Fascinating Places on the Web

• News, Opinions & Links

  • The Cultural Gutter => articles about science fiction, comics & videogames
  • Locus => the newspaper of the science fiction field -- also a monthly print magazine
  • Science Fiction Crowsnest => reviews, interviews, articles, science fiction & fantasy search engine
  • Sci Fi Wire => news, reviews, & columns brought to you by the Sci Fi Channel
  • SFScope => news about authors' sales, obituaries, publishing personnel, science fiction becoming science fact...
  • SF Site => reviews, people, resources, sites, media...
  • SFF Net => authors, publishers, agents, organizations...
  • The Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide => books, magazines, movies, TV, games, conventions... (no longer updated)

• Canadian SF & Fantasy

  • General

    • Canadian SF Works Database => yearly list of novels, short stories, illustrations, and other SF
    • The NCF Guide to Canadian Science Fiction and Fandom => information for readers, students, teachers & writers (no longer updated)
    • SF Canada => Canada's national association for speculative fiction professionals

  • Publishers

    • Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing / Tesseract Books => specializing in novel-length SF & F since 2000
    • Robert J. Sawyer Books => specializing in novel-length SF since 2004

  • Magazines

    • Challenging Destiny => short stories, reviews & interviews (magazine is on hiatus)
    • Neo-opsis => stories, articles, opinion & art -- a quarterly print magazine
    • On Spec => more than just science fiction -- a quarterly print magazine

• Databases & Lists of Books

  • AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information => Hugos, Nebulas...
  • Broad Universe => promoting science fiction, fantasy & horror written by women
  • Fantastic Fiction Bibliographies => over 20 000 bibliographies of SF, F & H authors
  • Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia => lots of resources for feminist SF
  • Free Speculative Fiction Online => links to stories online, including ones nominated for awards
  • Great Science Fiction & Fantasy Works => a critical list with discussions
  • Homeville: Bibliographic Resources by William G. Contento => index to stories, collections & anthologies
  • Religions in Literature => religion references in literature, religious affiliations of authors and more
  • SciFan => books & links for the SF fan -- books organized into themes
  • Sci-Fi Lists => a statistically compiled list of the best SF & fantasy books, movies, TV shows & short stories
  • SF & Fantasy Books Online => links to books, stories, chapters & samples
  • Uchronia: The Alternate History List => all about books and stories in the genre of alternate history

• Studying SF & Fantasy

  • AboutSF => course outlines, SF by subject matter, reader's guides & academic projects
  • Center for the Study of Science Fiction => information, commentary & news from the University of Kansas
  • Course Materials for the Study of SF => guides to several brilliant SF works
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database => over 55 000 historical & critical items about SF, F & H
  • Science Fiction Citations for the OED => hunting for the earliest citations of sf words
  • The Science Fiction Foundation => publishes the journal Foundation & provides research facilities
  • Science Fiction Research Association => dedicated to the study & teaching of science fiction
  • Science Fiction Studies => reviews, essays, historical documents -- also a triannual print magazine
  • University of Michigan Fantasy and Science Fiction Website => resources for the scholarly study of SF & F
  • What is Science Fiction? => Richard Treitel's page of definitions

• Buying SF & Fantasy

  • Bakka-Phoenix => Canada's oldest SF bookstore -- check out the store blog
  • Basement Full of Books => buy books directly from the authors
  • Book View Cafe => electronic books & stories, some for free & some for sale
  • Fictionwise => if you're into electronic books rather than paper

