Thomas Kraemer

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Internet, Email and Search Engine Services

• centurylink.com/products - CenturyLink bought Qwest 2011 - CenturyLink Internet Help (Page includes the Qwest CenturyLink speed test) -- Qwest Internet Help -- Qwest DSL Web page - CenturyLink Account log in -- CenturyLink(tm) High-Speed Internet Subscriber Agreement

• Qwest DSL router/modem Actiontec PK5000 Web home page link http://192.168.0.1/
  - Modem Status - LAN Device List displays the names of all the computers on the local private network
  - Modem Status - WAN status displays number of retrains and signal to noise ratios
  - Modem Status - Modem Utilization displays number of open sessions
  

• What is my IP address? - as dynamically assigned by RFC 1483 bridged connection using DHCP protocol between DSL modem and peak.org ISP - go to ARIN's WHOIS - to look up suspicious IP addresses (example: 69.59.192.71 is the IP address of the peak.org DNS domain name server)
• Speed tests: Qwest CenturyLink speed test -- PEAK speed test -- SpeedTest.net -- Net Metrics Ookla Speed Test - www.dslreports.com/speedtest - www.speakeasy.net speed test Seattle

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• PEAK Web Mail -- RedCondor SPAM console provided by PEAK run by PEAK Internet Services and owned by Consumers Power Inc. (CPI is a rural electric power company headquartered in Philomath, Oregon) -- PEAK Internet Blog -- www.peak.org/~kat -- members.peak.org/~kat
• Yahoo! Mail free email service provided by Yahoo! -- Flickr photo service
• Windows Live Hotmail - Windows Live - Microsoft sign in
• Google Gmail FULL view - Google Gmail HTML view - free email service provided by Google

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• Google Search - Google Blog Search - Google Advanced Search
• Google Reader - blog and news feed reader
• Tom's OSU blog - started Jan. 1, 2012
• Thomas Kraemer Blogspot thomaskraemer.blogspot.com - www.blogger.com/start - free blogging service and Picasa sign in - Picasa public photo album page - Blogger help - Blogger status (alternate status see Blogger account on Twitter)

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• goo.gl Google URL shortener - bit.ly and TinyURL - Enter a long URL to make tiny - goo.gl/BQhv2 (Shortened URL to Thomas Kraemer's gay OSU history
• Google Docs and Sun OpenOffice.org documents are alternatives to Microsoft Office Word and Excel -- "Out in the Open Office," Maximum PC, May 2009, p. 50-57 -- (PDF p. 40-46) - Maximum PC PDF Archives of past magazine issues
• Google Knol - A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic. Google's answer to Wikipedia
• Google Trends - statistics
• Google Video - archive
• YouTube - video archive - YouTube public page

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• Brother MFC-8480DN 192.168.0.2 - Network printer scanner copier
• Brother Printer HTML manual

• D-Link DNS-323 NAS 192.168.0.3 - Network Attached Storage NAS disc drive Web server - anonymous FTP server read only

• 192.168.0.2 Alternate IP address for NAS drive or printer
• 192.168.0.3 Alternate IP address for NAS drive or printer
• 192.168.0.4 Alternate IP address for NAS drive or printer
• 192.168.0.5 Alternate IP address for NAS drive or printer
• 192.168.0.6 Alternate IP address for NAS drive or printer
• 192.168.0.7 Alternate IP address for NAS drive or printer
• 192.168.0.8 Alternate IP address for NAS drive or printer

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• Adobe Flash Player - Flash Player Privacy & Security Center (Settings Manager) -- Adobe Flash Player Support Center Update -- Adobe Flash Player version number

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• Wikipedia - user created encyclopedia - Elmer Kraemer (Wikipedia)
• Facebook - friends network
• IMDB - International Movie Data Base
• Ning - create your own social network for anything site funded by Marc Andreessen (also of Netscape Web browser fame, sold to AOL for $10 billion, and Opsware, aka Loudcloud, sold to HP for $1.6 billion)
• Creative Commons - legal alternatives to copyright
• Archive.org - copies of old web pages
• Hulu.com - Hulu was founded in March 2007 and is a joint venture owned by NBC Universal and News Corp. Provides a selection from more than 50 content providers including FOX, NBC, MGM, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros., Lionsgate.
• Epocrates Online - free drug and disease information on the Web
• Resolve a DOI Name - Digital Object Identifier Link - The DOI System
• DexKnows.com - local telephone directory split off from the Qwest telephone Yellow Page Directory-- Dex (old link)
• Super Pages - telephone directory
• Yellow Book - telephone directory
• IEEE Oregon Section - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering local section
• Dell Support - computer hardware and software driver support information
• Microsoft Support - operating system support information

