sites I visit often because I like them [mostly blogs and comics]:
they have good things you can buy:
abe
used book exchange. They have EVERYTHING.
better world books
boygirlparty
deviant
art store buy art that's not from IKEA
dieselsweeties.
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.
nokomis: my favourite clothing store in
edmonton
SUPERfantastico
thinkgeek
clothes and geek toys
threadless tshirts are a democracy
tiny showcase
library, copyright and information stuff
library juice blog
Creative Commons
The American Library Association:
Banned and Challenged Books
bookcrossing: a project to share, lose, and find books.
booklend:
a lending library by post
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
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
1000
journals
The category I like to call "other stuff"
the lost love project
big things
(one of my obsessions)
the fray
word
spy