Thanks for reading teenage me’s list of top 10 websites! But now I’m in college and I’m much more mature. I’m a serious thinker, and I spent a semester as a libertarian. I have a much more serious line-up of favorite sites.
- Boing Boing: This is a weblog or “blog” about all kinds of cool things. They kind of run the internet!
- Whuffie.org: A place I write about whuffie, the future reputation-based currency described in Cory Doctorow’s book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. It’s the money of the future, dudes.
- Metafilter: These guys inform me about everything: The impending Katrina hurricane, the upcoming hit Snakes on a Plane, and how I was really rude in that one thread.
- Discworld MUD: A text-based MMORPG that I play for hours at a time. I also found a way to have cybersex on it, playing a female character.
- The L-Space Web: A guide to the hidden jokes in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, which I’m super-excited to discover my RA likes too. That makes it kind of cool!
- Liquid Generation: Funny cartoons, limericks with dirty leprechauns and “screamer” videos to trick my friends.
- YTMND: I don’t visit 4chan yet. Instead I follow the intricate memes of You’re the Man Now Dog. Ha ha, they just posted a new joke GIF of Tom Cruise killing Oprah!
- Halfbakery: Some day someone’s gonna steal all the ideas from this forum and get rich. This is where people post “half baked” ideas, but most could really change the world.
- Gawker: New York media gossip! I don’t really understand who Anna Wintour is, but I wouldn’t want to be holding hot coffee when she gets mad!
- iFilm’s adult section: My Christian college’s porn blocker hasn’t discovered this spank bank yet. At the time, I feel pretty intellectual jerking it to scenes from real films instead of straight porn. Scarcity breeds connoisseurship.
