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Updated: 28 January 2008 Actors' Equity Association, est. 1913. http://www.actorsequity.org/ Annual Credit Report. Free report. https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA. http://www.cac.ca.gov/ craigslist.com for classified ads worldwide. http://www.craigslist.org/about/ Currency Converter for 164 Currencies. http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic Darwin Awards: A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises. http://www.darwinawards.com/ Haunted America Tours. http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/ Kairos. "…[R]hetoric, technology, & pedagogy." http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/ National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. http://www.nea.gov/ The New York Times Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/ Political Research Associates. http://www.publiceye.org/ Rotten Tomatoes: Movie & game reviews. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ Travelocity: Airfares, hotels. http://www.travelocity.com/ Typing Test.com: How fast can you type? http://www.typingtest.com/ UNESCO World Heritage Centre. http://whc.unesco.org/en/map/ (map of sites), http://whc.unesco.org/en/list (list) COMBATING RACISM ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union): Racial Justice Program. http://www.aclu.org/racialjustice/index.html AAAA (American Assoc. for Affirmative Action) for HR professionals. http://www.affirmativeaction.org/ "Being church & overcoming racism," WCC (World Council of Churches). http://www2.wcc-coe.org/ccdocuments.nsf/index/plen-4-en.html "Bullying & Racism," Lawpack UK. http://www.lawpack.co.uk/bullying.asp Color Q World: Interracial Interactions Btwn. People of Color. http://www.colorq.org/default.aspx EEOC (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). http://www.eeoc.gov/ "How Not To Be Racist: A rosy outlook on life makes some people immune to racial prejudice." http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/how-not-to-be-racist HRW (Human Rights Watch): Defending human rights worldwide. Multilingual. http://www.hrw.org/ "Language of Closet Racism." http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/langofracism2.html National MultiCultural Institute, Washington, DC. http://www.nmci.org/ NNIRR (National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights). http://www.nnirr.org/index.php Race in the Workplace: How diversity, race and racism affect our working lives. http://www.raceintheworkplace.com/ Say NO to Racism, New Brunswick, Canada. http://www.gnb.ca/hrc-cdp/e/sayno.htm "A Short History of American Civil Rights Laws." http://www.withylaw.com/history.htm SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center): Intelligence Project, monitors U.S. hate groups. http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intpro.jsp "Theological Deconstruction & Reconstruction in the Fight against Racism," WCC (World Council of Churches). http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/echoes/echoes-17-06.html Tolerance.org: SPLC project. http://www.tolerance.org/index.jsp ZNet Race Watch. Resources on immigration, institutional racism, culture. http://www.zmag.org/racewatch/racewatch.cfm COMBATING SEXISM "Alongside racism, sexism must be addressed," HRW (Human Rights Watch). http://hrw.org/press/2001/09/racism-women.htm Equal Rights Advocates. http://www.equalrights.org/ National Council of Women's Organizations. http://www.womensorganizations.org/ NOW (The National Organization for Women). http://www.now.org/ "Style Manual: Nonsexist Language." http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/style/language-bias.html MEDIA Democracy Now! Community media collab. http://www.democracynow.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation: Defending Freedom in the Digital World. http://www.eff.org/ Iconoculture Advisory Services. Consumer trends. http://www.iconoculture.com/ MuniNetGuide. Municipal related research. http://www.muninetguide.com/ NetworkWorld.com. Info tech news. http://www.networkworld.com/aboutus/default.html New America Media (est. 1996). Ethnic news media collab. http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/ NNDB: tracking the entire world. http://www.nndb.com/ Publishers Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/ SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Daily Moon Position for Your Location. http://www.dailymoonposition.com JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Robotics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA. http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/ Live from Mt. Wilson! (CA) http://nightskylive.net/mw/ NASA: Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html NetFamilyNews.org: Kid-tech news for parents. http://www.netfamilynews.org/ time and date.com: Time zone converter, day & night world map. http://www.timeanddate.com/ Tonight's Sky. http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky/ U.S. Naval Observatory. Astronomical Applications Dept. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/index.php SEARCH ENGINES Dogpile.com metasearch, includes Google, Yahoo! Serach, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, etc. Excite.com Google.com, includes Netscape Lycos.com Mamma.com metasearch MetaCrawler.com metasearch Yahoo.com, includes AltaVista SYMBOLS Crest Japan: Family crests. http://eps.crest-japan.net/index_en.php Design for You: Japanese Symbols. http://www.dsfy.com/index.htm Symbols.com: Western Signs & Ideograms. Search by graphic or word. http://www.symbols.com/ Symbols.net: Signs, Glyphs, & Symbols. http://www.symbols.net/ Western African Wisdom: Adinkra Symbols & Meanings. http://www.welltempered.ent/adinkra/htmls/adinkra_index.htm URBAN LEGENDS, HOAXES, & SCAMS About.com: Urban Legends & Folklore. http://urbanlegends.about.com/ Symantec Security Response. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ Urban Legends & Superstitions. http://urbanlegendsonline.com/ US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team), Dept. of HL Security. http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-009.html Warphead.com. Urban legends. http://www.warphead.com/modules/news/ WRITERS' RESOURCES The Authors Guild. http://www.authorsguild.org/ Merriam-Webster online dictionary. http://www.merriam-webster.com/ Merriam-Webster visual dictionary. http://visual.merriam-webster.com/ PEN USA, nonprofit writers organization. http://penusa.org/go Writer Beware blogs by A. C. Crispin and Victoria Strauss. http://accrispin.blogspot.com/ Writer's Digest Magazine. http://www.writersdigest.com/ Writers Guild of America, West. http://www.wga.org/ |
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