Poetry and Forests and Buddhism -- and Japanese and psychology and money

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• Cruz:
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• Dictionaries and encyclopediae:
  Babelfish. The Free Dictionary. Maps. mapsonus.com.
  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."]
  OED WOTD 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.
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  • botany.utoronto.ca/Courses/BOT307.
  • British Ecological Society.
  • Class notes: Ecology; Evolution.
  • Climate Change course [Scripps at Earthguide].
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  • Fungus: Keeping the Fun in Fungus.
    Charles Baughman distant river fungus_walk_01
  • redwood hikes maps.
  • www.itis.gov.
  • Journals: Nature. New Scientist.
  • NASA.
  • Ocean and Climate Change Inst. (Woods Hole).
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  • Science Daily.
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• Education:
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  request a Sundry account for CruzID Access
  Stanford iTunes site (includes lots of lectures).

• English and language:
  GGU OWL for students. plagiarismchecker.com.
  Gutenberg catalog.
  The world's 6,912 known living languages.

• Exercise:
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    calculate pounds of CO2 saved by not driving.
    bike blog.
  • Half marathon: SJ half marathon
  • Pilates.
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• Food: Epicurious. My favorite recipes
  
  • Chocolate: Callebaut chocolate. chocosphere.com. Cloister chocolate reviews.
    Theobroma cacao:
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    Chocolate Diets: Women's Stress Buster and other Diet recommendations.
    Chocolate History.
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    Glossy chocolate glossary.
    Rosenblum on chocolate. Alice Medrich on chocolate. Fran Bigelow on chocolate.
    Chocolate Taste Tests:
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    • The Two Chloés: plain chocolate bars taste test.
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• Fun:
  God(dess) checker. humanclock.com.
  Rob's pic recommend'n.

• Greek (Ancient) UCSC auditor notes: Ancient Greek 1. Ancient Greek 2. Ancient Greek 3. Ancient Greek pronunciation.

• Haiku:
  Bottle Rockets.
  Chrysanthemum english.
  Cornell: Haiku/day and archive.
  Gendai Haiku: iyume.com. gendaihaiku.com.
  Haiku foundation.
  Haiku foundation montage.
  Haiku links at North Carolina Haiku Soc.
  Haiku links at Millikan U.
  Heron's Nest (web haiku).
  Haiku: navigate to 'Volume Contents' herons nest.
  HPNC, haiku poets of northern california.
  Lynx.
  http://nc-haiku.blogspot.com.
  Roadrunner haiku journal.
  Simply Haiku 2010 onward (web haiku journal).
  snapshotpress.co.uk/haiku_competition_details.htm. snapshotpress.co.uk haiku_competition_results.htm.
  Banish junk haiku.
  wordle haiku_of_j._zimmerman.
  Yuki Teikei HS (the society of syllables and seasons) YTHS and Geppo and contests.

• History: fsmitha.com history

• Japanese:
  Books: Japanese books. Barron's Japanese Grammar.
  Japanese: Japanese rattlebrain. Japanese about.com. Japanese a.c. intro.
  Japanese grammar: guidetojapanese Grammar.
  GWU Japanese animation.
  Jisho dictionary: jisho kanji radicals.
  Tae Kim: Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese. Tae Kim's hiragana tester. Tae Kim's Japanese grammar.
  Translate.google.com: English to Japanese.
  Yookoso McGraw-Hill Japanese: Yookoso student view. Yookoso information. Yooshoko concentration game @ mesacc.edu.
  thejapanesepage grammar.

• Knitting: ravelry

• Law: CA DMV

• Literature:
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  • Nobel prize.
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  • Great books.com
  • mcsweeneys.net submit for quarterly.
  • Playwriting (VCU): homepage; format.
  • Today in Literature.

• Medicine: e-medicine (Dr. Dawn recommends). High fiber diet.
  National Osteoperosis Foundation. PatientPlus (UK for doctors). CPR Pro.
  AMA doctor finder.