• Authors

  • Douglas Adams => author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • Piers Anthony => author of On a Pale Horse and Isle of Woman
  • Isaac Asimov => author of Foundation, The Gods Themselves and The End Of Eternity
  • Stephen Baxter => author of Evolution and Coalescent
  • Alfred Bester => author of The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination
  • Margaret Wander Bonanno => author of Strangers From the Sky and Burning Dreams
  • Ray Bradbury => author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451
  • Orson Scott Card => author of Ender's Game, Seventh Son and Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
  • Jack L. Chalker => author of Midnight at the Well of Souls and Lords of the Middle Dark
  • Ted Chiang => author of Stories of Your Life and Others and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
  • Arthur C. Clarke => author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous With Rama and Childhood's End
  • Julie E. Czerneda => author of A Thousand Words for Stranger and Beholder's Eye
  • Peter David => author of Knight Life and Imzadi
  • L. Sprague de Camp => author of Lest Darkness Fall and The Incompleat Enchanter
  • Charles de Lint => author of Someplace to Be Flying and Moonlight and Vines
  • Philip K. Dick => author of The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and UBIK
  • Stephen R. Donaldson => author of Lord Foul's Bane and The Mirror of Her Dreams
  • Candas Jane Dorsey => author of Black Wine and A Paradigm of Earth
  • Diane Duane => author of Spock's World and The Door Into Fire
  • Greg Egan => author of Quarantine and Axiomatic
  • Suzette Haden Elgin => author of Native Tongue and The Judas Rose
  • Harlan Ellison => author of I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream and Deathbird Stories
  • Brad Ferguson => author of Crisis on Centaurus and The World Next Door
  • James Alan Gardner => author of Expendable and Commitment Hour
  • David R. George III => author of Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows and Crucible: Spock: The Fire and the Rose
  • David Gerrold => author of The Man Who Folded Himself and A Matter For Men
  • William Gibson => author of Neuromancer and Count Zero
  • Phyllis Gotlieb => author of Flesh and Gold and Violent Stars
  • Barbara Hambly => author of Dragonsbane, The Ladies of Mandrigyn and The Silent Tower
  • Robert A. Heinlein => author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Frank Herbert => author of Dune and The Jesus Incident
  • Nalo Hopkinson => author of Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber
  • Tanya Huff => author of Sing the Four Quarters and Summon the Keeper
  • Aldous Huxley => author of Brave New World and Island
  • Guy Gavriel Kay => author of Tigana and The Lions of Al-Rassan
  • Ursula K. Le Guin => author of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and A Wizard of Earthsea
  • Madeleine L'Engle => author of A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door
  • Karin Lowachee => author of Warchild and Burndive
  • David Mack => author of Destiny: Gods of Night and Destiny: Mere Mortals
  • Scott Mackay => author of The Meek and Orbis
  • Vonda N. McIntyre => author of Dreamsnake and Starfarers
  • Walter M. Miller, Jr. => author of A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
  • Jim Munroe => author of Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask and Angry Young Spaceman
  • George Orwell => author of 1984 and Animal Farm
  • Kim Stanley Robinson => author of The Wild Shore and Red Mars
  • Eric Frank Russell => author of Next of Kin and The Great Explosion
  • Sean Russell => author of The Initiate Brother and Gatherer of Clouds
  • Robert J. Sawyer => author of Golden Fleece, Starplex and Hominids
  • John Scalzi => author of Old Man's War and The Android's Dream
  • Karl Schroeder => author of Ventus and Permanence
  • Dan Simmons => author of Hyperion and Endymion
  • Alison Sinclair => author of Blueheart and Cavalcade
  • Joan Slonczewski => author of A Door Into Ocean and Brain Plague
  • Neal Stephenson => author of Snow Crash and The Diamond Age
  • Sean Stewart => author of Nobody's Son and Resurrection Man
  • Sheri S. Tepper => author of The Gate to Women's Country and Grass
  • J.R.R. Tolkien => author of The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Vernor Vinge => author of A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky
  • Kurt Vonnegut => author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle
  • Peter Watts => author of Starfish and Blindsight
  • Connie Willis => author of Passage and To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Robert Charles Wilson => author of The Harvest, Darwinia and Spin
  • Gene Wolfe => author of The Fifth Head of Cerberus and The Shadow of the Torturer

