# Your essential URLS **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2000, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420 "2000-07-13T10:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lunapark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/278dde/32.png) [@lunapark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunapark)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/21 "2000-07-14T16:45:34Z")
Thanks Erika for :[http://www.calvinandhobbes.com](http://www.calvinandhobbes.com) , best comic strip ever. i visit these on semi daily basis: here [http://www.jokeaday.com](http://www.jokeaday.com) [http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=lunapark@netzero.com](http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=lunapark@netzero.com) (crap i’m selling to try and scrape by) [http://www.hecklers.com](http://www.hecklers.com) ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/22 "2000-07-14T17:21:59Z")
The Diary of V on this site is great. > **[Anti Aging, Beauty, Fashion Under $100, Sex and Relationships - Redbook](https://www.redbookmag.com/)** > > Step inside the all-new REDBOOK! It's got even more of what you want: fashion deals, beauty tricks, weight-loss secrets, and ways to be happier — for less! I have wasted a **LOT** of time on this one. [WWW.ISHOULDBEWORKING.COM](http://WWW.ISHOULDBEWORKING.COM) > **[The Straight Dope – Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It’s taking longer than...](https://www.straightdope.com/)** > > Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It's taking longer than we thought.) > **[Ntrepid Managed Attribution Solutions](https://ntrepidcorp.com/)** > > Ntrepid provides managed attribution solutions for government to securely conduct OSINT operations in the most demanding online environments. [WWW.CUSTOMERSSUCK.COM](http://WWW.CUSTOMERSSUCK.COM) [WWW.ALTAVISTA.COM](http://WWW.ALTAVISTA.COM) ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/23 "2000-07-14T20:54:59Z")
[The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com) (what a shocker) [The Boondocks](http://www.boondocks.net) (home of the world’s coolest comic strip) [The Hunger Site](http://www.hungersite.com) [The official (Japanese) Dragonball Z website](http://www.toriyama.org/genkan/index.html), my current embarrassing obsession A variety of newspaper columnists and newspapapers, including: [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com) [The AP Wire](http://wire.ap.org/?FRONTID=HOME&SITE=NMALJ) [Molly Ivins](http://www.star-telegram.com/columnist/ivins2.htm) [The MoJo Wire](http://www.motherjones.com) and I love [Google](http://www.google.com) (Yes! I got the vB code right!) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/24 "2000-07-14T21:43:38Z")
My only dailies are here, of course, and [AltaVista](http://www.altavista.com). Weekly, there’s also the comic strips [The Dilbert Zone](http://www.dilbert.com) and [Fox Trot](http://www.foxtrot.com) Another one that I find essential is Harvard University’s [Astrophysical Data Service](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html). I don’t use it often, but when I do, I don’t know what I’d do without it. Hey, why is everybody looking at me like that… Surely, some of the rest of you occasionally use the Internet at work for, well, working, right? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/25 "2000-07-15T05:06:58Z")
Congradulations, zuma! You’ve created a thread that to date has more links than any other in recent history. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/26 "2000-07-15T08:35:10Z")
I do quite a bit of research for culinary school here on the web, so I couldn’t live without: > **[Encyclopedia Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/)** > > Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts. > **[Home](https://www.foodnetwork.com/)** [http://www.culinary.com](http://www.culinary.com) [food.epicurious.com](http://food.epicurious.com) for fun: [http://www.deananddeluca.com](http://www.deananddeluca.com) (to drool over new kitchen wares) [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) (of course) [http://www.kroq.com](http://www.kroq.com) (website of my favorite radio station–they keep the “best of” the morning show, that I usually miss–it’s worth pulling up some of their stuff) ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/27 "2000-07-15T09:10:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slythe \* > \*\*Congradulations, zuma! > You’ve created a thread that to date has more links than any other in recent history. 🙂 \*\* Haha… that wasn’t my intention, and as I said, others have posted this same subject before… but i’ve always found it a wonderful way to discover new links worthy of regular visits. ---
**Author:** ![Kiva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@Kiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiva)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2000, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/28 "2000-07-15T12:52:59Z")
Near Daily visits: [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) Of course. [http://www.lileks.com](http://www.lileks.com) [http://www.brunching.com](http://www.brunching.com) [http://www.baseballboards.com](http://www.baseballboards.com) [http://www.espn.com](http://www.espn.com) [http://www.foxsports.com](http://www.foxsports.com) Very Frequent visits: [http://www.skepdic.com](http://www.skepdic.com) > **[Home Page | Quackwatch](https://quackwatch.org/)** > > Quackwatch, which is operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D., is a network of Web sites and mailing lists maintained by the Center for Inquiry (CFI). The sites focus on health frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. Their main goal is to provide... [http://www.csicop.org](http://www.csicop.org) [http://www.realtor.com](http://www.realtor.com) > **[Sierra](https://www.sierra.com/)** > > Save More On Outdoor at Sierra . Value Starts Here. I trust you will visit each and every one of them, and cherish each site as much as I do. You’re very welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Soupy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Soupy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soupy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/29 "2000-07-16T07:53:59Z")
