| TIME 100: The Next Wave This special feature from Time.com profiles innovators -- individuals who devise fresh solutions to eternal questions and contemporary problems. The current focus is on spiritual leaders who inspire others by resolving contradictions and identifying new paths toward inner and outer harmony. We read about an Islamic scholar, an African-American practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, a Jewish webmaster, and a New Age counselor. Previous editions of Innovators have focused on creative minds in the fields of design, science, finance, and web endeavors. |
| Altculture.com (R.I.P.) Altculture is an awesome "online encyclopedia of contemporary culture spanning the worlds of art, film, music, print media, sports, style, technology, and belief." All things alternative are cataloged here, from Ab Fab and adbusters to zines and Zapatistas. Altculture is a web survivor that keeps pace with the changing Net. In a move that exalts and enhances offbeat, independent online journalism, altculture recently joined forces with fellow web pioneers Suck and Feed Magazine to form Automatic Media. |
| I was a Negro in the South for 30 Days In August 1948, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette began to publish Ray Sprigle's serialized 21-part account of his month-long "undercover" experience as a black man in the Jim Crow South. Now you can read the book-length series on the newspaper's web site, unedited and accompanied by photographs. A conservative Republican and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, Sprigle was 61 years old when he visited rural and urban southern black communities with a noted Atlanta, Georgia, community leader as his guide. His impassioned rhetoric, perceptive conversations, and clearly drawn impressions describe a way of life "not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either." |
| Local Harvest There are a number of great reasons to buy produce from your local farmer. You support the local economy, treat your body right, and (perhaps most importantly) eat food that tastes better. Local Harvest is a non-profit group that carefully nourishes and prunes an "organic" directory of small farms across the country. Just click on the zoomable map to find a farmer's market, organic farm, u-pick farm, or dairy producer near you. Say goodbye to that empty, sinking feeling one associates with the frozen foods aisle. |
| Librarian Avengers If you're not careful, this bad-to-the-bone librarian site will kick your pasty, non-librarian tush all over the map. Librarian Avengers serves up a heady mix of librarian rants, comic book heroes, and myth-shattering testimonials from the library front. After viewing this site, you will cower and tremble in front of all librarians before you: "Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And they will kick the crap out of anyone who says otherwise." |
| America from the Great Depression to World War II The Library of Congress continues its Herculean effort to digitize its vast archive of original documents with this exhibit of photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information Collection. The daunting task of wading through 100,000 photographs (!) is ameliorated by a suite of very handy search functions, which let you browse by subject or geographic location. You can also grab a quick overview of the collection in the staff favorites section. |
| ClicheSite.com If a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, then the Cliche Site will keep you entertained until the cows come home. Why spend time kicking a dead horse when you can browse this annotated index of way-too-popular phrases? You'll find old chestnuts like "around the horn" and "no skin off my nose," as well as newcomers like...well, actually they're all old chestnuts. Tuck in. |
| Television Passings Whether you and your colleagues are planning a 2001 Dead Pool or you're simply a TV fan with a case of morbid curiosity, you'll want to visit this no-frills, fast-loading, black-banded site. "A Current Roster of Recent Deaths in the Television World" helps you stay abreast of the ultimate comings and goings of your favorite TV show stars, personalities, and producers. Each mini-obituary consists of a photo and professional profile of the departed. Now, if only there was a way to sort by show, we could figure out who's still alive from the cast of Star Trek, M*A*S*H, and other bygone yet eternal favorites. |
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