# Recommend your favorite blog or other online time-waster **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601 "2009-07-28T21:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/1 "2009-07-28T21:39:16Z")
I have Internet access at work - nothing streaming, though. No YouTube or anything like that. Nominate your favorite online time-waster, please, before I pull out my own eyeballs just to give myself something to do. The Dope message board just does not contain enough threads to keep my brain occupied, and there’s only so much to read on \*Slate \*and \*Salon \*and such. Photography, recipes, fuzzy kittens, current events, humor … whatever genre you care to call your favorite. Please, please, give me something new to think about or look at. Please. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/2 "2009-07-28T21:41:00Z")
[Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) is a pretty good time waster. and then there’s facebook and twitter ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/3 "2009-07-28T21:43:50Z")
[Photoshop disasters](http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/) is always amusing. [Speak you’re branes](http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/) mocks the cesspool of stupidity on news feedback comments, primarily the BBC’s ‘Have Your Say’ section. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/4 "2009-07-29T02:34:45Z")
[uniwatch.com](http://uniwatch.com): Talks about sports uniforms and such, lots of links to pictures. Also hits on design and other stuff, but mostly the sports unis. [Listverse.com](http://Listverse.com): Short for “list universe” it has lists about a crapload of different subjects. A lot of it is opinionated (Top 10 worst women in the world, who’s to say one is REALLY worse than the other) but overall it’s chock full of facts and information…updated every day!! ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/5 "2009-07-29T03:11:07Z")
Dang I had a whole chatty answer written out, then hit the wrong key and bam. gone. _sigh_ I read the NYTimes online every day. If you’re reading only at work, Monday can be a busy day catching up on the weekend features. 🙂 For added fun there are other big-city papers, including ones in the UK, Australia, etc. For food, try the sites for the mags: Gourmet, Cooking Light, etc., and their respective publishers’ aggregators: [myrecipes.com](http://myrecipes.com) and [epicurious.com](http://epicurious.com). I also like The Atlantic’s food site, [food.atlantic.com](http://food.atlantic.com). Blogs are only going to be updated daily at most, but are fun. Here are some I like; some pro, some semi-pro, some am: [http://blog.ruhlman.com/](http://blog.ruhlman.com/) [http://enlightenedcooking.blogspot.com/](http://enlightenedcooking.blogspot.com/) > **[Food and Cooking - Quick Recipes, Kitchen Tips and Tutorials](https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/)** > > Get ideas for a quick weeknight dinner, how to elevate your pantry staples, or just the best way to keep your kitchen gadgets and appliances clean and fresh. > **[Culinary in the Desert](http://desertculinary.blogspot.com/)** > > Living here in the desert southwest has been a fun and invigorating experience. We enjoy cooking and baking with some interesting results! Enjoy your stay! > **[Cake Wrecks](http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/)** > > Jen started this blog in May of 2008 one night when she was bored. She honestly never thought anyone would read it. She's also not very good at picking Lottery ... Oh, and on a non-food note, of course there’s [icanhascheezburger.com](http://icanhascheezburger.com) and its cousins in the top link bar. I also visit Consumerist regularly, and for celebrity news nothing beats [eonline.com](http://eonline.com). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/6 "2009-07-29T04:22:41Z")
[Fark](http://www.fark.com) [Museum of Hoaxes](http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/) [Consumerist](http://consumerist.com) [Baseball Reference](http://www.baseball-reference.com/) [Post Secret](http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) ---
**Author:** ![chromaticity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@chromaticity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chromaticity)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/7 "2009-07-29T06:20:14Z")
For reading at work, [thedailywtf.com](http://thedailywtf.com) Its funny and code related so it doesn’t upset the suits. ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/8 "2009-07-29T06:28:53Z")
[Dark Roasted Blend](http://www.darkroastedblend.com) is my favourite blog of weirdness. Every week there’s new links to websites with odd stuff, pictures, video, articles and book reviews. There’s everything from “Zoom in on an ant!” to “Postage stamps with Cthulhu!”. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/9 "2009-07-29T07:33:45Z")
I’m a big big fan of Gadget and Car blogs. I specifically like Gizmodo and Jalopnik along with the other Gawker group blogs which you can find on their sites. In the same vein I like Engadget and Autoblog from the Weblogs Inc group. They too have a bunch of other popular blog topics. Cute Overload is a excellent quickie time suck as well. ---
**Author:** ![BlackFish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@BlackFish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackFish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/10 "2009-07-29T09:34:39Z")
Most of my time wasters have been listed. here are the rest: [photoshop disasters](http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/) [damn interesting](http://www.damninteresting.com/) [lol cats 😉](http://icanhascheezburger.com/) [fundies!!:eek:](http://www.fstdt.net/Default.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/11 "2009-07-29T09:39:57Z")
