Poetry and Forests and Buddhism - and psychology and money.

Disclaimer. Buddhism Forests and Trees Poetry - How to Write.	log of books read Environmental Ethics Blog Environmental foot print Best books read: 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 2008.
	Harry Potter books: Harry Potter's commands for spell casting. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6). Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).

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UCSC greek course: berkeley Luschnig site
UCSC lifelong learners.
Lowest gas price. S'z Lowest gas price.
Is It Different This Time? (video). NPR Planet Money blog postings and daily podcasts. The Giant Pool of Money: Listen or read the transcript.
intrade.com. For parking; liability claims in S.C. Human Resources Department.
Yelp kinokuniya San Jose.
wildfiretoday.blogspot.

NetMechanic Tools. NetMechanic Tool to check HTML.
Wiki News. digg.com/politics.
Cops blue line.
T-Test choose 'unpaired t-test'.
God(dess) checker.

• abe books.
• Act locally, think globally: California Assembly. California Parks. Congressional Budget Office. Greenpeace usa forests.
  Phone shortcut: to get a human at any customer service.
• Amazon: Associates.
• Art: Arts Journal (weekday digest of arts and cultural journalism).
  Doug McC art and poetry.
  Malcolm M.
• Authors: Terry Pratchett (Discworld books). Jasper Fforde (Friday Next and other books).

• Blogs:
  • Angelika blog.
  • www.turtlecove.wordpress.com Beth V.
  • boston.com/bigpicture.
  • Bratton blog.
  • Catarina book and art blog. cdixon.org (Pal of C).
  • Dane Cervine blog.
  • Gary on his bicycle.
  • Hirshfield, Jane: photos.
  • Lilliput Review blogspot.
  • Political: Brad DeLong (economics professor at Berkeley).
    Geoffrey Pullum (Language Log). Pullum continbutions at lang log. new url for lang log?.
    nielsenhayden.com/makinglight. Jane Smiley. Jane Smiley Notes for Converts on Junior Bush.
  • Juan Cole, moderator of the Informed Comment blog and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan.
  • Thoreau blog.
  • Urban Hawks blog.
  • Vengua, Jean: okir.wordpress.
  • Walt Whitman blog.
  • Zen: SFZC schedule.
• Book reviews:
  • log of books read. Curled up with books.
  • Guardian: book extracts - guardian uk. book news - guardian uk.
  • reviewsofbooks.com.
    Friends of the Palo Alto Library book sales.
    New pages -- litmags and reviews. http://newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/2007_02/litmagreviews200702.htm.

• Computers:
  • JAVA: Javasoft Sun developer Training/.
  • O'Reilly Openbook.
  • Word MVP: Shauna Kelly Rules!.
• Contractors licensed in California: Contractor License at STATE LICENSE BOARD or http://www.cslb.ca.gov.
• Criminology: U. Pittsburg (unofficial) Jurist law news.
• Cruz:
  • Cruzio C-mail. Cruzio. ( Cruzio's free Web accelerator for dialup connection.)
  • Architecture. Cabrillo College. Library for renewals at Cabrillo College.
  • Cabrillo Music Festival
  • Cafe Brasil (831.429.1855) Restaurant 1410 Mission St. Menu.
  • City.
  • metroactive.com/movies/times-sc. Predatory Bird Research Group. PD (-> crime stats -> crime maps).
  • Public library. UCSC SSC Press Room. USCS Libary: search.
  • Vipassana Santa Cruz sangha. Weather in SF Bay.
  • Web cams: Bird feeder. SC yacht harbor.

• Dictionaries and encyclopediae:
  Babelfish. The Free Dictionary. Maps.
  NNDB [" the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with."] . Create your own visited-country map. Thesaurus. Visual thesaurus.
  wikipedia. Wiki Project on Novels. websters-online-dictionary.
  Words: Ask Oxford. OED limericks [OEDILF = The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form]. Take our word.

• Ecology:
  • Arctic: wildlife refuge.
  • Birds: albatross monitor. Blue heron nests (view stations are below the nests). Falcon camera. Audubon magazine birds. sibley bird guides. S.C. Bird Club.
  • Class notes: Ecology; Evolution.
  • Fungus: Keeping the Fun in Fungus.
    Charles Baughman distant river fungus_walk_01
    redwood hikes maps.
  • British Ecological Society.
  • Butterflies around Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz.
  • Climate Change course [Scripps at Earthguide].
  • Climatology: Prof. Roy Thompson.
  • Ecology action.
  • www.itis.gov.
  • Journals: Nature. New Scientist.
  • NASA.
  • Ocean and Climate Change Inst. (Woods Hole).
  • Quakes: worldwide map of recent earth quakes.
  • Science Daily.
  • World Population Estimate. [00:59 GMT 26 Oct 2005: U.S.A.=297,510,883 and World=6,474,924,827.]
• Education: UCSC catalog. Stanford iTunes site (includes lots of lectures).
• English and language: APA Style: Citation and documentation (Bedford St. Martin's Online);
  APA Electronic; Common writing errors. Style.org. Webster.
  GGU OWL for students. plagiarismchecker.com.
  Gutenberg catalog.
  The world's 6,912 known living languages.
• Exercise: Kayak: Kayaking Books. tide table for Kirby Park (Elkhorn Slough) Monterey Kayaks. Kayak Connection.
  Pilates. Yoga Asana.

