GOOD PEOPLE TO VISIT

These organizations and campaigns are worth your support. Why not visit them if you're interested ?

Design and communication

This site is designed to be readable by any browser. I support Cari D. Burstein's excellent campaign for access for all. There is no single link here for Lynx, but you will find several in the Design for Access section, in the Lynx paragraph of the HTML and Browsers page.

This site is designed free of frames, LUGs (large useless graphics, according to my Irish friend Roy Johnston), animation and Java. However, the pages do have to carry a GeoGuide or be liable to occasional pop-up advertisement windows, and are promised a GeoCities "watermark". I can give no warranty for those.

The Lynx logo is by Brandi Weed. It is based on a Jordan Greywolf drawing of Conrad Wong's Lynx cartoon character.

I loathe censorship, the idea that someone can insist they know so much better that they must be allowed to decide what anyone may tell anyone else. Restricting what people may see and learn is one of the most disempowering ideas around. US readers will be aware of state laws which forbade slaves to learn to read, on pain of punishment.

Particularly odious are those who seek to profit by their imposition of widespread ignorance, such as the makers of Web blocking software. And, by the way, if you're worried about what your children may encounter, why aren't you taking care of that instead of leaving it to the "judgement" of a machine ?

The Guild is an aspiring professional organization. It offers useful technical information, resources and links. It can sound rather pompous, as in its published guidelines and specified wording for the use of the logo - which I may not have followed exactly. I am sorry that the Guild is moving away from its original character as an free membership organisation, with its basic membership now reduced to a 12 months trial period.

GreyDay is about misuse of material produced by others on the Web. A great deal is available free for non-commercial use, often provided that it is credited to the author. This campaign seeks to highlight the extent to which that is abused, as people seek to profit from others' work or otherwise deprive them of the fruit of their labours. GreyDay itself will be 1st October 1998.

The absence of the image is deliberate. Think about it.

Pagans

The Pagan WebCrafters' Association is an excellent organisation, which offers two good e-mail lists. I am a member and subscriber to both. Arrangements for joining the lists are on the PWA Web page. The larger PWA-L list discusses webcrafting. It offers help with problems, and on request members look at each other's sites to advise. The smaller Pagan MindCrafters list is about pagan beliefs and practices. I manage the PMC list; its introduction and good practice guide are on this site. Other PWA facilities are under construction or reconstruction as a new team takes over following the retirement of Craig Hickman as organiser.

Laren keeps a regularly updated directory of GeoCities pagan sites, with notes on each one. It is divided into two parts. One is for the majority in the Athens virtual neighbourhood, which includes Laren's own Stella Australis and this site. The other is for the minority in the rest of GeoCities. Both offer a wide selection, but this is being reduced by departures following discontent with GeoCities' introduction of the much disliked Watermark on sites and allied developments.

This graphic by Lynna Landstreet is from one by Laren. Have a look at Lynna's site Where the Wild Things Are. I recommend the excellent pagan Temple and the ecology section.

The givers of awards

By some strange oversight, this simple site has never been offered an award. Not one. Nada. But if we were, it probably wouldn't be here. Awards are a waste of space, except perhaps in one respect. An awards page can be useful for links, if those giving the awards keep the links to past recipients up to date. When I find one I like which really does, it'll be listed here. Whether they offer this site an award or not.