I don't want limits, but guidelines would be nice.
It’s not that I don’t spend enough time on the ‘net (good gourd!), but I’ve noticed lately that I keep visiting the same handful of sites over and over: The Times and the WaPo for news; CuteOverload and ICanHazCheezburger for blood pressure regulation; Pandagon and Shakesville for progressive/feminist stuff…you get the idea. Unclutterer. Sociological Images. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
It’s kind of like I’ve forgotten that the internet is, for better and worse, an endless trough of options. Of course, I’m always overwhelmed by too many options. The Dude will ask if he can pick up something for me from the library, for example, and without looking directly at a list I’ve already made (an oh, do I have lists), I’m completely baffled by infinite choice.
So, obviously, you read us–and thank you so much for that. And as such, you’ve already proved your smarts and excellent taste, so I feel like asking for recommendations of other great sites to add to my roster is a no-brainer.
So, today’s FFT: what sites do you love the best? Check the most? Can’t live without? Are there any things you read that deserve wider circulation? Give us names, or links, if you got ‘em, but know that those might send your comment into the mod queue, so please be patient if it doesn’t pop up right away.
And thanks in advance!
As I was waiting for this page to open I was thinking about how Kate Harding’s site is basically dead since June and that BitchPhD hasn’t had a new post in a month. I did not check just before posting this, so something may have changed. I like both those sites and am sorry to see them grind to a halt.
I also like shakesville and pandagon and this one. Good reading all around. I’ve checked the blog links from here and occasionally enjoy some of the blogs I don’t regularly read.
news: Slate and The Atlantic.
Blood Pressure (Ha! Right on) icanhaz hands down.
tech: slashdot, via twitter feed.
atheism and sex: gretachristina.
Girl Genius Webcomic
Pretty tolook at, funny to read and full of ladies kicking ass.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
TigerBeatdown.com, OBVIOUSLY.
This column from the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/05/transgender-journey-depression
Chally is always astonishingly amazingly jawdropping “Oh good GOD that is THE POINT I HAVE BEEN MISSING” good: http://zeroatthebone.wordpress.com
In less social justicey sort of news, BadScience.net is always good and funny, and Reel History (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/series/reelhistory) fun if you are geeky about films or history or both.
I could go on but I think that’s quite enough for my first comment. Hi!
FailBlog and FailBook are both guaranteed to get me larfing when I’ve had a bad day.
For my inner Anglophile, there is no better place than Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down for the latest funny reviews of tea, cakes, biscuits, and all things tea-time.
Guanabee.com, especially for the awesome snark of Cindy Casares.
And I confess I’ve become slightly obsessed with Blog del Narco which reports the latest who, what, where and how of Mexico’s drug war in a way that Mexican newspapers cannot (the blogger who runs it is anonymous and deeply undercover). It’s in Spanish and the photos are extremely disturbing, but it’s a classic example of why the internets are so necessary.
Every time I try to think of one, I look at your blogroll and it’s already there.
I’m a music blogger, so I’m always on the lookout for music blogs penned by women. Feminist Music Geek is a good one, as is Bitch’s B-Sides blog. Carrie Brownstein had a great blog for a while on NPR called Monitor Mix.
OMG Becky that blogdelnarco has just got to be spread far and wide and far again! You have done a great service today.
Gracias, rodriguez. That blog is so essential. I pray for the safety of the dude running it on a regular basis. And the comments are insane and revealing at the same time.
Hmm, perhaps I’ll have to brush up on my Spanish to read blog del narco. (On first look, it doesn’t look like they use too much slang.)
Well, I left here and went back to check only to find, duh duh duuuuh….Bitch Ph.D is closing down. So ixnay on that.
@FashionablyEvil: No, the coverage isn’t slangy at all, and you can read it with just intermediate-level Spanish. The comments section, though, is a full-on tutorial in Mexican slang.
Regretsy keeps me sane.
http://www.fanniesroom.blogspot.com/
http://nolongerquivering.com/
And Savage Love/Slog
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Feminist blogs I frequent, aside from those already mentioned:
+ FWD/Feminists With Disabilities
+ Feministe
+ Fugitivus – less updating lately, but the archives c.2008-2009 are AMAZING
+ What Tami Said
+ Cereta’s LJ post “On Rape and Men” – which still has comments updating every now and then. Sometimes, I really need to read about examples of Nice Guys, rather than Nice Guys (TM).
Tech news:
+ Ars Technica
+ Technologizer
+ Gizmodo
Daily fun:
+ Woot!
+ Feminist Hulk’s twitter updates
+ io9
+ Wil Wheaton’s blog
Random goodness:
+ Cake Wrecks
+ The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” “Quotation” Marks
+ Oddly Specific
+ Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
+ LifeHacker
Comics:
+ Dinosaur Comics
+ XKCD
+ Kate Beaton’s “Hark, a Vagrant!”