> [@Walpurgis](#): > > [Dark Roasted Blend](http://www.darkroastedblend.com) is my favourite blog of weirdness. Every week there’s new links to websites with odd stuff, pictures, video, articles and book reviews. There’s everything from “Zoom in on an ant!” to “Postage stamps with Cthulhu!”. This is mine too…I could spend hours on it. I especially love the military, vehicle and technology prototype features. Runner up is [englishrussia.com](http://englishrussia.com/), a somewhat cruder and Russian version of the same. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/12 "2009-07-29T10:04:00Z")
**Mangetout’s** site is an enjoyable read: [http://www.atomicshrimp.com/](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/) ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/13 "2009-07-29T11:05:58Z")
[http://www.cuteoverload.com](http://www.cuteoverload.com) [http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/](http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/) [http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/](http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/) ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/14 "2009-07-29T11:15:21Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/) is a pretty good time waster. I can spend hours there. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/15 "2009-07-29T17:07:03Z")
[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage) is a great time waster. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/16 "2009-07-29T17:43:01Z")
With a warning that my time-wasters tend to be fairly lowbrow, here goes: [The Daily Coyote](http://www.dailycoyote.net/) - Photo blog by a woman in Wyoming who raised a coyote pup after his parents were killed. Amazing photos. [STFU Parents](http://stfuparents.tumblr.com/) - humorous look at parents who overshare about their kids on Facebook [Sexy People](http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/) - dedicated to really bad/amusing portraits from decades past [Dlisted](http://dlisted.com/) - trashy yet hilarious celebrity gossip. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/17 "2009-07-29T17:45:43Z")
> [@ryan](#): > > [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage) is a great time waster. here be dragons… beware I’ve lost hours at tvtropes, you’ve been warned I still spend a lot of time at wikipedia, chasing whatever shiny catches my attention for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/18 "2009-07-29T17:51:36Z")
[The Bleat](http://lileks.com/bleat/) and [The Institute of Official Cheer](http://lileks.com/institute/) ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/19 "2009-07-29T18:52:37Z")
Okay, these are all useless but funny. [http://notalwaysright.com/](http://notalwaysright.com/) - stories about stupid/angry customers [http://www.fmylife.com/](http://www.fmylife.com/) - short statements from folks about things in their life that suck - much more amusing than that sounds [http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/](http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/) - just what it sounds like, people send in texts that they’re received, usually from drunken friends. example: \*(215): I was like, “um, that’s my butthole.” \* [http://www.fupenguin.com/](http://www.fupenguin.com/) - letters to cute animals about how they’re not fooling anyone [http://1000awesomethings.com/](http://1000awesomethings.com/) - just what it says [http://www.sorryimissedyourparty.com/](http://www.sorryimissedyourparty.com/) - showcases pictures found (mostly on flickr) of people at parties, generally parties you are glad you did not attend. I found it when one of my photos turned up there. Not so much funny but cool: [http://smokeandacoke.com/](http://smokeandacoke.com/) - mostly photos, a few videos, no real theme except that they consistently make me stop to think [http://blessourhearts.blogspot.com/](http://blessourhearts.blogspot.com/) - a southern mama who raises chickens, cusses, and talks about politics sometimes [http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/](http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/) - book cover design, something I didn’t know I was all that interested in until I started reading this blog ---
**Author:** ![Liddle\_Lamsy\_Divey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Liddle\_Lamsy\_Divey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liddle_Lamsy_Divey)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601/20 "2009-07-29T22:22:13Z")
[mental\_floss](http://mentalfloss.com/) [Smart Bitches, Trashy Books](http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php) [Go Fug Yourself](http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/): Fashion faux pas. [Chowhound](http://chowhound.chow.com/): A place to swap cooking tips and recipes [Sporcle](http://www.sporcle.com/) [Small Town Misfit](http://www.smalltownmisfit.com/): Odd police blotters. [Hello Kitty Hell](http://www.kittyhell.com/) [That Guy With the Glasses](http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/): NSWF for language[Internet Archive](http://www.archive.org/index.php) [Retrojunk](http://retrojunk.com/) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-your-favorite-blog-or-other-online-time-waster/504601.md?page=2)