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berberry
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Message 1 of 21 (187688)
02-23-2005 3:49 AM


I'm always looking for interesting websites, and I thought it might be fun to have a thread available for posting some of our favorite links. What interesting sites do you find yourself returning to most frequently?
Here are a few of mine:
The World Clock, as the name implies a site where you can quickly check the current local time for major cities around the world.
Media Matters, left-wing scrutiny of the right-wing media.
photobucket.com, a free image-hosting site.
The Internet Archive, providing the sort of services you'd expect from an archive. The Wayback Machine is useful for finding information that is no longer on the web but once was. Under 'Moving Images' the Prelinger Archive is particularly notable. In it, you can find free downloads of classic industrial films, old TV commercials and educational films. The Sabucat Movie Trailers collection includes many classic pictures and a pretty much equal number of many classically bad pictures. Under 'Text', the 'Million Book Project' and the 'Project Gutenberg' are not to be missed.
I'm sure most everyone here is familiar with space.com, so rather than merely link to it I'll instead link to one of my favorite recent articles.

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Parasomnium
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Message 2 of 21 (187706)
02-23-2005 8:00 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by berberry
02-23-2005 3:49 AM


My addition to the collection
Here are two of my favourites:
Arts & Letters Daily, a site that collects articles, book reviews, and opinions about such diverse topics as philosophy, science, religion, history, art, literature, world affairs, et cetera. The site presents these with a short blurp followed by one or more links for further reading. Its motto is "VERITAS ODIT MORAS", which translates as "Truth hates delay." It also has a lot of interesting links to other sites of equal interest. Strongly recommended if you want to keep up with matters intellectual.
SciTechDaily, a site comparable to the previous one I mentioned, but with the emphasis on - not surprisingly - science and technology.

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jar
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Message 3 of 21 (187717)
02-23-2005 8:33 AM
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02-23-2005 8:00 AM


Re: My addition to the collection
Let me add my Home page link. Astronomy Picture of the Day which often wanders off into other facets of what we see when looking up, or down.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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ohnhai
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Message 4 of 21 (189994)
03-04-2005 7:58 AM


coupple of bit of cool animation.
For those that dont know SamBakZa are a group of Korean aritsts and these are probably the best things on their site. If I want chearing up these two files are a regular stop for me. (note these copies are hosted on my servers to ease the load on their servers.... )
There she is Step1 this is chapter one as it were and is ok but nothing compared to step 2. the file is about 2 meg so allow some time to load
There she is Step2: Cake dance part 2 and even better (7 meg file so may take a while....)
these files are Copyright SamBakZa

  
Dan Carroll
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Message 5 of 21 (190016)
03-04-2005 9:49 AM
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02-23-2005 3:49 AM


My newest, favoritist site:
http://www.crank.net/
It's all the reasons I come to this site, squared.
This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 03-04-2005 10:04 AM

"Creationists make it sound as though a theory is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
-Isaac Asimov

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berberry
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Message 6 of 21 (190711)
03-09-2005 3:13 AM


Truly wonderful site
I don't know how I forgot this one earlier. For years it's been one of my favorites and it never fails to enthrall me: photo.net.

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berberry
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Message 7 of 21 (192644)
03-19-2005 9:32 PM


A new cartoon library at Internet Archive
If you like old cartoons, you'll love the Internet Archive's Film Chest Vintage Cartoons. There's Popeye, Mighty Mouse, Superman, Felix the Cat, Woody Woodpecker and more.

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nator
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Message 8 of 21 (192651)
03-19-2005 9:47 PM
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02-23-2005 3:49 AM


I like to read this one about medical fraud, pseudoscience and chicanery,:
Quackwatch
sometimes this one about the same stuff, only in government,:
The Daily Kos
and this one about the same stuff, only in the US media,:
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

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berberry
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Message 9 of 21 (205094)
05-04-2005 10:01 PM


Fast Forward: The Future of Evolution
There's a fascinating collection of articles, slide shows and other data concerning evolution currently posted at MSNBC. The interactive Before and After Humans is an engaging evolution timeline. Also interesting is a comparison of the cultural impact of Darwin vs. Einstein.
Perhaps the most important piece of the package is The Stirring on The Mount, which deals with the absurd political issues surrounding TOE today.

