So it’s your lunch break at work, or you’re at home and the children are (THANK YOU JEBUS) napping, and instead of jumping on your next office project or tackling the never-ending laundry pile, you sit in front of your computer, and . . . well, what are you looking at?
Other than personal blogs and embarrassing, brain-rotting things like People.com and CNN.com, I’ve got a few favorite websites I like to check in with when I have some downtime. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours, okay?
(Heh.)
[BB-Blog]. “A site of link-ity goodness”, as she calls it. I have no idea how I stumbled onto this site but I sure am glad I did. Like most of the site authors on this list, she consistently finds the most interesting, quirky, cool stuff on the web and posts it for the world’s viewing pleasure. LOVE.
swissmiss. Edited by a self-described Swiss designer gone NYC, she keeps an incredible archive of amazingly neat things, from art to kid’s toys to consumer industrial design to weird/funny videos to . . . well, just go read.
desire to inspire. This blog collects interior design photos, and it’s always a visual feast to check out the images. Makes me feel vaguely guilty for my entirely blah home decor, but I can always fantasize about what I’d do with my house if I had lots of, you know, creativity.
kottke.org. Oh, you know kottke.org, “home of fine hyptertext products”, right? Is it lame to recommend kottke.org because the assumption should be that everyone is already reading kottke.org? I don’t know.
Not Martha. Not Martha is a longtime favorite of mine, and she never fails to deliver fascinating content whether she’s documenting her craft/food projects (including, oh my god, these amazing bacon cups) or sharing a list of links that she’s been looking at lately. So awesome.
Note that NONE of these are parenting-related because dude, I read enough of that stuff as it is. Okay, so what are your top sites for lunchtime browsing?
If you watch Project Runway, you have to also read Project RunGay (http://http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/). Sometimes it’s better than the actual show!
jaime | March 7th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Let’s see. I’m a big fan of your writing, so all your stuff comes first:
All & Sundry
SundryBuzz
Milk & Cookies
Your Parentdish blog, even though some of the commentors over there are total nutbars… seriously, wtf?
Other good ones:
Strange Maps
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
The Comics Curmudgeon
http://joshreads.com/
So, Did You Watch?
http://sodidyouwatch.blogspot.com/
Amalah.com
http://www.amalah.com/amalah/
43 Folders, because reading about getting things done is sometimes more fun than actually doing them
…and Not Martha is on my list too– awesome indeed!
shygirl | March 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
You don’t even want to know. I have an ungodly number of feeds in Google Reader, and seem to add a few more every week. I have them tagged to sort into folders, and that helps…but sometimes it’s CRAZY. Some of the blog folders/categories are:
Career and business
Family
Issues/commentary
Pop culture
General info (Lifehacker goes here)
Books and reading
Local blogs
Current number of subscriptions: 195. I need to clear out some of the dormant ones, but yikes.
Florinda | March 7th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
oooh i love not martha! stumbled on that one just recently myself! and i have never heard of the rest of those that you listed so i will be checking them out!
some of my favs:
http://www.xkcd.com - geeky cartoons that crack me up! warning -VERY techie geeky
well the rest are people whose blogs i have become addicted to and/or random stuff like the blogs for google because i am in love with all things google! (and a geek)
kate | March 7th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Oh, yay! Thanks so much. This made me happy.
BB | March 7th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Oh wow! I have a lot. Some are work related, some are blogs of friends, but a favorite that I check daily is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colagrl/
KathyHowe | March 8th, 2008 at 3:48 am
ACK! While I do LOVE Susan’s photography that was not the link I meant to share here. LOL
Here it is:
http://unclutterer.com/
KathyHowe | March 8th, 2008 at 3:49 am
http://televisionwithoutpity.com
Seriously the biggest time suck ever invented if you venture into the forums.
Is CNN.com brain-rotting? Damn. I thought that was my virtuous one.
Jan | March 8th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Wow. That desire to inspire site is awesome. It makes me feel lame because a) whose place LOOKS like that?! and b) my first thought was, MAN, that’d be a bitch to clean; do you have to wash bed-netting?
When I need a laugh I go here:
http://pbfcomics.com/
Twisted, but funny.
launchingsloth | March 8th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I want to live in every space on that design to inspire site. Good lord.
I’ve just culled my RSS list, actually, because it was turning, um, insane. So now it’s:
Pillsbury’s daily recipe thing
All of your blogs (and even CrazyDish because the lunatics there astound)
Cookie Madness
Cheap Ass Gamer
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Sew, Mama, Sew!
Anthony Bourdain’s blog on the Travel Channel site
Annnnd a slew of web comics like Wondermark and Buttersafe
Alley | March 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Hi!
I totally read kottke.org, and I like you’re site because DUH- you are creative. Man, I really need to start my own site. I started being vegetarian this year (my boyfriend has been one since he was 15-jeebus), so looking at baconcups um…is like superblasphemous food porn sometimes. Being vegetarian is a lot easier now though. Except for the new, happy relationship 15 that I’ve gained. I like your sundrybuzz because one day, ONE DAY I will succumb to $34 L’Occitane scrub!
I visit
superdeluxe.com and watch tim & eric awesome so-Great Job! and Babycakes
evilneedles.com (my friend since 9th grade is the designer)
dooce.com
various music sites (who’s playing in my area, Neko Case, etc)
etsy.com
frannie | March 10th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la
http://www.lastnightsdinner.net
http://blogs1.marthastewart.com/blueprint (I have to settle for the blog now that the magazine is defunct)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod
http://www.overheardintheoffice.com
angela | March 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Besides your blog(s), I religiously read
http://www.swistle.blogspot.com
http://www.untanglingknots.com
http://www.amalah.com
http://www.dooce.com (obviously)
Also on the list of “doesn’t eveybody read these?”
http://www.gofugyourself.com (love!)
Jill | March 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
This woman is funny & sassy:
http://www.thepioneerwoman.com
She also posts recipes with photos and step-by-step instructions:
http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com
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