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Cool / Not Cool Sites

Linux and HPC computing:

Linux HPC
The Beowulf project
The Baltimore / Washington Beowulf Users Group
Cluster Monkey
Georgetown University's Grids Watch portal
Slashdot - and all those comments posted that aren't worth reading.
Linux Magazine
Information Week

Houston Texas:

The Houston Press
The Houston Chronicle
Blog Houston
Houston Strategies
The County Seat
Houston Property Rights
Iklektik
The Retro Gallery
Soular Grooves.com
Citizens For Public Accountability
Chris Rangel MD
Preservation Sanity

Asia / Expatriate websites:

The Asia Society
1930's Shanghai
Stickman's Guide to Bangkok
Thailand Life
Bangkok - Ibiza photo website
Engrish.com
Phuket Real Estate
Zhongwen.com
Seelai - an Asian / Chinese Weblog and website
China Vitae - site about Chinese political leaders
Weblog: Living in China
Sinosplice - the Internet's definitive list of China themed weblogs
Engrish language website

Culture:

Slipcue.com
Brazilian Music
Retro Crush.Com
2 Blowhards. com
Fred on Everything
The History Channel
Histories of Economic Thought
Early Christian Writings Website

Tolkien:

The One Ring.net
Tolkien Brick Tales
The Houston Tolkien & Inklings Round table
Dr. Jane Chance's homepage
Michael Martinez
A Tolkien Pilgrimage to Oxford - January 2007

Chess:

Chess Variants.com
FIDE
Arasan
The United States Chess Federation
Garry Kasparov's Website
A Bobby Fischer page

Economics:

The Marginal Revolution
Economics Journal Watch
Links from The Idea Shop

Transportation and Urban Areas:

Public Purpose
The Anti Planner
The Journal of Urban Economics
Demographia
The U.S. National Transit Database
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The U.S. Energy Information Agency
The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
Access Magazine
Mass Transit Magazine
Texas Transportation Institute
World Mobility Report
A transportation modeling primer
Mobility in the Developing World
Tom Vanderbilt's How We Drive
London Underground Blog
The Transportationist
Houston Freeways
Texas Freeways
Worldwide vehicle ownership and Income Growth from 1960 onwards
Cellulosic Ethanol blog

Politics / Commentary:

Arts and Letters Daily
The Cato Institute
Lew Rockwell.com
Reason Online
The Independent Review
The Economist
Critical Review
Foreign Policy
Foreign Affairs