VIDEOGAMES

GameSpot.com
gamespot.com
One of the top videogame websites featuring an array of timely previews, reviews, and expo news.

Wonderland
crystaltips.typepad.com
An insightful gaming blog from the BBC's Alice Taylor.

Joystiq.com
Joystiq.com
This constantly updating blog for hardcore videogamers offers the latest buzz on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii games and hardware.

GamePolitics.com
GamePolitics.com
For truly avid gamers, gaming legislation is a serious concern.

GameVideos.com
GameVideos.com
Consider this the videogame version of YouTube. Share your pwnage with the world.

POP-POURRI: EVERYTHING ELSE THAT DIDN'T FIT BUT IS STILL AWESOME

USA Today's Pop Candy
blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy
Whitney Matheson—who looks a little like Zooey Deschanel—brings you all the geek goodies from around the web. And she's funny. And she hearts comics. Which means that we heart her.

YouTube
YouTube
Duh.

FunnyOrDie.com
funnyordie.com
Cofounded by Will Ferrell, the site is a hilarious rival to YouTube. Noteworthy: a toddler cussing out Ferrell, and Alec Baldwin's voice-mail fashioned into a rant against Dora the Explorer.

National Public Radio
npr.org
The radio station that's always erudite also comes with a refreshing sense of whimsy. You'll feel smarter after listening. And some of us need all the smart we can get.

Metacritic.com
metacritic.com
Think of it as a one-stop resource for summaries of film, DVD, television, book, game, and music reviews from various outlets.

Cats That Look Like Hitler
catsthatlooklikehitler.com
The URL says it all: Visit and behold a comic compendium of some felicitously fascist felines.

Idol Chatter
beliefnet.com/blogs/idolchatter
Nothing to do with the Fox show — rather, a blog about religious aspects of TV and movies.

Whedonesque
whedonesque.com
A fansite revolving around the Buffy/Angel/Firefly creator — which is frequented, and frequently posted on, by Joss Whedon himself.

You're The Man Now Dog
ytmnd.com
Named for Sean Connery's hood exclamation in Finding Forrester, this great time-waster features random works of cyber art.

20Q
20q.net
Finally, artificial intelligence is harnessed to do something worthwhile: Play 20 Questions. (And we just found a way to waste another 48 minutes.)

Celebrities Eating Dot Com
celebrities-eating.com
Just pictures of celebrities eating. That's it. Really.

Dead Celebrity Soul Mates
Biography.com
Forget J-Date — all their matches are so...normal. And alive. (Okay, most of them are alive.) Find a late, great, chardonnay-loving mate.

David Lynch's Daily Weather Report
davidlynch.com
No one should start their day without first consulting the nasal weirdness of the outré director's meteorological dispatches.

The Onion
theonion.com
The veteran humor mag. Which you probably haven't read in a while, but is still pretty good.

T. Herman Zweibel Memorial Historical Archive
zweibelmemorial.org
Onion publisher emeritus Zweibel's whimsy.

RobSchrab.com
robschrab.com
Schrab makes cooler F/X with cardboard than Industrial Light & Magic, and posts it for free. Plus, he's a comics auteur (Scud: The Disposable Assassin), which is always cool.

MySpace
myspace.com
Good for social networking, plus a home for tunes by rising bands.

Homestar Runner
homestarrunner.com
A collection of cartoon shorts, e-mails, and inane games starring the animated personas, Strong Bad and Homestar.

Channel101.com
Channel101.com
Hate the glut of online entertainment? Users not only submit videos, but vote off the clunkers.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia.com
How is an encyclopedia an entertainment site? Consider the 2,000-word entry on the Legend of Zelda videogame.

JamesWolcott.com
jameswolcott.com
A Vanity Fair editor's pop-culture analysis. Tres smart.

Whatevs (dot org)
whatevs.org
A Detroit-based guy blogs about sports, movies, music, and TV with zing (''So dark the con of Vanegas'') and raunchy slang (''douchebagalows'').

The Areas of My Expertise
areasofmyexpertise.com
The Daily Show regular John Hodgman's very strange body of work is online.

Baseball Card Blog
baseballcardblog.blogspot.com
Go ahead — indulge your inner fifth grader from 1963. We won't tell.

Slate.com
slate.com
Witty real-world coverage, from politics to pop culture.

Arts & Letters Daily
aldaily.com
According to the site's letterhead: Philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes, gossip. So, yeah, high-brow, not Lowenbrau.

Facebook
facebook.com
All the cool kids are doing their social networking here. So should you. Because you wanna be cool, too, right?