Financial Services and Information

• Business Week - print subscriber benefits
• Lifewise Oregon Health Plan - medical insurance -- Letter received Jul. 27, 2011 from Lifewise Health Insurance said new plans were at lifewiseor.com/newplan and the letter also summarized the changes required by the new Obama health care reform law. It also said more on grandfathering of the old plan could be found at lifewisereformupdate.com that redirects to their company blog page "Lifewise Health Reform Update"
• Oregon Department of Revenue - State of Oregon tax information
• Internal Revenue Service - Federal tax information - IRS Free File Fillable Forms for taxes at www.freefilefillableforms.com - IRS Free File Fillable Forms for taxes at www.freefilefillableforms.org GOT SECURITY WARNING 1/24/12 - requires Microsoft Silverlight
• U.S. Treasury Direct - where to buy U.S. Treasury Bills and Bonds at auction directly from the government
• U.S. Treasury Auction Schedules - dates when to buy U.S. Treasury Bills and Bonds at auction instead of in the secondary market
• U.S. Treasury Announcement & Results Press Releases - Current and historical press releases about auctions of U.S. Treasury marketable securities
• U.S. Treasury Marketable Securities Offering Announcement Press Releases - Recent Announcements Pending Auctions
• U.S. Treasury TIPS/CPI Data - detailed data on the CPI numbers for various time periods and information concerning index ratios used to value inflation-indexed U.S. TIPS
• U.S. Treasury Historical Reference CPI Numbers and Daily Index Ratios - previous CPI index ratios used to value U.S. TIPS
• Consumer Price Index - official government CPI information site -- Consumer Price Index Schedule of Releases for the Consumer Price Index
• S&P 500 - American Stock Exchange S&P 500 tracking stock information
• Municipal Bonds - information by state
• EMMA - Electronic Municipal Market Access - The Official Source for Municipal Disclosures and Market Data - www.emma.msrb.org is linked to by Charles Schwab -- EMMA is a service of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB)
• Wells Fargo - banking services and information
• Charles Schwab - brokerage services and information - schwab.com/bonds includes "New Issue Municipal Bond Calendar"
• Fidelity - HP retirement account services and information
• HP Retirees - HP retirement information
• Social Security - information and online services
• Medicare - main information site
• My Medicare - personal Medicare account information
• First Health Part D - Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan effective Jan. 1, 2009 (note www.firsthealth.com won't work as advised and www.firsthealthpartd.com redirects to www.firsthealthpremier.com where login redirects to member.cvty.com)
• IEEE Insurance - IEEE Excess Major Medical Insurance account information
• Annual Credit Report - the official free site to get a free credit report from each of the three credit reporting agencies
• Do Not Call Registry - official site to eliminate telemarketing calls (NOTE: Must be renewed every five years - expires June 29, 2008, but a new law says "Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008.")
• Oregon Department of Justice, Attorney General Hardy Myers -- Do Not Call, Attorney General Regains Authority To Enforce Sanctions Against Violators Of Oregon's "No Call" Statute -- Michelle Cole, "Candidates apologize for Oregon 'robo' calls, No-call list - The Obama and Clinton campaigns admit violating state law on phoning blocked numbers," Oregonian, May 16, 2008, p. A1, A4 -- FACTBOX, How to stop calls

HDTV schedules and information

Corvallis, Eugene and (Portland), Oregon HDTV station schedule information
TV Guide, TV Guide Magazine
www.comcastnw.com/hdtv.htm -- Comcast TV planner at Comcast - Comcast.net- Xfinity
Corvallis Community Access TV channel 29 ccat29.org
Consult with AntennaWeb.org to determine the angle you need to point your antenna to receive free over-the-air HDTV broadcasts and Check HD