• Food: Epicurious. My favorite recipes
  
  • Chocolate: Callebaut chocolate. chocosphere.com. Cloister chocolate reviews.
    Theobroma cacao:
    Chocolate recipes. Je'oan D'ark Limoncello Truffles.
    Chocolate Diets: Women's Stress Buster and other Diet recommendations.
    Chocolate History.
    Chocolate science: biology, chemistry, and psychology.
    Glossy chocolate glossary.
    Rosenblum on chocolate. Alice Medrich on chocolate. Fran Bigelow on chocolate.
    Chocolate Taste Tests:
    • Chocolate Taste Test method by Chantal Cody.
    • The Two Chloés: plain chocolate bars taste test.
    • The Two Chloés: Vosges chocolate bars taste test.
    • The Two Chloés: Zotter chocolate bars taste test.

• History: fsmitha.com history

• Law: CA DMV
• Linguistics and Languages: Omniglot writing index.
  Phonetics topics at wiki. PRAAT.nl. PRAAT.org.
  Translator at google.com of Spanish to English.
  UCLA phonetics course.
  http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=sm7languagelog&r=39 UCSC Nuger.
• Literature:
  • Awards (Nobel, Pulitzer, etc).
    Booker prize (July-Oct). Man Booker International Prize.
    Orange prize.
    Whitbread prize. (January)
  • Great books.com
  • mcsweeneys.net submit for quarterly/.
  • Palo Alto lib (chloe-eloise).
  • Playwriting (VCU): homepage; format.
  • Today in Literature.
  • WRITER'S ALMANAC TODAY (Garrison Keillor).

• Medicine: e-medicine (Dr. Dawn recommends). High fiber diet.
  National Osteoperosis Foundation. PatientPlus (UK for doctors). CPR Pro.
  AMA doctor finder. Hewitt benefits (for HP). HP participant (2006 directory). myuhc.
• Money:
  • Banks: Bank of the West. Wells.
  • Feds: Census economic briefing. IRS. IRS newsroom. public debt. Savings Bond Calculator. Savings Bond Wizard. Treasury Direct. Treasury USA.
  • Investing: Alliance. Bigchart. DFA. Edward Jones (tools). Fees only (links). Fidelity. Financial Times (FT) Fool (argh popup warning). FTC txn safety. Index funds. Mutual Funds Magazine Online. MorganStanley and their research. Mutual Investor articles. Nuveen and their NWQ. Zillow real estate estimates (needs Flash). Risk grades. Schwab. Scudder (no-load m.fund). SIPC protection.
    TIAA-CREF charts and TIAA-CREF calculations. T Rowe Price (no-load m.fund).
    UBS and UBS financials. UBSPW.
    Vanguard. Personal investor @ Vanguard.
  • Stock:
    HPQ all data. HPQ last 10 days. HPQ 1 year. HPQ 10 years. HP 2007 press.
    VBINX ROTH.
    Vanguard in MFFAIS.
    IRA -> Roth: Fidelity converter.
    Market Watch. Markets in Market Watch.
  • Tax: IRS (1-800-829-1040, 24*7).
    540 and other California tax forms and instructions. 2007 tax year forms.
    Uncle Fed tax help. WorldWideWeb Tax. California Tax Library.
• Music: American Mavericks. Cabrillo Music Festival.

• News: advfn. advfn news. The Associated Press breaking news and special reports.
  BBC World Service. COA News [media criticism, analysis, debate; includes environmental issues].
  Good Times. nytimes.com/pages/politics.
  People's Weekly World (continuing Daily Worker). Socialist Action.
  Washington Post.

• Outdoors: Yosemite newsletter.

