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Started by Gremlin, March 16, 2009, 08:23:41 AM

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Gremlin

So, I realized that the number of sites I frequent is pitiful. Honestly, I have no clue how I manage to waste so much time on the internet. You guys are a pretty interesting bunch--where do you throw away your lives on the information superhighway?

I stick to here, some other forums, Cracked.com, Things of Interest and a handful of webcomics I check every once in awhile. Also, I browse Wikipedia like a pro.

House Quake

These three are where I spend most of my net time, I likely will have a window open to one or more 90% of the time.
Myspace - My primary social hub on the net.  I've met a lot of people through myspace.   many fellow Prince fans... some crazy, sexy n cool women (I must get my flirt on) and the GF.
The official Chicago Bears Forums - I'm a major Bears fan... i'm one of the more visible members.
Prince.org - I'm a big fan of the artist formerly and currently know as Prince.  He has a tight new website and CD set coming out at the end of the month.

I'm sure to visit any of these sites daily..
NFL.com, NBA.com and ESPN for my sports fixes
I visit several NFL scouting sites this time oif the year getting ready for the draft... then i'll switch to the NBA.
Black Planet (the black myspace before thier was myspace) for a little more social networking.. but more just tasting eye candy.  To much ghetto fab.
Here
Sci Fi Network'
Tiger Direct because I'm always plotting to get something
DC Comics for obvious reasons
Work Place Like Home is a giood resource forum for people who need to... work from home.

Oh an I can't forget my entertainment sources
IMDB
Justin TV
You Tube
Veoh
Mega Video
and several Torrent sites

Put it all together.... and I have no life.  But seriously... I've got med issues which keeps from getting around much so i do pretty much live on the net and have made the most out of it.

detourne_me

hmmn.
here first and foremost usually
gbatemp for gaming news
facebook
then i got to newsarama and comic book resources a lot too.
occasionally i check out penny arcade and dresden codak

that's about it though. . .

zuludelta

Some of my most visited bookmarks:

- Here, of course
- Hisstank.com (a GI Joe fan site)
- BBC's international news site
- Videohelp.com (a video editing resource site)
- Rosetta@Home (a protein folding, design, and docking community based at the University of Washington's Baker Lab)
- SomaFM (independent radio station with 14 different channels covering everything from jazz to alternative hip-hop to indie rock and electronica)
- Kaz's Log (a Japanese toy collector and customizer's blog... he's got the most awesome action figures)
- Comic Book Resources
- The A.V. Club (used to be known as The Onion A.V. Club, a cheeky pop entertainment review and commentary site)
- The Ring Magazine (boxing news and features)
Art is the expression of truth without violence.

Podmark

Here.
A few hockey websites - nhl.com, tsn.ca, spectors blog
comics stuff - newsarama, comicbookresources and it's forums, ign

I check all of those essentially everyday. Usually a few times.
Get my skins at:
HeroForce
my Google page

The Hitman


Outcast

Here, various freedom force fan sites, Marvel.com, Comicvine, AOL video/Mega video, Veoh.

When i'm babysitting my niece, Youtube, she just can't get enough of those Barbie videos. :wacko:

Alaric

Quote from: Outcast on March 16, 2009, 03:52:36 PM
Here, various freedom force fan sites, Marvel.com, Comicvine, AOL video/Mega video, Veoh.

When i'm babysitting my niece, Youtube, she just can't get enough of those Barbie videos. :wacko:

Wait... Your niece's name is Youtube?  :D
Fear the "A"!!!

GhostMachine

#8
There aren't a lot of non-forum sites I visit regulary, other than free online games I play and some World of Warcraft specific sites.

Here
Youtube
Veoh
Byrne Robotics (Yes, I'm a John Byrne fan. Only drawback posting there? Have to use my real name. And I hate my last name.)
TAPS 18+ forum (Yes, TAPS as in "Ghost Hunters". I use the name Blackraven71 there; I'm also registered under that name on the regular TAPS forum)
Death Valley Driver Video Review forums
Club Tokyo/Monster Zero forums
Extreme Warfare Battleground IV

I also post at the Sci-Fi.com forums occasionally, but haven't logged into my account in over a month.





daglob

Lessee... there is here, of course, and every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I check out the Girl Genius and Freefall web comics (or Sunday, Monday, and Thrusday if I'm up late)

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ffdex.htm

I use the link from GG to check Othar's Twitter.

