News, Sports, and Reviews

Newspapers

• New York Times, Editorials, Bits tech blog. home delivery service.
• Peninsula Examiner, good for local elections
• Palo Alto Weekly has local movie and restaurant reviews
• SF Chronicle, with
  • SFGate Bay Area weather
  • reviews of current video releases.
  • Bad Reporter!
  • Mark Morford
• PBS Newshour
• Google News
• Salon Magazine
• Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman
• San Jose Mercury News
• The Utne Lens, best of alternative press
• USA Today

Sports

• Stanford Sports
• Yahoo Sports, Yahoo NFL, Fantasy football., Sporting News Fantasy
• NCAA, all sports
• ESPN
• Baseball links.

Business News, Brokers

• E-Trade
• Schwab web trading
• Vanguard Mutual Funds, Vanguard Adviser
• Citibank online
• TIAA-CREF

  Advice and references:

• Big charts, best charges, eg history of PE ration
• Yahoo Finance, to find info on a company
• Morning Star, mutual fund ratings
• Investing in bonds -- price info on bonds
• Retiring in a foreign country
• Investor place, with various advice newsletters
• Stockmaster: Mutual Funds Charts and symbols
• CHicago Options Board.
• Exchange Rates
• Money & Investing,Wall Street Journal

Humor

• The Onion
• The Whitehouse (.org)
• Adequacy: satire and parody

TV and Radio

• Is Jon Stewart the most trusted man in America?, New York Times, 2008.
• The Daily Show, Video finder, see clips from any show ever. Samples:
  • Monica Goodling 7/30/8
  • Jon defends Clinton and Romney against ridiculous (CNN) media charges, then Jon and Samantha take it to the next level 1/24/8
    
  • Jon "took apart former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith's rationalizations about the Iraq war with Aesopian logic and fury" [New York Times] (long, or just watch the last 3 minutes of part 2):
    Douglas Feith, uncut Part 1 5/12/8
    Douglas Feith, uncut Part 2
    
  • Pentagon capers (Feith)2/13/7

  • First segment after 9/11/01

• Maddow Blog
• KQED, TV and radio
• NPR
• CBS Television Home Page

Specialized News

• DefenseLink: DoD News, pictures, briefings, etc.
• Tricycle Buddhist Review
• Next time the ground shakes, look here for the latest USGS News on Earthquakes.

Medicine

• Palo Alto Medical Foundation
• ADP Flex
• Delta Dental
• Mayo Clinic, comprehensive help
• NIH resource for drugs and medical conditions, PubMed for journal articles
• NIH resource for mental disorders
• info on Drugs
• Good info on injuries and rehab (click Straight Talk)
• UCSF Neurosurgery, Dr Weinstein, (415) 353-7500
• National Committee for Quality Assurance, rates HMOs
• Alternative Medicine Homepage, Univ. of Pittsburg

David E. Wilkins Last modified: 2011-11-22 15:50