Links

Books

Favour­ite websites

  • Cooper Bikes
    We wanted to turn our [Cooper Car Com­pany] engin­eer­ing know how to mak­ing bicycles that offer the best pos­sible com­pon­ents for the best pos­sible price.
  • Dar­ing Fire­ball
    John Gruber’s Apple-centric tech­no­logy weblog
  • Hard News
    Web­log of NZ media com­ment­ator, Rus­sell Brown
  • Inform­a­tion Clear­ing House
    Best news portal on the net
  • Ish­mael
    The web­site of Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael
  • No Right Turn
    New Zea­l­and left­ist blog, eas­ily the best polit­ical blog in NZ
  • Sim­u­la­tion Argu­ment
    Are You Liv­ing In a Com­puter Simulation?
  • The Equal­ity Trust
    Com­pel­ling new evid­ence shows that large income inequal­it­ies within soci­et­ies dam­age the social fab­ric and the qual­ity of life for every­one. The Equal­ity Trust cam­paigns to pro­mote under­stand­ing of the harm caused by inequality
  • The Hit List
    The most treas­ured and valu­able piece of soft­ware I own
  • TPUTH
    Socially Gen­er­ated, Machine Filtered, Hand Pol­ished, Elec­tronic News­pa­per for Geeks, Design­ers & Ven­ture Capitalists
  • Yummy­Soup
    Great recipe man­age­ment soft­ware for the Mac

Favour­ites

Friends and family

News and Media

  • Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish
    Eng­lish lan­guage web­site of Al Jaz­eera, an Arab tele­vi­sion sta­tion rival­ing the BBC in world­wide audi­ence (approx. 50 mil­lion viewers).
  • Arab News News­pa­per
    Lead­ing Middle East­ern eng­lish lan­guage daily
  • Elec­tronic Iraq
    News portal cov­er­ing the US occu­pa­tion of Iraq, pub­lished by respec­ted Middle East altern­at­ive news pub­lish­ers, The Elec­tronic Inti­fada (EI) and incor­por­at­ing on the ground reports from vet­eran anti­war cam­paign­ers Voices in the Wilderness.
  • Guer­rilla News Net­work
    Inde­pend­ent news organ­isa­tion with a mis­sion to expose people to import­ant global issues through cross-platform guer­rilla pro­gram­ming. No ads and no sub­scrip­tion fees.
  • Harper’s Weekly Review
    A brief sum­mary of the prior week’s news culled from news­pa­pers, peri­od­ic­als, and the Internet.
  • Inform­a­tion Clear­ing House
    Best news portal on the net
  • Scoop (New Zea­l­and News)
    Fiercely inde­pend­ent press release driven inter­net news agency that also pub­lishes a vari­ety of raw, uned­ited mater­ial from national and inter­na­tional com­ment­at­ors while pro­du­cing its own edit­or­ial con­tent on import­ant cur­rent issues — often giv­ing voice to
  • Source Watch
    Source­Watch is a col­lab­or­at­ive pro­ject of the Cen­ter for Media and Demo­cracy to pro­duce a dir­ect­ory of the people, organ­iz­a­tions and issues shap­ing the pub­lic agenda.
  • The Elec­tronic Inti­fida
    Not-for-profit, inde­pend­ent pub­lic­a­tion com­mit­ted to com­pre­hens­ive pub­lic edu­ca­tion on the ques­tion of Palestine, the Israeli-Palestinian con­flict, and the eco­nomic, polit­ical, legal, and human dimen­sions of Israel’s 37-year occu­pa­tion of Palestinian terr
  • The Guard­ian
    Inter­na­tional news­pa­per, based in the UK, not com­pletely beholden to the profit motive
  • The real face of war (expli­cit photo gal­lery)
    Wars can be depic­ted as noble only by those who are too naive, too young, too deluded, too cor­rupt, too sociopathic, or too stu­pid to under­stand the obscen­ity that killing in such an organ­ized fash­ion represents.
  • TPUTH
    Socially Gen­er­ated, Machine Filtered, Hand Pol­ished, Elec­tronic News­pa­per for Geeks, Design­ers & Ven­ture Capitalists
  • Z Com­mu­nic­a­tions
    An extens­ive online pro­gress­ive magazine and com­munity of altern­at­ive news, opin­ions, and resources.

