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Salon.com
- one of the oldest and best Internet magazines.

Slate - Online magazine of news, politics, and culture. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news.

The Huffington Post - Offers syndicated columnists, blogs and news stories with moderated comments.

Dvorak Uncensored - Daily blog of John C. Dvorak

FiveThirtyEight.com - politics done right. Projections and analysis based on collected electoral college and Senate race polls. Many maps, graphs and scorecards.

Daily KOS : State of the Nation - Founded in May 26, 2002, Daily Kos is the premier online political community with 2.5 million unique visitors per month and 215,000 registered users.

Boing Boing - a directory of wonderful things.

Wikipedia - THE online encyclopedia. Everything you wanted to know about anything. A lot of it actually TRUE. Well, that's a bit unfair but be a bit careful what you decide to believe!

Wired Magazine - One of the earliest and still most comprehensive internet magazines. Offers a diverse menu of topical and off beat news and stories with a focus on the online internet world.

The Marion Star - Online newspaper of Marion, Ohio

Marion Online - site about Marion, Ohio. News, Jobs, Opinion, and Classifieds.

Marion.net - another site about Marion, Ohio.  News, Chat, Services. Part of LFIT Services. 

The Inquirer - The National Enquirer of the tech world. Tech news, reviews, and rumors. Sometimes painfully sarcastic, it's always an enjoyable read.

Slashdot - bills itself as News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters. That's a fair enough appraisal.

MSNBC - Msnbc.com is a leader in breaking news, video and original journalism

The New Yorker - The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. This is the online version.

Media Matters for America - Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

PC World - PC Magazine competitor, I get both print versions but I'm about to let PC Magazine go. PC World fits my needs better. More open source articles, less Microsoft ass kissing.

PC Magazine - I like the web site better than the magazine. Computing articles, hardware reviews and the like.

ExtremeTech.com - technology for the more advanced user. Good PC hobbyist articles running the gamut of cutting edge technologies.

Dynamic Drive - the premier place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML scripts and components to enhance your web site! All scripts on this site take advantage of the latest in JavaScript and DHTML technology. JavaScript Kit - another good site for the web site builder. Features free Java scripts, tutorials, and free java applets.

[H]ard]OSP - technology news blog. Very in depth reviews. Certainly not tied to any manufacturers apron strings!

AnandTech - comprehensive hardware reviews. Very in depth and honest. Extremely accurate with a great staff. Required reading!

Joel on Software - News from the software industry. Learn things you just can't find anywhere else.

Engadget - News and reviews on every conceivable gadget known to man. Some that you never knew existed. Good writing and very informative.

One Hundred Paper Cuts - A project led by Canonical's Design and User Experience team to improve user experience in Ubuntu by identifying 100 small points of pain for users, or "paper cuts", and healing them!

Wallpaper Abyss - We love monitors! We're proud to offer 20925 wallpapers for your computer, all free! (A new wallpaper is added every hour 24/7/365!)

Gnome-look.org - Eyecandy for your GNOME-Desktop - GNOME-Look.org Community Portal for Gnome Themes Wallpapers Icons Sounds Screenshots Schemes Skins and Screensavers.

BlogTalkRadio - The best shows from around the web on any subject. Listen in or host a show. Have your voice heard!

Funny or Die -  watch funny videos featuring celebrities, comedians and you. - funny videos, funny captions and jokes. From the casts of Saturday Night Live. User submitted videos too!

RIAA Radar - The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). If you, like I, am disturbed and outraged by the Gestapo tactics being used by the RIAA, this tool can keep you from purchasing music released through the RIAA. I have made it my current practice not to support the RIAA in any way.

This Week in Tech - America's most listened to podcast and winner of the 2005 People's Choice Podcast Award.

WVXG Classic Rock - Marion, Ohio - Radio station serving Marion, Morrow, Bucyrus, and North Central Ohio with local news, weather and high school sports. 95.1 WVXG Marion's Classic Rock

Drudge Report - Matt Drudge's Internet Newspaper. A great source of information - and sometimes, misinformation!

Pandora - Find New Music, Listen to Custom Internet Radio Stations.

Flash Earth - Flash satellite and aerial maps of the earth. Choose between a variety of maps, including Google, Yahoo, MSN and others.

Kayak.com - One stop search engine for cheapest flights. Searches all airlines for the best pricing for any particular flight. Highly customizable with free membership. A great tool.

Annoyances.org - Annoyances.org is the most complete collection of information assembled for and by actual users of Microsoft Windows.

WDCM 97.5 FM - WDCM provides the Marion, Ohio area with an independent, locally operated radio station, providing local businesses an affordable way to enhance their name recognition, while contributing to a good cause for the community

Googlism.com - you will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms listed on this site.

Broadband Reports.com - The bible on broadband, cable, DSL, and wireless. Tools, speed tests, and broadband providers reviews.

Podcast Themes - There are thousands of podcasts floating around on the internet, and most of them are not that good. Many people will decide whether or not they want to keep listening to a show within less than a minute. The easiest way to draw people in from the beginning is with a custom theme. A theme song will make your podcast sound professional right from the start, and that will keep more people listening.

Linksysinfo.org - This site has been setup to try and collate as much info as possible for Linksys Users to get help on their Linksys devices. The site is also the primary support site for WiFi-Box and HyperWRT Firmware

Om Malik on Broadband - Broadband, VoIP, Convergence, and Digital Lifestyles. Musings and articles on the direction of the internet, broadband, hardware and software.

Internet Archive, Moving Image Archive - Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films. By providing near-unrestricted access to these films, we hope to encourage widespread use of moving images in new contexts by people who might not have used them before.

NASA Television - NASA Human Space Flight, view live images and clips from NASA and aboard the space shuttles. Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Latest News From Spirit and Opportunity on the planet Mars. From Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

CBS Sportsline Golf - all about the tours. Equipment, video, instruction, tournament leader boards.

W3C HTML Validation Service - A free service that checks documents like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C recommendations and other standards. Worried about browser compatibility? Get your code validated here!

eWEEK, The Enterprise Newsweekly - eWEEK focuses on e-commerce, communications and Internet-based architecture, enabling its readers to successfully evaluate, deploy and leverage new technology.

LinkShare - Generate income from your web sites by displaying vendor banner ads on your site.

Price Watch - another excellent site for internet pricing for computers, components, and peripherals.

Overclockers.com - hardware and software resource for the overclocking enthusiast. Reviews, tips, hardware, opinion, and manufactures links to high tech goodies.

Complete HTML true color chart - a must for the site builder!

Alchemy Mindworks - Excellent graphics software from north of the border. A commercial site with a sense of style and humor.

SETI - Search for aliens on your own computer! Download software to analyze radio telescope data. Makes an interesting screensaver as well.

Car and Driver - My favorite car magazine also is the best automotive web site.

Drudge Retort - A rather interesting parody of the Drudge Report.

The Sporting News - An excellent source for information on sports

Pogo.com - play games for free! Win cash prizes.

Ohio Lottery - check your numbers online, become a millionaire!

E Cards - online email greeting cards. A good variety to choose from. Surprise a friend!

The Learning Channel - TLC.com website of the television channel of the same name.

Gamesville - play bingo and other games online. A new game every 20 minutes. Cash prizes.

 

 

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