The Glade 4.0

What are your favorite places on the internet to pass the time for humor, cuteness, brain teasers, reading news, comic strips, online games, socializing, etc?
Inquiring minds need to know.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

No particular order:
io9.com
Cracked.com
Wikipedia.org
TVTropes.org
InnsmouthFreePress.com
Tor.com
Facebook.com
Twitter.com
HighDefDigest.com
MacRumors.com
Gizmodo.com
Kotaku.com

I've never heard of 8 of those...now I have something to do. Sweet. Thanks.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I spend a lot of time on youtube. I watch pro League of Legend players on twitch.tv(among other games, really. LoL is just my favorite, but I do enjoy watching people play DayZ as well). I read a lot of web comics. And I play a lot of online games.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Zombocom!!! You're back!

dayoftheshirt.com

Sites that sell t-shirts for a very limited time (usually 1 day) and then retire them. The shirts with shipping are typically pretty cheap (less than 13 -14 bucks total). If you like interesting/geeky shirts and want to almost guaranteed to be unique in wearing it, this is the place to go.

I've been told that the "Threadless" sites use poor quality tees, but I can vouch for TeeFury and Ript Apparel for using good quality tees. Teefury is one that many of the guys here at my work particularly like. The Support team here in fact all got The Problem With Ninjas shirt. A seemingly innocuous shirt. Until...

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Oooh, handy.

Oh god. You linked someone to TVTropes... we'll never see LK again.

Tech:
Engadget

Games:
Here, Fires of Heaven, Joystiq, GameFAQs

Design:
Smashing Magazine, personal professional twitter streams / blogs

Comics:
XKCD, Menage a 3, Penny Arcade, Ctrl Alt Del, VG Cats, WTF, C&H

Found Magazine



Two of my favorites:

That Box
Page Me Later

Edit:
ponyspin.com

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

See...now you have gone and ruined my life. If I get into that site, it's going to be like crack for me and I'll buy t-shirts so often that I'll stop paying bills, we lose all our stuff and LK shoots me in the head.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

shirt.woot.com and threadless.com also good for shirts.

I sometimes spend hours plugging random phrases into google image search. Hilarity is never far behind.

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She'll probably still be distracted by TVTropes.

Until the ISP and electric bills don't get paid. Nitefox, prioritize those as the last utilities you keep up.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Hmm... BikeForums is a regular stop.

And here.

Otherwise, I read webcomics as they update, and spend a lot of time on GradCafe giving grad school application advice, and the Chronicle of Higher Education reading articles and OpEd pieces.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

I like Pinterest and Official Sunshine (Jhorra's wife's web page-- www.officialsunshine.com)

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

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....what? XD

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Apparently I spend hours upon hours surfing youtube for my favorite music (mostly older one-hit-wonder type stuff) and posting tidbits of it here in the earbug thread....

I really need to find a new hobby....

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

TVtropes and Wikipedia top the list for me.

At a certain training program I attended, I got a reputation (not necessarily undeserved) for total nerdiness amongst my classmates. Wikipedia was not blocked on the computers in question, so I spent a lot of time there reading about (what else?) military stuff.

Everyone else was looking at online shopping, Jersey Shore, whatever.

I also never got yelled at by the instructors because Wikipedia looks quite innocuous.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

LadyKate: It's very tragic and I'm so sorry. He asked me to hold his gun while he got under the sink to fix the leak. He then asked me for a wrench and the gun went off and blood got all over his nice new t-shirt. Do y'all think I will still be able to collect on the insurance policy, since it was an accident and all?

Officer: Well ma'am, since it was an accident I'm sure there won't be any trouble with that. Now about all those t-shirts you want to donate to the police benevolent auction, where would they be?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

My daily visits:

http://www.cocorahs.org/ - Every morning at 7AM to submit my data
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/ - to check outlook, radar, anticipated spotter activation, etc...
http://skywarn.org/ - to check out the overall situation
http://www.heavens-above.com/ - look for upcoming iridium flares and ISS passes

And then for reading and posting:
http://www.physicsforums.com/index.php
http://forums.randi.org/
http://forums.xkcd.com/
http://community.us.mensa.org/forums/
http://www.skywarnonline.com/forums/index.php
http://www.skepticforum.com/
http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/ubbthreads.php

Semi-regular reads:
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/
http://thedailywtf.com/
http://www.packers.com/
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth

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