Then there's this:

http://www.straightdope.com/

If I'm researching a character, I may use one or more of these:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/gaguide.html
http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/
http://www.geocities.com/copperagecomics/_about.htm   (Hey! It's our old friend Copper Age.)
http://www.toonopedia.com/
http://www.comics.org/index.lasso
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/index.htm
http://www.dpccomics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/theamericancomicshop/goldenagedatabase/
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/nonus.htm
http://www.lilithvonsilver.com/dolls/micro/heroes/index.html
http://www.angelfire.com/comics/mcg-sac/
http://home.comcast.net/~pfeonline/
http://www.supermanartists.comics.org/
http://ratmmjess.tripod.com/gold/page.html
http://www.samcci.comics.org/
http://www.milehighcomics.com/index.html
http://www.ditko.comics.org/ditko/covers/index.htm

I doubt the Mile High Comics people really intended their site to be used as a reference source. And the Ditko covers are just for fun.

These are for fun too:

http://www.starships.com/SF_Sound_Gallery.HTML
http://www.andrew-may.com/asf/index.htm
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/
http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/index.htm
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
http://www.giantmonstermovies.com/movies/a.html
http://howardworks.com/
http://jabootu.net/
http://www.vttbots.com/page1A.html
http://www.gcwillick.com/Spacelight/
http://usersites.horrorfind.com/home/horror/tonyrivers/sitemap.html

Or:

http://www.deepcold.com/
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
http://www.lunchboxpad.com/home/history/boxstory/59-2.shtml
http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html  (Yes, the Sistine Chapel has a website)



Sadly, I find that the Godzilla and Monstermania sites are gone.

Some I look at every day, some every week, others every once in awhile.

President Raygun

superdickery.com Mostly silver age examples of Superman being something less than nice to Lois and Jimmy, scanned from the actual issues themselves ; some other innocently(for the time) innappropriate exchanges between Bats and Robin, taken totally out of context and totally hilarious.

DrMike2000

Millarworld - www.millarworld.tv is Mark Millar's website, and has a cool community discussing comics and other stuff. Im registered and post here.
Barbelith - www.barbelith.com is a Grant Morrison inspired website discussing comics, occult, philosophy and other sort of clever wierd stuff that the Invisibles might sit around discussing in a trendy cyber-cafe perhaps. :P ( ie can be a bit pretentious at times) Registration is not straightforwards, so I never bothered.
Byrne Robotics - John Byrne's website. For a more erm.. conservative approach to comics. Almost registered once.
IO9 - www.io9.com a sci fi website a friend put me on to. Books, TV series, movies articles here.
boards.cityofheroes.com - I post a lot less here since they blocked it at work, which is probably a good thing :)
www.redtomax.com - for all my City of Heroes hard numbers needs
www.wikipedia.com - good for when I'm bored. Recent research includes Indian mythology and some cosmology/physics stuff.
Stranger Than Fiction:
The Strangers, Tales of the Navigator and Freedom Force X
www.fundamentzero.com

Silver Shocker

-Newsarama.com
-Comicscontinuum.com
-Marvel.com
-ninjaturtles.com
-http://plairdblog.blogspot.com/ - Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird's blog
-gametrailers.com - particularly the Screwattack channel
-Shortpacked.com - one of my favourite webcomics
-tvtropes.org -Tvtropes wiki. Probably my favourite site on the web.
"Now you know what you're worth? Then go out and get what you're worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits. And not pointing fingers, saying you're not where you want to be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that, and THAT AIN'T YOU. YOU'RE BETTER THAN THAT!"
~Rocky Balboa

Tomato

failblog.org
gaijinsmash.net
nuklearpower.com
cad-comic.com

BWPS

myspace.com - not much here to do as I don't really talk to my friends.
facebook.com - my mom has facebook and never stops commenting on everything, so it's just annoying to me, but I check it everyday.
gaminggroundzero.com GGZ (forums), I've been going here for like 8-9 years I think. It's kinda slow right now but is where I met some of the greatest people in the world.
Freedom Re-oh, duh.
Magic The Gathering forums - http://forums.gleemax.com/, I'm a huge MTG nerd, and I go here and talk about Magic.
CollegeHumor.com - I like humor, and 10% of the time, I get a good laugh.
Adventure Gamers (adventuregamers.com) - I rarely post here, sometimes I just get in a really adventure game-y mood and go see what's new with the scene.

And I spend about a million times as long as I should on these sites.
I apologize in advance for everything I say on here. I regret it immediately after clicking post.

