# By their links shall ye know them **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 8, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137 "2007-03-08T18:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/1 "2007-03-08T18:46:21Z")
As much as you can without revealing anything private or sensitive or incriminating, show us your most frequently used Favorites or Bookmarks or Hot Links or whatever you call the places you go on the web most often. My homepage (out of habit mostly): [Yahoo!](http://www.yahoo.com/) Then I check my email at a designated site Then, daily (with SDMB being near the top): [Puzzability](http://www.puzzability.com/puzzles/index.shtml) [Ecrostics](http://www.ecrostics.com/) [Yahoo! Crossword](http://games.yahoo.com/games/cw.hf2k) [USA TODAY Crossword](http://puzzles.usatoday.com/index.html) [Daily Jigsaw Puzzle](http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/jigsawpuzzles.jsp) [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/) [Channel 2 Nashville Weather](http://www.news2wkrn.com/weather/) (will start here if the weather’s iffy) [Nashville Tennessean](http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage) [Titans Online](http://www.titansonline.com/) [Auburn Message Board](http://www.aunation.net/forums/index.php?showforum=2) [Paul Finebaum Radio Network (SEC Sports Talk)](http://www.finebaum.com/) [WMOT Radio (Jazz)](http://www.wmot.org/) [KJAZZ Radio (Jazz)](http://www.jazzandblues.org/index.aspx) Local TV Listings Then, at least once a week: [Fresh Air](http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13) [Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!](http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/) [A Prairie Home Companion](http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/) [Semi-Weekly Crostic Puzzles](http://www.allstarpuzzles.com/crostic/index.html) Netflix That’s about it for regularly hit sites. I probably have pushing 1,000 Favorites with no doubt maybe half of them dead or out-of-date. I delete them when I find they don’t work anymore and maybe try to replace them (if possible) with live links. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/2 "2007-03-09T01:17:12Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) -Well, it’s ALWAYS open [http://www.allrecipes.com](http://www.allrecipes.com) -My desire to be a decent cook start here. [http://www.librarything.com](http://www.librarything.com) -Must always have open [http://tampabay.craigslist.org](http://tampabay.craigslist.org) -I love perusing the listings [http://www.wikipedia.org](http://www.wikipedia.org) -It gives me enough info on the basics [http://www.ebay.com](http://www.ebay.com) -I don’t buy much, but it’s good for browsing darn near anything [http://www.chicksrock.net](http://www.chicksrock.net) -my site Firefox tabbed windows and cheat bar make it so I rarely have to look at my bookmarks any more. Those are my tabs you can pretty much guarantee I have open. ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/3 "2007-03-09T06:47:09Z")
Straight Dope Message Board - [Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb) Internet Movie Database - [http://us.imdb.com/](http://us.imdb.com/) TV Tome - [http://www.tv.com/](http://www.tv.com/) Google - [http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com) Wikipedia - [Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) James Randi Educational Foundation - [http://www.randi.org/](http://www.randi.org/) CSICOP online - [http://www.csicop.org/](http://www.csicop.org/) Snopes - [http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp](http://www.snopes.com/snopes.asp) Plus a bunch of customer sites, hardware and software tech support, programming forums, and other job related stuff. But those links make up a huge share of my non-work related surfing. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/4 "2007-03-09T07:05:19Z")
Sydney Morning Herald - [http://www.smh.com.au](http://www.smh.com.au) The Age - [http://www.theage.com.au](http://www.theage.com.au) The Australian - [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/](http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/) Westpac Bank - [http://www.westpac.com.au](http://www.westpac.com.au) Institute of Actuaries of Australia - [http://www.actuaries.asn.au](http://www.actuaries.asn.au) Macquarie University - [http://www.mq.edu.au](http://www.mq.edu.au) ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/5 "2007-03-09T08:35:11Z")
My homepage is my intranet personal site, and my Links toolbar has the following: Google - [http://www.google.co.uk/](http://www.google.co.uk/) Ebay’s MyEbay page SDMB Pipex Netmail - online email - [https://netmail.pipex.net/adsl](https://netmail.pipex.net/adsl) Church of Fools - [http://www.churchoffools.com/](http://www.churchoffools.com/) - hasn’t been working for a while now… Friend’s Blog Work Intranet main homepage Personal Blog - [http://nix-grim.blogspot.com/](http://nix-grim.blogspot.com/) Audio Converter Homepage - [http://www.audioconverter.info/](http://www.audioconverter.info/) Virtual Illusion Music Center - [http://www.thevirtualillusion.com/music/index.php](http://www.thevirtualillusion.com/music/index.php) Another friend’s Blog **Mangetout** ’s beadmen page - [http://www.freewebs.com/beadmen/](http://www.freewebs.com/beadmen/) **Hokaido Brit** ’s Blog - she made a nice comment on ours, so I bookmarked hers Other regular haunts include: BBC News - [http://news.bbc.co.uk/](http://news.bbc.co.uk/) Multimap - [http://uk2.multimap.com/](http://uk2.multimap.com/) Transport for London’s travel news - [http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/realtime/](http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/travelinfo/realtime/) The Frameley Examiner - [http://www.framleyexaminer.com/](http://www.framleyexaminer.com/) News Biscuit - [http://www.newsbiscuit.co.uk/](http://www.newsbiscuit.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/6 "2007-03-09T13:43:26Z")