• TV & Movies

  • Star Trek

    • Complete Starfleet Library => information about all the Star Trek books, including ones never published
    • LOLTrek => what lolcats would watch on TV
    • Memory Alpha => a collaborative project with over 25 000 articles
    • Nitpicker Central => nitpicky details from all the Star Trek series, from chief nitpicker Phil Farrand
    • Star Trek: Hidden Frontier => new episodes on the Excelsior in the 24th century
    • Star Trek Inspirational Posters => Sarek: More logical than you since 2164
    • Star Trek: Intrepid => new episodes on the Intrepid in the 24th century
    • Star Trek: Of Gods and Men => mini-series starring many actors from the various Star Trek series
    • Star Trek: Phase II => new episodes on the Enterprise in the 23rd century, formerly known as New Voyages
    • Star Trek Re-Boot => how J. Michael Straczynski and Bryce Zabel would have rebooted the Star Trek universe
    • Starship Exeter => new episodes on the Exeter in the 23rd century
    • Stone Trek => a brilliant crossover between Star Trek and The Flintstones
    • Trek Today => the first & only daily updated guide to all things Trek

  • Small Screen

    • The Abyss: Jeremiah => Jeremiah is J. Michael Straczynski's show about a post-apocalyptic world
    • Battlestar Galactica => Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined version of this show was brilliant right from the beginning
    • BuffyWorld => Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel contain strong characters and witty dialogue
    • Can't get enough Futurama => Futurama is Matt Groening's animated show about a delivery boy who wakes up 1000 years in the future
    • FireflyWiki.org => Firefly is Joss Whedon's show about the adventures of a starship crew on their jobs, legal or otherwise
    • The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 => J. Michael Straczynski planned the entire 5-year story arc of Babylon 5 ahead of time
    • The X-Files Ultimate => Chris Carter's show about 2 FBI agents who investigate paranormal cases

  • Big Screen

    • The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever => the most eerily predictive, prescient films of the future
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey Internet Resource Archive => what does it all mean?
    • BRmovie.com - The Home of Blade Runner => all about Blade Runner, one of the best SF films ever made
    • Bucephalus' Comprehensive Guide to 12 Monkeys => between sanity and madness, fantasy and reality
    • The Forbidden Zone => all about the Planet of the Apes movies, TV shows, books & more
    • Fritz Lang's Metropolis => even though this silent movie was made in 1927, it's still amazing today
    • Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies => Back to the Future, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes...
    • Terry Gilliam's Brazil => screenplay, images, and FAQ about this stupendous movie

Reading & Writing

• Literature

  • Books Online

    • Bibliomania => free online literature and study guides
    • Classics at the Online Literature Library => modern works of fiction & nonfiction
    • Electronic Literature Directory => a searchable database of electronic literature worldwide
    • eserver.org => accessible writing in many categories
    • Electronic Text Center => over 2100 ebooks from the University of Virginia Library
    • The Internet Classics Archive => the good old stuff, mostly ancient Greek & Roman authors
    • Project Gutenberg => publishes an average of one e-text every day
    • Read Print => searchable books, poems & short stories

  • Other

    • 100 Best First Lines of Novels => can you recognize books from their first lines?
    • Banned Books On-line => what's been censored, why & by whom
    • BiblioTravel => a resource for identifying books set in distinct locales
    • BookCrossing => if you've read a great book, pass it on to someone else to read and enjoy
    • Goodreads => get book recommendations from people you know
    • Sherlockian.Net => everything the web offers about Sherlock Holmes

• Language

  • Cliché Finder => over 3300 clichés -- search for just the right one to use
  • Glossarist.com => a searchable & categorized directory of glossaries & topical dictionaries
  • iLoveLanguages => languages, literature, libraries, linguistics -- more than 2400 links
  • Richard Lederer's Verbivore => we drive in a parkway and park in a driveway
  • The Rosetta Project => building a near permanent archive of 1000 languages
  • The Word Detective => Evan Morris answers readers' questions about words & language
  • Word of the Day => an interesting word each day, from Dictionary.com
  • The Word Spy => from Paul McFedries, new words & old words used in new ways
  • World Wide Words => the English language, new words, newsworthy words, usage notes...

