What does your click look like?

[CharleyH]

I have a lot of bookmarks, all divided into neat little packages like a filing system, but I have very few "personal" bookmarks (Lit aside). We often discuss TV and film and even books, but rarely do we discuss internet sites that we visit regularly and lets face it, we happen to be Internet junkies so we probably visit a "few".

I thought it might be fun and maybe even informative to share our top five sites to visit. Here are mine:

The Onion I have been an addict for at least four years and counting. It's a site you love or love to hate.

Suicide Girls No trekkie can resist a Wil Wheaton blog. lol Albeit, there's much more fascinating here and besides it's just fucking cool pop culture site.

Erotica Readers & Writers Association For many obvious reasons.

Words Without Borders It's an amazingly cool concept, not to mention a broadening experience.

My fifth is obviously a BSG site, so I won't bother posting it since any fan probably visits already and those who don't probably never will. I am totally interested in your top five, as I'm sure others are, so please share! (and don't forget to post links).

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Ok I can't go a day without Boing Boing for the geek news slant of things, and book reviews and well I have a geek crush on Xeni.

I am also hooked on a daily dose of Instructables.com for the cool ideas that people have come up with for making different things. Some of them are lame ass but some are just awe inspiring.

A new addition to my addiction is Looking Real Good a celebration of the beauty of ordinary people.

and my web comics Sinfest, Least I Could Do, Questionable Content

I use to be big fans of Sluggyfreelance ( sluggy.com ) and GPF Comics ( gpf-comics.com ) and Angst Technologies ( inktank.com ) but the lives of the artists have taken sharp turns and they are not producing as quickly as I consume, though I admire them greatly. (Shout outs to Pete, Jeff, and Berry if you are reading this)

 

[CharleyH]

Ok I can't go a day without Boing Boing for the geek news slant of things, and book reviews and well I have a geek crush on Xeni.

I am also hooked on a daily dose of Instructables.com for the cool ideas that people have come up with for making different things. Some of them are lame ass but some are just awe inspiring.

A new addition to my addiction is Looking Real Good a celebration of the beauty of ordinary people.

and my web comics Sinfest, Least I Could Do, Questionable Content

I use to be big fans of Sluggyfreelance ( sluggy.com ) and GPF Comics ( gpf-comics.com ) and Angst Technologies ( inktank.com ) but the lives of the artists have taken sharp turns and they are not producing as quickly as I consume, though I admire them greatly. (Shout outs to Pete, Jeff, and Berry if you are reading this)

I immediately know one person who will LOVE Instructables.com and I personally love the promo, "step-by-step instructions for making things you never knew you wanted”.

lol - Thanks Mr. Hardon, I will have to explore the rest more thoroughly.

 

[cloudy]

Soul Food Cafe - a writing site

Fazed - a kinda cool collection of links

Etsy - like ebay, but for handmade items only (some really cool jewelry)

Cartoon Laws of Physics

Language is a virus - more writing stuff

I used to have one called Quixotic Crap that I loved, but I'm getting an error now when I go there, damn it.

 

[Liar]

My top three are Lit and two Swedish musician communities. Other than that, I think there are only three sites that gets regular visits.

Fark - best site on the net for stupid news, stupid banter about stupid news, and stupid inside joles about the stupid banter about the stupid news.

Slahdot gets a visit if not daily so at least bi-daily. Because, you know, there lives a little nerd inside of me and I have to feed it once in a while, or it will chew on my spleen.

And I'm forever a weebl fan. Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger....

 

[CharleyH]

I used to have one called Quixotic Crap that I loved, but I'm getting an error now when I go there, damn it.

Thanks love, yet DAMN this one sounds interesting.

 

[cloudy]

Thanks love, yet DAMN this one sounds interesting.

here's the cached page

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

here's the cached page

way too cool!

 

[CharleyH]

here's the cached page

Thanks, sweets.

 

[Guest]

Used to be, when you walked into someone's apartment for the first time, you could gain insight into them by scanning their bookshelves. Now, I'd want to see their bookmarks.

Mine have all my areas of interest in them.

A couple others might not know about:

The superfluous side of me : TV Squad , WeSmirch

More serious : Ikea Hacker, , Mirabilis (Archaelogy and other things), Lifehacker ,

 

[starrkers]

Ok I can't go a day without Boing Boing for the geek news slant of things, and book reviews and well I have a geek crush on Xeni.

I am also hooked on a daily dose of Instructables.com for the cool ideas that people have come up with for making different things. Some of them are lame ass but some are just awe inspiring.

