# Recommend a Website for Light Reading at Work **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988 "2014-01-16T18:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/1 "2014-01-16T18:53:53Z")
I enjoy reading brief (and sometimes not so brief) articles about a wide variety of subjects. Humor is appreciated, but not necessary. To this end, I enjoy [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) and [Buzzfeed.com](http://Buzzfeed.com) above almost all else. What are some other websites that aggregate (or produce) brief stories about a wide variety of topics? Those topics can be news/opinion-related or not, doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/2 "2014-01-16T21:47:42Z")
[Slate.com](http://Slate.com) has a nice variety. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/3 "2014-01-16T22:15:37Z")
[Mentalfloss.com](http://Mentalfloss.com) consistently provides a few short articles that I generally find interesting. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/4 "2014-01-16T23:59:19Z")
[Longform.org](http://Longform.org) has articles that are usually a bit longer than most sites and quite a range of subjects, ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/5 "2014-01-17T00:08:50Z")
Arts and Letters Daily - one of the first and still one of the best aggregators. > **[Arts & Letters Daily](https://www.aldaily.com/)** > > Philosophy, literature, ideas, criticism, history, art, music from The Chronicle of Higher Education. 3 Quarks Daily is good too, not too heavy on the content with a wide variety of interesting links. > **[3 Quarks Daily](https://3quarksdaily.com/)** > > Science, arts, philosophy, politics, literature ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/6 "2014-01-17T01:26:07Z")
I like this thread, keep it coming. My contributions: [http://www.thewire.com/](http://www.thewire.com/) - I could get all my news from here if I wanted to. Used to be “The Atlantic Wire”, as in the magazine. [www.mashable.com](http://www.mashable.com) has pretty good variety but is tilted toward the technophile/social marketing interest. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/7 "2014-01-17T06:32:18Z")
Fark,com is my go-to site to keep me entertained at work. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/8 "2014-01-17T06:37:30Z")
If you have any interest in classic works of humor, some good writers can be found at Project Gutenburg. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/9 "2014-01-29T23:09:25Z")
Recently found one called longreads. It does not seem to be as broad or inclusive as longform but it lists total words and estimated reading time. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/10 "2014-01-30T17:51:57Z")
I like [TalkingPointsMemo.com](http://TalkingPointsMemo.com) This website takes it easy on my ridiculously outdated web browser at work. (Damn thing van’t keep up with the Java script and the Admins wont let me turn it off.) There is one site out there that is supposed to list the amount of time it takes the average person to read a particular article. I can’t remember which site that is. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/11 "2014-01-30T18:29:39Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I like [TalkingPointsMemo.com](http://TalkingPointsMemo.com) This website takes it easy on my ridiculously outdated web browser at work. (Damn thing van’t keep up with the Java script and the Admins wont let me turn it off.) > There is one site out there that is supposed to list the amount of time it takes the average person to read a particular article. I can’t remember which site that is. Slate seems to be doing that these days, with their new (and horrible) website design. ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/12 "2014-01-30T19:50:26Z")
If your into it, I like to read reviews of things, [theimpulsivebuy.com](http://theimpulsivebuy.com) reviews the newest snack and fast food products in a humourous fashion. Depending on your age [thesurfingpizza.com](http://thesurfingpizza.com) and [dinosaurdracula.com](http://dinosaurdracula.com) look back fondly on the 80s and 90s and are pretty funny guys. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/13 "2014-01-31T14:59:35Z")
[Jabootu](http://jabootu.net/) has a large archive of scene-by-scene reviews of bad movies. Some are quite long, but almost without exception, they’re quite hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-website-for-light-reading-at-work/678988/14 "2014-01-31T17:48:31Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > [Jabootu](http://jabootu.net/) has a large archive of scene-by-scene reviews of bad movies. Some are quite long, but almost without exception, they’re quite hilarious. Note that the older content is on the old [jabootu.com](http://jabootu.com) site. I particularly recommend [the “Challenge of the Superfriends” writups](https://www.google.com/search?q=jabootu+superfriends) (currently up to the antepenultimate episode).