Links
- 1,001 Inventions
A compendium exhibit currently traveling Britain, which describes 1,001 inventions that have come to the world from the Islamic world—including Algebra.
- 10 ways
Explorations of light and space in new media. From the Getty.
- A Digital Archive of American Architecture
Buildings, buildings, buildings...
- Actes and Monuments
A variorum edition of John Foxe's _Actes and Monuments_.
- Alternative Radio
AR features a new interview or lecture every week, usually with postcolonial and anti-imperial activists, but also with your run-of-the-mill peaceniks and WTO-bashers. Great stuff, most of the time.
- American Rhetoric
This site documents famous American speeches, both historical and fictional, in full text and sound recording. Sweet.
- Anchorites
- ArtDaily
An art newspaper.
- Arts and Letters
A miscellany of readings from a smattering of journals.
- biomapping.net
Christian Nold hooks a bunch of wires up and a GPS system up to his subjects, then he sets them loose into a city—Greenwich, for example, or San Francisco. The result: maps of anxiety and emotions!
- Books, Beaches, & Blather
The blog of J.A. Wiser, Pepperdine librarian extraordinary.
- Box O' Truth
What happens when you shoot bullets at different stuff? The Box O' Truth aims to find out.
- Calvin and Hobbes
Until the copyright lawyers smell blood...
- Certified Humane
All about humane treatment of farm animals.
- CJR Daily
A welcome reminder that the work that journalists do is not easy, and that too many journalists try to make it so. CJR is concerned not so much with objectivity (though it does concern itself with it) but with thorough, responsible, accountable reporting; clear, vivid writing; and thoughtful, original stories—and it is ruthless when journalists don't meet those standards. It's also one of the more engaging RSS feeds you can have.
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The only site for birds. Cornell also houses the Library of Natural Sounds.
- CrossLeft
Pumping some blood into the long-atrophied left arm of politico-religion. Who knew progressive Christianity was more than Sojourners?
- Crystal Cave of the Giants
Photographs of the largest crystals in the world, as big as trees.
- Digital History
A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
- Digital Library of Appalacia
Browse the catalogs of Appalacian mountain colleges. The Arts and Culture section, compiling the work of potters, comics, painters, and storytellers, appears especially good. (from JAW)
- Documenting the American South
Appears to be more a collection of resources on North Carolina than of resources in the South in general; it's unsurprising that NC would do that.
- Early Americas Digital Archive
A collection of Early American (French, English, Spanish) texts. Everything from the Conquest of Mexico and the Founding of New Sweden to the Magnalia Christi.
- Encyclopedia of Earth
An effort to catalogue and describe all the environments of Earth.
- Equal Exchange
Mmmmm, coffee: we've bought EE coffee for some time, not only because they're good to farmers, but also because it's good coffee; Mmmm, chocolate: we just discovered the EE chocolate, which is dark! (g)
- Etched in Time
Dude can etch! I used to get terribly jealous of those people who could solve Rubik's cubes in seconds flat. I'm now transferring all that jealousy to Etch-a-Sketch masters. (via Kottke)
- Extreme Ironing
Not only is it how well you've pressed that matters, but also where you did the pressing.
- Eye Level
The Smithsonian's blog for American Art.
- Feeding America: Rock the CastIron Skillet
An online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century.
- Gay Restorationist
GR began his blog in an effort to instigate discussion about homosexuality in Christianity, generally, and in the Churches of Christ (noninstrumental) specifically. It's become more than an instigation, however. It's also confession, revelation, and reconciliation, written with grace on the fingers.
- Gillian Welch
If you're not listening to Welch yet, start now.
- gladwell.com
Because Malcolm Gladwell has a blog, it must be linked to.
- Google Sightseeing
Finding everything from the world's largest thermometer to naked people in the satellite pictures on Google Maps.
- Hartford Institute for Religion Research
This is what happens when you unleash social scientists into schools of religion. It appears to be an extensive source of data across the religious spectrum, including a massive bibliography of secondary texts.
- hermitary
- Hip Mama
For da mamas in da house: radical parenthood!
- Historical Anatomies
From the National Institutes of Health, a collection of the great anatomies of history.
- identity theory
A fine Web site for literary lounging. Matt Borondy, the editor, is witty, and submissions are often fairly good. Also features particularly good interviews by Robert Birnbaum. (g)
- Internet Anagram Server
Returns all possible anagrams of the word you enter. Hermits Rock? “Rock me, shirt.”
- Jeu Chiant
Via Eszter at CT and Zanorg Mini Games, this is a maddening little bugger. Keeping both balls in the air ain't easy.
- Kittenwar!
I could click this thing all day. How can anyone deny such a flood of cuteness?