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Clark
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Message 10 of 21 (205116)
05-04-2005 11:03 PM
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02-23-2005 8:33 AM


Re: My addition to the collection
APOD, I haven't missed a day since i first found that site a couple of years ago.
***
oh and here's a good progressive news collection website:
Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

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Message 11 of 21 (205128)
05-05-2005 12:18 AM
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Message 12 of 21 (205402)
05-05-2005 8:01 PM
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berberry
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Message 13 of 21 (211710)
05-27-2005 4:36 AM


Great liberal opinion site
tompaine.com

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Tusko
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Message 14 of 21 (211734)
05-27-2005 7:24 AM
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02-23-2005 3:49 AM


I love the idea behind ’’’ - sometimes they are really fantastic.
I always go to Audacity download | SourceForge.net to see if they have released the new version of this amazing program (great for recording and writing songs - as well as transfer tapes to mp3 or whatever). They haven't for ages though - but that doesn't stop me hoping.
I just fell in love with google maps, though you probably know that one already.
Probably the coolest site is Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court - where you can view historical court proceedings from the 18th and 18th centuries. Its fascinating. Sometimes funny, sometimes very sad.

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berberry
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Message 15 of 21 (212380)
05-29-2005 4:04 PM


The Bridge On The River Kwai
One of the greatest things about the internet is that it allows one to do one's own research and learn things one could really never learn otherwise. A case in point is the true story behind this popular novel and movie. I've seen at least two productions which purported to tell the "true story" but each of them left out important details.
The real "true story" is far more fascinating than either the movie or the documentaries would lead one to believe.
The wierd thing is there is no one website (at least not that I could find) where the entire true story is told. You have to research a couple of different things, one being the Thailand-Burma railway - better known as the "death railway" - and another being Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey, the real man behind the film's Colonel Nicholson.
One fact you will learn right away is that the cruelty and torture with which the POWs were driven to complete this railway is only hinted at in the film. Of over 60,000 allied POWs who were forced to work on the jungle tracks, some 16,000 died during construction.
Turns out there really was a Colonel Saito who was something of a Schindler-type character, and he really was in charge of the construction of the two Kwai river bridges. He never subjected Toosey to any 'hotbox'. Saito believed that if he treated his prisoners as humanely as possible he'd get better work out of them. By one account he even went so far as to use part of his own salary to bribe other officials to see to it that his prisoners received their Red Cross care packets. Thanks to that humane treatment Colonel Toosey testified for the defense at Saito's war crimes trial (Saito and Toosey maintained a friendship for many years after the war).
The jungle portion of the Thailand-Burma railway was composed largely of some 140 bridges, the Kwai bridge and one other being the longest and most elaborate. The movie implies that Col. Nicholson and his men designed a bridge superior to what the Japanese had designed. That is not true; the Japanese designs were used and were entirely adequate.
One essential fact of the true story seems to me to be more significant than any single source of information which I can find would imply: that the only still-surviving bridges from that death railway are the Kwai bridge and a handful of other bridges in that region (and btw, one of those bridges really does have a plaque at its base crediting its contruction to POW labor). All of the other bridges had to be rebuilt after the war. A number of sources point out that the first Kwai river bridge was made of wood, and upon its completion the British POWs who built it were moved just downriver to construct another, steel bridge (the movie does hint at this). Colonel Toosey attempted to undermine construction of the first bridge by deliberately infecting the wood with termites. He was apparently unable (or, perhaps?, unwilling?) to do anything to undermine the steel bridge.
I haven't linked to any sites because, in order to get all of this info, you have to consult quite a number of different sites. If you'll do the searches I mentioned above, and pay particular attention to hits from PBS and the BBC, you'll be able to follow the same trail I did to gather all of the info.

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