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1. 1 Heliologue Sep 29th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

   I like to randomly browse Wikipedia every day. Click on one article, and you’ll invariably be drawn to ten others.

   I also like A List Apart for web design stuff, but otherwise, most of my daily reading is tech-related.

2. 2 wolfa Sep 29th, 2006 at 11:32 pm

   I tend to check rabble.ca for leftie Canadian news, which should have little overlap with what you read. Not updated daily, though. Maisonneuve.org also does leftie Cdn news, as does (in a semiblog formal) thenextagenda.ca. They often cover American stuff, but with a different slant.

3. 3 Anne Sep 29th, 2006 at 11:32 pm

   I second the Wikipedia surfing. I get lost in there for hours.

   You can also try link sharing sites such as Delicious or Digg, or DiggDot (which takes care of several). Links to news and tech stuff. Check out Slashdot, too.

   Surf eBay?

   Go to Project Gutenberg and read “old” stories.

   Get lost in government archives or Archive.org.

   Take a whole bunch of quizzes to find out who the real you is be is. Whatever.

   Go “monitor shopping” and increase your Amazon wishlist to 40 pages.

   Check out all the NASA images and blow your mind.

   Get totally lost at TheyRule.net (need Flash, though).

   All else fails, there’s always MSN or Yahoo! Games, and online Sudoku.

4. 4 SJ Sep 30th, 2006 at 12:51 am

   Ooh, ooh The Morning News!

5. 5 SJ Sep 30th, 2006 at 12:52 am

   link for clarity, ya: http://www.themorningnews.org/

6. 6 La Lubu Sep 30th, 2006 at 9:44 am

   Here’s some interesting reading:

   LiP Magazine
   Dissident Voice
   Rethinking Schools
   World Pulse Magazine
   Colorlines
   Brain,Child
   scroll through some of these Letters at 3AM columns
   and here’s a boatload of Labor History links

7. 7 jennifer Oct 1st, 2006 at 8:11 pm

   alternet.

8. 8 tigtog Oct 5th, 2006 at 1:25 am

   No blogs at all? Surely work couldn’t object to Austenblog - for all things Janeite.

   For lots of good information that’s more than just current affairs, the Health Report on the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Radio National web has truly excellent programmes available as transcripts and podcasts. There’s some Australocentrism, but there’s a lot of international stuff as well, and the website is advertisment-free.

   Also from ourABC-RN, transcripts/podcasts of
   The Philosopher’s Zone (concepts, biographies, controversies)
   Late Night Live (real interview programme, not just regurgitated soundbites)
   By Design (analysis of the mundane and the monumental)
   are all worth checking out.

9. 9 alphabitch Oct 9th, 2006 at 10:14 am

   Arts & Letters Daily.

10. 10 johnieb Oct 10th, 2006 at 11:48 am

    SJ,

    Thanks so much for the Morning News link; I don’t know which is more exciting: Lauren’s blogging again or Sean Wilentz has the new book out! ooo! oooo!

    And I also agree with alphabitch on aldaily: cool stuff!

11. 11 Frumious B Oct 10th, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    Scientific American

    http://www.sciam.com

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