# Favorite Web Sites **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 1999, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328 "1999-12-17T20:13:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hairy\_Back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Hairy\_Back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hairy_Back)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/1 "1999-12-18T06:15:00Z")
Besides, of course, the Straight Dope, what are some of your favorite web sites. During the NATO bombing in Kosovo, I got hooked on [www.stratfor.com.](http://www.stratfor.com.) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/2 "1999-12-17T20:13:00Z")
well aside from my own sites šŸ˜‰ I like [www.stefcam.com](http://www.stefcam.com)[www.weirdal.com](http://www.weirdal.com)[www.amused.com](http://www.amused.com) amazon and the imbd, and a bunch of others. [Opalā€™s Bookmarks](http://fathom.org/opalcat/bookmarks.html) * * * ā€“ Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) ā€œMeat flaps, yellow!ā€ - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/3 "1999-12-17T20:36:00Z")
## [list] [li]Internet Movie Database [http://us.imdb.com](http://us.imdb.com)[/li][li]Star Trek Continuum: [http://www.startrekcontinuum.com/startrek.asp](http://www.startrekcontinuum.com/startrek.asp)[/li][li]Bad Science [http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html](http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html)[/li][li]M&M Cam (co-workerā€™s camera to keep watch on his doggies) [http://members.bellatlantic.net/~arneth/mmcam.html](http://members.bellatlantic.net/~arneth/mmcam.html)[/li][li]Web Developers Virtual Library [http://www.wdvl.com/](http://www.wdvl.com/)[/li][li]The Oracle of Bacon (Kevin Bacon linking) [http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/](http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/)[/li] I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didnā€™t seem so bright Iā€™ve lost a few more hairs/I think Iā€™m going bald - Rush ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/4 "1999-12-17T20:39:00Z")
[www.freediskspace.com](http://www.freediskspace.com) ---
**Author:** ![saraam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@saraam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saraam)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/5 "1999-12-17T20:41:00Z")
[http://www.brunching.com/](http://www.brunching.com/) Every day a different topic, the ratings are the best, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 1999, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/6 "1999-12-17T20:44:00Z")
[www.washingtonpost.com](http://www.washingtonpost.com) (Decent newspaper for free, and links to more comic strips than the mind can imagineā€¦) [www.brunching.com](http://www.brunching.com) (Occasionally bizzare, always funny.) [www.qma3x.com](http://www.qma3x.com) (Ranting movie reviews from hell.) * * * JMCJ Die, Prentiss, Die! You will never have a more glorious opportunity! ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/7 "1999-12-18T16:14:00Z")
[http://www.totalobscurity.com/](http://www.totalobscurity.com/) [http://www.outofservice.com/](http://www.outofservice.com/) [The Church of Spork](http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Labyrinth/7275/index.html) [http://www.wheresgeorge.com](http://www.wheresgeorge.com) [http://194.80.29.2/technosphere/index.htm](http://194.80.29.2/technosphere/index.htm) [Painter](http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~permadi/java/spaint/spaint.html) [The Ultimate Drinking Game Home Page](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/7200/drinking.htm) [Odds and Ends](http://www.best.com/%7Esirlou/odds.shtml) [The Beginnerā€™s Guide to Self-Immortalization](http://members.esslink.com/~frenchy/) * * * Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99. ā€œI get along well with everybody.ā€ --I.M.F. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/8 "1999-12-18T16:23:00Z")
Letā€™s make an attempt to fix thatā€¦ [Painter](http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~permadi/java/spaint/spaint.html) [The Ultimate Drinking Game Home Page](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/7200/drinking.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/9 "1999-12-18T16:25:00Z")
[Painter](http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~permadi/java/spaint/spaint.html) [The Ultimate Drinking Game Home Page](http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/7200/drinking.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/10 "1999-12-18T16:27:00Z")