A new addition to my addiction is Looking Real Good a celebration of the beauty of ordinary people.

and my web comics Sinfest, Least I Could Do, Questionable Content

I use to be big fans of Sluggyfreelance ( sluggy.com ) and GPF Comics ( gpf-comics.com ) and Angst Technologies ( inktank.com ) but the lives of the artists have taken sharp turns and they are not producing as quickly as I consume, though I admire them greatly. (Shout outs to Pete, Jeff, and Berry if you are reading this)

Sinfest!!! Yay! somewhere along the line I lost Sinfest off my bookmarks... it's back now

Mine are all boring: the weather, the newspaper, a TV fan site, a flash games site

 

[fcdc]

Alden.nu's Writer's Resources - Amazingly exhaustive list.

My law school's website.

AllRecipes and Epicurious, two cooking sites - I'm easily bored with cooking the same thing, and willing to experiment with food. These sites help that. (Bonus for AllRecipes' ingredient search for when I have, say, cornflakes, iced tea, and pickles in the house and nothing else.)

Deb's Historical Research Page - enough resources here to kill you and/or help you write anything.

A folder full of interesting articles like this one, about an autistic savant, half for writing purposes and half because holy-crap-that's-weird.

The Straight Dope, because it's very interesting.

... so it goes...

 

[Nasha]

The Onion I have been an addict for at least four years and counting. It's a site you love or love to hate.

Love to love it! And the "Our Dumb Century" compendium is nicely distilled for maximum humor density, though sadly lacking a url, far as I know.

Suicide Girls No trekkie can resist a Wil Wheaton blog. lol Albeit, there's much more fascinating here and besides it's just fucking cool pop culture site.

No so good for pop culture, but if anyone's interesting in seeing boy skin as well as girl skin:

FatalBeauty
ManicJane

My five:

FAIR for a bit of reality check on the corporate media,

Worldpress for a glimpse of what's going on somewhere other than the U.S. and Iraq,

I Blame the Patriarchy, which I stumbled on accidentally while doing research for a story, and which, as it turns out, sometimes makes me pee my pants a little, the blogger's so wry,

Pandora to be fed my daily dose of familiar and unfamiliar music,

and wikipedia.

 

[shereads]

I found this small, precious gem - People Who Completely Lose It: Weatherman - by means of a random click at this library of oddities:

Gorilla Mask

There's The Onion, of course.

Salon for serious stuff.

AdWeak is only funny if you've spent too much time in ad agencies. Recently, I realized it's become less funny. (I work at home. Hallelujah!)

For smut with artistic license, I've heard good things about The Erotic Print Society. Personally, I find depictions of sexual congress distasteful. Unless the rubber leggings have two-way "thru" zippers.

I second Dr. M's recommendation of The Brick Testament, an illustrated Legos® Bible with lots of hot sex, plagues and curses.



Edited to add: Sleepy Spudgy

I visit the Spudge about once a month for twenty seconds of happiness.

 

[elsol]

www.foxes.com
www.sheernudes.com
www.usenetbinaries.com

Do I really need to say what they are?... Didn't think so.

 

[CharleyH]

Suicide Girls

What do you like about it? Interested.

Bump - mainly.

 

[Nasha]

What do you like about it? Interested.

These days, the only reason I'm likely to go the the SG site is to steal hairdo ideas. The content's just not that compelling, to me.

However, I do like the overall model of the site. I appreciate that the models get a chance to speak for themselves in their bios and blogs, though of course there are plenty of constraints on how they can express themselves. That stands in striking contrast to the gazillion porn sites that talk about the models in language like, "These skanky hoes can't wait to..."

I think SG makes much of embracing a more diverse notion of beauty, but I'm not so convinced they really do that. Fine, those girls aren't going to be Playboy centerfolds (though, ironically, I believe Playboy is now involved in SG, financially), so SG is a forum where pierced, tattooed women can display their "beauty." But it's still page after page of skinny white women in their teens and early twenties, with few exceptions.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

I would love to find either a flikr set or or a pandora system but for eye candy. I've recently been checking out the Looking real good for a celebration of the beauty of normal ordinary people.

I'd love to see more 30 and 40 year olds embracing that they can be stunning, not just skanks and hos or MILFs but that "yes I am beautiful, yes I can be hot, and I've learned enough to know how to make you thankful you ever met me" kind of attitude expressed in photos. I'd want to see more elegance and artistry not just zoom in on the pink bits. I want to see the art of the flirt and the tease make a resurgence.

Then again I am a hopeless romantic.

 

[jomar]

Jeez. Is it just me? Each day I see this thread I go "Whaaat?" What does my DICK look like??? The c and the l are sooo close together - gets me every time.