Recommended Links
- Library Sites
- RefDesk — now ready reference is really ready — just click!
- New York Public Library databases — access many terrific databases with your NYPL library card.
- Snopes.com— debunks many myths and urban legends (and confirms many others)
- Public Library of Science — Open Access science journals (a challenge to publishers)
- PBS American Masters database — detailed essays, some with video, about more than 100 leading American artists, writers, journalists, and cultural figures. The Walter Cronkite section is fascinating.
- Culture and Arts
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. — One of the world's finest art collections
- The Mother of All Art Links Page — great portal to images and art history resources.
- Arts and Letters Daily — a portal to recent scholarly work and cultural commentary.
- Voice of the Shuttle — a classic portal to scholarly work in the humanities.
- News and Politics
- Slate.com — news plus ideas; always food for thought.
- UK Guardian — excellent reporting from across the Pond.
- Bloggingheads.tv — video dialogues; always interesting, sometimes fun, especially the Robert Wright/Mickey Kaus diavlogs.
- CounterPunch — hard-nosed reporting from a skeptical perspective from Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
- FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) — fact-checking media watchdog.
- Cagle's Cartoon Archive — topical political cartoons.
- New York City sites
- Forgotten New York — NYC's past is alive at this site; full of fascinating minutiae (don't be put off by the slightly off-kilter webpage layouts)
- On NY Turf — google map of New York City with subway lines overlayed — a very useful mash-up.
- Chowhound! — Great bulletin board about Manhattan restaurants, and all things gastronomical everywhere.
- Friends' sites
- Shanghai Love Motel — NYC-based band: Bill, Bryan, Adam and Mark; good tunes (check out the free mp3's) and pay attention to the lyrics. Yes these guys were English majors in college.
- Breeding Winners — Like to play the ponies? My friend Andy's got some statistics that might help you out.
- The Unusual
- Ashes and Snow — beautiful, haunting multimedia representation of a traveling museum exhibition.
- Apophenia — the blog of danah boyd; interesting perspectives on culture, media and information.
- Fun Stuff
- Homestar Runner — strange things are happening in this cartoon world.
- Bigfoot Sightings!
- Office Tally — Fansite for the American TV show "The Office"
- Alien Loves Predator — comic strip about two monsters sharing a New York City apartment
- SuperDeluxe — terrific off-beat comedy; not mainstream
- Pandora — Tell it what music you like, and it will custom-program a radio station for you! For free!
- And Don't Forget...
- Boodleheimer — my blog: get the Dan Weltsch take on things.
- DanBoy on MySpace — yes, I'm on MySpace too.