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In detail...
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![[ Free speech court decision ]](http://www.vtw.org/images/cda_sc.gif)
CDA ruled unconstitutional!
Next battle: the Supreme Court.
Follow the link for more information.
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The Senator Jim Exon Memorial Homepage --
discussion, opinions, and speculation
on freedom of speech, obscenity, sexual morality, and related issues.
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The Legend of Ruritania -- a parable for our time.
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Fed up with left/right labels? Take the
World's Smallest Political Quiz!
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What to do
when they ask for your Social Security Number --
Chris Hibbert's FAQ on
reducing the possibilities for invading your privacy.
[Updated March 1996]
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The Center for Democracy and Technology,
Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
the Electronic Privacy Information Center,
and Voters Telecommunications Watch
are excellent sources of information on free speech, protecting children,
privacy, encryption, competition, and other issues involving
the impact of computer and communications technology on society.
They often post suggestions for quick, practical action;
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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FanTek News -
read about CastleCon and other FanTek activities!
FanTek is
a group based in the Washington DC area,
with interests in such things as
science fiction, fantasy, technology, gaming,
conventions, good friends, bad puns,
and chocolate.
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Nancy Lebovitz's Calligraphic Button Catalogue.
Beautifully calligraphed messages on plain or fancy backgrounds.
Her collection of thousands of sayings has been called
"the collective wisdom of fandom".
(Also see
Steven Staton's button page, which lets you retrieve
subsets of her catalog by category.)
- The wonderfully weird
Punk Walrus.
Some of these sites have contests and offer prizes,
but they are all free to enter.
This list doesn't include any "pay to play" sites
(but these sites' links to other puzzle pages may include
such commercial sites).
- The Jargon File
(a.k.a. "The Hacker's Dictionary"), a guide to the colorful language
of computer enthusiasts.
- Meng Weng Wong's
home page, a compendium of useful, fun, and interesting
pointers in cyberspace.
- Web authors!
The
Bandwidth Conservation Society
explains how you can make your pages load faster.
(Many images can be stored as significantly less data
with only a slight compromise in quality.)
Tiny images = fast-loading pages = happy readers.
- Yahoo,
an enormous categorized and subcategorized directory of websites,
and a good place to begin searching or browsing.
It's a directory, where the categories are assigned by humans,
rather than an automatic search engine; this makes the classifications
quite accurate and useful.
(Yes, just about everyone who uses the web knows about this site,
but just in case it helps someone who's new....)
"Brigadier! A straight line may be the shortest path between
two points, but it is by no means the most interesting!"
(Doctor Who)
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