Bored person's Guide to the internet
What? Somebody asked me today "Hey give me a cool site man, am bored". Man, how long have you been on the internet? Do you think I am some kind of a mind reading therapist search engine for bored fucks like you? I get bored too, and if I want to search, I find my way around on my own. This is rocket science? Look idiot, even grade schools kids can use Google. If you don't know your way around, get off the net. Go fly a kite, do your worldly thing and never come near the internet.Ok chill. I did not say all that to the guy. Infact I gave him several links that came to my mind. some websites that I frequently check. So, in case there are any such cases among you few readers, I would like to write this tiny guide for the bored.First, if you regularly read blogs (more than a few that is) you can save yourself a million minutes by using a news reader. I recommend you signup for Newsgator and subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs and websites on Newsgator. Why waste the time going into each and every blog site just to see if there is a new post? Have them on your screen if there are any, and continue from there if you wish to. Feeds are not just for the high tech people. It is a normal thing, for normal people, just like email and messaging.Next, search engines. Use Google and type your wish. Google is the mother and father and also the child of all seach engines. If you can't find it with Google, you may not find it at all. But you see Google's results are a little bit commercialish. Want the ability to filter your searches by their "commercialness"? Use Yahoo! Mindset. Mind you, do not underestimate Yahoo, their searches are as accurate as Google. Really, they are. This Mindset thing is highly recommended (more recommended than Google itself). If you are looking for more people stuff (average people's writings, like this post you are reading now), opinions (on anything) and stories and so on, you might want to just search within blogs. Use Technorati. Technorati indexes all the blogs on all platforms and also lists links and photos from Flickr and Del.icio.us. You use del.icio.us to manage your bookmarks online, highly recommended for everyone.Finally, here are some raw links for the impatient. PostSecret is a blog to which you can send your little secret and they will put it up. They have got some interesting things there. The Best Page in the Universe attracts more hate mails than bush. Go there for some creative humorous pieces of writings. Chances are you will actually hate the guy for most of the stuff there. There is also Slashdot for the tech minded, Wikipedia for your research and contribution to global knowledge. and Dhivehi Observer for the political minded. There is also the AYBABTU website, Goatse phenomena, BBC for your news, Engadget for the coolest gadget stuff, Boing Boing for random interesting stories and finally World Sex for all your free porn.