[http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~permadi/java/spaint/spaint.html](http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~permadi/java/spaint/spaint.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 1999, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/11 "1999-12-18T17:43:00Z")
[Scott Pakinā€™s Automatic Complaint Letter Generator](http://www-csag.cs.uiuc.edu/individual/pakin/complaint) [The crossword at Arizona Central](http://www.azcentral.com/rep) [live-radio.net](http://www.live-radio.net/) [Alta Vistaā€™s Language Translator](http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?) [mapquest.com](http://www.mapquest.com) [htmlgoodies.com](http://www.htmlgoodies.com) [Cool Tools at Builder.com](http://www.builder.com/Programming/Kahn/012898/) [Interactive color chart 1](http://home.ipa.net/support/homesup/s_colorchart.shtml) [Interactive color chart 2](http://www.hidaho.com/colorcenter/cc.html) ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 1999, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/12 "1999-12-19T23:04:00Z")
[Notes and queries](http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/notesandqueries/index.html) - **highly recommended** (massive Q&A site answering all those questions you were never sure about) [www.losers.org](http://www.losers.org) - **recommended** (a collection of the worst websites around) [www.upmystreet.com](http://www.upmystreet.com) (for my fellow Brit posters, a site that compares your neighbourhood against the national average for things like crime, ambulance response times, house prices, police clear-up rates etc) [www.useit.com/alertbox](http://www.useit.com/alertbox) (articles on how to write for the web - not design, but about content and planning) [www.open.gov.uk](http://www.open.gov.uk) (links to all British government sites - including fascinating things like the Air Accident Investigation Boardā€™s list of accident reports, or the Marine Protection Agencyā€™s reports on impounded vessels) ---
**Author:** ![JonF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JonF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonF)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/13 "1999-12-20T17:18:00Z")
News for Nerds - stuff that matters [http://slashdot.org/](http://slashdot.org/) Computer Stupidities [http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/](http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/) Terry Pratchett and L-Space [http://www.lspace.org/](http://www.lspace.org/) Science and Creationism [http://books.nap.edu/html/creationism/](http://books.nap.edu/html/creationism/) ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/14 "1999-12-20T17:26:00Z")
[Great visuals](http://www.eye4u.com) * * * -Jesus Saves He passes to Mike Modano. THEY SCORE!!! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/15 "1999-12-20T20:20:00Z")
Thanks mattk, for the [useit.com](http://useit.com) link. I just volunteered to assist the webmaster for the charity group I work with because the site is FULL of things that need to be changed (missing alt tags, no meta tags, terrible text/content, links that donā€™t work, etc.). Having that site to refer to will help tremendously in communicating with him so I donā€™t have to type everything out in emails to him myself, because it addresses so many of the issues that need correcting on our site. Thank you! * * * ā€œHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.ā€ - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/16 "1999-12-20T21:40:00Z")
[Amazon](http://www.amazon.com) [Anthropologie](http://www.anthropologie.com) [Barnes & Noble](http://www.barnesandnoble.com) [Books at Sixpence](http://www.booksatsixpence.co.uk/index.htm) [Brylane Home](http://www.brylanehome.com) [CoolShopping](http://www.coolshopping.com) [Des Moines Register](http://www.dmregister.com) [eBay](http://www.ebay.com) [Encyclopaedia Brittanica](http://www.eb.com) [FingerHut](http://www.fingerhut.com) [The Hunger Site](http://www.thehungersite.com) [Ikea](http://www.ikea.com) [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com) [iVillage](http://www.ivillage.com) [CDNow](http://www.cdnow.com) [NY Times](http://www.nytimes.com) [OpalCatā€™s World Domination Headquarters](http://www.fathom.org/opalcat) [PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/main.htm) [Popula](http://www.popula.com)_Popula is an auction site for vintage clothing and other vintage items. It rocks._ [The Pyramid Collection](http://www.pyramidcollection.com) [Realtor](http://www.realtor.com) [StraightDope](http://www.straightdope.com) [Dollar Stretcher](http://www.stretcher.com) [Teeming Millions HomePage](http://www.fathom.org/teemingmillions) [SD Chat](http://www.fathom.org/teemingmillions/chat.adp) [BodyMind Queendom](http://www.queendom.com) * * * ā€œWednesday the 15th - Chris made one of her rare good points today.ā€ _Guanolad_ ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/17 "1999-12-20T21:47:00Z")