TV network	Physical over-the-air digital channel	Virtual channel numbers	PSIP broadcast call letters	PSIP broadcast info and notes	Comcast Cable channels (QAM)
NBC CW	DT-17 138° 36 mi	16-1 16-2	KMTR HD KMTR CW	PSIP guide and time. 1080i HDTV broadcast. 16-2 broadcasts the CW network in SD.	703 (16.1) KMTRH HD 11 (87.8) KMTR2 SD 3 (87.1) KMTR analog
NBC	DT-48 78° 1 mi	8-1 8-2 8-3	KGW HD	PSIP guide and time. 1080i HDTV broadcast. 8-2 broadcasts news 8-2 Spanish	8 (73.2) KGW analog
PBS	DT-29 Eugene 150° 42 mi.	28-1 28-2 28-3 28-4	KEPB-HD KEPB-SD Create OC (KOPB 10)	PSIP guide and time. 1080i HDTV broadcast. 28-2 is SD simulcast during part of the day of HD 28-1 channel, 28-3 is SD broadcast of Create and 28-4 is OPB radio audio. Also see Oregon Public Broadcasting- PBS TV schedules - PBS KOPB DTV schedule	710 (10.1) KOPBH (10 (102.4031) KOPB analog) 310 (10.3) KOPB2 SD Create 311 (10.4) OPB radio 119 Sprout
FOX	DT-31 150° 42 mi.	34-1 34-2	KLSR HD KEVU DT	PSIP guide and time. 720p HDTV broadcast. 34-1 is SD broadcast of KEVU 23.	705 (34.1) KLSRD HD 20 (87.2) KEVU analog 5 (87.3) KLSR analog
PBS	DT-7 Corvallis 6° 3 mi.	7-1 7-2 7-3 7-4	KOAC-HD KOAC-SD Create OC (KOPB 10)	PSIP guide and time. 1080i HDTV broadcast. 7-2 is SD simulcast during part of the day of the HD 7-1 channel, 7-3 is SD broadcast of Create and 7-4 is OPB radio audio. Also see Oregon Public Broadcasting- PBS TV schedules - PBS KOPB DTV schedule	710 (10.1) KOPBH (10 (102.4031) KOPB analog) 310 (10.3) KOPB2 SD Create 311 (10.4) OPB radio 119 Sprout
ABC	DT-9 138° 36 mi	9-1 9-2	KEZI HD KEZI SD (KATU 2)	PSIP guide and time. 720P HDTV broadcast. 9-2 is used for Eugene weather and an SD simulcast. In 2004 it was briefly used for political coverage on the 24 hour "ABC News Now" until Jan. 2005	709 (0.1) KEZIH 9 (87.5) KEZI (2 (73.1) KATU analog)
CBS	DT-13 150° 42 mi.	13-1 13-2	KVAL-HD KVAL-SD (KOIN 6)	PSIP guide and time. 1080i HDTV broadcast. 13-2 is SD simulcast of analog channel 13.	713 (13.1) KVALH 13 (87.4) analog (6 (106.4) KOIN analog)

DT = Digital transmission channel
HD TV = High Definition Television
SD TV = Standard Definition Television
analog = old non-digital TV broadcast standard
1080i = picture has 540 lines of resolution interlaced to create 1,080 lines with up to 1920 pixels
720p = picture has 720 lines of resolution with up to 1280 pixels

Note: The physical over-the-air digital channel number is the actual channel being used for broadcasting the digital picture. Multiple Virtual channels can be digitally compressed into one physical digital transmission channel and they typically use the same number as the previous analog channel followed by the virtual channel number. Most HDTV sets recognize and display the virtual channel numbers. The PSIP data is added to the over-the-air broadcasts (Comcast strips off this information for cable TV transmission). The PSIP data includes the station call letters and an electronic program guide (EPG) including the current time and date.

Newspaper, Radio and TV

• Corvallis Gazette-Times - Corvallis, Oregon newspaper - Sunday edition is combined with the nearby Albany Democrat-Herald newspaper - "Our Town" local ad book insert GT newspaper Sep. 26, 2010, p. 67 Mid-Valley Voice mvvoice.com - Mid-Valley "our Town" www.mvourtown.com -- MidValley Voice social networking
• The Daily Barometer www.dailybarometer.com - official student newspaper of Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon (note new Web site 7/23/11 by College Media Network) - The Barometer OLD site was at barometer.orst.edu
• Corvallis The Alchemist Weekly - alternative newspaper
• Eugene Weekly - Eugene, Oregon alternative newspaper
• Oregonian - Portland, Oregon newspaper
• Oregonian Comics - Comics Kingdom Kings Features Syndicate (from display ad in Sunday Oregonian, Dec. 4, 2011, p. L8
• Comcast - Comcast.net- Xfinity - Comcast Digital Now - NW Connection Newsletter - TV planner cable guide information
• New York Times
• Los Angeles Times
• Washington Post
• PBS In The Life TV - Public Broadcasting System gay news - broadcast times on OPB for "In The Life" episodes -- old link to broadcast times
• Al Franken ran for U.S. Senate from Minnesota and won in 2008 after 3 years of doing The Al Franken Show - Air America Radio provides the liberal slant to the news. Franken's last show was broadcast on Feb. 14, 2007.
• The Rachel Maddow Show www.maddowonline.com on KPOJ 620AM -- Air America Radio is now a audio portion repeat from 2-3AM of her live rachel.msnbc.com MSNBC show on digital cable from 6-7PM PT. Also see www.rachelmaddow.com, Rachel Maddow's blog, www.maddowfans.com fan site
• KBOO FM Radio Portland 90.7 FM Corvallis 100.7 FM -- KBOO Program Directory -- Out Loud -- Queer News and Culture -- The Other Team -- A show for and about queer youth and issues they face -- Gender Blender -- Gender issues -- Out Loud blog -- This Way Out Radio (See Ryan J. Prado, "Stay Proud and Live Out Loud! KBOO's Gay, Lesbian, Bi and Trans Programming Is A Portland Staple," Just Out, Sept. 4, 2009, p. 11 (PDF))
• "The hoMo Music Show" on the University of Oregon KWVA 88.1 FM radio station (See Ryan Prado, "'The hoMo Music Show' Brings Queer And Queer-Friendly Radio To Eugene," Just Out blog posted Sep. 23, 2009)
• The Drudge Report - provides the conservative slant to the news
• BBC News - British Broadcasting Corporation news often covers important international news that is not covered by the mainstream media in America
• Weather Underground Corvallis - weather information for Corvallis
• IEEE Spectrum - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers magazine

