Simple question: what are your favorite sites on the net? (Besides this one of course.)

Mine:

Slashdot (www.slashdot.org): tech news and community, visit 3x day

Robot Wisdom (www.robotwisdom.com): quickie links to intresting news items, visit 3x day

The Onion (www.theonion.com) of course: humor/news parody, visit every Wednesday

BBSpot (www.bbspot.com): roughly, combine Slashdot and the Onion, visit every other day

Salon (www.salon.com): News/magazine, every day

The Straight Dope (www.straightdope.com): Factoids and mysteries, every Friday

Here are some of my favorite sites . . .

Macquarie Island Station Webcam, Antarctica
http://www.aad.gov.au/stations/macca/video.asp

The Aussies have the *best* Antarctica pictures -- I like this webcam the most because the naturalists are based here, so they tend to point the camera at animals and cool natural features rather than the snowblower (like some of the other Antarctica sites)

Peregrine Falcon Homepage (action begins again in March 2001)
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/falcon/

Not my favorite sites, but necessary if you're going to be a squeaky wheel in politics. Fill out the forms and your comments are taken seriously (because they can sort them by zip code and know you really are from PA, unlike a "regular" e-mail. I wish US Rep Curt Weldon would put up a site -- he just dumps his e-mail so I have to fax him letters to be taken seriously.

http://www.senate.gov/~santorum/
http://specter.senate.gov/

My alternative to the Inquirer movie reviewers, none of whom I like. . .

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert.html

I love e-cards! I actually have a folder of e-card sites, but Blue Mountain still is the best overall site. the National Wildlife Federation site tends to have the nicest pictures.

http://www.bluemountain.com/
http://www.e-cards.com/site/home.pl

The most important herbal website on the Net (*not* kidding!) You folks didn't think I'd do a list without at least one plant site, did you? ;-D

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/

This is *my* professional techie site! :-D The entire seedbank for the USDA! Sooooooooooo much fun to browse through! :-D :-D :-D

http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/searchgrin.html

Also, my favorite search engine -- Plant Link!

http://www.plantamerica.com/palink.htm

Hope this has broadened everyone's mind for the day! ;-D

Dinara

My personal favorite site happens to be this quaint little place called Sycamoreland...the guy who created it is a genius. ;-)

http://syc75.tripod.com

Some of my other faves include:

Google--http://www.google.com

Ballparks (details of stadiums for all types of sports)--
http://www.ballparks.com

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (because I miss home sometimes)--
http://www.postnet.com

WebGFX: a great place to make your own web designs--
http://www.webgfx.ch

Kurumi: For road-tripping folks who enjoy pointless detail about the Interstate system--http://www.kurumi.com

Poetry.com: Allows you to post your poetry (and even publishes it at times)--http://www.poetry.com

and of course, http://www.philly.com

That's probably more than anyone wanted...hehe

Cecil is the MAN!!! I used to read him in the Chicago Reader all the time, but have gotten lazy.

Regarding Specter and Santorum's sites...I e-mailed both of them right after the election...and did not hear from either! How rude! It was regarding the end of the Electoral College. Rep. Borski replied to me within a week, however.

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Regarding Specter and Santorum's sites...I e-mailed both of them right after the election...and did not hear from either! How rude! It was regarding the end of the Electoral College. Rep. Borski replied to me within a week, however. [/b][/quote]

Even though you filled out their little form? I usually get a response from Specter regardless -- Santorum and I do not see eye-to-eye on anything, so he sometimes blows me off. If you just send an e-mail without filling out the form, you won't get a response at all -- too many folks just setting up programs to e-mail everyone in Congress.

Dinara

You know, I DO remember filling out their forms. I am particularly surprised that I didn't hear from Specter...it was his idea to do away with the EC this time around. Maybe Santorum saw that I was from Philadelphia and decided to bypass me...hehe

I can't stand Santorum -- he almost never writes back to me because I challenged him to prove to me that contrary to what I read in the Philadelphia Inquirer, there actually *was* an ounce of compassion in his soul. I can't believe he was actually re-eleced (not that Klink was anyone to write home about -- my mom [who still lives in Western PA] thinks he's a sleezeball.)

I'm not surprised that Specter didn't write back on the EC -- he seems to like to get headlines on "burning issues" so that he looks like he's on top of things -- but often, there's no depth to it. He usually writes back on other issues, though -- at least he's not Santorum! :-P

Dinara

Yeah, that bothered me that they couldn't find anyone better to run against Santorum.

You know, since we're talking about politics here...

Who is going to lose their congressional seat after redistricting? The city is certainly going to lose one of their three seats...and I'm suspecting that it'll be Borski. Although, I wonder if they'll try to dilute Fattah's district by adding more of Montco or Delco.

Any opinions?