Links

101 Cookbooks http://www.101cookbooks.com/  Heidi Swanson “The premise this site was built on is best summed up in two sentences: When you own over 100 cookbooks, it is time to stop buying, and start cooking. This site chronicles a cookbook collection, one recipe at a time.”

Alpha Inventions, http://alphainventions.com/

Arts and Letters Daily, http://www.artsandlettersdaily.com/.  Great web site with tons of links to magazines, blogs, news, literature from The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Bailout Sleuth  http://www.bailoutsleuth.com/.  Founded by Mark Cuban, billonaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

Bankrate http://www.bankrate.com/ In this period of volatility, this is a good place to start.   Compare mortgage rates, home equity  loans, CDs, car loans, credit cards and money market accounts.   

Baseline Scenario,The Baseline Scenario is dedicated to explaining some of the key issues in the global economy and developing concrete policy proposals.http://baselinescenario.com

By the Fault http://www.bythefault.com/.  Charles Lemos.  “By The Fault is a reference to the fact that I live in San Francisco, California not far from the San Andreas fault. It’s a blog about politics and economics with a global perspective. I rarely mince words so it is a place for seismic politics, earth-shattering economic and volcanic commentary.  This blog covers global issues that are near and dear to my heart. For the most part, the opinions expressed are solely mine but over time there will be guest posts that may express the views of others.”

Best News Politics.  http://www.bestnewspolitics.com/

Confessions of a Pioneer Woman  Ree Drummond.  http://thepioneerwoman.com/ ”Here, I write about my decade-long transition from spoiled city girl to domestic country wife. I post photos of cows, horses, and my four weird children, and frequently include shots of cowboys wearing chaps. In my Photography section, I include Photography and Photoshop tutorials. In my Cooking section, I post step-by-step photos of all the cowboy-friendly dishes I’ve taught myself to cook through the years, and in Home & Garden, I chronicle the start-to-finish remodeling project of an old guest house on our ranch.”

Dealbreaker.  http://dealbreaker.com/   A Wall Street Tabloid.  Business news headlines and financial gosspip.

Driftglass http://driftglass.blogspot.com/. Excellant analysis with irreverance and humor.

Drudge Report http://drudgereport.com/.  Matt Drudge. What can I say, it’s drudge.

Econobrower http://www.econbrowser.com/ analysis of current economic conditions & policy

Economist’s View http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/.  Mark Thoma, University of Oregon, Department of Ecnomics. 

Econowhiner.  http://www.econowhiner.com/  “We’re just like you. Shell-shocked every time we go to the grocery store, fill up the tank with gas, pick up a prescription or a pepperoni pizza. We’re just like you. We know too many good people who are out of work. And, to be perfectly frank, it sometimes seems as though we’re barely hanging on by our financial fingertips. Money. Work. Healthcare. Retirement. It’s frightening to think how frightened we are. We may be down. (Throw us a golden parachute, anyone?)  Oh hell, we’re definitely down. (What about a bailout package? We could definitely use a bailout.) But, we’re very far from out. (Although we do love to bitch and moan about the current screwed-up state of life as we know it.) We’re determined to make it through this economic quagmire. And we’d like to help you accomplish that as well. What’s the secret? Let’s be perfectly clear about this: We’re inventing it as we go along (aren’t you?).  We’re sure to make mistakes (we always do). We won’t even pretend to have our emotions under control (we never do). But here’s The Whiner’s promise: We’ll be bringing you plenty of actionable advice from Regular Joes, as well as those rare Pros that we actually trust (just think about all those so-called experts who got us into this mess). Whenever we manage to crawl out from under that mattress we’re hiding beneath, we’ll give you our take on what’s happening all around us, what it all means, and what else is worth paying attention to during these difficult days. What are youwhining about? We want to know. EconoWhiner is our place and yours, with plenty of room for all of us to share anxieties, insights, challenges, and tips about what works and what doesn’t work during these troubled times.

Field Negro http://field-negro.blogspot.com/.  Wain Bennet.  Practicing attorney in Philly, born in Jamaica West Indies, citizen of the world.

Girl Solo in Arabia  http://girlsoloinarabia.typepad.com/.  Carolyn McIntyre.  Arabist, Middle East political analyst and award-winning expedition creator to Asia, Carolyn McIntyre has over three decades of living, working and traveling in the Middle East. A native of Scotland, she headed the Middle Eastern and South-East Asian program for San Francisco-based Geographic Expeditions for eight years, but in 2006 exchanged her desk for the open road as a tour leader and professional nomad as she fulfills a long-held dream of retracing the epic journey of the great 14th century Arab traveler Ibn Battuta. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, she has traveled extensively worldwide, and her interests besides pouring over old maps and reading travel journals, are Islamic architecture and medieval Islam. When not on the trail of Ibn Battuta or leading trips for GeoEx, Carolyn lives in Sana’a in Yemen in a tower house in the Old City.  Carolyn McIntyre will travel from the Moroccan City of Tangiers through 46 countries as she attempts to recreate an epic journey made 700 years ago by the famed Islamic scholar and traveler Ibn Battuta.  Along the way she will visit:  Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, China, Italy, Spain, Mali, Mauritania, Niger.

