Starrfall on 21/12/2008 at 18:06
The tv tropes wiki is good. Regular wiki is also good to kill some time.
If you like sports there is ALWAYS something to read even if that something is "Mark Texiera still hasn't signed with anyone yet." If you don't like sports then you have a personal problem that I can't help with!
Too bad iamfacingforeclosure got shut down and born anew as something else because that was one damn good schadenfreude-fest about the biggest poster-child for housing-bubble-get-rich-quick idiocy (Useless 24 boy year old buys 8 houses in less than a year at the end of the bubble. Hilarity ensues.) The good news is that you can still kill a few hours reading the (
http://www.caseypedia.com/wiki/Main_Page) wiki that's been made about him.
demagogue on 21/12/2008 at 20:34
This is
not what you're looking for (I don't think), but FWIW I've recently started watching (
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm) MIT lectures in my spare time. Been going through the Physics 802 course (electricity/magnetism) and the professor is outstanding, explains so well and demonstrates everything. Also looking forward to ocean/atmosphere science (I want to hear how experts talk about global warming), and some history courses.
There are other places that have online lectures... I like them because you feel like you're learning something really solid you wouldn't know about otherwise, by someone that knows how to talk about it in an interesting way. But it's not intensive like a real course; you're just watching when you can, and letting the ideas percolate.
Muzman on 22/12/2008 at 04:51
Speaking of foreclosure.
(
http://lovelylisting.blogspot.com/) It's Lovely! I'll take it!
Photography and decor based snark at things found in real estate listings. Good for a chuckle if you're unwinding from hard physics or something. (You seriously have got to see some of these places)
Ulukai on 22/12/2008 at 13:28
I second this, albeit with a word of caution that the content can range from the dire to the inspired.
