OT: Great Web Content

Camden Chat

you should really check it out. thought-provoking stuff.

"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17

by daveh873 on Jun 28, 2008 10:59 AM EDT 0 recs

My go-to favorites

FOR FUN:
Fark.com (Although I spring the $5 a month for TotalFark.com)
Daily Kos – dailykos.com
What Would Tyler Durden Do? (wwtdd.com)
Entertainment Weekly – ew.com

FOR POLITICS/NEWS:
FiveThirtyEight.com (electoral college projections)
PolticalWire.com
DCRTV.com (DC area radio & TV news)
ThinkProgress.com

FOR LIFE:
The Consumerist – consumerist.com (and other Gawker media sites).

FOR SPORTS:
Sun Sports – baltimoresun.com/sports
AwfulAnnouncing.com
TheBigLead.com
ProFootballTalk.com
Jayski.com (NASCAR)
BaysideWrestling.net – Bayside (MD) Confernece Wrestling News (hey, it’s MY site, OK?)
ShysterBall.com

FOR MUSIC:
LiveMetallica.com – free and purchase concerts for download. And there’s about 2 dozen free shows on there, some all the way back to ‘83.
RollingStone.com – Rolling Stone magazine
OK, next up….

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jun 28, 2008 11:13 AM EDT 0 recs

Some of my all time favorites

Television Without Pity
Recaps, commentary, video, forums, blogs on most popular TV shows.

Go Fug Yourself
Spotlight on celebrity bad fashion

The Harry Potter Lexicon
I don’t visit this as much as I did before Harry Potter ended, but it is a one stop location for anything you’d ever hope to know about Harry Potter.

CD Baby
Online location to buy music from independent artists, directly from the musicians so they see more of the profits. My favorite feature on the search page is where you can enter the name of a mainstream/popular artist and they suggest independent artists you’d like based on that style.

Lostpedia
For LOST fans, a wiki that discusses about pretty much everything you could ever hope to know about the show. A good place to visit when you can’t quite remember what happened in previous episodes or how things fit together. And that happens to me a lot.

Also, everyone knows about Baseball-Reference.com so it’s pointless to list it here, but I have to say it’s probably my single most visited website, along with here probably. I use it multiple times a day.

"We’re not concerned about what other teams think. I know teams come in here thinking we’re playing the Orioles. And then 9 innings later, they got the loss, they know what we’re about." ~Adam Jones

by Stacey on Jun 28, 2008 12:03 PM EDT 0 recs

TWoP is awesome

Great, great threads and forums for “24,” especially.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jun 28, 2008 12:44 PM EDT up 0 recs

Lost sites

For LOST fans, a wiki that discusses about pretty much everything you could ever hope to know about the show. A good place to visit when you can’t quite remember what happened in previous episodes or how things fit together. And that happens to me a lot.

I dig the following two Lost sites.

My Serious, Logical Thoughts on [insert episode title]

The title says it all. The writer usually catches details that I miss.

Lost Spoilers

Not just spoilers, which I try not to read, but the site also collects articles about Lost from the periodicals and newspapers. And their spoilers are dead accurate, which is why I stopped reading them.

Wolf, wolf, wolf.

by birdman on Jun 29, 2008 11:46 PM EDT up 0 recs

I have lost so much time to Lostpedia

Here’s a few of my faves:

The Comics Curmudgeon is a Baltimorean, and he takes a hilarious daily look at the funny pages.

Since Stacey mentioned Lost, Dispatches from the Island is the blog of actor Jorge Garcia, who plays Hurley. Most of his posts are quirky, short and sweet, with a lot of pictures of him goofing around. Seems like a guy I’d like to hang out with.

MLB Trade Rumors is pretty self-explanatory. A thorough compilation of transaction talk culled from MSM sources, with some further insight thrown in by the blogger and his staff.

Even if you’re not a card collector, Cardboard Gods is amazing. The author posts scans of cards from his childhood collection (mostly 1975-1980, with a few 1974 and 1981s) and goes stream-of-consciousness. Most of it’s autobiographical, and he’s talented though neurotic. He’s a major influence on my own card blog.

Finally, Steve’s Baseball Photography Pages has lots of cool high-quality photos of players of the past, mostly 1960s and 1970s.

by Brotz13 on Jun 28, 2008 11:40 PM EDT up 0 recs

I never miss

The Onion AV Club (www.avclub.com)

Great pop culture writing, with a good mix of the super-mainstream and stuff that’s a little more off the beaten path. Updates daily.

by pipkin on Jun 29, 2008 3:45 PM EDT 0 recs

a few of mine:

Slipcue.com – Joe Sixpack’s Brazilian Music Guide – This is a site I stumbled across recently. I’ve been in a Brazilian music kick for the better part of a year now and this guy has a pretty extensive knowledge of a variety of styles.

Cinema Treasures – This is a kickass guide to old time movie houses in the US and around the world. A real labor of love by the developer.

Cool Hunting – Like the name suggests, you can find all kinda cool shit on here. You can find a lot arguably pretentious babble as well, but for the gems nestled in between, it’s worth wading through. The reader contributions are always worth checking out.

