Top 9 favorite websites
Posted this down at my internet local, thought I'd share here:
The Daily Mash—UK parallel to The Onion, but better, in my view, because each article is taken straight from BBC news, so if you read that regularly, it's terribly funny to read The Mash the next day or so. Of course it's terribly rude, as well.
The Phrontistery—dedicated to obscure and arcane words, there's a great glossary that I enjoy browsing through.
The Internet Archive—my favorite movie website for many years, I mostly watch stuff from the Prelinger collection. It's great because you can download most of it to watch in full screen mode, if the resolution is good enough. When YouTube started, I thought it was a pale imitation, but of course, that site has grown, and is indispensable. Moving images is just part of archive.org, the best internet site there is, with a huge library of books, not just the text of them, but the actual books, and lots of other stuff as well, like the Wayback Machine, which lets you see old webpages that have been archived over the years. Well, it's the best except the search engine goes bonkers now and then, as it seems to have done today.
Probably my favorite items there are the Coronet Instructional Films. This might be very dorky of me, I'm not socialized enough to be sure, though. And wikipedia has a good article on why it's the greatest place other than the annoying search bugs.
A few others:
The Food Timeline
Turning The Pages a British library of original printed texts.
Encyclopedia of Television essays about old TV shows.
Earth & Sky Interesting science podcasts.
TV Party Old TV stuff. For awhile it was less cool because you had to pay (just a little) to see a lot of it, but most of it is free again, probably thanks to YouTube, and the premium service isn't necessary to really enjoy the site now.
Aubrey's blog Doesn't matter what she's ever writing about, it's a joy to read.
The Phrontistery—dedicated to obscure and arcane words, there's a great glossary that I enjoy browsing through.
The Internet Archive—my favorite movie website for many years, I mostly watch stuff from the Prelinger collection. It's great because you can download most of it to watch in full screen mode, if the resolution is good enough. When YouTube started, I thought it was a pale imitation, but of course, that site has grown, and is indispensable. Moving images is just part of archive.org, the best internet site there is, with a huge library of books, not just the text of them, but the actual books, and lots of other stuff as well, like the Wayback Machine, which lets you see old webpages that have been archived over the years. Well, it's the best except the search engine goes bonkers now and then, as it seems to have done today.
Probably my favorite items there are the Coronet Instructional Films. This might be very dorky of me, I'm not socialized enough to be sure, though. And wikipedia has a good article on why it's the greatest place other than the annoying search bugs.
A few others:
The Food Timeline
Turning The Pages a British library of original printed texts.
Encyclopedia of Television essays about old TV shows.
Earth & Sky Interesting science podcasts.
TV Party Old TV stuff. For awhile it was less cool because you had to pay (just a little) to see a lot of it, but most of it is free again, probably thanks to YouTube, and the premium service isn't necessary to really enjoy the site now.
Aubrey's blog Doesn't matter what she's ever writing about, it's a joy to read.
Comments
The British Library site is jaw-dropping. And I enjoy TV Party! - it's a source of hours of meaningless fun. Commercials from the '70's...ah, the salad days...
Thanks so much, Emily.