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Your Take On(line) Reality?
Omega1045 asks: "It is a fact that our perception is based on the information given to us. I find tha Slashdot readers offer a wealth of knowledge though the various sites they reference. I ask Slashdot, where do you surf to on a daily basis? What is your daily pattern of information retrieval? This is of particular interest to me as the Internet has made us all publishers. There are many sources of information, all with their own slant on the day's news, many non-traditional. Where do my fellow peers go on a daily basis?"
Well... Slashdot of course. :)
Avalanche.org. Don't leave home without it.
Rob Malda is a 26-year old white male with a stocky build and a beard. His head is shaved. He responded to my ad to be interviewed for this article wearing only leather pants, leather boots and a leather vest. I could see that both of his nipples were pierced with large-gauge silver rings.
Questioner: I hope you won't be offended if I ask you to prove to me that you're a nullo. Just so that our readers will know that this isn't a fake.
Rob: Sure, no problem. (stands and unbuckles pants and drops them to his ankles, revealing a smooth, shaven crotch with only a thin scar to show where his genitals once were).
Q: Thank you. That's a remarkable sight.
(laughs and pulls pants back up). Most people think so.
Q: What made you decide to become a nullo?
(pauses). Well, it really wasn't entirely my decision.
Q: Excuse me?
The idea wasn't mine. It was my lover's idea.
Q: Please explain what you mean.
Okay, it's a long story. You have to understand my relationship with Michael before you'll know what happened.
Q: We have plenty of time. Please go on.
Both of us were into the leather lifestyle when we met through a personal ad. Michael's ad was very specific: he was looking for someone to completely dominate and modify to his pleasure. In other word, a slave.
The ad intrigued me. I had been in a number of B&D scenes and also some S&M, but I found them unsatisfying because they were all temporary. After the fun was over, everybody went on with life as usual.
I was looking for a complete life change. I wanted to meet someone who would be part of my life forever. Someone who would control me and change me at his whim.
Q: In other words, you're a true masochist.
Oh yes, no doubt about that. I've always been totally passive in my sexual relationships.
Anyway, we met and there was instant chemistry. Michael is a few years older than me and very good looking. Our personalities meshed totally. He's very dominant.
I went back to his place after drinks and had the best sex of my life. That's when I knew I was going to be with Michael for a long, long time.
Q: What sort of things did you two do?
It was very heavy right away. He restrained me and whipped me for quite awhile. He put clamps on my nipples and a ball gag in my mouth. And he hung a ball bag on my sack with some very heavy weights. That bag really bounced around when Michael fucked me from behind.
Q: Ouch.
(laughs) Yeah, no kidding. At first I didn't think I could take the pain, but Michael worked me through it and after awhile I was flying. I was sorry when it was over.
Michael enjoyed it as much as I did. Afterwards he talked about what kind of a commitment I'd have to make if I wanted to stay with him.
Q: What did he say exactly?
Well, besides agreeing to be his slave in every way, I'd have to be ready to be modified. To have my body modified.
Q: Did he explain what he meant by that?
Not specifically, but I got the general idea. I guessed that something like castration might be part of it.
Q: How did that make you feel?
(laughs) I think it would make any guy a little hesitant.
Q: But it didn't stop you from agreeing to Michael's terms?
No it didn't. I was totally hooked on this man. I knew that I was willing to pay any price to be with him.
Anyway, a few days later I moved in with Michael. He gave me the rules right away: I'd have to be naked at all times while we were indoors, except for a leather dog collar that I could never take off. I had to keep my head shaved. And I had to wear a butt plug except when I needed to take a shit or when we were having sex.
I had to sleep on the floor next to his bed. I ate all my food on the floor, too.
The next day he took me to a piercing parlor where he had my nipples done, and a Prince Albert put into the head of my cock.
Q: Heavy stuff.
Yeah, and it got heavier. He used me as a toilet, pissing in my mouth. I had to lick his asshole clean after he took a shit, too. It was all part of a process to break down any sense of individuality I had. After awhile, I wouldn't hesitate to do anything he asked.
Q: Did the sex get rougher?
