Definitive site for global culture. Heavy emphasis on all things 'pop' - music, film, design, arts - all with a global perspective. Find out what the world is listening to and watching.

Site devoted to the religious quest in postmodern culture. You name it in the world of religion and someone is talking about it on the site.

What are you doing this Summer? Well about 5000 computer freaks, geeks and techies are headed for Norway to participate in the world's coolest festival devoted to computer technology, design and games. This site is your introduction.

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Site devoted to the complexities of globalization and global culture, with a heavy emphasis on development projects all over the world. A challenging site designed to inform and get us all thinking about the challenges of global economics.

Naomi Klein helped a generation of young people to understand their growing resentment towards corporate branding and living in an ad-driven consumer society. Her book 'No Logo' is something of a bible for many in the anti-globalization movement.

"However you define knowledge, by dropping it freely to others, we all gain wisdom." This is the ethos behind DroppingKnowledge.org, a web-based intercultural platform designed to allow anyone, anywhere, an opportunity to contribute to the global consciousness. Believing that every single human should have an opportunity to have their thoughts and ideas heard the folks at dropping knowledge have created a very cool site that allows people to post ideas, thoughts and plans on a wide variety of issues that affect us all. Check out the site and drop some of your knowledge.

The Brainchild of Canadian uber-designer Bruce Mau, Massive Change is a travelling exhibit, an institute in Toronto, and a web site exploring the ways in which new approaches to design might affect global culture and make the world, a better, safer, and healthier place. There are two aspects to the site: Listen and Action. In 'Listen' you can read articles from some of the world's most advanced thinkers in virtually every area of human life from transportation and architecture to weaponry and manufacturing--all of them committed to radically rethinking the ways we interact with each other. 'Action' offers us all an opportunity to get involved and effect changes in the way we live our individual lives and contribute to the betteerment of life on earth. Mau is a designer and thinker of extraordinary breadth, this site is an introduction to him and others working for similar changes.

If you are interested in what is cool, and more importantly, what is happening in the world of consumer products, then coolhunting is for you. Updated daily by a team of global trend watchers and analysts, cool hunting offers updates of new products and ideas from around the world. Check out what is happening in art or design, food or fashion, lifestyle or design. There are tons of cool links and rabbit holes of interesting stuff to go hunting for.

Tired of wearing the same stuff as everyone else? Threadless is an interactive design site where customers and seekers can design and purchase their own custon t-shirts using the creative options made available on the site. You can also vote on the designs other people have created and purchase any t-shirt that has been created on the site. It's a fun way to put your own spin on fashion and get some response from others.

The name of this site is Figments and Inklings. It is the personal site of Erik Davis, author of the must-read book, Techgnosis, and a frequent contributor to Spin, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and countless other pop culture magazines. Davis mines the edges of pop culture looking for rich veins of meaing and significance. The site, which is divided into a number of different sections offers some of the best articles you'll find on subjects as diverse as paganism and hippy-tourism, altered states and rock music, California avant-garde artists and just about everything else in between. He doesn't update that frequently but you could probably spend a good couple of months reading what is already posted on the site.