a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security, or our right to fully participate in our democratic society.
a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.
guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone.
The History Commons contains summaries of events, which are published on the website in the format of dynamic timelines. These timelines can be filtered by investigative project, topic, or entity (e.g., a person, organization, or corporation).
information about movies, tv, actors, directors, and so on. Lets you know what's available on DVD too. Links to official movie websites for trailers when possible.
Wikibooks is dedicated to developing and disseminating free, open content textbooks and other classroom texts. We currently host 5666 textbook modules, in various stages of development, from those needing a lot of work to those that are nearly perfect.
The books that did not fit the categories are all here. Also the books that fit in several categories (for example, Linux and C++) are here as well. Please send me a link in case something is missing.
an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people. You merely...
a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program
social bookmarks manager; allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers, but also with others.
provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. The libraries are intended to be widely useful, and are in regular use by thousands of programmers across a broad spectr
on low-cost distribution shareware and freeware C/C++ source code. CUG launched the C/C++ Users Journal in 1983. We invented the term user supported software to describe this activity two decades before open source became an industry buzzword.
tries to bring vendors who use GPL licensed software in their products into license compliance. To achieve this goal, it uses a number of measures, ranging from warning letters over public documentation of GPL violations, up to legal proceedings.
an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. (IBM, HP, INTEL+)
The WIPO Online Forum is open to participation by all interested persons – you are invited to join in online discussions over a period of two weeks from June 1, 2005.
Conventional money causes poverty because it is based on debt. It comes into existence when banks grant loans. This determines the quantity of money, which has nothing to do with the amount of money people need to live decent lives.
The Starflight III project is composed of fans and several of the SF/SF2 authors. We are making no profit from this game, as we are distributing it for free and creating it in our own spare time.
a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
an open, free directory of species. This will cover animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life to the extent that our users allow us.
serving the World Demo Scene, the proffesional and the amature game development industry, Computer Graphics programmers and lately also the Academic computer graphics research field.
game programming tutorials and source code for a variety of languages and platforms. Also, because this is a wiki, you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge and help the repository grow!
actively supporting development of Free Software and furthering GNU-based Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux. Also, we provide an assistance centre for politicians, lawyers and journalists in order to secure the legal, political and social future of Free
a community driven resource for open source software. Try starting a page about your favorite project, syndicating a blog for a topic, or browsing through tags people have added to projects or pages.
Mailing lists are funneled into news groups. Gmane does spam detection, cross-post handling, has a TMDA-fueled encryption/forwarding service, a web interface, respects X-No-Archive, supplies RSS feeds, uses SPF, features user-defined filters, more...
community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!
provides free audiobooks from the public domain. Volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. The goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
a server for chess players to play against each other over the Internet. FICS supports tournaments, lectures, live game relays, chess variants (Suicide, Bughouse, Crazyhouse, Atomic) and lots more.
a knowledgebase of Microsoft Help-related information, initially created by the MicrosoftHelpMVPs and maintained by the Help authoring community and you.
allows you to create a chat community and talk to people who are currently reading the same web page as you are. Just add gabbly.com/ before the site's url. For example gabbly.com/cnn.com (IE not supported)
Simple site where you are given 1 gb of space to share many things like a simple quote, a picture, or a video. You can keep some things to yourself, share with a small group, or share it with everyone.
a public source code repository that gives you a place to store and organize all the little pieces of code that you use each day. (no version edit, only code publish and tagging)