| A great thing about the Internet is that it makes it easy and cheap to publish something and get a large readership (though once your readership gets big enough, the bandwidth bills start coming!). Comic strip artists have really taken advantage of this to create some really great characters and stories and need not worry about keeping the newspapers happy by trying to appeal to everyone at once. There are some syndicated comic strips in this list, too, though. It's interesting to see the evolution of the drawing techniques in some of these strips... |
| PvP | The
stuff that happens at the
office of the
fictional PvP computer-gaming magazine. It's the most successful,
and deservingly so, web comic out
there. Start from the first strip! (1998) PvP will turn 7 years old in May 2005. |
| College Roomies from Hell | The
crazy adventures of a pair
of sets of 3 college roommates (that's 3 girls in one room and 3 guys
in another room). There aren't too many comics in this list
written/drawn by a woman, but this is one of them. Start from the first strip! (1999) CRFH enters it's 6th year in January 2005. |
| Get Fuzzy | A
cat, a dog, and a young
bachelor... Sounds like a Garfield rip-off, but this is a really great
strip. Syndicated (i.e., it's in some newspapers).. |
| Penny-Arcade | Great
comic about video games
(if you're in to that kind of stuff!) Start from the first strip! (1998) Gabe and Tycho have been bringing the funny for 6 years as of Nov. 2004. |
| Real Life | Start
from the first strip!
(1999) |
| Calvin and Hobbes | Truly
one of the all-time greats. |
| Foxtrot | |
| Sinfest |
Start
from the first
strip! (2000) |
| The Boondocks | |
| CTRL+ALT+DEL | Start
from the first
strip! (2002) |
| VGCats | Start
from the first
strip! (2001) |
| Mac Hall | Start
from the first
strip!
(2000) |
| Queen of Wands |
Start
from the first
strip!
(2002). One of my recent favourites. |
| 8-Bit
Theatre |
Start
from the first
strip! (2001). This guy is really a comic genius. This
comic won't make a lot of sense if you haven't played Dungeons and
Dragons or a similar RPG. |
| Dilbert | |
| Non-Sequitur | |
| Boxjam's Doodle | Start
from the first
strip!
(1999). Not updated often any more, but I really loved this one
in its hey-day. |
| Megatokyo | Start
from the first
strip!
(2000). Very well drawn anime-style comic. |
| Chopping Block | Start
from the first
strip!
(2000). Serial killer humour. |
| Wulffmorgenthaler | Start
from the first
strip! (2002). Just really really weird. |
| Sam and Fuzzy | Start
from the first
strip!
(2002) |
| The Joy of
Tech |
Pretty
geeky; makes the
occasional jab at famous tech people (Bill Gates, etc) Start from.. umm, well, one of the early strips (2000). The first couple kinda sucked. |
| Angels 2200 | Start
from the first
strip!
(2001) |
| Angst Technology | Start
from the first
strip!
(2000) |
| Homestar Runner | |
| Mostly Business |
| Slashdot |
"News
for Nerds" |
| Digg |
Slightly less nerdy Slashdot. |
| New Scientist |
Science
news... |
| Astronomy
Picture of the Day |
A great
astronomical picture every day |
| Major Geeks |
Updated
list of software every day. Also has interesting links once in a
while ("off base" links) |
| BBSpot | Good
original
satire articles and top 11 lists. Also the source of many of my One-Visit Links |
| Prof Quotes |
A
frequently-updated collection of funny things professors have said. |
| MetaCritic |
This
site compiles lists of reviews
for movies, music, and games, and generates an average score. The
average score should be a pretty good indication of how "good" the
movie/music/game in question is. A feature I'd like to see this
site
add is the ability to make your own 'critic filter' so you can have it
filter out those critics you never agree with and give precedence to
your fav critics, so the scores don't simply reflect the overall
average score, but the average score of critics you like or at least
don't dislike. James Berardinelli
and Roger
Ebert go to the top of my 'like' list for both being able to 'get'
good sci-fi like Gattaca and
Contact.
Can you believe that those
movies averaged 62 and 65, respectively?? Those are great movies! |
| Anime Suki |
Links
to bittorrents for unlicensed
japanese animation shows (i.e., they aren't available for purchase in
North America... so no one is losing money if I download these
shows).
I'm currently watching Bleach
and Touch! Sadly, Naruto was licensed in late 2004 (but that means you'll be able to watch it on tv here soon with horrible voice-overs, an altered/watered down story line, and bloodless graphics! (well, I don't know how faithful the North American release will be... Hopefully they won't change anything. It's really a great series)). |
| The
Official UK Download Chart |
Weekly listing of the top 20 most (legally) downloaded songs in the UK. |
| Swound MP3 Blog |
Once
in a while, this page has a
great remix on it. Ask me for the Jimi Hendrix (Voodoo Chile) /
Jay-Z (99 Problems) mix. Incredible song. |
| The Superficial |
"The
Superficial is a brutally
honest look at society and its
obsession with the superficial. It is not satire. It is not social
commentary. It is the voice of our society at its worst. It is first
impressions without sense of social obligation. It is the truth of our
generation. It is ugly racism. It is jealousy. It is honest. Just kidding. Our goal is to make fun of as many people as possible." Umm.. It has lots of pictures of pretty girls and tends to give me a laugh or two. But it really is superficial. |
| Red
Flag Deals |
Deals
on products sold in stores in Canada. Futureshop, Best Buy,
Canadian Tire, etc... |
| Wikiquote
Quote of the Day Archive |
Usually
some pretty good quotes. |
| Cooking for
Engineers |
Michael
Chu has created a really neat way to write recipes. Also, he has
a great grilled grilled
pork chops recipe. |
| Sympatico / MSN home
page |
Usually
has an interesting article or two a day. It's the Canadian
version of the next link in this list. |
| MSN home page |
Usually has an interesting article or two a day. |
| Worth 1000 |
Image
editing competiton site. It's fun to browse the winners every
couple days. |