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I believe that there's already a thread for your favorite Disney websites, but this thread is to post some of our favorite non-Disney websites!

If you've ever chatted with me in the chat room here, you may have heard (well, read) of me talking about the "food blog".

Cheap Eats blog:
http://www.bloglander.com/cheapeats/

It's a website about buying and making food on a budget. It's addictive. I have wasted many an hour on that website.

Oh No They Didn't:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/

It's a celebrity gossip blog. It's extremely addictive. Sometimes they do post about Disney talent, so sometimes it's Disney-related. (FYI- some people use non-PG rated language in the comments section, so beware!)

Rip-Off Report:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/default.asp

This website is handy when you're looking for a job. Often on job websites (like CareerBuilder, Monster, and Craigslist), there are scams listed. If you're suspicious, you can search for a company on here and see if anyone has written about it, to see if it's a scam or not.

Food-Notes:
http://www.food-notes.com/

I just discovered this website while on the previously-mentioned Cheap Eats blog. It looks wonderful!

Survey Spot:
http://www.surveyspot.com/

It's a great survey website, and you actually see cash rewards accumulate (as opposed to many other survey websites).

Harris Poll:
http://www.harrispollonline.com/

This is another great survey website- I've been a member since I was about 16. You don't see cash rewards pile up, but they have a great catalog, and it's not hard to have points accumulate.

PineCone Research:
http://www.pineconeresearch.com/

The last of the survey websites that I'll post. This one also provides some good monetary rewards. These are the only 3 survey websites that I'm staying a member of, due to actually seeing rewards.

I'm sure that I'l post more as I think of them. Does anyone else have any favorite websites that you want to post to share?

http://www.RetroJunk.com
This is a great site for looking up TV shows, movies, and commercials you remember watching as a kid. There are also message boards to discuss memories of being a kid as well as current events.

http://www.ydkj.com
You Don't Know Jack is probably one of the funniest trivia game shows I have ever played. It's really funny when you select the wrong answer.

http://www.dvdactive.com
This is the site I usually use to look up when current movies are coming out on DVD.

http://www.Razzies.com
A good site to look up what movies are the worst. they also predict what movies they think will suck.

My bookmark is divided into 4 categories: Animation, Humor, Videogame and Personal pages. Here are some of my faves:

Pretty much everything in the Cheeseburger Network:
LOLcats
LOLdogs

Homestar Runner

For daily animation news I like to go to Animated News.

I also like videogames, so for daily Nintendo news I go to Go Nintendo. They post news nonstop!

I think that's all for now.

1. Encyclopedia Dramatica
2. OneManga
3. 4chan
4. Serebiiforum
5.Narutofan forums
6.AnimeNewsNetwork

youtube, 'cause that's where MST3K is, plus many other TV shows and movies etc.

Blu-ray.com

DVD Verdict

IMDB

joblo.com

survivorsucks.com

southparkzone.com

kijiji.ca

tektek.org (I hate Gaia, but I love their avatars so I play around with this site all the time)

YouTube
Flagerchat (local forum)
Pitbull Forum
MySpace
PleoWorld

one word:

WEBKINZ!!!!!

Youtube
IMDB
Blu-ray.com
screamscape.com

Wow- my earlier post must've been when I first started visiting food blogs. Other favorite food blogs of mine are:

Dave's Cupboard:
http://davescupboard.blogspot.com/

Freezer Burns:
http://www.freezerburns.com/wordpress/

Second Rate Snacks:
http://secondratesnacks.com/

The Tasty Island:
http://tastyisland.wordpress.com/

This Is Why You're Fat:
http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

On Second Scoop:
http://www.onsecondscoop.com/

The Impulsive Buy:
http://www.theimpulsivebuy.com/

I have a lot more favorited, but these are my absolute favorites.

WordReference.com
As a student of French (and German), I find this highly useful.

dict.leo.org
Useful for German.

Animated News and Views
Okay, so kinda Disney related, but you know...

SurLaLuneFairyTales.com
I always go through phases of writing a novel (a mix of political satire and fairy-tale...similar to Peter Pan or The Wizard of Oz), and this site, with its many annotated fairy-tales, provides an inspiration of sorts.

DVD Movie Guide (dvdmg.com)
The other DVD site that I frequent quite a bit.

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com
A fairly new discovery...there was a funny family photo involving a dad wearing an awful sweater and a pair of Lederhosen, but it seems to have been taken down. Although they 'aint as bad as this family!

The University of Nottingham's website
Generally helpful for my studies/uni life (which this time next year will be over ).

And some obvious ones...

YouTube
Come on, we all love it.

Facebook
Oh, I love and hate this. On the one hand, it's fun and a good way of keeping in contact, in other ways, it's made to create petty drama.

Wikipedia
I'm a complete trivia addict. So this is made for me.

Various news sites
Ones I look at mostly: BBC, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Monde

Amazon
Pass away an idle hour, impulse buying and adding useless stuff to one's wishlist.

Wonderlicious wrote: AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com
A fairly new discovery...there was a funny family photo involving a dad wearing an awful sweater and a pair of Lederhosen, but it seems to have been taken down. Although they 'aint as bad as this family!

Thanks for sharing that- I had seen some photos from there but didn't know that there was a website (the pics were in an email). Hours of entertainment ahead for me.

youtube.com
phantasmarchives.net
starwars.com
theforce.net
evildeadnews.com
horrordvds.com
shocktillyoudrop.com
moviehole.net
wikipedia.org
deviantart.com
dvdactive.com
digitalbits.com
newsaskew.com
thethief1.blogspot.com
ecto-web.org/~spookcentral
deadites.net
phantasmcommunity.com
fangoriaonline.com
halloweenmovies.com
tvshowsondvd.com
retrojunk.com
starwars.wikia.com
robotchicken.org
dvdcompare.net

The usual suspects:
- Facebook
- IMDb
- YouTube
- Wikipedia
- Yahoo! (for e-mail and news)
- Google (duh!)

Other sites:
- Superhero Hype!
- Cracked
- eBay
- PhotoshopDisasters.blogspot.com
- Rotten Tomatoes
- IMP Awards
- TV.com
- Dictionary.com and TheFreeDictionary.com - always useful
- Nostalgia Chick - this girl's reviews are really funny, check those for "Thumbelina", "Pocahontas", "Xanadu" and "She-Ra". Oh, and the Top 11 Villainesses
- and a couple of local sites

Google
Youtube
Wikipedia

Rather than posting a list here is a printscreen of my bookmarks toolbar.

Toolbar Links by Julian Carter, on Flickr

Unfortunately Michael Sporn passed away years ago, and his "Splog" is no longer updated. I learned so much from his blog. When I read that he'd died my jaw literally hit the keyboard. It felt like someone I knew had died!

There's a also a link to the TAG blog there, which is now all but abandoned. Steve Hulett used to post information tidbits of in-production films at WDAS and other unionised studios. I loved them! Alas, his replacement doesn't do that.

The Mark Mayerson blog has gone silent too.