A lot of these links, I haven't checked in a long time, so, no promises.

Burning Man Wanna fry away your old life and strap on a cool new one? What a beautiful temporary culture, as wild and as hairy as you can take. If you don't know, do follow the link: 45,000+ tripped-out goofballs having as much fun as they can, smack in the middle of alkali flats in Nevada, 110 degree days, 40 degree nights, lots of naked and/or elaborately-costumed people, crazy twisted installations, mad nutter artcars. No selling or vending, but all manner of trading is encouraged, as well as unsolicited gifting just because you want to and can. Make sure you check out the lists of camps and events, enough to inspire you for a whole year, or at least a couple of weeks. Also see my impressions from Burning Man. Thankfully, the idea has taken off, and lots of smaller local festivals have also taken seed, via various regionals. Every year it gets bigger, and may not always be there, don't blink (and every year it gets a little more diluted, and less radical. 2008 theme: The American Dream. give me a goddamn break, ewww).

MUSIC:

beatport.com my new favorite record store

Resident Advisor the powerhouse of planet earth dance music culture. if there is a dance music event going on anywhere in the world, you can probably find a listing here.

Soundcloud a community based around sharing sound files. a great way to keep track of what your favorite producers are up to, and if you're lucky or talented enough, communicate with them directly.

Sonic Boom of the truly seminal and utterly essential Spacemen 3, and now the brilliant E.A.R.

Dylan Drazen is one wicked techno DJ, bring him to your city. Insanely complete set of links to techno labels.

lekkerlui.nl outstanding collection of links to DJ techno sets

ishkur's guide to electronic music, pretty exhaustive. his writing is pretty pointed as well.

PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE:

TRIP magazine; in my opinion THE most essential magazine/thinking; humanity is either gonna get it or drown in our own tired bullshit. Oh crap, they stopped making the magazine. Dammit. But, latest good news is that the website has relaunched, and will be regularly updated, which is definitely an imporvement over waitning four to six months for the paper version. Buy back issues, especially #6, which has an article on Corporate Metabolism, which seems like a random pairing of words, until the article blows your mind. The "Drugs are Cool, You May Not Be" article is so classic.

Entheogen Review the opposite of the drive to repress: let's really LOOK.

The Lycaeum great site for those not afraid of the Poison Path;
see especially the Ketamine Konundrum

Erowid.org another great archive of drug information, for the Truly Curious

Drug Policy Alliance you haven't heard of the RAVE act have you? You really should; it's about as un-American a piece of legislation as has ever been railroaded through under the radar, really heinous. If not for the hard work these people do, it would be even worse. You really should give them money.

DanceSafe on recreational drugs: just say KNOW

MAPS.org send them all the money you can, they are truly doing The Good Work

drugwarfacts.org need some statistics to make the fear-and-ignorance-mongers back down? lots here.

John Lilly The Man, hardcore internal astronaut...deadpan freaky. Visionary? Casualty? Both. bzzt, the very day I was gonna mail him CDs, was awakened by a phone call telling he'd died in the night...and even odder, I always kind of thought something like that would happen.

Future Hi more neo-psychedelic ramblings etc., tons of links. Includes a transcript of "Journeys into the Bright World", the long lost gem by Howard Altounian and Marcia Moore, the latter someone who fell in and didn't return, a tale at once inspiring and supremely cautionary: they found her bleached skeleton in a tree two years later, bad trip dude.

hyperreal.org once upon a time, it was THE ultimate internode, you could get EVERYWHERE from there. doesn't seem to have been updated in a long time, but some of the links are still great.

ART/visual:

JUXTAPOZ an excellent counterculture art magazine, a what's-what of the adamantly-seedy lowbrow thrive that is doing just fine without High Art's consent thank you very much. about half stupid cliches (doe-eyed asian waifs and banal tattoos and affected/twee "street" art and sneaker-pimp labelwhore bullshit) these days, but the other half is still plenty fun.

Naoto Hattori awesome over the edge psychedelic art. and he's surprisingly affordable, get 'im while you can.

Jim Woodring tripped out goofball cartoonist extraordinaire

Dave Cooper a wonderful comic artist, damned surreal, not afraid to be just bad twisted. His Overbite book is a must-have.

90 degrees, one of the most stunning short films you will ever see. takes a little fussing to navigate to the actual movie, and the little blue dash in the degree position is the progress bar (when it's a square it's ready).

"how to be creative" a long but very enlightening essay on navigating that landscape

Outsider Art: such a vast can of worms, basically a catch-all term for the self-taught and/or completely insane, and all points between and beside. None of that straining thesis energy, just straight-up ODD. Raw Vision magazine is a good introduction; there's also a Museum of Folk Art in NYC, always a safe bet, with a great bookshop. Baltimore has the American Visionary Art Museum.

