# What are your first ten bookmarks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677 "2007-06-20T04:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/1 "2007-06-20T04:09:19Z")
Maybe we’ll find some interesting sites to share amongst ourselves. My top 10 (in order of being bookmarked, not in order of preference): \*\*Straight Dope Message Board [YouTube](http://youtube.com/) [LifeClever- Tips for Design and Life](http://www.lifeclever.com/) [The Epicenter Exotic Herbs and Spices](http://www.theepicentre.com/) [Secular Coalition for America](http://www.secular.org/) [Gnoosic- new music](http://www.gnoosic.com/) [xkcd- a webcomic](http://www.xckd.com/c162.html) [Science of Cooking](http://www.exploratorium.com/cooking/) [Mentat Wiki](http://www.ludism.org/mentat/) [Joytube.com Twenty Numbers (game)](http://www.joytube.com/twenty-numbers/)\*\* ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/2 "2007-06-20T04:27:56Z")
Mine are mostly foldered, so I’ll go down the folder titles, then the first 10 bookmarks in order: First 10 Folders: **Politics Message Boards Journals Bears/Chubs Pokemon Games MiSTings !! Weight Watchers Comics** First 10 bookmarks: [Talking Points Memo](http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/) [Think Progress](http://thinkprogress.org/) [Daily Kos](http://www.dailykos.com/) [Slate](http://www.slate.com/) [Crooks & Liars](http://www.crooksandliars.com/) [Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?) [Snopes Message Board](http://message.snopes.com/index.php) [The Fabulous Forums of Fathom](http://fff.fathom.org/forums/) [Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board](http://www.bautforum.com/) [Etiquette Hell](http://www.etiquettehell.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/3 "2007-06-20T04:29:25Z")
Ah, folders… I should look into that. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/4 "2007-06-20T04:31:48Z")
My God…if I didn’t have folders, I’d NEVER be able to find anything without scrolling for days. I have to have at least a couple of hundred bookmarks… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/5 "2007-06-20T04:35:09Z")
As with others, I have folders, but I use Firefox and have that row of…ummm…“quick bookmars”(?) underneath the address bar, so I’ll list the first ten of those: Penny Arcade The Straightdope Something Awful LiveJournal Photobucket Pandora (never use that one…probably should change it to something else) Wikipedia [a bit torrent site who’s name I won’t name] My school webmail site (I have sense started to use Outlook for that, so I should remove that one too) Hack A Day ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/6 "2007-06-20T04:40:57Z")
My top 10 are: -American Quarter Horse Association -gMail -LiveJournal -Straight Dope Message Board -RockFic -Echoing The Sound (NiN message board) -The Spiral (NiN message board) -Poor Posting Me (Metallica Fan Club message board) -Def Leppard official site -Pleasurehorse.com ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/7 "2007-06-20T04:41:12Z")
sffworld (SF & fantasy message board) The Unaboard The Dope Amazon/books Shocklines (horror-related message board) Local TV station/weather --kcci.com if anyone’s interested in central Iowa happenings Local newspaper (I check the obits every day\_ [The House Next Door](https://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/) – Matt Zoeller Seitz’s blog, for his take on the HBO shows [My little book message board](http://booktalk.yourbb.eu) ---
**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:** [June 20, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/8 "2007-06-20T05:15:11Z")
My home page: [BBC News](http://news.bbc.co.uk/) The SDMB of course [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) [Internet Movie Database](http://www.imdb.com/) [Google](http://www.google.com/) [Google Maps](http://maps.google.com/) [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com) [SpellCheck](http://www.spellcheck.net/) [MeeVee](http://www.meevee.com) [Library Thing](http://www.librarything.com/) [Arts & Letter Daily](http://www.aldaily.com/) [Viral Videos](http://www.funnyplace.org/index.php) ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/9 "2007-06-20T05:32:52Z")