• Writing

  • General

    • BookWire => news, reviews, bestsellers, publishers, authors...
    • forwriters.com => John J. Beslanwitch's page with lots of links
    • JMS on Writing => everything J. Michael Straczynski has ever said on the internet about writing
    • Links for Writers => a huge list of links from James Stevens-Arce
    • Poets & Writers Online => news, publishing advice, resources -- also a bimonthly print magazine
    • Preditors & Editors => a guide to publishers and writing services for serious writers
    • Quality Of Course => learn how to write by working with a professional writer
    • The Write Market => reviews, news, magazines, e-zines, publishers
    • Writer's Block => advice from professional writers and editors
    • WritersDigest.com => how to write better and get published -- a monthly print magazine
    • Writing-World.com => tips on writing and getting published

  • Science Fiction & Fantasy

    • Critters Workshop => an on-line workshop/critique group for serious SF/F/H writers
    • The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés => watch out for these in your writing
    • Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy => useful information from Vonda N. McIntyre
    • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America => important resources for SF & F writers
    • The Speculative Literature Foundation => resources for adacemics, readers, editors & writers
    • Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy => a course for aspiring writers from Jeffrey A. Carver
    • Writing Speculative Fiction, by Mary Soon Lee => a good place to start

  • Markets

    • Ralan's Webstravaganza => paying & non-paying markets for novels & short stories

  • Reviews

    • Best SF => reviews of stories from the big magazines, summaries of stories, links to stories
    • The Fix => the ultimate review of short fiction -- reviews, news, views, interviews
    • The Internet Review of Science Fiction => articles, essays, interviews, reviews & criticism
    • SFReader => reviews, fiction, interviews, articles
    • SFRevu => reviews of books & movies, interviews, info about the latest releases & what's upcoming
    • Tangent Online => reviews of SF & F short fiction -- magazines, webzines, anthologies & collections

Arts

• Music

  • Movies

    • John Barry => composer of Goldfinger and Dances With Wolves
    • Elmer Bernstein => composer of The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven
    • Danny Elfman => composer of Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas
    • Michael Giacchino => composer of Star Trek and Up
    • Jerry Goldsmith => composer of Planet of the Apes and Star Trek: First Contact
    • James Horner => composer of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Apollo 13
    • Trevor Jones => composer of Labyrinth and Dark City
    • Michael Kamen => composer of Brazil and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
    • Ennio Morricone => composer of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The Mission
    • Howard Shore => composer of Ed Wood and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    • Alan Silvestri => composer of Back to the Future and The Delta Force
    • John Williams => composer of Star Wars and Jurassic Park
    • Hans Zimmer => composer of Gladiator and Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest

  • Popular

    • The Arrogant Worms => a hilarious trio from Kingston, Ontario
    • At Last => mixing tight R&B harmonies with hip hop beats
    • Barenaked Ladies => a blend of rock, jazz and folk, with more than just a touch of humour
    • The Canadian Brass => brass quintet that plays everything from Bach to blues
    • The Essentials => 4-man a capella group from London, Ontario
    • Harmonytryx => female a capella group that sings a mix of pop, folk & world music
    • Billy Joel => 25 years and nearly 100 million records worldwide
    • Moxy Früvous => an innovative and energetic band from Toronto, Ontario
    • The Nylons => 4-man a capella group with its roots in Toronto, Ontario

• Museums & Galleries

  • Museums

    • The British Museum => illuminating world cultures
    • The Field Museum of Natural History => diversity and relationships in nature
    • Royal Tyrrell Museum => dinosaurs and more from Drumheller, Alberta
    • Timeline of Art History => an overview of world art history through chronologies, maps & themes
    • WebMuseum => famous paintings and more

