sites I visit often because I like them [mostly blogs and comics]:
50
Books
826 Valencia pirate store log
my friend Alex is always traveling
somewhere. This is his blog.
all
consuming/lists of bests/43 things/robot co-op
blog
all my gettings
apartment therapy
ars technica
barbara ehrenreich [at the huffington post]
bluishorange
boingboing
bookslut blog
cat and
girl
the consumerist
craftzine.com blog
damn
interesting
defective yeti
design*sponge
dooce
the erin o'brien owner's manual for human beings
exploding
dog: what links page would be complete without it?
extended cake mix
the flog
futility closet
get rich slowly
go
fug yourself
good evening
hippocritical
how about orange...
home
star runner: it's dot com.
indexed
ironic sans
jezebel
jonathan coulton
library juice blog
lifehacker
mcsweeney's lists
mighty girl [/mighty goods]
my aim is true
negativesmart
neil gaiman
the
onion: all the news in fits of print
overheard in the office
pamie.com
reverse cowgirl
tederick.com blog
television without pity: spare the snark,
spoil the network.
toothpaste for dinner
the vancouver aquarium otter cam single-handedly prevents me from going insane at work.
waste of tape
wired blogs
wow insider: this is a blog about world of warcraft. Just because I read it, doesn't mean you should.
xkcd
they have good things you can buy:
abe
used book exchange. They have EVERYTHING.
better world books
big cartel
boygirlparty
deviant
art store buy art that's not from IKEA
dieselsweeties.
elann: beautiful knitting needles and
yarn.
etsy: buy arts and crafts and handmade stuff. [some of my favourite etsy shops]
ex
libris anonymous: beautiful journals made from old books.
glarkware: "my girlfriend can beat up your
girlfriend" shirts, and other novelties.
knitpixie: patterns, needles, and unusual
yarns
nokomis: my favourite clothing store in
edmonton
SUPERfantastico stationery, clothes, vintage
posters-- all with a healthy dose of irony.
thinkgeek
clothes and geek toys
threadless tshirts are a democracy
Tiny
Showcase
library, copyright and information stuff
Creative Commons
Library & Archives Canada: online resources a palooza.
The American Library Association:
Banned and Challenged Books
bookcrossing: a project to share, lose, and
find books.
booklend:
a lending library by post
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Copyfight!
The Edmonton Streetcar Library
The Electronic
Frontier Foundation
Freedom
to Read Canada
Future
Librarians for Intellectual Freedom (FLIF)
gnod is an
artificial intelligence system that recommends books, movies and music.
The Internet
Public Library
Jorge Luis Borges' The Library of
Babel.
Lawrence
Lessig advocate for loose copyright, digital culture, and the public
domain.
Librarian Avengers
LibraryThing: lets you indulge in the pure
nerdiness of cataloguing your own book collection.
McSweeney's Dispatches from a Public Librarian
Michael Geist
The Prelinger Archives: thousands of public
domain "ephemeral" films. Free for downloading and reuse-- that's hot.
Project
Gutenberg is a collection of thousands of free e-books.
The
Straight Dope: cecil adams answers the world's reference questions.
The User Is Not Broken
I love wikipedia and want to have 1000 of its
babies.
art, crafts, cooking, DIY, and mail art projects
postsecret is an ongoing community art
project where people mail their secrets on a homemade postcard.
cut out +
keep
instructables
postcrossing
cooking for engineers
ready
made magazine
craftster.org: it's like martha stewart on
speed.
knitty
the
edmonton small press association
the
mirror project
1000
journals
postcardx
get crafty!
tv, theatre, and music; media, magazines, and pop culture
found
magazine
the
believer magazine
rapid
fire theatre
The Metro
Cinema
potemkin
village, James and Drew's band
the onion av club
and, of course, the simpsons
cjsr
fm88.5
I work for Women Writing & Reading
bitch
dwell:
because I'm a design magazine junkie
The category I like to call "other stuff"
the lost love project
craigslist edmonton
big things
(one of my obsessions)
the fray
word
spy