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- Adbusters Culture Jammer's Headquarters - Global network of activists, artists, educators, and entrepreneurs who seek to advance a new activist movement in the information age. Facilitates online petitions, presents critical mass tips, and exposes corporate propaganda.
- ameriCON Incorporated - Poses as a US-based multinational company that attracts investments to dominate the world market. Spoofs various American companies.
- The Bubble Project - Presents blank bubble stickers (in public areas) as well as online speech balloons for the public to fill up. Aims to parody corporate images, product ads, personalities, and other pop culture figures.
- Cacophony Society - Network of individuals who make use of subversion, pranks, art, and fringe explorations to deviate from "mainstream society.".
- Culture Jamming - Presents a glimpse of modern culture jamming. With interviews, political games, and blogs.
- Ideacog - Site featuring experiments, art, activism, and development put up to compete with the typical commerce and community websites.
- The Detroit Project - Culture jamming based grassroots campaign aimed at convincing automakers to build fuel efficient cars.
- Free Words - Book project distributed worldwide for free. Also available as a PDF download.
- Hypermart - Mock online store offering a variety of "consumable simulacra." Introduces concept advertising.
- It Was Him! - Interactive site allows visitors to scribble on product campaign propaganda using a virtual pen. Also features other "vandalized" posters and images.
- Mark Dery's Shovelware - Featuring the books, articles, and blogs of the cultural critic, Mark Dery. Dery wrote the essay "Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs" -- which helped popularize the term "culture jamming.".
- National Cynical Network (NCN) - Alternative programming project offering news, webcasts, podcasts, essays, humor, quotes, and poetry.
- Reamweaver - Downloadable application for creating "funhouse-mirror" sites or for spoofing popular websites.
- Soy Bomb Nation - Grassroots movement dedicated to the riddance of consumerism or corporatism in the media.
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- Canadian Great War Project: Lest we Forget - Includes a large collection of resources related to the World War I - diaries, photos, letters, book and media descriptions. Also provides statistics and information about memorials, rolls, and awards.
- Canada and the First World War - Includes personal accounts about different battles, and background information on Canada's participation in the Great War.
- The Canadian Great War Homepage - Provides details about the Great War. Includes timeline, statistics, and information about major battles, air force, biographies and related links.
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- The Fresh Air Fund - Non-profit organization provides free summer vacations to underprivileged children in New York.
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- Consumers Anonymous - Confluence community created to promote innovative alternatives to the (typically) environmentally-destructive consumer habit.
- The Story of Stuff - Animation and resources presenting the connections between and among various environmental and social issues.
- I(nternational) Buy Nothing Day - Informal international project aims to call for the rethinking of environmentally-destructive consumer habits.
- Responsible Shopper - Global research and action project dedicated to putting an end to corporate abuse.
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- Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise - Research, education, and training center offering advanced knowledge specialization in applied ethics and entrepreneurship studies.
- Integritas Institute for Ethics - University of Illinois-Chicago ethics institute. Serves as a venue for the study and discussion of ethics in the professional college setting.
- Professional Ethics at Keele (PEAK) - Keele university's postgraduate, doctorate, and undergraduate ethics courses. Site presents related news, contacts, and information on people and events.
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- Normative Ethics - Site presents discussions on virtue ethics, deontology, and consequentialism.
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Utilitarianism
- Classical Utilitarianism - Features selections from the writings of three of the well-known classical utilitarians: principally Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick.
- A Utilitarian FAQ - Freely distributable document offering collections of answers to typically asked questions about utilitarianism.
- Utilitarian Philosophers - Collection of articles and links to materials about or authored by Utilitarian philosophers.
- Utilitarian.org - Site features utilitarian projects, short papers, and related links and resources. Includes a list of common criticisms on utilitarianism.
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- Markkula Center for Applied Ethics - Santa Clara University's center for research and discussions in all areas of applied ethics. Aims to address ethical issues in teaching, research, and action.
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- ChicagoBridal.com - A comprehensive Chicago wedding planning site and online community with articles, local vendors, photo galleries and more.
- Chicago Style Weddings - Features Chicago wedding planning with information about photographers, florists, bridal fashions, vendors and more.
- Wedding Guide Chicago - Offers a wedding vendor and product directory, articles and planning tips.
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- FWB Net - Provides a forum for Free Will Baptists with general discussion, ministry issues, politics, prayer requests, theological issues, historical writings, book and music reviews and more.
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