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PERSONAL PAGES | FUN & INTERESTING | SPORTS | NEWS | POLITICAL | HISTORY | SCIENCE FICTION & SCIENCE |
| Personal Pages |
David
Gerrold The author's official Web site
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 Writer and a fellow member of the Internet World diaspora
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
Miroslave Klose German fußball star's official site
Peter
David Comics scribe and author's site
Robert
Greenberger Comics scene (and Comics Scene)
guru
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
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 From the editors of the book Tales of the Expat Harem (a collection of essays about
foreign women living in Turkey), including my friend & Internet World colleague Anastasia Ashman
Fliegende Blätter Online digital archives of a weekly satire
magazine that was published in Muenchen from 1845-1944
Frowntown A puppet series about children, but not for 'em
Indie Coffee A Madison, Wisconsin, coffee shop that features lots of indie music and films. Owned by the Kilmers, Badger Herald veterans
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
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
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).
Fantasy
and Science Fiction A classic SF short-fiction
magazine
Gay
League Gay comics and comics creators
Geo Think of it as the German equivalent of National
Geographic, only bigger
Heavy
Metal Illustrated fantasy magazine
Hubble
Space Telescope photos Okay, so it's not fiction;
it's even better
Jonah Lehrer Science writer's blog
Michio
Kaku Theoretical physicist
M.J.
Simpson SF media reviews
Mystery
Science Theater 3000 MST3K's official fan site
NASA Support the future
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 former SF media magazine (web site appears dead)
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
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| 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); Mad Mags (German science fiction, horror, and fantasy magazine archive); Warren
magazines; Future
Life cover archive; Fliegende
Blaetter full issues from 1844-1944
German satirical weekly;
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
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
Stern German weekly magazine online
365
Gay News and information site
Times of India English-language Indian newspaper
USA Today daily news
Voice
of America U.S. news abroad
Wisconsin
Public Radio 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 Daily Beast Blogs, news, culture, fun
Goethe
Institute San Francisco office
The
Huffington Post Politics
Human
Rights Campaign Act
Immigration
Equality Gay and lesbian immigration rights
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
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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