Chaco Communications - Andromedia released the source code to the excellent MUD client Pueblo
Computerized Voice Stress Analysis CVSA - Computer Voice Stress Analysis CVSA its principle & what is used in this type of lie detectors.
CounterSpin - A media watch radio program that highlights media bias in news reporting.
Covert Action Quarterly - Reports on the covert wars waged by the US government around the world.
Export Control Bill 2002 - The implications for academic freedom of Parliament's Export Control Bill.
Feed: Howard Zinn interview
foxBGHsuit - Steve Wilson & Jane Akre vs Fox Television Stations attempts to coverup Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) story.
Free Kevin Mitnick - A site dedicated to the release of the jailed hacker Kevin Mitnick
Gamespot.com presents: An Interview with Ron Gilbert - An Interview with Ron Gilbert
Google Search: "Learning to Read through Recognizing Corporate Logos" - Search for links related to Exxon's curriculum for kindergartners teaching them to read with corporate logos.
HomeSite Help: NOT Goodbye - a Promise - Product Manager Marjolein Katsma resigned over the direction Macromedia was taking HomeSite in.
Icebreaker
Immaterial Incorporated: The Encryption Wars, Part I - Outstanding interview with Eben Moglen, counsel of Free Software Federation
Interface Hall of Shame
Junkbusters - Junkbusters helps consumers reduce unwanted junk mail, junk email, telemarketing calls, and protect their privacy from direct marketing companies.
The Longest Journey (Fran�ais)
Movie Critic
My Excite
My Yahoo
The night of beatings - la Repubblica - Interview with a policeman of the Bolzaneto Flying Squad about the "Chilean Nights" of the G8 summit.
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Obvious: Evan Chan was Killed
OneLook Dictionaries - The best place to lookup a word or term in an Internet dictionary or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated database of words, terms, names, acronyms vs Internet links to on-line dictionaries or glossaries.
The Onion - The on-line version of the popular parody newspaper published since 1989. A satire newspaper featuring world, national and community news.
The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict - An analysis of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflicts, from historic times through the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Also providing a history of regional terrorism. Produced by Jews for Justice in the Middle East.
PBS Frontline: Hunting bin Laden - Video clips and accompanying text from investigative documentaries on the suspected terrorist mastermind.
Peaceful Tomorrows - Advocacy organization founded by family members of 9-11 victims. Its mission is to seek effective nonviolent responses to terrorism and identify a commonality with all people similarly affected by violence throughout the world.
PlanetCrap - Discussion board for the dirty secrets of the gaming industry
Player Versus Player - Volume 2
The Pornography of Power - A semi-weekly column of progressive political commentary. A no-holds-barred look at This Never Ending Freak Show we call American politics. Aggressive, but with a sense of humor.
Project Censored
Pure Tetrix Official Homepage - Free Tetris style game, featuring good graphics and sound.
RISKS-FORUM Digest
Straight Dope, The - Home of Cecil Adams' weekly question and answer column.
Transparency - Transparency tries to make all of popular culture transparent to our understanding. It reveals the hidden meanings in TV, film, sci-fi, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news.
Trog - TROG is a Collectible Trading card game where players participate in roll playing games, both in person and (with gorilla systems advanced game controller) over the internet.
Urban Legends Reference Pages - The definitive Internet/WWW reference source for urban legends, myths, and folklore.
Uri Geller interview - An ill-tempered interview with Uri Geller
Web Standards Project - Fighting for Standards in our Browsers
WebActive
What is to be done? - Jerry Pournelle's proposed responses to "The Black September War", and what he considers the roots of the conflict.
