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THE SHORT LIST:
Emigre -- cool fonts
Literary Kicks -- experimental reading
Hoaxbusters-- check here before you forward email about viruses, dying children, etc.
City Lights Books -- greatest San Francisco book store, started by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tucows -- download free or demo software
Universal Currency Converter -- I love this thing....for those of you who don't have the Tiger dashboard
Cultural Refugee- site for people who are thinking of relocating to live in another country, either temporarily or permanently
Artazart -- incredible art and design bookstore in Paris (10eme arr.).
BOXES AND ARROWS -- site for people who work in the field of usability and information design.
MUSIC:
Beta lounge -- tunes...streams electronica artists. Recorded live in San Francisco & Germany...new jazz, etc.
Discogs -- database of electronic music, with glimpses into other peoples' record collections around the world. Great little community with a wealth of information that links you from one album to another...beware of the effect on your budget.
Soul Seduction - amazingly great online music shop in Austria with very reasonable international shipping rates and a collection of CDs and vinyl that are hard to find elsewhere. High-quality previews online, great selection, great service.
Magnatune -- support independent artists! Preview full works & buy direct downloads. Oh ...and see my page, too.
CCMixter -- remix music that's licensed through Creative Commons...share it with others...it's all good.
Soma FM -- great selection of indie streaming music sites....downtempo, chill, etc.
Monotonik -- indie electronica artists; free mp3 downloads, cool stuff.
Epiphany Radio -- great streaming downtempo internet radio, features indie artists with largely untagged mp3s.
Tasty Cast -- another portal to streaming downtempo and ambient space music.
TweakHeadz -- resource site for electronic musicians.
Live 365 - there's some really great music out there that you haven't heard yet....listen...
GEMM.com - When you can't find that CD anywhere else, and you don't care what it costs...
Chilled Beats - Downtempo web DJ (need Live365 player to listen to his tunes, but it's worth it)
Pulsar Bleu -- Talented German ambient/downtempo artist who, for some reason, doesn't have an album out ....yet. He has a few tracks for sale on iTunes, though!
FutureBoogie -- more music for you to listen to...yep, electronica again. Good stuff.
Bitstream Dream -- listen to cool indie mp3s, download, or buy. All genres.
Create Digital Music -- very cool information site with up-to-the-minute news for music creators.
MEDIA LINKS:
World Press Review --read what "the rest of the world" is saying about world events.
Indy Media -- news from all over
Disinfopedia -- look here to see who's paying whom to influence your opinion. Might be getting diverted to a different site called SourceWatch, but same idea.
Reporters sans FrontiEres - alternate news in French, English, or Spanish
Center for Media and Democracy -- keeps track of spin and propaganda in the media
International Herald Tribune -- gathers top world news for English speakers from a multitude of sources
Media Channel - A network of over 1,000 media groups
Courrier International -- Weekly publication of interesting world news, translasted into French
WATCHING AMERICA -- Another portal of news tidbits from different newspapers around the world, in English
BBC NEWS -- The one and only...