News and Talk
Slashdot, News for Nerds
The Register
The BBC News
Independent Media Center
Counterpunch, American Political
Newsletter
Project Syndicate a
very nice web page with loads of articles by journalist's and others
from all over the world.
The Guardian
Foreign
Correspondent
OpenDemocracy.org.
National Geographic
Magazine.
Disinfopedia run by PR Watch.
Salon.com.
Reporters Without Borders.
MediaChannel.org watches
the media.
The Economist.
Foreign Affairs.
Millennium Development Goals,
notice, these are 3 different links.
Institute for War and Peace
Reporting.
The Watt, is an excellent news site
(slashdot style) about energy and everything related to that.
Computers
PCGuide
The Linux Documentation Project
The Linux Weekly News
The Debian Project
debianHELP
Planet Debian
debianPlanet
Debian-Administration.org
www.aboutdebian.com,
excellent tutorial on the debian system.
LinuxMagazine
Linux-Magazine
Linux Journal
Linux Format
Dr. Dobbs Journal
Free Software
Magazine
Open source software for scientists
Gnuplot, plotting utility.
The not
so frequently asked questions about gnuplot.
Octave, computational language.
Maxima, a computer
algebra system.
Linux Links.
Jed
Quick Reference.
How to publish
material using pdf files.
A nice sed
introcution.
OpenCollector has a lot of info
about open and not so open source software for scientists.
Science
PhysOrg.com is extremely good
Physicsweb is the best!
Physics Today is very good
allso.
The Net
Advance of Physics is a really good resource point for physics
concepts. It points towards articles written in peer reviewed papers
about the concpepts.
Eric Weisstein's
world of physics is more for people who dont want to read
scientific articles but get it in plain english with a bit of
mathematics.
Physics
2000 is excellent, a site created by the people of Boulder
Colorado University and introduces modern physics in the question
answer mode, beware though, the site uses frames and has a lot of java
applets.
Reviews of Modern Physics is a very
good paper with free articles on the website.
Hyperphysics!
Excellent review of most basic physics in a "hyper" way.
Science Blog has news from all
sorts of sciences.
Roland Piquepaille's
Technology Trends, another science blog.
Scientific American.
Encyclopedia of laser physics and technology
Time and
frequency glossary at NIST.
Sams laser
FAQ.
Archive
of a good laser resource.
Planet Math, a wiki based math
forum.
QWiki is a wiki
about quantum physics.
Quantiki,
a wiki about quantum information science.
Misc. stuff
Amnesty International.
Human Rights Watch.
Global Witness.
Internet Movie Database
Roger Ebert, a
renowned movie critic.
The DHMO danger is upon us!
NoLogo is Naomi Klein's website
about globalisation.
5 day weather
forcast for Copenhagen.
Interesting Documentarys I have seen
Belowe are usually either the Internet Movie
Database entry or the official site for the production.
CIA; secret wars.
Bowling for
Columbine.
Manufacturing Consent:
Noam Chomsky and the Media.
This Is What Democracy
Looks Like.
Security
Threat.
Just, Melvin: Just
Evil.
Power and Terror: Noam
Chomsky in Our Times.
Exposed:
The Carlyle Group. Not an official site I think but it contains
the video. Made by the Dutch VPRO TV
station.
Fahrenheit 9/11.
Peace One Day and the
organization that is growing up behind this movie (movement), its
great news.
Super Size Me, allso
look at the entry in wikipedia.org.
Outfoxed: Rupert
Murdoch's War on Journalism.
The world according to
Bush, official
website.
Interesting things to watch out for:
As soon as I read something interesting about one of these issues I
will link to it here (if I remember to do so).
Oil:
Article
in the june 2004 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
BBC analysis
on why oil prices are going up, written on the 28th of september
2004 just after the oil barrell reached $50 a barrel for the third
time in history.
WTRG Economics analyzis on
history of oil prizes.
Oilpeak.com, collection of links on
articles about oil.
ASPO is an institution that
studies when we will reach peak producion of oil.
The
end of oil is closer than you think, an article in The Guardian.
It's
Not the End Of the Oil Age, an article in The Washington Post.
Heating of the climate:
Article
in the september 2004 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Guardian
article about a 2 year increase in CO2 increase.