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Support America's active-duty military personnel and vets: Soldier's Angels: including Project Valour-IT USA Cares: helping post-9/11 military families with financial & advocacy support Spirit of America: Help US Troops Win Hearts & Minds Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund: help Marines, sailors, and their families meet financial needs Freedom Is Not Free: aiding wounded service members and their families Troops Need You: mobilizing citizens in direct support of troops in combat Welcome Back Veterans: helping Iraq & Afghan campaign vets transition back to civilian life Paralyzed Veterans of America: do I need to spell it out? Fisher House: helping military families Operation Uplink: phone cards for troops Products for Good: $20M goal to assist charities for the families of wounded and fallen heroes from the War on Terror Move America Forward: another great support-the-troops via charitable assistance organization |
Photography by Daniel Chusid My San Diego bro's photo galleries |
Isn't life Terrible Don Brockway on the heights and depths of popular culture |
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Red State Update |
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Blast Books Fascinating illustrated books on cultural and historical phenomena Laura Lindgren and Ken Swezey, Publishers |
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Shari Elf Good and Sturdy Art made from... STUFF! |
I Can Has Cheezburger lolcats and other lolspecies |
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Leroy Shield tribute site The uncredited composer behind Hal Roach film music |
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Bob Thompson An overlooked genius of 1950s-60s Space Age Pop |
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The Bran Flakes Smile. Happy. Fun. Kitty. Pillow. Cloud. Love. Eraser? One Flake's site: OtisFodder.com Otis also does web design: Example7 |
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Amy Annelle "A desert troubadour with a dark and compelling vision" |
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JB Spins
Jazz and improvised politics. |
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JD King Illustration
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John Thorn: Thorn Pricks Scholarly, eloquent baseball history |
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John Strausbaugh: Fiction Stories by a fine writer better known as one of the last honorable journalists |
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Ward-O-Matic: Art, Animation, Pleasing Aesthetics
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Deeper Into Music OK, the Beach Boys have 12 songs in rotation -- but Yo La Tengo has 55 |
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Letters of Note Shaun Usher: "an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos" |
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Know Your Meme
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Basta Audio-Visuals
Home of the Beau Hunks, Raymond Scott, and other fine artists |
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Maria Levitsky: Photos About Architecture Interiors, staircases, night scenes, and ghosts photographed by my WFMU colleague |
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Mike Lupica: Read:My:Back
Get Outta that Spaceship and Fight Like a Man |
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Chris Kluge: NJ's Master Puppetman
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D. Gorton
Photographer and documentarian of Rural America |
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Jan Staller Another fine photographer |
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Snopes.com
The truth is out there. So is a lot of bullshit. Snopes helps you tell the diff. Urban legends, internet hoaxes, cybermyths. |
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All About the Optigan
Pea Hicks chronicles Mattel's obsolete parlor organ, the cheapest sound around. |
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The Society of American Baseball Research (SABR)
Why did Brooklyn catcher Bill Bergen, who batted .170 lifetime, last 11 seasons in the bigs? For those who are curious. |
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Dennis Diken: Denny's Den |
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Sport Murphy: Sport Spiel
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Ladislaw Starewicz, Animation Pioneer
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Cracked Latin (The World Is)
Lane Steinberg & Luis Accorsi throwing a gently illuminative musical light on the Spanglification of North America |
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Barsuk Records coffee mugs
Don't care about their artist roster -- just their caffeine tankards |
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Useful: The Racial Slur Database
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updated 12 December 2009