Weimar world service: Links

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Space View
The science fiction movie magazine world has not been kind to publishers lately, but there are still some great titles. Unfortunately for Americans, they're all foreign. The UK's strong SFX magazine is one to follow, but if you find its references a little too UK-centric (and if you can read German), then you should read Space View. >> go there

Links

Caveat emptor: I do not assume any liability or responsibility whatsoever for the content of any of these linked sites.

Personal Pages

David Gerrold The author's official Web site
Dormitory Boys a.k.a. "Two Chinese boys"– two college boys do lip-syncing to pop songs; funny and cute.
Ellison Webderland Someone's devoted a site to Harlan Ellison
German Corner German Web ring
German Tutoring The site for Christian, my former German tutor
Howard Cruse Great cartoonist's official site
Karen J. Bannan Freelance writer, Internet World alum, and friend
Marc Bernadin A man, a plan, a blog
Martha Bridegam's Demisemiblog Politics, lit, law, common toads, etc., and a weekly cat post!
Matthew Rettenmund Gay author and magazine editor's blog
Maureen F. McHugh Author of the incredible China Mountain Zhang novel, and other works
Michael Ballack German fußball star's official site (in English and German)
Peter David Comics scribe and author's site
Richard Golz Official site for Freiburg fußball goalkeeper
Robert Greenberger Comics scene (and Comics Scene) guru
Robert J. Sawyer SF author's blog site
Weimar World Service Blog Yes, I have a blog, too; I use it to link together this site, my movie reviews, short videos, photos, my stepfather's editorial cartoons, and such
Zipperer Project Management My cousin's medical cybrarian service

Fun & Interesting

Alphaville Great German synth band; also see interview I did with lead singer Marian Gold
Atlantic Popes Band with Max Holler and Bernhard Lloyd (from Alphaville)
Chicago Temple Chicago's First United Methodist Church; my former church. I did its first Web site
Cinema German film magazine
Citizen_b Gay german writer's blog
David Tao Great pop/r&b singer from Taiwan
Dilbert Dilbert's home
Dixie Chicks Proof that sometimes Americans can still live up to their reputation for bravery and independence
Expat Harem Blog The blog from the editors of the book Tales of the Expat Harem (a collection of essays about foreign women living in Turkey), including my friend and former Internet World colleague Anastasia Ashman
Fliegende Blaetter Online digital archives of a weekly satire magazine that was published in Muenchen from 1845-1944!
Indie Coffee A Madison, Wisconsin, coffee shop that features lots of indie music and films. Owned by the Kilmers, Badger Herald veterans
Inspector Wallander English language site for Henning Mankell's Swedish detective series of novels; German-language site
PFLAG Honoring the unconditional love of families and friends
Probert Designs If you're even half of the science fiction film buff and Starlog addict that I am, you'll be familiar with Andrew Probert and his work on Star Trek, Back to the Future, and more
Rifftrax Movie commentary from Mystery Science Theater 3000 veterans
Sevenload German video-sharing site
TV Barn Aaron Barnhart's online television report; I used to write a weekly SF TV column for it
University of Wisconsin-Madison My alma mater
UW Alumni UW-Madison alumni association
Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me Wonderful news-quiz program on NPR
Die Welt der Cornelia Funke Web site for the German author
Whad'Ya Know? Classic radio quiz show from Wisconsin Public Radio; I was an assistant to the assistant producer for one semester back in the late 1980s
Who's Gay? Here's one long list
Wiener SängerKnaben Famous singing group

Science Fiction & Science

Analog Science Fiction and Fact SF — fiction and news
Anime News Network Some titles are extremely self-explanatory
Asimov's Science Fiction SF fiction magazine; gets extra points for including full stories on the Web site!
Cinefantastique Legendary science fiction media magazine online
Cosmos For years I've tried starting up a future-oriented, fun, pro-science magazine such as Future Life or Omni; looks like these Australians have done it first
Discover Science magazine
Discworld The L-Space, devoted to Terry Pratchett's Discworld
DoorQ.com Gay science fiction
European Space Agency Euro-space
Fanboy.com SF fan-related blog
Fangoria Horror magazine's site; includes news, features, and original fiction; very good (also see Hungarian edition). Fango's becoming an empire. It now has music, blogs, Fangoria Comics, Fangoria Radio on Sirius Satellite radio, and Fangoria TV.
Fantasy and Science Fiction A classic SF short-fiction magazine
Heavy Metal Illustrated fantasy magazine
Hubble Space Telescope photos Okay, so it's not fiction; it's even better
Gay League Gay comics and comics creators
Geo Think of it as the German equivalent of National Geographic, only bigger
Michio Kaku Theoretical physicist
M.J. Simpson SF media reviews
Mystery Science Theater 3000 MST3K's official fan site
NASA Support the future
Natalie Angier Science writer's web site
Nausicaa Net Site for Hayaho Miyazaki's amazing manga/anime
Phantastic.de German-language SF/genre news site
Perry Rhodan Think that Star Trek is the world's oldest SF franchise? Nope. See this 40-year-old German series. (It also has an English-language site)
Planetes Great science fiction anime (and manga)
Science Blogs Blogs of science
Science Fiction World Chinese SF magazine
Scientific American Great
Sci Fi Channel News, TV schedules, and such; also, its German channel
SF-radio.de German science fiction info
SF Site Info on fiction and writers
Shayol German science fiction web magazine
The Space Review News and opinions on space
Space View German-language SF media magazine
Starlog The oldest and best SF media magazine
Star Trek The official American site; there is, naturally, an official German site
Star Wars The official site
Star Wars Union German-language Star Wars site; very well done
SyFy Portal Science fiction news
Trek Nation Daily Star Trek news and opinion
Welt der Wunder German popular science magazine

