(CATEGORY) SELF-CENTERED

http://www.facebook.com/julian.t.lee http://www.flickr.com/photos/omnifoo/
http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd293/omnifoo/
http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict.org/profile/JulianLee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-lee-950a7095

http://newark.nenu.edu.cn/front/article/435.html (My RUNIN faculty profile. They changed my scary beardy-faced pic, but I don't think it's any more flattering.)

http://omniscientfool.blog.friendster.com/ (This has been deleted by the "new" Friendster. Argh! Leaving up the dead link to brag about being antisocial on social media before Facebook or MySpace.)
www.youtube.com/user/omnifoo

My KUCI Site

My Apple Music profile to follow what I have listened to (I try to buy & own what's not popular rather than stream it).

RELATIVES

www.myspace.com/sirsmudge (N) www.marketresearch.weebly.com (A) Aaron's subsite within omnifoo.info

http://s899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/wheatlike/ (N) www.youtube.com/user/sirsmudgeproductions (N)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22133079@N07/

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?AID=55395 (A's music from 2001) http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=107641&t=6037 (N's music from 2001)

www.gravitationlab.com (Rick's physics site)

FRIENDS AND CLASSMATES (PLEASE CONTACT ME TO ADD YOUR SITE!)

www.lydiadaum.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/58959920@N00/(Mo mei) http://funinthesun.tumblr.com/ (Dean's blog) http://tape.ly/users/snoozin-lucci (Dean's mixes)
http://www.myspace.com/juliettesconcertina www.paleyounggentlemen.com (CHS) www.systemandstation.com (CHS) http://www.myspace.com/jessebeck www.clairenereim.com http://benaqua.org http://fakeisthenewreal.com www.wearefancy.net/wordpress (Could probably fill a whole page w/ OC classmates' sites, all slicker than my own) www.cobrahead.com www.partypantspads.com http://littledaisychains.blogspot.com/2007/09/portland-made-heating-and-cooling.html (Prev. 3 are businesses with connections to classmates from Cambridge) www.hannah-eats-everything.com (Hannah's food blog) Hannah's Yelp Reviews https://soundcloud.com/hannah-backward (Hannah's music) www.mikeschapiro.com (Stephanie Han's art site) www.liyage.wordpress.com (Jacob's blog & Chinese translations)

ENTERTAINMENT & FOOD FAVORITES

www.avclub.com www.allmusic.com www.emusic.com www.rottentomatoes.com www.metacritic.com www.fandor.com www.thedissolve.com

www.gemm.com www.amoeba.com www.recordstoreday.com www.alllooksame.com https://archive.org/details/internetarcade (Free online emulator of classic arcade games) http://www.pinsandneedlesla.com/ (Pinball arcade in LA) http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_home.asp (Every cereal ever made in the USA?! I'm in!)
http://wiki.rockinchina.com www.theonion.com http://www.pabsttheater.org/ www.dola.com
www.wobc.org www.wmse.org www.wort-fm.org www.kuci.org

EDUCATIONAL/ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL FAVORITES

www.oberlin.edu www.marquette.edu www.uci.edu www.czc.edu.cn/index/html (Changzhi University, where I taught in spring 2014) http://www.nenu.edu.cn/ (Northeast Normal University, where I'm teaching the 2015-16 academic year) http://newark.nenu.edu.cn/ (RUNIN, where I "facilitated" courses for Rutgers-Newark, starting with their inaugural semester in FAll 2015)

http://lolmythesis.com/
www.jsonline.com www.nytimes.com www.aljazeera.com www.harpers.org www.villagevoice.com www.hgnews.com/cambridge_deerfield/ (My hometown newspaper)
www.globalvoicesonline.org www.skeptic.com www.ffrf.org www.votenader.org www.commondreams.org (a detailed, progressive media source usually spot on with my own opinions)

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, SAVE THE EARTH, ETC.

www.aappb.org www.idealist.org http://www.constitution.org/cs_separ.htm(Secession Movements) www.volunteertibet.org http://www.diymedia.net/links/lstart.htm(DIY Radio) www.radiosurvivor.com www.peacecorps.gov www.milwaukeepeacecorps.org http://www.americorps.gov/ http://www.nycservice.org/nyc_civic_corps.php http://www.beansandbarley.com/ http://www.vnsny.org/timebank/ www.penttilinkola.com (Pretty extreme, don't want to agree, but seductive environmental fundamentalism)

CHINA

Pinyin Vowels with Tone Marks for Copying & Pasting www.chinadigitaltimes.net www.thechinabeat.org (UCI's own!) www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com http://cmp.hku.hk/(China Media Project) www.clavisinica.com (Test how many 汉字 you know) www.thebeijinger.com www.chinageeks.org www.aqicn.org/map (Daily air pollution in Asia) www.quora.com/What-are-the-hardest-words-in-English-for-native-Chinese-speakers-to-pronounce You know you're in China (too long) when... (From Dave's ESLcafe) www.theworldofchinese.com (Some timely articles on various cultural subjects) Sixth Tone (good selection of current events readings)

MAKE THE FUNNY!