News Sources and Blogs

• Just Out - Portland, Oregon newspaper -- Just Out Blog - Just Out Facebook page
• id Magazine - Portland, Oregon magazine by Christian Messer -- id Magazine's Community Blog
• qPDX.com - began as part of OregonLive.com (Oregonian newspaper site) "to make sure those issues, events, arts, and projects that were often subsumed to be given a place where they could have a voice. As qPDX has become an independent entity and publications are struggling to survive it is even more imperative that a diverse array of queer opinions do not get lost."
• Fabulous PDX - Rob Patton's "Fabulous Stuff To Do In Portland" originally was a Facebook group social media
• Oregon Media Central - Founded in June 2009 by Mitch Nolan, Oregon Media Central is dedicated to fair coverage of the media in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
• Byron Beck Blog - laid off from his position as columnist at Willamette Week in 2008
• The Advocate - national newsmagazine.- here! Networks - America's premium gay television network bought it for $6M from PlanetOut gay lesbian queer community April 2008
• The Advocate Gen Q - national newsmagazine's attempt to attract younger readers
• Google gay news - search by relevance.
• FOXNews.com - Gay & Lesbian section
• Gay City News - New York City newspaper.
• The Stranger - Seattle, Washington newspaper. A must read is Dan Savage's "Savage Love" advice column and Dan Savage Blog -- Dan Savage list of articles
• Spreading Santorum - a joke site run by advice columnist Dan Savage to get Senator Rick Santorum's name high up on a Google search. More recently he defined Saddlebacking after anti-gay Church led by Pastor Rick Warren
• shoutouthealth.com (This was formed by some of the same people who did GayHealthBlog.com that is now dead, but for a while it redirected to the now dead GayHealth.com that had medical advice from a gay doctor Dr. Stephen Goldstone, "sexualhealthproject" youtube.com
• International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) -- IRMA - Rectal Microbicide Advocacy blog -- over 850 advocates, policymakers and leading scientists from 6 continents working together to advance a robust rectal microbicide research and development agenda - with the goal of creating safe, effective, acceptable and accessible rectal microbicides for the women and men around the world who engage in anal intercourse.
• Gay Today - formerly the website of the late Jack Nichols, now run by his friends in Florida. Go to archives link for articles of historical interest
• The Guide - Boston newspaper
• Lavender - Minneapolis, Minnesota newspaper/magazine.
• XY.com Magazine or XY Magazine - a glossy color magazine sold at Borders and targeted toward gay teenagers. It has been driven since 1996 by editor Peter Ian Cummings who announced his resignation in the Winter 2008 XY issue number 49 and his new Web address Peter Ian Cummings www.peterian.net. He also announced that the XY search committee's www.xysearch.org Web site is looking for a new owner, publisher and editor.
• DNA Magazine - Sydney, Australia
• 365 Gay - 24/7 gay news site now owned by LOGO MTV cable channel.
• AfterElton blog on logoonline.com
• Rex Wockner - international news reporter and columnist (see 365gay.com above) who also has a Rex Wockner blog
• Michelangelo Signorile www.signorile.com - is a gay liberal, who keeps Andrew Sullivan honest. (see 365gay.com above) - "The Gist" blog signorile2003.blogspot.com -- www.msignorile.com articles -- Twitter msignorile -- radio show airs daily on Sirius XM's OutQ -- a founding editor of the controversial, now-defunct magazine OutWeek and a current Advocate contributor -- starting in 2011 Michelangelo Signorile is Editor-at-Large of Huffington Post Gay Voices ( HuffingtonPost Gay Voices page )
• Andrew Sullivan - is a gay conservative, but he is always interesting to read and he provides many links to right wing thinking. Hosted by The Atlantic
• Wayne Besen - Blog by author of book "Anything but straight" about ex-gay groups and founder of "Truth Wins Out" in answer to James Dobson's "Love Won Out" propaganda and "Respect my research" to report distortions of LGBT research studies by anti-gay groups. Also Wayne Besen blog on The Huffington Post
• Wade Richards - Stand Out! ex-ex-gay site dedicated to countering ex-gay propaganda
• John Aravosis AMERICAblog and gay.americablog.com - created in 2004 by attorney and staunch LGBT activist John Aravosis, who once led a boycott of Dr. Laura after she called homosexuality a "biological error."
• Mike Rogers - political/outing blog and daily news page PageOneQ
• Randolfe Wicker - vlog (video blog) of a New York City area gay rights pioneer. Wicker also posts videos on the popular Google YouTube.com and Blip.TV, which is popular with independent video producers. Many are grouped together as "series" on Veoh.com sorted by categories.
• William A. Percy's - a Southerner; an Episcopal atheist; a former Republican; a capitalist; a refugee from the Ku Klux Klan, the Southern Baptists, and other members of the fundamentalist Protestant right; and a gay activist. I am also the senior professor of history and the senior pre-law advisor at UMB. He helped create and has posted a free copy on his Web site of the gay history: Wayne R. Dynes, editor, "Encyclopedia of Homosexuality," Garland, New York, 1990
• Wayne R. Dynes - retired professor whose gay history Wayne R. Dynes, editor, "Encyclopedia of Homosexuality," Garland, New York, 1990 is hosted for free on the Web site of Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin University Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
• Box Turtle Bulletin blog - Jim Burroway, Daniel Gonzales and Timothy Kincaid
• Chris Crain - "Citizen Crain" blog by former gay newspaper editor and attorney
• Mark Simpson - British author and his Mark Simpson blog
• Peter Tatchell - personal site of a London-based political activist
• www.queerty.com - potpourri once edited by Frank Griggs
• Dan Renzi - MTV Real World cast member
• Simon LeVay - scientist who has studied the biological origins of sexual orientation.
• Towleroad Blog - former Genre editor Andy Towle whose name is pronounced TOLL-road
• PerezHilton.com -- Perez Hilton had a much-publicized row with Miss California over gay marriage
• WorldofWonder.net -- blog on the site of TV and film production company World of Wonder
• Good As You - GAY blog by Jeremy Hooper featured on a PBS In The Life TV show rerun on Feb. 5, 2007
• Trevor Hoppe trevorhoppe.com includes his Trevor Hoppe Blog and his online book anthology "Beyond Masculinity, Essays by Queer Men on Gender and Politics"
• MTV Real World and MTV Overdrive - MTV cable TV channel
• Gay.com - a popular but boring site
• Bulge Report - news items with bulges

