Updated 26 December 2009
RELIGION including: Unitarian Universalism; Other religious liberal groups; Religious tolerance; Transcendentalist texts online; Unitarian and Universalist texts online; More religious texts online.
ARTS and CULTURE including: Books and stories online; About books; Pictures; Sound; Roots music; Other.
NEWS local and international news, local weather.
OTHER miscellaneous sites of use.
BAY AREA local links including: Outdoors;
- First Unitarian Church in New Bedford Where I serve as parish minister.
- Unitarian Universalist Association The denomination with which I am affiliated.
- Biographies of famous Unitarians, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalists Best of several UU bio sites.
- Hymns of the Spirit Three Gender neutral hymns from the 1937 Unitarian Universalist hymnal.
- LREDA Liberal Religious Educator’s Association.
- UUMA UU Ministers Association.
UUism abroad
- Friends General Conference Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the unprogrammed tradition.
- Quaker Universalist Fellowship Site for Friends with universalist leanings.
- Reform Judaism With links to the synagogue arm of the movement, as well as rabbis, schools, etc.
- Pluralism Project World religions in your home town.
- New Religious Movements Uneven quality, facts not always checked, criteria for what constitutes a NRM too loose. Still the best Web site on this topic
Transcendentalist texts online
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau Older standard text with good search engine.
- The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Along with other RWE information.
- Emily Dickinson Includes links to Dickinson’s poetry.
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, multiple editions.
Unitarian and Universalist texts online
- "Unitarian Christianity" Seminal sermon by William Ellery Channing, 1819.
- "Divinity School Address” R. W. Emerson: the Transcendentalist revolution hits Unitarianism, 1838.
- "The Transient and Permanent in Christianity" Theodore Parker’s 1841 sermon.
- "Treatise on Atonement" Hosea Ballou defines Universalism, 1805.
- 101 Zen Stories The 1919 collection compiled by Nyogen Senzaki.
- Sacred texts of the world’s religions Fairly comprehensive selection of texts.
- Bible browser Bible search engine with New Revised Standard Version and King James.
- Koran An older translation with decent search engine. Another translation.
- Theoi Greek Mythology Ancient texts on Greek goddesses and gods.
ARTS AND CULTURE
Books and stories online
- Barbara Pym Society
- Folktales and stories Links to public domain stories.
- Moby-Dick Melville’s classic at a bare-bones site.
- Poetry Daily High-quality poem each day.
- Project Gutenberg 16,000 books online, all free.
- Pudd’nhead Wilson The masterpiece by Mark Twain.
- Young readers texts Public domain texts from UVA.
- Times Literary Supplement
- Horn Book Magazine The preeminent review of children’s lit.
- Futurama News
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog Tons of hi-res images for downloading.
- Tales of Plush Cthulhu Watch out, Ms. Kitty Fluffington….
- xkcd A webcomic with math, snark, and geeky love.
- Art of the States Mostly U.S. classical music from the past 30 years.
- Digitization project at UCSB Early wax cylinder redordings online.
- Musica Antiqua Renaissance instruments Pix and sound samples.
- Pan pipes Pipe lengths for a three-octave pan pipe.
- U B U W E B Avant garde music, art, literature.
- abc Tune collections Links to lots of collections of music in abc notation.
- Huapala Traditional Hawai’ian, and hapa haole, meles and songs; mostly lyrics, some audio files.
- NEFFA New England Folk Festival Association, info about annual festival and other events.
- New England Folk Network
- Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival
- Rise Up Singing national site Site from the authors of the popular song book.
- Shape note singing Links to resources.
- Litterboxcam Not your average Web site.
- Special characters and symbols in HTML Complete table.
- Tea Pages
- San Jose Mercury News News of the Peninsula and South Bay.
- BBC News International perspective.
- Christian Science Monitor
- NY Slime, er Times
- San Mateo weather National Weather Service data and forecast.
- San Mateo Patch
- Gmaps Pedometer Calculate distance of walking/running/biking routes using Google Maps.
- Inflation calculator Using CPI data from Historical Statistics of the United States and Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
- Political Compass
- Walk Score Walkable neighborhoods, based on Google Maps.
- Wayback Machine Web archive from 1996-present. (Example: archives of my Web site from 2005-2007.
- Bay Area Hiker Hikes in the South Bay area.
- Bay Area Ridge Trail Partially completed trail following ridges around SF Bay; incl. maps.
- Bay Trail Partially completed trail around San Francisco Bay; incl. maps.
- Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto Hot birding site on the Penninsula.
- Flatwater canoeing in SF area
- Newark Slough put-in In Don Edwards NWR.
- Peninsula Birding Digest of email list for San Mateo County.
- San Mateo County birding
- Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge Refuge in the San Francisco Bay. Maps for Alviso (far south end) and Fremont. Checklist.
