Culture, Entertainment, Hobbies, and Curiosities Portal
→ Culture:
↓ Culture:
- Europeana: large collection of European cultural info
- Art-Bin: essays on culture
- CTheory
- Postmodern Culture
- Ship of Fools
→ Magazines:
↓ Magazines:
- The Atlantic
- Esopus
- Harpers Stats
- High Hat
- Home Arts
- iVillage
- Mother Jones
- Mundane Behavior
- n+1: New York culture
- Open Democracy
- Other People's Stories
- Resurgence - environmental issues
- Salon
- Stay Free
- The Philosophers
- Third Age
- Women.com (forum)
- Find Articles - lots of articles
- Ref Desk - lots of links
- Highwire - Stanford's list of links
- eJournal - lots of links
→ Critics, Curmudgeons, Cynics, & Skeptics:
↓ Critics, Curmudgeons, Cynics, & Skeptics:
- It Doesn't Work that Way
- Bad Psychics
- Crank
- Daily Howler
- Dangerous Places
- Darwin Awards
- Deconstruct anything
- DisInfo
- Dystopias
- Ftrain
- Iraq Timeline
- Joe Lavin
- Maddox
- The Man Who Fell Asleep
- Michael Moore
- Molly Ivins (archive)
- Open Secrets
- Reason
- Straight Dope
- Things People Said
- Things They Don't Tell You (but should)
- Weird News
- Whatever-Dude
→ Offbeat (NSFW):
↓ Offbeat (NSFW):
- Action Reading
- Arcata Public Safety: atypical description of typical police log
- Attire types
- Awful Plastic Surgery
- Bad conversation starters
- Bad Cop No Donut
- Bored
- Bowlie: misc forums
- Clay Bennett: political cartoons
- Cockeyed
- CSICOP - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims Of the Paranormal
- Cookd And Bombd
- Craig's List - best of Portland
- Creative resources - lots of links
- Culture Jammers
- Dave's Daily
- Deception, House of: magic and tricks
- Defective Yeti
- Dooce
- Dr. Hugo's Museum of the Mind
- Envelope & letter folding
- Etiquette hell
- Fake Detective
- Found photos
- F*ck Corporate Groceries
- Fugging it up misdressed celebs
- Generator blog
- Group Hug: anonymous confessions
- Holla Back NYC: New York street harassment blog
- Idea Future Exchange
- Kontraband
- Microwave tricks
- Mil
- Mission statement generator
- Modern Drunk magazine
- Morbid Outlook
- Mythbot
- NNDB - people database
- Not Proud - confessions
- One Sentence: anonymous, one-line, purportedly true stories
- Philosophy
- Phil Hendries audio
- Pornokrates - historic smut
- Post Secret: anonymous confessional postcards
- Quizzes: 1000s of links to online quizzes
- Rate My Professor
- Ricky Jay
- Rotten Library
- Royal Madness
- Sandlot Science - illusions
- Sideshow World
- The Sneeze
- So You Wanna
- Social Studies: misc. trivia
- Stained Apron
- Strange Science
- Superstitions
- Sweet Fancy Moses
- Ten by Ten
- Throwing Cards
- Totse
- Tricks of the Trade: tips on various subjects (archive)
- Troutfishing
- Ugly knitting projects
- Uncanny Valley
- Unquiet Mind
- Urban adventures
- Vice
- Wacky Uses - odd uses for various products
- Weird links
- West Virginia Surf Report
- Whistling (more)
- XD38
- Zoology imaginings
- Daily Grail
- Unknown Country
- Almost inexplicable photos
Tattoos:
- Contrariwise: ink and text
- Tattoo Lit: ink and literature
- Tattoo FAQ
Quotes:
→ Social Networks:
↓ Social Networks:
- Diaspora: designed with privacy as a main consideration
- Face book: share personal info (privacy problems, Beacon more intrusive than previously thought)
- My Space: share personal info
Romance:
- Plenty of Fish - free online dating
- OK Cupid - free online dating
- Online Personals Watch
- Don't Hate Him Girl: guys to avoid?
- PolarRose.com: match names with photos, privacy concerns
- Why you shouldn't pay for online dating.
- Online sites that buy profiles
Dating tips:
- Bad boys get the most girls: see also Slashdot discussion
- Video Jug: dating and lifestyle videos
- What bachelor parties are really like
Personality Tests:
- Similar Minds: left or right brain, Jungian, compatibility, others
→ Humor, Jokes, & Satire:
→ Comics:
↓ Comics:
- Lambiek's Comiclopedia - big list of artists
- Belfry web comics index: lots of links, popular votes
- A Softer World
- Cagle's
- City Paper
- Comics.com
- My Comics Page
- U Comics
- United Media
- Comixtreme
Reviews:
- Web Comics Review - (NSFW?)
→ Sports:
Marginalia
→ Hoaxes & Internet Myths:
↓ Hoaxes & Internet Myths:
- Snopes
- Break the Chain: chain letters
- Museum of Hoaxes
- Purportal
- Truth Miners
- Truth or Fiction
- Urban Legends
- see also: Computer & Virus hoaxes
→ Hive Blogs & Forums:
↓ Hive Blogs & Forums:
- Meta Filter
- topical links, uneven forum
- Findory Blogory
- popular blog links
- Technorati
- news blog compendium
- News Groups
- forums on every topic, no pics
- Internet Infidels: philosophy
- Big Blog: science, tech
→ Individual's Blogs:
↓ Individual's Blogs:
- Audettemedia
- Mindjack
- Obscure
- On Lisa Rein's Radar
- Orion
- Rushkoff
- Shifted Librarian
- Spin Sanity
- Tasty Research
- Talking Points Memo
- Trixie - cute baby blog
- Under Reported - updated irregularly?
- Wealth Bondage
→ Celebrity blogs:
→ Blog Lists & Info:
↓ Blog Lists & Info:
- dmoz
- Forum One
- MeFi Blog suggestions
- Netiquette: etiquette