Hot Air, one of the most popular conservative blogs.  www.hotair.com

Jon Taplin’s Blog  http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/.  Jon Taplin.  Jonathan Taplin is a Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Taplin’s areas of specialization are in international communication management and the field of digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, Mean Streetswhich was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fireand To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. “

Jules Crittenden is a Boston Herald editor and columnist who has reported on politics, crime, science, foreign affairs, and maritime and military matters in the United States, Asia, the Balkans and the Middle East.  On the list for one of the best new individual bloggers.  http://www.julescrittenden.com/

Life on an Island.  Blog from two women living on Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound, Washington.  http://www.lifeonanisland.com/

London Review of Books.  http://www.lrb.co.uk/

Mish’s Global Trend Analysis http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/.  “Mike Shedlock.  Mish is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. “

Mountain Sage http://themountainsage.wordpress.com/.  “MountainSage has been politically active since she was 17 years old. Issues she was deeply involved with were the 18 year old vote, women’s rights, birth control and abortion rights, and anti-Vietnam war protests.  MountainSage in the past has been an ardent Democrat who worked at the local Democratic Headquarters and the polls.   MountainSage currently resides in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and has become an Independent.”

Muckety News http://news.muckety.com/ exploring the paths of power and influence.  “Muckety is published by Muckety LLC, a company founded in 2006 by a team with years of experience in journalism, technology and online publishing. The name Muckety derives, of course, from muckety mucks. Some follow the money. We follow the muckety, producing a daily news and information site based on online databases (which we enlarge daily), extensive research and old-fashioned journalism.  We strive for accurate, timely, objective journalism. Although you may sometimes see ads with a political point of view (served automatically through ad services such as Google AdSense), we aim to be nonpartisan in our maps, news stories and databased information. Our founders/editors are award-winning journalists Laurie Bennett, Gary Jacobson and John Decker.”

Natural News Network.  http://www.naturalnews.com/  News about natural food, health, the pharmaceutical industry and matters related to living well in a natural way.  “The NaturalNews Network is a non-profit collection of public education websites covering topics that empower individuals to make positive changes in their health, environmental sensitivity, consumer choices and informed skepticism. Network, we believe that information should empower people, not just entertain them. News should be practical and unbiased, not influenced by money from big advertisers.”

No Quarter – Larry Johnson  http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/.  This site kept me sane during the presidential elections.  “Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on
counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering…”

Planetcitizen http://www.planetizen.com/interchange all things related to the built environment

Real Clear Politics http://www.realclearpolitics.com/.  “Founded in 2000 by John McIntyre and Tom Bevan, Chicago-based RealClearPolitics.com (RCP) has become one of America’s premier independent political web sites. Updated every morning and throughout the day, RCP culls and publishes the best commentary, news, polling data, and links to important resources from all points of the political compass and covering all the important issues of the day. RealClearPolitics has become a trusted filter for anyone interested in politics.  RCP’s political commentary, election analysis and polling averages have been featured in national media outlets including The New York Times, FOX News, CNN, The Economist, Investor’s Business Daily, The Chicago Sun-Times and many, many more.”

Sadly No!  http://www.sadlyno.com  “Sadly, No! is a liberal/progressive humor site based in Germany, originally as a project of founder Seb, but since 2004 operating as a group blog, currently with American contributors. It has daily traffic between 7,000 and 15,000 visits…The site’s main running joke is in finding embarrassing slips or untrue statements by conservatives and linking to a refutation, saying, “Sadly, No!” Other running gags include posting pictures of conservative columnists on Internet dating sites, battling with a “singing troll” who sends homemade songs deriding the site’s contributors and commenters, and doing line-by-line putdowns of columns by Christian evangelists and other right-wingers. Sadly, No! also occasionally publishes phony columns at right-wing sites, and engages in other pranks.”

Secret Squirrel, http://therealsecretsquirrel.blogspot.com/.  “And this is where the weird things go when we don’t know where to put them on any of the other blogs.  Squirrels appear pretty frequently.”

The Baseline Scenario  http://baselinescenario.com/,  what happened to the global economy and what we can do about it.  Authors and founders – Peter Boone is chair of Effective Intervention, a UK-based charity, and an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics; Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.  He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario; James Kwak is a former McKinsey consultant, a co-founder of Guidewire Software, and currently a student at the Yale Law School.  He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario.”

The Cultured Web, www.theculturedweb.com a database of over 200 international museum and cultural websites possessing and educational component.  Marcia Mayper.  Also a blog, http://theculturedweb.blogspot.com/.

The Consumerist Shopper strikes back http://consumerist.com/.  If you are a consumer, do any kind of shopping, good blog about problems, resolutions, and deals and tips.

The Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com//  Tina Brown et al.  “The Daily Beast doesn’t aggregate. It sifts, sorts, and curates. We’re as much about what’s not there as what is. And we freshen the stream with a good helping of our own original content from a wonderfully diverse group of contributors … satirist Christopher Buckley, historian Sean Wilentz, former McCain adviser Mark McKinnon, Project Runway’s Laura Bennett, the former editor of Al-Hayat Salameh Nematt, Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg, Nick Ciarelli who founded Think Secret, and many others.”   How did this site get it’s name?  “Among other things, it’s the name of the newspaper in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s hilarious satire of Fleet Street, which happens to be my favorite novel of all time. For those who prefer Henry James, let’s just say the beast knows its way through the jungle.”

The Gave us a Republic, see the Nightowl Newswrap, http://www.theygaveusarepublic.com/. 

The Search was the thing – http://thesearchwasthething.wordpress.com/. thoughts on art, literature and history. 

Times Literary Supplement http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/

Uppity Woman  http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/.  Great site, just go visit. 

U.S. Intellectual History blog. http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/

Virginia Quarterly Review http://www.vqronline.org/blog/ A national journal of literature and discussion.

Wonkette – the DC Gossip  http://www.wonkette.com/

WOWOWOW  http://www.wowowow.com/.  “wowOwowis a free daily Internet website created, run and written by Lesley Stahl, Peggy Noonan, Liz Smith, Joni Evans, Mary Wells, Sheila Nevins, Joan Juliet Buck, Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Reed, Joan Ganz Cooney, Judith Martin, Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, and Marlo Thomas.”