d3ny everything: "broadband at home will save me so much time..."

Ok, so it's been probably a year - and *all kinds* of crazy stuff can happen in a year. Of course, there's no way I can recall all the cool stuff I found in the past year, so instead here is what is cool (i.e. has held my attention) recently:

http://popurls.com
This site is the source of much coolness and saves me trawling through various news services and instead makes me look really smart, or at least aware of general net-stuff... or something...

http://flickr.com
Yes flickr is on popurls.com so it's a bit redundant to mention it again, except that it is just amazing because there are squillons of talented individuals out there taking amazing photos...and if you want an image for something, this would have to be a great place to start searching.

http://www.imallfake.com
this guy is brilliant, a digital artist extraordinaire.

http://gapingvoid.com
hugh mclean is attempting to do web 2.0 marketing in RL for a small wine producer - the best part is, they don't give a continental whether it's the proper way to do things, they're doing it and having fun. hugh also finds lots of interesting/challenging/thought-provoking sites to point you to. his "how to be creative" compilation (link on the homepage) is well worth the read. and his comics/art is often funny, insightful or just plain weird...

http://anotherversionofthetruth.com
the teaser site for NIN's new album... very, very cool if you can find the links and start digging... spooky too.
(hint: if you're stuck google the following - FECP Plano, 105th Crusaders, "bethehammer")

http://zenhabits.blogspot.com/
Now I am definitely not advocating following a taoist/buddhist/zen ideology, but this is another excellent site where some time browsing is rewarded with at least some helpful little hints, but sometimes links to stuff that really hits you (like when Lisa hacked Bart's brain with the "tree falling in the woods" story, in the Simpson's minigolf episode... y' know, the one where... uh, never mind, you either know what i mean or you think i'm an idiot).

there will be more...

if you have any recommendations, please let me know...
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