Oct 24 2007
Neat links
A variety of links have accumulated around me (for those who saw me in college sitting at my desk surrounded by a nest of books and papers, it’s kind of like that, but not) and I thought I’d share.
First off, Zotero is a cool firefox addon that can be used for managing citations for research or just general webpages, especially for offline use, as it will store snapshots of pages and then let you add little annotations on them. Not to mention tags, notes, full-text searches, and more. I like it.
Then from a fellow PCV here, the sites FactCheck.org and PolitiFact. They take things politicians say and reference their facts/accuracy. Especially entertaining is the “Pants on Fire” rating under PolitiFact.
A Fullbright out here told me about Utne, which essentially compiles the best independent weeklies’ stories and reprints them in one spot. I just now remembered how to spell it (I was thinking Utney? Utni? Ulti?) and the site is awesome. Like many things, it is from Minneapolis. Minneapolis is becoming more and more intriguing.
Then of course, looking at aggregated independent weeklies, I checked out The Stranger, Seattle’s local version, which is as foul mouthed as a sailor and thus hilarious for the likes of me. My favorite section continues to be “Latter Days,” as “I, anonymous” somtimes hits too close to home (as in, I do think utility kilts are neat, as well as Dr. Who, sigh).
For learning about other women’s experiences, I’ve been pointed toward the beta site for Americans for UNFPA’s Lifelines. You can talk about your experiences growing up and what-not and read about others’ experiences around the world. A pretty neat concept.
Then, much to my envy, there’s a website/wiki devoted to hard ciders and its related beverages in the UK. It includes pub guides and festivals and makes me VERY jealous of Suzie’s trip…it’s called, originally enough, Ukcider.
I have a few other more work/health-related links, but most won’t be too interested in that. A final side note: I feel that in-text linking is most appropriate for most contexts, but is it so when the whole point of the text is to describe said link? Hmm.
