Saturday, April 30, 2005
From A to Z
Meme of the day seems to be "what's the first url to come up when you type each letter of the alphabet into your address bar?" Well...
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/ - the super-geeky film news site
http://www.boingboing.net/ - predictably
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx - Getty Images, used for work
http://defamer.com/ - the Gawker Media behemoth's hypersnarky Hollywood gossip site
http://earthling.net.nz/tracyh/ - home site of Tracy, the Monkeybashi of Monkeyfilter, narrowly beating Wikipedia's English-language site
http://www.flashboy.org/bloog.html - me
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ - somewhat predictably, narrowly beating Gmail. I don't actually go the the main Google page much, what with the search box in Firefox
http://www.hotmail.com/ - Odd... I don't use Hotmail. I think this might be other people using my computer
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/ - the witty and erudite linguistics group blog
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/ - Transport for London's journeyplanner, somewhat unreliable, but still indespensable
http://kryogenix.org/code/conposter/index.php - that "make your own Conservatives poster" thing
http://www.languagehat.com/ - another great linguistics site from a well-known MeFi/MoFi elder
http://monkeyfilter.com/index.php - MoFi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - predictably
http://www.ozyandmillie.org/ - damn funny cartoon strip
http://press.channel4.com/pressExtranet/home.action - the Channel4 press site, job-related
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/ - Chris narrowly beats Questionable Content
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/?fromint=1 - film review aggregator with excellent coverage and horrible design
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp - Urban Legends debunkathon
http://www.themovieblog.com/ - film news and opinion blog
http://uk.imdb.com/ - IMDb's British version
http://www.vervepics.com/bb.shtml - publicity site for the excellent film Bullet Boy
http://world.altavista.com/tr - better known as BabelFish
http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics/cim12.jpg - nowhere near as dodgy as that url would suggest. Just click (SFW)...
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/ - I don't use Yahoo. Might be due to looking for their press office around the time they bought Flickr
http://www.zachsmind.com/entry.asp?date=4/4/2005 - some guy's review of Sin City. I guess I don't visit many sites that begin with z...
And a quick breakdown:
Film related sites - 7 (26.9%)
Language related sites - 3 (11.5%)
Very widely read news-type sites - 3 (11.5%)
Journalism-specific sites - 2 (7.7%)
Sites I write on - 2 (7.7%)
Friend's sites - 2 (7.7%)
Well-known sites I never use and I don't know why they're there - 2 (7.7%)
Sites I've only visited once but were the only things that came up when I typed in the letter - 2 (7.7%)
Sites essential to living in London - 1 (3.8%)
Urban legends - 1 (3.8%)
Comics - 1 (3.8%)
Which I think sums up my life quite accurately.
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/ - the super-geeky film news site
http://www.boingboing.net/ - predictably
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx - Getty Images, used for work
http://defamer.com/ - the Gawker Media behemoth's hypersnarky Hollywood gossip site
http://earthling.net.nz/tracyh/ - home site of Tracy, the Monkeybashi of Monkeyfilter, narrowly beating Wikipedia's English-language site
http://www.flashboy.org/bloog.html - me
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ - somewhat predictably, narrowly beating Gmail. I don't actually go the the main Google page much, what with the search box in Firefox
http://www.hotmail.com/ - Odd... I don't use Hotmail. I think this might be other people using my computer
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/ - the witty and erudite linguistics group blog
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/ - Transport for London's journeyplanner, somewhat unreliable, but still indespensable
http://kryogenix.org/code/conposter/index.php - that "make your own Conservatives poster" thing
http://www.languagehat.com/ - another great linguistics site from a well-known MeFi/MoFi elder
http://monkeyfilter.com/index.php - MoFi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - predictably
http://www.ozyandmillie.org/ - damn funny cartoon strip
http://press.channel4.com/pressExtranet/home.action - the Channel4 press site, job-related
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/ - Chris narrowly beats Questionable Content
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/?fromint=1 - film review aggregator with excellent coverage and horrible design
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp - Urban Legends debunkathon
http://www.themovieblog.com/ - film news and opinion blog
http://uk.imdb.com/ - IMDb's British version
http://www.vervepics.com/bb.shtml - publicity site for the excellent film Bullet Boy
http://world.altavista.com/tr - better known as BabelFish
http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics/cim12.jpg - nowhere near as dodgy as that url would suggest. Just click (SFW)...
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/ - I don't use Yahoo. Might be due to looking for their press office around the time they bought Flickr
http://www.zachsmind.com/entry.asp?date=4/4/2005 - some guy's review of Sin City. I guess I don't visit many sites that begin with z...
And a quick breakdown:
Film related sites - 7 (26.9%)
Language related sites - 3 (11.5%)
Very widely read news-type sites - 3 (11.5%)
Journalism-specific sites - 2 (7.7%)
Sites I write on - 2 (7.7%)
Friend's sites - 2 (7.7%)
Well-known sites I never use and I don't know why they're there - 2 (7.7%)
Sites I've only visited once but were the only things that came up when I typed in the letter - 2 (7.7%)
Sites essential to living in London - 1 (3.8%)
Urban legends - 1 (3.8%)
Comics - 1 (3.8%)
Which I think sums up my life quite accurately.