[http://my.yahoo.com/](http://my.yahoo.com/) (personal start page with local TV, movies, news, and my calendar) [http://www.winfiles.com](http://www.winfiles.com) (free software and shortcut tips) **[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4&daysprune=](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4&daysprune=) (I start right at MPSIMS)** [http://www.stonecarver.com/postcard.html](http://www.stonecarver.com/postcard.html) (gargoyle e-postcards) [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict](http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict) (multiple dictionaries) [http://x.com/](http://x.com/) (online banking) [http://www.zdnet.com/filters/community/forums/0,,6008769,00.html](http://www.zdnet.com/filters/community/forums/0,,6008769,00.html) (Ziff-Davis technical forums) [http://www.askjeeves.com/](http://www.askjeeves.com/) (search engine) [http://infoseek.go.com/find?pg=advanced\_www.html&ud9=advanced\_www](http://infoseek.go.com/find?pg=advanced_www.html&ud9=advanced_www) (advanced search) ---
**Author:** ![Soupy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Soupy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soupy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/30 "2000-07-16T07:57:31Z")
\*\*[http://www.zdnet.com/filters/community/forums/0,,6008769,00.html](http://www.zdnet.com/filters/community/forums/0,,6008769,00.html) (Ziff-Davis technical forums) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/31 "2000-07-16T08:16:56Z")
Here are some of mine that I can say: > **[Video Games Reviews & News - GameSpot](https://www.gamespot.com/)** > > GameSpot is the world's leading source for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS Vita, Wii, PC, 3DS, and DS video game news, reviews, previews, trailers, walkthroughs, and more. > **[Daily Stock Market Overview, Data Updates, Reports & News](https://www.nasdaq.com/)** www.analogx.com–Just to see what they come up with next. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/32 "2000-07-16T16:00:18Z")
Straight Dope, of course The Drudge Report [OILNERGY](http://www.oilnergy.com/) [Dogpile](http://www.dogpile.com/) [The Big Hub](http://www.thebighub.com/) [The Fabulous Forums of Fathom](http://fff.fathom.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro) [SamSpade](http://www.samspade.org/) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/33 "2000-07-18T14:51:52Z")
[www.stiffs.com](http://www.stiffs.com) ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/34 "2000-07-18T20:01:51Z")
[http://us.imdb.com](http://us.imdb.com) [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) [http://www.iwin.com](http://www.iwin.com) [http://www.entropy8zuper.org](http://www.entropy8zuper.org) [http://www.excite.com](http://www.excite.com) (just for the personalized info) ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/35 "2000-07-18T21:00:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kasuo \* > \*\*\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > “Flutter away little butterfly, just flutter away.” \*\* “If I were you, I’d run!” “If you were me, you’d be good-looking!” That was such a crappy movie… Yeah, I’m afraid everybody else has gotten there first, picking out my daily sites like Dilbert, eBay, Snopes, The Onion (actually, that’s a weekly fave - only on Wednesdays!), and of course, the fountain of all that is true and good, the Straight Dope. … but I also read [Robotman](http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/robotman/ab.html) and [General Protection Fault](http://www.gpf-comics.com/) (no GPF on Sundays, though) every day, and check [Bartertown](http://www.bartertown.org/) just in case there’s something I absolutely can’t live without. Believe it or not, [aol.com](http://www.aol.com/) isn’t a bad place to go for news or stock quotes, plus, I can check my mail there when I’m away from home. * * * Pete Long time RGMWer and ardent AOLer ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/36 "2000-07-18T21:23:58Z")
