TROUBLING INFORMATION

Craig Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism” (2002). C. Wright Mills, “On Intellectual Craftsmanship” (1959). Lion Kimbrough, How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003). A treasury of Tom Swift texts. An infinity of George W. Bush speeches. NASA’s Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Christian Bök’s Eunoia. The 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Awards. Seymour Hersh’s address to the ACLU (July 8, 2004) on the unfolding story of American war crimes. People write exactly one hundred words a day and leave them at a website. Discussions among testy copyeditors. An outline of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. A scientific method FAQ. The 1,000 Journals Project. A chronology of the secretarial profession. US Presidents’ inaugural addresses and state of the union messages from George Washington to the present. Online books at Project Gutenberg and Bartleby.com. 100 top American speeches, most with links to .mp3 audio versions. Online book directories: The Online Books Page at The University of Pennsylvania, links to collections and archives at the University of Adelaide, and a collection of links at The British Columbia Digital Library.

Biro-Web: “Made with Pens.” 100 Random Colors. How to Write Efficient CSS. Mozilla HTML/CSS markup reference.

Find wireless hotspots at wifinder.com, wi-fihotspotlist.com, or jiwire.com.

Tie fishing knots. Make a paper CD case and even print stuff on the back. Pick locks. Learn about diseases at The Centers for Disease Control’s Kids’ Pages. Become an artist. Improve your American Sign Language at The ASL Browser. A dog who can skateboard.

Singing science records. The music of Senator Orrin Hatch. Dialtones: a telesymphony. Copyleft music at Loca Records. A collection of ASCII/MIDI music videos. Largeheartedboy mp3 download links — also Mystery and Misery and Our Lady of Perpetual Obsolescence Vinyl Rescue Mission and Orphanage. Also The Album of the Moment and Fluxblog and Ubuweb and ‘Buked and Scorned. Stairway to Heaven backwards. The Online Guide to Whistling Records. Shooby Taylor, the human horn. The archives of Stunted Development, a weekly radio music show from Richmond, Virginia. Classic Cat: a catalog of 1,500 free-to-download classical pieces. Asian classical music and other Ibiblio music archives. Beware of the Blog at WFMU. Two Hundred and Sixty-Eight Splendid MP3 Weblogs. Webmidifyer: “Reads textual data from any web site and converts it to MIDI music.” Then use Mobile 17 to make that into a cellphone ringtone. The Live Music Archive. Strange Reaction. monkeySARS: “A humble mp3 blog for the socially inept.”

Starlings stealing quarters from a car wash. A passenger pigeon page. N’kisi, the joking, telepathic parrot. More parrots with lots to say. Many pages of beautiful fish at the Australian National Oceans Office. Bones is a Redbone Coonhound who has accepted Jesus. Cicadamania.com tracks the emergence of the 2004 Brood X cicadas. Crows at Crows.net and For the Love of Crows.

Photographer’s Formulary: chemicals for alternative photographic processes. Free-for-use photos at The DHD Multimedia Gallery and Openphoto.net. The Rasterbator makes huge posters out of small images. Eric Etheridge’s Sky Hi: Small Signs gallery. Alec Soth’s Sleeping on the Mississippi gallery. Benjamin Pierce’s photos of Eniac. Photos of abandoned places.

Google searches mail-order catalogs. JC Whitney, the online version of the magnificent old paper catalog for automobile parts. Edmund Scientific. The Estes model rockets catalog, present-day, and the Estes catalog from 1973. Campmor and REI.

“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn’t there. Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn’t there and shouting ‘I found it!’” — Atheists of Silicon Valley. Inevitably, The Church of Euthanasia and Landover Baptist Church. Free deliverance at demonbuster.com. An appearance of the Holy Spirit at a Citgo station in Clarksville, Arkansas. Perhaps Ashtar Sheran has the answer. Christian gifts. A miracle arrangement consultancy. The Official God FAQ. Important information about Hell. Jesus revealed in the clouds. CrossDaily.com’s directory of personal Christian websites — see also fishthe.net. The Jesus Picture. The Jesus Nebula. The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities. Jesus of the Week. Johnny the Baptist,