Links

A note on internal links: I have sprinkled this site generously with links to other pages, but i want to reassure my readers that they are all there either to substantiate a statement i’ve made or to provide additional information i think the user will find useful. There are no links on this site to advertising. The closest i come to that is adding a link to a restaurant’s home page when i’m doing a review, and i promise you no restaurant has ever given me a dime for linking to their page.

I sometimes remember to insert an exclamation point (!) at the end of links in my text that provide critical information.

Here are links to some sites i find interesting.  They range in bias from far left to far right:  [note: some of these are dead.  List needs reviewing.]

• • Aeon.  A digital magazine with superb essays and breathtaking videos.

• • The Automatic Earth Great social and political commentary.

• • Cryptogon News tidbits about your police state from an exile in New Zealand.

• • Data Pointed Fascinating articles and “visualizations” by a polymath artist/scientist.  Nothing added since fall ’14.

• • David Laslie, Designer  David doesn’t run a restaurant, but his renderings are good enough to eat.

• • Eater If you want to get all the news about the San Francisco dining scene long before i write about it, check out this site.

• • Ian Welsh Great essays from the radical left.

• • The Intercept.  A new site as of 2014 devoted to exposing the surveillance machinations of the US government.  It’s even worse than you imagined.

• • JoeMyGod All the gay news, some of which is fit to post.

• • More Crows Than Eagles.  Breathtaking essays on the current political and social situation.

• • Pen and Sword * (Alas, Jeff Huber died in January, 2013, just a couple of weeks after his last post.  A master of invective, and I miss him.)

• • Stefan’s Gourmet Blog  Great, easy-to-follow recipes for the serious amateur.  I blundered onto this site while googling on babi pangang.  A wonderfully eclectic collection from a gifted Amsterdam chef.

• • Shawn Clover.  Combine San Francisco urban exploration with fine photography and you get Shawn.

• • Taking Sense Away Everything you always wanted to know about the TSA. Alas, as of 2021,there’s been nothing new for five years.

• • TomDispatch  Pointed political analysis with a leftward tilt.

• • Truthdig  Chris Hedges monitors our slide into totalitarianism.

• • • Uptown Almanac Despite the name, this blog is focused on San Francisco’s Mission District.  You’ll read it here first.
  • Zero Hedge – The primary focus here is on financial issues, but you get fine commentary across a wide range of other areas, often material largely ignored by the mainstream media

* Inactive