My newly created iGoogle page is at least 20 pages in one as far as pertinent info goes (I can check all three of my webmail accounts on just one tab), but my top 10 in order of appearance (minus those covered by iGoogle) are: [www.break.com](http://www.break.com) > **[Dropout - Independent, ad-free, uncensored comedy](https://signup.dropout.tv/)** > > Independent, ad-free, uncensored comedy. Watch new episodes of Dimension 20, Um, Actually, Game Changer every week. [www.ebaumsworld.com](http://www.ebaumsworld.com) (seems redundant given the first two, especially because the first two seem to get the content first) [www.drudgereport.com](http://www.drudgereport.com) ([cnn.com](http://cnn.com) is on my iGoogle) [www.rotten.com/news/](http://www.rotten.com/news/) (great site for international news that leans towards the, um, odd and disgusting) [http://us.imdb.com/](http://us.imdb.com/) (best movie info site ever) [http://www.lifehacker.com/](http://www.lifehacker.com/) (GREAT site for computer info as well as general life tips) [http://www.dumblittleman.com/](http://www.dumblittleman.com/) (Awesome site for life tips as well as computer tips) [www.netflix.com](http://www.netflix.com) [www.theonion.com](http://www.theonion.com) I guess that’s my top ten as far as my bookmarks go, they are kind of organized by frequency of usage, but RSS feeds, and my mood dictate which sites are my actual top ten at the moment. If I’m feeling flighty, I have numerous tabs open and just CTRL-Tab through all the sites I feel like checking repeatedly. I feel that I need to mention [www.gasbuddy.com](http://www.gasbuddy.com) because it has sites that service many communities/cities/etc. I implore all of you to use such sites as it is our only means of uniting and supporting stations that try to supply the best fuel prices. I suppose I should add the iGoogle sites that I get feeds from to complete this list, perhaps in a few minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/10 "2007-06-20T05:36:34Z")
I’m foldered, too - I’ll go with **jayjay** ’s method: **Food/Cooking** : [Chowhound](http://www.chowhound.com) I’m Queen Bruin here, there, and everywhere. **Funny Shit** (yes I have a folder for this): [2001: A BOFH Odyssey](http://www.theregister.com/2002/05/11/2001_a_bofh_odyssey/) **Gaming** : [Morrowind Quest Factions](http://morrowind.ttlg.com/spoiler/TOC_quests.shtml) **Stuff to Buy** (biggest folder - my big wish list): [Jamie Cassavoy](http://www.guild.com/artist/6376.html). I really love her work. **References** : [Domesday Book](http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/) **Classics Stuff** : [Platner and Ashby’s _Topographical Dictionary of Rome_](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0054;query=toc;layout=;loc=) on Perseus. **Interesting Miscellany** : [Spy Numbers](http://www.spynumbers.com/index.html) **Motorcycling** : [California Motorcycle Roads & Tours](http://www.pashnit.com/motoroads.htm) **Unfoldered** : A recent [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/06/17/illegal.deportation.ap/index.html) link to an issue around my home and the [California Women’s Law Center](http://www.cwlc.org/). I need more folders. I have a bunch of junk on my firefox toolbar (SDMB is one of course) but I doubt anyone’s interested in MyUCLA or the other web portals I use for school, which is the bulk of it. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/11 "2007-06-20T05:41:26Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] [Library Thing](http://www.librarything.com/) [/QUOTE] This is brilliant. I know what I’m doing this week. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/12 "2007-06-20T05:43:52Z")
My kid’s school site Doonesbury@slate Early Christian Writings Early Jewish Writings Internet Infidels Christian Origins Mapquest SDMB Blue Letter Bible > **[National and Local Weather Radar, Daily Forecast, Hurricane and information...](https://weather.com/)** > > The Weather Channel and weather.com provide a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/13 "2007-06-20T05:43:59Z")
[cnn.com](http://cnn.com) > **[Reuters | Breaking International News & Views](https://www.reuters.com/)** > > Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage. [thefreedictionary.com](http://thefreedictionary.com) (word of the day) [news.google.com](http://news.google.com) (top stories) Tools for: Translation (Babelfish) Reference (Wikipedia) Mapping (Google Maps) Spellcheck ([openinventions.com](http://openinventions.com), although Firefox does it for me automatically) Daily Feeds for: > **[HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!](https://www.howstuffworks.com/)** > > HowStuffWorks has been explaining how things work to curious minds since 1998. Providing factual, unbiased content that's fun to read and makes difficult topics easy to understand. > **[The Smoking Gun: Public Documents, Mug Shots](http://thesmokinggun.com)** > > Public Documents, Mug Shots NPR: All Things Considered NPR: News [www-coolest-gadgets.com](http://www-coolest-gadgets.com) Plus, several gadgets that give me lame local info, and other menial stuff. [www.netvibes.com](http://www.netvibes.com) is cooler, but I’ve yet to delve into that. These are the items I have active on my iGoogle page, I should have said that first. ---