+ Girls With Slingshots
+ A Softer World
+ Hyperbole and a Half
+ Chester 5000 XYV (warning: sexy funtimes with Victorian-era robots, and the April Fool’s Day extended joke is… problematic. But I heartily endorse the actual comic!)
And on that note, re-lurking.
I’m horribly dependent on UK sites, I’ve just realised.
I get my news from The Guardian, The BBC, The (UK) Times, The Independent and The Telegraph. I do look at the Mail to check their insanity levels and I’m more likely to read the New York Times, Wall St Journal and Washington Post on line then in paper format as I hate their print layouts with a great passion.
I glance at the Atlantic sometimes and the Daily Beast and Huffington Post, although I’m not a massive fan of aggravated news sites as they seem a bit shallow and I can get most of their info on the BBC.
I do read Salon although really only Heather Havrilesky because I enjoy her TV criticism plus Kate Harding and I look at NY Magazine and EW on line for browsing (although I actually buy the New Yorker). Plus i still sneak glimpses at Jezebel and Gawker, although less so these days.
I’m actually not a massive personal blog reader – this site apart – although I do look at Pandagon and i miss Kate Harding’s site as well.
Hmm so er other than that I do look at a couple of books blogs – John Self’s Asylum and Dovegreyreader as they are a lot of fun, oh and I read Maud Newton.
Finally I like self-styled siren’s blog to dip into – it’s fun on film and sometimes TV.
Things I check out daily:
Harpyness, Shakesville, FWD (feminists with disabilities). I also read RAWarrior (specific to my disability), and Sarah Nash’s Single with RA (though her site is down right now).
For my geek I read Wil Wheaton and XKCD.
For fun I check out Not Always Right, Epic Win, Monday thru Friday, Oddly Specific, and I Can Haz Cheezburger.
I read Oh Fransson! for quilting (if you want some eye candy, check it out… great pics of really cool modern stuff).
Seattle Times for local news, MSNBC for national. The news depresses me, so I skim the headlines on both those, just to know that my city / the world has not imploded while I wasn’t looking.
Forgot The Daily Show and Colbert Nation, which I access exclusively online.
Bitch PhD was my first blog love. Then Twisty, Shakesville, etc.
Here are my current faves:
Twistyyyy! http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/
9-2! http://rageagainstthemanchine.com/
Renee! http://www.womanist-musings.com/
http://mediamatters.org/blog/
http://susiemadrak.com/
http://feministe.us/blog/
Zuska! http://scientopia.org/blogs/thusspakezuska/
It looks like my daily blogroll actually differs from others’, so here goes:
Chookooloonks: Photo blog by this awesome, inspiring woman
Questionable Content: Awesome webcomic
Feminist Philosophers: Feminism! Philosophy! Snark! It doesn’t get any better.
Sociological Images: Always interesting
Anti-Racist Parent: I’m not a parent, but I enjoy it anyway
Racialicious: Looks at race in pop culture/media
Hugo Schwyzer: Good food for thought, even when I disagree with him. Also, he has his mp3s of his lectures which means I get to feel like I’m in a classroom again and my brain gets used. Hurray!
And yeah, I check them in that order, too. Harpyness usually falls before or after Feminist Philosophers…
Kate Harding is blogging a little at kateharding.info
My “core” sites are this one, Shakesville, Echidne of the Snakes, Fugitivius, Tiger Beatdown, ICanHazCheez, Hoyden About Town and I Blame The Patriarchy.
Lately I also read Tenured Radical and Historiann and Crooks and Liars.
A bunch of things that have been mentioned already, plus scienceblogs.com and Indexed (thisisindexed.com).
funnies:
-notalwaysright.com
-regretsy
-lamebook
-failbook
-ugliesttattoos.com
well, lots of cheezburger network sites.
-fundies say the darndest things
comics:
-xkcd
-questionable content
-happle tea
-romantically apocalyptic
-saturday morning breakfast cereal
-natalie dee/toothpaste for dinner/married to the sea/superpoop
-red meat
Must second Girl Genius, Questionable Content, Girls with Slingshots, and Tiger Beatdown. Adding to the list: The Rotund. For history geeks like me: Vast Public Indifference and Historiann.
I go to the cheezburger network for brain cleansing – I prefer FailBook, Pundit Kitchen, Up Next In Sports, and If Shoes Could Kill.
SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!!!!!!
On a side note, one of the classes in my program requires creating a live historical website, and there are 3 by friends of mine that are completely awesome. If you’re interested:
http://www.october1962.com – No Time To Talk, about the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.182ndinfantry.org – the Americal Division in WWII
http://www.steelnavy.org – the American Navy at the turn of the 20th century.
