Activism:

• Act for Change
• Citizen Works -- Ralph Nader's new project
• Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CPPAX)
• East Timor Action Network / US
• Greenpeace > Cyberactivist Community
• MoveOn.org
• Musicians' Alliance for Peace
• The Multiracial Activist -- "Dedicated to the Deconstruction of 'Race'"
• > National Network > Massachusetts
• Progressive Secretary -- a "Progressive Letter-Writing Cooperative" that "sends progressive email letters to Congress, the President, and other officials on peace, ecology, civil rights and other issues."
• Protest.Net > Peace.Protest.Net
• Refuse & Resist! > Artists Network -- "we aim to build a culture and community of resistance"
• Ruckus Society -- "actions speak louder than words"
• True Majority
• United for Peace and Justice

Aliens:

• Alien Invasion Threat Index -- "Presented as a public service by Xenologic Virtual Investigations"


• -- "the small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth."
• -- it's in Canada! Who knew?

Architecture:

• Abandoned Missile Base Virtual Reality Tour
• S. P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden
• Paolo Soleri's Arcology ("ecological architecture")
• George Alfred Townsend's Gathland
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses
• Stonehenge Clones and Metaphorms
• Underground Paris: The Catacombs
• Infiltration -- "the zine about going places you're not supposed to go"
• The Winchester Mystery House
• Search Great Buildings Online by name of Building, Architect, or Place:
Examples: Necropolis, Gaudi, Boston

Civil Rights / Civil Liberties:

• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
• American Civil Liberties Union > of Massachusetts
• American Immigration Law Foundation
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Arab American Institute
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
• Bill of Rights Defense Committe
• Center For Constitutional Rights
• Center For Democracy And Technology
• Center for National Security Studies
• Council On American-Islamic Relations
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF):
  • Action Center
  • Blue Ribbon Campaign > Action
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• EqualMarriage.org -- the Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts
• First Amendment Foundation
• MassEquality.org
• People For the American Way > Activist Network
• Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press

Consciousness -- Natural and Artificial:

• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
• Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona
• Quantum-Mind email discussion list
• Stuart Hameroff's Home Page
• History of Consciousness, with Angela Davis, at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine > EE Eng. Dept. > Intelligent Interactive Systems Group > Neuromodelling Research Team
• Journal of Consciousness Studies > A Digest of the Key Debates
• Mindpixel -- Digital Mind Modeling Project
• Multiple Personality Download
• PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness

Cyberdelia:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) > Greater Boston Chapter
• bioinformatics.org
• Brian Connors' Turing Tarpit
• Free Software Foundation (FSF) > GNU Project
• Gary Thompson's Polyglot Page -- programs that compile in more than one language
• Gibson Research Corp.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) > Boston
• Linux.org
• OpenSource.org
• Source Forge
• ZoneAlarm -- free personal firewall

Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Aid:

• America's Second Harvest
• Christian Aid > Give now > Crisis in Afghanistan
• Doctors Without Borders > Make a Donation
• GiveForChange.com
• Help the Afghan Children, Inc.
• Helping.org
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• International Rescue Committee
• Mercy Corps
• New York Times > Resource Navigator
• Oxfam International
• Save the Children
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) > U.S. Fund for UNICEF
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• United Nations World Food Programme
• United Way > International
• Washington Post > How You Can Help
• World Vision

Drugs: ("for informational purposes only" -- this disclaimer is for Law Enforcement Evasion purposes only ;-)

• The Alchemind Society
• Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
• Common Sense for Drug Policy
• Dr. Nicholas V. Cozzi's Synaptic Shenanigans
• Drug discovery@nature.com
• Drug Policy Alliance -- "Drug abuse is bad. The War on Drugs is worse."
• Drug Reform Coordination Network
• Marijuana Policy Project
• The Media Awareness Project -- "A worldwide network dedicated to drug policy reform."
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
• Narco News Bulletin
• National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) > Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition (MASS CANN)
• RoastYourOwn.com
• The Vaults of Erowid
• Wirehead Hedonism -- the future of mankind?