Personal Sites

• www.edina72.com Edina High School Class Reunion E72 40th Class Reunion - Still Crazy After All These Years
• Billy's Perv Website - personal site of a central Florida computer guy
• xtube.com - X-rated version of youtube.com
• Amateur Boy - user submitted profiles and pictures
• Fleshbot blog gay.fleshbot.com - best of xtube
• AMVC - amateur male video distributor, now based in Seattle, Washington, was started in Hampton, Virginia by W. David MacKenzie and Allen McNully
• Cruising for sex - personal site of a New Orleans guy (formerly of San Francisco) who admired the art and political activism of Scott O'Hara concerning AIDS, bareback sex, porno and public sex
• nifty.org - the retro-style nifty.org web site took over when the old USENET Internet newsgroups (which existed for years before the Web was invented) became littered with noise instead of user contributed text stories
• Raw College Jock Slut Blog of a "19-year-old college boy at a large public university in Florida" who wrote about "having bareback sex and taking or giving loads from/to other hot guys" until he quit at the end of 2009.
• Pussyboi Cumdump Blog - reveals itself as being written by a University of Oregon Duck fan in Eugene who has traveled to Corvallis, Oregon, home of the arch rival Beavers, to get fucked in the ass by friends. Links to other story blogs about gay sex.
• iBLASTinside - Mark Bentson - gay bareback sex stories
• FratBoyCunt - gay bareback sex stories
• Wild Bare Jock - gay bareback sex stories
• Matt & Dan, Matt & Dan's Sexual Adventures - gay bareback sex stories
• Mindtrip - gay bareback sex stories
• StreetMuscle501 - gay bareback sex stories
• Stud for Rent - gay bareback sex stories
• SDsk8rBoi - gay bareback sex stories
• Stories by Gymnopedies - archive of erotic fiction, almost exclusively featuring gay teens, often in "first time" scenarios.
• Coming Out Stories - user contributed stories
• Solo - user contributed stories
• Squirt - user contributed stories
• Corkscrew Media Group - twink
• www.jizzflixxx.com - misc. video
• Sean Cody - amateur videos
• Justin and Eric Naughtyboyz - personal site of amateur video producers Justin Hughes and Eric Stevenson who live in Kearney, Nebraska
• Citiboyz - twink videos
• Brandon Baker blog -- Brandon Baker old blog page - fun blog of a young gay male hustler and vidkidtimo.com porn star who formerly lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and also runs a personal site Party with Brandon -- also on www.twitter.com/BrandonBaker and myspace.com Party With Brandon site
• Tim Ritchie - blog of retired amateur video producer vidkidtimo.com and former New Orleans resident who now lives in Wilmer, Alabama (few updates since hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005) -- Archived old vidkidtimo.com pages
• Aaron Lawrence - semi-retired amateur video producer who worked with Tim Ritchie - also runs AdviceGeek.com
• Video View - video news, once included a column by Brandon Baker (see above)
• Craig's List - Corvallis - classified ads
• Craig's List - Eugene - classified ads
• Craig's List - Portland - classified ads
• Craig's List - San Francisco - classified ads
• Patrick Califia - personal site of San Francisco FTM (female to male transgender person) and former lesbian feminist author Pat Califia
• Camper English - personal site of a San Francisco humorist
• Marc Acito - personal site of a Portland, Oregon humorist - Marc Acito's blog "The Gospel According to Marc" - former writer for "Just Out"
• Dr. Vern Bullough - a famous academic sex researcher, now deceased
• Bill Brent - author of the book "The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men" - The Adventures of LitBoy: Bill Brent's Blog
• M. Christian - gender queer author and editor of anthology story books
• Simon Sheppard - author and editor of anthology books
• Queer Vampires - fan site run by Minneapolis computer guy Dave Doyle along with Queer Horror
• Karten's Loincloth - fetish site for lovers of Tarzan fashion wear
• Man to Man Alliance - run by a contrarian San Francisco guy who promotes "frot" as being superior to gay anal sex. Also runs a similar site Heroic Homosex that uses a Greek philosophy historical theme
• g0ys.org - another contrarian gay man who opposes anal sex and the traditional cultural expressions of gay
• Bareback Jack - personal site of a gay man devoted to discussing bareback sex (gay oral and anal sex without a condom) and his perspective on bareback sex and the health issues surrounding bareback sex. He has been quoted in the nationally published Time magazine.
• Michael Shernoff - author of a book about gay bareback sex "Without a Condom" -- Paul Schindler, "Michael Shernoff, Gay Psychotherapist, Activist Dies at 57," Gay City News, June 19, 2008
• The Seminal Truth - discourse on the meaning of semen exchange.
• Nightcharm - personal musings and magazine-style articles

