From the New York Times
50 Coolest Websites 2007
Monday, Jun. 20, 2007 By MARYANNE MURRAY BUECHNER Blogs On Deck
For baseball enthusiasts who spend more time ranting about their team than taking batting practice, ...
There are millions of weblogs (blogs for short) online, but many never get read. One reason: blog ov...
MYSPACE.COM This booming networking, friend-finding and matchmaking site lets online daters customiz...
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT opus1classical.com A rich, expansive resource for music fans more into Hand...
Eavesdropping
Overheard in New York
www.overheardinnewyork.com
Amusing verbatim accounts of stuff people say to each other in public. Anybody can submit; just email your (brief) transcript to the editors for consideration. Overheardintheoffice.com is equally hilarious. Warning: on both sites, some material is not suitable for children, and profanity, stupidity or bigotry is generally kept intact.
Cars
Jalopnik, Autoblog
www.jalopnik.com, www.autoblog.com
Crazy about cars? Between these two blogs, you should be able to feed the beast within. Jalopnik's scribblings have more personality ("Volkswagen continues to tease us like the self-hating louts we are, releasing another teaspoon's worth of details on its yet-unnamed convertible....") while Autoblog delivers industry news straight-up ("Hybrids are Hot: Honda sells 100,000"). Bonus link: 10 Hot Vehicles for Techies, from the new cars.cnet.com.
Greater Lowell's Reading Grants
A monthly look into what’s hip in the wonderful, wacky world of reading. Bob Dick gives reading a cool fresh look as he explores self-help, exciting help for students to become proficient on the MCAS test and the underground world of reading links. To some, Bob Dick is a Satanic figure, but to others, he is the Michael Jordan, the Tom Brady and the George Bush of reading.
Celebrity Slams
Go Fug Yourself
gofugyourself.typepad.com
A daily shredding of the sartorial choices of Hollywood stars, complete with photographic evidence. To wit: Parts of Courtney Love's new, larger body "are sort of sloshing around, uncontained, like a Big Gulp spilling all over your gear shift when you take a turn too fast." Chloe Sevigny proves "high-waisted pants are the spawn of Satan's sewing machine."
