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StumbleUpon

an incredibly useful, personalized browsing tool for discovering web sites. get it!

YouTube Video

for the best videos onlines, try Video Sift

alternative: Veoh: higher quality videos & a list of tv shows

Metafilter

A directory of obscure and interesting articles and websites

related: Ask Metafilter
alternative: Fazed

Reddit

do you like to read interesting articles and look at beautiful pictures?

alternative: Digg, a popular news site where the stories are chosen by community members

FFFFOUND

images that people are bookmarking right now

related: delicious websites that people are bookmarking right now

Kongregate

simply the best web games website ever

related: Chess dot com: sweet chess website

Damn Interesting

a collection of articles about interesting ideas and events

click to view a random post

Story Log

a place for nonfiction stories that are worth reading

3 Quarks Daily

an online intellectual experience

related: The Edge World Question Center: simple amazing!

What I Learned Today

a curious girl in a curious world

Woot

one amazing deal every day, starting at 1am EST

Quality Websites 

if you're going to waste time, waste it well

Boing Boing

a refreshing weblog about pop culture.

Slashdot

tech news site known for its quality discussion forums.

related: techcrunch. profiles and reviews new Internet products and companies.

Pandora

free, personalized internet radio. I prefer it to iTunes

High Quality Games

free online games, made with an overall attention to quality and smooth design.

similar: casual gameplay: good reviews of flash games.

PostSecret

anonymously contributed postcard secrets. shockingly honest

alternative: Unburdened.net: anonymous confessions

Engadget

technology gadget tips and reviews.

similar: gizmodo

The Onion

the most satirical fake news site on the internet.

Wikipedia

the best reference online: constantly updated & free. try a random ariticle

more: Science Daily: research news

xkcd

a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language

Calvin and Hobbes > XKCD > just about everything else

The New Yorker: Reporting

well-written, insightful, and relevant articles every week.

similar: Story Log: nonfiction stories

YouMail

a free (for now) voicemail service that allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID.

related: a review of youmail

One Sentence

True stories, told in one sentence

Neil Gaiman Journal

the online journal of a famous English author

NOTCOT.ORG

Think you've seen it all?

Lifehacker

learn how to save time with software and technology, so you can get more done

Cute Overload

cute picutes of various small animals, everyday.

MetaCritic

compiled reviews of movies, music, tv shows, games, and books

similar: rotten tomatoes

Unspun

thousands of lists on the best things in the universe

e.g. best original score for a feature film; top albums; best US city to live in; best movies of all time, favorite alcoholic beverage, etc.

Free Media 

like paid media, except free

Alluc.org

thousands of tv shows and movies offered for free. enjoy!

the corporate alternative: hulu

StumbleVideo

your personal video channel

Peekvid

a list of links to episodes of your favorite movies and tv shows. a very sweet website

Insomnio

a blog I like to look at from time to time

and: kottke and josh spear and gems sty

College Humor

great videos, great community

related: Jake and Amir

Quality BitTorrent Websites

a comparison of today's ten most used BitTorrent (p2p) websites

related: a guide to BitTorrent

Indecision 2008

high quality videos of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

Apple Movie Trailers

the latest movie trailers

Songza

a beautifully designed music search engine