links

news sources

• Democracy Now — #1 source of independent daily news.
• AlterNet — Alternative news and information daily.
• t r u t h o u t — "Let's get the truth out."
• truthdig — "Drilling Beneath the Headlines."
• Countdown with Keith Olbermann — MSNBC's Max Headroom.
• Bill Moyers' Journal — News and interviews with journalism's eloquent elder statesman.
• Daily Show with Jon Stewart — Yeah, like you get your news somewhere else.
• The Nation — Like the magazine. "Wag[ing] war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration and misrepresentation" since 1865.

reading material

• Adbusters — Journal of the Mental Environment.
• Fametracker — Now, sadly, the "late, great" Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth.
• Arts & Letters Daily — "News, reviews, breakthroughs and gossip in arts and culture."
• Mind Hacks — "Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain."
• Vanity Fair — Some of the best writing the glossy magazine industry offers today.
• The Brain from Top to Bottom — 140 subjects on on the brain, 420 pages for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Unique, engrossing and very thoughtfully laid out.

people

• chomsky.info — Noam Chomsky. Audio/video, articles & more by the legendary intellectual and activist.
• Rupert Sheldrake — Biologist; father of morphic resonance theory and more.
• Naomi Klein — Articles & interviews by activist/writer/filmmaker (No Logo, Shock Doctrine, The Take).
• The Last Psychiatrist — This outspoken and unapologetic insider takes a critical look at society and psychiatry to demystify the mental health industry.
• The Yes Men — Infiltrating the fortified compounds of commerce and smuggling out stories.
• Cintra Wilson — "It's a howling maelstrom of words out there, my fiends.... please, read good ones."

audio/video

• Films For Action — A Portal to Independent News and Films.
• Spread the Word — Alternative news site with an impressive, well-organized collection of videos. "News is what you make it. Empathy will save the world."
• Top Documentary Films — A valuable resource for free docs plus reviews and additional information links.
• Best Free Documentaries — The name says it all. Hand-picked, free and updated every weekday.
• Best Documentary — Huge, well-organized site with many new docs added daily.
• TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE — A favorite radio show/podcast from PRI. Two hours every week on every imaginable theme, archived back to 2003 on their site.
• This American Life — Award-winning radio and TV show hosted by Ira Glass, the best voice in the business since Bill Moyers. Quirky, touching, hauntingly original stories.
• TED Talks — 20-minute talks. Some of the world's brightest minds in Technology, Entertainment and Design share their inspiring, enlightening, engaging — and at times mind-blowing — stories.
• Open Culture — "Open Culture explores enlightened podcasts, videos and other web media."
• FRONTLINE — "American public television's flagship public affairs series." Watch episodes online.

astrology

• MotherSky.com — Articles by astrologer Jessica Murray, whose brilliant 2006 book Soul-Sick Nation is incisive, insightful, fierce and profound — in a class by itself.
• Astrodienst — Daily horoscopes and forecasts, articles, tools and many other useful resources. Sign up for free to save chart data for 100 friends.
• Planet Waves — Updated daily. Well-written, in-depth articles on astrology, politics, sex and current events. Weekly, monthly and annual horoscopes.
• Astrological Musings — Lynn Hayes' site offers a timely analysis of the daily news. "Transformational astrology with a smattering of politics and people-watching."
• Maya del Mar's Daykeeper — Political, historical and otherwise topical astrology articles and forecasts by some of the best writers on the subject.
• Skyscript — UK astrologer Deborah Houlding's site features astrological services, articles, tips for beginners, charts of historical figures, lunar cycles and planetary information.
• AstroFaces — Seeks to verify astrology using photographs to highlight the similarities between people who share the same Sun, Moon and Ascendant signs. Watch the video and send your photo.

eye candy

• Stuck in Customs — The world as the highly enlightened (and vice versa) might see it. A master at HDR techniques offers tutorials and Flickr photo galleries for endless visions of heaven on earth.
• we feel fine — Created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Trippy visuals to analyze and animate the global collective mind state. (So cool it's a shame to imagine the more sinister applications...)
• LILEKS (James) — The Institute of Official Cheer, home of the Home Ironizer and the Gallery of Regrettable Food, like Jell-o- and milk-based recipes circa 1958 — but this is the funniest thing ever.
• NIAGARA DETROIT — Official Site of Detroit artist Niagara. Pulp noir pin-ups with serious attitude.
• National Archives — Online exhibits of historical art, photos, documents and collections. My favorite is Powers of Persuasion, presenting the art of WWII propaganda in its finest hour.
• oboylephoto.com — Shawn O'Boyle's "Modern Ruins" Photographic Essays explore and reveal the transcendent beauty in abandoned industrial spaces like Bethlehem Steel (shades of Metropolis!).
• WORLDPROCESSOR — Bold, bizarre, perplexing, revelatory, inflammatory and contradictory; this site reimagines the world in ways I can almost guarantee you've never seen before.