Sports

11 Freunde Deutsche Fußball (soccer) magazin
Bundesliga German professional soccer
CBS Sportsline Sports site; great place to nab soccer pix
Chicago White Sox 2005 World Series champions.
FC Bayern Munich's Fußball team
Kicker Online Deutsche Fußball magazin
Outsports For gay athletes
SC Freiburg Freiburg's professional Fußball team
Goal Fußball/soccer site
Vfb Stuttgart Stuttgart's professional Fußball team's official site

History

David Barnsdale Lots of history links; check out the Weimar links within his history section
Harry A. Franck Franck wrote some fascinating travelogues in the early 20th century
Internet Classics Archive Want to read Livy in the original Latin? Excellent site and links.
Perseus Project A digital library of information on ancient Greek and Roman topics
Roman History An excellent online university; also see their extensive world cultures site for other ancient cultures; also, great on the Enlightenment
Weimar History (in German) and photos/art from that time

News & Other Media

American Society of Magazine Editors' list Best mag covers of the past 40 years. I'm a magazine editor with an interest in great magazine designs. Here are some sites (some hosted by the magazines themselves, others by third-parties) of cover galleries: Coverpop; Time; Esquire; Playboy (site shows covers from all of its U.S. and international editions); Ad Art Gallery (site with collections of various old magazine covers); Cover Browser (comics, including comics magazines such as Heavy Metal and Epic Illustrated; Magazine Covers Collection; National Lampoon; Rolling Stone; nooSFere (a treasure trove of international science fiction magazine cover designs); Warren magazines; Future Life cover archive; Fliegende Blaetter full issues from 1844-1944 German satirical weekly;
ABC News News site has become rather tabloidesque and right-wing
The Badger Herald The paper for which I worked as a student at the University of Wisconsin
B5 Aktuell Terrestrial and streaming news radio from Bayern
Berlin News English-language news of Germany
Das Bild Deutsche Zeitung
British Broadcasting Company The BBC online
CBS Pretty good news site; deserves more attention than it gets
CNN One of my regular news sources
Chicago The venerable magazine is doing quite well these days
Chicago Sun-Times Chicago paper
Chicago Tribune Good paper
The Christian Science Monitor newspaper
The Daily Beast Tina Brown's back; site is noteworthy mostly for some great blogs (Christopher Buckley, Michael Kinsley, etc.)
Deutschland Radio German-language radio stations available online
DW TV News from Berlin, in English and German
Euro News Aggregated news from Europe
Financial Times One of my favorite news sources; German site
Focus Weekly German news magazine
Forbes Business news and views
France 24 New 24-hour news from France (in English, French, and Arabic)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung German daily paper
Frankfurter Rundschau German newspaper
The Economist British newsweekly
Der Spiegel German newsweekly
The Atlantic Monthly Not British, not German, not even weekly
The Guardian Daily U.K. paper
Handelsblatt German business newspaper
The Independent Another daily U.K. paper
Internet World I used to work there. Also, German site
Keith Olbermann Countdown on MSNBC
Madison News from the Wisconsin State Journal and the Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
Media Bistro News about the magazine industry
Menbox Gay magazine in communist China (got shut down by authorities; apparently closed and replaced with different company)
MSNBC News from NBC
National Public Radio Greatest radio news
Neue Zürcher Zeitung German-language Swiss newspaper
New York Review of Books The Review online – an excellent publication
New York Times It's also a great paper online
N-TV German news channel
Playboy For as long as free speech is allowed online . . . (also, see its excellent and literate German edition)
Radio Prague Czech news (in English, German, Czech, etc.)
Reporter Interactive United Methodist news source
Sueddeutsche Zeitung South-German newspaper
365 Gay News and information site
Der Stern German weekly magazine online
Times of India English-language Indian newspaper
Voice of America U.S. news abroad
Wisconsin Public Radio Great statewide radio network in my home state, Wisconsin
Die Zeit German weekly newspaper
Zeitong German news site, includes social media feeds

Political

All Politics Home for political junkies
Amnesty International Because the limits to man's inhumanity seem so distant
Baden-Württemburg The official site of the German state from which one branch of my family came
The Commonwealth Club of California The nation's oldest, largest and best public forum (see also its YouTube page, its Flickr.com page, its Fora.tv page, and its MySpace page)
The German Marshall Fund The gift that keeps on giving
Goethe Institute San Francisco office
The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington's collection of political blogs
Human Rights Campaign Act
Hong Kong Gay & Lesbian Info
John Dean The former Nixon legal eagle and Goldwater conservative writes a column for FindLaw
Immigration Equality Gay and lesbian immigration rights
Insomnia and Poetry Political/cultural blog by Pat Prince and friends
Lyle Lahey The award-winning Internet site for brand-new political cartoons, humor and commentary from Green Bay. Also, see his blog and his flickr page.
Love Sees No Borders Information on same-sex immigration issues
Matthew Shepard Foundation Matthew's parents' living memorial to him
The Moderate Voice A centrist take on events
Our Love Matters Gay immigration information, for Canada and U.S.
Silicon Valley for Democracy in China Support democracy in China.
Talking Points Memo Yeah, another blog
Timothy Garton Ash A favorite writer of mine
Waxing America Former Madison, Wisconsin, mayor Paul Soglin's feisty blog
Weimar The actual city (stadt) in eastern Germany

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