News

Mainstream News (take with grain of salt)

• CNN The closest thing in the US to gov't controlled news. Enjoy.
• Faux News "Fair and Balanced" of course.
• Time for a change.
• Boregonian The must-read rag of the northwest.

Alternative News

• AlterNet News with a liberal bent.
• In These Times YALNS (yet another liberal news source)
• Willy Week The alternative weekly news rag of Portland.
• News of the Weird Hey, it's really true!

Foreign News

• BBC Jolly good news. Pip pip.
• Aljazeera Middle East news you can trust. Not.
• Pravda News from the Motherland.

Information

Online References

• Wikipedia Online encyclopedia
• Dictionary.com Online dictionary & thesaurus
• InfoPlease All the knowledge you need.
• So You Wanna.com All the things nobody taught you in school.
• World Fact Book

Causes

Politics

• Open Secrets Follow the money!
• MoveOn.org Liberal political news
• Bush Countdown (days or percentage) Is the nightmare over yet?
• Adbusters "culture jamming" left-wing mag

Censorship

• Free Expression Network Left leaning, but good site.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation Protecting your cyber-rights!
• People for the American Way Liberal leaning of course...
• Free Exprssion Policy Project A think tank

Geek Stuff

News

• Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters.
• Wired Latest tech related news.

Entertainment

• User Friendly Geek comic strip. Half-assed drawing. Midly amusing.
• Penny Arcade YAGCS (yet another geek comic strip)
• Joy of Tech

'Puter Stuff

• TechTV
• Maximum PC The PC equivalent of a "hot rodder" magazine.

Space

• Space.com Latest space related news
• Planetary Photojournal NASA image library
• The Mars Society

Art

• Fantasy Art of Elfwood Amateur submitted art and tutorials.
• GFXartist.com Digital amateur art and tutorials
• ImageNETion Tasteful classic and modern pin-up art.
• Figure Drawing Lab Basics of figure drawing
• Renderosity 3-D galleries & how-to info

Humor

• The Onion Funny stuff.
• Pets or Food Mad cow got you scared? Try alternative meats.
• Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics
  I wish my college textbooks were this good.
• Silicon Valley Tarot What's in the cards for your career?

Misc.

Friends

• Andrew Rielly
• Mark Haynes
• Kevin James