Oh God, yeah. He started fisting me every time we had sex. But he really started concentrating on my cock and balls, working them over for hours at a time.
He put pins into the head of my cock and into my sack. He attached clothespins up and down my cock and around my sack. The pain was pretty bad. He had to gag me to keep me from screaming.
Q: When did the idea of nullification come up?
Well, it wasn't nullification at first. He started talking about how I needed to make a greater commitment to him, to do something to show that I was dedicated to him for life.
When I asked him what he meant, he said that he wanted to take my balls.
Q: How did you respond?
Not very well at first. I told him that I liked being a man and didn't want to become a eunuch. But he kept at me, and wore me down. He reminded me that I agreed to be modified according to his wishes, and this is what he wanted for me. Anything less would show that I wasn't really committed to the relationship. And besides, I was a total bottom and didn't really need my balls.
It took about a week before I agreed to be castrated. But I wasn't happy about it, believe me.
Q: How did he castrate you?
Michael had a friend who was into the eunuch scene. One night he came over with his bag of toys, and Michael told me that this was it. I was gonna lose my nuts then and there.
Q: Did you think of resisting?
I did for a minute, but deep down I knew there was no way. I just didn't want to lose Michael. I'd rather lose my balls.
Michael's friend restrained me on the living room floor while Michael videotaped us. He used an elastrator to put a band around my sack.
Q: That must have really hurt.
Hell yeah. It's liked getting kicked in the balls over and over again. I screamed for him to cut the band off, but he just kept on going, putting more bands on me. I had four bands around my sack when he finished.
I was rolling around on the floor screaming, while Michael just videotaped me. Eventually, my sack got numb and the pain subsided. I looked between my legs and could see my sack was a dark purple. I knew my balls were dying inside.
Michael and his friend left the room and turned out the light. I lay there for hours, crying because I was turning into a eunuch and there wasn't anything I could do about it.
Q: What happened then?
Eventually I fell asleep from exhaustion. Then the light switched on and I could see Michael's friend kneeling between my legs, touching my sack. I heard him tell Michael that my balls were dead.
Q: How did Michael react?
Very pleased. He bent down and felt around my sack. He said that it felt cold.
Michael's friend told me that I needed to keep the bands on. He said that eventually my balls and sack would dry up and fall off. I just nodded. What else could I do at that point?
Q: Did it happen just like Michael's friend said?
Yeah, a week or so later my package just fell off. Michael put it in a jar of alcohol to preserve it. It's on the table next to his bed.
Q: How did things go after that?
Michael was really loving to me. He kept saying how proud he was of me, how grateful that I had made the commitment to him. He even let me sleep in his bed.
Q: What about the sex?
We waited awhile after my castration, and then took it easy until I was completely healed. At first I was able to get hard, but as the weeks went by my erections began to disappear.
That pleased Michael. He liked fucking me and feeling my limp cock. It made his dominance over me even greater.
Q: When did he start talking about making you a nullo?
A couple of months after he took my nuts. Our sex had gotten to be just as rough as before the castration. He really got off on torturing my cock. Then he started saying stuff like, "Why do you even need this anymore?"
That freaked me out. I always thought that he might someday take my balls, but I never imagined that he'd go all the way. I told him that I wanted to keep my dick.
Q: How did he react to that?
At first he didn't say much. But he kept pushing. Michael said I would look so nice being smooth between my legs. He said my dick was small and never got hard anymore, so what was the point of having it.
But I still resisted. I wanted to keep my cock. I felt like I wouldn't be a man anymore without it.
Q: So how did he get you to agree?
He didn't. He took it against my will.
Q: How did that happen?
We were having sex in the basement, and I was tied up and bent over this wooden bench as he fucked me. Then I heard the doorbell ring. Michael answered it, and he brought this guy into the room.
At first I couldn't see anything because of the way I was tied. But then I felt these hands lift me up and put me on my back. And I could see it was Michael's friend, the guy who took my nuts.
Q: How did you react?
I started screaming and crying, but the guy just gagged me. The two of them dragged me to the other side of the room where they tied me spread eagled on the floor.
