T.K. Welsh

Activism

NOLANOLESS
A fantastic site about life, love and lagniappe in New Orleans, as well as issues pertaining to recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

CUSP (Citizens United for Safe Passage)
A non-partisan, concerned parents organization promoting school busing for kids in Hopewell Valley, New Jersey.

Army Men Project
Mouths Wide Open is spreading plastic Army Men around the country and around the globe as small, everyday reminders of the ongoing horrors of the war in Iraq and to serve as tools to foster dialogue, action and resistance to the war.  One of the most inventive guerrilla marketing campaigns I've seen in years.

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Entertainment

BoingBoing
A fun resource of crazy things.

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News

NPR
Still the best streaming news source on the Net!

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Online Resources for Writers

GENERAL TOOLS
Quick answers from Answers.com:  Take a moment to download the Answers.com application. Then ALT click on any word, in any document, and it automatically defines the word.
Free Dictionary:  Another free dictionary (from Merriam-Webster), but without the cool Alt click function.
Free Encyclopedia:  Wikipedia is the best free encyclopedia on the Web. It’s a WIKI, which means that the worldwide community of Web users add to it every day.
Free Maps:  Mapquest:  The old favorite for maps.
Literary Resources:  A great location for several online resources, including Bartlett’s Quotations, and Roget’s Thesaurus … and it’s all free!
Holidays:  Forget when Thanksgiving is?  This site lists all major holidays … so you can send those online cards to your friends!
Time around the World:  Tired of waking up your Australian friends in the middle of the night?  Get the time in every part of the world … except cyberspace, of course!

SEARCH TOOLS
Mainstream Search
Google (The most accurate search engine); Yahoo! (Not bad); and MSN (If you want to make Gates richer).
More Esoteric Search
Ask (what happened to Gieves?); Dogpile (A “funnel” of multiple search sites. Saves you from going directly to 4 search engines seperately); Altavista (One of the original search engines, and still pretty good); High Beam (More than search, they say: It’s research. Good.); Clusty (One of my personal favorites; a search engine that provides automatic clustering of topics … to make your search easier.  Often far more useful than Google!).
Social Bookmarking Search (Communities)
Eurekster (Search powered by community members; share bookmarks and leverage the searches that others have already done!); Blinklist (Another social bookmarking/search engine; purchased by Google, and therefore billed as a “personal discovery engine”); kaboodle (Another social bookmarking/search engine, primarily useful for product search/shopping); and, of course, del.icio.us (The granddaddy of social bookmarking/search engines, based on user-defined/user-generated tags - AKA categories).
Blog Search
Technorati (A great blog search tool);  Blog Search Engine (Decent blog search engine - the name says everything); Blogdigger (Good blog search engine); Blog Pulse (A very cool search engine from Nielsen SearchMetrics, and a personal favorite); Blog Search (from Blogger); the Google blog search engine; and the Yahoo! blog search engine.
RSS Feeds
Feedster (A search engine for RSS feeds - news, blogs and podcasts).

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The Environment

EnviroMapper
The EnviroMapper for Envirofacts allows you to enter your zip code and see what's lurking -- from superfund sites to hazardous waste zones -- in the environment around you.

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The General Slocum

Ship Ablaze:  The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Broadway Books - Random House)
The definitive non-fiction account of the General Slocum disaster by Edward T. O'Donnell.  For more information, go to http://www.general-slocum.com/.

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