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The most useful sites on the Internet:
- Plastic is possibly the only website you need.
- Tim Blair, one of the sharpest writers around has started a weblog
- The New Yorks Times obituary page is the best in the world.
- Crikey is always good for a read.
- Audiogalaxy is where people go for free music since Napster died.
- There have been three major crazes on the net. The first was Mahir the Turkish guy, the forgettable All Your Base Are Belong To Us and now the tourist guy.
- Netmind keeps track of websites and lets you know when they change.
- Goats is the best cartoon on the web.
- Google is the web's best search engine.
- The International Herald Tribune is a beautifully designed newspaper website.
- A nice line of demotivational posters
- Salon.com is highly rated.
- Blogging is all the rage at present, perhaps it will replace journalism.
- Boing Boing is sort of a blog, but it's ok.
- The Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction writing contest.
A miscellany of worthy items
- Melvin, the Human Blockhead, is dead. Red his obituaries here and here. "He was not just a good, but a great, human blockhead. He was a freak and was proud of that too."
- George W Bush is still a turd and an idiot. check the last few pars for viciousness.
- Robert McG. Thomas Jr was the king of the obit
- E! reports the sad death of Hank, the Angry Drunken Dwarf.
- An interesting review of US policy in Rwanda
- This sheila has no idea about Australian slang. But it's funny how stupid she is.
- How Microsoft faked public outrage.
- I thought it was just me, but those unwatchable American movies actually are propaganda. Forgive me for becoming even more cynical about the world.
- Some good tips on surviving a midair aircraft explosion.
- America's most famous deadshit clown, poor bastard can't get a fair go.
- If you're into topless fire-breathing transvestite construction workers, man, have we got a girl for you!
- Hunter S. Thompson's obituary for Richard Nixon is a brilliant piece of writing.
- A clever man is teaching a computer to think.
- Seeking to eliminate the tyranny of comfort.
- I wish I'd thought of this. Cunning teenage girls are using their webcams for fun and profit.
- By general agreement, this is a poorly-informed article on beards.
- People who cut off healthy limbs for kicks are bound to be interesting
- The rightly famous (in)competence study
- The seven habits of perennially celibate men
- Beware the attack of Bridezilla!
For the best reference sites, click here:
- The New York Times' reference page for journalists
- Refdesk is the best and most comprehensive Reference site on the web
- The CIA's World Factbook is probably the best free reference work on the web.
- The Java world clock
- How Stuff Works is quite useful and often topical.
- The Urban Legend reference page
- World maps reference.
- The Reporter's Desktop is useful for it's news archive searches.
- The Paperboy makes it easy to track down any newspaper in the world with a web presence.
- A guide to Internet sources for Australian journalists.
- Another guide for Australian journalists.
- An Australian gazetteer.
- A reasonable online translator.
- All of the world's big roadside attractions are listed here.
- The old Moodyloners site.
Time wasters
- The most excellent Centre for the Easily Amused.
- Bored.com invented the genre.
- Ad Critic videos to help the hours slip by - make sure you're got a fast connection though.
- Joe Cartoon is the patron saint of nutters.
- Tailgunner is a time waster for sure.
- A trawl through the personals is a good way to kill time.
- Hysterical history is quoted all the time on the web.
- The infamous Marble game helps those hours just zip by.
- I'm not sure who Paul T Ridell is, but he writes well and is rather prolific.
Top journalism sites
- Editor and Publisher: good on ethics and old media.
- The Online Journalism Review is an excellent source for online journalists.
- The Columbia Journalism Review is also excellent, but very US centered.
- Some interesting quotes about journalism.
- The Poynter Institute's copy editing resource page
If you want to piss yourself laughing, visit these:
- TV Go Home: The funniest site on the internet. And hopefully won't close soon.
- The Brains Trust is usually about the best of the satirical sites.
- Dave Barry is the world's greatest humour writer.
- A pointed take on the Harry Potter phenomenon.
- The classic Bert is Evil shows the dark side to this complex Muppet.
- Guru Adrian has some nice touches.
- Newspig is clever, but doesn't seem to get updated that often.
- The Bladder is an excellent Australian sports satire site.
- Satirewire is dazzlingly witty.
- The excellent Museum of Depressionist Art.
- Herd of Sheep is often good for a laugh.
- The Onion is often, but not always, funny.
- The Satyr is funny on a good day.
- Chickenhead is a good source for funny banner ads.
- The Dialectizer lets you convert webpages into various 'dialects'.
- The official Paper, Scissors, Rock strategy guide.
- T-Shirt Hell has some excellently amusing merchandise.
- Modern Humourist's MP3 t-shirt sums up my thoughts rather well.
- All of the world's dirty limericks seem to be here.
- Modern Humourist is good for some light relief.
If you want the weirdest of the web, click here:
- Dancing Paul won a Webby, well done, well done.
- Roadkill Bill a comic about an oft-flattened rodent.
- This Peter Pan bloke is a bloody worry.
- All you need to know about dead row inmates's final meals.
- Could just be me, but even the last statement of a condemned man is interesting.
- Fat Chicks in Party Hats is not terribly politically correct.
- The official All Your Base Are Belong To Us site.
- Anyone for Nipguards?
- Men who look like Kenny Rogers.
- The Alliance of Black Lesbian Jewish Vegetarian Dwarfs.
- Amish Heat has the genre all to itself.
- This guy might be a dwarf who rents himself out, I can't tell.
- The mighty Spud Cannon webring.
- Am I Hot or Not? - premium quality Internet weirdness.
- Furniture porn is decidely tasteless.
- A women's guide to peeing standing up, and please leave the seat up
If you want the best html resources on the web, click here:
- A good quick guide to basic HTML tags.
- An excellent Dynamic HTML reference.
- Beseen's guestbook is a useful addition to a site.
- How to put a 'Favicon' on your site important for webmasters seeking to stand out.
- Michele's Web has just about everything useful for making a simple site.
- Absolute Cross is a good resource, particularly for seamless textures.
- Web Voodoo's free stuff is pretty funky.
- This font resource is pretty good.
- And this one is even more comprehensive.
- Web Monkey is comprehensive and slick.
- Unlimited FTP is a handy web-based Java FTP applet.
- Infinite Fish has some good links to resources and looks good to boot.
- A more detailed guide is here.
- A good, but dated guide to the Internet.
If you want the best and cheapest software on the web, click here:
- Chameleon Clock is a most excellent free replacement for the default Windows clock.
- ACDSee is an excellent and free picture browser.
- Editpadpro is the world's greatest text editor, small, fast, cheap and packed with features.
- Pixmaker for putting together panoramic images.
- Neotrace is an excellent ping and traceroute utility.
- Jinglekeys makes your keyboard sound like a typewriter.
- FTP Control is an amazingly powerful FTP client program.
- Status 3has a good sig manager and a free port scanner.
If you want David's favourite links not mentioned above, click here:
- The Political Compass lets you know where on the political spectrum you lie.
- An interesting sketchbook.
- Some more weblog links.
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