Diary Entries on Will Brady's website

MOST RECENT ESSAY: ECONOMIC TREASON: Do travesties like ENRON make your blood boil? There's a new discussion group on the Yahoo Groups website. It's still new, so the discussion has just begun. Participants are welcome. Stop by, sign up, and add your POV.

internet access tools | Inside Yahoo Internet Life April edition is an article titled "Robin Hoods of the Net." The info in the article merits attention. But since YIL online is still showing its March entries, and since the sites they list are worthy of greater publicity, they have been identified below. No Small Irony Dept: while checking these sites, a couple flashed me unwanted pop-up windows. Ah well, in a perfect world, eh? Anyway, here they are:
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• Webwasher | From the site: "A spin-off from Siemens AG, webwasher.com has made it its business to fight data espionage, excessive advertising and hindrances to productivity on the Internet." The site offers a freeware version of their software for "home users and schools" useful for filtering out cookies, referrals strings and "Web bugs".
• Cryptome | Information access is the focus of this site | I've featured the parent site NYA on these pages in the past | Some may find the material available and posted here disturbing, along the lines of conspiracy theory stuff | yet it's real.
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• Spam Busters | "... a not-for-profit California organization whose mission is to defend the Internet's e-mail system from abuse by spammers. Our principal means of accomplishing this mission is by educating and encouraging ISP's to enforce strong terms and conditions prohibiting their customers from engaging in abusive e-mail practices." | There are a number of different services available | For commercial users, not cheap | "Hobbyists" (home users?) can freely access use by writing for information.

• Anonymizer | Online privacy services | Offers a free version, blocking out cookies, JavaScript and prevents others from reviewing your web-surfing habits | The for-pay version aofferes additional features.
• BearShare | Peer to Peer software trade. Where NAPSTER went with opening up music, this shares other programming. Probably will help redefine copyright laws of the future. Hopefully, more support for individuals less chance for corporate coffers to rob the rest of us blind.

• Internet Archives | "Building an Internet Library" | Looking for some favorite webpage written years ago and now offline? Internet Archive can help you find it. You can even look up my old pages, but unless ya got DSL or a lot of time, don't bother. I had LOTS of jpg files illustrating things. More than I do now.
• File Swaps | More p2p (Peer to Peer) Software swaps. HAs a disclaimer on the front page that says it does not condone copyright violations | Yer on your own if ya do the dirty I suppose.

John Boote's Area 51 Library | Links and links and more links! I oughta have this on my favorites page 'cuz it is just the kind of approach to webpages I like | What's that, you say? Access to information | Boote's Libraries include:
• links to mostly free online 'zines, journals and news services.
• Health & Fitness?Medical sites
• UFO/ALiens/Conspiracies
• Media/Libraries/Miscellaney
• Christian/Recover sites
• Gay & Lesbian Resources
and, last but not least, Boote's Journals

Tweeble.Com: This is one rude lady. Rude, but incredibly funny. I have spent some time wandering around her site for a couple of hours now (thanks to a couple of cups of coffee and a chocolate cake that was sinfully delicious) checking on the filthy yet funny pictures... [if ya don't want your kids going there get some filtering software. Better yet, keep track of what they are doing].
Found the site by looking for sites on or about Moodus, CT, part of my home town. Saw an outsider's view of KlarKrest Resort. She forgot to mention the wonderful spring fed olympic sized pool that is still in good condition and swimmable. Otherwise, the pictures here are disenheartening, but not inaccurate.
But her other pages are a hoot. Tweeble hasn't made any diary/thoughts entries since last November 2001. Hope she's planning on updating them someday.

Where's Moodus, you ask? | For the past 10 years, my hometown. Nestled somewhere right in the middle of NY/Boston megalopoli, it nevertheless remains rural and remote in access. No interstate, no supershops or megamalls, no railroad, a single strip airway. 56 square miles of most woods and undeveloped land | And the folks living here like it that way | Tweeble is right about the resorts | Moodus was once known as the Catskills of Connecticut | Ken Simon writes with another perspective about those Resorts and provides links to some still here |

Other sites that give more info on Moodus, CT include: A brief list of Places to Stay; Moodus eateries | one of the official Moodus and East Haddam websites | Moodus' Civil War History | East Haddam Land Trust and the Moodus River Preserve | Ken Simon reflects upon when "Urban Renewal" went awry |

Britney Underground | As long as we're covering rude women, here's an irreverent website that shows that some folks have either had too much of the winsome public virgin/slut or can't get enough of mocking the model. This site chromicles what happened to gigantic subway posters throughout New York City when HBO tried to hawk their Britney concert.
Incidentally, (and looking at the more serious side of the site) there is what appears to be a rather useful resource section which gives websites, book titles !!!, and discussion about the difficulties that girls face when presented with mixed messages about what it means to be a woman. Humor aside, the resources link makes the site valuable.
And for those of you whose sensibilities might be offended by this blasphemous slam of this goddess, here's a link to Ms. Spears' official website. Britney! You'll have to deal with pop-up ads and who knows how many cookies but there's no anguish to great to pay when seeing one's mentor | [Now, how'm I gonna live that down?]

More later, out fer now.
Will