Ben’s Favorite
Sites:
I. Daily
Cool Stuff:
Message Boards
to Check Out:
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MyFamily.com |
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Silvanon’s Message Board |
http://silvanon.proboards12.com |
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Find A Grave |
Gerbil Boards:
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AGS Gerbils |
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The Mongolian Gerbils Forum |
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Gerbil Shows |
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Gerbil Lovers |
News:
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Top Yahoo News |
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=716 |
Check out the latest news. |
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Google News |
Top News from Google |
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BYU Newsnet |
News from and
about BYU |
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LDS Newsroom |
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Official Newsroom
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LDS Today |
LDS News in the
secular media. |
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Slashdot |
Science/Computer news. |
Misc Daily Stuff:
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The Good, Clean Funnies List Archive |
http://www.gcfl.net/archive/index.php |
Nearly endless amounts of good, clean funny jokes. I dare you to read them all! |
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Yahoo Comics |
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=1077&/?u |
Just keep clicking refresh to get your RDA of comics. |
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100 Hour Board |
Questions answered
at the 100 Hour Board |
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Half Bakery |
This site is fun.
People share their ideas (any ideas) to a discriminating audience. |
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Daily Updating Political Cartoons |
More political cartoons than you can shake a stick at. |
II. Stuff
to check out every few days:
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Church news
articles |
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Sev Cartoons |
Check out the recently added cartoons |
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Snopes.com |
Check out newly circulated Urban Legends here. |
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Break the Chain.org |
What are some of
the new, not so true e-mail forwards? Look here first. |
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Totally Absurd Inventions |
Newly archived
absurd inventions. |
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The Tonight Show Headlines |
http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/headlines/ |
Funny headlines
featured on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno |
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Eric’s Blogs |
Feel free to check out Eric’s Blog. |
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Cool Site of the Day |
http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl |
What are the coolest sites on the internet? Find out here. |
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Answer Bag |
Kind of like the 100 Hour Board |
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Fact Check |
A
non-partisan group checks the truthfulness of every statement major
politicians make. |
III. Stuff to check out on a weekly basis:
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Home Star Runner |
New flash cartoons every Monday. |
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Snide Remarks |
New columns every Monday. |
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News of the Weird |
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html |
Missed it in the newspaper? Read it here! |
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Comics I don’t understand |
It’s about time someone made a site like this. |
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Dave Barry |
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/ |
Did you miss Dave Barry’s column this week? Shame on you! Read it here. |
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World Watch – A Weekly Column by OSC |
Apparently, Orson
Scott Card has a weekly column. It’s
not scrupulously accurate. Just fun. |
IV. Archives to Browse:
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A Gerbil’s Life |
Gerbil comic strips |
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Crazy Thoughts |
Lots and lots of
fun crazy thoughts |
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The Cumorah Project |
Interesting stats about the LDS church and people |
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Riddle Nut |
786 Riddle |
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Amusing Facts |
Over 5,000 verified amusing facts. |
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Urban Legends |
More Urban Legends |
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Eric Conveys an Emotion |
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It’s a different Eric.
