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Looking Back on Jesse Helms' Life
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:14:00 -0400
Sen. No, as he was often called, "was a real throwback," says Merle Black, a professor of southern politics at Emory University. One of a select group of politicians who helped solidify Republican control in the South, he had a loyal constituency of working-class whites in North Carolina.
Financial Aid Woes Make Community College More Appealing
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:05:00 -0400
Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are still struggling to find money for college. We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.
When Did Flag Pins Become So Important?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Sen. Barack Obama Obama was questioned about why he doesn't always wear a flag pin during a Democratic debate in April. His critics say his lack of pin casts doubt on Obama's patriotism, and recently the Democratic candidate has been wearing one.

The Talk of the Town

The Chill
Nick Paumgarten Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,” for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, “This is lame,” and slipped back . . .
Oily Speculations
James Surowiecki Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When bad things happen, it’s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed . . .
Obama’s Iraq Problem
George Packer Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking . . .

 

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Anachron City: Library: CyberCulture - Cyberculture books, references to social reports, and comics.

Big Fat Site - Articles, reviews, fandom columns and other opinion writing. Archives include information on some video games and e-business.
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Codine - Cyberpunk culture and digital music.

Cyberbuss - Cyberculture project that brings a virtual community of cyber freaks from 17+ different countries into the same existence. The silvery buss travels over land and through cyberspace posting virtual trips online recreating their reality and immortalizing their adventures.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation: Net.Culture Archives - Cyberculture, history, and related papers.
Meta Description: [ Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit group working to protect your digital rights. ]

Electronic Literature Directory - A comprehensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers.
Meta Description: [ A showcase and resource for hypertext and cybertext poetry and fiction. ]

Ellis in Wonderland - Japanese cyber-doll net-idol girl's site. [In Japanese and English]

Faces Assembly Line - Experimental project utilizing images of internet users. [French and English]
Meta Description: [ We are numerous here speaking anonymously, without faces. The purpose of this site is to give the Web a face, a human face, your face ... Join us ! ]

Gumey - Random art, animation, and site news.
Meta Description: [ Interactive Graphic Design ]

HoleWorld - Guide to the True Underground.
Meta Description: [ HoleWorld - Guide to the Virtual Underground. ]

Iron Feather Journal #17 - Started in 1987 as a hacker magazine, it has now grown to include all aspects of cyberpunk culture, music, contacts, reviews, and interviews.
Meta Description: [ dedicated to the underground scenes ]

Isolate.CZ - Eastern Europe visual experience.
Meta Description: [ Design resource for the European union, Rozcestnik pro webovy a obecny design evropské unie ]

Jerkcity - A comic strip made by internet chatters, for internet chatters, using an internet chat program (MS Comic Chat). Unintended social commentary on cyber-living.
Meta Description: [ Jerkcity is a daily comic strip featuring the adventures of deuce, pants, rands and spigot. ]

K10k - A matrix architect's information designer lunchbox.
Meta Description: [ The designers' lunchbox, a global digital design portal. Updated weekly with a new issue, updated hourly with global design news. ]

KMFMS - Kein Mitleid Für MicroSoft - A website devoted to Microsoft's downfall.

La Spirale - An ezine devoted to the digital subcultures. Articles on the dark sides of a information-based society, short-stories, exhibitions of computer graphics, fetish photographies, and links to the weirdest of the web.
Meta Description: [ La Spirale - an eZine for the Digital Mutants ! ]

MkzdK 4.2 - Uses creative web arts to look at the Cosmos and new cosmologies, Gaia and gaian science, the Earth adventure and the life of the spirit.
Meta Description: [ Mkzdk is an illuminated manuscript in hyperspace ]

Net.Wars - Online book by Wendy M. Grossman. Observations on the growth of the Internet and corresponding controversies surrounding it.

NeuroMancer - An in depth look at William Gibson, Cyberpunk as a subculture, and Technology.

Newgrounds - The problems of the future today and flash portal. Club a Seal, Telebubby Fun Land and Pico.

Planet X - A participatory self-adaptive website, where the content is contributed by its users. Where science fact meets science fiction.

Pop! Tech - Annual conference held in Camden, Maine. Explore Internet popular culture, privacy issues, and online ethics.

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies - The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.

Suite101.com: The Internet Society - Editorial columns, links, and discussions about the Internet's effects on different aspects of society.
Meta Description: [ Since its inception, the internet has outpaced its technological predescesors, the tv and the automobile, in impacting society. But at what cost? Explore with me what new definitions have been created for society as a result of the internet. ]

Temple Ov Hombres - Multiply concatinated cultural output node. Includes hombre profiles, cartoons, and drink recipes.

The Indie Web Manifesto - Respects the individuals, their intelligence and their privacy; it's an open forum for thoughts and debate.

The Psychology of Cyberspace - An evolving conceptual framework for understanding the various psychological components of cyberspace and how people react to and behave within it.
Meta Description: [ The purpose of this online hypertext book is to explore the psychological dimensions of environments created by computers and online networks. It is intended as an evolving conceptual framework for understanding the various psychological components of cyberspace and how people react... ]

404 The Rise of Proteus - Discussing artificial intelligence technology under development at a research laboratory in California, which would allow a computer system to learn on its own without software.

Unreal Enterprises - Place where the real and the virtual meet.