This page is my repository for links to other websites of interest,
organized by topic.
Religion (in Practice)
Congregation Beth Israel
— my synagogue community
Delaware Valley Reclaiming
— my pagan community
The Broom Closet
— Philadelphia area pagan community calendar
Ritualwell.org
— a repository of Jewish rituals, especially feminist ones
Jewitchery
— online forum for "Jewish witches and witchy Jews"
Walking The Path
— stories by pagans about their magical experiences
Science-Fiction Conventions
GAFilk
— filk relaxacon, January, Atlanta, GA
Consonance
— filk convention, March, Milpitas, CA (near San Jose)
The Northeast Filk Convention
— June/July, rotating locations along BosWash corridor
Confluence
— small literary con with good filking, July/August, Pittsburg, PA
The Ohio Valley Filk Festival
— the worldcon of filk, late October, Dublin, OH (near Columbus)
Philcon
— regional science fiction convention, December (for now), Philadelphia, PA
Recent Employers
I Do Foundation
— bringing charitable giving to weddings (me: web design/maintenance)
IRCS IEBL
— annotating biomedical text for information extraction (me: annotation, web/database design)
IRCS Xtag
— a computational linguistics research project (me: staff programmer)
Programming References
Perl.com,
Perl.org,
CPAN
— Perl, the pathetically eclectic rubbish lister practical extraction and report language
Java
— Sun's portable, object-oriented language: write once, compile once, debug everywhere!
The Art of Unix Programming
— ESR's sweeping, Talmudic why-to (not how-to) book on the shared culture of Unix
Education (So Far)
Swarthmore College
Lowell High School
(and its nationally acclaimed student newspaper)
San Francisco Day School
Religion (in Theory)
JRF
— the umbrella organization of Reconstructionist Judaism
Tikkun Magazine
— a Jewish magazine with a Renewal perspective
The Shalom Center
— a network of American Jews dedicated to the pursuit of peace
Jewitchery
— online forum for "Jewish witches and witchy Jews"
The Witches' Voice
— the premier Wiccan web portal
Beliefnet
— general religion portal, magazine, and forum
Free Culture/Geek Activism
Electronic Frontier Foundation
— the ACLU of cyberspace
Free Software Foundation
— that's "free" as in "freedom"
FreeCulture.org
— and it's not just for software anymore
Creative Commons
— like copyright, only balanced
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons
Filk Music Links
Professional Filkers and Groups
Chris Conway
Three Weird Sisters
Topical Filksong Collections
Computer Songs and Poems
Literature Links
Strange Horizons
— weekly speculative fiction webzine
World of Froud
— Brian Froud's official website
The Endicott Studio
— dedicated to the creation and support of mythic art
The Invisible Library
— a bibliography of fictional books
The P-Zone
— Daniel Pinkwater fan site
Fables
— quarterly folklore and speculative fiction webzine
Project Gutenberg
— online repository of public domain texts
TV & Movie Links
StarWars.com
— the official Star Wars site
StarTrek.com
— the official Star Trek site
SciFi.com
— the Sci-Fi Channel website
TheOneRing.net
— Lord of the Rings fan site
TheForce.net
— Star Wars fan site
The Internet Movie Database
Game Creators and Sellers
Looney Labs
Cheapass Games
Tom Jolly's games
Funagain Games
About Games
BoardGameGeek
— extensive fan-created database of boardgame reviews
The Games Journal
— a monthly boardgaming webzine
Two Player Games
— a list of games for two players, compiled from rec.games.board
GameFAQs
— hints, tips, amd walkthroughs for (almost) every video game ever
Online Gaming
Skotos
— an online multiplayer interactive fiction RPG company
Baf's Guide
— well-organized portal to the Interactive Fiction Archive
This page created and maintained by Benjamin Newman