Updated 4/15/06

Inside The Observatory

• The Observatory -- Front Page; links to recent articles

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• Blogozone -- my shortlived first blog page.
• Al-Fubar -- my shortlived second blog (next time, it's Blogger!)
• Hot Flashes and Political Flashes -- used to be my most recent stuff.
• Capitalism: the Great Game -- Business winners and whiners.
• Politics -- Yellow-dog Democrat!
• Fiction and Speculation -- Exactly what it says.
• Science and Technology -- From whiz-bangs to the stars ...
• History -- It isn't what they told you in high school.
• Culture Vulture -- It's fun to live in a decadent civilization!
• Shameless Plug-- I'm for hire!
• Simulation Software -- My own home-made toys.
• About Me -- As if you really care ...

Hot  Links

• Google -- When you've gotta google.
• Salon -- Still hanging in there.
• Slate -- Parsley for political junkies: sort of unavoidable.
• Sky & Telescope -- The magazine's site.
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia -- Latest finds.
• Latest Polls -- Up-to-date numbers from PollingReport.
• Daily Howler -- Keeping an eye on the press.
• Democrats Forum -- Online political clubhouse.

Politics

• PollingReport.com -- Keep track of the latest poll numbers.
• Talking Points Memo -- Josh Marshall's blog site.  He's well-plugged-in to the Beltway, and this is a must-read site.
• Daily Kos -- Not plugged into the Beltway, but also a must-read blog site.  The link is to his elections archive page, because that's what I have bookmarked, but follow the links from there to the rest.
• The Emerging Democratic Majority -- Ruy Teixiera's blog-like page, also a must-read, but only updated every few days.
• Salon -- Struggling, but still afloat. 
• Slate -- Painfully conventional views, but still a resource.  Better than Salon now, which is kind of sad, really ...
• CNN AllPolitics -- If you missed "Inside Politics" on TV today ...
• The New Republic -- The Old Hat, but still the standard vaguely progressive beltway-zine.  Most stuff now requires subscription, but probably isn't worth it.  I'm leaving the link, though.
• Drudge -- Useful for the links.
• Weekly Standard -- Natural law permits one intelligent rightie magazine, and this used to be it.  Now they've gone stupid, also subscription for most articles.  I'll link it till a decent new one comes along.
• Free Republic -- Ever wonder what happened to Birchers?  Well, now they're "Freepers," and this is where they hang out.
• Daily Howler -- Deconstructing the "liberal" media, but kind off the radar now.
• American Politics Journal -- So rowdy I hardly follow them any more.
• Opensecrets -- Find out who's paying the piper.
• The Economist -- View from (the rightish side of) the Scepter'd Isle.
• New York Times -- The Gray Lady, with all the news that fits ...
• Washington Post -- Incredibly overrated, but still the Beltway rag.
• Los Angeles Times -- Sprawls like the freeway system; shameless in the Staples Center thing ... but still probably the best of the Big Three.
• Blue Ribbon Campaign -- Defenders of Internet free speech.
• Democrats Forum -- Compuserve's answer to Tammany Hall.

Science and Technology

• Arxiv.org -- Preprints of journal articles on astrophysics and other fields, updated every weekday.  Way cool stuff!
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia  -- Best site for extrasolar planets; regular, quick update of discoveries.  (A French site, but in English)
• Sky and Telescope -- The magazine's site -- news updates and great pix.
• Stars -- Fun site for astronomy basics, including nice little writeups about a couple of hundred stars.   Since I've read all the back ones, now I mainly check the Star of the Week.
• NASA Science -- What they're up to, with links to other NASA and space science news.
• Lynette Cook's Images -- Gorgeous speculative views of extrasolar planets and other things cosmic.
• Blue Ribbon Campaign -- Defenders of Internet free speech.

Serious Money

• The Economist -- Rather full of themselves -- what Brit isn't? -- but still a mainstay resource, especially compared to US biz-zines.
• Financial Times -- The Empire really strikes back.

SF / Fantasy

• Tamora Pierce -- YA fantasy author.  Her girl heroes are tougher than you are ...  :)
• Locus -- The bigger trade-zine in the SF field.
• Science Fiction Chronicle -- The other trade-zine.  Which is better?  Whichever gives a better review to my book when it comes out!
• Infinity Wanderers -- Alternative History fiction and discussion; co-host of Tarrantry.
• Carla Nayland -- 6th century England, and a land not all that far from Lyonesse.

Generally Bizarre

• Free Republic -- Okay, it's political, but also truly bizarre ...
• Darwin Awards -- People who should never have dived into the gene pool.
• News of the Weird -- exactly what it says.
• Urban Legends Reference Pages -- find out if the Kentucky Fried Rat story, and others like it, are really true.

Toyz 4 Boyz -- 4 Girlz 2   :)

• Battleships Carriers and All Other Warships -- The very best bathtub toys.  (Large bathtubs only.)  Battleship v. Battleship, Naval Fiction, and Design a Navy/Ship discussion boards.
• Tarrantry -- Fictional small country with a big navy.   This is my own (out-of-date) T-verse page, but with off-site links.
• NYCSubway.org -- Rail transit junkie?   Primarily an NY subway site, but with sections on / links to just about everything.
• Bridges -- Everything you could possibly want to know, with lots of cool pix (mostly British). 
• AVWEB -- Aviation news and columns.
• SFCONSIM-L -- Space warfare discussion.  Technically a gaming board, but general concepts get a lot of discussion, too.
• Atomic Rockets -- Everything you need to know for Hard SF (or even semi-hard) spaceship design and operation.  Way cool, and not just because he quotes me, but somewhat graphics-intensive.
• Attack Vector -- If you only buy one space warfare game, this should be the one.

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Last revised 04/24/2007 ... by RM Robinson

Email me: Lyonesse@compuserve.com

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