Comics

• Howard Cruse - a hippie era underground comic artist's blog
• Tim Fish is a skilled cartoonist and editor of Young Bottoms in Love, which included a final cartoon by Howard Cruse (see above)
• Liliane Bi-Dyke - personal site and blog of an androgynous/butch female comic book artist
• Class Comic Books
• Patrick Fillion Cartoons
• Prism Comics see 2006 Comics Guide
• Curbside Comics - Robert Kirby of Minneapolis, Minnesota
• David Kelly Studios - David Kelly is creator of "Boy Trouble" and has published comic books with Robert Kirby (see above)
• Joe Phillips - Joe Phillips comics
• Alison Bechdel - Alison Bechdel's "Dykes to Watch Out For" comic with a lesbian slant
• Jeff Krell - Jeff Krell's "Jayson: Best of the 80s and 90s" Ignite Entertainment
• Steve MacIsaac - Steve MacIsaac male couple in Japan
• Marvel Comics - "Young Avengers" are only teen gay superhero couple
• DC Comics - "Manhunter"
• Abby Denson - has scripted Powerpuff Girls Comics, Simpsons Comics, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Disney Adventures, and comics for Nickelodeon Magazine. Plus, she creates her own comics, including Tough Love for XY Magazine
• Cartoon Network Adult Swim

Politics, Religion and Law

• ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union - Lesbian and Gay Rights
• ACLU of Oregon
• GLAAD - Gays and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
• HRC - Human Rights Campaign founded by Steve Endean
• Ex-gay watch - blog meant to counter ex-gay propaganda from Christian-Republican political activists
• Richard Cohen - an ex-gay political activist and therapist
• Dr. Robert Epstein - the former editor of Psychology Today magazine, who was roundly criticized for defending ex-gay therapy, has an online poll to determine how gay you are - Epstein Sexual Orientation Inventory (ESOI)
• Dr. Throckmorton - another "professional psychologist" who politically advocates ex-gay therapy - also Dr. Throckmorton Blog
• Professor J. Michael Bailey - has published questionable research on gender and sexual orientation
• CDC Divisions of HIV-AIDS Prevention - U.S. government Centers for Disease Control AIDS information
• AIDS.org - AIDS information
• HIV Insite - University of California San Francisco AIDS research news
• Center for AIDS Prevention Studies Univ Calif-SF - University of California San Francisco AIDS prevention research
• Terrence Higgins Trust - London AIDS prevention organization
• FS Magazine Fact Sheet - London AIDS prevention magazine targeted at young gay men -- FS Magazine Fact Sheet by Regional edition
• Sigma Research - UK AIDS research group
• Dr. Peter Duesberg - AIDS denialists (those whose deny that the HIV virus causes AIDS) love to quote Duesberg's book and research to justify their position
• Polio Vaccines and AIDS - Brian Martin's site on scientific dissent discusses Edward Hooper's famous book "The River," which documented the possible connection between AIDS and the 1950s polio vaccine. See Edward Hooper's http://www.aidsorigins.com/ for updates.
• Gerber/Hart Library - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Information Resource and Archives
• GLBT Historical Society - San Francisco, CA
• Equality Forum - Philadelphia, PA sponsors of GLBT History Month and Gay Pioneers
• Cornell University Human Sexuality Collection - Ithaca, NY
• New York Public Library -, Gay & Lesbian Collection, International Gay Information Center Archives, New York Research Guide
• The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale (LKI) - supports the Lesbian and Gay community at Yale University
• ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives - Los Angeles
• Stonewall Library and Archives - Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Matthew's Place - Matthew Shepard Foundation - Judy Shepard
• Lesbian Herstory Archives - New York
• Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest - collections are stored at the Oregon Historical Society
• Corvallis Out and About
• Corvallis Community Alliance for Diversity
• www.PRIDEcorvallis.com -- PRIDE Corvallis is a non-profit supported by PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) of Corvallis and Albany.
• PFLAG Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
• Stonewall Dance & Social
• Valley AIDS Information Network
• Community Alliance for Diversity
• Community of Welcoming Congregatons
• Lavender Womyn

