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Question: Plenty of beaches, but where are the best waves?

Funmonkey1 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:35:20 -0800

InternetFilter: Besides MetaFilter, whats the must read of the day? Tired of perusing the usual suspects for cool things on the internet. As I grow older find myself a bit less enthused over reddit, fark, digg, etc. As we all know, Metafilter is the holy grail of knowledge and all things fantastic, but I find myself wondering if there are a couple of pit stops missing before arriving here that will make my internet time better. Thinking along the lines of science, art, sociology, psychology, music and more. Any and all suggestions much appreciated.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:49:29 -0800

popurls.com is an aggregate of various feeds, including metafilter, digg, etc, but also others you might be interested in. Nothing incredibly highbrow, but I find that it's a good overview of what's new on the Intertubes today.

By: borkingchikapa

borkingchikapa — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:50:54 -0800

I see you use gmail, so try Google Reader - it lets you see things your contacts have found and posted there (if any of them use it, which they probably do).

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:51:35 -0800

I like to check out Arts & Letters Daily and BookForum for interesting "highbrow" links, usually to online essays & articles on just about any subject, as well as literary reviews and discussion.

By: Jaloux Saboteur

Jaloux Saboteur — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:53:46 -0800

yeah popurls is a good aggregator.
If you are interested in art, graphic design, photography and various wtf pictures i strongly recommend you ffffound.com.

By: letourneau

letourneau — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:56:56 -0800

Here's a heavily-favorited AskMe question similar to yours that accumulated a lot of suggestions this February.

By: Midnight Rambler

Midnight Rambler — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:04:36 -0800

For science news Scienceblogs is awesome. There are a ton of blogs there so you have a good choice of the exact field you're interested in.

By: bru

bru — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:17:26 -0800

Bruce: semantics, SF, design, Bollywood, spimes, travels, literati, carlabrunilogy, manhole covers, adriatics.
Warren: storytelling, music, comics, nerds community, beer, art ladies, foggy nights, dontlookery.
Régine: art, architecture, design, electronics, interactivity, ambient art, chic, futuresonic, ubiquity.

By: zabuni

zabuni — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:27:33 -0800

3quarksdaily, sorta of a less conservative version of aldaily.

By: Quarter Pincher

Quarter Pincher — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:49:48 -0800

I have a locally-stored HTML homepage that is just a giant, hand-forged, three-column table of links instead of using a bookmark system. I've got most of one column being links to newspaper comic strips/panels that I regularly read, largely from Comics.com and a few others from online newspapers that publish the oddball strips that don't have a regular site.

A few of the other links: GiveawayOfTheDay, Woot, Facebook (to play my daily allotment's worth of credits for various games), a bunch of friends' LJs/Xangas/etc, Filmoculous, Digg, Fark, Consumerist, Boing Boing, Waxy's links section, a few message boards to make the rounds on, a freebies site or two, Wunderground for my zipcode, a few enter-everyday-for-better-odds drawings, a torrent/RS site or two, Astronomy Picture of the Day, a small Google section with search/images/mail/maps at the ready, Laughing Squid, Winster, a YouTube section with the upload/myvideos/etc pages at the ready, and such.

By: mandal

mandal — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:53:16 -0800

A few times a week I stop by Fora.tv.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:55:21 -0800

wood s lot

By: ecmendenhall

ecmendenhall — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:37:47 -0800

Seconding 3quarks and A&L. There's usually enough interesting stuff between the two of them to waste away hours stuck in the Tubes.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:53:07 -0800

io9.com

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:19:12 -0800

The del.icio.us awesome tag is a crucial part of daily web surfing.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:20:35 -0800

Argh. My last link was broken, here's one that works.

By: Mr. Anthropomorphism

Mr. Anthropomorphism — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:52:37 -0800

See also: What are some good blogs/sites that are like kottke.org?

Also, I suggest kottke.org.

By: bilgepump

bilgepump — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:10:27 -0800

Physorg.com is a decent science blog that's worth a look.
The UN posts a daily Update Brief covering events around the world.
Albino Blacksheep is a fantastic flash-art blog (and linked on MeFi more than once).

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:19:19 -0800

Slate
The Smart Set
The Morning News
Bookslut

By: roger ackroyd

roger ackroyd — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:31:27 -0800

Mirabilis.ca never fails to inform/delight.

By: karizma

karizma — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:49:16 -0800

This is probably a bit more common than the other suggestions, but I really enjoy Lifehacker. It's my everyday must-read.