- Language Corner
The Language Corner, from the Columbia Journalism Review.
- Language Log
A labor of research maintained by linguists, especially Mark Liberman at Penn. It's a fascinating tour through contemporary English usage that includes investigations into oft-cited spurious claims about what scientists say.
- Language Map
An interactive map of languages spoken in the U.S. according to census data. Developed by the MLA.
- Library of Congress Photography Collections on Flickr
The Library of Congress has made several photo collections (the LOC has thousands) viewable and searchable through Flickr. The interface is certainly easier to work with than the LOC's online catalog.
- Library of Congress Sound Recordings
As part of the American Memory Project, the Library of Congress has made available online a lot of sound recordings from the WPA and other folkways research done in the early 20th century. These including more than 7 hours of interviews with former slaves.
- LibriVox
I heard about this site on our local broadcast of the Canadian radio show, As It Happens. It's a site of podcasts/audio recordings of books. The show played an outstanding reading of Frankenstein, downloaded from LibriVox; anything that provides such a service is worth its weight in a link here. (g)
- lis.dom
This blog's writer has kept me enthralled in person, print, and now, in photon. I first met her around the time she was arrested for camping in the office of the president of the University of Iowa as part of a protest against sweatshops. (g)
- LOLcat Bible
Teh bible in teh lolcat!!!11!
- Magic Bean Dance Conspiracy
The blog of Martin Rowe and Amy Newcomb, who, since they met in the Middle East, as of today (11.12.2006) are endeavoring to introduce themselves to each other's friends and acquaintances before they hitch on Dec. 31. I suspect it's all a shrewd, calculated effort to to procure better wedding gifts. (g)
- Material Religion
This link was posted in concert with an article from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly about Colleen McDannell's book, "Picturing Faith." From the site itself, "the Material History of American Religion Project studied the history of American religion in all its complexity by focusing on material objects and economic themes. Working with religious leaders, it helped contemporary religious communities with their economic concerns by placing those concerns within an historical context."
- Matthew Yglesias
Blogger extraordinary and fine writer Matthew Yglesias today unveiled this, his consolidated blogmonster, stitched together from his posts on Tapped, TPM Cafe, and yglesias.typepad.com.
- MegNut
a blog about food
- Michael Pollan
Pollan, author of _The Ominivore's Dilemma_, links to a number of his articles here.
- monologue of the hermit
- Notorious JRB et al.
The blog of commenter JRB and his friends. It's called "Pax Fellaship," but it is difficult for me to click any link that takes the word "fella" seriously, so I'm renaming it here with a shout out to JRB in a previous blog-commenting life. (g)
- Online Etymology Dictionary
Do I really need to explain this one?
- OpenCongress
OpenCongress is intended to give free, open, searchable access for citizens to know where a bill is, who's cosponsoring it, and generally what is going on in Washington.
- Oxford University Press blog
Covering a myriad of subjects, including etymology and history, the OUP blog is very cool.
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
Probably the first place everyone interested in online studies ought to turn.
- Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary, nicely conceived for the Web.
- Photoshop Disasters
Where all ganked artwork goes to live in infamy.
- Political Friendster
How many degrees of separation are there between Charlton Heston and Rick Santorum? The only question you can't pose here is where Kevin Bacon aligns with the political stars.
- PolitiFact
Congressional Quarterly and the St. Petersburg Times combine to fact-check the candidates.
- Qahwa Sada
Group blog, written by Middle East experts, organized by Abu Aardvark. From its manifesto, "Middle East studies specialists have a phenomenal amount of quality knowledge about the Arab and Islamic world: deep knowledge about the history of the region, detailed empirical knowledge of political and social trends, sophisticated theoretical insights into their meaning. Many are out there in the region, seeing things happen and talking to people over a sustained period of time. But they often have trouble getting that knowledge out into the public realm." Sounds like a good reason to start a blog to me.
- Rate Your Students
For when teachers need to bitch. It's nothing at all like “ratemyprofessor.com.”
- Reading Comprehension and Line Lengths
The lengths of the lines at Hermits are ideal for all ages!
- Rome Reborn
Fly through scale models of ancient Rome!
- Science Blog
Catalogues daily some of the more intriguing discoveries in the world of... Science!
- Silva Rhetoricae
This is a cool site. It is a guide to classical and renaissance rhetorical terms.
- Small Farms
A blog about sustainable eating.
- Speaking of Faith
- Square America
A collection of “vernacular photography,” that is, found photographs from across the U.S.
- Stoned-Campbell Disciple
A blog run by Bobby Valentine, whose curiosity and writing is often a bright light in a fog. One of a few S-C people I wish I knew personally who perhaps could compel me to stay CoC a little bit longer simply for the pleasure of talking with him. (g)
- StoryCorps
The oral history project that has been going about the U.S. and which has been frequently featured on NPR. Listen to more stories here.