  • Photos

    • ARKive => images of life on Earth
    • Earth As Art => view the Earth through the eyes of the Landsat-7 satellite
    • The International Photo Gallery Project => nature & wildlife photos from around the world

  • Artwork

    • ASFA: The Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists => many galleries of great artwork
    • Elfwood => the world's biggest site for fantasy & science fiction art
    • Epilogue => fantasy & sci-fi at their best
    • Fantasy Fine Art Gallery => artwork by some of the premiere fantasy artists

Science

• General

  • The Dinosauria => what you didn't know about dinosaurs
  • Global Climate Change: Research Explorer => trying to figure out why it's been getting hotter lately
  • National Geographic Online => scientific & educational information -- also a monthly print magazine
  • NewScientist.com => science & technology news -- also a weekly print magazine
  • The Official Richard Dawkins Website => a clear-thinking oasis
  • Powers of Ten => go from the Milky Way at 10 million light years from Earth all the way to a single proton
  • SciTech Daily Review => hot topics in science & technology

• Space

  • The Artemis Project => 12 men have walked on the moon -- when do you get to go?
  • Build a Solar System => make an online scale model of the solar system
  • Discovery of Extrasolar Planets => over 300 planets are known outside our solar system
  • The Eight Planets => a multimedia tour of the solar system
  • Encyclopedia Astronautica => news, history & technology of space flight
  • Island One Society => resources for creating colonies on other planets
  • NASA => find out about missions, the space station, the Moon, our solar system, & the universe
  • National Space Society => a vision of people living & working beyond the Earth
  • SETI@home => use your home computer to help search for extraterrestrial intelligence
  • SpaceRef => your space reference for news & information
  • Your Weight on Other Worlds => ever wonder what you would weigh on Mars or the Moon?

• World Wide Web

  • Lists of Web Sites

    • Boing Boing => a directory of wonderful things
    • Fagan Finder => search engines, reference, tools & more
    • Internet Archive: Wayback Machine => archiving the internet for future generations
    • Open Directory Project => the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the web
    • The Webby Awards => annual awards honouring excellence on the internet

  • Creating Web Sites

    • LinkPopularity.com => find out how many web sites link to your site
    • Nancy Hoft Consulting: Reading on the Web about Web Publishing => internet, HTML & interesting tangents
    • SurveyMonkey.com => enables anyone to create professional online surveys quickly & easily
    • UITest.com => validators, checkers, generators & tools for web design & development

• Great Apes (Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Humans & Orangutans)

  • General

    • The Bonobo Page => this least-known species of ape is the closest to humans
    • Discover Chimpanzees => discover the wild world of chimpanzees at the Gombe National Park in Tanzania
    • The Gorilla Organization => research, education & conservation
    • The Great Ape Project => basic rights for all great apes
    • The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada => chimpanzee research, education & conservation
    • Orangutan Foundation International => conserve and understand orangutans
    • Primate Behaviour => an introductory lecture by Bill Sellers

  • Communication with Apes and Other Animals

    • Ape Sign Language => from Slider, a fast growing search portal
    • Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute => home of signing chimps Moja, Tatu, Dar & Loulis
    • The Gorilla Foundation => teaching sign language to gorilla Koko & saving gorillas from extinction
    • Language in Apes => how much do they know and how much should we teach them
    • Language Research Center => working with bonobos and chimpanzees in Atlanta, Georgia
    • Use of Human Languages By Captive Great Apes => insights through collaborations with apes, from the Great Ape Trust of Iowa
    • Who Communicates => essay by Jim Nollman on interspecies communication

  • Lists of Primate Sites

    • The Animal Omnibus: Primates => sites listed by species
    • Electronic Zoo/NetVet Primate Page => a huge list
    • Primate Info Net => from Wisconsin National Primate Research Center

