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Sections of this page: Celebrity, Encyclopedic Knowledge, Games and Experiences, Language and Mathematics, Law and Legal Reseach, News and Current Events, Property vs. People, Searches and Indices, Sensory Focus, Software and Shopping, Web Development, and Windows to Organizations.

News and Current Events

• The Globe and Mail.  Canada and the world.
• Other rags and kin: Toronto Star , BBC, National Post , Guardian, Indpendent, Le Monde, Times of India, Turkish Daily News, New York Times†, New Zealand Herald, Washington Post.
• Get your war on. An incisive look at current events.
• CBC. News, radio and more.
• The New Yorker. Current events and more.
• Boing Boing. A directory of wonderful things.
• Newsmap (Canadian Edition); also, Canadian national. Visually-organised presentation of Google's news aggregation.
• Environment Canada Weather.  Current conditions and forecasts (for Toronto).

Sensory Focus

• Married to the Sea†, Natalie Dee and Toothpaste for Dinner. Natalie and Drew make funny pictures.
• xkcd. A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
• A Softer World.  A web comic.
• explodingdog. Sam draws pictures.
• Kurt Jackson. A British painter.
• Artcyclopedia. An index and search engine for visual art.
• Tate Gallery. One of the UK's many world-class collections.
• Paper Cut-outs. From Pete Callesen.
• Paper Folding. From Paul Haeberli.
• Tribe Magazine.  Canadian music news, fashion, gossip, club listings, DJ profiles, and photographs.
• Photo.net. Photography omnibus.
• Text to Speech. As it sounds, literally.
• Internet Movie Database. Collectively assembled film data.
• EpGuides.com. Popular television.

Property vs. People

• Electronic Frontier Foundation. Defending freedom in the digital world; includes the Patent Busting Project. Canadian version.
• Creative Commons. Expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share. Also, a Canadian local version.
• Open Source Initiative (OSI). Managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community.
• Defective by Design. An anti-DRM campaign.
• Groklaw. As the name suggests; coverage of the SCO Linux nuisance in particular.
• Trademark Blog. Maintained by a USA trademark, copyright and domain name boutique law firm.
• Why Open Source or Free Software? Look at the numbers that David A. Wheeler has compiled; quite a strong case.

Encyclopedic Knowledge

• Wikipedia. Multilingual open content encyclopedia, in progress; also, its lexical companion, the Wiktionary.
• Project Gutenberg. An archive of public domain texts. Home to thousands of on-line books in a plain text format.
• Simpsons Archive. A clearinghouse of Simpsons guides, news and information. Collossal.
• Discogs.com. Collaborative aggregation of data about music recordings, with a social contract.
• Worldmapper. Maps of the the world wherein area relates to one of many subjects.
• Bible Gateway. Christian gospels in a number of versions and languages; a remarkable text from many standpoints.
• Bartleby.com. Another archive of free online texts.
• Watercolours. Watercolour painting resources.
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. From the USA National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Windows to Organizations

• Canada.  Includes the Strategis site.
• United Kingdom.
• Province of Ontario. 
• Cities of Toronto and Kingston. .
• Queen's University. .
• Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. 

Searches and Indices

• YourDictionary.com. An index of online dictionaries.
• Canada Post.  Resources like a Postal Code look up.
• Reverse Directory. Find names from phone numbers.
• HousingMaps.com. Combining accommodations listings from craigslist with mapping from Google.
• TinEye. An image search-engine.

Law and Legal Reseach

• Osgoode Hall Law School.  Student Portal.
• Quicklaw and Westlaw. Legal research services.
• CanLII.  Canadian Legal Information Institute, including a Charter Digest
• Duhaime.org.  Lloyd Duhaime shares his passion.
• thecourt.ca.  Collective blog about SCC decisions.
• slaw.ca.  Collective blog about legal matters.
• Judgments of the SCC.  Cooperatively maintained by the SCC and LexUM at U Montreal Law.
• Canadian Laws.  Provided by the Department of Justice.
• Canadian Federal Legislation.  Includes the status of bills.
• Ontario E-Law.  Ontario's statutes and regulations.
• legaltree.ca.  a "collaborative site for Canadian lawyers to share their knowledge".
• lawbuzz.ca.  Gossipy law-related chatter.

Language and Mathematics

• Babel Fish. Translation service.
• Wordsmith. A number of word-related tools and services, including an anagram server.
• Geometry Formulas and Facts. All about angles and such.
• MRC Psycholinguistic Database. An Australian web interface to a powerful tool.
• Calculus tutorials. Web-served direct from Harvey Mudd College.
• StatSoft Electronic Textbook. Offers training in the understanding and application of statistics.
• Business Statistics. Dr. Hossein Arsham of the University of Baltimore shows how to 'reveal facts from figures.'
• HyperStat Online Textbook. Still more on statistics.
• Boids. A background and resource collection.
• Twenty Faces. An exposition of selected typefaces.
• Eric Weisstein's Math World. Presented by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.

Games and Experiences

• nfctd.com. A wonderful, dark and bizarre interactive Flash experience.
• Samorost 1. An atmospheric adventure, also Samorost 2.
• Treasure Box. A whimsical Flash adventure.
• Flow. An MFA thesis by Jenova Chen.
• EVE-Online. A complex space MMORPG.
• Grismar's Wiki, Chruker's site and Mission Reports. Much EVE-Online information.
• Baldur's Gate.  An epic CRPG experience.
• Baldurdash, Pocket Plane Group and Gibberlings 3. Active modding communities for Baldur's Gate and related games.

Celebrity

• Philip Greenspun. The founder of photo.net has spun off his own part of that site to a new URL. He is still good for thoughts on photography, web services and such.
• Lawrence Lessig. Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, chair of Creative Commons' board.
• Ze Frank. Creative mastermind and foster parent of community and collboration. Published The Show.

Web Development

• World Wide Web Consortium. Standardizing the web around us. To keep on top of developing technologies and to check details of existent ones.
• Axioms of Web Architecture. From Tim Berners-Lee.
• Web Developer's Virtual Library. Encyclopedia of web design tutorials, articles, discussions, resources, and links.
• Web Standards Project. In their words, 'a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all'.
• Evolt.org. In their words, 'a world community for web developers, promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences'.
• CSS2 Reference. Posted by Eric Meyer.

Software and Shopping

• Abebooks.com.  The world's largest online book market; new, used, rare, or out-of-print.
• SourceForge.net. 'The world's largest Open Source software development website.'
• freshmeat.net. 'The Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software.'
• PC Village.  Selling hardware and software.
• Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back Encyclopaedia. An unofficial support site for Dungeon Master, a game once played on an Atari ST.

Updated 2010-03-09-Tuesday.
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