A Few of My Favorite Links


Research and Literary Pursuits

Early Americas Digital Archive
  • Full text of excellent primary sources for comparative hemispheric study

    Archive of Early American Images
  • Images that do well to complement the EA Digital Archive

    18th century reading room
  • Daily updates by the Mina Rees librarians at CUNY

    Common Place
  • A public journal and online forum for early Americas research

    Bernard J. Flatow Collection
  • Home to 76 rare first- and second-edition early Americas texts, all housed at UNC's Wilson Library

    Charles Brockden Brown Papers
  • A great collection of original papers (and those of Joseph Bringhurst, too)

    Ralph Bauer's homepage
  • Lots of upcoming conferences, links, and digital texts

    MLA

    LASA

    Reference and Language Pursuits

    UNESCO's Verbix Translator
  • Verb translations made easy. Yay!

    Spanish-Portuguese Dictionary
  • A whole lot of dictionary options. I have yet to find a good English-Portuguese option, so I use the Spanish-Portuguese in its stead.

    Yahoo Spanish-English Dictionary
  • Yes, it's Yahoo. However, it's still a good dictionary for American English and Latin American Spanish.

    Diccionario maya-castellano
  • A (comparatively) very good Maya-Spanish dictionary

    English, Spanish, and French Activist Vocabulary
  • All the requisite vocab for a trilingual activist

    Reflexive Verbs en español
  • Finally, a website for pseudo-reflexives in Spanish

    Lynch's Writing Guide
  • Quite useful for passing along to composition students

    Silliness

    Individualized Shakespeare Insults
  • All of the hard work of combing through plays to find insults like "rump-faced kidney sucker"--gone!

    The Fug Ladies
  • More pop culture references than I could ever process

    ¡Ayyyyyyy, the Manolo is superfantastic!
  • Quoteth the Manolo: The fashion, it is not the nuclear rocket brain surgery

    ¡Fiesta fiesta y pluma pluma gay!!
  • The best pick-me-up video ... ever

    One semester of Spanish, Spanish love song
  • My Spanish students loved it

    ¡¡Curso dandalu!!
  • Pa k sepan d la curtura

    Lose yourself in the digits: Pi Day Song
  • Sin, sin, cosin, sin, 3.14159! Made by my little sister Amy for her 7th grade students

    The Black Table
  • Probably not safe for work

    Tastespotting
  • For the food lover par excellence

    18th Century Cooking
  • When you've got lots of cherries and six weeks to spare, why wouldn't you make cherry ratafia?

    My bike routes
  • Carless in Chapel Hill, I hit the hotspots by bicycle: Artisanal chocolate, a dairy farm, and a martini bar

    My Years in Chile

    Lonely Planet
  • My lifesaver and guide to museums, bars, etc. throughout Chile and Santiago in particular

    Museo chileno de arte precolombino
  • Without a doubt, my favorite museum in Santiago

    La wena vida po
  • Sundry oenophiles and gourmands review Santiago's bars and restaurants

    Survino
  • Reviews of lots of Chilean wines. My favorites? The Montes carmenere-cabernet blend (thanks, Lenka!) and the easy-drinkin', affordable-on-a-teacher's-salary chardonnay from Carmen

    Linguatec Santiago
  • Where I taught 3 classes a day from September to February and spent up to 6 hours a day on public transportation (the speedy metro and the not so speedy mafia-owned micro).

    Compañía Minera Cerro Colorado
  • I had never realized that the desert could be so beautiful until I lived in a copper mine with 1,200 miners (o sea mineros rotos). We taught from 8 am until 9 pm Monday-Wednesday (not counting administrative duties, lesson planning, and grading), and until 7:30 pm on Thursdays when we went back down to Iquique. I had amazing students, great co-workers, and intense life experiences packed into the comparatively brief period of a year.

    Traveling

    Couch Surfing
  • I have stayed with and hosted some amazing, lovely people through CS. It makes the best kind of travel possible for those of us who want to see many parts of this beautiful world (and eat our way through all kinds of spicy, fried incarnations of tastiness): you are invited into the home of someone who wants to share it with you. I have gone to several conferences and academic programs that I could not have afforded or enjoyed as much without couchsurfing.

    StumbleUpon
  • One of the best ways to pass one's time on the Information Superhighway

    Flash Earth
  • It's like Google Earth's cooler older sister

    Breathing Earth
  • For a quick check on your country's carbon emissions. Aesthetically intriguing and environmentally disheartening

    Trek Earth
  • The (non-digital divided) world's photo album



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