• Poetry:
  • Beowulf: Heorot Hall in Denmark. Anglo-Saxon reading.
  • Duotrope search for publication stats.
  • Figures of Speech. Poetry - Learn How to Write Your Own. Dana Gioia (critic). For Poetry (quality on-line).
  • Camaldoli Hermitage.
    Camaldoli hermitagebigsur.com.
    Amber Sumrall Retreats.
    Keith Flynn books [especially the new collection of essays that just came out from Writer's Digest Books, The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory (May, 2007)].
  • Haiku: Cornell: Haiku/day and archive. Haiku links at North Carolina Haiku Soc. Haiku links at Millikan U. Heron's Nest (web haiku journal). http://nc-haiku.blogspot.com. Simply Haiku (web haiku journal). Roadrunner haiku journal.
    snapshotpress.co.uk/haiku_competition_details.htm. snapshotpress.co.uk haiku_competition_results.htm.
    Banish junk haiku.
  • Jeffery Bahr mag publication ranks.
  • Mags (specific): Homer (Northwestern, Chicago). Poems Niederngasse archives. Poetry Daily Archive and Poetry Daily NEWS. Poetry Center San Jose. Poetry Magazine (Ruth B. Lilly memorial). Poetry Northwest (returned 2005). Poetry Santa Cruz. Sarabande books. Sidereality.com. Smartish Pace. Smartish Pace sponsor Clemson lists other magazines. Paris Review. West Branch.
  • Yuki Teikei (the society of syllables and seasons). Yuki Teikei 2006
  • Raven Black: What kind of a poetic form are you?.
  • Tanka: American Tanka: submit. Kitakubo (english). wordle tanka_of_j._zimmerman. Tanka mag Eucalypt. Tanka Online. Tanka Society of America. TSA Contest. modern english tanka (MET) at modernenglishtanka.com.
• Political science: American Political Science Association. Polisci news (U. Mich). P.Ruckman (links).
  Polisci texts: Bardes chapters. Thomson polisci.
• Politics (SC, CA, emigration): ADVO: escape from ADVO ads.
  Canada: Immigrating into Canada. Canada 'skilled worker test'.
  California: CBA (California Broadcasters Association). California voter foundation: shows election returns. EPA. Fair Votes. California election results. CERES - California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (to improve environmental analysis and planning). Citizen rights: Watch of California government.
  Cruz: City of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation Commission. Santa Cruz, Ca county: Board of Supervisors archive.
  Iraq War started by George W. Bush.
  Marxist political thought.
  Phone: do not call registry. Politicalcompass.org/.
  U.S. Supreme Court.
  Right Web International Relations Center (architecture of power).
• Psychology:
  • Classical Texts from Psychcentral.
  • Cognitive Psych and Science: Tutor. Athabasca University Psychology Resources.
  • Death Clock (estimates your seconds left to live and your personal day of death).
  • Horoscope: Rob Brezsny Free Will Astrology
  • Mental Health: MH-CAN (Peer Support). MH-CAN writings (drafted by JZ).
  • Personality quiz: On-line psychology tests from healthyplace.com.
    psycheducation.org - depression.
    Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
    psychology matters.
  • Psychology (and related) course notes: Biopsychology. Cognitive Psychology. Criminal Behavior. Criminal Justice Glossary. Criminal Investigation. Death and Dying. The Enneagram and Psychology. Evolutionary Psychology. Optimism: Learned Optimism (by Martin E. P. Seligman). Pessimism: Defensive Pessimism (Norem). Personality Psychology. Research Psychology Methods. Political Science Introduction. Political Science Glossary.
  • Water maze: http://www.watermaze.org/.

• QA: Software QA and Testing Resource Center. Brian Marick's QA Testing.

• Radio: Fresh Air. KAZU. KAZU schedule. KUSP. KUSP schedule.
  Le Show, Harry Shearer's "Topical satire and social comment".

• sitemeter.
• Spanish: BBC Radio spanish. Books on Learning. Diccionarios.
  Dilbert (en español). Spanish Cervantes Center. Newsletter. Study.
  Diccionario de rima español: alcor.com.au rhyming_dictionary. mollyandedu.com. wideopendoors.net.

• Sport: 2008 olympics -- Guardian.

• Travel: '511 TakeTransit' (S.F. Bay Trip Planner). I Ride The Bus (Public Transportation in California).
  Hotwire. Travelocity.

• UK Lake District: FBA ferry cam. Keswick cam. Lakeland Cam. LC gov.uk cams.

• Volunteer: Grey Bears.

• Weather: NOAA hurricane center. Gustav at NOAA hurricane center. storm pulse's tornado watch (or witch or which).

• Web tools: HTML Validation Service.
  Search engine: Crawler simulator. Google vs Yahoo Graph. News Watch.

• Writing: NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) home. wordcount update.
  NaNoFiMo (National Novel Finishing Month) home. ("One writer. One unfinished novel. On December 1, the battle begins.")
  NaNoFiMo resources.
  Magazines: The Writer. Writer's Digest.

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