SITES TO SEE (and hear):

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.

 

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...