Bob Slevc -- Links

Libraries, journals & other research-related stuff
(some links may require a university network connection or proxy):

a few that I often use:
-- Cognition
-- Cognitive Psychology
-- JEP: General or LMC
-- Journal of Memory and Language
-- Language & Cognitive Processes
-- Psychological Review
-- Psychological Science
-- Trends in Cognitive Sciences

VassarStats - Statistical Computation Site

News & other stuff worth reading:: The Onion | America's Finest News Source; New York Times; Boing Boing; McSweeneys; Houston:
-- Houstonist
-- Free Press Houston
-- Houston Press; San Diego:
-- San Diego CityBeat
-- San Diego Reader
-- Latest Earthquake Info for Southern CA; Science (mostly):
-- Mind Hacks
-- Cognitive Daily
-- Mixing Memory
-- Sound and Mind
-- SciTech Daily Review
-- Language Log

Fun (and sometimes useful) language links:: Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia); an IPA chart; Lexical FreeNet - Connected thesaurus; Latent Semantic Analysis at CU Boulder; AltaVista Babelfish - translate things.; more Babelfish fun: lost in translation; The "I Can Eat Glass" Project (Lahko jem steklo, pa me ne boli.); Wordnet, home of A.Word.A.Day and the Internet Anagram Server; Luciferous Logolepsy; The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

etc.: I co-founded this fine Think Tank (unfortunately, the thinktank website is temporarily on hiatus); My brother is part of the best children's theater in the Rockies: tRUNks!; He also helps make really awesome puzzle boxes.; and sometimes he writes poems, occasionally in a poetry battle.; Kayak.com - go somewhere.; FlightView.com - friends don't let friends take taxis.; The Straight Dope (Cecil knows everything, honest.); How stuff works; Make; Starbucks de-locator - find a local non-corporate coffeeshop; Online guide to the American Southwest (particularly California); AddALL - book search and price comparison; (similarly, All Bookstores dot com and BookFinder4U dot com); Labyrinth Books; Powell's Books; Freestyle Camera; CD Baby (independent music); Bleep (more music); cheap-CDs (music you've actually heard of); RIAA Radar (was that album released by a RIAA member?); OLGA (the On-Line Guitar Archive); Want a t-shirt? Look at Threadless or Preshrunk or Tcritic

Do good and/or pester government officials online:: Act for Change; The American Civil Liberties Union; Amnesty International; EcologyFund; The Electronic Frontier Foundation; The Hunger Site (and related sites); The Union of Concerned Scientists

Some things that I find amusing:: Animals Have Problems Too; Calvin and Hobbes; For the slightly more obsessive fan: The Calvin and Hobbes Jumpstation; Dinosaur Comics; Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (more info here); Muffin Films; It's PBJ Time; PhD Comics (learn what grad school is really like...); Science made stupid; Scissors Paper Stone; September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day!; xkcd; Web Zen

Computer geek stuff
: Folding at Home - why not use your computer's downtime for research?; MacInTouch, MacNN, MacSurfer and Accelerate your Mac; Apple Error Codes; Mac OS X Hints; ResExcellence; VersionTracker; Beginning HTML at htmlgoodies.com; DealMac; Stuff that's FREE (after rebate)