Riot Act - The last century's racial disturbances have a common cause: police brutality. By David Greenberg. [Slate] (April 20, 2001)
Out of focus - A peep through the one-way mirror at that great American institution, the focus group, reveals a glittering lineup of cheaters, repeaters and sad sacks who wash their hair with Jell-O. [Salon] (April 23, 1999)
DaveNet: Excerpt from Breaking Windows - Excerpt from David Bank's book about Microsoft, Breaking Windows, tells the story of Microsoft's decision to comply with a judge's order to open up Windows to other browsers by offering a deliberately broken version of Windows to vendors. (August 13, 2001)
Salon: What happens when you satirize hysteria? - Chris Morris, creator of the "Brass Eye" TV show, ran an episode mocking his country's response to pedophilia. Within hours he was the most hated man in Britain. By Ian O'Doherty. (August 20, 2001)
Feed: This Year's Skin - Feed Magazine: Software designers are fashioning their products after car stereos and phone consoles. Is this the next interface revolution, or a giant leap backwards? Steven Johnson reports. (August 4, 1999)
LWN: Eric Raymond interview (December 10, 2000)
Roots of Resentment: America, Great Britain and the Arab World - American Radioworks documentary exploring The Roots of Resentment against America in the Arab world, and the complex emotions the U.S. provokes even in its closest ally, Great Britain. (December, 2001)
There goes the neighborhood - By Janelle Brown. Are companies like GeoCities truly "building communities" -- or just plastering ads on incomplete, out-of-date web pages? [Salon Magazine] (January 19, 1999)
POE News: Where Are These Pop-Ups Coming From? - "What would you think if I told you someone was monitoring every page you visit, every form you fill out, and every web email you send? This article covers a company that's doing just that, and how they're attempting to hide what they're doing." (January 20, 2002)
Who's That Peeping In My Window? - Are Those PopUp Ads More Sinister Than You Think? - "Chet and Eric of Portal of Evil have posted an investigation of an IE plug- in called VX2 that purportedly comes bundled with AudioGalaxy and attaches itself to Internet Exporer. It then sends out previously unheard of amounts of personal information to an internet marketing company called onflow.com." [Plastic] (January 22, 2002)
kuro5hin: Advertising Spyware can now read your mail - "There's a company out there that you may have unknowingly been sending all of your email, your bank account numbers, and anything else you've typed into an online form." (January 23, 2002)
Lying Game, The - Article about the party game Mafia, by Joe Hagan. [New York Observer] (January 6, 2003)
They got game - Talented players make good money selling characters on eBay. Are they denigrating gaming -- or turning it into a profession? [Salon Magazine] (July 13, 1999)
Salon: Did "The Blair Witch Project" fake its online fan base? - Glowing reviews and fan sites raise suspicions that Hollywood is planting ready-made buzz on the Net. (July 16, 1999)
Guardian: How to rule the world - Rich nations should stop running the planet and give way to global democracy. (July 17, 2001)
Salon: Distributed.outrage - How could installing a screensaver be a crime against the state? By Janelle Brown. (July 17, 2001)
Beyond the Pleasure Principle - article on Buy Nothing Day [Feed] (June 1, 1999)
Professor Neurotoxicity - Professor Neurotoxicity: A renegade researcher believes the teenage killers of Columbine could have been driven to crime by environmental poisoning. [Salon Magazine] (June 18, 1999)
ZDNet: Tool feeds ads to your e-mails - Melbourne-based online marketing company, Reva Networks, is currently promoting a new e-mail technology Admail that allows online advertisers to intercept e-mail messages as they enter the mail server and 'wrap' them in advertising content tailored to the recipient's demographic profile. (June 22, 2001)
The Pledge of Allegiance - Why we're not one nation "under God." By David Greenberg - History of the addition of "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. By David Greenberg. [Slate] (June 28, 2002)
Patent Nonsense - "Companies now demanding intellectual property rights were built up without them." By George Monbiot. [Guardian] (March 12, 2002)
Ecologist: The Meme Machine - Kalle Lasn on the three most potent 'metamemes' currently in the social activist's arsenal. (March 22, 2000)
ABC: Your Own Personal Jesus - A new documentary will show Jesus Christ as dark, round-faced, brown-eyed, with a close-shaven beard and cropped hair. To some, he may even look swarthy and stocky. (March 27, 2001)
Readers Speak with Third Voice - News of an Alexa-like browser add-on to let surfers annotate web pages [Wired News] (May 17, 1999)
Loony Boon - Time-Warner is pimping its cultural legacy... and ours. [Feed] (May 25, 1999)
Beach bummer - The bad news is that your sunscreen may promote cancer. (There is no good news.) [Mother Jones] (May, 1993)
Reading, 'Riting, and Ravaging - The Three Rs, brought to you by corporate america and the far right. (May, 1998)
Geeks and Spooks - Speech by Bruce Sterling at "Global Challenges, Trends and Best Practices in Cryptography". (November 20, 2001)
Indifferent defenders of liberty - Are Bush and Ashcroft giving the brush-off to Americans' constitutional rights? [Washington Post] (November 27, 2001)
FBI claims Bin Laden inquiry was frustrated - Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11. By Greg Palast and David Pallister. [Guardian] (November 7, 2001)
ACLU: Wiretapping Provisions of Anti-Terrorism Legislation - Very good comparison chart of anti-terrorism provisions in legislation being considered by Congress. Compares the Combating Terrorism Act of 2001, the House Bill (PATRIOT Act) and the Senate Bill (USA Act), and current law. (October 10, 2001)
Nation: The Right and US Trade Law: Invalidating the 20th Century - Methanex and the other controversial corporate claims pending before NAFTA tribunals are like a slow-ticking time bomb in the politics of globalization. (October 15, 2001)
Cleveland Free Times: Ball of Confusion - Biting analysis of the US War on Terrorism is all about oil, and how the US can get out of this mess. By Bob Harris. (October 24, 2001)
The games people play - By Greg Lindsay. Myst and Riven are a dead end. The future of computer gaming lies in online, multiplayer worlds. [Salon Magazine] (October 6, 1998)
Adequacy.org: Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics - Template for all too many recent opinion articles. (September 12, 2001)
Guardian: They can't see why they are hated - Americans cannot ignore what their government does abroad. (September 13, 2001)
Guardian: The Algebra of Infinite Justice - As the US prepares to wage a new kind of war, Arundhati Roy challenges the instinct for vengeance. (September 29, 2001)
The Roots of Muslim Rage - Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified. (September, 1990)