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Totally Useless

• Reddit: my favorite stop for useless content
• Drew Curtis' Fark: the spiffy, the asinine, and the NSFW!
• Boing Boing: a directory of wonderful things

Somewhat Useful

• Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
• Freshmeat: Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software

Fascist Left Wing Propaganda

• Talking Points Memo: intelligent journalism by Joshua Marshall
• The Washington Note: intelligent journalism by Steven Clemons