Information

Links to inform your mind and catch you up on the news of the day. Intelligent and sophisticated.
 
slate.msn.com - Slate offers editorials from the major newspapers around the world, along with commentary from its own editorial staff. A good rundown of world events.
 
cagle.slate.msn.com - Political cartoons from around the world.
 
www.fark.com - It's not news. It's fark!
 
www.boingboing.net - Culling the daily news for the strange and fascinating.
 
www.slashdot.org - News for nerds.
 
www.planetizen.com - News from the planning world, by and for urban planners.
 
www.nytimes.com - the New York Times
 
www.cyburbia.org - News and events, and the planning forum.
 
The Onion - a different look at the news of the world.
 
www.wired.com - Wired Magazine online.
 
www.cbc.ca - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
 
www.globeandmail.com - The Globe and Mail newspaper online.
 
Project for Public Spaces - Information for placemakers, architects and people who care.
 
 
Interesting Things

 
National Resources Canada - Earthquake Monitor - The gateway site for realtime earthquakes!
 
Catastrophe Calculator - Explore the results of an asteroid impact on your home town.
 
www.thespark.com - Lots and lots of tests.
 
Star Trek - New Voyages - The continuing 5-year mission of the Starship Enterprise!
 
Something Awful - It really doesn't make any sense, which is why it's so good.
 
www.worth1000.com - An awesome photoshopping site.
 
Radio Paradise - A great internet station playing eclectic, intelligent rock.
 
 
Blogs from around the World

 
Where is Raed? - The Baghdad blogs. Compelling look at the war from a very unique perspective, chronicling the war from its beginnings through to today in blunk honesty.
 
Baghdad Burning - The war from a female Iraqi point of view.
 
Allah is in the House - Satirical smartass point of view.
 
Turning Tables - The blog of an american soldier serving in Iraq
 
Saddam's Cyber Palace - More satire from the chief evil doer himself.