**Author:** ![Alistair\_McCello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Alistair\_McCello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alistair_McCello)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/14 "2007-06-20T05:53:31Z")
Mine are almost all in folders as well, the five folders I have followed by the next five bookmarks: **Marx** (a bunch of essays written by Karl Marx) **Art** (Some of my favorite artists’ sites) **Forums** **Comics** **Articles** (blogs and what not) **Facebook** **Rhymezone** **Online Etymology Dictionary** **Thomas Jefferson, on Aristocracy - letter to John Adams** **Foreign Affairs - How to Win in Iraq - Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.** ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/15 "2007-06-20T07:59:40Z")
Google Wikipedia SDMB Drudge Report CNN CBC Newsworld YouTube Amazon > **[Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words](https://www.dictionary.com/)** > > The world's leading online dictionary: English definitions, synonyms, word origins, example sentences, word games, and more. A trusted authority for 25+ years! Mapquest ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/16 "2007-06-20T08:07:40Z")
Mine are in folders, which are in alphabetical order, as are the items in each folder. No, I do not have OCD! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/17 "2007-06-20T09:53:19Z")
A javascript word counter (I was using it for Script Frenzy before they put their word count verifier online.) Lililicious (a manga scanlation group, devoted to yuri manga) My Last.fm dashboard YouTube Live Journal The SDMB A small message board I’m on Script Frenzy snopes The Powepuff Girl Z message board I read ---
**Author:** ![Quinterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e56c9b/32.png) [@Quinterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quinterra)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/18 "2007-06-20T10:24:26Z")
I have folders then some random site I haven’t filed. First 10 Folders: 1. Anime 2. Authors&Books 3.Bed&Breakfasts 4.Business 3. Comedy 4. Enterainment 5. Games 6. Journals 7. Links 8. Stores First 10 Bookmarks 1. [Createblog.com](http://Createblog.com) 2. Minneapolis.edu 3. [Myspace.com](http://Myspace.com) 4. [Paperbackswap.com](http://Paperbackswap.com) 5. [WebMD.com](http://WebMD.com) 6. [Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com) 7. [Askmen.com](http://Askmen.com) 8. [Straightdope.com](http://Straightdope.com) 9. [Beautifulagony.com](http://Beautifulagony.com) 10. [Consumating.com](http://Consumating.com) ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/19 "2007-06-20T10:54:15Z")
Hmmm…a lot of my bookmarks are sites that have already been mentioned, including the SDMB, so I’ll go for 10 that haven’t been listed yet (I don’t think…): 1. My home page is my own [protopage](http://www.protopage.com/). Lets me keep my bookmarks where I can get to them from anywhere. Thanks to the Doper who shared this in a previous thread. 2. Link to one of our local public radio stations, [WCBE](http://www.wcbe.org/). I use it to get to NPR, PRI, BBC and Amazon. They stream their programming, so I can listen if I’m far away, too. 3. [Bloom County](http://news.yahoo.com/comics/bloomcounty) 4. [Sacred Space](http://www.sacredspace.ie/) - meditation site created by Irish Jesuits. 5. [Original Signal](http://buzz.originalsignal.com/) gets you to a lot of news aggregators and other interesting sites (Newsvine, Digg, metafilter, 43 folders, Techcrunch, Lifehacker, etc). Here’s their [front page](http://www.originalsignal.com/), which isn’t where I start. 6. [Simply recipes](http://www.elise.com/recipes/) One of several food blogs I periodically browse through… 7. [Journalism.org (the Project for Excellence in Journalism)](http://www.journalism.org/) 8. [ABYZ](http://www.abyznewslinks.com/) news links to everywhere… 9. [Bubbleshare](http://www.bubbleshare.com/new) photo sharing site 10. [30 boxes](http://30boxes.com/) on-line calendar app GT ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677/20 "2007-06-20T13:59:11Z")
Mine are listed in a thread I started several months ago called [By their links shall ye know them.](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=411502) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-first-ten-bookmarks/408677.md?page=2)