ASSORTED LINKS


Music that I enjoy, thus meriting the presence of these links

Other people who write stuff

...Entheogenics & Psychonautics...

Linguistics-Related

Chinglish


Travel-Related

Taiwan Links (Tourism, TEFL, Expats)

Other cool links

Omnipresent, Omnipotent etcetera

































Music that I enjoy, thus meriting the presence of these links

We're the Beastie Boys not Cheech and Chong

Alfonso givin' me a backrub at Beck.com

the wily fellows of belle and sebastian

News on Evan

pavementtherockband will be offline until further notice...because they broke up!...so just visit Stephen Malkmus' site instead.

Elliott Smith - R.I.P. 2003

s t e r e o l a b - Mary Hansen R.I.P. 2003

What is a Yo La Tengo?

Mr. Grohl's Foo Fighters

There are three in Ben Folds Five...but there's only one Ben Folds

Say UNKLE: DJ Shadow



other people who write stuff

Canadian Souvenir: Douglas Coupland

This link directs to a site of a writer named Kurt Vonnegut who was born in the year 1922, which makes him 80 years old, assuming it is the year 2002, which it happens to be.

Drop the ecky and doon tha pint wit' da likesa Irvine Welsh, ya fookin ken?

The Hunter S. Thompson archives at Page 2

Texts: George Orwell

 

...Entheogenics & Psychonautics...

Albert Hoffmann's LSD: My Problem Child
Rick Strassman's DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Vaults of EROWID
TiHKAL online...Fifty-odd tryptamines you'll probably never get your hands on.
PiHKAL online...Nearly one-hundred and eighty phenethylamines you'll probably never get your hands on.

Defunct but eternal Arizona Peyote Foundation

Santa and the Mushroom

phases of the moon from 2002-2005



Linguistics-Related

Merriiam-Webster. Online dictionary and thesaurus
Zee and Zed in Southern Ontario Part of Dialect Topography Study
Hank Roger's Homepage. Phonetics, writing systems, phthong...



Chinglish

This is a semi-decent Lingusitics article on Chinglish Writing by JI Shaobin, who was cited elsewhere in his definition of Chinglish. The careful reader will note a few of the author's own accidental, though subtle, examples of Chinglish.


The Chinglish Files. Hilarious examples of Chinglish on marketed products. Original examples are all scanned in.


Beijing's War on Chinglish. Some more examples, and a comment on Beijing's attempt to eradicate Chinglish in public signage. Can they do it before the 2008 Olympics?


More examples. This is, on occasion, somewhat mean, but often humourous. There is an interesting anecdote on the story of Coca-Cola's introduction into China, and finding an appropriate Chinese translation for it. There are several other very interesting tales like this (i.e. The Taiwanese shanghai the autoformatting of Windows 95 for the mainland).


Another Chinglish Page


"My Little Chinglish Site"


Questions and answers about Taiwan's romanization situation, and information about why tongyong pinyin is not what it claims to be


Omniglot's Phonetic transcription of Chinese


Library of Congress - Pinyin Conversion Project: New Chinese Romanization Guidelines



Travel

Absolutely All Of The World's Embassies In A Searchable Database
A List of Countries by Continent
Lonely Planet Thorn Tree. Forum for Travel Talk
Universal Currency Converter
Which side of the road do they drive on? Database on which side of the road vehicles are driven on



Other cool links

the war on terrorism
Diary for a New America - Poison's Rikki Rokket's arte de toilette
Welcome to Seussville!
Silver Ladder Studios
Star Wars Trilogy The Lego Edition
Tom Green dot calm
David Lynch dot calm
Oliver Stone dot calm
The View Askewniverse (Kevin Smith's Website)
Project MKULTRA
History House Archives
SCUBA FAQ
Urban Legends Reference Pages. Quite thorough. Even more interesting are some of the ones that turn out to be true.


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