Interesting

Just a quick list of organizations, ideas, and links that I think are interesting.

General

• Wikipedia.
• Slashdot news aggregator.
• XKCD webcomic.
• WIRED magazine.
• The New York Times.
• chillingeffects.org: clearinghouse for digital rights.
• 538.com: well-developed statistical analyses applied to politics and culture.
• The TED talks: a lecture series that features brilliant and unusual minds.
• Bill Simmons's columns on sports and popular culture.

Specific

• Dinsha Mistree: my brother and political scientist extraordinaire.
• Convex Optimization and Linear Dynamical Systems at Stanford.
• Color Scheme Designer: an easy and useful tool for color combination selections.
• Free Culture: book by Lawrence Lessig about the need for copyright reform.
• Carhenge: a replica of Stonehenge made from junked cars.

Organizations

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation: an organization concerned with digital rights.
• The American Civil Liberties Union.
• Creative Commons: a clearinghouse for freely licensed work.
• Heifer International: a creative charity that allows you to donate sustainable gifts to the less fortunate.
• Kiva: a micro-finance site that allows you to make small loans to impoverished business owners.
• The Free Software Foundation: a big reason that Linux and the entire Free Software Movement exists.
• National Public Radio.

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