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Cos Hotlist last updated 08Mar2000

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Note that some of the best general (high level) links, including web indexes and search tools, are in my web starters page. This hotlist is a more chaotic collection, with many more specific links.

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important current net.issues

  • Open Source Software, aka "free software": The Open Source Page, Tim O'Reilly's article at Webreview, Free Software Foundation GNU project.
  • Fight Spam on the Internet!. See also Axel Boldt's Blacklist of Internet Advertisers (spammers)
  • MMF Hall of Humiliation - "Putting an end to online scammers...or at least laughing at them mercilessly."
  • The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC) lawsuit against Internet censorship, and the CDT's Stop the Communications Decency Act! page.
  • The EFF-supported cryptography export case, Bernstein vs. US State Department
  • The Oregon/Intel vs Randal Schwartz computer security case
  • The "CyberPorn" debate page at Project 2000
  • The Church of Scientology vs. the Net
  • The case of the Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS and the police raid
  • Jake Baker case archive

    cool

  • NetMind Free Services
  • underground net
  • Circlet Press - erotic science fiction
  • Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web
  • Urban Diary
  • Fractal Explorer: zoom into Mandelbrot or Julia sets
  • DeathNET
  • MIT SAFE's Freedom of Expression Censor-bait
  • HotWired: New Thinking for a New Medium
  • The Spot - The first WebSoap?
  • The Today Page links to pages that change daily
  • Sites that do stuff at Amused
  • Patrick Combs' (ad)ventures

    selections

  • Cool Site of the Day
  • Cool Page of the Day
  • HotSite of the Nite
  • Web Site of the Week
  • Mirsky's Worst of the Web
  • Political Site of the Day
  • Unusual or Deep Site of the Day
  • Hate Page of the Week
  • Geek Site of the Day
  • Useless WWW Pages
  • Tabatha's Groovy Site of the Day (err, week)
  • Mediocre Site of the Day
  • Fool Site of the Day
  • Funky Site of the Day
  • Spiders' Pick of the Day
  • Amdahl's WWW Hot Topics
  • The Enhanced for Netscape Hall of Shame
  • The Best of the Web 1994

    sex

  • Just Say Yes
  • GlassWings Sexuality pages
  • Charles Haynes' Radical Sex page
  • The World Sex Guide
  • Bonobo Sex and Society

    commercial services

  • NewsPage
  • public.com Personals
  • Branch Mall
  • Global Business Communications
  • YSS helpwanted.com job listings
  • NEXC Direct - computer products
  • ONSALE Interactive Marketplace

    online money

  • First Virtual Internet Bank
  • The NetCheque(SM) network payment system
  • DigiCash - ecash
  • CyberCash
  • NetBank, home of NetCash

    webzines

  • Salon Magazine (the best one)
  • ZineNet (web guide to print 'zines)
  • Feed
  • Urban Desires
  • WORD Issues. Culture. Melodrama.
  • ARTFUCK just plain weird
  • PHOTON Magazine WWW edition - photography magazine
  • ArtDirect
  • Slippery When Wet Bisexual. Penetration-positive. Queer.
  • Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts
  • The Spot, an episodic website
  • eye WEEKLY, an alternative newspaper from Toronto
  • The Utne Lens, a field guide to ideas & culture
  • The Loci, a free site created by college students exclusively for college students
  • WEBster, the Cyberspace Surfer
  • Cause for Alarm - electronic freedom issues
  • Brock Meeks' CyberWire Dispatch, excellent investigative reporting about the net.
  • Computer-underground Digest
  • Phrack Magazine
  • Albion Monitor
  • Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
  • Earth Times - environment, sustainable development, population and related concerns.
  • mobilis - mobile computing
  • SLUT - female sexuality issues

    art

  • Art on the Net online gallery, plus links to other art & music sites
  • The WebMuseum
  • OTIS
  • Kaleidospace Independent Internet Artists
  • System-X - computer mediated communications for electronic artists
  • Digital Creations
  • Strange Interactions - An exhibit of art images
  • PhotoLink - Daniel Leighton, Photographer
  • SHOT part of the festival of women photographers. It's not there anymore, and I can't find a new location. If you know where SHOT moved to, tell me!
  • ArtyCat Studio cat portraits & wildlife art by Kayomi
  • SUNET paintings archive