After the morning mail check. [Deadspin](http://deadspin.com/) [Woot](http://www.woot.com/Default.aspx) [Digg](http://digg.com/) [Sons of Sam Horn](http://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?showforum=5) [Keys to the Game](http://keystothegame.blogspot.com/) Big Red Sox fan here. [Kissing Suzy Kolber](http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/) And if it’s Monday, Wednesday or Friday, [Home on the Strange](http://www.homeonthestrange.com/) Oh, just checked that one–look in the archives; this is the end of a story line. And of course the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/7 "2007-03-09T14:56:41Z")
[Quote=Zeldar] Paul Finebaum Radio Network (SEC Sports Talk) [/quote] :eek: :eek: :eek: You listen to _WHAT?_ Man, that crap will rot your brain. I got it on my truck radio once this January while passing through Birmingham. In one short 15 minute span I learned the following: 1)$aban is the second best coach ever, right behind Da’ Beah. 2)$aban won four National Championships in five years at L-S-Who, and two Super Bowls in two years with the Dolphins. 3)$aban has only lost two games in his entire coaching career and both of those were to Bammer. 4)Bammer will never lose another football game. I suppose it went on and on, but I popped my Buddy Holly tape back into the cassette player. Fortunately, you have an option. Due to the miracle of the internet, you can get an Auburn based radio sports talk show over your computer! [Sportscallonline.com](http://Sportscallonline.com) airs from 4 to 6 PM Monday through Friday. Enjoy, and War Eagle! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/8 "2007-03-09T15:11:09Z")
[QUOTE=John Carter of Mars] :eek: :eek: :eek: You listen to _WHAT?_ Man, that crap will rot your brain. I got it on my truck radio once this January while passing through Birmingham. In one short 15 minute span I learned the following: 1)$aban is the second best coach ever, right behind Da’ Beah. 2)$aban won four National Championships in five years at L-S-Who, and two Super Bowls in two years with the Dolphins. 3)$aban has only lost two games in his entire coaching career and both of those were to Bammer. 4)Bammer will never lose another football game. I suppose it went on and on, but I popped my Buddy Holly tape back into the cassette player. Fortunately, you have an option. Due to the miracle of the internet, you can get an Auburn based radio sports talk show over your computer! [Sportscallonline.com](http://Sportscallonline.com) airs from 4 to 6 PM Monday through Friday. Enjoy, and War Eagle! [/QUOTE] I do appreciate that! Hearing the callers to Finebaum gets my blood up enough that when it’s not football season I try to lock all that venom up for the Iron Bowl. Then, no matter how much sympathy I might work up for how Bama is getting trounced, I just think back to all the blather and realize “You have it coming.” The only real reason I listen to the show is that Finebaum does manage from time to time to get interviews with some folks who aren’t out-and-out Bammers. That, plus listening to idiots like Shane and Jim from Tuscaloosa and (used to be) Phyllis from Mulga was at least as much fun as watching Leno and his man-on-the-street bit. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/9 "2007-03-09T16:40:01Z")
I only have a computer at work, so my homepage is Google and Favorites is filled with company-specific pages, Oracle pages, and links to other institutions for their financial system FAQs. And one personal one so I don’t forget the cute item **Kalhoun** tipped me off to. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/10 "2007-03-09T16:59:25Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I only have a computer at work, so my homepage is Google and Favorites is filled with company-specific pages, Oracle pages, and links to other institutions for their financial system FAQs. And one personal one so I don’t forget the cute item **Kalhoun** tipped me off to. [/QUOTE] That’s almost sad. Back when I had a computer at work, I would make a point of keeping the same links and Favorites on the work machine that I had at home. I felt my machine had as much privacy as could be reasonably expected. Later on, when we all got on a LAN that had us sharing file space and such, I trimmed my Favorites down to just work-related or very non-specifically-mine things. However, I still spent a fair portion of my time on the web. It’s just that I’d go through Yahoo! to get places without setting a permanent Favorite for the purpose. They can’t keep determined people down! Cut back on Internet usage? Pshaw! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/11 "2007-03-09T17:34:22Z")
Mine are SDMB (always) and: [Silver Jewelry Club](http://www.silverjewelryclub.com/default.aspx) [The Loop](http://http://www.wlup.com/) [The Sun Times](http://suntimes.com/index.html) [My School](http://www.roosevelt.edu/) [Chowhound](http://www.chowhound.com/) [Google](http://www.google.com) [Diary of V](http://diaryofv.redbook.ivillage.com/time/) [Constant Chatter](http://www.constantchatter.com/forum/) [Rachael](http://www.rachaelray.com/) [Martha](http://marthastewart.com/) [Food Network](http://www.foodnetwork.com/) And my gmail account. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/12 "2007-03-09T17:36:34Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I only have a computer at work, so my homepage is Google and Favorites is filled with company-specific pages, Oracle pages, and links to other institutions for their financial system FAQs. And one personal one so I don’t forget the cute item **Kalhoun** tipped me off to. [/QUOTE] 🙂 Sheep! Gotta love 'em! [http://www.turtlefeathers.com/](http://www.turtlefeathers.com/) I get gourd supplies here. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/by-their-links-shall-ye-know-them/395137/13 "2007-03-09T17:57:52Z")
My daily hits, besides SDMB of course: [CNN](http://www.cnn.com) [Woot!](http://www.woot.com) [The Toronto Star](http://www.thestar.com) [Flixster](http://www.flixster.com) [Cleveland.com](http://www.cleveland.com) [Airliners.net](http://www.airliners.net) [Team PbP Racing!](http://www.pbpracing.com) [MotoGirlz](http://www.motogirlz.org) [Local Riders](http://www.localriders.com) [Superbike Planet](http://www.superbikeplanet.com)