Clean Technica – This is a good spot to keep up with clean, renewable energy technology news, which obviously is a pretty big topic right now.

Real Clear Politics & Pollster.com – these two sites are really where you need to be if you want to follow the numbers game in the Presidential race. Fuck all those pointless “National Polls” the networks inexplicably report on and check out the state-by-states, negatives, favorables etc and you got a much better picture of what’s going on.

Anyhoo, those are mine for today.

by Jonny Pops on Jun 29, 2008 6:26 PM EDT 0 recs

Give FiveThirtyEight.com a try

The guy is GOOD. Knows his stuff cold.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jun 29, 2008 6:29 PM EDT up 0 recs

538

is by the dude who created baseball prospectus’s PECOTA projection system. he’s, like, kinda creepy-smart w/ numbers.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jun 30, 2008 10:20 AM EDT up 0 recs

That, too.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jun 30, 2008 12:10 PM EDT up 0 recs

The 538 guy leaves me with my head spinning

When you don’t have time to unravel his logic, a good place to go is

electoral-vote.com

Map on the front page gives you easy to understand state by state numbers. Also has links to Senate & House races.

Another good site, run by who I believe is the only Democrat in the state of Oklahoma is

bartcop.com

Unlike so many political bloggers, he is NOT a humourless nerd & provides frequent sidetracks concerning tequila, poker & hot actresses

You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.

by sluggo 2.0 on Jun 30, 2008 3:41 PM EDT up 0 recs

You're Right on

He’s the only democrat in the entire state. Good call. Of course we just recently go that lectricty stuff too.

Always trust you cape. -Guy Clark

by BPinOK on Jun 30, 2008 4:43 PM EDT up 0 recs

dude, that's awesome!

the governor runs a cool politics blog?

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jun 30, 2008 4:56 PM EDT up 0 recs

+1

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jun 30, 2008 11:23 PM EDT up 0 recs

a few sites that I like

Metacritic – Collates reviews on movies, music, video games. Pretty helpful if you’re trying to find a bunch of reviews for particular movie or album.

James Berardinelli Movie Reviews

Really dig this guy. I Very rarely disagree with him.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any good baseball sites besides the usual suspects like Hardballtimes, baseballanalysts, and baseballmusings

Politics, I used to read the Washington Note and the Washington Monthy religiously but I haven’t been keeping up with these sites lately.

Wolf, wolf, wolf.

by birdman on Jun 29, 2008 11:56 PM EDT 0 recs

I'll trickle in a few

Staying away from politics and a number of special interest type stuff. Also trying for some different stuff that no one has mentioned.

Mindless and entertaining.

The Straight Dope : Like Cecil says “Fighting Ignorance since 1973”.
Snopes.com : The straight dope for urban legends and rumors

Some Others.

The Online Book Page : Uncluttered portal into tons of online literature. Online reading is the pits, but I find myself reading short stories and smaller works that I wouldn’t see at the library or elsewhere. Just pick an author and give it a go.

OSU Virtual Finance Library : A portal to tons of financial related links.

Music at the Gardner : I recently picked this up after I heard about it on the radio. The museum provides podcasts of their concert series, and includes an archive of past performances.

Freecycle : You probably know about craigslist. Freecycle is a network of people trying to unload stuff without involving the cash. I used it to unload a bunch of bricks I had on my hands when I ripped up a walkway. Just one to keep in the back of your mind if you want to unload stuff.

Gmaps Pedometer : The site has a very simple interface for entering any route you might run/walk/bike/etc and give you the distance and elevation profile.

by drj on Jun 30, 2008 9:03 AM EDT 0 recs

I love that Gmaps Pedometer

I use it a lot.

"We’re not concerned about what other teams think. I know teams come in here thinking we’re playing the Orioles. And then 9 innings later, they got the loss, they know what we’re about." ~Adam Jones

by Stacey on Jun 30, 2008 12:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

One more music one

Archive.com’s Live Music Archive.

Lots of bands have become taper-friendly, and you can get some seriously good concert recordings for free. You can stream the shows and just listen, or you can download. Most offer a low-bit and a high-bit option, and some even post the FLAC file, which is lossless.

You can finds shows from Hank Williams III, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Hayseed Dixie, Jack Johnson, and about 400 other bands I’ve never heard of. All legal, all posted with permission of the artist. Just get the FLAC plug-in for WinAmp before you go – you might need it.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jun 30, 2008 12:18 PM EDT 0 recs

hmn

I get precious few minutes for the internets these days (as evidenced by my lack of presence here)...

But when I get a chance I waste time on the aforementioned 538, Jezebel (has some celebrity and fashion crap I don’t give a shit about but also has some interesting and well written women’s issues, politics, sex, etc), Huffington Post, and a good friend of mine’s satire site, These Bastards. And of course, the ultimate timesuck, Facebook.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."

by 2632 on Jul 2, 2008 5:52 PM EDT 0 recs

How could I forget!

Fire Joe Morgan. Fucking brilliant.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."

by 2632 on Jul 2, 2008 5:54 PM EDT up 0 recs