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50 coolest web sites of 2005 - For Real?

September 18th, 2005 by ShaolinTiger at 11:48 AM MYT - 814 views

So there I was surfing the web, checking out some random stuff as you do...surfing is addictive, blog hopping is addictive, reading everything2 or wikipedia is addictive, you can just jump from entry to entry.

This particular occasion I was checking out Times' top 50 coolest websites of 2005.

http://www.time.com/time/2005/websites/

This article is a web exclusive, meaning it's not published in the magazine itself.

50 Coolest Websites 2005
How do we come up with our 50 best? Short answer: we take your suggestions, probe friends and colleagues about their favorite online haunts and then surf like mad. This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks

The List: Arts & Entertainment
The List: Blogs
The List: Lifestyle, Health & Hobbies
The List: News & Information
The List: Shopping

Notice blogs has become a category too 2 that I read made it in there: Go Fug Yourself & PostSecret, plus another 2 I visit now and then: Boing Boing and LifeHacker.

A new one I found on this list that is interesting is Bayraider, a guy finding all the weirdest stuff for sale on E-bay:

http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/bayraider/

I saw this photoblog quite a while ago too, he has some really beautiful pictures:

http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/

Also a very good book review site:

http://www.complete-review.com/

Completely unrelated to this entry, I found a journal from an American teacher in Japan which is hilarious:

http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher.html

That's all for now

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4 Comments so far

KucingGatal on September 19th, 2005 at 4:06 am

I protest! I should be in that list...how can like that....
Dabido (Teflon) on September 19th, 2005 at 4:47 am

WOW! Six degrees of seperation thing happening. As soon as I saw the Japanese Teacher blog, I recognised the addy as one from Sarah's site whom I link to.

Boing Boing etc are obvious inclusions in the top 50.
Chris on September 21st, 2005 at 6:39 am

Read the first post by the English teacher in Japan (Outpost nine).

That was a hell of a good laugh.

I guess what most Japanese kids don't realise (until now, maybe) is that most westerners wear boxers while almost all Asians wear tight-fitting pants.

Excellent
elise on September 8th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP

Heh.. Go Fug Yourself??!! And I thought only girls gonna find that site remotely interesting... due to most guys tuning out at the mention of clothes, shoes... ;P (which incidentally, Scrubs did a very funny example of this in one of the episodes).