- Strindberg & Helium
Just watch, OK? You'll thank me later.
- Tag Clouds of US Presidential Speeches
A timeline of all US presidential speeches since 1776 by most-used words, graphically organized as Tag Clouds. (Well, not ALL speeches, but a lot.)
- TextBook
- Textpattern
- The Bata Shoe Museum
For lovers of haute coulture, beautiful shoes, and the ethnography of shoes...
- The Brothers Karamazov
Such a fine novel deserves to be linked to. Take this winter and read it (though not online, unless you're a glutton for punishment). It will repay you in truth what you spend in time.
- The Cyber Hymnal
A compendium of classic hymns (classic because mostly, their copyrights are up), complete with lyricist and composer biographies. It's fun sometimes to listen to one MIDI after another of all the songs you don't know.
- The Diverted Pilgrim
Commenter JH's blog. You might know his face, but you'll never know his name! With Assyrian translations, too!
- The Eggcorn Database
It's a fun site that has collected 564, so far, misspellings that are more than your average misspelling: i.e. whoa is me, girdle your loins, cat before the horse, boggled down, and such
- The Elegant Variation
The blog of Mark Sarvas, L.A. writer, with brilliant title and lovely disposition standard. (g)
- The Ethicurean
A blog about food!
- The Garance
Garance Franke-Ruta has been part of a banner crop (with Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein) of excellent reporters/writers at _The American Prospect_. Her reporting is thorough and sometimes devastating; her writing crisp. I wouldn't want to be on her bad side.
- The Gender Genie
Submit your writing and let the genie determine your gender!
- The Journal of Philosophy & Scripture
From the Journal's Mission Statement: The Journal of Philosophy & Scripture is an e-journal dedicated to reading scripture in light of philosophy and to examining philosophy in light of scripture. The Journal's task is informed by three primary aims: (1) to encourage philosophical discussions of religion to attend to the primary sacred texts (e.g. the Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad-Gita) that fundamentally shape the religions under discussion, (2) to encourage a process of mutual reflection by means of which both philosophy and scripture may be more clearly illuminated, and (3) to do the above with a keen eye to possible effects on the ways in which we practice philosophy and religion.
- the label
- the label 2
- The LitBlog Co-Op
A group blog concerned with all things literary.
- The Morning News
- The Old Carriage House
This one's family.
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Digital archive Benjamin Franklin's complete papers, from Yale University.
- The Poetry Archive
A collection of sound recordings of poets reading their own poetry.
- The Revealer
Jeff Sharlet's exploration of religion in the American news media. Sharlet is an astute observer of religious trends who also has some harsh words to say about how religion is reported. Incidentally, part of the Revealer was inspiration for the new site design of Hermits Rock. (g)
- The Valve
A literature and criticism site put together by the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. An analysis collective, this, that runs through Derrida and student-discussions. (g)
- This American Life
A show on Public Radio International that publishes essays and narratives detailing contemporary American life.
- This Way Out
A weekly newsmagazine focusing on GLBTQ stories from around the world. The news roundup is often depressing since it often features stories of gay bashing (both physical and rhetorical), but from it I've also gained a deeper appreciation of real solidarity, and it often features really compelling interviews with interesting men and women who fight for equality in all corners of the globe and reviews of books and movies that are particular and insightful.
- Topic
Every issue explores a new theme. Coming topics (as of Autumn 2005) include Music and Games. (g)
- trekin'
- TTLB Ecosystem
Hermits is way, way, way down on the food chain.
- Txp Resources
- Unfogged
I am very behind. Here lately I've been discovering what exactly this thing called blogosphere is by actually reading blogs. Man, are they pedantic. This one is, too, and it's funny. (g, January 2006)
- Virtual Museum of Death Mask
Death masks from around the world.
- Walt Whitman Archive
The best place to go for Whitman on the Web. It collects everything from images of the poet to examinations of his legacy to collections of his editions.
- WestWeb
On the study of westering.
- Whitney Music Box
Every dot triggers a note on a chromatic scale as it passes the line; every dot rotates around the line at a regular interval for its color.
- World Cup (and Political Values)
How is one to pick her favorite World Cup squad? By sheer talent alone? In that case, go with Brasil. But if you need other criteria, this site is the place for you. You can pick based on average life expectancy, greatest amount of foreign aid, and a slough of other good reasons to cheer for any team! (via Tapped)
- World Hum
A site for contemporary travel essays.
- xRez
Extreme Resolution: very high-resolution images—try zooming, and zooming, and zooming. A high-speed Internet connection helps, though.
