One Year Ago: November 2016

A year ago the shock to the system was Trump’s election. One reaction of mine was a promise to blog more; I set up the system but I’m still not as frictionless about it as I’d like.

Waking Up to President Trump: We do not get to choose our era or the chal­lenges it throws at us. Only some­one with his­tor­i­cal amne­sia would say this is unprece­dent­ed in our his­to­ry. The enslave­ment of mil­lions and the geno­cide of mil­lions more are dark stains indeli­bly soaked into the very found­ing of the nation. But much will change, par­tic­u­lar­ly our naiv­i­ty and false opti­mism in an inevitable for­ward progress of our nation­al sto­ry.

Five Years Ago: November 2012

Five years ago I wrote about how I had been blogging for fifteen years. Do the math: it’s now 20 frigging years since I started blogging.

Fifteen Years of Blogging: I keep double-checking the math but it keeps adding up. In Novem­ber 1997 I added a fea­ture to my two-year-old peace web­site. I called this new enti­ty Non­vi­o­lence Web Upfront and updat­ed it week­ly with orig­i­nal fea­tures and curat­ed links to the best online paci­fist writ­ing. I wrote a ret­ro­spec­tive of the “ear­ly blog­ging days” in 2005 that talks about how it came about and gives some con­text about the proto-blogs hap­pen­ing back in 1997.

Ten Years Ago: November 2007

Freelancing and working the overnight shift at Shoprite, I wondered if my Quakerness was hopelessly useless to my new circumstances.

Who are we part one (just what pamphlet do I give the tattooed ex-con?): I love the fel­low who gave the mes­sage and I appre­ci­at­ed his min­istry. But the whole time I won­dered how this would sound to peo­ple I know now, like the friend­ly but hot-tempered Puer­to Rican ex-con less than a year out of a eight-year stint in fed­er­al prison, now work­ing two eight hour shifts at almost-minimum wage jobs and try­ing to stay out of trou­ble. How does the the­o­ry of our the­ol­o­gy fit into a code of con­duct that doesn’t start off assum­ing mid­dle class norms.

Twenty Years Ago: November 1997

Four years before 9/11, I was asking how we could break the cycle of terrorism.

How Come the U.S. Trains All the Terrorists?: It would seem a sim­ple case of U.S. mil­i­tarism com­ing home to roost, but it is not so sim­ple and it is not uncom­mon. Fol­low most trails of ter­ror­ism and you’ll find Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment fund­ing some­where in the recent past.

Nonviolence Web

Discussion Board

Links

Full Listings

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War Resisters League

National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund

Fellowship of Reconciliation

Fellowship Magazine

SIPAZ

Pax Christi USA

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Private Posting Systems

NISBCO

Natl Campaign for Peace Tax Fund

SIPAZ

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Philly Young Adult Friends

NVWeb Adminstration

Putting the Nonviolence Movement online, one page at a time.

NVWeb Homepage

File Manager

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Miscellaneous

NVWeb: Search Engine

Statistics

Full Access Statistics

Graphic Web Counter

Linked Folks

This will give you a listing of every web page in Alta Vista’s directory which has a link to the Nonviolence Web.

Martin’s Homepage

Martin’s homepage

Martink Web Counts

How popular is my page? See for yourself.

Vortex Videos

Martin Kelley’s Bookmarks

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The Combined Times

Based on the idea of the CRAYON newservice,this is a frame-based compendium of mainstream news services I use.

News and Resources

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Children of the Light

a.ka. the Religious Society of Friends, a.ka. the Quakers. “Children of the Light” was an early name for the Quakes that I’m personally trying to revive.

Friends’ WWW

Quakers on the net!, oh my what would George Fox have said? Well, you don’t need to guess, since he’s online here (I kid you not).

Philly Young Adult Friends

See what we cool cat twentysomething Quakers are getting ourselves into.

