# Websites you check out every day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139 "2015-07-14T14:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/21 "2015-07-15T14:14:15Z")
Here, obviously Go Fug Yourself (if you’re into celebrity fashion this site is delightful. Absolutely hilarious) CNN My local newspaper (Tampa Bay Times) Opacity (photos of old abandoned buildings and such) IMDB if I’ve watched a movie or one of my favorite tv shows I Can Haz Cheezeburger ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/22 "2015-07-15T15:02:39Z")
Wall Street Journal Boingboing (although I’ve been skipping this increasingly) Slashdot I used to visit Fark (how I found this site) and Something Awful, but no longer. Although I’ve been thinking of buying an SA forum membership. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/23 "2015-07-15T20:12:39Z")
Daily: Yahoo SDMB [goodreads.com](http://goodreads.com) for book reviews and recommendations My local library website Some job search sites I make occasional forays to: Amazon Politifact Allrecipes [NotAlwaysRight.com](http://NotAlwaysRight.com) Zappos I love my library site so much. I go there several times a day just to metaphorically roll around in my hold requests like Scrooge McDuck in his vault. Monday is the day new orders are listed in the catalog, and I get to add to my wealth. Zappos is an interesting one…I like to go there and shop for shoes. It’s kind of soothing. The twist is that I never ever buy any. But I might! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/24 "2015-07-15T20:30:21Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I love my library site so much. I go there several times a day just to metaphorically roll around in my hold requests like Scrooge McDuck in his vault. Monday is the day new orders are listed in the catalog, and I get to add to my wealth. Hilarious, and apt, description. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/25 "2015-07-15T20:31:10Z")
SDMB (my favourite). International Skeptics (formerly James Randi Educational Foundation) – not unlike SDMB, but more narrowly focused on “fighting ignorance”, and a lot less branching out into “anything and everything” – I go there most days. To redress the balance – or have myself thought highly weird – the Fortean Times Message Board. Until recently: a board which – not wishing to overly traduce – I won’t name, but which tries to promote good etiquette and good and and gentle-personly behaviour. Much good stuff on there, and many very nice people participate (and much nice non-etiquette-related “fun stuff”); but it’s an outfit which is highly moralistic in a conservative way – it’s very easy to get, inadvertently, on the wrong side of them – and the moderating can be savage and, at times, partial / partisan and rules-breaking. A few weeks ago, I (after some previous episodes of chastisement-and-repentance) seemingly thoroughly fell foul of the partisan / rules-breaking thing there; so I’m done with them. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/26 "2015-07-15T20:38:11Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Hilarious, and apt, description. 🙂 I thought you would understand. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/27 "2015-07-15T20:39:48Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I thought you would understand. 🙂 I’m hearing this in Donald Trump’s voice: I am luxuriating in my luxurious hold request list! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/28 "2015-07-15T22:11:07Z")
Facebook Twitter Amazon (to check the sales figures for my books) [Lileks.com](http://Lileks.com) Email ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/29 "2015-07-15T22:28:29Z")
Obviously this one, CNN, BBC, Scientific America, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, Audible (just to see if there are any new audio books or good reviews) and a couple of more obscure ones like Skeptical Inquirer and the JREF Forum and a few porn sites I won’t go into the details for. ETA: I also check my Linkedin account usually a couple times a day. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/30 "2015-07-16T12:23:57Z")
Bike EXIF Pipeburn RideApart Revzilla/common tread ADV Rider ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/31 "2015-07-16T12:34:47Z")
Woot. I might only buy something every year or two, but I always check. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/32 "2015-07-16T12:53:49Z")
[Previously.tv](http://Previously.tv) (ever since TWOP shut down the forums) Straightdope Facebook CNN ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/33 "2015-07-16T15:24:37Z")
Besides the Dope and Cracked (which I see has been mentioned), I also like to go to [Mental Floss](http://mentalfloss.com/). ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/34 "2015-07-16T21:00:43Z")
Email ADV 54 Gariffe Una Shovel board SDMB Pprune Ello My bank 5 Weather sites Picasa photo hosting site Wind map & a few others every other day or so. - do not read every thread at any place. \*\* read whole threads of those I post in 80% of the time. ( not game or joke or that kind for the most part ) Post process any pictures I have taken which is usually every other day. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/35 "2015-07-16T21:17:44Z")
All these responses, and only \*\*\*one person \*\*\*admits to PORN! This is why **silenus** has always been one of my favorites. 😉 I check here, my email and Epic Fail just about every day. Porn now and then, when I won’t get caught. But its sooo hard to find! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/36 "2015-07-16T21:51:47Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > All these responses, and only \*\*\*one person \*\*\*admits to PORN! With all the free porn on the web, who checks out the same site every day? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/37 "2015-07-17T01:06:31Z")
I forgot about weather web sites. I generally check the Weather Channel every day (and email, of course, though I don’t consider hotmail or OWA to be answering the question), and also, now that I think about it, YouTube. I have a bunch of subscriptions like Vsauce, It’s Ok To Be Smart, Test Tube News, MinutePhysics, This is Genius, CrashCourse, various comic book sites, Game Theorist, CinemaSins/Screen Junkies, How it Should Have Ended and Scott Manley’s thread…there is almost always something new, or I’ll check out game play for Company of Heroes 2 or some other game I’m wanting to see, check out, or get info on. [QUOTE=Gatopescado] All these responses, and only one person admits to PORN! [/QUOTE] I’m probably old enough that I don’t worry about what folks think of my porn habit at this point. But you know most of the rest are checking out porn daily as well…this IS the SDMB after all. 😛 [QUOTE=Little Nemo] With all the free porn on the web, who checks out the same site every day? [/QUOTE] _raises hand_ I do. There are a bunch of pretty good (free) sites that also have higher standards of sorting their stuff so that you don’t get a lot of spam, popups or other nasty surprises (generally…I recommend lots of anti-virus, firewalls and the like, and still expect to be infected so don’t use your computer that you shop with to surf porn). ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/38 "2015-07-17T01:52:21Z")
Straight Dope Giraffe Boards Facebook Altamont Press Trainorders ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/39 "2015-07-17T01:58:41Z")
Reddit - Front Page Reddit - Philosophy IMDb - Religion & Spirituality IMDb - Film General IMDb - Whatever show I am currently watching A really cool History forum/discussion board people here may like: [http://historum.com/search.php?searchid=3946847](http://historum.com/search.php?searchid=3946847) ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139/40 "2015-07-17T14:03:07Z")
It’s not a daily check, but I like [Damn interesting.](http://www.damninteresting.com/) It’s a collection of well-written stories of oddities and interesting events. I like it so much, I tossed them a $20 back when they were asking for donations. They also podcast, which are just versions of their articles read aloud. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/websites-you-check-out-every-day/725139.md?page=3)