| Text & Other Stuff
The Postmodernism Generator
Does your postmodern essay just make too much sense? Elsewhere.org’s got you covered. Refresh for more jargony goodness.
Christian Humber Reloaded
The worst (and hence, the best) fan fiction ever written.
Labor Camp Orchestra
A great avant-garde musical collective from Minneapolis.
Amazon.com Reviews:
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, by RAND Corporation
Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz
Zubaz Pants
Uranium Ore
Fresh Whole Rabbit
All 5 are great products, all 5 have enlightening reviews.
The Reviews of Leonard Snerdley
He’s probably fake, but if he isn’t he’s one of the worst human beings to ever exist.
J! Archive
An archive of almost every Jeopardy episode, its questions and its answers going back to the beginning of the show. Great for home play.
Kiva
A micro-lending website that I would encourage you all to use.
“Dear Charles Manson”
A grown man writes letters to the likes of Charles Manson, the Unabomber, and others posing as a little kid asking for advice. He gets some interesting replies.
Thoroughly Modern Marx
An essay from NPR on the resurgence of Marxist thought.
Stabbed in the Back!
An essay from a 2006 issue of Harper’s about the origins of many political narratives emanating from the American right. |
Picture and Video
Lasagna Cat
Live action renditions of the most god-awful Garfield comics, followed by a music video homage.
Яolcats
“Eastern bloc Lolcats.” They’re like regular lolcats, except they’re actually funny.
Video Game Classics and I Can Read Movies
Homages to various classic video games and movies, in the style of the Penguin Classics book covers.
High Five New York City
Some guy goes around high-fiving people hailing cabs in NYC.
In Revolutionary Color
A series of color photos of pre-revolutionary Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
WWI Color Photos
Towards the end of WWI, French soldiers were able to take real color photographs.
The Spider
Play with the spider!
Weather Formations
Beautiful pictures of various weather formations.
The Screamer
Extremely, extremely NSFW. Put your volume on maximum. |
Comics
Cyanide and Happiness
LegoRobot comics.
garfield minus garfield
Hark, a vagrant
sweet bro and hella jeff
The Perry Bible Fellowship
xkcd
The Nietzsche Family Circus
Fleep |
News & Opinion
Wikileaks
Hosts leaked documents from governments, corporations and other entities the world over. This is the most important website on the internet.
The New York Times
Outstanding op-eds, and consistent, ground-breaking scoops on domestic U.S. stuff.
The Economist
Essays on and coverage of a variety of topics, authored by an anonymous (and very incisive) collective of journalists.
Al Jazeera
Solid Middle Eastern coverage, from a Middle Eastern perspective.
Ha’aretz
The New York Times of Israel.
BBC News
Terrific international coverage.
Registan.net
An outstanding blog about Central Asia.
Glenn Greenwald’s Unclaimed Territory
Greenwald, a civil rights litigator turned author, writes mostly about pressing legal issues like torture and the shoddy standards that prevail in mainstream journalism.
Balkinization
A community blog about legal issues of all types. |