Michael's friend snaked a catheter up my dick, and gave me a shot to numb my crotch. I was grateful for that, at least. I remember how bad it hurt to lose my balls.
Q: What was Michael doing at this time?
He was kneeling next to me talking quietly. He said I'd be happy that they were doing this. That it would make our relationship better. That kind of calmed me down. I thought, "Well, maybe it won't be so bad."
Q: How long did the penectomy take?
It took awhile. Some of the penis is inside the body, so he had to dig inside to get all of it. There was a lot of stitching up and stuff. He put my cock in the same jar with my balls. You can even see the Prince Albert sticking out of the head.
Then they made me a new pisshole. It's between my asshole and where my sack used to be. So now I have to squat to piss.
Q: What has life been like since you were nullified?
After I got over the surgery and my anger, things got better. When I healed up, I began to like my smooth look. Michael brought friends over and they all admired it, saying how pretty I looked. It made me feel good that Michael was proud of me.
Q: Do you have any sexual feeling anymore?
Yes, my prostate still responds when Michael fucks me or uses the buttplug. And my nipples are quite sensitive. If Michael plays with them while fucking me, I have a kind of orgasm. It's hard to describe, but it's definitely an orgasm.
Sometimes Michael says he's gonna have my prostate and nipples removed, but he's just kidding around. He's happy with what he's done to me.
Q: So are you glad Michael had you nullified?
Well, I wouldn't say I'm glad. If I could, I'd like to have my cock and balls back. But I know that I'm a nullo forever. So I'm making the best of it.
Michael and I are very happy. I know that he'll take care of me and we'll be together always. I guess losing my manhood was worth it to make that happen for us.
OMG BIG PENIS ATE MY SOUP
The Politech mailinglist.
From http://www.politechbot.com/info/about.html:
Acts@core.mailboks.com Acrux@core.mailboks.com Adam@core.mailboks.com Adar@core.mailboks.com Ada@core.mailboks.com
slashdot.org
newsforge.com
theregister.co.uk
my university's daily newspaper (no link!)
fark.com
the smirking chimp
dr. fun
the daily vault (although i review there once in a while)
google news
daily rotten
lwn.net
crackmonkey archives
the dot
kde-look.org
corona's coming attractions
snopes' update page
doc's weblog
And I think that's about it for a daily basis.
OS News (all about OSes and more, my favourite next to /.)
Heise News (German IT news, the guys that make the c't) - they have an English Version, too (though you won't find anything there)
Penny-Arcade what? you only visit it once-a-day? sheesh...
My daily trip usualy begins with comics strip:
c om,
:)
User Friendly
Mega Tokyo
Sinfest
Then, I usualy go to Slashdot. Then its off to the
linux game tome (happypenguin.org),
then linuxgames.com. After that comes
gbacentral.net,
doomworld,
desktoplinux.
firingsquad.com,
tomshardware.
Oh, and TheHaus.net and icculus.org.
Whem I'm bored I sometime check ve3d.com and
http://www.redlynx.com/phobiaIII/index.html (to see if the long delayed Phobia 3 version is finaly out).
About once a week I check linuxhardware.org, but its not updated often.
Also, I frequently browse sourceforge.net, contributing to escape of the unicorn (www.sourceforge.net/projects/eounicorn) which is in early beta.
That's about it, now you know everything about my browsing habits and didn't have to install any spywares into my computer.
Have I been fooled?
Common Dreams is absolutely incredible. Pulls together progressive news and opinion from newspapers and magazines all around the world. You truly will be exposed to news that you will never see if you stick with the New York Times. Don't let the word 'progressive' scare you either. While I would agree there is a lot of what many would consider "liberal" opinion, the emphasis is on hard news. Just as I would never discount something that's been labelled 'conservative' out of hand, allow yourself the same liberty with this fine site and do yourself the favor of truly broadening your perspective. This is what the internet was meant for.
I have a definite list and surprisingly an order too (anyone else do this compulsively?)
1.) CNN
2.) LinuxToday
3.) OSnews
4.) KernelTrap
5.) Yahoo! Mail - Only including this because it's in my list.