I’ll be producing my own in the spring.
-Slog
-notalwaysright.com-this, for those of you who don’t know, is stories from the front lines of retail, and it is hilarious.
-pandagon
-rust belt philosophy-a commentary on complex issues of philosophy as well as pop culture, music mixes and the cartoon of the week
-allrecipes
-trip advisor
I dumped Jezebel after their excursion into naked med. Enough already.
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I spend most of my online blog-time over at Shakesville. Other faves include:
Eschaton
Digbysblog / Hullabaloo
Kate Harding (as someone already mentioned above, she’s back at KateHarding.info)
OpenSalon (there are some really good writers over there)
XKCD
I used to love BitchPhD, I’m sad to hear that it’s shutting down.
If you like Australian progressive politics/ feminism/ laughs, Bad Hostess, Hoyden About Town, Blue Milk, and Scrivener’s Fancy are all good. For parenting stuff I like Mamapundit, Dooce, Sweet Juniper, and Girls Gone Child.
My most consistently read media/news/gossip/whatever site these days is The Awl. Plenty of Gawker and Jez refugees there.
(no links, but, eh, you can google all these sites)
Anyone have podcasts to recommend? I need new ones.
Female Science Professor
Hungover Owls
Icanhazcheezeburger
thanks for the tips! I’m going to look for the Red Meat comic site now. I forgot how damn funny it is!
That should have been naked *men*. I have no problem with medicines going starkers.
http://www.qwantz.com
Dinosaur comics – behold the awesomeness!
I can’t do it justice through my description – but it’s hilarious and ingenious and smart and silly all at the same time.
Zooborns, always and forever. I went to school with one of the guys for a while. Also Zooillogix (by that guy and his brother), but they don’t post there as often.
Ooh, so many good ideas here! Thanks, y’all.
SkipToMyLou: I’m a big fan of BBC podcasts. I had a subscription to Woman’s Hour and In Our Time for a while but can’t keep up with them at the moment – unfortunately!
News:
I am a complete and total Guardianista and read far too much CiF, as well as pretty much every education article they publish and everything by Charlie Brooker or Hadley Freeman. Now that I think about it, I really do hardly get my news from anywhere else. Ooops.
Except for maybe their German sister paper, der Freitag (very much recommended for any German speakers on here). I know, I’m diversification personified. I do also watch the German Tagesschau (classic nightly news broadcast) online – it’s really good for getting a quick summary of international news (and keeping up with what’s going on in Germany of course).
Entertainment:
The Daily Show and the Colbert Report (despite being outside the US, I have my ways of accessing them…mwahaha), Come Dine With Me (cooking competition show) on Channel 4OD and Mad Men on BBC iPlayer.
I used to read Jez but they definitely jumped the shark for me a year or so ago.
Regretsy is a great blood pressure soother. Same with Awkward Family Photos.
I am an internet junkie and visit lots and lots of places, preferring aggregate sites with multiple contributors (esp Shakesville and Feministing, as well as this site).
I go there after I hit the regular news sources (NYT, Wash Post, Slate, Salon) and some poly (i.e., political) sites (TPM, AlterNet, Media Matters and Kevin Drum at Mother Jones). I also like The Atlantic: Andrew Sullivan and Ta-Nehisi Coates, especially.
My new favorite fun site (think spitting-milk-out-your-nose funny)is Hyperbole and a Half (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com).
My Fem blog bookmark list is long and varied (50 links at this time), but I check in regularly with TigerBeatDown and Fugitivus, as well as Hoyden About Town, the F-word and Seeing is Believing.
Other fun – and maybe not-so-feminist – internet reststops include Copyranter and Crazy Days and Nights.
copyranter.blogspot.com
crazydaysandnights.net
I get a lot of my news in an extremely lazy way: through my dudefriend’s Google Reader feed. But I also find that you guys and Shakesville often cover news that is of particular interest to me. There are plenty of sites that I visit occasionally and catch up on the backlog of posts all at once (which I know fails to take advantage of one of the features of the interwebs. Eh.), but these are the ones I read regularly:
Feminist
Deeply Problematic
Fugitivus
FWD/Forward
Shakesville
Tiger Beatdown
Food
Smitten Kitchen
Personal
Dooce
Uppercase Woman
Comics
Hyperbole and a Half
Riot Nrrd
XKCD
Rage Against the Man-chine (entertaining & intellectual feminism): http://rageagainstthemanchine.com/
Femonade (feminist brain food): http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/
Just for fun:
Cake Wrecks: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
Postcards From Yo Momma: http://www.postcardsfromyomomma.com/