Cat's Links

Education

• Massachusetts Department of Education
• Massachusetts Library and Information Network
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Teachers.Net
• Classroom Connect
• The American School Directory
• Berit's Best Sites for Children
• Montessori Online
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• The Science Educator's Home Page
• Editorial Cartooning for kids
• Rethinking Schools' interactive map of the Middle East; can you do it?

Medieval Pursuits

• The Society for Creative Anachronism, specifically the East Kingdom
• Here's a great introductory article about the SCA: who we are and what we do
• How to join the SCA without going broke
• More articles for and about the SCA
• Photographs of SCA activities
• The Barony of Carolingia (greater Boston, MA)
• The history of Carolingia, and of the SCA in general
• I live in the Canton of Aschehyrst
• The Aschehyrst Gift Shop
• Our neighbors to the west are the Shire of Quintavia
• Search for names and heraldry within the SCA
• Arts and Sciences within the SCA
• A helpful article on documentation for Arts and Sciences competitions
• DragonBear has lots of helpful information, especially on medieval arts, crafts, and literature
• Baron Ernst's Words of Wisdom
• The Medieval Sourcebook
• The Ravensgard Mediaeval Homepage covers an astonishing number of subjects and interests
• The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Scrolls, scrolls, scrolls...
  • Masscribes Homepage
  • East Kingdom Office of the Signet
  • Writing better scroll texts
  • Scribaltalkie, a poem
  • The Guildhall of St. Katherine and St. Barbara
  • A Book of Hours in the special collections of Brandeis
  • The Aberdeen Bestiary
  • The Otto F. Ege Collection
  • Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c. 1500
  • The Konstanz-Weingartner Liederhandschrift: information and images
  • A charter for Philip
  • Mediaevum
  • The Web Gallery of Art, with many manuscript pages
  • Artcyclopedia, the fine art search engine
  • Tigertail Virtual Museum
• Renaissance Faires in general
• The New Jersey Renaissance Faire, my particular favorite
• King Richard's Faire is the local one here in eastern MA
• I am enthralled by anything regarding King Arthur
• The Norman Conquest and the Bayeux Tapestry
• If you can sew, here's an introduction to garb, with instructions for making lots of different things
• Always wanted to build a trebuchet? These guys did
• Try some traditional board games
• Learn to pronounce Old & Middle English
• Renaissance Secrets, a new show from the BBC
• And don't forget the shopping:
  • L. Cornelissen & Son, amazing art supplies
  • Mad Macsen's Medieval Mart
  • Moresca clothing: not always period, but always beautiful and well-made
  • Gaukler Medieval Wares
  • Griffon's Medieval Manuscripts

Animal and Environmental Issues

• World Wildlife Fund
• The Nature Conservancy
• The National Wildlife Federation
• Create a backyard habitat
• The Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the Bronx Zoo
• The Humane Society
• The League of Conservation Voters
• The Rainforest Site; click here every day

Arts and Entertainment

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• The stories of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Children's Literature
• World Mythology
• Stories from ancient times through 1600
• A very funny medieval poem in praise of bald men
• Fall under the spell of Harry Potter
• Amazon Books
• Out of print? Try abebooks, Bookfinder, or Alibris
• I really enjoy comic books, especially Elfquest, Sandman, and Omaha
• The Elfquest Trading Post
• The Joker's Child is the best comic store I have EVER visited. Period. When in NJ, go there!
• When not in NJ, Comix 4 Sale and Mile High Comics sell stuff online
• Online comic strips: FoxTrot and Kevin & Kell
• The Tick qualifies as both a great comic book and excellent TV (the cartoon, anyway)

• The X-Files
• Babylon 5 and its sequel, Crusade
• B5 fans should definitely check out The Shadows Information Office; out of date now, but still very funny!
• For B5 merchandise, try Uncommyn Gifts
• Farscape
• Jim Henson's Muppets
• PBS
• Not just for kids: Bill Nye the Science Guy, Kratts' Creatures, and Wishbone
• The Learning Channel has my new favorite show, Junkyard Wars
• The Simpsons and Futurama
• OK, I admit it. I like South Park. Heaven help me.
• But to make up for that, I also watch Veggie Tales!

• Star Wars
• Check out Evan's Star Wars Cinema, a truly amazing testament to Star Wars and free time
• James Bond, 007
• The Internet Movie Database
• Get the scoop on the latest flicks from Siskel and Ebert, sadly now just Ebert

• The Official Disney Site is great, as are these unofficial ones:
• Forgotten Disney
• The Very Extraordinary Animation Archive
• The Disney Club

• Playbill Online
• Here's what's new on Broadway,
• and in the London theatre scene
• Check out my friends in the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club
• I Sebastiani , the greatest Commedia dell Arte Troupe in the entire world!

Miscellany

• Calligraphy
• Making candles
• My grandfather taught me to love baseball because of the Brooklyn Dodgers
• My loyalties now lie with the Boston Red Sox
• The major league baseball standings
• LEGOs
• Godiva chocolate
• Ben & Jerry's ice cream
• Fresh Samantha juices (they're yummy!)
• Weird Al Yankovic