6.) ExtremeTech
7.) AnandTech
8.) Tom's Hardware
9.) 2cpu
10.) Slashdot - Last because it takes the longest.
Hmm, come to think of it I have some wierd habits while surfing too. When I'm traveling my path of websites, I picture them on a 2d plane with distance in between. CNN on the left, linuxtoday in the lower middle, etc. Anyone else do this?
Best slashdot comment
By the way, let me take this oppurtunity to sing the praises of RSS, an XML schema, that allows for new aggragtors such as NetNewsWire for OSX to collect and read blog, new sites, etc... from one app... Wonderful stuff.... If your websites aren't outputting it, they should be!
"Realworld" News
indymedia.org - far left news and thoughts
newsmax.com - far right news and thoughts
nytimes.com - somewhere inbetween, leaning to the left
I do this to balance things out so that hopefully the info I am being fed (and don't lie to yourself, you ARE being fed) is at least a bit varied, and I can try to make own my own conclusions...
What is popular and currently interesting: (Popular doesn't mean best, but i AM interested in what's popular)o rg
daypop.org/top
memepool.com
slashdot.
Tecnical Reference
phpbuilder.com - php and mysql reference
http://forums.macnn.com/ - all things Mac
devshed.com - more php and mysql
www.macdevcenter.com - more Mac
macosxhints.com - OSX centric
arstechnica.com - everything else!
Breaking Mac News:
maccentral.com
macnn.com
thinksecret.com (for somewhat reliable rumors)
General Interest
howstuffworks.com - one of THE most underated sites online
Fun
I have a girlfriend for fun.
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
www.google.com www.slashdot.org www.fark.com www.drudgereport.com www.regexp.org www.willworkforfood.org www.ryanflynn.com www.mp3.com www.sf.net www.perlmonks.org www.freshmeat.net
The links are just abbreviations, so you have to explore to discover what they mean, but the advantage to this is that I can cite the abbreviation easily each time I link a story found via that source.
The idea of putting them in rows at the top is so that frequent visitors to my blog can jump to other sources if they don't find anything new/interesting at mine. (I call them 'jumpbars'.) Lately I've started adding little asterisks for sources that have recently done especially noteworthy updates.
My local startpage duplicates the jumpbars, and adds less-frequent sources like monthlies. When I started blogging I made a serious effort to learn the update schedules of every online periodical, and I created a generic startpage that summarised these. (It's badly out of date now.) The idea was to encourage people to copy this page and customise it to their interests. But knowing when zines usually update makes it easy to prioritize my surfing-schedule. (I wish all periodicals spelled this info out on their front page, eg The Onion comes out late Tuesday.)
I think NewsHub still isn't appreciated for its headline-aggregation pages. I'd use NewsLinx too except that most all the tech zines have decided to use obnoxiously junky html-design, so I stick with Slashdot and the Register for tech news.
My politics are lefty, and Sam Smith's Progressive Review gives a very deep daily summary with links, while Common Dreams reprints full articles from many major sources. A newcomer is Memory Hole that specializes in stories the mainstream media tries to suppress/ignore.
For space news, NasaWatch is tops. I've mostly given up on Drudge and Salon, and am having doubts about the BBC science page.
Other daily faves include the AstroPic of the Day, two poem-of-the-day sites, Zippy the Pinhead, and various blogs. A weekly that I think is underappreciated is Dean Baker's Economic Reporting Review that gives a very dry weekly critique of economics-propaganda in the NY Times and Washington Post. (They very systematically distort the facts with the obvious goal of redistributing the wealth upwards.)
First, my site to see if any new pictures have been posted http://pihlopase.mine.nu/albums
http://slashdot.org
http://art.gnome.org
http://themedepot.org
http://freshmeat.themes.net
http://debianplanet.org
http://gnome.org
http://google.com
Then I usually log into Blackboard at school to see if I have any new assignments or if any messages have been posted since I last checked. Then it's off to my numerous webmail accounts with netscape.com, cup of coffee, hop on the bus, go to class. Sneak a peak at Slashdot while the teacher is not looking. lather, rinse, repeat
Throughout the day I go through BBC news, slashdot, techdirt, the inquirer, the register, ananova and wired. I also scan through the mass of RDF wires that I have on the left in /. for anything intersting.
