A Few Links

I posted a few new links, pretty much at random. Just 'cause.

I've got the mini-web-ring links to Devin and Marilyn, Laura, and Christina as always (besides Dan and possibly Chris, I think they're my only audience--feel free to correct me with a comment if I'm wrong); they're nice and fairly hygienic as far as I know.

Lileks.com is, as has been mentioned over at Wordhord, a fine humor site with daily updates from a great writer. I despise and envy him for his talent.

Snopes is the place to check out urban legends of various kinds, and the first stop people should make before sending me mass e-mails on nearly any subject (calls for aid for lost and/or sick children, political screeds, alarming warnings, and viruses all included). A fun site just to peruse--I often assign my students to do work on the site as part of their research training (you want to be in my English 101 class now, don't you?).

The Onion is a delightfully wicked news parody site that's so dead-on they're sometimes mistaken for actual news. Sometimes distressingly liberal (and that from a fairly politically liberal guy) and occasionally containing off-color language, they can nevertheless almost always make me laugh. And the AV Club is a "real" media review site, with movie, video, book, and music reviews, as well as interviews and other features that are intelligent and entertaining. For reals.