And of course, 90 percent of my code is screwy. [www.amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com) [www.anthropologie.com](http://www.anthropologie.com) [www.barnesandnoble.com](http://www.barnesandnoble.com) [www.booksatsixpence.co.uk/index.htm](http://www.booksatsixpence.co.uk/index.htm) [www.brylanehome.com](http://www.brylanehome.com) [www.coolshopping.com](http://www.coolshopping.com) [www.dmregister.com](http://www.dmregister.com) [www.ebay.com](http://www.ebay.com) [www.eb.com](http://www.eb.com) [www.fingerhut.com](http://www.fingerhut.com) [www.thehungersite.com](http://www.thehungersite.com) [www.ikea.com](http://www.ikea.com) [www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com) [www.ivillage.com](http://www.ivillage.com) [www.cdnow.com](http://www.cdnow.com) [www.nytimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com) [www.fathom.org/opalcat](http://www.fathom.org/opalcat) [www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman) [www.popula.com](http://www.popula.com) [www.pyramidcollection.com](http://www.pyramidcollection.com) [www.realtor.com](http://www.realtor.com) [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) [www.stretcher.com](http://www.stretcher.com) [www.fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://www.fathom.org/teemingmillions) [www.fathom.org/teemingmillions/chat.adp](http://www.fathom.org/teemingmillions/chat.adp) [www.queendom.com](http://www.queendom.com) If that didnā€™t work, Iā€™m giving up. * * * ā€œWednesday the 15th - Chris made one of her rare good points today.ā€ _Guanolad_ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/18 "1999-12-21T11:02:00Z")
All right, Iā€™m seeing a lot of potential bookmark material from you guys! Keep 'em coming. Looks like Iā€™ve got a bit of reading to do. Hereā€™s my list : [Dave Barryā€™s Official Site](http://www.herald.com/content/archive/living/barry/content.htm) has his current humor column for the week, an archive of all the columns of the past year, plus some other stuff he wrote for the Herald that wasnā€™t in his syndicated column. [MP3 Locator](http://www.mp3locator.com/) searches all of the alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.\* newsgroups. Itā€™s great not having to wade through 50,000 plus headers during a 2 weeks period in some of these groups. [Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis](http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html) - Hear a robotic-sounding voice utter the perverted words of your choosing! Guaranteed to bug the hell out of your friends and family! [Mr Hatā€™s Hellhole](http://thehellhole.com/) is a great South Park site with links to episodes encoded in RealMedia for poor folks like me who donā€™t get Comedy Central because their cable companies suck. Another good place to get episodes and avoid the FTP traffic is alt.binaries.southpark. Often they have mpeg-encoded episodes as well, which look a helluva lot better than RM. [Make Your Own Root Beer!](http://family.go.com/Features/family_0105_01/famf/famf010501_ffrootbeer/famf010501_ffrootbeer2.html) - Someday Iā€™m gonna try this. [High Times](http://www.hightimes.com/ht/welcome.html) - Sorry, couldnā€™t resist šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/19 "1999-12-21T12:44:00Z")
## [http://www.sandiegozoo.org/special/pandacam/](http://www.sandiegozoo.org/special/pandacam/) [http://www.eye.net](http://www.eye.net) [http://www.chapters.ca](http://www.chapters.ca) [http://www.globeandmail.com](http://www.globeandmail.com) I had more but I lost my bookmarks. :-\ Some drink at the fountain of knowledgeā€¦others just gargle. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328/20 "1999-12-21T12:49:00Z")
Two more: [http://www.theonion.com/](http://www.theonion.com/) [http://www.darwinawards.com/](http://www.darwinawards.com/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-web-sites/12328.md?page=2)