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Title: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Matthew_S on July 31, 2009, 09:46:45 AM

Please share the websites you visit daily that are not as well known as you feel they should be.

So not Slate or HuffingtonPost, for example, but

http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/  (movies, and some tv, criticism)

http://www.seriouseats.com/ (food blog, probably actually is well known to those interested, but also includes Slice, all about pizza and
A Hamburger Today)

http://www.wisebread.com/ (personal finance + frugality)

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: yesno on July 31, 2009, 10:49:58 AM

I don't technically visit these since they're just in my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) and I only go to them when they're updated.  BUT

http://www.acontinuouslean.com/

Clothes and things

http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/

Guys mostly gives quotes from the insane number of classics he reads, and talks about underappreciated tropes (old men planting trees as a sign of wisdom)

http://www.kottke.org

I've been reading Jason Kottke for more than 10 years.  He infuriates me with his love of Malcom Gladwell and shit music but he's still better at the Internet than anyone.

http://www.themorningnews.org/

And especially their headline feature.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: chrisfoll577 on July 31, 2009, 11:47:15 AM

Jinni (http://www.jinni.com/home.html)

Basically like Pandora for movies.

Atdhe.net (http://atdhe.net/)

Great index of illegal internet streams of sporting events.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Sarah on July 31, 2009, 11:51:17 AM

http://www.c-town.us/chinatown/index.php (http://www.c-town.us/chinatown/index.php)  (HA!)

http://www.themudflats.net/ (http://www.themudflats.net/)  (Alaskan political blog)

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Regular Joe on July 31, 2009, 06:13:50 PM

Can I just share my google reader feed? There is so much.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: dave from knoxville on July 31, 2009, 09:48:08 PM

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html


Also, is this cheating?


http://gaughin.edublogs.org/

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: wwwes on August 01, 2009, 12:30:37 AM

http://www.joshreads.com
The Comics Curmudgeon - Making fun of Mary Worth for about five years now.

http://www.xkcd.com
Best and nerdiest internet comic ever.

http://www.motleymoose.com
Great source for real and thoughtful political discourse without the hatred, zealotry and trolling.

http://www.amazon.com
A very good source where you can buy books and CDs at good prices.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: buffcoat on August 01, 2009, 11:47:46 AM

The 90s Internet cartoon that utterly destroyed my sense of right and wrong:

http://www.subvulture.com/spacemoose/


I second the Comics Curmudgeon.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Matt on August 01, 2009, 01:42:24 PM

http://www.avoidthisjob.com/

A PFT-endorsed round-up and deconstruction of craigslist job postings. Funny stuff.

http://thesecondpass.com/

Book reviews, features, etc.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Regular Joe on August 01, 2009, 07:03:12 PM

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com

Making fun of terrible photoshop work.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Bryan on August 03, 2009, 01:55:11 PM

I certainly don't visit daily, but I usually check in on Mondays, when www.kunstler.com publishes a new Clusterfuck Nation column. James Kunstler writes about peak oil, the environment and the economy. He's very repetitive, and I've got some reservations about his tone, and some of his politics, but I basically think he's right on the money about the way the future will look.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Christina on August 03, 2009, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: Regular Joe on August 01, 2009, 07:03:12 PM

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com

Making fun of terrible photoshop work.

I love this site - I wish there were more updates.

I like this one:

http://tofuttibreak.tumblr.com/ (http://tofuttibreak.tumblr.com/)

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: betheboy on August 03, 2009, 05:48:44 PM

I've lately been pleased with James Urbaniak of Venture Brothers fame. Both is Twitter feed http://twitter.com/JamesUrbaniak/ and his blog http://urbaniak.livejournal.com/

You guys probably already know that one but here is one that may be new to you http://westwhim.com/ I have exchanged an email with the person behind this one but I don't know them personally.  It's a nice collection of personal artifacts, found items and links to cool stuff.  

Finally, this guy is a friend of mine and I could be biased but I think he's quite amusing http://jasonpermenter.com/ he also looks like he could be related to me and I continue to remind him that he's an FOT waiting to happen.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Martin on August 03, 2009, 05:53:27 PM

Quote from: Auntie Christina on August 03, 2009, 02:33:20 PM

Quote from: Regular Joe on August 01, 2009, 07:03:12 PM

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com

Making fun of terrible photoshop work.

I love this site - I wish there were more updates.

I like this one:

http://tofuttibreak.tumblr.com/ (http://tofuttibreak.tumblr.com/)

Yes! Me too.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: buffcoat on August 03, 2009, 05:59:06 PM

Rest in peace, dear old friends.

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: Steve of Bloomington on August 03, 2009, 10:08:30 PM

http://loronix.blogspot.com/

It's about Brazilian music

http://www.synthtopia.com

supposedly just about synths but frequently there are interesting videos of bizarre 50s robots or vocoders or whatever

http://thedailywtf.com/

(worse than failure) - tales of tech horrors, only probably enjoyable to tech people

http://icelandweatherreport.com/

About life in Iceland. Nice pictures and stuff.

http://failblog.org/

Pictures of stuff failing

Title: Re: Websites you visit daily that are unknown (or under-known?) to others
Post by: moonshake on August 04, 2009, 01:15:18 AM

An oldie but goldie- http://www.cockeyed.com/