• Money:
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    Vanguard: VBINX ROTH. VIVAX VALUE. VTSAX total market.
    VCAIX Cal bond. [compare VFITX Vanguard Inter-Term Treasury Inv. CLMPX Columbia Funds Trust 9 Calif TE Fund Class A. NVC Nuveen California Select Quality Muni Funds . MMHYX MFS Series 3 Muni High I. also VFIAX, VBTLX, VBILX, AIVSX, VGSIX, HPQ]
    Vanguard I: VFIAX 500. VBTLX total bond. VGSlX Reit. VTIAX International.
    VQNPX Vgd Growth and Income. Also BEQGX, VADAX (Am Cent Eq G, MS V-A mkt). VGTSX (sim foreign). HCP all data.
    Market Watch: Market Watch. Markets in Market Watch.
  • Tax: IRS (1-800-829-1040, 24*7).
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    Uncle Fed tax help. WorldWideWeb Tax. California Tax Library.

• Music:
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  • Ukulele:
    • Jam at crow's nest.
    • Live Ukulele.
    • Beginner lessons Hawaii Music.
    • Brits ukulele Shaft video. ukulelehunt ukulele-101.
    • ukuleleclub.
    • ukulele-wunderkind.

• News: advfn. 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.
  Wiki News. digg.com/politics.

• Outdoors: Yosemite newsletter.
  link to the (free) pdf for Big Basin.
  David Baselt's map (Big B).

• Poetry:
  • Beowulf: Heorot Hall in Denmark. Anglo-Saxon reading. Anglo Saxon poetry Alliteration (uk).
  • 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.
    Contests at Poetry in the Arts: poetry contests. chapbook competitions.
    Poetry Archive.
  • Jeffery Bahr mag publication ranks.
  • Mags (specific): Georgia Review links. Homer (Northwestern, Chicago). Poems Niederngasse archives. Poetry Daily Archive and Poetry Daily NEWS HTM or Poetry Daily NEWS PHP.
    Poetry Center San Jose. Poetry Magazine (Ruth B. Lilly memorial). Poetry Northwest (returned 2005). Poetry Santa Cruz. Rattle. Sarabande books. Sidereality.com. Smartish Pace. Smartish Pace sponsor Clemson lists other magazines. Paris Review.
  • Raven Black: What kind of a poetic form are you?.
  • Rhyming dictionaries at alcor.com.au.
  • Submissions (non-haiku, non-tanka):
    • Watershed @ CSU Chico.

• 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.
  California: CBA (California Broadcasters Association). California voter foundation: shows election returns. electoral-vote.com. 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.
  coalition Iraq War dead (2003-2008) 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:
  • 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.
    Red Dwarf personality test.
  • 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.

• QA: Software QA and Testing Resource Center.

• Radio:
  bbc.co.uk/radio 3. Fresh Air. KAZU.
  KUSP. kusp poetry show archive.
  Le Show, Harry Shearer's "Topical satire and social comment".
  WRITER'S ALMANAC TODAY (Garrison Keillor).

• sitemeter.

• Tanka: American Tanka: submit.
  Contests: Haiku Foundation calendar_contests. HPNC contests. Contest TSA 2011?.
  Eucalypt (tanka mag).
  Kitakubo (english).
  modern english tanka (MET) at modernenglishtanka.com.
  Tanka News.
  Tanka Online.
  TSA Tanka Society of America. TSA Ribbons Call for Submissions. TSA Ribbons Call for Articles. TSA Contest.
  wordle tanka_of_j._zimmerman.

• 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:
  El Nino: El nino via NOAA. ENSO (El nino Southern Oscillation) @ NOAA.
  Hurricane: NOAA hurricane center. storm pulse's tornado watch.
  Pacific Ocean Weather.
  w.underground Santa_Cruz weather.

• Web tools: HTML Validation Service. NetMechanic Tools. NetMechanic Tool to check HTML.
  Search engine: metasearch at ixquick.com. Crawler simulator. Google vs Yahoo Graph. Wolfram Alpha.
  information about virus hoaxes. Cruzio Virus Info page. Search engines: News Watch.

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

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