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Edgy News and Views:

Independent Media Center
A network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth.
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.
Common Dreams News Center
An eclectic mix of politics, issues and breaking news with an emphasis on progressive perspectives that are increasingly hard to find with our corporate-dominated media.
ACLU TV
Become part of the movement to protect civil liberties! Gather your friends, tune in and take a stand!
Independent World Television
Help us break the media monopoly ... Democracy depends on truthful information.
Center for Media and Democracy
A non-profit, public interest organization that strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism.
Media Matters for America
A progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Information Clearing House
News you won't find on CNN or FoxNews
t r u t h o u t
Lets get the Truth Out, changing things For the better through inFormation.
OpEdNews.Com
Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion Home Page
Online Journal
Established 1998 to provide uncensored and accurate news, analysis and commentary.
News From Babylon
"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
LewRockwell.com
Your anti-state, anti-war, pro-market news site.
Antiwar.com
Your best source for antiwar news, viewpoints and activities.
Guerrilla News Network
Our mission is to expose people to important global issues through cross-platform guerrilla programming.
News Hounds
"We watch FOX so you don't have to."
The Raw Story
"We draw upon a panoply of news sources and select those stories we think most intriguing to a audience seeking news underplayed by the mainstream media."
Strike The Root
A daily journal of current events and commentary from a libertarian/market anarchist perspective.
The Huffington Post
Delivering News and Opinion Since May 9, 2005
Watching America
Discover What the World Thinks About U.S. With Translated Foreign News Available NOWHERE Else In English.

Specialized Databases:

GROKLAW
When you want to know more [about law] but don't know where to look.
Jargon File
A comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
The Quotations Page
Over 23,000 quotations online from over 2,600 authors, and daily additions.
Quoteland.com
Quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion possible.
Wikiquote
A free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information!
Song Lyrics Domain
Discover the songs you love...
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
Anarchy Archives
An online research center on the history and theory of Anarchism.
Erowid
Thousands of pages of information on psychoactive plants, chemicals and drugs, including entheogens, psychedelics, stimulants, depressants and pharmaceuticals.
The Lycaeum
An entheogen information database, drug experience archive with over 700 reports, search engine which spiders several major drug information sites, psychedelic graphics, transcribed books, community, software, audio, hosted sites, and much more.
PlantFiles
The largest plant database in the world with 115,853 entries, 90,370 images and 53,188 comments.
Adherents.com
A growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations.
Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits
This evolving hypertext is a systematic statement of what humanity does and does not know, and can and cannot know, about the answers to these and hundreds of other such questions.
The Skeptic's Dictionary
A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions.

Mags and Ezines:

Backwoods Home Magazine
Practical ideas and articles on self-reliant living, your homestead, livestock husbandry, building, alternative energy, gardening, and farming.
Better Times Webzine
Access to Sustainable, Simple and Frugal Living. "The world will be saved by Beauty."
In These Times
Dedicated to informing and analyzing popular movements for social, environmental and economic justice; to providing a forum for discussing the politics that shape our lives; and to producing a magazine that is read by the broadest and most diverse audience possible.
Intervention Magazine
"Our primary purpose is to provide you with a reasonable, intellectual, evidenced-based forum for your ideas on important political, social, and cultural issues."
Mother Jones Magazine
Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate investigative reporting.
The Progressive
A leading voice for peace and social justice since 1909.
Utne Magazine
A different read on life ...
F O R T E A N T I M E S
A monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents.
Rolling Stone Magazine
Music news, entertainment news, videos, photos, downloads, music reviews, movie reviews, music flashbacks, cover stories and online exclusives.
Psychedelic Culture
Tripzine.com is dedicated to the exploration of psychedelic and visionary drug subculture.
Escape From America Magazine
Live Where You Want To Live! ~ Live How You Want To Live! ~ And Make Money Doing It!

Computer and Internet:

Colocation America
Colocation, Dedicated, Hosting and managed services.
Softpedia
Encyclopedia of free [shareware] software downloads!
Recommended Software:
Opera Web Browser
RSSOwl Newsreader
RealAlternative Player
Irfanview Graphic Viewer
Metapad Text Editor
This list may change to reflect the best free software solutions.
Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver
Juice Receiver (formerly iPodder) is a media aggregator which automatically downloads podcasts and media files to your computer or portable device, leaving you 'one-click-away' from latest media feeds.
SourceForge Software Repository
The world's largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code.
Pricelessware
The Pricelessware list is a compilation of software collected through a yearly vote by the participants of the "alt.comp.freeware" newsgroup.
The Unofficial Web Applications List
This site is dedicated to the growing volume of web applications out there.

Satire and Parody:

Eric Idle ~ Idleized Heaven
The ultimate site for anything and everything Eric Idle.
Ironic Times
A brilliantly funny, brash and irreverent satirical news weekly.
The Onion
America's Finest News Source, not intended for readers under 18 years of age.

Absolute Weirdness:

24 Hours on Craigslist [2005]
In 1995 craigslist.org was born: a free, down-to-earth and uncensored bulletin board that revolutionized the ease and speed with which people could communicate, exchange goods and services, and create community. [site]
I Hate Clowns!
Anti-clown community and the official site for people who are afraid of or just plain hate evil, creepy clowns. Yes...The No Clown Zone
Crank Dot Net
Crank Dot Net is devoted to presenting Web sites by and about cranks, crankism, crankishness, and crankosity. All cranks, all the time.
Freak Watchers Textbook
Complete Online Freak Resource and Bestiary
Cliff Yablonski Hates You
"I hate everybody and everything I find on the Internet. my site and the "Law and Order" website are the only places worth visiting."
Rapture Ready
The rapture of the Church will kick-off the tribulation. Make sure you are rapture ready
The Million Dollar Homepage
The website of Alex Tew, a 21-year-old entrepreneur, who hopes to pay his way through university by selling 1 million pixels of internet ad space for $1 each.

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