Links for the Misbegotten
Elsewhere on-site you'll find our list
of links for serious Internet readers. Here though is the
really good stuff: the weird, the great, the special, sometimes listed because of great
web design, mostly for unusual content.
http://www.escapeartist.com/global/Plug_Adapters.html
Welcome to the International Voltage-Finder Search Engine. Yep, it'll
tell you just what you think it would. No more zapping your laptop when you innocently
plug it into 230 volts D.C. in Ulan Bator.
http://www.thislife.org/pages/home.html
The site for This American Life. Produced at WBEZ in Chicago, This
American Life is a weekly public radio program that lives up to its name. Each 60-minute
show is devoted to variations on a theme ("Saying goodbye," "Growing Up
Gay," "Americans in Paris"). All programs are archived here. A true
treasure chest, because they're all worth listening to. (Almost as good is another public
radio show, Fresh Air, which you'll find archived at http://whyy.org/freshair/today.html (check
the interview with Monica Lewinsky--Monica walks out because the questions get "too
personal").
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/6496/sandowgallery1.html
Historic photos of early bodybuilders. Sic transit gloria muscles.
http://www.gould.nlc-bnc.ca/
Toronto has finally figured out they have a major tourist draw in the late Glenn
Gould. This site is loaded with Gould trivia, along with a number of unreleased
outtakes from various recording sessions.
http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp
Slate magazine is keeping up with our new Mr. Malaprop. If you think Dan Quayle was
stupid, check out The World According to George W.
www.prs.net.
Classical MIDI Archives. An astounding, carefully filtered, beautifully presented
collection of classical music midi's.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/5843/index.html
TOUECCANS. The definite collections of screensavers. With helpful
categories (animated, non-animated, music-synchronized, etc.). Tested and rated.
http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html
The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet. Avoid the hype at
RealAudio and broadcast.com. Here's the only list you need for net listening.
http://www.globalvillager.com/villager/chinachat.html
China Chat. A window to the opinions of a fourth of humanity. Mostly in
English. It's a free public chat board, with hundreds of topics. Participants come from
within China and from outside of China. For example, if you don't get why Taiwan is such a
big deal, check out the discussions on that topic here; you'll find enough raw emotion to
forever demolish the stereotype of inscrutability.
http://www.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/MUFON/
If you want data about flying saucers, here it is.
http://www.xs4skin.uk.inter.net/
The XS4SKIN Gallery. For the foreskin-challenged. Be warned: we're
talking extremely forthright photographs.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/cjackson/featured.htm
Maybe the best site for the history of Western painting. Surprisingly
complete.
http://www.yforum.com/
Forum on People's Differences. An open chat board based on a brilliant
idea: We all have questions about other people who (we think) are really different from
ourselves, but usually we're too polite or too afraid to ask the questions. Here's where
you'll find civil questions and civil answers. The site is well-moderated... an
entertaining and educational read.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html
WPA Life Histories. During the Depression, make-work jobs were created
for artists, musicians, and writers. One of the projects had writers going around the
country doing life-interviews with old people. Here are the transcripts.
http://www.imdb.com/
The Internet Movie Database. 160,000 movies. What more can you say?
http://www.pgonline.com/georgemusic/
Need a tin whistle, some bagpipes, or other folk instrument. Try this
on-line shop from Vancouver Island.
http://www.gpforums.com/forum.cgi?id=60-937231358
Looking for large mammaries? Gigantic phalloi? You won't find them at
small-X-change. It's a chatboard for possessors and fans of um the lesser-endowed male.
http://www.patriciagarfield.com/
Way back when, Patricia Garfield wrote a book, Creative Dreaming, long before the
shelves of your local Barnes & Noble became packed with dream books.
Garfield's many books since are all characterized by the same combination of practical
advice and bracing honesty about her own dreams.
http://www.npm.gov.tw/
When the Chinese Nationalists fled the mainland to Taiwan they took much of the best of
classical Chinese art with them, and put it on display at the National
Palace Museum in Taipei.
http://crystalnight.com/
This personal site starts with a fine wake-up call to never forget the meaning of the
Nazis' Kristallnacht (and this, mind you, from a non-Jew), and grows from
there.
http://ingeb.org/home.html
This German site contains no fewer than 6,000 (six thousand!) folk songs
from around the world. All categorized and presented with typical teutonic thoroughness.
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