G-Commerce:

• Clonaid -- "plans to build a laboratory in a country where human cloning is not illegal and will offer its services to wealthy parents worldwide"
• DNA Copyright Institute, Inc. -- "clients can establish copyright protection, guaranteeing international legal recourse so that their unique Personal DNA Profile & Pattern cannot be duplicated in printed, electronic, photographic, or biological form."
• engeneOS -- "developing Engineered Genomic Operating Systems to enable the design and construction of programmable Biomolecular Machines employing natural and artificial building blocks"
• Genetic Savings and Clone -- "gene banking and advanced genetic services -- including cloning for certain species"
• Human Cloning Foundation -- "your donations are tax-deductible"
• Youth Cell Technologies, Inc. -- offering Personal and Family Gene Sample Collecting Kits and CryoStorage Plans

Generators:

• CarTalk's Home Hate Mail Generator
• Catbert's Performance Review Generator
• Jedi Training Generator
• Postmodernism Generator
• Rational Thought Exterminator
• Surrealist Compliment Generator
• TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Article Generator
• Web Economy BS Generator

Human Rights and International Law:

• 9-11peace.org
• Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) > Adopt a Family in Palestine
• American Anti-Slavery Group > Freedom Action Network
• American Friends Service Committee > NO MORE VICTIMS Campaign > Regional Events > Boston Area
• Amnesty International > AI USA:
  • Events
  • Massachusetts Groups > Boston/Brookline (Group 151)
• B"Tselem -- The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• Coalition for the International Criminal Court
• Defence for Children International (DCI) > Palestine Section
• Free Lori Berenson
• Global Exchange
• GlobalRights.org
• Human Rights Watch
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines > U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines
• Musicians for Peace
• Nonviolence Web > Peace Organizations
• Physicians for Human Rights
• United for Justice with Peace
• World Federalist Association
• World Federalist Movement

Java:

• IBM: developerWorks: Java
• java.sun.com > J2SE v1.4 API Specification

Magazine Rack:

• -- "Take A Dip in the Edgier Waters"
• The American Prospect -- Robert Kuttner, Founder and Co-Editor; Robert Reich, Chairman and Co-Founder
• Analog Science Fiction & Fact
• Anarchy -- "towards a society based on mutual aid, voluntary cooperation & liberation of desire"
• Asimov's Science Fiction
• CounterPunch -- "down and dirty muckraking" -- "tells the facts and names the names"
• Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal
• Fantasy & Science Fiction -- space opera and sorcery, ripped from today's headlines!
• Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
• Mother Jones
• The Nation. -- the New York Times calls it "America's leading liberal weekly."
• Science News -- the indispensible one
• Tikkun -- "A Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society"
• Trip Magazine -- "the Journal of Psychedelic Culture"
• Z Magazine

Map Room:

• Atlas of Cyberspaces -- "maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the Internet, the World-Wide Web, and other emerging Cyberspaces."
• (Computer) Virus Map
• Map of the Human Genome -- browse by chromosome...
• MapQuest -- I'd be lost without it
• Satellite images of AlphaWorld
• Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe -- we are not alone...
• Tree of Life -- find the common ancestor between you and slime mold
• Whole Brain Atlas
• World Atlas of Biodiversity

Movies:

• Coming Attractions -- rumor central for the movies in your future
• EverNotice...?
• Movie Review Query Engine
• Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies

Museums:

• Eric S. Raymond's Retrocomputing Museum -- "the freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history"
• Moist Towelette Online Museum
• Museum of Bad Art
• Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
• Museum of Strange, Bizarre and Odd Auctions
• The Squished Penny Museum

Music:

• David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence
• CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.)
• Electronic Music Defense and Education Fund -- "to raise and provide funds for legal assistance to innocent professionals in the electronic dance music business who are targeted by law enforcement in the expanding campaign against 'club drugs'"
• Genetic Music -- listen to your DNA
• IRCAM (Institute of Research and Coordination in Acoustics / Music)
• MIT Press > Computer Music Journal
• Music Information Retrieval Research
• Music Theory Online