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Current events

BBC News
Global Voices
Talking Points Memo
My Heart’s in Accra…
Opinions You Should Have (so go get them!)

Iraq – Middle East

Salam Pax (Hasn’t posted since July 2006, but read all the archives. Just about the best writing on the web.)
Iraqi Screen
Baghdad Burning
Juan Cole: Informed Comment

Opinions

Shakespeare’s Sister
Brad Plumer

Web

plasticbag.org

Favorites – Not always politics

Random Acts of Reality
Nee Naw – London ambulance dispatcher
Jonny B’s diary
360 Degrees of Sky by Claypot, a blog whose passing I still deeply mourn!
New Orleans Impressions (printmaker, artist)

Astronomy – Space

Astronomy “Picture of the Day”
Mars renders – Veenenbos (Has to be seen to be believed. Beautiful beyond words.)
Explore Mars

Resources

Sourceforge
freshmeat.net
Wikipedia
2006 Bloggies good way to explore for new blogs

Dreamers

Take To The Hills (collects and takes clothing to poor communities in Mexico)
Medicins sans Frontieres
Oxfam
Transparency International
Project Gutenberg a huge digital library of out-of-copyright books
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Bloggers’ Rights
SaveTheInternet the fight for net neutrality goes on

A Realist

MMolvray science fiction pages

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Photo gallery, including the ones here.

This blog is not only about off-the-wall criticism. Not at all. I also have off-the-wall ideas.

For a walk through how to run the world (think big!) I've posted my evolving ramble on government.

Please comment and tell me where all the wrong turns are! And, if you're feeling generous, the right ones.

The Best(?) of the Rest

About me

Biologist, lifelong denizen of academe, science fiction writer, world-class procrastinator, and proudly lazy.

Essential Information:

"What is the difference between a realist and a dreamer? The realist thinks that someday a UFO will come down and hover over the UN building, and that the aliens will come out of the UFO and offer to share their technology and solve all our world's problems.

The dreamer thinks maybe we can get our act together and do it ourselves."

Russian joke [It's a joke?] cited in William K. Hartmann, A Traveler's Guide to Mars.

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