He has new stuff occasionally. |
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Terra Server |
Wow, look at aerial photos of just about anything. |
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Chemical & Engineering News |
What are the products that we use every day made of? |
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Dumb.com |
Sources of dumb Humor |
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Missionary Folklore.com |
See what's new at
missionary folklore (they also have Mormon humor) |
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LDS Testimony Board |
LDS Testimony
Board. Real people. Real experiences. |
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MetaSpy |
Want to see what's
being searched? Look here. |
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Stupid Videos.com |
I’m not sure how
clean this site is. I’ll have to check
it out. |
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The Internet Sacred Text Archive |
Perfect for the
Sociology of Religion, over 1,000 sacred texts from many world religions. |
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Animal Pictures Archive |
This site is a lot
like Find A Grave except that it has pictures of animals. |
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Uncle Orson’s Writing Class |
Orson Scott Card
teaches us how to write. |
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Worth 1000 |
Tons of fun,
doctored photos. |
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Truth Miners |
Like Snopes, except no what’s new section. |
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Hoaxbusters |
Also like Snopes w/out a what’s new
section, except it also has hoax information. |
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LDS Conversion.com |
Conversion stories
of famous people, priests, nuns, etc. |
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Missionary Folklore |
Fun and
informative site about Missionary Folklore |
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LDS Teach.com |
Home and Visiting
Teaching Resources. Well, you get what
you pay for on the internet. |
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Getamused.com |
Largest joke site
on the web AND it’s clean. |
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Word Origins.org |
Find out where
famous words and phrases came from. |
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LDS Film.com |
Find out about
current and upcoming LDS films. |
V. Tools for Everyday Living:
Gerbil
Tools:
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The American
Gerbil Society |
Comprehensive Gerbil Site |
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Gerbil Photo Directory |
Hopefully we’ll get every color |
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The Gerbil Color Pallette |
Here you can find descriptions of every kind of gerbil |
Tools for
Graving:
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Terra Server |
Wow, look at aerial photos of just about anything. |
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Findagrave.com |
Browse by county or state/city. |
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Driving Directions |
Get driving directions and maps at Map Quest. |
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City Maps |
Get city maps from Mapquest |
Checkin’ Out a Movie:
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The Internet Movie Database |
See who’s in a movie or get a summary |
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Rotten Tomatoes |
Reviews for every movie. |
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Ruined Endings |
If you desperately need to know the plot or ending of a
movie, check here. |
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Family Style – Film Guide |
This site screens movies. Not too detailed, but a huge archive. |
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Kids in Mind-
Movie Reviews |
VERY
detailed. They even tell you if
married people kiss or dance a waltz together (in case you object ;-) |
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CCB Archived
Movie Reviews |
Apparently, the
Counsel of Catholic Bishops reviews movies. |
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Screen It! |
This site screens movies but up to a certain data
it’s a pay site. |
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Movie Mistakes |
He he, mistakes in movies are fun to spot. |
Misc.
Tools:
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Rate My Professors.com |
See how other
students are rating your professors. |
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Famous Mormons.net |
Who’s Mormon and whose not? Find out here! |
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Thingstodo.com |
Things to do near
you. |
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Your Sky |
Get a star chart
of the night sky for any night of the year |
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Church Music |
Learn just about
every hymn here. |
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LDS Church Temples |
Extensive
information on every |
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Official Church Temples Site |
Didn’t get enough
info at the other site? Check here. |
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Yahoo! TV |
See what’s on,
right now. |
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Do It Yourself Network |
Excellent site for
home improvement and home repair. |
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Epinions.com |
Before you buy anything,
read reviews of it here. |
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Internet Acronyms Dictionary |
Did somebody just
use an internet acronym? Find out what
it means here. |
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Famousdays.com |
Find out what
famous events happened on your birthday. |
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dMarie
Time Capsule |
Find out what
happened on the exact day you were born. |
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MP3’s of nearly
every LDS hymn with all 4 parts. |
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Home & Family – FHE Lessons |
On-line FHE
lessons and activity ideas |
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LDS Greeting Cards |
Send LDS-themed
Greeting cards without ads. |
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Real Post Reports |
Info on what to
look for if you visit other countries |
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Photos and
descriptions of all wildlife in |
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LDS Teach |
Home and Visiting
Teaching Resources |
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Planet Feedback |
Streamlines
writing letters to companies |
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Ask MetaFilter |
Ask any question
here |
Someone making annoying noises next to you? Find Music Here:
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Kzion- LDS Internet Radio |
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BYU Radio- words or instrumental |
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BYU TV- Live stream |
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Enya Midis |
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Musicals |
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Final Fantasy Midis |
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More FF Midis |