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These are a few of my favorite links...
Social Action Stuff — Filk & Other Music Links — Other Fun Links
Social Action Stuff
- The band Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young maintains an excellent list of social action charities.
- You can make sure that major corporations give money to hungry people at The Hunger Site.
- To quote from their website, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) is a nonprofit, public interest legal organization whose mission is to achieve full equality and justice for New England's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and HIV or AIDS affected individuals.
- I added my own high school picture to PFLAG's high school yearbook, intended to show today's GLBT teens that they are not the first, and they are not alone.
- A resource for bisexual teens is maintained right here in the metro Boston area, the BiYouth home page. It's a project of the Bisexual Resource Center.
- Zipcar could be considered a fun thing, too. To quote from their website, "If you only need a car occasionally, this is the service for you... Use a car whenever you want without the hassles of owning one." But I've put it under Social Action because it's also environmentally-friendly (reducing individual ownership/usage of cars, and hence smog-causing emissions and gas usage). Zipcar is Boston-local, but there are similar services in other cities in the US, Canada and Europe.
- A friend of my family, Charles Printz, is a principal US advisor (as a labor of love) for the Montagnard Foundation, an organization which is helping the indigenous mountain people of Vietnam, the Degar (also called Montagnards) survive and retain their cultural identity.
- I recently started working for the Brain Tumor Society; I accepted the job because they do amazing things to support people with brain tumors and fund research to prevent them. You can help.
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Filk & Other Music Links
I have posted Lee Gold's wonderful reference for new filkers, Welcome to the Filk Circle. If you don't know what filk is, but you love folk music, science fiction, and fantasy, see Filk Defined at the M.A.S.S.F.I.L.C. web site.
Some of my favorite music links include:
Jazz:
Richard Tabnik New Artists Records Filk:
Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: Filk Filk FAQ Index The Dandelion Conspiracy
Why are filkers like dandelions?M.A.S.S.F.I.L.C. Home page
Everything you ever wanted to know about Massachusetts filkdom.XENOFILKIA HOME PAGE
A marvelous filk APA.FanHistory Filk Project The Virtual Filksing WiGGLe Home Page
Somehow I got mixed up with these British filkers. I'm hoping I'll get to see them again someday.Tom Smith's Web Page The Caterwaul (Joe Kesselman) Dave's Online Filkbook Santa's Filk Pages (Jeff Hitchin) Mark A. Mandel
Folk:
WFUV 90.7FM --New York's Best Radio Station Walkabout Clearwater Coffeehouse The Clearwater Hudson River Revival The NEFFA Festival Miscellaneous:
GALA Choruses, Inc.
The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses.WKN Kid Songs & Lullabyes - The Lyrics PGM Recordings Lark In The Morning Welcome to the Pipers Cove Daddy's Junky Music
A great place for guitars and anything electronic that can be used to produce music. And they have a used gear site too!Return to the Top — Social Action Stuff — Filk & Other Music Links — Other Fun Links
Other Fun Links
My mom helped create the Bronx on the Web site for the New York Public Library.
Blue Mountain Arts' Electronic Greeting Cards has cute animated cards. Another site, Corbis, has lovely art and photo postcards.
PROJECT GUTENBERG has lots of text and/or Adobe Acrobat versions of great literature.
Alexandria Digital Literature is a fabulous place to learn about books you might like, but wouldn't know about otherwise.
The Netscape Open Directory is quickly edging out Yahoo! as my favorite place to look for things. Also see the Mozilla Open Directory.
Merriam-Webster OnLine is a good place to look up words in an on-line dictionary or thesaurus, play word games, and join a "Word of the Day" listserv.
The Astronomy Pic of the Day is always interesting and often beautiful. The main picture is usually a giant thumbnail; clicking on it brings up the higher resolution version.
I have many favorite comics sites on the Web. There are web sites for the major comics syndicates: United Media's Comics.Com site, the uComics site (warning, lots of pop-up windows), and the King Features site. I also read comics via the Washington Post (warning, lots of pop-up windows) and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. My favorites are 9 Chickweed Lane, For Better or For Worse, Funky Winkerbean, On the Fasttrack, and Safe Havens.
I also have some independent favorites that everyone should check out: Kevin and Kell, Ozy and Millie, Freefall, Something Positive (not work-safe, rather sick and twisted, and probably says something nasty about my psyche that I like it), Queen of Wands. And my friend Adam just started writing Fellow With A Furrow, about a transgendered (FTM) man with some odd, yet apparently normal, friends. Other comics by friends include Irregular Webcomic, My Life in a Nutshell, and Waiting for Frodo.
Comics I used to read, that have lost my attention: Abby's Menagerie (it used to have animated graphics, very well-done), Clan of the Cats, Alice!, Bruno (depressing sometimes, but incredibly beautiful), User Friendly, and Waiting for Bob.
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