Top 10 Web sites you use

I’m asking because I’m tired of always going to the same web sites and I’m looking at something good and new that I might not have seen yet. My list:

memepool.com
straightdope.com (obviously!)
snopes.com
slashdot.org
canoe.qc.ca (local french-canadian web site)
drudgereport.com
cnn.com
yahoo.com
google.com
ifilm.com

Anyone knows of a reliable “best of web” list? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen one that reliably gives entertaining web sites.

In no particular order, excluding straightdope.com:

brunching.com

honetsy.com
search.support.microsoft.com

whatis.com

otwa.com

Here’s my “everyday” sites

http://www.rpgamer.com - RPG Video Game coverage, and daily Q&A column
http://www.lycos.com - I usually read the news here, short and sweet
http://50.lycos.com - Top 50 searches for the week, and daily column
http://www.dailyconfession.com - Feel better about yourself
http://boards.straightdope.com - :smiley:

Periodic Sites (not updated often)

http://www.theonion.com - I think everyone goes there. Updated weekly.
http://www.emotioneric.com - Funny pictures, but only updated like once a month.

Shopping Sites

http://www.express.com - DVD DVD DVD DVD
http://www.ebworld.com - Video Games

Adult Sites

[Sorry, can’t put these here]

That should do it.

I manage to visit these weekly:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov
http://www.salon.com

http://www.metacrawler.com

http://www.vin.com/PetCare
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/

If anyone’s interested in mine…

[list][li]straightdope.com (of course)[/li][li]nationalreview.com[/li][li]theonion.com[/li][li]boston.com/globe/[/li][li]wheresgeorge.com (fun with your dollar bills!)[/li][li]washingtonpost.com[/li][li]news.bbc.co.uk/[/li][li]fotw.digibel.be/flags (vexillology, if you know what that means)[/li][li]m-w.com (merriam-webster)[/li]cybereditions.com/aldaily (Arts & Letters Daily)

Here’s mine:
[ul]
Straightdope
Yahoo
Sportingnews
ESPN
CNNSI
The Huddle
Sandbox
Memepool
ABCnews
USAToday
Dogpile
Snopes
[/ul]

http://www.ceoexpress.com

http://www.propertyandcasualty.com (I’m in insurance)
http://www.3bp.com
http://www.abcnews.com
http://www.edmunds.com
http://www.dallasnews.com
http://www.askjeeves.com
http://www.cars.com
and of course
http://www.straightdope.com

just for kicks I go to
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~kljense3/MrTvs.html (Mr. T vs. Everything)

buffalobills.com
marthastewart.com
roadsideamerica.com (fun road trips)
jumptheshark.com (TV nostalgia, mostly)
uselessknowledge.com
paddynet.com (irish and irish-american stuff)
betsy-tacysociety.org (children’s lit)
mapquest.com (maps AND a newsletter for people who like maps!)

and for searching
hotbot.com
google.com

Straight Dope
CNN
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html (Astronomy Picture Calendar)
http://itss.raytheon.com/cafe/qadir/qanda.html (Ask the Astronomer)
Boston.com
http://www.talkorigins.org/
http://www.skypub.com/ (Sky & Telescope Magazine)
Yahoo Weather
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/nelpag.html (New England Light Pollution Advisory Group)

http://www.unc.edu (the home page on my browser – I’m boring that way)

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk (Home of Notes and Queries, the second best thing to SD. Also, it’s a fine place to get one’s weekly dose of American-bashing. The sad part is, I actually agree with at least half of it.)

http://www.counciltravel.com

http://www.skepdic.com

And, of course, snopes.

That’s about it, aside from purely academic stuff.

I gotta think of TEN? Geez, well, here goes.
http://straightdope.com (well, duh)
http://www.bored.com (nice stuff)
http://www.pheatsoles.com (ring of ages (old DOS games))
http://rpi.phynd.edu (cool site for my college)
http://rpi.dailyjolt.com (same as above)
http://www.amused.com (in contrast to site mentioned previously)
http://www.emux.com (emulators and ROMS)
http://www.lostaporn.com (oops, how’d that get there?)

well, that’s it. Honestly.

Mostly sites people have already mentioned, but here ya go anyway:

http://boards.straightdope.com
http://www.dogpile.com

(I am, of course, omitting the mind-numbingly boring sites that I either work on or use to get actual work done.)

Recent visits/bookmarks

http://forum.allwords.com/
http://www.mrbarrett.com/

http://www.greylabyrinth.com/index.htm
http://www.synthzone.com/

http://www.hedweb.com/
http://www.egroups.com/
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/

In no particular order:

  1. http://www.straightdope.com/ - The Straight Dope

  2. Computer Stupidities - Computer Stupidities. I’d go to this one more often but it’s only updated monthly

  3. http://www.doomworld.com/ - Doom is not dead. I entered a competition on this site, and I visit it daily. :slight_smile:

  4. http://mail.yahoo.com/ - I skip the main Yahoo.com page because I don’t use Yahoo for anything except mail.

  5. http://www.dogpile.com/ - I have this set as my homepage.

  6. http://www.snopes.com/ - Informative. Who hasn’t heard of Snopes?

  7. http://www.dosgames.com/ - Call me crazy, but I like this page.

  8. http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ki/engines.html - 3D engines list

  9. Ken Silverman's Official Home Page - Ken Silverman’s page. He made the Build engine (used in Duke Nukem 3D) and the not-so-famous game Ken’s Labyrinth.

  10. http://www.quackwatch.com/ - Like snopes.com, only for debunking medical scams.

I heard about half of these webpages from the SDMB, so a lot of you probably know about them. Also, in case you’re wondering, yes, I’m into graphics programming. Why don’t you check out my page as long as you’re looking at all these webpages?

http://www.straightdope.com
http://www.somethingawful.com
http://www.fark.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com (for the stock boards.)

Dilbert: http://www.dilbert.com/
Letterman top 10 http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/
Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
A Web of Online Dictionaries (foreign languages) http://www.yourdictionary.com
The Times of London http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?1793845
Northern New England Weather http://vortex.plymouth.edu/
SDMB General Questions http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=3
The exploding dictionary http://projects.ghostwheel.com/dictionary/
Encyclopædia Britannica http://members.eb.com/
Snopes http://www.snopes.com

http://www.google.com

http://www.theforce.net

http://boards.theforce.net
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news.htm
http://www.cinescape.com
http://www.hissyfit.com
http://www.fametracker.com

The Straight Dope (No, really?)

Skeptic News

Themestream

Rational Examination Association of Lincoln Land

Urban Legends Reference Pages (snopes)

RudyReigns Survivor Information Page

Dr. Dean Edell’s page

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal

Deja.com

SmartSource Coupons

One of my favorites is bigeye.com - a great surfing site with hundreds of links on many subjects.

  1. mail.yahoo.com
  2. yahoo.com
  3. hoops.si.cnn.com
  4. espn.com
  5. nba.com
  6. viking.com
  7. boards.straightdope.com
  8. FreeTranslation.com
  9. isd47.org
  10. iseek.com