• Mysterious Creatures, Events & Places

  • General

    • Anomalies => paranormal (and allegedly paranormal) events, objects, and people
    • The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry => scientifically investigating paranormal & fringe science claims -- also a bimonthly magazine
    • In the Hall of Ma'at => weighing the evidence for alternate history
    • Skeptic => extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas & the promotion of science -- also a quarterly magazine
    • The Skeptic's Dictionary => a collection of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions & dangerous delusions
    • World-Mysteries.com => explore lost civilizations, ancient ruins, sacred writings, unexplained artifacts, & science mysteries

  • UFOs

    • Center for UFO Studies => continuing examination and analysis of the UFO phenomenon
    • UFO Evidence => in-depth, quality & scientific research on the UFO phenomenon
    • UFO's and Extraterrestrials => from the beginning to now

  • Ancient Egypt

    • The Ancient Egypt Site => history, language, glossary, bibliography...
    • Catchpenny Mysteries of Ancient Egypt => Larry Orcutt talks sphinx, pyramids, mummies...
    • Egyptian Monuments => descriptions and photos of the ancient Egyptian monuments
    • Guardian's Egypt => pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphs, gods & goddesses...
    • Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt => computer-generated reconstructions of pyramids and temples
    • Mysteries of the Past => pyramids, electric lights, Orion
    • Pyramids: The Inside Story => explore the pyramids with NOVA Online
    • Symbolism and Coincidences of the Great Pyramid => a summary of the various interpretations
    • The Upuaut Project => investigating the shafts inside the Great Pyramid with robots

  • Other

    • Bermuda-Triangle.Org => a journey into mysteries of the sea
    • Crop Circle Quest => are they caused by natural phenomena, God, the military, or extraterrestrials?
    • Stone Pages => a guide to European megaliths

Making the World a Better Place

• General

  • Awakening Earth => fostering a sustainable, compassionate and creative future
  • Foundation for Global Community => are you an agent for the transformation of culture?
  • Intentional Communities => communes, cohousing, co-ops...
  • The Ishmael Community => for readers of Daniel Quinn's life-changing novel Ishmael
  • Thom Hartmann => renaissance thinking about the issues of our day
  • The Venus Project => redesigning our culture around a resource-based economy
  • WorldChanging Canada => change your thinking -- put the pieces together

• Lists of Nonprofit Organizations

  • Change.org => raises awareness about important causes & empowers people to take action with leading nonprofits
  • Charity Navigator => evaluates the financial health of over 5000 charities
  • GiveMeaning => creative fundraising ideas and other unique forms of charity donation
  • idealist.org => searchable list of nonprofit and community organizations
  • Volunteer Canada => leads the advancement of volunteerism in strengthening society & improving quality of life
  • World Community Grid => contribute your unused computer time to tackle projects that benefit humanity

• Environmental Issues

  • Alternatives => news & analysis on environmental thought, policy & action -- a quarterly print magazine
  • Cape Farewell => an artistic response to climate change
  • CarPoolTool.com => Canada's free car pooling service
  • Car Sharing Canada => find out if car sharing is available in your city
  • CollectiveGood => recycle your old mobile phone, pager or PDA
  • Commuter Challenge => walk, cycle, take transit, carpool or tele-work
  • The David Suzuki Foundation => environmental science and education -- finding solutions
  • Earth 911 => recycling centers, water pollution and conservation, Earth Day
  • Earth Hour => turn off your lights for one hour, and deliver a powerful message
  • Earth Island => conservation, preservation, and restoration of the environment
  • Earthwatch International => involve people from all walks of life directly in global field research
  • EnviroLink => access to thousands of online environmental resources
  • The Environment Directory => links to thousands of sites from over 100 countries
  • Environmental News Network => news, features, marketplace...
  • First Earth => building healthy houses out of the earth
  • Forest Certification Resource Center => forest conservation through responsible wood use
  • Freecycle => give away stuff you don't want, and get stuff for free
  • Garbage => how can your community reduce waste?
  • Global Ecovillage Network => communities living lightly on the earth
  • the green pages.ca => empowering environmental students on the World Wide Web
  • An Inconvenient Truth => information on the film, the science behind it & taking action
  • Natural Life => inspiration and information for reinventing how we live -- also a bimonthly print magazine
  • Power Up Canada => what's wrong with Canada's response to climate change & what we can do about it
  • Rainforest Action Network => protect the rainforests & their inhabitants
  • TreeHugger => everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible
  • World Wildlife Fund Canada => conserve wildlife & wild places

