Time to add another Gadget to this blog. Can't just stick with "Labels".
So, I've decided to add a "Link List". It's situated between "Blog Archive" and "About Me". I've also dubbed it "Sites I Like", for blatantly obvious reasons.
The first one on the list, allmusic, is an incredibly comprehensive music site. You can search can through the site by "Artist/Group", "Album", "Song" or "Classical Work". Barring that, you can sift through a vast array of subgenres within major classifications (try "Pop/Rock", fer instance), which is a goldmine if you're stuck on thinking of songs to download.
In terms of movies, The Internet Movie Database is invaluable for looking up flicks or tracing the output of directors, writers, etc. I particularly like the "Quotes" and "Trivia" categories available on most entries. For something a bit more genre-specific, I dig the humourous reviews of And You Call Yourself a Scientist! Its "Immortal Dialogue" page is a corker.
And who doesn't like a good comic strip? Cyanide and Happiness is twisted, macabre and sometimes surreal (but funny); Hyper Death Babies offers a collection of wonderfully nutty and subversive comics (my particular favourites are "Is This Legal?" and "The Panel Project"); Something*Positive, a soap opera packed with assholes and mean-spirited folk, still has a heart underneath its hard surface; and This Modern World's "Comics" page is ripe with Leftist political humour.
For a bit of a laugh, I like reading the rants on The Best Page in the Universe. Although, since its author had his book published, they've slowed down to a trickle. I also like Comedy.com, though its humour can sometimes stoop to the level of Cracked. That ain't a good thing. But it's fun flicking through their articles, nonetheless. For something a bit more obtuse and heavily reliant on memes and other Internet malarkey, I go to Enyclopædia Dramatica. Those guys have no shame. Passive Aggressive Notes.com is much more light-hearted. It's a collection of generally creative and blunt notes left by people across the globe, as warnings to others. A simple concept, indeed. Something that QDB: Quotes Database (commonly referred to as "Bash") embraces. It's basically snippets of conversation, or random statements, submitted by IRC users. Meanwhile, Something Awful attempts to dredge up the worst the 'net (and pop culture) has to offer. My favourite "segments" are its Movie reviews, "The Horrors of Pornography", "Photoshop Phriday" and "Comedy Goldmine".
Post Secret Archive appeals to my voyeuristic tendencies, even more so since it's done with a creative flair. It's a collection of items from the PostSecret project. The basic concept entails anonymous users submitting secrets they've never shared with anyone, ever, on the back of a postcard.
IRCImages is another great place for random imagery. In this case, items posted on IRC. Here's a sample:
So, I've decided to add a "Link List". It's situated between "Blog Archive" and "About Me". I've also dubbed it "Sites I Like", for blatantly obvious reasons.
The first one on the list, allmusic, is an incredibly comprehensive music site. You can search can through the site by "Artist/Group", "Album", "Song" or "Classical Work". Barring that, you can sift through a vast array of subgenres within major classifications (try "Pop/Rock", fer instance), which is a goldmine if you're stuck on thinking of songs to download.
In terms of movies, The Internet Movie Database is invaluable for looking up flicks or tracing the output of directors, writers, etc. I particularly like the "Quotes" and "Trivia" categories available on most entries. For something a bit more genre-specific, I dig the humourous reviews of And You Call Yourself a Scientist! Its "Immortal Dialogue" page is a corker.
And who doesn't like a good comic strip? Cyanide and Happiness is twisted, macabre and sometimes surreal (but funny); Hyper Death Babies offers a collection of wonderfully nutty and subversive comics (my particular favourites are "Is This Legal?" and "The Panel Project"); Something*Positive, a soap opera packed with assholes and mean-spirited folk, still has a heart underneath its hard surface; and This Modern World's "Comics" page is ripe with Leftist political humour.
For a bit of a laugh, I like reading the rants on The Best Page in the Universe. Although, since its author had his book published, they've slowed down to a trickle. I also like Comedy.com, though its humour can sometimes stoop to the level of Cracked. That ain't a good thing. But it's fun flicking through their articles, nonetheless. For something a bit more obtuse and heavily reliant on memes and other Internet malarkey, I go to Enyclopædia Dramatica. Those guys have no shame. Passive Aggressive Notes.com is much more light-hearted. It's a collection of generally creative and blunt notes left by people across the globe, as warnings to others. A simple concept, indeed. Something that QDB: Quotes Database (commonly referred to as "Bash") embraces. It's basically snippets of conversation, or random statements, submitted by IRC users. Meanwhile, Something Awful attempts to dredge up the worst the 'net (and pop culture) has to offer. My favourite "segments" are its Movie reviews, "The Horrors of Pornography", "Photoshop Phriday" and "Comedy Goldmine".
Post Secret Archive appeals to my voyeuristic tendencies, even more so since it's done with a creative flair. It's a collection of items from the PostSecret project. The basic concept entails anonymous users submitting secrets they've never shared with anyone, ever, on the back of a postcard.
IRCImages is another great place for random imagery. In this case, items posted on IRC. Here's a sample:
Another site with random images up the wazoo is EvilMilk. You might've noticed that I've used a few of them on this blog. See: "But Where Would You Park It?", "Why the Terrorists Will Lose", "WMDs: Found!" and "The Definition of Anachronistic".
If you're lucky, you might come across the odd boob on those sites. But no site compiles them more comprehensively than Boobpedia. Their list of categories is fantastic. Although, I do warn you that the ginormous ZZZ Cup isn't as enticing as it might sound.
"Norma Stitz", Boobpedia.
For much more PG, sidle over to Encyclopedia Obscura for pop culture tidbits and obscurities like "Walking-Stick Defence", the occultic significance of Winnie the Pooh and the He-Man/Superman crossover.
Speaking of trash, Snopes.com is a great site for dispelling it. This urban myth-busting is a source I consult whenever my friends send me goofy chain e-mails, like the one about Kevin Rudd wanting Muslims to discard Islamic Sharia law in favour of assimilation. Not that I need it to prove to myself that what they're sending me is bullshit (chain e-mails are recognisable as such, 99% of the time), but so I can rub it in their faces for sending me such crap in the first place.
And now we move onto the last page, which I previously covered here. That is, The Nice Guy's American Women (Mostly) Suck Page. It is filled with its authors awful experiences with the weaker sex and his quest to find a fine, upstanding woman.
That about wraps it up for now. I'll get around to adding blogs I like, but that'll be another entry in itself.
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