University of Minnesota Jack Baker history

• Do not post link to this private PDF copy of Ken Bronson's history of Jack Baker http://members.peak.org/~kat/date/2004/06/21/JACKBAKERQuest.pdf
• Do not post link to this private Web page of "Gay Today article by Thomas Kraemer and history of Jack Baker by Ken Bronson" with links to blog pages http://members.peak.org/~kat/date/2004/06/21/jackbaker.html
• bit.ly/hapiyi goes to the above link
• University of Minnesota Tretter Collection - Minneapolis, Minnesota

Oregon State University

• Oregon State University - home page and MU Webcam
• OSU online directory name search
• Oregon State University BeavrWiki - information
• Oregon State University Campus Map - OSU based on Google Maps - OSU Webcam via a satellite uplink from oceanographic Research Vessel WECOMA, which is owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at OSU. Wecoma is 185' long, capable of working throughout the world's ice-free oceans, and operated by a crew of 13. Wecoma's home port is Newport, Oregon, at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center.
• OSU Shuttle Bus - information from OSU Facilities Services
• OSU OASIS - online library card catalog
• OSU Valley Library - home page
• OSU Valley Library search "Subject Guides" for "gay"
• OSU Study Guides, Course Librarian Jane Nichols, "HST 368: Lesbian and Gay Movements in America," Oregon State University Valley Library, Last Update: February 12, 2010 15:47, accessed Sept. 1, 2011 -- Sources for the study of lesbian and gay history in the U.S.
• OSU Libraries' Oregon Multicultural Archives -- OSU Libraries University Archives -- Thomas Kraemer Speech & Blog: OSU alumnus Kraemer helped found the Gay Peoples Alliance the first gay student group at OSU. This collection gives some history of gay student groups from 1976-2006 at OSU. (PDF)
• KBVR TV 26 - OSU student run TV station seen on Comcast Cable public access channel 26 and Watch KBVR TV online
• The Daily Barometer www.dailybarometer.com - official student newspaper of Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon (note new Web site 7/23/11 by College Media Network) - The Barometer OLD site was at barometer.orst.edu
• Advertising info and newspaper delivery locations
• http://www.dailybarometer.com/polopoly_fs/1.2417267!/2011ratecard.pdf
• Sample Ad Sizes and Pricing (click to download pdf)
• The Liberty - a competing conservative student newspaper (link appears dead Feb. 12, 2006)
• KBVR-TV - OSU student TV channel 26 cable
• OSU Foundation - where I am the founding benefactor of the Magnus Hirschfeld Fund for sexual orientation and gender identity research at Oregon State University (I am also looking at creating an endowment with the Equity Foundation in Portland, Oregon to act as the watchdog for the Magnus Hirschfeld Fund)
• OSU Alumni Association Web page
• Oregon Stater, Oregon State University Alumni magazine Online Archive (accessed 9/9/2011) -- Oregon Stater Magazine BAD LINK - Official OSU Alumni Association Magazine.
• OSU Bookstore
• OSU Engineering Department - publishes Momentum Newsletter
• OSU Terra Research Magazine
• OSU Electrical Engineering Department
• OSU Open Source Lab - The OSU Open Source Lab facilitates open source communities and the development and distribution of Open Source Software (OSS).
• Oregon Climate Service - weather information
• OSU Pride Center - cultural resource center on campus
• OSU Rainbow Continuum - student group
• OSU Sol - People of color support network - student group
• OSU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Services Office Steven Leider, Director of LGBT Services and Outreach
• ASOSU Queer Affairs Task Force - student government
• Associated Students of Oregon State University, Christian Matheis, Student Advocate
• Delta Lambda Phi National Social Fraternity - gay fraternity
• blogs.oregonstate.edu -- OSU hosted blogs via WordPress
• OutHistory.org - Out History "Since Stonewall Contest" entry - Exhibit Entries -
  Thomas Kraemer, "Corvallis, Oregon State University gay activism 1969-2004," outhistory.org
• Oregon State University Valley Library Guides and Collections Pertaining to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People in Oregon -- Thomas Kraemer Speech and Blog -- History of OSU Gay Student Groups 1976-2006, as documented through a speech and blog by Thomas Kraemer (PDF)
• OSU alum magazine gay history letter (9/16/09)
• OSU Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld Fund to support educational and research programs at OSU concerning people or animals of a minority sexual orientation or gender identity