    music

  • Musi-Cal, the Internet concert calendar. Search by artist, venue, genre, location...
  • The UWP Lyric Server
  • RCBA Folk Music Conflict Calendar
  • JR's page of random music links
  • Boston Music Scene
  • The Boston Radio Archives
  • Web Wide World of Music
  • The Mammoth Music Meta-List @ VIBE
  • Internet Underground Music Archive
  • WILMA - Worldwide Internet Live Music Archive
  • World Music/Boston
  • The Boston Music Awards
  • City Cyber Corner (Boston)
  • The Boston A Capella scene
  • Boston Ska
  • BluesNet, The Internet's Blues resource center
  • Rounder Records Group
  • FolkBook
  • Boston Bluegrass Union
  • Cybergrass, The Internet Bluegrass Magazine
  • Dirty Linen, The Magazine of Folk, Electric Folk, Traditional and World Music
  • Hidden Water independent artist promotion, hosts of the Folk DJ List web repository.
  • Goth/Atmospheric band descriptions
  • DiY Tour Manual - book your own tour, and have access to the experience of others
  • Artists of Note
  • Omnium Recordings - Cordelia's Dad, Boiled in Lead, others.
  • Ceolas celtic music archive
  • Joe Barco's Music page - homepages for Madonna, Tori Amos, and Wilson Phillips
  • CDnow comprehensive music store and database
  • CDworld discount music store
  • Eden: Music Online
  • The Wizard Free Form Web - WZRD 88.3FM Chicago
  • weird band names
  • Boston band list

    tech

  • Internet encyclopedia - tutorials & protocol documents, HTML'd
  • HTML RFCs with cross-links
  • RSA Laboratories cryptography FAQ
  • Stokely Consulting Unix sysadmin resources
  • The Perl Language Home Page
  • The Perl5 Reference
  • perl manpages, HTML'ed with cross-links.
  • BBN Planet
  • North Shore Access
  • The World at Software Tool & Die
  • Network Wizards' Internet Domain Survey
  • MIDS - Matrix Information & Directory Services
  • INN Tuning Tips
  • NCSA httpd Overview
  • HTML page at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • IETF HTML Working Group
  • ASCII / ISO 8859-1 with HTML entity names
  • Arena - the W3 Consortium's HTML 3.0 browser.
  • IP Next Generation
  • IRTF Survey Working Group
  • IETF PIER Working Group - IP renumbering
  • IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Homepage at FUNET
  • IRC Related Documents
  • OS/2 Sites
  • NYNEX/Massachusetts home ISDN for Internet access FAQ
  • Seagate Disk Data
  • Ethernet vendor codes
  • Sun OpenBoot Q&A
  • c.s.sun.admin FAQ
  • Solaris 2 FAQ
  • Solaris 1.x to Solaris 2.x Transition Guide
  • PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image file format
  • MIDI Tools and Resources
  • As We May Think by Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. An early article on what we now know as hypertext.
  • HyperNews - software for WWW based message bases (discussion groups)
  • The NIST's Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse
  • Internet Scanner Security FAQs
  • Sub-Band Coding
  • Ask Mr. DNS
  • Atari 2600/7800 List - lists all of the games
  • Unix vs. NT
  • hack furby
  • "Unlocking the kernel" (SunWorld Online)
  • SQL tutorial/intro
  • NICs for all countries
  • Ethernet address -> vendor mapping
  • WAIT - CPAN search engine
  • User Interface Hall of Shame

    politics & activism

  • Phone, fax and email directories of the US Congress: house senate
  • The web page of Project Vote Smart, the people who publish the US Government Owners' Manual.
  • Office of Senator Edward Kennedy
  • U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy's Home Page
  • NetWatchers
  • Phil Zimmerman Legal Defense
  • World Citizen Web
  • Stop Nuclear Tests!
  • Cyber-Vote Anti-Nuclear Weapons Petition
  • LoGIC - the Legal Group for the Internet in Canada
  • Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing
  • U.S. Government Printing Office
  • Communist Party of Canada
  • Democratic Party
  • Mother Jones
  • Covert Action Quarterly
  • FAIR Extra!
  • The Noam Chomsky Archive
  • Media Watchdog, a collection of media watch resources
  • Center for Defense Information
  • Campaign to Stop Star Wars (otherwise known as SDI or BMDP)
  • League of Conservation Voters scorecards including the 1995 National Environmental Scorecard
  • The Environmental Education Network
  • Other Environmental Information Servers
  • Economic Democracy Information Network, including the National Budget Simulation
  • McSpotlight on the McLibel case
  • US Racism & Intervention in the Third World past and present
  • T.A.O. - The Anarchy Organization, home of the Anarchives
  • Propoganda Analysis Home Page
  • Alternative Research Center / Subversity
  • Refuse & Resist! - Mumia Abu-Jamal, Abortion rights, ...
  • Activists!
  • IntelWeb
  • Girvies Davis' Clemency Home Page
  • West Publishing and the courts
  • The Contact Center, trying to create community based centers to link nonprofit organizations
  • Working Assets Long Distance
  • Internet Literacy Consultants Political Tools Page
  • UIUC Health Information
  • Liberal Resources
  • Fidel Castro for President!
  • Internet campaign to defeat Jess Helms
  • NewtWatch
  • The Right Side of the Web
  • Anti Fascist Resource Page
  • Kurdistan Committee of Canada
  • American Freedom Coaliton - war and emergency powers
  • Strike Page - Who's on strike around the world...
  • Banned Books On-line, and exhibit at CMU
  • Arm the Spirit
  • Food Not Bombs (Boston) - serving free food daily

    war on drugs (and people)

