Links!

Among the many news sites on the web my favorites are usually:

Salon has good writing and a nice organization to it. You have to register for the Times, but it's painless. Though the website is not as good as having paper itself in front of you.

One has to include The onion. "America's Finest News Source"

My absolute favorite radio show. Weak episodes are merely pretty entertaining, but the best episodes can be life-outlook altering. Most episodes are on the website so pick a topic, do a search, and have a listen. Storytelling and documentaries at their finest.

Jazz singing, trumpet playing, music arranging (and friend from Ann Arbor days), Anna Callahan has a site with descriptions of gigs and their locations in the Los Angeles area.

Dancer and choreographer Jeff Bauer is creating pieces for The Construction Company in New York City. For some reason the art scene in Montana wasn't good enough. I suppose that was increasingly apparent to me as far back as our senior year of high-school.

Another fellow Hellgate alum Dona Haines has changing art gallery links and a fun little site.

If you're at all interested in a serious analysis of comics (sequential art) as an art form you have to check-out out Scott McCloud's site. He's the author of Understanding Comics and now Reinventing Comics. The website is mapping new ground in the art-form of merging the printed word with pictures.

Among the many fun comic strips on the web are...Non-sequitur with years and years of stuff on his site. I try to catch Dilbert and Spider-Man too. Hey, I have a lot of free time at work.

Much better than solidaire...

It takes only about a half an hour to take the tutorial and you'll be playing GO like, well, like a beginner. But that's still very cool.

Now to find an opponent. You can look me up if you wish - I'm Bartajam (surprise, surprise.)

Take a look...

Amnesty International has this excellent email program for rapid letters for prisoners of conscience as they are discovered around the world. Prisoners of conscience are those who have been detained anywhere for their beliefs or because of their ethnic origin, sex, color or language and have not used or advocated violence.

US Trek is part of The Odyssey. A non-profit who sends 'trekkers' around the country (and around the world) to write essays on history, culture, and politics of the places they visit. These writings are placed on the web where school children and teachers can read and use them in the classroom. I've been able to help place these items on the web and learn a lot while doing it!