Mystik

ok I'm just gonna names the sites that havent been listed yet

sidereel.com
ninjavideo.net
animeshipudden.com
these sites are responsible for me nvr having to watch tv again

http://comics.ign.com/

Outcast

Quote from: Alaric on March 16, 2009, 05:54:49 PM
Quote from: Outcast on March 16, 2009, 03:52:36 PM
Here, various freedom force fan sites, Marvel.com, Comicvine, AOL video/Mega video, Veoh.

When i'm babysitting my niece, Youtube, she just can't get enough of those Barbie videos. :wacko:

Wait... Your niece's name is Youtube?  :D

Hehe. Big blooper. :blush: Actually her name is Trinity. My brother is a big Matrix fan. :P

detourne_me

Quote from: Outcast on March 17, 2009, 03:55:48 AM
Quote from: Alaric on March 16, 2009, 05:54:49 PM
Quote from: Outcast on March 16, 2009, 03:52:36 PM
Here, various freedom force fan sites, Marvel.com, Comicvine, AOL video/Mega video, Veoh.

When i'm babysitting my niece, Youtube, she just can't get enough of those Barbie videos. :wacko:

Wait... Your niece's name is Youtube?  :D

Hehe. Big blooper. :blush: Actually her name is Trinity. My brother is a big Matrix fan. :P

Not a big Trailer Park Boys fan?

Outcast

Quote from: detourne_me on March 17, 2009, 04:25:13 AM
Not a big Trailer Park Boys fan?
Nah, i don't believe we've seen that show yet. Sorry. ^_^



wickerman

Now that i have learned that Quake is a Prince fan, I have no time to spend on the internet.  I must focus all of my efforts on hunting him down and whipping him with a wet noodle.
The Wickerman - creator of the Metal Storm Mod -
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Gremlin

Quote from: wickerman on March 17, 2009, 04:09:20 PM
Now that i have learned that Quake is a Prince fan, I have no time to spend on the internet.  I must focus all of my efforts on hunting him down and whipping him with a wet noodle.

Good thing you've never seen his MySpace... :blink:

GhostMachine

Quote from: wickerman on March 17, 2009, 04:09:20 PM
Now that i have learned that Quake is a Prince fan, I have no time to spend on the internet.  I must focus all of my efforts on hunting him down and whipping him with a wet noodle.

Now knowing he's a Prince fan, I'm seriously disappointed that he didn't create a character or team called Purple Reign when NPI was up and running....


Gremlin

Quote from: GhostMachine on March 17, 2009, 07:21:46 PM
Quote from: wickerman on March 17, 2009, 04:09:20 PM
Now that i have learned that Quake is a Prince fan, I have no time to spend on the internet.  I must focus all of my efforts on hunting him down and whipping him with a wet noodle.

Now knowing he's a Prince fan, I'm seriously disappointed that he didn't create a character or team called Purple Reign when NPI was up and running....

This is awesome.

PURPLE REIGN!
Prince! Leader of the group, he wields a magical guitar shaped like the Love Symbol #2!
1999! Time traveler from an alternate future where y2k destroyed the world as we know it!
Diamond! With the ability to turn her body into a nigh-indestructible diamond-like substance!
Pearls! With the power to transform any object into white pearl-like material!
Dirty Mind! She can insert any mental image into your brain!
Controversy! His psychic powers allow him to turn ordinary people into frothing engines of rage!
7! The last of seven near-immortal brothers, he has devoted his life to helping the human race!

House Quake

Quote from: Gremlin on March 17, 2009, 04:47:41 PM
Quote from: wickerman on March 17, 2009, 04:09:20 PM
Now that i have learned that Quake is a Prince fan, I have no time to spend on the internet.  I must focus all of my efforts on hunting him down and whipping him with a wet noodle.

Good thing you've never seen his MySpace... :blink:

LOL

Ain't that the truth.

trivia:  House Quake is a seriously funky jam from my favorite Prince album . Sign O' The Times.

House Quake

#24
Quote from: GhostMachine on March 17, 2009, 07:21:46 PM
Quote from: wickerman on March 17, 2009, 04:09:20 PM
Now that i have learned that Quake is a Prince fan, I have no time to spend on the internet.  I must focus all of my efforts on hunting him down and whipping him with a wet noodle.

Now knowing he's a Prince fan, I'm seriously disappointed that he didn't create a character or team called Purple Reign when NPI was up and running....



LOL I thought my net screen name was enough  :lol:

And well of course New Power Generation was Prince's band and what the fans were called for a while.

detourne_me

I'm hoping for the hero raspberry beret to make her appearance. a spunky little soldier with a cute demeanor.