About thirty webcomics. (Really.)
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And then:
Newsforge
Overclockers.com
Slashdot
The Register
Osopinion
Osnews
Wired
theinquirer.n
On my way to work I listen to Don Wade and Roma out of Chicago for semi-coherant national news and talk.
Go here to create your own Slashdot dis
http://www.bluesnews.com/
http://www.shacknews.com/
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.linuxgames.com/
http://www.icculus.org/
http://www.flipcode.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.gouranga.com/
http://curmudgeon.linuxgames.com/
http://icculus.org/fingerdigest.html
http://kerneltrap.org/
No doubt this will be buried into the mass of similar posts before long, but it is a decent format for listing where people generally go...
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In soviet russia reality takes on you!
10 slashdot
20 sleep 30
30 goto 10
I've had to cut down on blogging lately, lest I get fired. But my daily routine is:
n dex2&cid=9 65 - Yahoo! News Most Popular
news.google.com (Used to be news.yahoo.com - I like Google better).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=i
Slashdot.org (Where I come to flame, troll, be trolled, etc)
Kuro5hin.org (For thoughtful debate)
Salon.com (+5, Insightful)
Plastic.com (+5, Funny)
portland.indymedia.org (Check on the local anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters)
www.indymedia.org (Check on the global anarchists/communists/Earth! Firsters)
- James
- Slashdot... Hardly a surprise here..
- Freshnews.. I really like this news aggregator site, from there, I usually scan OReilly, Kuro5hin, Ars and a few other sites they feature for interesting articles and visit if the title seems interesting..
- Use Perl.. Top 10 journals, mostly
- Google news.. This replaced visits to BBC, CNN and a few others
- Freshmeat.. and a few other shareware sites from time to time
- Joel on Software.. and a few more blogs, like Scripting
- Trillian, Phoenix, Apache and a few more software sites for possible updates...
- Webmail accounts
Yeah, that's about it.. Fortunately for my productivity, I cant find a good public news server, or I'd also be on Usenet for a large portion of the daywww.freshnews.org - very handy headline summary site for a bunch of other news sources, including:
slashdot
zdnet
o'reilly network
newsforge
coding style
linux today
freshmeat
bsd today
megarad
techdirt
ars technica
the register
the inquirer
acm
use perl;
madville
linux news
kuro5hin
linux hardware
designtechnica
geeknews
warp2search
icannwatch
neowin
RISKS digest
internet news
wired news
macslash
advogato
tom's hardware
here for starters.
/. of course
www.cnn.com
www.foxnews.com
www.msnbc.com
www.usatoday.com
boxofficemojo.com
www.fark.com
starnix.org
news.google.com
aard.org
nicoal.org
www.yzedf.com/links.html
www.ninenine.com
www.sexkey.com
www.speedtv.com
After that it's usually off to non-news stuff like Diesel Sweeies or whatever.
I look at the local newspaper occasionally, even though their editing is awful and they get facts wrong in the subject areas I know about, which makes me wonder if they ever get it right the rest of the time. I only watch TV news if something important is happening. (Celebrities getting arrested isn't important, so I rarely watch TV news.) If something interesting is happening and I don't think the TV news is worth turning on, I hit the Google News beta site and type keywords.
My main sources of information are the newspaper, TV news bulletins and teletext. The only site on the internet that I visit more than daily is /.. This is how I get the news. If I want information on a specific subject I try to find it on the Internet using Google.
-- Cheers!
OK, the sites I visit every day are:
Slashdot - my home page, visited several times per day.
The Register - also several times per day.
Amiga news sites, each visited once per day:
Amiga.org
AmigArt
Czech Amiga News
Online comics, each visited once per day:
Dilbert
Peanuts
That's all folks!
I don't actually read this site very often, but I happened upon it one day and I don't know what to make of it. Perhaps some slashdotters can either say, "no, this site is full of made up references" or "uhh, I guess I can't disprove what it says, so that means it's a pretty lousy world."
anyways, I found out some information about the Serbians in World War II that seems likely to be true and interesting.
