Links to this Blog
- Anne Rice repost on Katrina
- Canon Magazine, On Wonder
- January Magazine, a fiction blog
- New Pages a web directory for writers
feeding your brain
- All You Need to Know About Film from a film lecture by Frank Levy
- Arts and Letters Daily culled by the Chronicle of Higher Education
- New York Times Online decent journalism
- The Stone New York Times Philosophy Blog
- The Philosophical Lexicon, a satirical list of neologisms appropriate to philosophy
writers' toolbox
- Basic HTML Codes some basic code for adding links, etc.
- How to Write a Critical Analysis by Timothy Quigley
- How to Write a Philosophy Paper for undergraduates in philosophy
- How to Write a Sonnet In case you forgot
- Merriam Webster Online the dictionary or thesaurus
- OWL: Online Writing Lab A one stop resource for grammar, style, research papers, tips and resources
- Philosophical Terms and Methods a glossary of philosophical terms and their uses
- Research and Documentation Online quick guides for MLA, Chicago, and other styles
- Word Fugitives This gem from the Atlantic Monthly archive is no longer maintained, but if you want to locate ideas that have no lexical referent, this is your place.
web directories
web classics
- Dewey Browse The web organized according to the Dewey Decimal System
- Internet Public Library the best web sites culled and evaluated by librarians
- Open Directory Project a web directory maintained by web users in the spirit of open source
- Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Subject Guide A selected list of print and electronic sources
- Voice of the Shuttle organizes lit crit sites for English geeks
search engines
- Scroogle just like google, but "scrapes" your identifying information from google's servers
- TinyEye reverse image search
- WolframAlpha a computational search engine for specific queries
- WorldCat a one-stop search engine of the world's library holdings
full text books
- Confessions by Augustine, bishop of Hippo -- Tolle lege
- The New American Bible Hey, this is a decent translation if you need a biblical reference
- The Perseus Project a full-text database of ancient Greek and Latin texts
- The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman
- Rule of Benedict a 6th century rule for monks
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Nice. Free. Authoritative.
- Works of Kant When you need your transcendental fix (in German, and English too)
- Cake versus Pie: A Scientific Approach
- The Darwin Awards for those at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder
- The Postmodernism Generator (Or look here for a computer science generator) amusement only, not for plagiarism
- Why Nerds are Unpopular by Paul Graham
