Resources

Writing

• copyright and licensing
• William Strunk's The Elements of Style
• George Orwell's advice on effective writing
• alternative sources of reliable journalism
• Eigen's Political & Historical Quotations
• Roget's Thesaurus
• rhyming dictionary

Information technology

• roll yer own PC for mo' betta performance and value
• terrific programs whose creators generously offer them without charge or undue restrictions:
  • a fully featured free office suite that's cross-platform, multilingual, transparent, more robust, and more secure than Microsoft's offering
  • some free web browsers that outperform Microsoft's offering
  • free firewall and other security applications to prevent Windows from ruining your whole day
  • many free applications for the Palm OS
  • more quality free apps for Windows
  • escape Windows altogether
• prevent and avoid spam
• website authoring
  • XHTML reference
  • CSS reference
  • all you ever wanted to know about developing and maintaining a website
  • free accessibility verifier

Reality check

• daily news and opinion concerning the global campaign of armed plunder marketed as the War on Terror™
• the truth about war by MGen Smedley Butler USMC
• remarkable acts of purportedly democratic governments since WW2
• recent corporate corruption exposed
• the electronic frontier in the battle for freedom of speech
• modern industry's documented effects on the ecology

The legal system

• comprehensive Canadian legislation and freely accessible case law
• some known convictions of innocent people for the most serious of crimes, in Canada, the UK, other prominent countries, and worldwide
• copyleft: using copyright to benefit us all
• the ongoing legal battle over free and open source software (FOSS)
• two courageous laypeople force McDonald's to abandon some of its more reprehensible behaviour

Recreation

• skeleton sliding - the most fun you can have with your skin suit on!
• motorcycling techniques and technologies
• online rock climbing game
• sailing links
• always good for a laugh
• the obvious next Olympic sport