Baghdad Burning
A young Iraqi woman writes about the realities of war torn Iraq.

Juan Cole's Informed Comment
Juan Cole is a history professor at the University of Michigan. He is an expert on the middle east and shiites. Informed Comment documents the daily dramas of the conflict in the middle east, focusing on the Iraq occupation. Juan's expertize and ability to bring in both English and Arabic media sources makes his blog a most reliable synospsis of the current dramas in the middle east. His blog recently earned the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism awarded by Hunter College.

Lojban
Lojban is an artificial language constructed to remove a ambiguity from human communication.

Marzart
Santa Cruz resident Maren Sinclair Hurn offer classes in ceramics handbuilding from her homebased studio. I have attended one of her classes and they are very fun! Go check out her art.

Studio Cosmos
The amazing otherworldly photographs of whales by Bryant Austin. Bryant Austin is a visionary artist working to produce life-size photographs of whales. I have personally assisted him the field with this work. The person on the front page of his site is myself!

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a truly democratic enclypedia where anyone can edit and contribute to articles. I find it to be the most comprehensive and reliable informational source on the net.