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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
.