I love freerice! I wish i weren't at work, I'd link away. I'll have to do it as soon as I get home. But twitter is probably my ultimate time waster, lol.

On the odd chance that you don't know these already I recommend these sites:

TV Tropes (Wiki)

The Princess Planet (Webcomic)

Order of the Stick (Webcomic)

Crunchy Roll (Anime and Live Action Asian Videos)

Pronouncing English Dictionary (Dictionary)

TG Comics (Genderbender based site)

The forums at http://somethingawful.com were the template for this one. The smilies are in most cases completely ripped from that site and oops. (Their fap and shlick smilies didn't match, I changed one so it would and made all the faces have the same coloring, but still.)

So I was looking through my bookmarks and decided to visit a site I haven't gone to in ages.  Then I thought of this thread.

I present you: Star Wars, in ASCII!

KanzakaDex-- a Wiki mainly about Slayers and Lost Universe.

Dies Gaudii-- a Sailor Moon site dedicated to correcting inaccuracies in fan translation.

Poke the Bunny-- Exactly what it says on the tin.

Theoi Project-- best Greco-Roman mythology site on the intarwebs.

Outpost Daria--very good archive of Daria fanfiction, fanart, and essays.

Girl Genius-- The only webcomic I'm reading so far.

Sailor Moon V-- my favorite Sailor Moon fanfic ever.

Don't be a Makeup Chicken-- Sounds weird, but it's a blog about being adventurous with your makeup.

Fatshionista @ LJ-- An LJ group dedicated to fashion and shopping for the full-figured. Complete with camwhoring, shopping recommendations, and somewhat constructive criticism. Oh, and drama....because LJ is nothing with drama.

Manolo for the Big Girl-- A blog dedicated to high(ish)-end shopping for plus-sizes. And lots of shoes. LOTS OF SHOES.

Greatest photography webcomic around:A Softer World

Many amusing lists of the oddities of this world: Oddee

allegoriest wrote:

I am thanking you for the hours of entertainment I am about to receive.

I myself live off stumble upon because I am so easily bored and fickle I need lots of new random crap.
Delicious stumble upon.

You're completely welcome. While looking for information on Mondrian for the same class I stumbled upon the Mondrimat (http://www.stephen.com/mondrimat/), which isn't as easy but almost as fun. The directions are complete crap in my experience, I just clicked-klacked-clucked until I got something I liked. The name does me in every time, too.

www.rotten.com  really, really NOT for the faint of stomach or heart. Lots of dead stuff, lots of dirty stuff, lots of in between. All of it priceless.

A lot I'd rather not share, but for what I would (other than the obvious i.e ff.net, youtube, etc):

For fun:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page (I actually don't read this site too much because it holds the power to bring out the corrupt tendencies within the inner recesses of my soul.  I have gotten innocent children addicted to this site when I was in high school orchestra...one of my greatest regrets and failings.  The wiki-how on how to cheat at scrabble initially got me addicted, though...and between you and me, Nanami would go for the octopus method.  I also recommend articles on breathing, and dyslexia from off-hand memory.)  I dare you to put 'waldo' into the search engine.  :is a dork:

http://similarminds.com/ (worthless psych tests and crap but interesting nonetheless)

For fandom or otherwise:

http://myanimelist.net/ (sort of a social networking thing but not.  It's like a wiki, mega forum, and myspace for nerds into anime but without the snobbery or drama associated with those things compared to)

http://www.ocremix.org/ (been a fan of this site for about eight years or so)

Other:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/

http://www.online-literature.com/

http://www.bartleby.com/ (for me to gain access to a lot of bodies of knowledge or else study different writing styles from those whose names are well-remembered)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ (comparative religious studies)

http://www.associatedcontent.com/ (when looking for sagely content from people who write about it and have know-how)

http://www.helium.com/ (at least not a bad place to write and publish while retaining rights over your works and might help in making a bit of cash or else landing a freelance job)

http://www.odesk.com/w/  (for  finding freelance opportunities.  guru.com is supposed to be good, too, but at least let's me see some available jobs on the job market)

Last edited by spoon-san (06-04-2009 10:40:28 AM)

Tamago, thank you for reminding me of the amazingness that is that Japanese <--> English dictionary. Back when I was addicted to jpop it made my life worth while x2.

*gets lost in Jackson Pollock*

Last edited by Syora (06-12-2009 02:49:24 AM)

http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
It's a clock... with cute dancing Japanese girls.  And it's mesmerizing.

http://www.smallthingseatingbigthings.com/
Drawings of small things eating big things.

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
A little musical synthesizer thing.  If you right-click on it and copy, you can save your composition as a sequence of numbers.

http://textboxart.blogspot.com/
Comics based on phrases from reCAPTCHA text boxes.

Also for new music I like Grooveshark:


http://listen.grooveshark.com/