news

Trying out del.icio.us

Updated frequently...

The New York Times	A fairly even view with a Jewish slant (i.e. don't trust the Israeli reporting)
CNN	The pulse of America. Pretty stupid but not as bad as Fox - good for pop culture
BBC	It doesn't get much more objective than this - the best source for the real deal.
Guardian	Great UK News Site - often has US news that you won't see in the US
SlashDot	.geek land - a must if you're in the tech world
Salon	The Left wing's heartbeat
Reuters	The wire
The Drudge Report	The Right wing's heartbeat - pretty stupid - but good to know the enemy
Slate	Not bad - kind of news magazine-ish
CounterPunch	The way left... a fun read.
Guardian	UK paper - good stuff
DemocracyNow!	Activist type news.
Democratic Underground	Link to the breaking news section of their site... so good leads in there fairly regularly.
Free Press	Media reform

Less Frequently...

The Economist	The best if you believe in all that economy stuff.
Janes	You need to find a subscription (local library) but just their headlines and free stuff is worth looking at from time to time.
CATO	The best of the conservatives... know thy enemy, etc.
Wired	Occasional Tech Jems
Scientific American	SA is great - the first few paragraphs are written for the masses but then you need a degree.
Global Security	Like a free Janes
Aljazeera	Find out how the other half of the world sees it... Aljazeera - finally in English.
nature	Science news
FastCompany	BizDev News
Guerrilla News	Ocassionally has some great investigative articles on topics no-one else will touch.
UN News	UN News service
PhysicsWeb	Fun physics news
Center for Cooperative Research	Great time lines, great attempts at normalizing complexity.
File	File Magazine - fun photo stuff
Science News	Sicence news (some free, some subscription)

Site colletions:

The Intellectual Conservative	A long list of right wing poppy cock.
The Drudge Report	A huge list of news sites mixed with the pathetic news service
The Newseum	I love their front page collection - slow - but fun to go through every now and then.

Local (Seattle) links:

The Seattle Weekly	Silly rag for rants/raves about the area (and home of The DateGirl column - which I'm totally guilty of reading all the time... very fun)
The Seattle Times	Our pathetic news paper
Post-Intelligencer	Yup - we have two crappy papers that run the same stories, only one has a worse name.
NWSource	Great classifieds and occasional local travel gems
Stranger	The Village Voice of Seattle
Seattle Blogs	Collection of Seattle Blogs
MC Events	Motorcycle happenings
weather	Kirkland weather
wta	Washington Trails Association
BizJournal	Puget Sound Business Journal
Online Voter Guide	Washington State Online Voters guide.

Our fair city (Boston):

Boston Globe	OK - it's not the NYT's but at leas it's not the pathetic excuse that the Seattle Times is.

Humor:

The Onion	News humor
Fark	Funny news stories

Blogs:

http://www.suletzki.com	The Kat Monster
http://clientandserver.com	mistA Dylan
http://www.hegemonyrules.net	Arienne
http://www.folkphotography.com/blog.html	Some amazing photography
http://misplacedaggression.blogspot.com/	fellow psycho blogger
http://www.drmenlo.com/home.html	Dr Menlo blogs!
http://microship.com/latestnews/live.html http://microship.com/blog/ http://recoveringconsumer.com/	Micro Ship man!
http://www.bigdeadplace.com	Eratic news from the Antartic - hands down the funniest site on the net.
http://amsam.org/	American Samizdat
http://thedailywtf.com/	The daily what the fuck - funny coder blog
http://www.thesneeze.com/	bizzarro
http://boingboing.net/	boing boing tech eratta
http://commonsci.blogspot.com/	CommonSci is my new political oriented blog
http://www.alwayson-network.com/	Venture capital blog
http://radicallyinept.blogspot.com/	Another good poly-sci blog
http://blog.fastcompany.com/	Fast company blog
http://blog.mathemagenic.com/	Learning blog
Washington Monthly	Politics
BrendanDawes	Fun art projects
Rigorous Intuition	Conspiracy Theories anyone?
Future	Future blog?
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/	Good tech blog
http://www.kevinsites.net	He's back Iraq posting great articles
http://www.schneier.com/blog/	Security blog
http://www.hackaday.com/	Hack A Day
http://www.theregular.org/	Another political slashdot'esque blog
Ben Curtis	Local CTO
Homelessness Blog	Everything you need to know to switch to the simple life.
Bearman	LA Weekly blogger
Talking Points Memo	Josh Marshal's blog contributer to the Washington Monthly
http://important.editme.com	My brothers blog - although I suspect this will go away when he sobers up :)
http://viewropa.com/	Group Europe blog
http://dailykos.com/	Daily KOS - Left Politics
Vendee	Daily news from the single handed race around the world
PornHappy	The always entertaining behind the scenes look at the porn world.
Becker-Posner	Nobel Prize winner and federal circuit judge talk economics
Tree Hugger	Green blog - full of fun enviro products
AI Etc.	My new tech/ai blog
Innovation Blog	Innovative blogging
Stupid Cubicle	Great rants on things over heard in the cube farm
Gizmodo	Cool gizmos
Kitchen Contraptions	Kitchen blog
Jalopnik	Conept car blog - fun toys
DeepBlog	Blog collection
Genetic Blog	A blog about genetic algorithms

Blog indexes:

http://seablogs.hellbent.org	Seattle area blogs
http://kinja.com/	rss feed manager
http://bloglines.com/	rss feed manager
http://feedster.com/	blog search engine
http://technorati.com/	blogs by topic
http://blogdex.net/	blogs ranked by people posting/linking to them

Radio Online:

http://www.airamericaradio.com/	Left wing radio (about time)
http://www.kuow.org/	KUOW - Seattle's NPR
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/	BBC Radio
space	shoutcast space stream
http://www.somafm.com/	Alt.wierd.radio

IFilm: http://www.ifilm.com

Games:

Boggle	Group boggle contest
Scrabble	Single player scrabble game

Comments:

From kat [4.5.93.179] - 12/29/03 12:28 AM

From I am a Giant Tomato [24.128.233.51] - 12/24/03 3:55 PM