Emperor's new clothes
FOXNews
Drudge
Rush
InstaPundit
The Bleat
Dilbert
Blue's
jwz
Davezilla
Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."
What this means is you can bookmark a group of URLs, and then download them in parallel. That's much faster, because you don't have to wait for each to download individually, since even with broadband, it takes a while for each page to download. Also, you don't have to think about it; you can download the same URLs every day.
Try it; it's very cool; atleast it is if you like using tabbed browsing.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Most of the obvious sites have already been posted, but I'd like to add two more to the list:
Unless I'm moderating I usually just skim the top with highest scores first although I regularly work my way to the first posts at the bottom. Not to join on the bandwagon but moderation has gotten terrible so I've set all the negative moderations to have a 1+ value in my preferences. This in effect negates them so an article has as fair a chance of reaching me as any other not moderated. I haven't decided that all negative moderations are evil so I also haven't come to the conclusion that any moderation is worth my attention. I'll set my preferences to 2+ if that ever happens.
I follow up slashdot with a somethingawful.com chaser to set my mind at ease and to be reassured that getting aggrevated is futile since the internet makes you stupid.
After reading the day's feature, I then check their Awful Link of the Day. Unless it belongs to a very original freak or a freak ailed by something an acquaintance suffers from, I pass. If it can't give me ammo to tease friends I always opt for my own nomination, macosrumors.com
In the rare case of an update I'll read it for laughs unless it's a processor based update. I don't have a comedy chaser ready for those instances so there's no point in winding myself up into a murderous rage.
A quick stop afterwards at maccentral.com usually satisfies the need for real Mac news although I'm thinking of solely switching to macdevcenter.com since they have Mac Central updates on a sidebar.
The subject says "5 daily reads" and for now that's macdevcenter.com which I got into by following slashdot articles. This slot is always being contested and it's a good thing I only read The Filthy Critic on Monday. --- and then I got tired of proofreading my post
If you disagree then it must be overrated, redundant or trolling.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
American news sucks - incomplete and mostly domestic. When you go to the BBC News, click the 'outside UK' option, and you'll get great world coverage without any news of the Midwestern family that heroically rescued their cat amidst a thunderstorm.
Whenever a new site I want/need to check regularly I add it to this list. It's like my morning newspaper, without the paper.
In my _Daily folder I currently have:
(Fun)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.htm
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html
http://www.userfriendly.org/
(Friends and blogs)
http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/sunbeam60/diary
http://www.rasmus.sigsgaard.com/blog.php
http://www.kuro5hin.org/
http://meidell.dk/blog
(News) http://slashdot.org/
http://wired.com/
http://www.computerworld.dk/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=1
http://www.memepool.com/
http://osnews.com/
http://www.shacknews.com/
http://www.gonegold.com/
Many of these are dispersed with a quick scan, and nothing more. Others are checked thoroughly and spawn many new tabs (like /.)
Give me liberty or give me kill -s 9
The stats and status page for an intranet service I'm involved in running.
www.dilbert.com - 'nuff said
keepersoflists.org - a bit hit and miss, but occasionally +5 coffee-through-nose funny
www.theregister.co.uk - essential
slashdot - 'nuff said
www.telegraph.co.uk - Yes, it's antidiluvian right-wing stuff, but the Alex cartoon strip in the business section is a deadly accurate parody of the financial services biz (currently exploring the world of unemployed investment bankers after Alex has been laid off by MegaBank....)
www.ananova.com/news - headline scan in case they've picked up something the BBC has missed.
Google news - For a more US-centric take on the world
catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ - The Risks list digest - when my automatic checker flags an update
www.economist.com - The Economist newspaper, on Fridays - I get the print edition too but the web site has additional stories.
Various news and info pages on employer's intranet.
Reuters news service via employer's intranet, especially for air transport information
3 airline booking sites every few weeks to track any useful special offers
Total time taken: maybe 15 minutes if there's a lot going on.
Yes, I'm an expat Brit IT-er working in financial services. How could you tell?
