Comments on: Friday Fun Thread: Your Other Favorite Sites

By: CrazyCatLady

CrazyCatLady — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:39:57 +0000

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/

By: Unpossible

Unpossible — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:45:28 +0000

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

By: Adrienne Lamb

Adrienne Lamb — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:23:45 +0000

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

By: Amanda Marcotte

Amanda Marcotte — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:09:45 +0000

Regretsy is a great blood pressure soother. Same with Awkward Family Photos.

By: Endora

Endora — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:15:31 +0000

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.

By: DangerMouse

DangerMouse — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:29:05 +0000

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.

By: AmBam

AmBam — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:49:10 +0000

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.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:09:02 +0000

That should have been naked *men*. I have no problem with medicines going starkers.

By: annimal

annimal — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:03:08 +0000

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!

By: SkipToMyLou

SkipToMyLou — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:52:11 +0000

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.

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