Well here are mine > **[The Straight Dope – Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It’s taking longer than...](https://www.straightdope.com)** > > Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It's taking longer than we thought.) > **[The Digital Bits - Home](https://thedigitalbits.com/)** > > The Digital Bits is the Internet’s leading source for DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and 4K Ultra HD industry news, reviews, analysis, and expertise. Founded in 1997, it’s THE place for cinephiles to celebrate their love of film. > **[News from California, the nation and world - Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/)** > **[ESPN: Serving sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere.](https://www.espn.com/)** > > Visit ESPN to get up-to-the-minute sports news coverage, scores, highlights and commentary for NFL, MLB, NBA, College Football, NCAA Basketball and more. > **[Yahoo Finance - Stock Market Live, Quotes, Business & Finance News](https://finance.yahoo.com)** > > At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life. > **[The Onion | America's Finest News Source.](https://www.theonion.com/)** > > The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source. [http://freerealtime.com](http://freerealtime.com) [http://my.yahoo.com](http://my.yahoo.com) fallen off > **[RagingBull | Improve Your Trading Skills](https://ragingbull.com/)** > > Want to learn trading tips and secrets? If so, look no further than RagingBull- a perfect platform for both experienced traders and newbies. Learn to profit from troubled market conditions. > **[The Motley Fool](https://www.fool.com/)** > > The Motley Fool has been providing investing insights and financial advice to millions of people for over 25 years. Learn how we make the world Smarter, Happier & Richer. BTW, I noticed almost everyone forgot to put my website on their list. An excusable oversight I am sure 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/37 "2000-07-19T17:54:11Z")
Sites I hang at: [li]Here ( [http://www.straghtdope.com](http://www.straghtdope.com) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb) )[/li][li]The Modern Humorist ( [http://www.modernhumorist.com](http://www.modernhumorist.com) ). I was first hooked on [Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Death Row Dubya](http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0007/encyc_gw/index.cfm)[/li] [li]Salon ( [http://www.salon.com](http://www.salon.com) )[/li][li]The Tri-eFF ( [http://fff.fathom.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi](http://fff.fathom.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi) )[/li][http://scifi.ign.com](http://scifi.ign.com) [li][Bored.com](http://Bored.com) ( [http://www.bored.com](http://www.bored.com) )[/li][li]TV Barn ( [http://www.tvbarn.com](http://www.tvbarn.com) )[/li][li]The Washington Post ( [http://www.wpni.com](http://www.wpni.com) )[/li][li]The LA Times ( [http://www.latimes.com](http://www.latimes.com) )[/li][li]Molly Ivins @ the Fort Worth [Star & Telegram](http://www.star-telegram.com/columnist/ivins2.htm)[/li][li]Various conservative news sites ([WorldNet Daily](http://www.wnd.com), [NewsMax](http://www.newsmax.com), [Fox](http://www.foxnews.com))[/li][li]Rebuttal ([MoJo](http://www.motherjones.com), [The New Republic](http://www.tnr.com))[/li][li]EX ( [http://www.ex.org](http://www.ex.org) )[/li]and the newsgroups ( [http://www.deja.com/usenet](http://www.deja.com/usenet) ) ---
**Author:** ![D.Lerious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@D.Lerious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.Lerious)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/38 "2000-07-20T02:33:38Z")
The sites I go to most are: [Trekbbs.com](http://Trekbbs.com), [solareclipse.net](http://solareclipse.net), and one or two others, whose addresses i’m too lazy to look up at the moment. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![greatsatan666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@greatsatan666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greatsatan666)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/39 "2000-08-09T00:29:29Z")
::hauls out backhoe:: All my dailies except [hackernews.com](http://www.hackernews.com) were mentioned. Hackernews has a nice 5 minute run down of security and hacking related news. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2000, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420/40 "2000-08-09T05:06:23Z")
> **[The Straight Dope – Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It’s taking longer than...](https://www.straightdope.com)** > > Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It's taking longer than we thought.) [http://www.infidels.org](http://www.infidels.org) > **[Outlook – free personal email and calendar from Microsoft](https://outlook.live.com/owa/)** > > Get free Outlook email and calendar, plus Office Online apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Sign in to access your Outlook, Hotmail or Live email account. > **[The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos](https://www.nytimes.com)** > > Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, politics, business, technology, science, health, arts,... > **[The latest from the StarTribune](https://www.startribune.com/)** > > Follow the StarTribune for the news, photos and videos from the Twin Cities and beyond. [http://www.wired.com](http://www.wired.com) > **[The Onion | America's Finest News Source.](https://www.theonion.com/)** > > The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source. [http://www.backlash.com](http://www.backlash.com) > **[Home](https://web.randi.org)** > > JREF > **[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters](https://slashdot.org/)** > > Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues. > **[Home](https://www.atheists.org/)** > > \[vc\_row full\_width=”stretch\_row” full\_height=”yes” parallax=”content-moving” parallax\_image=”11400″ disable\_element=”yes” el\_class=”padding-tb45″\]\[vc\_column width=”1/2″\]\[vc\_column\_text\]PROJECT BLITZ Christian Nationalism is on the Rise... And my own of course, [http://misfitmagazine.tripod.com/index.html](http://misfitmagazine.tripod.com/index.html) (yes, I visit these daily or at least 6 days a week … I don’t get out much) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-essential-urls/25420.md?page=3)