Wasting Time on the Internet

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The Best of the Best

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

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