Your favourite websites!

The Storm · 15 Jun 2005, 06:50 PM

As the thread title suggests! What are some of your favourite websites? So... post three of your favourite websites!
I'll start!

1. http://www.castleofspirits.com
2. http://www.erowid.org
3. http://mail.yahoo.com.au

How about you?

**Gankaku** · 16 Jun 2005, 12:34 AM

I won't include mail sites because that would blow out my three choices right there.

There are so many, but three of my faves are:

1. Livejournal
2. Flickr
3. Vegweb

hadaso · 16 Jun 2005, 06:02 AM

Google

Wikipedia

Of course the sites that are open most of the time in my browser are one webmail service that's very popular around here, and my employer's site...

glebarr · 16 Jun 2005, 06:20 AM

http://furl.net
http://www.allmusic.com
http://www.google.com

sterdeus · 16 Jun 2005, 10:38 PM

http://www.redflagdeals.com/
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.bonnevilleclub.com/ (my car)

glebarr · 17 Jun 2005, 06:41 AM

some new sites I've recently stumbled upon....
http://www.gataga.com social bookmark meta search
http://www.odeo.com podcast search directory
http://search.mercora.com music search
http://www.dontclick.it very cool...take a look

**JeffK** · 17 Jun 2005, 06:56 AM

www.dontclick.it is neat, isn't it.

I like donationcoder.com.

Jeff

xbot · 17 Jun 2005, 11:00 AM

Email Discussions Forum
Developer's Shed Forum (partly because I'm a moderator there)
Google
Cable News Network
SigX - I've got a one year subscription there in fact

Freeware Arena
/.
Driver Guide
Yahoo

Yeah, I know that's a lot, but I visit all of them at least once a day. CNN I've got hooked through an RSS feed, SigX of course I've got the program updating every 60 seconds.

maskull · 17 Jun 2005, 08:05 PM

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org) Keep abreast of cyber legal issues ... encyclopedic links.

Antique Radio Forum Check out the Clubhouse.

Free Republic Not mainstream media.

Broadband Reports Knowledgeable in-forum discussion of hardware, software, security, providers and more. If you buy online, Hot Deals is good.

**Gankaku** · 18 Jun 2005, 03:35 AM

Another place I LOVE is Stumble. Discover new sites that match your interest, plus there's community there - you can review websites, and see others' reviews. You can also add people that have similar interests to your list, and you'll get served pages they like.

I think dontclickit is the future of computer interfaces. Clicking is getting REALLY annoying. Removing the need to click everywhere will be great.

xbot · 18 Jun 2005, 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gankaku
I think dontclickit is the future of computer interfaces. Clicking is getting REALLY annoying. Removing the need to click everywhere will be great. [/b]

Oh yes, because clicking is such a tiring chore

maskull · 18 Jun 2005, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gankaku
Another place I LOVE is Stumble

Spyware Guard stops install of Stumbleupon and warns of a BHO (Browser Help Object) having been added.

I left it hanging and googled "Stumbleupon BHO spyware" and decided to remove it.

The first google hit: CastleCops.com classifies it as "BHO/CLSID/Toolbar Deep Dive" But codes it L & Tb (legitimate & toolbar).

Others were not so friendly towards Stumbleupon. In particular this thread about difficulty in removing it put me off.

PC World Forums: Very Slow Removal

DrStrabismus · 18 Jun 2005, 07:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JeffK
www.dontclick.it is neat, isn't it.

I would be somewhat neater if it worked with firefox. I cant see half the text.

I must say though that this kind of thing really does pin my BS meter. Clicking is simple, and intuitive; replacing it with a mishmash of cursor movements seem silly to me. Their line "navigating without the click can be quite difficult, if you are not used to it", seems to sum up the pointlessness of it, given that clicking is childsplay whether or not you are used to it.

It smacks of "we have a budget to spend, and three years to fill" to me. I'm afraid the Emperor is very naked.

[ Edit.
Having said that, it's quite astonishing how the computer industry can persuade people to use bad interfaces.

About 20 years ago I was talking to someone who was developing speech recognision for military applications such as cockpit weapons control, and he was saying how hard it is to reliably identify commands. So I suggested they invent a simple monosylabic language with a couple of dozen words that the machine couldn't confuse. He dismissed the idea out of hand, saying they couldn't expect pilots to do that, and it had to be English.

Now military pilots are highly trained people who have to follow orders, or they go to prison, but a few later businessmen were handing over hard cash to use a whole new alphabet on their palm pilots.

You couldn't make it up.]

dantheman · 18 Jun 2005, 09:21 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DrStrabismus
I would be somewhat neater if it worked with firefox. I cant see half the text.

...

Pretty good, i say! Using Firefox 1.0.4 to view www.dontclick.it and it works just fine for me.

My favs?

www.bloglines.com
www.betanews.com
www.answers.com

dantheman · 18 Jun 2005, 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by xbot
Oh yes, because clicking is such a tiring chore

I'm with you on that one xbot!

Wonder when the day will come when you can simply "look and click" ? Remember in Italy, found a pen back in the early nineties and it had red, blue, black and pencil stacked in it and all you had to do was look at the top to make your choice. No clicking!

- enjoy www.radio-canada.ca, www.zenit.org and news.google.ca for news.

15 Jun 2005, 06:50 PM	#1
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16 Jun 2005, 12:34 AM	#2
Gankaku Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,265	I won't include mail sites because that would blow out my three choices right there. There are so many, but three of my faves are: 1. Livejournal 2. Flickr 3. Vegweb

16 Jun 2005, 06:20 AM	#4
glebarr Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 220	http://furl.net http://www.allmusic.com http://www.google.com

16 Jun 2005, 10:38 PM	#5
sterdeus Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 182	http://www.redflagdeals.com/ http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://www.bonnevilleclub.com/ (my car)

17 Jun 2005, 06:41 AM	#6
glebarr Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 220	some new sites I've recently stumbled upon.... http://www.gataga.com social bookmark meta search http://www.odeo.com podcast search directory http://search.mercora.com music search http://www.dontclick.it very cool...take a look

17 Jun 2005, 06:56 AM	#7
JeffK Moderator Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Kingaroy, AU Posts: 3,179	www.dontclick.it is neat, isn't it. I like donationcoder.com. Jeff

17 Jun 2005, 08:05 PM	#9
maskull Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 41	Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org) Keep abreast of cyber legal issues ... encyclopedic links. Antique Radio Forum Check out the Clubhouse. Free Republic Not mainstream media. Broadband Reports Knowledgeable in-forum discussion of hardware, software, security, providers and more. If you buy online, Hot Deals is good.

18 Jun 2005, 03:35 AM	#10
Gankaku Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,265	Another place I LOVE is Stumble. Discover new sites that match your interest, plus there's community there - you can review websites, and see others' reviews. You can also add people that have similar interests to your list, and you'll get served pages they like. I think dontclickit is the future of computer interfaces. Clicking is getting REALLY annoying. Removing the need to click everywhere will be great.