The World Outside

Always Under Construction:

A gathering of good links across the web.

(updated 2-6-05)

Small independent Austin businesses who deserve your patronage:

Boggy Creek Farms Good produce, and look at those lovely t-shirts they're wearing!
Katsu Designs (I won the free nightlight of the month!)
Fire Island Glass Studios
Terra toys Great selection of kid's books
The Austin Motel Best neon sign in town
Wheatsville Food Co-op Hey, Boggy Creek's only open 2 days a week.
The Austin Chronicle is the "alternative" weekly. Politics both local and national, as well as entertainment and opinion.
Bookpeople is a fine, large independent book store.
Toy Joy is lots of fun.

The True purpose of the internet: a total waste of time.

Cheesenet especially the poetry.
Engrish.com Mangled sytax, garbled grammer. Endless fun.
Found Magazine Pictures, notes, stuff found laying around.
Random Chicken No comment neccessary.
Zombo com The only limit is yourself.
Icepick.com is a guy who has wired his entire house with webcams and sensors that generate stats.
Bushisms Love him or hate him, the man says some bizzare things.
Hatt, Hatt, Baby Probably the strangest song and video ever.
Strongbad email Can be hit and miss, but either way, it'll waste fifteen minutes of perfectly good time.
The Lifeboat. Sort of an internet refugee camp.
The Institute of Official Cheer, featuring the Gallery of Regrettable Food.
Origami Boulder. Everybody needs one of these.
Shards of Glass Freeze-Pops. If the food industry were regulated like Big Tobacco...
BoingBoing. A great clearinghouse of cool links.
Things my Girlfriend and I have argued about. Exactly what it says.
Leviathan. A truly amazing cartoon by Peter Blegvad.
The Museum of Bad Art. Collected from flea markets and dumpsters, the world over.

News and Reading around the World

Arts and Letters Daily A very eclectic clearinghouse for News, Book Reviews and Commentary.
Metafilter is a "community weblog" with several thousand members who contribute links to articles of note.
70South Because everybody needs to know what's happening at the south pole.
Newsday.com has about the best daily roundup of world news headlins I've found.
National Public Radio Listen online.
Cursor.org That #@%! liberal media.
The Nation That #@%! liberal media, again.
Common Dreams More of that #@%! liberal media.
New Scientist pretty much goes right over my head.
McSweeny's Offshoot of Dave Egger's quarterly lit rag.
The New Yourk Review of Books. Self-explanatory name, I think.
Claim vs. Fact Database fromThe Center For American Progress. Educate yourself. Don't get lied to.

People that I like

Mindfad Maker of Naked Stick Figure Guy, and Greatest Living Floridian.
Freakindesign. Homepage of the former scouser, PHP and CSS guru Phill Sherry.
Benjamin Harrison, animation student and professional New Yorker.
Nonsuchworks Dan is a fellow Chalkhillian and MacNN member.
Spire Publishing is a web-based self-publishing service created by Fellow Lifeboater Andreas.
Steve Oleson, Photographer, is another chalkhillian, and an Austinite.

Just a bunch of pages that don't fit into the above

ephemera.org Really cool photographer's home page.
The Valley of the Shadow is an incredibly detailed account of Civil War-era Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
The Historic Bridge Foundation. It's incomplete, but they've got quite a few of ther old iron bridges of /texas listed, with maps and photos.