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Here's my list.

News aggregator:
http://drudgereport.com/

Political columns:
http://americanthinker.com/

Videos and news:
http://hotair.com/

Emerging technology:
http://www.gizmag.com/

Self-explanatory:
http://www.damninteresting.com/

Art:
http://www.gfxartist.com/

US weather radar:
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

Comic list:
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/
http://www.reallifecomics.com/
http://www.userfriendly.org/
http://xkcd.com/
http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html
http://www.goblinscomic.com/
http://www.lfgcomic.com/

moar webcomic:

http://www.sinfest.net/
http://www.smbc-comics.com/
http://www.qwantz.com/
http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/

i start my day with sinfest <3

http://www.sinfest.net/


when i come back from school i check out these comis and pray that they've made new strips >:[

(srsly vgcats updates like once in every two months, and pbf is even more rare tt.)

http://www.vgcats.com/

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic

http://pbfcomics.com/

http://xkcd.org/

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1019/

http://www.cad-comic.com/comic.php

http://www.lfgcomic.com/

also usually watch

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/
(finnish newspaper)

and cnn/bbc/moscow times sites for foreign news


also RL reading involves schoolbooks lulz and horus heresy series and a lot of finnish/other history books, and also and times news magazine ~_~

I get my lulz from reading this forum.

As Hamelet said in Shatkespeare, "words, worads, words".

[edited for aincresed sobriety]

My favourite news source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

My other favourite news source:
http://theonion.com

Movie news, reviews, and trailers:
http://www.pajiba.com/
http://comingsoon.net

My favourite comic:
http://doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html

Lulz from the world of celebrity:
http://thesuperficial.com/

Where all the cool kids hear about the new music:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

Classical texts (I studied Latin and Greek at university):
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper

I read Lord of the Rings! Its so long that you can almost consider it a book type! :)

http://www.dorktower.com/

My favourite Comic


http://www.spiegel.de

German news site

http://www.perlentaucher.de

German Feuilleton Collection Site

manored wrote:I read Lord of the Rings! Its so long that you can almost consider it a book type! :)

LOTR isnt long compared to some of the gassy boring drivel you get from his imitations (Robert Jordan springs to mind). Though even the good fantasy (Robin Hobb, George RR Martin) is still longer than LOTR.

iGoogle with Tech news, New Scientist and BBC World/BBC UK.

Some blogs I look at:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
http://www.thepcspy.com

and a few random java blogs, aswella s anythign itneresting on the netbeans/VS2005 welcome pages.

Psychology journal articles
Some health journal articles
Mythologies from a lot of different cultures
Robotics journal articles
Astronomy books
Art books
Wikipedia
Poetry, vocal art songs
Some biographies
4chan
Smoth's forum
Books
Psychology books
Lolita
Anna Karenina
Dr. Faustus
Issac Asimov books
Through the Looking Glass
The Crystal Cave (the Merlin Series)

Saktoth wrote:

manored wrote:I read Lord of the Rings! Its so long that you can almost consider it a book type! :)

LOTR isnt long compared to some of the gassy boring drivel you get from his imitations (Robert Jordan springs to mind). Though even the good fantasy (Robin Hobb, George RR Martin) is still longer than LOTR.

The first 6 or so WoT books were good, but Jordan unfortunately doesn't know how to manage an increasingly complex plot.

I wouldn't call WoT an imitation of LotR; they share few plot elements. In a sense every fantasy novel is an imitation of LotR since it was the original modern fantasy saga, but that's like saying that every time-travel novel is an imitation of The Time Machine.

I've never ever read a book in my sparetime except for American Psycho, which was fun I must admit.

Felix the Cat wrote:The first 6 or so WoT books were good, but Jordan unfortunately doesn't know how to manage an increasingly complex plot.

I wouldn't call WoT an imitation of LotR; they share few plot elements. In a sense every fantasy novel is an imitation of LotR since it was the original modern fantasy saga, but that's like saying that every time-travel novel is an imitation of The Time Machine.

ROBERT JORDAN IS DEAD

i read #main and #warc

NOiZE wrote:i read #main and #warc

hehe me too)))))))

Felix the Cat wrote:

Saktoth wrote:

manored wrote:I read Lord of the Rings! Its so long that you can almost consider it a book type! :)

LOTR isnt long compared to some of the gassy boring drivel you get from his imitations (Robert Jordan springs to mind). Though even the good fantasy (Robin Hobb, George RR Martin) is still longer than LOTR.

The first 6 or so WoT books were good, but Jordan unfortunately doesn't know how to manage an increasingly complex plot.

When I got half-way throught the series my enthusiam for it ended. I've sped-read the rest, only slowing down for dialogue and one or two plot-lines.

Almost all fantasy is derivative, even Tolkien, most stories are retellings of "the hero's journey". Tolkien's achievement was in creating such a well-conceived world (with a huge backstory) for events to take place in. It's Middle Earth that fantasy writers rip off (e.g. anyone who writes about orcs, or tall elves that live in forests), not the story of LotR. I think Robert Jordan did a pretty good job of keeping his world unique and original. Now if only he could make his characters interesting...

Saktoth wrote:

manored wrote:I read Lord of the Rings! Its so long that you can almost consider it a book type! :)

LOTR isnt long compared to some of the gassy boring drivel you get from his imitations (Robert Jordan springs to mind). Though even the good fantasy (Robin Hobb, George RR Martin) is still longer than LOTR.

In fact, even tough the book is gigant it should be longer... I become specially anyoing then the characters "tell interesting tales to each other" and the book doesnt tells then to us.

Read the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin.