fark.com, digg, fmylife.com (if you're feeling particularly schadenfreude-y), boing-boing.net, xkcdb.com (which is similar to bash.org), and, of course, livejournal... but that one you're aware of.
ETA: Oh! And tvtropes.org. And when I've got hours to kill, I go reread Jacob's recaps of BSG on television without pity. But that takes a commitment.
Fark.com was fun. Boingboing.net, too. They've been bookmarked.
For some reason, trying to read the stuff on xkcdb.com and bash.org was hard. Not the content, just the presentation.
I wasn't sure what to feel about fmylife. Do I feel sorry for these people? Amused? Both? The pancreatic cancer one was especially hard, because having everyone beg off his big reveal to watch his cousin's new TV is funny, but pancreatic cancer has a 20% one year survival rate, so the guy's dying fast. Still, I bookmarked it.
Again, thanks for the links. And, you get bonus points for spelling "schadenfreude" correctly.
I get what you're saying re: fmylife. And that one in particular was rough (my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer 6 years ago). I do, though, assume that about half of them are false, since, you know... Internet.
xkcdb and bash do take some getting used to. It took me a while to really get how to read them, but these days it's like second nature, and they are often very amusing. I guess, also, familiarity with IRC helps.
I've become addicted to Twitter. You have to follow and un-follow judiciously, but you can end up with a nearly endless bunch of links to follow and new people to talk to.
I tend to read more than I post, but I find it keeps me up on the news and events better than anything else.
Try reading HOW TO LEARN TWITTER...even if it doesn't make sense yet: Simple steps http://cli.gs/V6ZypE
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ETA: Oh! And tvtropes.org. And when I've got hours to kill, I go reread Jacob's recaps of BSG on television without pity. But that takes a commitment.
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Fark.com was fun. Boingboing.net, too. They've been bookmarked.
For some reason, trying to read the stuff on xkcdb.com and bash.org was hard. Not the content, just the presentation.
I wasn't sure what to feel about fmylife. Do I feel sorry for these people? Amused? Both? The pancreatic cancer one was especially hard, because having everyone beg off his big reveal to watch his cousin's new TV is funny, but pancreatic cancer has a 20% one year survival rate, so the guy's dying fast. Still, I bookmarked it.
Again, thanks for the links. And, you get bonus points for spelling "schadenfreude" correctly.
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I get what you're saying re: fmylife. And that one in particular was rough (my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer 6 years ago). I do, though, assume that about half of them are false, since, you know... Internet.
xkcdb and bash do take some getting used to. It took me a while to really get how to read them, but these days it's like second nature, and they are often very amusing. I guess, also, familiarity with IRC helps.
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I tend to read more than I post, but I find it keeps me up on the news and events better than anything else.
Try reading HOW TO LEARN TWITTER...even if it doesn't make sense yet: Simple steps http://cli.gs/V6ZypE
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