HMonk: Sites Worth a Visit

Alternative News and Forums
AlterNet
Never Give Up (formerly the AlterNet Forums, now located at CafeUtne.org)^
Air America
KOOP radio, Austin (now streaming audio)
Inter Press Service (IPS)
Democracy Now! (also on LinkTV)^
ACLU TV (Freedom Files)
BuzzFlash.com
Austin Chronicle
Liberation Video^
The Village Voice
CJR Daily^
GOP Hypocrite of the Week (from BuzzFlash)
Velvel's Book Outlines, compiled for the TV program "Books of Our Time"

Bloggers
DailyKos
Texas KAOS
firedoglake^
MediaGirl.org^
Moment of Triumph
Campus Progress
Hullabaloo
BopNews
Smirking Chimp
Boing Boing
Remain Calm
Velvel on National Affairs
Talking Points Memo
World O' Crap
The Free Speech Zone
Media Matters
PERRspectives
TomPaine.com
Whiskey Bar
Jeff Barr's Blog^
Writer's Blog
Talk Nation^
C|Net's Music Blog (featuring John Borland)
The Daily Mac (All things Mac, and a whole lot more)

OpEd Columnists, Decent Online Mainstream Newspapers
The Los Angeles Times^
The Houston Chronicle
The Guardian, UK
The Washington Post
Slate (includes email option to daily stories from top newspapers)
NYTimes Columnists
Recommended - Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, and Frank Rich:
UPDATE, OCT. 2005 ~ The NYTimes is now charging you for access to their OpEd pages, rather than allowing
registered users a week's access to their articles.
BBC News, International

Blog Directories, Updated Blog Subjects, Entries of Interest
QuackTrack^
BlogCruiser ^
Technorati^
Blogwise
blogs now
Peek: The Blog of Blogs
BlogHub

Online Activism
The Apollo Alliance^
A.C.L.U.
Equal Exchange
STATS (what's behind the numbers, & who screwed with 'em)
True Majority
The Justice Project.org
Progressive Activism in Austin, TX
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
Campus Progress
BuyBlue.org | Vote With Your Wallet!
National Priorities Project
Center For American Progress
Save Our Springs Alliance (SOS)^
MoveOn.org
act for change (from Working Assets)
BlogPac.org
Veterans Against the Iraq War (VAIW) (direct link to Kevin Benderman's "A Matter of Conscience")
The Apache Shores Warrior (a local citizen watchdog Web site, Travis County, TX)

Non-Profits
Southern Poverty Law Center
Tolerance.org
The Intelligence Report
The Center for Public Integrity
Doctors Without Borders
ReligiousTolerance.Org^
Driftwood Wildlife Association

Streaming audio, live political events
C-Span

Music, PBS, BBC, NPR news and entertainment
KUT FM
CBC.ca
Frontline^
Sundance DocDay
Weekend Edition (link from Oregon PB to both Sat & Sun programs

Online Research
The Internet Archive^
The Center for Constitutional Rights
Columbia School of Journalism (Who Owns What)
Cornell's Legal Information Institute
Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)

Language, Translation Helpers
Merriam-Webster Online
Michael Quinion's World Wide Words
Language Tools from Google
Babel Fish Translation
Blue Pencil Online

The Blogosphere's Stock Exchange
BlogShares

Stocks to Watch
The Heathen Monk

Tech News
c|net news
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Wired
Red Herring's Tech Business Blog
Broadcasting & Cable (has one fine blog, too)

Humor
The Onion
The White House
Daily Show w/Jon Stewart
The Beast
eBaum's World
The Wizard of Whimsy
The Frown
StrangeCosmos

Indie Publishers, Record Labels, Photo Exchanges, etc.
Intervention Magazine: War, Politics, Culture
Chelsea Green Publishing
stock.xchng*
Jaded Bum Music (editorial & link to file-sharing articles, 2003-2005)
Utne Magazine and the forums at Cafe Utne

Web browsers
Firefox (the" firefox.com" domain was granted to Mozilla from Kevin Karpenske)
iCab

Blog News Readers
Atom Enabled

Site Design, Scripts for Bloggers
RSS Validator
Motet Conferencing Software
Dynamic Drive
The Template Factory

*the "on the rox" pic & hidden link to "Sites Worth a Visit" comes from the stock.xchng collection of xtapis
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