  • DRCnet - Drug Reform Coordination Network, and their online drug library, has lots of useful information on the War on Drugs
  • National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
  • WARSTOP, a new approach to stopping the War on Drugs.
  • The Marijuana Policy Project
  • FEAR (Forfeiture Endangers American Rights)
  • Drug-Related Network Resources
  • The HRC Discussion Zone asks, should marijuana be legalized?
  • Drug Research at the Department of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam
  • UK Cannabis Internet Activists
  • Stoners in the Haze (Andrew Looney)

    people

  • Asylum User Home-Pages - Ranch hands of the Apocalypse
  • Elboids (lots of overlap with asylum)
  • GweepCo - The WPI Gweepers
  • SMOE
  • Voxxen Worx
  • Tom Christiansen - perl and MtG
  • Randal L. Schwartz - Just another Perl hacker
  • Thomas Boutell, author of the PNG graphics format.
  • Greg Roelofs of Info-Zip
  • Suzie Q's world
  • Tabatha Holtz old page and new page
  • No loitering - Arlene H. Rinaldi
  • Kristina Pfaff
  • Jon Wikne
  • Kateri / Mary Ann
  • lizard
  • dreamlife, the world of saltgirl
  • Phoebe Legere
  • JI
  • Mitch Kapor
  • Stanton McCandlish's mechworld
  • Liza Daly's House of Erotic Massage
  • Elise Matthesen
  • Kata
  • sevoo
  • Lauren P Burka (Netscape-proof)
  • Bob Allison
  • The wedding of Jennie Dailey and Iain O'Cain
  • puce
  • le
  • riot

    humor

  • Comics Cornucopia
  • Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet - my favorite web comic strip
  • The Borderline - a Far-Side-ish cartoon
  • Sluggy
  • Dilbert homepage
  • Calvin and Hobbes Archive
  • The Monty Python page
  • Zug, a comedy site
  • Humor [nova.edu]
  • News of the Weird
  • Usenet Oracle Resource Index
  • David Letterman Top 10 Lists
  • Unix Haters Handbook
  • All About Bob [Allisat]

    quotes

  • Quotations Home Page
  • Shakespearean Insult
  • Surrealist Compliment Generator
  • The Band Name Server

    subculture

  • Polyamory
  • alt.polyamory
  • Family Tree
  • Love Without Bounds
  • Devilbunnies
  • The Squirrel Conspiracy
  • Kibology
  • The Kiboest of All page
  • The Jargon File version 3.0.0 (the Hackers Dictionary)
  • Bastard Operator From Hell
  • Satanic Sysadmins

    cons

  • Arisia (Boston, MA)
  • Lunacon (Rye, NY)
  • Philcon (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Balticon (Baltimore, MD)
  • Intercon 13

    misc

  • Current Weather Maps/Movies
  • Interactive Weather Browser
  • FireNet
  • AVES (birds)
  • Aladdin main page
  • The Jerusalem Mosaic
  • Israel Information Service
  • Israel Information Service gopher US mirror
  • IRIS - Information Regarding Israel's Security (Israeli right wing)
  • Islamic Association for Palestine
  • Infocom homepage
  • Infocom FTP archive
  • Boston Restaurant List
  • World Wide Sushi Reference
  • HotJava
  • TV Net
  • LAL Cat Archive
  • cathouse.org, home of the Urban Legends Archive
  • Covenant of the Goddess
  • WorldWideWomen
  • santa cruz geek social scene
  • New Internauts Resources
  • Cornell Theory Center Home Page
  • Coolidge Corner Theater
  • WebMineSweeper
  • Erotic City
  • Zlocate an MIT user
  • The WELL
  • The Princeton Review Undergraduate Admissions - college information
  • Cambridge University Cholent Society
  • Bob Dylan: Tangled up in Jews
  • Poly home page
  • InfoSeek Query for InfoSeek account holders
  • The Love Port
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • The Geek Code v2.1 ...
  • ... and the Jewish Code
  • Successful Marketing Strategists
  • DVARP has train schedules, including Amtrak
  • The Dream Machine --- Network Services
  • YellowNet WWW yellow pages.
  • Vegetarian Pages
  • #couples
  • The Subway Yard web graffiti
  • Banned Books Exhibit at Book Stacks
  • Nation of Hawai`i
  • Teena's Trash
  • Internet Audit Bureau
  • Link it or LEAVE It
  • Boston Area WWW Resources
  • John Donne
  • BBN auto mechanics list
  • IBM Israel's electronic phonebook
  • The NetHack Home Page
  • Jabberwocky translated into various languages.
  • nipple addition surgery (!!!)
  • Netmaster 10baseT is in the house
  • New Times LA on Lilith Fair
  • College E-Mail Addresses
  • purity test scorer
  • Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
  • flags of the world
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