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.<\/p>\n
Boingboing<\/a> for weird, amusing and useless information.<\/p>\n Bookfinder<\/a> for tracking down used books.<\/p>\n Boston.com<\/a> for weather and local news.<\/p>\n Boundless<\/a> for figuring out how the other [religious] half lives.<\/p>\n Craigslist<\/a> for offloading and acquiring crap, also laughing at the Best Of.<\/p>\n Den of Angels<\/a> for BJD blather.<\/p>\n Dictionary.com<\/a> for, duh, a dictionary.<\/p>\n Ebay <\/a>for buying and selling.<\/p>\n Fark<\/a> for incredibly stupid news and amusing Photoshops.<\/p>\n Google<\/a> for searching the Web [including Google Images and Google Books].<\/p>\n Half.com<\/a> for buying used media.<\/p>\n I Can Has Cheezburger<\/a> for LOLcats.<\/p>\n IMDB<\/a> for movie information.<\/p>\n Livejournal<\/a> for blogging.<\/p>\n Men With Dolls<\/a> for 1:6 doll blather.<\/p>\n Neatorama<\/a> for weird, amusing, etc.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/a> for news, reviews and the lifestyles of the rich & oblivious.<\/p>\n The Onion<\/a> for satire.<\/p>\n Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society<\/a> for weird, amusing, etc.<\/p>\n Salon<\/a> for reviews, commentary and train-wreckingly awful advice column, Since You Asked, by Cary Tennis.<\/p>\n Slant<\/a> for extra-snarky movie reviews.<\/p>\n Slate<\/a> for news.<\/p>\n The Stranger<\/a> for Dan Savage’s column and the Slog [Stranger Blog].<\/p>\n Webmail on my own server for E-mail.<\/p>\n Wired<\/a> for tech news.<\/p>\n Word Spy<\/a> for new words.<\/p>\n Zone of Zen<\/a> for BJD blather.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. Amazon for finding out information about books. Boingboing for weird,… Continue reading MW’s frequently visited sites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}