While reading this thread I wondered if y’all had gotten into the same kind of rut I have. I remember when getting online was an incredible adventure, where discovering things like The Straight Dope (from a hyperlink in Opera) happened A LOT.
SDMB
LJ
snarkpit
Homestar Runner
several news websites, mostly CNN
I don’t have any of these bookmarked because I know where they are anyway. My bookmarks are usually articles I want to show to someone else (I have one on febrile seizures for my mom and a few about stuff Bush did while he was governor for my dad) or merchandise I come across that I might want to purchase later.
Japanese Engrish. Photos of cases of hilariously butchered English on buildings, cars, clothing, and other assorted items, predominately in Japan but also elsewhere in the world.
Milk and Cookies . An archive of links to interesting, weird, and funny sites around the net. Great place to go when bored.
Five I must visit daily or suffer withdrawl symptoms:
The Straight Dope - Naturally Fark.com - It’s not news, but it’s the closest I get to it. Worth1000.com - Photoshop goodness Something Awful - Photoshop badness
The fifth will need to remain anonymous.
What it does is it takes the popular bookmarks added to del.icio.us and show them graphically. A little on the technical side, but that is because of the current makeup of the del.icio.us community. You find a lot of interesting sites there. Also the whole point of del.icio.us is that you can look at what other people have bookmarked and tagged. You can spend days surfing through sites that have been tagged as ‘cool’, ‘forums’ or ‘programming’. You can see who has specific sites like the SDMB bookmarked, and what other sites they have bookmarked as well.
I no longer use the bookmark function on my browser. I store all my bookmarks on del.icio.us, and surf them from work or home.
Ah, I miss the days when I first got online and would punch semi-random words into Google in the hope that the answer to the query I was making matched the answer to my original question. Found lots of interesting little Angelfire sites and the like.
Here. I could (and often do) spend hours trawling for tidbits.
Videogame Recaps. Kind of like Television Without Pity, but with videogames and penis jokes.
Godawful Fanfiction forums. A site devoted to making rude and funny comments about bad fanfics, bad fanart, and all things Godawful. Kind of like TWP and VGR, but anyone can join in. One of the relatively few forums on the net where everyone writes Standard English. Also, they have a vomit smily.
Something Awful, but although I have a forums account I never use it. It’s one of the busiest forums on the net and I just can’t keep up with it. I just stick to reading the features now.
Fanfiction.net. I read, I write, I review, and sometimes I even find a good fic all by myself.
The weekly “newsletter” has plenty of fun links, games, animations, and general weirdness. The photoshop challenge entries are usually cleverer than Fark or SA.
The message board is in a class by itself. It’s not really your usual “message” board – it’s more like the internet’s fridge door. “Look what I made!”
And because b3ta is more of a river of woo than a searchable database, www.glassco.cx – for searching b3ta.
