Recommendables
An oh-so select short list of links. Enjoy.
- Achewood - advice on living the good (booze) life
- Adbusters - culture jamming
- AltX - digerati meet the literati
- America: Freedom to Fascism - “This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913″
- autonomous organisation - electronic music
- Barbelith - Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century
- Beg the Question - stop the abuse, learn the fallacy! (I love this site, it explains one of my biggest pet peaves)
- Bird and Moon - Bird and Moon comic and more by Mary Mosco
- CafePress - heaven for DIY projects
- Canadian Philosophical Organization - La maison de la philosophie canadienne
- Lawful Neutral - blog of Chris Peterson
- ccMixter - download, sample, cut-up, share
- CCCA - Center for Contemporary Canadian Art | Le Centre de l’art contemporain canadien
- Center for Cognitive Liberty - a network of scholars elaborating the law, policy, and ethics of freedom of thought
- Common Content - catalogue of creative commons licensed content
- Common Dreams - news and views for a progressive community
- Conserving Memory - Blog timeline conserves public memory so that people may review and criticize the Canadian Conservative Party’s deeds and perspectives.
- Corpwatch - holding corporations accountable
- Council of Canadians - le Conseil des Canadiens - “Canada’s largest citizens’ organization.. develop creative campaigns to put some of the country’s most important issues into the spotlight.”
- Creative Commons - expanding the availability of public creative work
- CreativeCommons.ca - As part of an international effort to facilitate the availability of open-source licences, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is translating the popular Creative Commons (cc) licence for use under Canadian law
- Creators’ Rights Alliance - Alliance pour les droits des créators
- Critical Thinking Web - Department of Philosophy U. of Hong Kong, open courseware on critical thinking
- CTheory - journal of theory, technology, and culture
- Cuckoo Grafik - Coucou graphique
- Digital Copyright Canada - forum focused on digital copyright, patent issues, copyright, trademarks, and other sui generis protections are discussed.
- diysearch - massive directory of do-it-yourself resources
- The Dominion - grassroots journalism
- Downhill Battle - music activism
- La Frontière Électronique du Canada / Electronic Frontier Canada
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - digital freedom defense
- Electronic Music Foundation - Empowering creativity in music and sound through technology
- Environmental Defence Canada - protecting the environment and human health
- Erowid - documenting relationship between humans and psychoactives
- ESSE - arts + opinions
- European Free Improvisation - resource for all aspects of the type of music known as European free improvisation
- The Experiment - pushing boundaries of where ideas, world views and our consciousness lie
- faircopyright.ca - encouraging those who use, teach, and produce Canadian culture to engage with the copyright reform process
- Fairytale Art Passions - a tribute to the artists of growing up
- Fakejazz - well-written music review site
- FICS - Free Internet Chess Server
- FIDE - The International Chess Federation or Fédération Internationale des Echecs
- File Room - censorship archive
- First Monday - peer reviewed journal on the Internet
- Free Culture - international student movement for free culture
- Freedom to Read - The Freedom of Expression Committee is a committee of the Book and Periodical Council. The committee monitors censorship issues in Canada, organizes the annual Freedom to Read Week, and produces an information kit each year on issues of intellectual freedom.
- Freenet - “software, which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship”
- Free Knowledge Institute - non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society
- Free Software Foundation - Free software is a matter of liberty not price
- fray - storytelling
- freejazz.org - freedom in music
- Ftrain.com - an experiment and a graph narrative by Paul Ford
- Geist Magazine - Canadian ideas, Canadian culture
- Grimm - Tales Collected by the Brothers Grimm
- h2so4 - politics, philosophy, how we live
- ibiblio - public’s library and digital archive
- iCommons - developing a united global commons front by collaborating with open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing, and free culture communities around the world
- Improvised Music from Japan
- IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project/Petrucci Music Library
- IndyMedia - collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
- IndyMedia Québec - centre de média indépendent
- In Passing… - overheard bits of conversation
- Internet Archive Open Source Audio Collection
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - a nonprofit organization of original contributions by specialized philosophers around the Internet
- Integral Institute - “non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the Integral Approach to bear on personal and global issues”
- Inti…… - blog, The blow of life.. …or death?
- Kinalaya - kinetic art culture for the wired world / Zura Rants
- Kubuntu - great, desktop Linux distribution
- Laughing Squid - underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond
- Lex Informatica - technology.law.society
- Librivox - acoustical liberation of books in the public domain
- Linux Artist - resource for artists using gnu/linux
- Linux Sound & MIDI - software and information resource
- Long Now Foundation - promoting “slower/better” thinking and fostering creativity in the framework of the next 10,000 years
- Lulu - second heaven for DIY projects
- Lycaeum - entheogenic database and community
- Maakies - by Tony Millionaire
- Maisonneuve - Eclectic Curiosity
- Michael Geist - Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.
- Milky Elephant - fantastic flash creations
- Milorad Pavić - a favourite writer, also see his Damascene
- Mizna Illustrations - artwork by Wada Mizna
- Mobile Gaze - Multimédia
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies - nonprofit organisation for research in psychedelics
- Memepool
- Metafilter - community weblog
- NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month, November
- Narcopop Music - independent musicians directory
- Neumu - art, music, words
- Ogmios - Foundation for Endangered Languages
- Online Rights Canada - organization that promotes the public’s interest in technology and information policy
- Open Library - free web access to important book collections from around the world
- Pitchfork Media - music reviews and information
- Plastic - recycling the web in real time
- Pater Lumina - blog, Under the Ashes
- PEN Canada - “works on behalf of writers, at home and abroad, who have been forced into silence for writing the truth as they see it”
- Perry Bible Fellowship - PBF comic
- Philosophy Documentation Center - a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable access to the widest possible range of philosophical materials
- Poetics.ca - an open site for dialogue on poetic theory and practice
- Principia Cybernetica - tackling age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies
- Progressive Bloggers - Canadian bloggers who firmly believe that this great country needs to move forward
- Project Gutenberg - the Internet’s oldest producer of free electronic books
- Psychonaut - a community for all psychonauts, tryptonauts and just anyone interested in altered states of consciousness and how to get there
- Quartier Éphémère
- Rabbit Whiskers - children’s dress, hand-embroidered and smocked, designer originals
- Rabble - News for the rest of us
- Red Meat - from the secret files of Max Cannon
- Reporters Sans Frontières - reporters without borders
- La Revue des Ressources
- Le Réseau des Médias Alternatifs - Un espace de solidarité entre presses écrites, radios, collectifs télé/vidéos et cybermédias indépendants québécois.
- Rezo.net - l’autre portail
- Robot Wisdom - weblog by Jorn Barger / Robot Wisdom 2
- Salon Magazine
- Sinologic Wonderfully Absurd Temple
- Sito - promoting art, artists, and the exploration of new art forms, in a collaborative web environment
- Social Movements - directory of social movements
- A Softer World - photo comic of wrinkled and naked absurdity
- Song Fight - a site where musicians compete (lots of creative work and interesting feedback)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.
- terminus1525 - a Canadian collaborative workspace on the web and on the street
- TorkStar - underground fiction
- The Tyee - a feisty one online
- UBUWEB - visual, concrete, sound
- Utne Reader - a different read on life
- Vectorpark - a world of flash greatness
- Voir - Montréal, magazine
- Vote Nader - Elect Ralph Nader for US President in 2008
- The Walrus - publishing the best work by the best writers from Canada and elsewhere
- Wikileaks.org - an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis
- WikkaWiki - wiki application
- Wordpress - personal web publishing
- World Changing - another world is here
- World of Mathematics
