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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