Blogs

• Shelby's Life And Whatnot
• Blog of a Bookslut
• Number 2 Pencil
• OxBlog
• Philip Greenspun's Weblog
• The Volokh Conspiracy
• The Poor Man
• Eschaton
• A Fistful of Euros
• LILEKS (James) The Bleat
• Improbable Research — What's New
• Reason Magazine's Hit and Run and Daily Brickbat

• Hamburg/German/Expat Blogs:
  • Daily Dose of Dave (another American in Hamburg)
  • Papa Scott (yet another American in Hamburg)
  • Adventures of an American Girl in Germany (an American in Frankfurt)
  • Culture Shock and the blondelibrarian (an American in Munich)
  • German for Beginners (an Englishman in Stuttgart)
  • Ministry of Propaganda (a German in the UK)
  • Heiko Hebig(.com)
  • Haiko Hebig(.org -- yes, they're two different people)
  • Davids Medienkritik

Books

• Amazon.com (if you love me, you could visit my Amazon wish list . . . )
• Abebooks
• our Book Club
• the Anaheim Public Library
• Bookstores more interesting in person than on the Web:
  • Cody's Books
  • Moe's Books
  • Serendipity Books

Comics

• the Houston Chronicle's page of daily print comics
• Scary-Go-Round
• Achewood
  • The Unofficial Achewood Message Board
• Wigu
• This Modern World
• The Norm
• Bob the Angry Flower
  • Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots
• Slow Wave
• Funny Paper (if you're too busy to read comics yourself)

Letterpress

• Briar Press
• the San Francisco Center for the Book
• the University of Iowa Center for the Book

Interesting Miscellania

• Compendia of other links:
  • Arts and Letters Daily
  • Boing Boing
• Cockeyed.com
• Junk Store Cameras!
• old-computers.com
• Rate My Puppy (rate Scout here, here, and here)
• Spike's Root Beer Reviews
• The Bug Count Also Rises (Imitation Hemingway Contest winner)
• Where's George

Music

• Musicians & Bands:
  • Brave Combo
  • Catie Curtis
  • Erin McKeown
  • Peter Mulvey (the official site, or a fan site)
  • Richard Shindell
  • Deb Talan
  • Dar Williams (the official site, or a fan site, or the 'Dar-list' mailing list archive)
• General:
  • Freight & Salvage Coffee House
  • Musi-Cal Concert Listings
  • The War Against Silence (album reviews from someone with a lot of albums)

Southern Californiana (a developing area; more here as I find it ...)

• Anaheim Colony Links
• Orange County's Centennial Heritage Museum
• L.A. Observed
• Metroblogging Orange County
• Walking in Los Angeles
• Yesterland

Traditional Media (more or less)

• CNN
• das Hamburger Abendblatt
• the Daily Californian
• Fresh Air
• the San Francisco Chronicle
• the San Jose Mercury News
• This American Life

Trains

• Full-sized trains:
  • the Amtrak Photo Archive
  • Fallen Flag Railroad Photos
  • The European Railway Server
  • The Freightcars mailing list home page
  • Orange Empire Railway Museum
  • Illinois Transit Assembly Corporation
• Subways/Metro systems:
  • UrbanRail.net (see their page on Hamburg's system)
  • nycsubway.org (mostly NYC, but also pictures from other systems around the world)
  • Disused Stations on London's Underground
• Model trains:
  • First Place Hobbies
  • Walthers Model Railroad Mall
  • Internet Model Trains
  • Minatur Wunderland Hamburg