i will follow you
into the dark.


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fun! free! 

nutritious!

del.icio.us

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

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