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Categories:
Art,
Literature and Culture |
| Art, Literature and Culture Sites |
| K10K A Flash-heavy design site with links to really solid "art-for-art's-sake" projects from designers all over the web. If you're a webgirl or webguy, this is guaranteed to move you to inspiration or jealousy. |
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Exquisite Corpse Author, NPR correspondent, Romanian expatriate, and social critic Andrei Codrescu is editing this new culture zine. Prepare for caustic social commentary. |
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Holophrastic A nicely designed art and literature site. |
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geekgirl The One and Only. For years now, the original geekgirls from Australia have been pioneering real content on the web.
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Rotodesign A frequently updated site with lots of fun content, by a fellow San Franciscan with an appreciation of irony and Asian pop-culture. You've got to check out the "Love Robot."
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The Revolution The latest ideas and news from R.U.Sirius.
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Smug A well-designed variety zine with lots of content.
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The Kremlin Kam Good one. |
| Music Related Sites |
| Epitonic Dodge through the chaotic design to find some great streaming music channels. If you're not familiar with Epitonic, the label has a tasty, highly eclectic stable of artists. |
| EMusic Loads of MP3s for sale, including some pretty decent esoteric material. |
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4AD Music Label The label which gave birth to the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Pixies, The Breeders, a hundred shoegazer bands and a million longing sighs. |
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Axiom "Destroy all rational thought." The music of Bill Laswell. Good discographies and background information. |
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Nicole Blackman Nicole Blackman's site, with information on her music and poetry. |
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Inkblot "Deep coverage of great music." The site appears to be run by -gasp!- real live music lovers. The site is less commercial than most. |
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Eno Web Brian Eno at Hyperreal. |
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Stereolab / Duophonic Stereolab's official site. |
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Charles
Long & Stereolab The Amorphous Body Study Center. |
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WMNF Radio Free Tampa A community radio station from the west coast of Florida. They've got news, political commentary, and every kind of musical alternative from goth to polka. This site's Editor has fond memories of the 'Art-Damage' radio show he used to DJ on MNF a few years ago. |
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San Francisco Taiko Dojo The oldest school of traditional Japanese drumming techniques in the United States. Catch a live show if you can, you won't regret it. |
| International News |
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OneWorld Online A clearinghouse for news and background about international development, warfare and human rights issues. |
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British Broadcasting Corporation While not quite "alternative", the BBC has good international coverage. |
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Guardian Unlimited Network International and British news from the liberal London daily, The Guardian. (No relationship with the San Francisco Guardian.) |
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Le Monde Diplomatique An English language monthly digest from Le Monde of Paris. |
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The Japan Times News and in-depth features covering Japan and the Pacific Rim. |
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Asahi Shimbun The English language version of this influential Japanese newspaper. |
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Russia Today A bit light on depth of content (think USA Today). Russia Today features a collection of regional news stories and features in English, geared towards the international community and westerners doing business in Russia. |
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The Exile Moscow's alternative online news. |
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The Jerusalem Post News from Israel. |
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South China Morning Post Not a mouthpiece for the Chinese government's official party line. The Morning Post covers world and business news from Hong Kong. |
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Sydney Morning Herald Regional and international news from Australia. |
| American News Outlets |
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NPR National Public Radio Online. |
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Pacifica Radio Pacifica Network News. |
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Associated Press The original source for many national and international news stories in the United States. |
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The Drudge Report The infamous clearinghouse for news and wire services. |
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Mother Jones Interactive News and opinion from the staff of Mother Jones magazine. |
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Salon.com News and culture from Salon Magazine. |
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Atlantic Unbound More art news than hard news. |
| Typography and Site Design |
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Chank Diesel "One of the twenty sexiest people on the Internet," Chank Diesel has posted a massive amount of information on his site. Thoroughly linked to other type-related resources, this site is a good starting point for anyone wanting to learn about modern typography. |
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Surfers,
Ltd. Fonts Free television, movie and music-related fonts, plus some other goodies. |
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Redsun Tips and information on typography and site design. |
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The Fontpool Sort yourself out with over a thousand categorized freeware and shareware fonts. |
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Create 8 Fonts An alphabetical listing of many freeware fonts. |
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DINC! A type foundry with very cool site design. |
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Free
Fonts on the Web A useful site which links to many other typography and freefont sites. |
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The Font Fairy Loads of freeware fonts. |
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Emerald City
Fontwerks A funky site with fun fonts. |
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Acid Fonts Recently updated site with many freeware and shareware fonts. |
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!Fontastic! Nicely designed freeware and shareware font site. |
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a Dead Link Due creds to Robert Phoenix and Natasha Chanetskaia for help with links and background information. |