News and Propaganda:

• The Anomalist
• BuzzFlash Report
• China: People's Daily: Online English Edition
• Common Dreams News Center
• Cursor.org -- "patrolling the media"
• ElectronicIraq.org
• Independent Media Center > Boston
• Infoshop.org > News Kiosk
• The Memory Hole -- "rescuing knowledge, freeing information"
• Need to Know -- "*the* weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the UK." -- "nasty, British, and short."
• News Search Engines
• The Register -- "biting the hand that feeds IT"
• Russia: Pravda: English edition
• -- "News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
• UNDERNEWS from the Progressive Review
• United Nations Integrated Regional Information Network
• The Village Voice
• WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• Workers World News

People:

• Laurie Anderson
• William H. Calvin
• Wendy Carlos
• Richard Dawkins
• David Deutsch
• Hugo de Garis, brain builder
• H.R. Giger
• Elinore Hollinshead, painter
• Michael Jackson -- no, not that one. The Beer Hunter.
• James Joyce
• Eduardo Kac and his GFP bunny
• Ray Kurzweil
• Michael Moore
• Bill O'Donnell
• Clifford A. Pickover
• Harry Potter's Secret Relative
• Rudy Rucker
• Cosma Shalizi
• Paul F. Simpson, web support consulting
• Tony Smith
• John Starrett

Politics:

• Advocates for Youth
• Center for American Progress -- "Progressive ideas for a strong, just and free America"
• Center for Voting and Democracy
• Common Cause > State Activity > Massachusetts
• Economic Policy Institute
• Green Party USA
• Mass. Voters for Clean Elections
• Physicians for a National Health Program
• Public Interest Research Groups -- "serving to preserve the environment, protect consumers and promote democracy."
• Transnational Radical Party
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• United for a Fair Economy
• Working for Change

Reference:

• An Elementary English Grammar
• The Difference Dictionary -- "Organic History Supplement for The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling"
• Encyclopaedia Galactica -- Human Anglic Revised 351st Edition
• Furbish-English Dictionary
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Rat-English Dictionary

Religion:  

• Betty Bowers -- "America's Best Christian"
• The Church of the SubGenius!
• The Church of Virus
• Cosmism
• Extropianism
• The Jedi Creed
• Landover Baptist: America's Favorite Church
• Raelians
• Singularitarianism
• Transhumanism.{com, org}

Screensavers:

• The Distributed Chess Project -- "Creating Chess-Playing Artificial Neural Networks with Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms"
• Folding@home -- "understanding the process of protein folding"
• Golem -- "Automatic Design and Manufacture of Robotic Lifeforms"
• Lifemapper -- "computes predictive models of species distributions and records the results in a web-accessible database"

Social Networking:

• FOAF (Friend of a Friend):
• The FOAF Project homepage
• Create your own foaf.rdf file with the FOAF-a-matic
• My FOAF file
• My FOAF file as viewed by FoaF Explorer
• FOAF Bulletin Board
• AnRdfHarvesterStartingPoint
• LinkedIn.com
• My page at Ryze.com

Subversives:

• 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
• AdBusters -- "culture jammers headquarters"
• Applied Autonomy
• Biotic Baking Brigade -- "speaking pie to power"
• Book Crossing > Sunday Sunset Missions
• Craig Burket's Home Page ;-)
• CrimethInc.{com, net, org }
• Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) > CAE Defense Fund
• Cryptome.org -- "Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security and intelligence -- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those."
• Cult of the Dead Cow
• Freeway Blogger
• Guerrilla Girls -- "The mystery surrounding our identities has attracted attention and support. We could be anyone; we are everywhere."
• Hacktivismo.com
• ®™ark
• The Yes Men

Timelines:

• Bugs in Your Future -- including Unix End of Time and Y10K
• Cosmological Timeline -- the first 10^-43 second is always the hardest
• Cyberpunk Timeline
• Dune Timeline
• Google's 20-year timeline of noteworthy Usenet posts
• History of The Universe Timeline -- from Big Bang to Dark Era on one page
• Logarithmic timeline of the universe
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Timeline -- 20 billion BC to 10¹⁰⁶ AD
• Science Fiction Movie List (1903 - 1998)
• Timeline of Larry Niven's Known Space Universe

Watchdogs:

• Bush Watch
• CorpWatch
• Echelon Watch
• Executive PayWatch 2002
• Iraq Occupation Watch
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Watch
• Right Wing Watch
• School of the Americas Watch
• Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace > U.S. Bombing Watch

Weather:

• The Internet Weather Report
• The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer All-Sky Monitor X-Ray Weather Map of the Galactic Center and environs
• The Space Weather Bureau
• Today's Space Weather

Web:

• Atomz.com -- the free site-search engine I'm currently using
• -- "free tools for power surfing"
• Deleted Domains -- be the first to know when the owner of sex.com fails to renew or pay their registration fees!
• Dynamic Depot -- cross-browser DHTML scripts
• OASIS -- Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
• Peekabooty
• Search Engine Showdown -- "The Users' Guide to Web Searching"
• Search Engine Watch
• SGI Site Manager -- a free implementation of hyperbolic tree navigation
• 
• World Wide Web Consortium

Wireless:

• symbian.com -- developers of EPOC: an operating system for "hand-held wireless information devices" (please don't call them "cell phones")
• TellMe -- the other way to surf the web on your cell phone.

Women's Rights:

• Afghan Women's Mission
• Feminist Majority Foundation > Help Afghan Women
• Fight 4 Choice > take action
• I'm Not Sorry -- a site where women can share their positive experiences with abortion
• International Women's Health Coalition
• MADRE -- "demanding human rights for women and families"
• National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) > Massachusetts Chapter
• National Organization for Women > Massachusetts Chapter > Greater Boston Chapter
• Palestinian Working Women Society for Development (PWWSD)
• Planned Parenthood Federation of America > Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
• Women Living Under Muslim Laws
• Women on Waves -- operates a mobile clinic on a ship that sails to countries where abortion is illegal.
• Women's Human Rights Net

Workers' Rights:

• Industrial Workers of the World:
• Boston Area General Membership Branch
• IWW COMPUTER WORKERS' INDUSTRIAL UNION

XML:

• Apache XML Project
• Cafe con Leche: XML News & Resources
• James Clark's Home Page
• IBM: developerWorks : XML
• David Megginson's Home Page
• Microsoft: XML
• OASIS: XML Cover Pages
• James Tauber's Home Page
• W3C: XML
• XML.com
• xmlspy -- a nice IDE for XML and XSLT
• XPath Tutorial at zvon.org