PYM draft page

This is the longest-running draft page I’ve ever put together. Quaker committees can be an experience in themselves, and this Philly Yearly Meeting’s web committee barely has a pulse.

Philly Stuff

Indexes

Joe’s Links

City.Net Philadelphia

LibertyNet

Lots of good Philly groups broadcast out of LibertyNet.

Inky/Daily News

Ritz Filmbill

The two Ritz’s are the only interesting theaters left in this town which experts agree has one of the lowest theater/capita ratings in the country.

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema

City Paper

The local alternative weekly’s online. Fancy graphics (too fancy perhaps) mark this foray into cyberpublishing.

SEPTA

Public-transit authority SEPTA is the leader in ambiguous P.R. Take their shit-tank name for starters, then add their wacky slogans like “SEPTA: We’re Getting There” or “We’re Trying to Do Our Best.”

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Philly Weather

From Intellicast, a great weather site complete with forecast, synopsis and the latest radar images.

Philadelphia Radar

Miscellaneous

Crayon News Service

NY Times Quick Read

NY Times Late News Update

MSNBC

National Public Radio

Timecast: The RealAudio Guide

Library of Congress

The Library’s on line.

Switchboard (phone directory)

The WWW Purity Test

FedEx Tracking

UPS Home Page

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Amtrak Schedules

This August I took the Broadway Limited from Chicago. Now I read they’re going to cut the line from the schedule. Is this progress? This site is independent of Amtrak but has all the schedules.

Amtrak�s Station

The official Amtrak homepage has lots of interesting information about the trains, but no schedules!

Regular Checks

—Message of the Day

USENET NV Search

Check Mailing Lists

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Websites

DataRealm

—FAQs

—Mailing Lists

—Message of the Day

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Net Access

This is my service provider. Very Web friendly folks. If you’re in the Philly area, definetly consider getting an account.

–telnet

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Peacenet

–telnet

Computers

The Web is the most self-referential medium ever. Despite the corporate hype, most pages are still concerned with how to create pages, etc.

PERL/CGI

Matt’s Script Archive

Take 10 Minutes to Learn ™ — PERL

Resources for PERL

Web Development Information

Web Design

Yahoo Web Page Design

Net Access’s guide

Reference Material

Introducing HTML 3.2

Lynx Users Guide v2.3

Fill-Out Forms

iso8859‑1 table

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Justin’s Links from the Underground

This has some great, right-on manifestos about why we need to publish on the web, along with some great HTML tips and tricks.

The Kick-Ass Website Award

Web Toys

32-bit Apps Main Menu

Welcome to Vivo.Com

GIF Construction Set

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CD/Disk Problems

TOSHIBA — Disk Products Division

Setup Does Not Detect Standard IDE Drive On IBM 9353

Hardware Questions FAQ: Is there a list of CD-ROM drives that require real-mode drivers?

Computer Stuff

McAfee antivirus FTP

Microsoft Word Software Library

Windows95 Annoyances

Tricks for getting around the annoyances, plus convincing essays which posit that Windows might just be a particularly-popular virus…

UNIX

UNIXhelp for users

DOS to UNIX Translation

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Internet Movie Database

Alta Vista

As far as I’m concerned, you can forget all the other search engines. Alta Vista is the one that passes my most important test: it has me listed the most times.

Simple Query

Advanced Query

Who’s linked into me

Music

the ultimate band list

Olga Index-MIT

Shel’s stuff

Michelle Shocked has her stuff online

Schmucks I know

Mud’s Email

Mud’s Bookmarks

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Ann Farnsworth-Alvear’s

Constance Cooper

Dan Birchall

Jacob Mattison

Jill Mulvey’s lame page

Jorj’s home-page

Kris Tapp

Michael Burke

Peter Selinger

Rafael Richards

Steve Pyne

My housemate, awwww.….

Thomas Taylor

Tom Diling

World Game Institute

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Penn Math homepages

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Discussion: “WWWBoard…”

Circa 1996, recovered via Archive.org