gallery of Art (Washington)
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Art Gallery of Hamilton
• Gustav Klimt Gallery
• Frick Collection

Other links

I collected these links for various reasons. There's no point to looking for a pattern. Most of the links, I rarely or never refer to, unless I'm just checking to see if they still work.

• Internet Movie Database
• Hoaxbusters ("a public service of the CIAC [Computer Incident Advisory Capability] team and the US Department of Energy")
• The Holocaust History Project Homepage
• Urban Legends References Pages (with cookies) � 1995-2003 by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson; includes Inboxer Rebellion
• Leftist Links Archive from Victory Is Certain: “regime change begins at home”
• Quackwatch
• Healthcare Reality Check
• Andrea Dworkin Web Site
• God Loves Fags, in response to God Hates Fags, which observes: “There are multiple verses in the Bible that say that God hates human beings.” [In case there is any question: I am bound by the words of no book, holy or otherwise.]
• Constitution of the United States
• Hell (rather silly)
• Claudia Schiffer Memory Game
• Edward Hasbrouck's home page (includes Airline Ticket Consolidators and Bucket Shops FAQ
• The [United States] Flag Burning Page: “I took the page down in September 2001, to show respect. Now it appears to be needed more than ever. Congress is using this wave of patriotism to pass laws that will reduce our freedoms. People who disagree with popular opinion are being silenced. Don't allow this to happen.”
• Zen Buddhism in Chicago: Link doesn't work, 2003.9.29; a page of links to Buddhism names the link, but the url is to the math department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Spirituality (a lot of links)
• Alan Watts (1915-73)
• The Freedom Forum "The Freedom Forum was established in 1991 under the direction of Founder Allen H. Neuharth as successor to the Gannett Foundation, which was created by Frank E. Gannett in 1935. The Freedom Forum does not solicit or accept financial contributions. Its work is supported by income from an endowment now worth more than $1 billion in diversified assets."
• Luna (the tree where Julia Butterfly Hill lived), was supposed to be an "historic archive", according to the Circle of Life Foundation site—but the page is blank on 2003.9.29.
• A Summer's Reading List, Robert A. Hatch, History, U. of Florida
• Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
• Adult Christianity: "popular Christian culture, and an antidote to religious abuse"

Humor

• My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable (and Get Your War On, &c.)
• Landover Baptist
• Dial-the-Truth Ministries. I don't however believe that this one is intended to be a parody. Includes 666 Watch and The Dirty Little Secret about Rock's Teen Idols (with pics of Britney Spears). Also, The Truth About Hell, complete with the recorded screams of damned souls.
• Jack T. Chick Parody Archive
• Chick Publications (inspiration for the parodies)
• Saturnalia (another Chick parody)
• Disfunctional Family Circus
• Airtoons
• The Onion

Cars or not

• Toronto Pedestrian Charter
• Carfree cities past, present, and future. Solutions to the problem of the urban automobile.
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Car Talk
• Critical Mass Bicycle Rides
• Critical Mass
• "James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, 'Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.'"
• Travel with Bicycles: "Provided by readers of rec.bicycles.rides and other related newsgroups and mailing lists." Cookies.
• Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts (includes technical articles on various aspects of bicycling)
• Sturmey Archer cycle hubs, gears and controls, Brooks saddles and contract engineering components (I ride a Brooks leather saddle)
• Bikes at Work. Includes an article on Deducting Food as a Business Expense