Links
In this issue: more on Blogathon ‘03
Web site recommendations: IT/misc/fun
Thanks to those who’ve kindly signed up to support my blogathoning for Planned Parenthood. It’s not too late to contribute, please see details here: http://www.esztersblog.com/blogathon03
During the Blogathon, I will be posting all sorts of material related to reproductive health/rights. Some of it will be serious with a fun twist like this puzzle:
http://www.eszter.com/flash/jeans-puzzle.html
If you’ve meant to contribute but couldn’t quite figure out how, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help.
And now onto some links.
Online Policy Group - “a nonprofit organization dedicated to online policy research, outreach, and action on issues such as access, privacy, digital defamation, and the digital divide”
http://www.onlinepolicy.org/
Wi-Fi access points across the globe
http://www.hotspotlist.com/
Planned Parenthood Files Lawsuit Against Antiabortion Advocates in Web Site Domain Name Dispute
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=18767
DVD-Piracy Paranoia Proves Counterproductive
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17791-2003Jun20.html?nav=hptoc_tn
Disposable email - need an email address just for a few days, get one here (I haven’t tried it, because if you own your own domain name you can do this for yourself using your own name, but it looks promising.)
http://jetable.org/
Howard Dean guest-blogs on Larry Lessig’s blog this week
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/
Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative: Digital resources for the study of religion
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/
New cellphones used in ‘digital shoplifting’
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1056959460701B215
Rape (and Silence About It) Haunts Baghdad
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/16/international/worldspecial/16RAPE.html
Disturbing: “men are paying thousands of dollars to shoot naked women with paint ball guns”
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1356380&nav=168XGqk0
Decoding Bush
http://motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2002/52/we_245_01.html
Dubya Speak - “We record the damage”
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/
Calendars Through the Ages
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/
Electronic flash cards for studying facts about geography, history, math, languages, science, medicine (good study tool for students, fun trivia for adults)
http://www.studystack.com/java-studysta/frames.jsp
Interactive Units Converter (e.g. how many acres is a hectare of land?)
http://www.convert-me.com/en/
About a book: We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0328/todaro.php
Full text of Plato, Phaedrus
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/phaedrus.html
Learning Japanese? Basic Hiragana Chart (neat little videos with how to write the characters)
http://www.genki-online.com/kyozai/hiragana.html
Bill of Rights Pared Down to a Manageable Six 
http://www.theonion.com/onion3847/bill_of_rights.html
Some M$ parody
http://www.microsith.com/
Type weapons of mass destruction into Google and see what you get:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=weapons+of+mass+destruction
Today’s quote:
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living…” — Dr. Seuss