The Remedi Project quite a good place to visit frequently for up-to-the-nanosecond net art and design

huge collection of free textures

POLITICS/NEWS:

Rude Pundit oh I love this bastard, I'd say he's a man after my own heart except that would be unjustly flattering myself. Since moving to Berlin, I seriously have no more stomach for the morass of stupid that has become US politics, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy his gourmet snark.

a very long list of peculiarities of 911. if you discount 90% of it that still leaves a v-e-r-y long list of serious questions. Of course the suggestion that the whole thing was a controlled demolition is absolutely preposterous, no reason whatsoever to read this. Lots more: physics911.net, a pretty exhaustive debunking of the official line; 911 Patriots, a great list of extremely-qualified people (top military, political, etc.) who think the whole thing stinks top to bottom; Scholars for 911 Truth; 911research.WTC7.net; 911truestory.com. If you don't even look at any of the questions, but just look at the way the followup was handled, i.e., bulldozed, steamrollered, strongarmed into the dustbin, your bullshit detectors should scream themselves insane.

a working definition of fascism, fits the Bu**sh** administration to a T.

Aleister Crowley (Mr. 666) might very well be Bush's grandfather. The infinitely foul Babs sure looks like his daughter there.

the Yes Men, a wonderful antidote to all this shrill hand-wringing, major pranksters who take it right to the people who are laying it on thickest. They've impersonated WTO spokesmawks, spoken at Repug fundraisers, pretty much do the aikido thing of taking somebody's energy and turning it on them. Much better than being led by the nose from one stress bomb to another (gotta admit, the Repugs are pretty good at keeping you from focussing on any one scandal, they just keep fresh ones coming at you like mnortars): SO BRILLIANT!!! Read more about them and other way-admirable pranksters in the awesome new book PRANKS 2.

a wonderful and vast collection of anti-establishment quotes

The Long Emergency on the inevitability and imminence of it all going to Shit, like within a decade or so.

paranoia.com yucks and headaches, lives up to its name just fine...expand your brain until it pops like a...oh never mind

If you're ever wondering just how nasty man has been to man, here's some chilling links tallying the genocides, wars, and other atrocities. Add on the murders and other miscellania and I wonder if it approaches 10% of the total population...?

disinformation.com also trying to toss that spanner in the works. LOADS of articles and links. Did you know FDR had two full weeks notice about the Pearl Harbor invasion?

How to Start a War, aka a history of American politics. long, very incriminating.

some excellent alternative newsfeeds
Intelligence Network
Independent Media Center
Freepress International
AlterNet
Z Magazine

spreadingsantorum.com a site made to hijack the name of the idiot evil (ex!!!-)senator from Pennsylvania: new meaning: "the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is often a byproduct of anal sex" (memorize it!). If you can, link to it, to ensure it keeps coming up above his offical site in Google searches. he just so sucks beyond suckage.

David Icke on The Illuminati: more than some of it is bit much to take (uh, to say the least), but it's also pretty good in showing some of the methodology behind How The Bastards Operate...especially in light of the very suspicious WTC bombing..."they" create the problem, which generates a response, so they can enact the solution they wanted in the first place. A lot like religions, which I call 'selling soap and dirt'. And, the accusations of extremely-limited bloodlines among major world leaders seem at the very least pretty curious.

RELIGION, as in ANTI:

The New Testament is a man-made fabrication. well it is.

An Atheist on Judgment Day oh, does this ever put a fine point on it.

Jesusneverexisted.com I would guess at least a good half of what's there is barely-researched credulous hearsay; it's not like they're hiding their agenda to brutally discredit one of the nastier viruses infecting the planet. But, do I really care? What an adorable question.

Anti-Tracts the counter to those dorky little Jack Chick tracts that are the mainstay of Xtian hillbilly propagandizing; check especially the one on the thoroughly ancient origins of the lil fishy symbol, and also the one on the roots/appropriation of Dec 25th.

MISCELLANEOUS:

The Urban Legends Reference Pages where to find out if that colorful rumor you heard is true, and also to find new goofy myths to circulate

Savage Love the skinny and fatty on the dirty, entertaining and informative sex advice for the various and sundry, served with velvet talons

StevePavlina.com 400+ free articles on self-help, err, self-optimization. Doesn't often say exactly what you'd expect to hear. I've only scratched the surface; there's lots to chew on here.

ZenHabits loads of articles on productivity, efficiency, GTD (Getting Things Done)

the Unintelligent Design Network exactly the useful answer to these nuh-uh Intelligent Design buffoons: sure, there's a big old creator thing, but it just isn't very good at it and eats a hell of a lot of doofy mistakes. Be touched bt His Noodly Appendage: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

some really cool green plastic bags that make vegetables last a long time in the fridge, like a month

Ultimate Frisbee as well-named a sport as exists, perfect vibe, total flow. Someday it will be a massive international phenomenon, with a world cup, Olympic status, prime slots on TV, but right now it's just a hell of a lot of fun to watch and/or play; the women's teams are no slouch, man do they go for it.

Feral House Publishers lots of juicy reading for those who like to imagine they are jaded: no, you really aren't.