Other blogs worth a gander

Other links

Palestine Israel and Zionism

Par­ti­cip­at­ory Culture

Polit­ics and Economics

Radio

  • Demo­cracy Now!
    A daily radio and TV new pro­gram, pion­eer­ing the largest com­munity media col­lab­or­a­tion in the U.S.
  • Radio Act­ive
    Aotearoa’s best radio station
  • Radio New Zea­l­and
    New Zealand’s national radio sta­tion – a mix of news, cur­rent affairs, doc­u­ment­ar­ies and fea­tures, drama and music.

Ref­er­ence

  • Debunk­ing 911 Con­spir­acies
    Excel­lent web­site that sets about debunk­ing many of the 911 con­spir­acies and shines a light on some of the real con­spir­acies and incon­sist­en­cies we should be focus­sing on
  • Plain Eng­lish Cam­paign
    Fight­ing for crystal-clear com­mu­nic­a­tion since 1979
  • Wiki­pe­dia
    The free encyc­lo­pae­dia that any­one can edit.

Reli­gion, Sec­u­lar­ism and Spirituality

  • Are you a fun­da­ment­al­ist Chris­tian?
    Top Ten Signs You’re a Fun­da­ment­al­ist Christian
  • The Reason Pro­ject
    The Reason Pro­ject is a non-profit found­a­tion devoted to spread­ing sci­entific know­ledge and sec­u­lar val­ues in soci­ety. The found­a­tion draws on the tal­ents of prom­in­ent and cre­at­ive thinkers in a wide range of dis­cip­lines to encour­age crit­ical think­ing and

Tech­no­logy

  • Cooper Bikes
    We wanted to turn our [Cooper Car Com­pany] engin­eer­ing know how to mak­ing bicycles that offer the best pos­sible com­pon­ents for the best pos­sible price.
  • Mabu dish cloth
    The ulti­mate dish cloth
  • Open Office
    Office suite to replace Microsoft Office, for free!
  • Potion Fact­ory
    Makers of my favour­ite piece of soft­ware, The Hit List
  • The Hit List
    The most treas­ured and valu­able piece of soft­ware I own
  • The RepRep Pro­ject
    [RepRap] has been called the inven­tion that will bring down global cap­it­al­ism, start a second indus­trial revolu­tion and save the environment…’ – James Rander­son writ­ing in The Guard­ian on Novem­ber 25, 2006
  • Yummy­Soup
    Great recipe man­age­ment soft­ware for the Mac

Watch­dogs

  • Cen­ter for Media and Demo­cracy
    The non-profit Cen­ter for Media and Demo­cracy strengthens par­ti­cip­at­ory demo­cracy by invest­ig­at­ing and expos­ing pub­lic rela­tions spin and pro­pa­ganda, and by pro­mot­ing media lit­er­acy and cit­izen journ­al­ism, media “of, by and for the people.
  • Media Lens
    Media Lens is a UK-based media-watch pro­ject, which offers author­it­at­ive cri­ti­cism of main­stream media bias and cen­sor­ship, as well as provid­ing in-depth ana­lysis, quotes, media con­tact details and other resources. Media Lens has been com­men­ded by a numbe
  • Pro­ject Cen­sored
    The news that didn’t make the News.
  • Right Web
    Track­ing mil­it­ar­ists’ efforts to influ­ence U.S. for­eign policy.
  • Source Watch
    Source­Watch is a col­lab­or­at­ive pro­ject of the Cen­ter for Media and Demo­cracy to pro­duce a dir­ect­ory of the people, organ­iz­a­tions and issues shap­ing the pub­lic agenda.