WAG - Internet Links Redux
Here I am again, spending another evening doing an internet crunch (trying to cram the news from the past day [from Fidel Castro getting punk’d to Missouri’s late entrance into the legal 21st century]).
Anyway, I decided to update the web links for the betterment of the readership (and also save me precious double clicking the browser rather than having to drag the mouse all the way across the screen to access the bookmarks).
After reading the following link overviews, I suggest you check them out yourself – but be careful; you might learn something.
In the News category, since I’m no longer slaving away at the Missourian (at least not for another semester), I bumped the site up to straight news rather than downplaying it’s relevance (though any publication that will put my stuff on the front page has its issues).
I added Aint It Cool News. It’s long been the default opening site on the laptop (thanks to my sister), and I’ve found it to be a good place to check up on movie buzz or previews. Want to look like you’re a pop culture genius? This site will help you pick up on the cues and eventually build you up to that level.
Next up, I go to Google News for a good general review of news at large. It compiles articles by topic, rather than by paper or magazine, so one can look at opinions from all ends of the spectrum (and in politics, there are definitely more than two).
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, it was especially entertaining to read Pentagon and Pakistani reports and seeing how identical events were deciphered and recounted in different ways.
In Comics there is the lone addition of Scary Go Round. I was introduced to this site when the artist subbed for Sluggy Freelance one week.
It laced with British sarcastic wit and though it only runs Tuesdays through Fridays (though it’s “off” by one day from an American perspective due to it being on the opposite side of “the pond” as they say in American sitcoms mockingly presenting the Brits [though I’m sure they did their homework – because they wouldn’t want to propagate unfounded stereotypes – and it’s an accurate representation]).
My suggestion to you is to start at the beginning, though jumping back to the start of the current story line will work too.
Last, in Misc is the Internet Movie Database. It’s my go to site for released movie info – for cast lists, old trailers, or memorable quotes.
There you go. Hit these sites, along with others already posted, and you can make yourself into a trendy, informed person.
Or you may just find something which makes you laugh – and that’ll work too.