• Spam & Scams

  • Telemarketing Calls & Email Spam

    • Fight Spam on the Internet => promote responsible net commerce
    • Karen's Koncepts Anti-Telemarketer & Anti-Spam Page => fed up with junk calls, mail, and email?
    • National Do Not Call List => reduce the number of telemarketing calls you receive

  • Scams & Urban Legends

    • Quatloos! Cyber-Museum of Scams & Frauds => advance fee fraud, tax scams, investment fraud...
    • Snopes.com => is it true or is it an urban legend? look it up before you forward that email

• Peace & Justice Issues

  • The Albert Einstein Institution => advancing the study & use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world
  • Amnesty International => international protection of human rights
  • A Force More Powerful => using nonviolent conflict to achieve democracy and human rights
  • Heifer International => help hungry families feed themselves, turn recipients into donors
  • Inter Pares => working for change... among equals
  • Kiva => lend money to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world
  • Mennonite Central Committee => relief & development in over 50 countries
  • Modest Needs => prevent otherwise financially self-sufficient individuals & families from entering the cycle of poverty
  • Mountain Voices => oral testimonies from mountain & highland regions around the world
  • One Laptop per Child => giving laptops designed for learning learning to children in the developing world
  • Oxfam Canada => working with poor people to help them help themselves
  • Peaceful Tomorrows => family members of September 11th victims seeking nonviolent responses to terrorism
  • Project Ploughshares => promoting the concept of common security, a product of mutuality not competition
  • Recycles.Org => recycle, refurbish & redistribute computers
  • United Way of Canada => contributing to many worthy causes
  • VolunTourism => travel & volunteer opportunities
  • ZNet => a community of people concerned about social change -- from Z magazine, a monthly print magazine

• Good Places to Buy Things (When You Have to Buy Things)

  • Ben & Jerry's => Vermont's finest ice cream & frozen yogurt
  • Black Rose Books => non-profit publisher of political, historical, philosophical & environmental books
  • The Body Shop => skin & hair care products
  • Bridgehead => fairly traded, organic & shade-grown coffees from small-scale farmers
  • Bullfrog Power => if you're in Ontario, get your electricity from wind and water
  • Earth Friendly Products => quality cleaning products that are safe for your family and the environment
  • Etsy => buy and sell all things handmade
  • German Boardgame Company => there's been a renaissance in board games in the last 15 years
  • Mountain Equipment Co-op => quality equipment for mountaineering, rock climbing, hiking...
  • Patagonia => clothing for just about every intense outdoor pursuit
  • Planet Natural => earth-friendly products for home, lawn & garden
  • Real Goods => information & products for sustainable living
  • Ten Thousand Villages => fairly traded handicrafts from around the world

• Bad Places to Buy Things (Companies to Boycott)

  • Corporate Accountability International => challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world

