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Sun Times Often good for unintentional laughs.
Midwest Lab Rescue Cute pictures, occasional shameless anthropomorphizing, funny stories, gratitude.
I am at Cake Farts and at Pudding Farts.
I apologize in advance if I get any of you fired for going to those links.
Don't click on them.
No, seriously.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
Cake Wrecks is frickin' awesome!
I've been spending way too much time looking at African cichlid sites, trying to figure out what species one of my fish is.
Twitter mostly. Just a-crafting the jokes for Twitter to pass the time. Not to actually TELL anyone what I am doing.
Isn't helping, it's where the funniest Twitter posts can be found.
http://www.aintnodisco.com/
A portfolio of the most attractive workplace interiors (advertising agencies plus) worldwide. Easily my favorite site to waste time. Features voting, and a Chicago agency in the top five most attractive!
The Weekly Teinou Bee Woman
http://wtbw.net/
This became my favorite aggregative site of odd things on the net back when the owner maintained a similar site in English. Now there is an English language button. The site is mostly, but not always, work safe and never time safe.
mmorpg.com
Full Frontal Friday @ blogspot!
I'm adrift because Capital Fax has closed for a week. So mostly I'm checking out Tour de France coverage at www.letour.fr
The old standby: Yelp
The guilty pleasures: The Superficial and Perez
the locals: I hate your fashion and Chicagoist
the trib, nyt, twitter, etc etc and definitely gawker. cakewrecks is entertaining.
cant got to a lot of places while at work and defintitely cant stream anything, sadly.
blah blah blah
Hot Chicks with Douchebags, Square America, Last Night's Party, The Time Being.
Pandora Radio
It's taking up way too much of my time!
PageSix for Brain Cotton Candy.
Flickr and thefwa.com for inspiration
Not a whole lot of time for fun.
Next week, though. Fun.
Just offline.
Lotsa fun.
Cake Wrecks...had to stop reading I was laughing too hard!
I am a Yelper. It's a big time waster.
None until you put up that Gigglesnort Hotel link...jesus christ I had completely forgotten about that.
Just seeing the pictures of the characters triggers all these feelings of discomfort.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/
The guy has a writing style that makes my sides hurt from laughing.
http://www.postcardsfromyomomma.com/
http://www.sorryimissedyourparty.com
...and now that damn cake website!
Blogs We Read [9]
Stealing a page from the Trib, what local blogs are you reading?
2009 Resolutions [36]
OK, so what are your resolutions for this year?
2009 Predictions [22]
Given all that's happened in 2008, what do you predict for 2009?
Best Films '08 [11]
What were the best films of 2008?
Best Music '08 [10]
Time for the best-of lists. What were the best songs or albums of 2008?
jennifer / July 24, 2008 11:32 AM
my regular sites: nyt.com, chicagotribune.com, jezebel.com, gawker.com, reuters.com, vanityfair.com, newyorker.com, imeem.com, muxtape.com, songza.com
really, not the week to have so many distractions. oy.