Useful Sites, Mailing Lists and Newsgroups

Here is a list of sites I find more or less useful and that I re-visit often or recommend to friends. I guess you can tell something about me depending on what I link to here. I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. Also check out my homepage, with links to sites I visit almost every day.

Veganism

Vegan Beer List

Geraint Bevan's excellent list of beers and breweries with notes if the products are suitable for vegans.

Note that the absolute majority of the beer with an origin in Sweden and Denmark (I live in Sweden, very close to Denmark) is vegan by tradition. The only stuff to be suspicious about is when a brewery decides to do an ale or stout in the Anglo-Saxon brewing tradition.

Vegan Wines

Vegan wines sorted by country of origin. Sadly, not many of these are available in Sweden.

Vegetarian Shoes

A shop for shoes not made of leather. Great products, especially the Airseal range. My first pair of Airseal Paratrooper Boots lasted over seven years! I gave my second pair to my vegan son after five years and I'm now on my third pair after more than twelve years as a happy customer.

I also have a pair of vegan shoes from Underground.

Djurens rätt

The largest Swedish animal rights group.

PETA

People for the Ethical Treatmeant of Animals, the largest US animal rights group.

Libertarian Socialism

Anarchism FAQ

A tremendously in-depth collection of answers to frequently asked questions on the subject of Libertarian Socialism or Anarchism.

In my experience, the most often asked question is answered in Section I, What would an Anarchist society look like?.

Spunk Library

An archive of images and writing on Libertarian Socialism I founded in 1993 with my net.friends Ian (RIP!), Jack and Chuck0. I haven't been involved for many years now, and neither has anyone else, but the archive is still there.

My mirror of the Spunk Library.

Practical Anarchy

In 1992 I helped Chuck0 bring his zine Practical Anarchy online as an e-mail magazine. It lives on as the official online magazine of The Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.

Arbetaren

A Swedish Libertarian Socialist weekly.

Scientific Scepticism, Hoaxes and Strange Phenomena

What's the Harm?

What's the harm of not thinking critically? What's the harm of so called alternative medicine? What's the harm of homeopathy? Check with Tim Farley's fantastic site What's the Harm? for these subjects and many more.

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

The largest US organisation for scientific scepticism.

Vetenskap och folkbildning

The largest Swedish organisation for scientific scepticism.

The Skeptic's Dictionary

A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions.

Hoax Busters

Hoax Busters helps you identify extraordinary warnings (usually delivered by e-mail) as hoaxes.

Fortean Times

A magazine for strange phenomena in the tradition of Charles Fort.

Secrets & Lies

Wikileaks

Information from whistleblowers worldwide.

Cryptome

John Young's Cryptome. More whistleblowing and leaked material, with focus mostly on the US.

Programming, Networking and Cryptography

FreeBSD

My favourite production quality operating system.

Freshmeat

New free programs for you! A site that publishes news about free programs every day, indexed per category et cetera.

You can also follow the announcements through their NNTP interface by reading the fm.announce and the fm.articles newsgroups at news.freshmeat.net. However, there are a lot of announcements these days.

Granted, most of the projects here are abondonware, but sometimes you can find a gem you knew nothing about.

Programming in C

A large collection of useful stuff if you're programming in the C programming language.

Usenet and Mailing Lists

I subscribe to only a few Usenet newsgroups, mostly about old computers, programming and cryptography. The newsgroup alt.folklore.computers is worth a special mention. It's a tremendous high volume group mostly about computer history, tales, folklore and thread drift.

I subscribe to a whole lot of mailing lists, but I read most of them through my News and mail client Gnus using Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's wonderful Gmane mail to News gateway. Most of the mailing lists I follow deal with FreeBSD, NetBSD, Emacs, the IETF and announcement lists for software I use.

Music & Audio

I listen to a lot of music, mostly offline, but some Internet 'radios' are more interesting than others.

Dark Side of the Net. Gothic/Dark/Industrial Internet Online Radio Stations.

EBM Radio. EBM, industrial and other hard and noisy electronic music. Ogg Vorbis stream

Slayradio Commodore 64 remixes. 128 kbit/s stream. Stream over IPv6.

Clubs

I have seldom the time to go clubbing anymore, so the experiences that formed this list is a bit old. Caveat clubber!

Vogon Variety. The best industrial and goth club in Malmö, Sweden.

Spacelab. Nice pub evenings in Malmö with synth pop played by Alexander "Android" Hofman of S.P.O.C.K.

The Black Cat. Goth club in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Trash Can Club. Underground rock & roll in Malmö.


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