It seems every day I end up reading a particular .cx page. Usually it happens after I click on a link on a slashdot thread that I end up on that page. Guess I should learn to be a bit more careful. I finally gave up and make it a habit of visiting that page before reading other things so I won't be surprised later.
You can read the group nicely formatted at mcgroarty.net/inkfeed. Each includes a link to the site it comes from underneath the article.
It's rediculous. They have either pointless stories or stories that don't matter worth beans. Many times both. /. makes any reference to this pathetic wannabe science magazine.
i.e. The secret of hiccups!
I have absolutely no idea why
void
This is my normal daily browsing routine, in general order:
/. and whatever sites that takes me to
... after an hour or two of work it's time for relaxing
... Rinse and repeat the first block ... Rinse and repeat the second block ... ??? ... Profit!
Netscape Messenger
Yahoo! Mail
CNN.com
News.com
Googling for work and whatever sites that takes me to
Boners.com (less and less, not alot of updates lately)
DailyRotten.com and whatever sites that takes me to
Games-Workshop.com to see if there's anything new
Portent.net to check on 40K rumors
Googling for curiousity and whatever sites that takes me to
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
I've tried to shorten my list lately because I find I'm spending too much time going through each of these.
I visit these pretty much every day:
Globe Gazette - local paper at globegazette.com
Slashdot
BBC News
The Scotsman - thescotsman.co.uk
User Friendly
Various email account sites
If I have time I'll also visit:
The Register
sffworld.com Message Boards - sf/fantasy book discussions
babynames.com Message Boards - people ask for advice on names for their kids
I also get a NY Times email update in the morning and sometimes visit their site to read the stories when a headline grabs my eye.
One other site I recently started checking out is the World News Network - WN.com
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
1) Yahoo! Mail - our motto: "Better than Hotmail!"
2) Slashdot - News for Nerds
3) Washington Post - GF takes the morning paper with her
4) ArsTechnica - always looking for new hardware
5) eBay - not news? it's kinda like my price checking engine...
--trb
I'll probably be flamed for visiting notorious conservative site http://www.freerepublic.com/ , but the articles are actually quite balanced, and in these times of war you can read fascinating things from the horse's mouth in the Middle East. It's only the comments that aren't balanced (and some of them make me question the nature of human evolution). Still, if you want all the world's news in one place, I have yet to find a better way to get it.
:-(.
I tend to skip visiting Free Republic during days of light political activity, not that there's any such thing nowadays. But for War on Terrorism news it's perfect.
http://www.economist.com/ brings a European perspective to the news, although I often get my fix through the print edition instead of the web. Although Europe has not been good at supporting us against Iraq (although The Economist has been steadfast), it does have better journalism overall than the US.
I've been checking out la.indymedia.org because I want to film a big left protest. I notice that the left and right nowadays are arguing completely at cross-purposes; if you visit a left web site, it doesn't even address the points given on the right, and vice versa. I find this unfortunate; how can you make up your mind on the issues when the two sides won't even debate?
Slashdot, of course.
I join the mainstream of Slashdot in reading http://www.theregister.co.uk - it has just the right sarcastic bite to it to make it fun to read the news.
http://www.ubersoft.net/ , while uneven, often reaches the level of true greatness, as when they had Binky, the paperclip character from Office, on the witness stand testifying for "Ubersoft".
http://www.macsurfer.com/ keeps me updated on the Macintosh world. http://www.appleturns.com/ is probably the world's best Mac news site, if they would only start doing it again. Having a kid seems to have really damaged their production schedule
http://www.wired.com still has high-quality news articles on an interesting range of subjects.
I don't have any particular routine, but on a typical day I'll visit all those sites. Slashdot and Free Republic tend to send me to some pretty strange sites on occasion.
