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These are the best websites on the internet.
This website is now updated @ Sweet Web Links
The Best of the Best
- StumbleUpon
- an incredibly useful, personalized browsing tool for discovering web sites. get it!
- YouTube Video
- for the best videos onlines, try Video Sift
alternative: Veoh: higher quality videos & a list of tv shows - Metafilter
- A directory of obscure and interesting articles and websites
related: Ask Metafilter
alternative: Fazed - do you like to read interesting articles and look at beautiful pictures?
alternative: Digg, a popular news site where the stories are chosen by community members - FFFFOUND
- images that people are bookmarking right now
related: delicious websites that people are bookmarking right now - Kongregate
- simply the best web games website ever
related: Chess dot com: sweet chess website - Damn Interesting
- a collection of articles about interesting ideas and events
click to view a random post - Story Log
- a place for nonfiction stories that are worth reading
- 3 Quarks Daily
- an online intellectual experience
related: The Edge World Question Center: simple amazing! - What I Learned Today
- a curious girl in a curious world
- Woot
- one amazing deal every day, starting at 1am EST
Stuff
Five Days (HBO Miniseries)
Amazon Price: $23.99 (as of 10/13/2008)
John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
Amazon Price: $36.99 (as of 10/13/2008)
Quality Websites
if you're going to waste time, waste it well
- Boing Boing
- a refreshing weblog about pop culture.
- Slashdot
- tech news site known for its quality discussion forums.
related: techcrunch. profiles and reviews new Internet products and companies. - Pandora
- free, personalized internet radio. I prefer it to iTunes
- High Quality Games
- free online games, made with an overall attention to quality and smooth design.
similar: casual gameplay: good reviews of flash games. - PostSecret
- anonymously contributed postcard secrets. shockingly honest
alternative: Unburdened.net: anonymous confessions - Engadget
- technology gadget tips and reviews.
similar: gizmodo - The Onion
- the most satirical fake news site on the internet.
- Wikipedia
- the best reference online: constantly updated & free. try a random ariticle
more: Science Daily: research news - xkcd
- a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
Calvin and Hobbes > XKCD > just about everything else - The New Yorker: Reporting
- well-written, insightful, and relevant articles every week.
similar: Story Log: nonfiction stories - YouMail
- a free (for now) voicemail service that allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID.
related: a review of youmail - One Sentence
- True stories, told in one sentence
- Neil Gaiman Journal
- the online journal of a famous English author
- NOTCOT.ORG
- Think you've seen it all?
- Lifehacker
- learn how to save time with software and technology, so you can get more done
- Cute Overload
- cute picutes of various small animals, everyday.
- MetaCritic
- compiled reviews of movies, music, tv shows, games, and books
similar: rotten tomatoes - Unspun
- thousands of lists on the best things in the universe
e.g. best original score for a feature film; top albums; best US city to live in; best movies of all time, favorite alcoholic beverage, etc.
Free Media
like paid media, except free
- Alluc.org
- thousands of tv shows and movies offered for free. enjoy!
the corporate alternative: hulu - StumbleVideo
- your personal video channel
- Peekvid
- a list of links to episodes of your favorite movies and tv shows. a very sweet website
- Insomnio
- a blog I like to look at from time to time
and: kottke and josh spear and gems sty - College Humor
- great videos, great community
related: Jake and Amir - Quality BitTorrent Websites
- a comparison of today's ten most used BitTorrent (p2p) websites
related: a guide to BitTorrent - Indecision 2008
- high quality videos of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
- Apple Movie Trailers
- the latest movie trailers
- Songza
- a beautifully designed music search engine
Ask Metafilter
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- 001- Crash
A 36-hour period in the diverse metropolis of post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles is the theme of this unflinc...- 002- The Departed
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the under...- 003- The Pursuit of Happyness
Will Smith (in an Oscar-nominated role) and his real-life son Jaden star in this tearjerker about a...- 004- Little Miss Sunshine
Convinced little Olive (Abigail Breslin) is beauty queen material, parents Richard (Greg Kinnear) an...- 005- Walk the Line
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poddys
Great lens. 5 ***** Posted March 11, 2008 |
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robbadoey
Great stuff! Keep of the awesome work! Posted December 31, 2007 |
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MyKidsInheritance
This lens is awesome -- provides a ton of info about very valuable tools. 5 stars! Posted September 03, 2007 |
