Miscellaneous Links
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Puzzles, Codes, and Maps
The Grey Labyrinth
Masquerade and the Mysteries of Kit Williams
The Maze (if you get stuck, go here)
The Armchair Treasure Hunt Club
SF Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt
221B Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes
WWII Codes and Ciphers
History of Cartography
William P. Cumming Map Society
Washington Map Society
David Rumsey Map Collection
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at UT Austin
The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps
GIS.com
Latitude
Longitude

Good Browsing
Arts and Letters Daily
SciTech Daily Review
The Atlantic Online
The American Prospect
The Spectator
Mother Jones
Reason Online
Salon.com
The Sun

Granta

Utne Reader
McSweeney's
New York Review of Books
London Review of Books
The New Atlantis a journal of technology and society
Found Magazine
Random pictures from the web
Mûsarium
Matrix
The Onion
Josh Karpf's Links
PBS archives: American Experience, Frontline, NOVA

Listening
This American Life
PRI's The World
Hearing Voices
NPR stations: KQED, KALW, KCRW, WNYC, WHYY, KUOW, WBEZ, WBUR, WAMU, WNCW

Interactive Fiction
Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive
IFDB
IF Wiki
XYZZY News

Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games (SPAG)
The Brass Lantern
Annual IF Competition
Inform (design system by Graham Nelson)

Parsifal
(links to home pages of IF community members)
Infocom
The Infocom Gallery
Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe

Language and Literature
Language Sites on the Internet
The Vocabula Review
Silva Rhetoricae by Gideon O. Burton of BYU
Oulipo
Bibliography of Logology, Oulipo, Palindromes, and Formally Perfect Literary Works from W. Gillespie
Table of Forms from W. Gillespie
2002 A palindrome story by N.Montfort and W.Gillespie
Palindrome Rant by W. Gillespie
Ambigrams by John Langdon
Utopia reading list from W. Gillespie
Find a Poem- Academy of American Poets
Who Wrote Shakespeare? (NYTimes, reg req'd)
National Steinbeck Center
Sea of Cortez Expedition 2004- recapitulating Steinbeck and Ricketts
Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher
A Poe Webliography
Robert W. Service Home Page
H.L. Mencken
Electronic Texts from My Academic Only Homepage
Bartleby.com Great Books online
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Online Literature Library

Music
Electronica, Downbeat, Ethno-Techno
18th Street Lounge Music featuring Thievery Corporation
Outcaste Records
Six Degrees Records
Loop Guru
Talvin Singh/Anokha
Nitin Sawhney
Transglobal Underground
Beat Conscious
Other Worldbeats
Putumayo World Music
Jorge's Conga Drumming Page
Congahead.com
Ragtime, Jazz
Ragtime Piano, Musical Origins
After Hours Ragtime Cafe
The Thelonious Monk Website
Jazz Resource Center
Dave Brubeck PBS special
Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century
Bach Central Station
JS Bach home page
Bach FAQ
thegoldbergvariations.com
JS Bach: Analysis of Canons and Fugues
Schubert Institute (UK)
Societé Franz Schubert
ClassicalNet
Charles Ives Society
American Mavericks NPR series
Misc Contemporary Alternative
They Might Be Giants
Suzanne Vega
Rufus Wainwright
Joe Jackson
Sunny Day Real Estate
Matthew Sweet
General
Music Theory Online- Dr. Brian Blood
Internet Music Resources
Sheet Music Online
Sheet Music Archive

Art
Mother of all Art and Art History Links
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
KunstHausWien
Musée D'Orsay
Musée Rodin
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MOMA, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art
Guggenheim
Smithsonian
National Gallery
SF MOMA
Fine Arts Museums of SF
The Getty
LA County Museum of Art featuring Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Mint Museum
NC Museum of Art
Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
from the Virtual Museum of Canada
Ancient history/anthropology
Ancient Egypt from the British Museum
World Civilizations from WSU
Ancient World Web
Becoming Human
Modern history
California History Online
Museum of the City of San Francisco
California As I Saw It from Perseus Digital Library
Vietnam from PBS American Experience series
The Victorian Web
Library of Congress Exhibitions
Presidential Libraries from the National Archives
Geology/Physical Geography
US Geological Survey Home Page
USGS Geology in the National Parks
Big Bend National Park Virtual Geology Field Trip from Texas A&M
Volcano World
Virtually Hawaii
Physical Geology Online Course
Fundamentals of Physical Geography
California Coastal Records Project

Astronomy
Virtual Sky
Cosmiverse
SpaceWeather
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and planet photojournal)
Your Sky interactive planetarium of the web
Morehead Planetarium
What's Out Tonight?
Solar Eclipses
Is Pluto really a planet?
A Mystery Object (an Apollo rocket?) Orbits Earth in 2002-2003
Astronomers figure out exact date Van Gogh painted 'Moonrise'
Some people think the moon landings were faked. Fortunately there are others who have explained away the fallacious arguments.

Travel and Outdoors:
Sierra Club (with John Muir exhibit)
Nature Conservancy
GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages)
Lonely Planet
Escape Magazine
Carolina Mountain Club
Hiking the Carolinas

National Park Service
National Forests of North Carolina
North Carolina State Parks
Tennessee State Parks
South Carolina State Parks
Virginia State Parks
Georgia State Parks
California State Parks

Sports
Orienteering (what is that?)
United States Orienteering Federation
Carolina Orienteering Klubb (Charlotte area)
Backwoods Orienteering Klub (Research Triangle area)
Map symbols and control descriptions explained (BOK)

Triathlon/Running
USA Triathlon
NC Triathlon Finder
RunCharlotte.com

Badminton
USA Badminton
International Badminton Federation
World Badminton Online

Tea
General Info

The Tea Council

Tea Library
Health Benefits
Prevents cavities...
Lowers cholesterol...
Protects against cancer...
Helps your heart... (here's more...)

TeaMap an online directory of tea houses across the USA

Best Loose Leaf Tea Sources
Mariage Frères (au Marais, Paris 4e)
Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse (Boulder, CO)
Bamboo Teahouse (Claremont, CA)
The Tea Emporium (Toronto, ON)
Tea Time (Palo Alto, CA)
Mighty Leaf Tea
Strand Tea Co
In Pursuit of Tea
SpecialTeas

 

 

 

last modified June 23, 2008 by K. Hales .