Here are my most frequented Web destinations, ordered alphabetically. Can anyone recommend some good sites of news analysis, kind of like weekly news magazines, only less rarefied than The New Yorker and less hebetated than Time and Newsweek? Particularly intelligent pop culture blogs and tech blogs.
Boingboing for weird, amusing and useless information.
Bookfinder for tracking down used books.
Boston.com for weather and local news.
Boundless for figuring out how the other [religious] half lives.
Craigslist for offloading and acquiring crap, also laughing at the Best Of.
Den of Angels for BJD blather.
Dictionary.com for, duh, a dictionary.
Ebay for buying and selling.
Fark for incredibly stupid news and amusing Photoshops.
Google for searching the Web [including Google Images and Google Books].
Half.com for buying used media.
I Can Has Cheezburger for LOLcats.
IMDB for movie information.
Livejournal for blogging.
Men With Dolls for 1:6 doll blather.
Neatorama for weird, amusing, etc.
The New York Times for news, reviews and the lifestyles of the rich & oblivious.
The Onion for satire.
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society for weird, amusing, etc.
Salon for reviews, commentary and train-wreckingly awful advice column, Since You Asked, by Cary Tennis.
Slant for extra-snarky movie reviews.
Slate for news.
The Stranger for Dan Savage’s column and the Slog [Stranger Blog].
Webmail on my own server for E-mail.
Wired for tech news.
Word Spy for new words.
Zone of Zen for BJD blather.
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Well, I’d say you need to add snopes.com’s Daily Snopes to the list, for just the weird and wacky news bits out there. As for pop culture and tech, I don’t know, but I do like The Sneeze, for random oddness, and Cockeyed.com for home-brewed science.
http://slumbering.lungfish.com/
Lore Sjoberg’s personal blog, with links to his humorous articles for Wired magazine as well as his Bad Gods humor project (not really a comic, as a recent entry was a limerick condensations of well-known literary works)