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/manos/torgo.mp3 http://www.slate.com/id/76886/(Complete Bushisms) www.redmeat.com http://www.mnftiu.cc/category/gywo/ (Get Your War On, by an Oberlin alum) www.thenation.com/blogs/tom-tomorrow (This Modern World) http://slugsolos.tumblr.com/ (Guitar solo faces make a lot more sense when the guitar is replaced with a giant slug!)

WORTHWHILE BLOGS & OTHER WALLS OF TEXT

www.waitbutwhy.com (Lots of deep posts making big ideas legible to those with short attention spans) http://politicalblindspot.com/the-food-stamp-capital-of-the-u-s-is-white-and-republican/ http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/01/what-its-like-to-date-your-dad.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-tell-psychopath-sociopath-150000795.html Bauer's Private Prison Guard Investigation for Mother Jones Rethink GDP Growth Edroso Summarizes Right-wing Blogs

See also articles on music on my Sounds Page!

COMMUNICATION FAVORITES

www.skype.com www.rebtel.com www.oovoo.com www.credomobile.com http://spark-1590165977.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/jkatz/SurveyMaps/ (Linguistic Map of USA)

http://interviewly.com/ (Compiles interviews from Reddit)

TRAVEL AND CORPORATE/COMMERCIAL FAVORITES

www.travelocity.com www.netflix.com www.workaway.info www.ppbi.com (I bank locally!) www.newegg.com (Used to be good deals on computers there.) The Last Bookstore

21st Century U.S. Politics

The Long Con Trump's Media Evolution Epistemic Crisis

PURE EVIL (GOOD TO KEEP AN EYE ON WHAT EVIL'S UP TO)

www.blockbuster.com www.att.com
My Amazon.com reviews which ate up an embarrassing portion of my college days: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3FIHGLJVB0WE1/ref=ya__26?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview www.heritage.org www.weeklystandard.com www.nationalreview.com www.exxon.com www.walmart.com
(etc., etc., etc.!)

WEBSITES AVAILABLE IN CHINA WITHOUT A VPN

A quick internet search yields almost endless results of websites which are blocked in China by The Great Firewall. Living in China without a VPN is not something anyone would choose to do, but some of us have limited funds and patience for them. In 2025, what Western media can one access in China without a vpn? The list seems to grow smaller and more important every day, but I haven’t seen one for the audience of those who live in the PRC and are trying to make the best of it.

In 2024, I paid for a yearlong VPN subscription that worked well for about six months and then never did again, leading me to limit myself to one VPN-enabled device for the foreseeable future. There are also, of course, some days when no VPN works well. For those days, try this list!

Search engines: If you don’t like Baidu, Bing is not a terrible alternative for non-sensitive topics.

News websites: Try your local newspaper. I subscribe to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mainly for its sports coverage, and many other major cities which lack international coverage (of China) seem to be unaffected. Chicago Sun Times used to work but now seems to put everything behind a paywall.

The largest newspaper site that used to be OK was USA Today, but that seems to be blocked now. Ah, the longing for the times when the USA didn’t need to care about China except for foreign policy geeks.

Mekong Eye sneaks in some critical perspectives of China.

Sites one would expect to be available but seem to be blocked currently (check back for possible availability): Common Dreams, Jacobin. And we thought China was a socialist country?!

Here’s hoping that if you live in China and are ever faced with a VPN-less situation, due to a malfunction or budget constraint, you don’t have to feel like you’re in a sensory deprivation tank! I find these sites very helpful on my hourlong commute between campuses when teaching. Welcome your suggestions for more and what I’ve missed.

Obviously, the trend in recent decades has been towards blocking more sites and apps, so this list could easily become outdated. Apologies for infrequent updates.

Obviously, the trend in recent decades has been towards blocking more sites and apps, so this list could easily become outdated. Apologies for infrequent updates.