Favorite webpages:

 

****The single most important webpage of the season:

http://www.catalogchoice.org

Stop receiving unwanted catalogs. Just bring each catalog to this website and enter its information. Businesses do not object to this website because each catalog costs 80cents or so. About 19 billion catalogs circulate in the US each year.

Also, take the Minnesota Energy Challenge: http://www.mnenergychallenge.org

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Participate in the Buy Local movement, and shop conscientiously: BuyLocalMN.org

Or, to buy handmade: http://buyhandmade.org/

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Activism:

Fun and cool activist piece:  The MEATRIX   http://www.themeatrix.com/

Doonesbury, grinding axe:

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2007/db071202.gif

 

e-nature.com

Build rain gardens! Informational brochure on the Burnsville project, which demonstrated that rain gardens can retain (and so filter) 90 percent of storm run-off, which also then is retained as ground water:

http://www.barr.com/PDFs/Papers/Burnsville_results_flyer.pdf

http://www.duluthstreams.org/stormwater/toolkit/raingarden.html

http://www.landandwater.com/features/vol48no5/vol48no5_2.html

Campus Climate Challenge: http://climatechallenge.org/

Clean energy websites:

CERTS: http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/

http://www.regionalpartnerships.umn.edu/

Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability: http://www.umacs.org/

http://www.sierraclubgreenhome.com/

Play with this Consumer Consequences website: http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/

Adbusters: Media critique website, including spoof ads- http://adbusters.org/home/

Politics of Food websites:<http://web.stcloudstate.edu/teore/Food/Facts3/index.html> Previous projects: <http://web.stcloudstate.edu/teore/Food/Facts2/index.html> http://web.stcloudstate.edu/teore/Food/Facts/index.html; <http://web.stcloudstate.edu/teore/Food/FoodSecurity.pdf>

New York Times op/ed piece on recalculating the definition of poverty

Build your Sense of Place at SCSU: Guide to natural world right here at SCSU

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Research:

Standord Dictionary of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/

New York Public Library through the NYPL Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm >

The following web site has 500,000 syllabi, a good many of which are 18th c. courses offered in English Depts.

http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/syllabi 

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/iathrails/projects/homepage>

Humanities research network: http://www.ssrn.com/update/crn/crnann/annA001.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?primary=10

Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) has a terrific website to check out the accredited status of institutions (particularly helpful for determining the legitimacy of virtual universities and uncovering potential diploma mills):
 
http://chea.org/search/default.asp

Documents and illustrations of Freemasons, Illuminiati, Carbonari, Burschenschaften and other secret societies and clandestine organizations.
Secret societies leave numerous traces, even if they do not exist: after all, they arouse boundless curiosity that will sooner or later be reflected in archives and libraries. The International Institute of Social History, too, preserves many documents on interesting, important, curious, and putative secret societies and clandestine organizations from far and wide. Twelve illustrations and as many historical texts give a taste of those riches. In addition, readers will find a dozen titles from world literature that have helped spread the notion of 'secret society', as well as a dozen scholarly studies that are both reliable and a pleasure to read.
The address of this new website is:
/http://www.iisg.nl/collections/secretsocieties/

The New Humanities Center (Rutgers, but with added vision) Visit the website athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z65V2yKOXxM

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For Pleasure - Academic

2-minute video "Medieval Help Desk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ

Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” updated:

http://bookchase.blogspot.com/2007/03/jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal-update.html

And another kind of current satire: http://www.essayfraud.org

The following link complicates the idea of text and might be a worthwhile classroom illustration of the cultural impact of technology and composition.
Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

Yale U. Puts Complete Courses Online. Modern poetry, as well as introductory courses in physics, psychology, and political science, are four of seven classes from Yale U. that the institution put online. http://open.yale.edu/courses/ Not only are the courses free for anyone who is interested, but they are as close to being there as online technology allows.

It’s hard to explain Möbius transformations with a flat illustration in a textbook. But two professors at the University of Minnesota found that a 3-D animation lets them show the mathematical concept in a way that seems to have sparked the imaginations of a wide range of viewers. The video has been watched more than one million times since it was put on YouTube. <http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY>

Take lecture courses online:

http://academicearth.org/

 


For Pleasure -

Here's a parody of motivational self-help literature: http://www.despair.com/

Meet Vendetta: http://www.makingfiends.com

Austrian brass group performs Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBLm747tyn0

H.P. Lovecraft webpages:  Cthulu primer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu


The sad tale of Cthulu and the telemarketers:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/3/3bradburycarlin.html



Cthulhu for President: http://www.cthulhu.org/

Cartoons. www.dresdencodak.com <http://www.dresdencodak.com>

http://www.paleofuture.com/ A look into the future that never was

For Fun - Political

"Meta-Free-Phor-All" - Google: < Pinsky Colbert > and click on Meta-Free-Phor-All

http://www.savethearctic.com/exxposeexxon/movie.html

Scenes from the current Cultural Revolution: http://billmon.org/archives/001752.html

Fun website from People for the American Way, with mixed-quality information: www.WikiThePresidency.org

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For humanities course "The Wild Man" http://emol.org/movies/tarzan/index.html

Free Tarzan movies. You can download these free films, or watch them online.

 

Student project:

http://www.meta4magazine.org