Recommendables
An oh-so select short list of links. Enjoy.
- Achewood – advice on living the good life
- Adbusters – culture jamming
- Le journal des Alternatives – alternatives sait qu’un autre monde est possible, à travers la construction de sociétés durables.
- AltX – digerati meet the literati
- autonomous organisation – electronic music
- Artefatica – Artefatica makes books without boundaries. All distributed under a creative commons license
- Beg the Question – stop the abuse, learn the fallacy! (I love this site, it explains one of my biggest pet peaves)
- Big Think – Big Think is a global forum connecting people and ideas
- BoingBoing – a directory of wonderful things
- Bird and Moon – Bird and Moon comic and more by Mary Mosco
- Cabinet – magazine of art and culture
- CafePress – heaven for DIY projects
- Canadian Coalition of Electronic Rights
- 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 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 & CreativeCommons.ca – expanding the availability of public creative work
- Creative Commons Directory – catalogue of creative commons licensed content
- CIPPIC) – Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
- 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
- Demian5 – innovative web comic
- Democracy Watch – Cleaning up and making governments and corporations more accountable
- Department of Culture – community of Canadian citizens who are artists, arts professionals and cultural workers concerned about ensuring the social and cultural health and prosperity of our nation
- Digital Copyright Canada – forum focused on digital copyright, patent issues, copyright, trademarks, and other sui generis protections are discussed.
- The Dominion – grassroots journalism
- Edge, The – promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society
- 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
- Fair Vote Canada – improving the electoral system
- 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”
- The Freesound Project – collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds
- 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
- Green Pages, The – sharing stories on environment
- h+ Magazine – covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways
- 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
- 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”
- Kickstarter – fund ideas and endeavors
- Knowledge Ecology International – attending and mending the knowledge ecosystem
- Kubuntu – great, desktop Linux distribution
- Laughing Squid – underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond
- LibraryThing – LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily.
- Librivox – acoustical liberation of books in the public domain
- 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
- March Hutchinson – artist
- 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
- 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
- Nth Position – good, interesting writing
- 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
- Open Source Cinema – mix culture of video art
- 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
- Philosopher’s Magazine, The – independent quarterly, devoted to presenting top-class philosophy in an accessible and entertaining format
- 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
- Psychedelic Library
- 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 / Home /
- Salon Magazine – news and entertainment site
- Seed Magazine – telling the fundamental story of our world today and to preparing for the story tomorrow
- Sito – promoting art, artists, and the exploration of new art forms, in a collaborative web environment
- A Softer World – photo comic of wrinkled and naked absurdity
- Song Fight – a site where musicians compete (lots of creative work and interesting feedback)
- SourceWatch – guide to the names behind the news
- 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.
- The Tyee – a feisty one online
- This Magazine – Canadian progressive politics, environment, art, culture
- UBUWEB – visual, concrete, sound
- Vectorpark – a world of flash greatness
- Voir – Montréal, magazine
- 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
- Zunior – the way all music download purchases ought to work
