Various Assorted & Topical Links

Artchive
texas.net Museum of Art's online collection of images and criticism...check out Bruegel!
Baghdad Burning
Riverbend's blog
Blonde joke
(the obligatory; she made me post it)
BoingBoing
'a directory of wonderful things' blog thing
Bugmenot.com
bypass compulsory web registration
Caffeine
levels in popular cola drinks
Cascade Bike Club
Seattle's humongous bicycle club.
Chocolate
The choco listserve has evolved into this 'one passion' site. Need I say more?
City Repair Project
"Public squares are almost completely absent from the American landscape, in part because our cities were primarily built for commerce, not communities..."
City of Seattle
City government and community service info maintained by the city and it's departments & agencies. Watch Fire Department dispatches as they occur, or query responses for a particular date, coded by yours truly (aw, shucks).
Dead Media Project
Now it's brilliant; now it's dead.
DeviantArt.com
"The largest art community in the world."
Dogme 95
A filmmaking manifesto.
Earthtrust
Check out Project Delphis for fascinating dolphin information.
Educational links
Pretty lame really.
Email
While I'm on the road.
Everything
Well why not everything? A modest project for writers.
Fonts
A collection of links to free font sites. Did'ja know I was a graphics designer in a former life?
Friends
Some blogs and home pages of friends, acquaintances and strangers-with-cool-sites-or-philosophies etc.
FuelEconomy.gov
Lookup MPG for most vehicles.
Gampo Abbey
A Canadian monastery of the Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
Get Your War On
Cute comic about current events
Guardian
British news source.
HistoryLink
Seattle's history, for your browsing pleasure. This year (2001) marks the 150th anniversary of Seattle's founding by the Denny party.
Museum of Hoaxes
Quite the collection.
Instructables
Share DIY projects with others.
Internet Archive
Building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Jabberwocky
Keith Lim's collection of translations, parodies, etc. of Lewis Carroll's poem.
JunkBusters
Bust the junk messages out of your life.
Keepers of Lists
Site of user-submitted top-10 (and more) lists.
Kokogiak
An Amazon.com employee takes some very nice pics.
Library of Congress
This used to be one of the country's biggest references. Some federal government information tools. Unfortunately you can't do trademark searches online.
Linzer Torte
The recipe for that great chocolate cake I learned how to bake from my mother Marilyn (who got it from a friend in North Carolina who got it from the old country)...well here you go!
MAPS
Mail Abuse Prevention System.
Misc.
Clark Humphrey (author of Loser)'s weekly rants and other Humpreyisms.
Modern Dog
Cool graphic design studio in Seattle.
NASA
Northwest Harvest
People are worse off than we are. Give 'til it hurts.
Northwest Film Forum
The Onion
"America's finest news source".
George Orwell
A collection of his political writings and additional links.
palmersaylor
An artist's website.
The Paris Review
Literary journal.
Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander's theories of architecture, town layout, etc.
The Prime Pages
Prime number resources.
Primordial Soup Kitchen
A University of Wisonsin/Madison math professor's nice site focusing on cellular automata, with gallery and software links.
Project Cool
Web developers -- check this out!
Real Change
Seattle's newspaper by and for homeless folks.
Rube Goldberg
SCN
Seattle Community Network--free internet access for the community, powered by volunteers.
Seattle Indymedia
Seattle Independent Media Center.
Robert W. Service
Bard of the nortwest.
SETI@home
Help search for extraterrestrial intelligence with your little old home computer.
The Six Thousand
"6000 intriguing people you want to meet online before you die."
Views of the Solar System
Great photos of the planets, internet-ready by Calvin J. Hamilton (warning: annoying ads on his site).
Spam Haiku
Another one of those cultural things you wonder how you lived without.
Sports
Um, yeah, ESPNET sports zone. Not an endorsement.
The Stranger
Seattle's free weekly paper, online, yup.
Sustainable by Design
Sustainable energy and evnironment freeware and consulting.
Tallahassee FreeNet
A small southern city with charm, intelligence and live oaks. Oops, strike 'intelligence'... this is the city which threw out votes so the governor's brother could 'win' the presidential election.
Third World Traveler
A large site (and collection of links) on "an alternative view to...the state of democracy in America", and if you keep reading far enough, third world travel.
This Modern World
Link to Tom Tomorrow's popular comic.
Transit
Public transit schedules for getting around the Seattle area.
Washington Free Press
Another Washington (state) - based news source.
Washington State Lottery
Do not gamble! Gambling is bad for you. And you might win...
Well
An old Picospan online community with an interesting cast of characters gets webified.
Zeno's Coffeehouse
Philosophical puzzles, courtesy of Valdosta State University.

Compiled by Frank Brown WALHFMF * * Slurping is OK