Society

• News & Opinions

  • Adbusters => counteracting those who would pollute our mental environment -- also a bimonthly print magazine
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart => he's funny, but he does tell you what's going on
  • disinformation => you are being lied to -- become truly informed by getting the full story
  • Global Voices => the world is talking -- are you listening?
  • Independent Media Center => grassroots, non-corporate coverage -- radical, accurate & passionate tellings of truth
  • MichaelMoore.com => the writer, producer & director of Bowling For Columbine tells it like it is
  • Nader.org => Ralph Nader's books, articles & letters
  • The Noam Chomsky Website => books, articles, interviews, talks & debates
  • Potluck => a magazine of arts, sciences & everything in between
  • Project Censored => news stories that have been downplayed, reshaped & obscured by the media
  • Regret the Error => media corrections, retractions, apologies, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy & honesty in the press
  • Utne Reader => the best of the alternative media -- also a bimonthly print magazine
  • World Public Opinion => giving voice to public opinion around the world

• Education

  • Freedom Writers Foundation => promotes acceptance & innovative teaching methods
  • Ron Clark Academy => teaches in innovative, creative & inspiring ways
  • Shift Happens => the Did You Know? presentation -- how do we prepare children for the 21st century?
  • Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? => argument for an education system that nurtures creativity

• Native Peoples

  • Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library => a guide to aboriginal studies
  • Center for World Indigenous Studies => advancing cooperation and consent between nations
  • Crazy Horse Memorial => work continues on the world's largest mountain sculpture
  • First Nations Histories => in-progress work with information on various Native American peoples
  • NativeWeb => a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples
  • Survival International => the movement for tribal peoples

• Health Issues

  • The Continuum Concept => check this out if you're planning on having children
  • Diary of a Brian Tumor Patient's Wife => the story of a 2-year battle with cancer
  • Huntington's Disease Information => a horrible genetic disease that affects both the mind and the body
  • Huntington's Society of Canada => working towards a world free from Huntington's disease
  • Repetitive Strain Injury Recovery Page => information from someone who wrote a book on the subject
  • Smoking Cessation => read this if you smoke or if you know someone who smokes
  • The Stephen Lewis Foundation => easing the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa

• Food

  • Canada's Food Guide => what you should be eating depends on your age and gender
  • Homegrown Evolution =>information about gardening and farming in an urban environment
  • PickYourOwn.org => find a pick-your-own farm near you
  • Shopper's Guide to Pesticides => what you should know about pesticides in your produce, from Environmental Working Group

• Politics

  • Fair Vote Canada => would a different voting system be more fair?
  • Mo Ibrahim Foundation => nothing is more important for Africa than good governance
  • MoveOn.org => American democracy in action -- a network of over 4 million online activists
  • PolitiFact => separating fact from fiction in American politics
  • VisibleGovernment.ca => promotes online tools for government transparency

• Humour

  • Bill Gates Wealth Index => $300 per second -- this is either funny or sad...
  • The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks => misinterpreting bad punctuation since 2005
  • The Eye of Argon => a hilarious Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of a bad fantasy story
  • My Little Golden Book About Zogg => a children's book whose captions have been rewritten to hilarious effect
  • News of the Weird => bizarre news stories from around the world
  • The Onion => America's finest news source
  • Scott Adams Blog => Scott Adams is even funnier here than in his Dilbert comic strip
  • Why did the chicken cross the road? => philosophical humour

• Miscellaneous

  • Atlas Obscura => a compendium of the world's wonders, curiosities & esoterica
  • The Great Idea Finder => all about inventions & innovations
  • Hidden DVD Easter Eggs => there may be some things on your DVDs that you don't know about
  • The History of Zork => journey into the Great Underground Empire of the text adventure game Zork
  • HowStuffWorks => learn how everything works: business, computers, geography, health, history, science...
  • International Listening Association => learning more about the impact that listening has on all human activity
  • The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) => lots of information about movies, TV shows, actors, directors...
  • Meetup => find a group or create a group in your area
  • Scott's Double Deck Bid Euchre Home Page => play the best card game whenever you want
  • Synergetics on the Web => geodesic domes, a geometry of thinking & much more
  • The Vestibules => a hilarious comedy trio from Montreal, formerly known as Radio Free Vestibule

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