Slashdot.org Geek.com Think Secret (gotta keep up with the rumormills) 2600 Internet Storm Center FreeBSD Project Fink OpenDarwin Tucows ABCNews The Indy Channel (local Indianapolis news) CNN.com (take with 1 (one) grain of salt) UM Weather Nuvo.net (local Indianpolis news) IDSNews.com (IU-Bloomington news)
I go to a number of sites for "news" news; I find that the "same" news is very different coming from different countries:
...and a couple of sites for tech and science news:
BBC News, which everyone's familiar with;
CNN, the epitome of US government-sanctioned news;
The Economist, of course;
The Times of London,
Japan Today,
Pravda,
The Beijing Review,
Le Monde, and
The Tehran Times
EurekAlert, a great site for science and medicine press releases,
the former, but still running, Hacker News Network,
BottomQuark,
the phenomenal journal Nature,
Science magazine,
and, of course, The Source.
Some good comics, most of which you will all know, but which I love; here are a couple you might not know:
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, a comic that actually features a female sysadmin/techgoddess, and
Bateman Political cartoons, a fun political comic updated regularly.
And, of course, take a look at my sig... Click every day.
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Quick Loading Headlines From 190+ Tech Sites. Pick the sites you want to see headlines for and they give it to you.
Can't live without it!
Then (if there's still time before class, if not just after) I generally see whats up on
And well, thats about it. That I check frequently at least. I do like webcomics and strongly suggest that you check out Machall Megatokyo and Errant Story if you don't already though! And then there's also everything2 but its not news and I can't check it daily (or else I would do nothing all day but read!) its too good at just drawing you in. And the anime turnpike to go browsing through Anime fansites...
When i wake up in the morning, I crack open the daily newspapaper and.... wait that's not true. Lets start again. When I wake up in the morning I turn on my computer, and check out... webcomics.
Angst Technology, Ctrl Alt Del, Dilbert, Errant Story, Force Monkeys, Fox Trot, goats, Life of Riley, Mac Hall, Megatokyo, Misfire, Penny Arcade!, Sinfest, Something Positive, and finally Wendy.
Then, after my daily webcomic barage (not to say that these all update on a daily basis. Some are good [ like ctrl alt del, and penny arcade ] and update regularly. others... well...) I frequent other sites, for information.
Slashdot of course (not linking it...)
Gamespot
Games workshop,
and
Unconventional Conformity.
Other than that, I have a few sites i goto every so often. Or ones which i check throughout the day. But they become less important than the comics.
-Gharbad
"Gharbad no Hurt!" -Gharbad
I check out slashdot, anandtech and other tech and science links. Also news.google.com and csmonitor.com (Christian Science Monitor). These to get an idea of the mainstream. I can't stand CNN and such so I skip those. Then I move on to my far left political links:
From the Wilderness http://www.fromthewilderness.com/
What Really Happened http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Centre for Research on Globalization http://www.globalresearch.ca/
Center for Cooperative Research http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/home.htm
Independent Media Center http://www.indymedia.org
Emperor's New Clothes http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm
9-11 the people's investigation http://www.911pi.com/
Guerrilla News Network http://www.guerrillanews.com
International A.N.S.W.E.R. http://www.internationalanswer.org/
UK: The Observer (John Pilger) http://www.observer.co.uk/
UK: Independent (Robert Fisk) http://argument.independent.co.uk/
As a side note, I rarely use browser bookmarks; I keep my own index.html that I update daily, putting in references to articles I like and updating the top portion, of which the above are a subset. Then I can keep a copy of this on the internet in case I ever need it from a remote location.
I put all my dailies in a folder called "Bored"
Here's some I haven't seen mentioned:
Ben's Bargains - because it's good to drool.
Homestar Runner - the only excuse for Flash on the web
Most of my dailies are listed in various strings, but each Friday, never forget....
Bob the Angry Flower!
Vintage computer games and RPG books available. Email me if you're interested.
More-or-less daily in more-or-less this order:
www.techrepublic.com (various depending on email newsletters)
www.sciencedaily.com
www.linux.org
www.desktoplinux.com
slashdot.org
www.wired.co
www.reuters.com
www.lexpress.fr
setiathome.ss
www.bartcop.com
weekly:
www.anchordesk.com
www.buzzflash.com
www.saro
www.cybersciences.com
www.infoworld
www.tvguide.com
www.mg.co.za
www.eweek.com