The local history, leading up to the Oregon State University Pride Center by Thomas Kraemer, "Corvallis, Oregon State University gay activism 1969-2004," posted April 30, 2010 is available on the Web site OutHistory.org produced by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), located at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The shortened URL goo.gl/BQhv2 will also go to it more easily if you are text messaging or hand typing the link.

Government Information

• Time of day - official atomic clock time standard
• Oregon DMV - motor vehicle, driver's licenses, and voter registration
• Oregon Dept. of Transportation -
• Oregon Revised Statutes -
• Oregon Construction Contractors Board - look up contractors license and insurance status -- Rick Levin, "Cutting Corners, Who gets screwed when contractors shun licensing, insurance?" Eugene Weekly, June 19, 2008, p. 14-16
• Benton County
• Benton County Assessment Office - Benton County Maps including assessment maps for property tax
• Oregon Historical County Records Guide - Benton County Records Inventory
• Benton County Elections
• Benton County Health Department - Benton County Community Health Center
• City of Corvallis
• Corvallis Maps - consolidated property information
• Corvallis Transit System (CTS) www.corvallistransit.com Bus Schedules and previous link www.ci.corvallis.or.us/cts
• Corvallis School District 509J
• Corvallis-Benton County Library at www.thebestlibrary.net
• Librarian's Index
• Library of Congress -- World Digital Library
• Congressional Record
• U.S. Patent Office
• National Library of Medicine
• National Institute of Mental Health
• U.S. Postal Service - U.S. Postal Service Explorer - U.S. Postal Service Ship From Home
• UPS package tracking (append UPS tracking number at end of link to go directly to tracking) or go to UPS package tracking
• Fed Ex package tracking
• DHL package tracking
• OnTrac Package Tracking -- Western U.S.

Shopping

• Amazon - world's largest bookstore
• X-treme Geek - electronic toys
• L.L. Bean - northeast New England country casual outdoorsman fashion wear
• Lands' End - plain Jane fashion wear, such as Oxford dress shirts, which is worn by conservative Americans - now owned by Sears
• Lands' End Home - they sell bed sheets made of Oxford dress shirt cloth that feels luxurious on naked skin
• Patagonia - clothing for the serious outdoorsman who wants to buy from an environmentally sensitive company
• The Territory Ahead - California-style adventure wear
• Sahalie by Early Winters - clothing
• Road Runner Sports - top of the line running shoes and clothing for the serious upscale jogger
• Teva Sandals - Teva is Hebrew for nature - this company started the current sandal fashion craze with their original river rafting sandal
• Dick Blick - art supplies
• Alyson Books - longtime gay book publisher
• Lasp Gasp Bookstore - longtime source of alternative publications and magazines
• Leyland Publications - longtime San Francisco gay publishing house (link appears to be dead as of Feb. 2006)
• Haworth Press Books - publisher of many academic books
• Lulu - print on demand book publishing
• tlavideo.com group of sites: tlagay.com print catalog - tlaraw.com straight adult - tlalesbian.com - tlamovies.com independent and Hollywood films - tlaondemand.com video on demand
• Wolfe video - gay movies
• Good Vibrations - San Francisco lesbian feminist worker coop that sells high-grade silicone dildos and sex aides
• Segway - Segway of Corvallis - electric mobility
• BersonEV - electric vehicles
• Anthro - computer tables
• Ergotron - articulated arm monitor mounts
• Smart Home - home automation electronics
• Home Trends - home misc.
• Cooking Enthusiast -- Professional Cutlery Direct - kitchen knifes, etc. - Cutlery.com
• Oregon video services - video tape transfer service
• Chef's Catalog - kitchen equipment
• Garrett Wade - woodworking
• LS&S Products - low vision aids
• Drs. Fine, Hoffman, & Packer, LLC - cataract surgeons
• Hewlett-Packard hpshopping.com - Hewlett-Packard Workstations - CyberpowerPC.com - Dell computer -- Falcon Northwest
• McFeely's -- source for best-of-class screws, tools, woodworking supplies and DIY necessities
• Albertsons Sav-on Pharmacy www.albertsonssavonpharmacies.com - Store 514, 2005 Circle Drive, Corvallis, OR 97330 (541)753-0956

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