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Please note that some of these sites are Dutch or Dutch-centric.
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AUDIO/VIDEO
Chris Moyles Show - the best bits of BBC's morning show (podcast)
Comic Book Queers - the name pretty much says it all (podcast)
Cute with Chris - writer/actor Chris Leavins tries to quantify cuteness (video-blog)
Feast of Fun - Fausto Fernós & Marc Felion from Chicago chat with friends and celebrities (podcast)
Kabel Radio - 1200+ online radio stations
Keith and the Girl - slightly crude, slightly politically incorrect but very funny (podcast)
Never not Funny - comedian Jimmy Pardo & friends (podcast)
Podcast Search Engine - find a podcast to your liking
Savage Love - Dan Savage gives relationship and sex-advice in a blunt and funny way (podcast)
Smodcast - director/writer Kevin Smith's podcast, with friend Scott Mosier and the occasional guest (podcast)
Strong Bad E-mails - animated character animatedly responds to fan-mail (video's)
YouTube - the well-known site featuring lots and lots of video
BLOGS/PROFILES/PHOTO'S/NETWORK
4Chan - big bulletin board
BlogCritics.org - "a sinister cabal of superior writers"
Blogspot - good and easy place to launch a blog
Blogthings - nice things... blog-related, as you might guess
Facebook - construct an online network of friends
Flickr - popular photo site
Gay Gamer - 'for boys who like boys who like joysticks'
It's a Gay World after all - blog about gay life and culture
Lady, That's my Skull - pop culture musings
MySpace - a once popular and somewhat slow-loading site with profiles
Photobucket - popular photo site
Pop Culture Junkie - pop culture musings and a lot of reviews
Twitter - keep everybody up to date on where you are, what you're doing and what you're thinking
FILM/TV/SHOWBIZ
Angry Alien - animated 30-second movie parodies, starring lots of rabbits
DListed- gossip site
DVD Verdict– DVD reviews
Entertainment Weekly - showbiz gossip and actual news
Filmladder – show what movie is playing where and when
Internet Movie Database – lots of interesting movie information and trivia
Jumping the Shark - discuss at what point your favorite series went down the tubes
Kriterion – my former place of employment: a bar/movie theater run by students
Metacritic – gathers up the reviews of a lot of other sites for an overview
Movie-a-minute – films condensed in a funny way
Next Episode - what is airing on US television today and tomorrow?
People - for all that vital gossip
Perez Hilton - very bitchy celebrity gossip site
Roger Ebert Reviews – reviews by the renowned American film critic
Rotten Tomatoes – shows the general consensus among movie critics using the 'Tomatometer'
Television without Pity - cynical musings about television
TMZ - bitchy gossip site
TV.com – information and trivia about television series
TV Gids Online - online TV guide, not surprisingly
TV Series Finale - the afterlife for television series
Whoops! Movie Goofs – plot holes and continuity errors in movies exposed
Worldwide Boxoffice – overview of what movies have grossed in parts of the world
FOOD
Café Prik - a favorite and bubbly little bar in the Spuistraat in Amsterdam
Café Restaurant ‘Amsterdam’ – favorite café in an interesting location
IENS - index of customer reviews of restaurants
Smulweb - recipes
Thuisbezorgd - order all kinds of food online
UrbanBite – order all kinds of food online
GAMES
Boardgame Geek - reviews of board games (any non-electronic game)
Destructoid - news and reviews of games
EDGE - 'videogame culture'
Gamepressure - news, reviews, guides encyclopedia
Game Rankings - overview of reviews of games
Gamespot - news and reviews
Machinima - news and reviews of games
Maplestory - cute and free "2D Massive Multiplayer Online"
Nintendo DS reviews (op Metacritic) - reviews in alphabetical order
Nitrome - Flash games from the UK
IGN - news and reviews
Orisinal Games – cute little online games
Pocket Gamer - for gaming on-the-go
PopCap Games – online games
Xbox reviews (op Metacritic) - reviews in alphabetical order
Xbox 360 reviews (op Metacritic) - reviews in alphabetical order
XGN - news and reviews
You Don't Know Jack - online pop culture knowledge quiz
INTERESTING/FUNNY
Bookcrossing – put books up for adoption and hunt for ophaned books
Braindrops van het Franklin Instituut - an interesting fact every day
Bureau Barel - company for promotion, marketing and sales in the cultural field
Care 2 – e-cards
Engrish - English, Japanese-style...
F My Life - sad-but-funny anecdotes
FAIL Blog - laughing at the failure of others
FU Penguin - puts cute animals in their place
Lolcats - home of the 'I can has cheezburger?' cat-phenomenon
People of Walmart - very special people who were caught on camera while shopping
Post Secret - art project: people send in a secret anonymously on a postcard
Rather Good – won a Webby Award with some singing cats
Stuff on my Cat - 'stuff + cats = awesome'
Texts from Last Night - collects texts people wish they hadn't sent
Webby Awards - hands out an award to the 'best' websites
Worth 1000 - fun with Photoshop (competitions)
iSITES
Apple iPhone Home - list of applications
Flickr-easy acces to Flickr, the photo site
IMDB - for a quick search in the movie database with your iPhone
iPhone Applicatie Lijst - list of applications
Yappler - shows others what applications you are using and vice versa
MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS/NEWS
Attitude - gay lifestyle
Dribbleglass.com - 'the internet's official humor site TM'
Cracked.com - funny lists and pop culture information
Focus - 'science, technology, future'
Gay & Night - bilingual, Dutch gay magazine
Mania.com – scifi & pop culture news
Mental Floss - trivia for 'knowledge junkies'
National Geographic - worldly knowledge
NU.nl - news site
Onion – American pseudo-news
Parool - Dutch newspaper
Psychology Today - trendy psychology
Quest - interesting facts
SFX Magazine – internet sidekick of SFX magazine
Telegraaf - Dutch newspaper
Volkskrant - Dutch newspaper
Wired - trendy technology
REFERENCES/SEARCHES
Babel Fish - online translation
Chrome - Google's browser
Google – the most famous search engine
Google Reader - gather all updates from your favourite sites on one page
H2G2 – a funny HitchHiker’s Guide To Earth
Ik heb je – good place to start when looking for adresses, phonenumbers etc.
My Yahoo - gather all updates from your favourite sites on one page
Safari - Apple's browser
Van Dale Taalweb – online Dutch dictionary
Wikipedia - interactive encyclopedia, not 100% reliable
SHOPS/PRICE COMPARISON
American Book Center – sells American and English books, online ordering is possible
Kieskeurig - product information, reviews and price comparison
Marktplaats.nl - selling and buying stuff online
Play.com – reliable and large internet store with games, dvd's and clothes
Spreadshirt.net - make and sell your own t-shirt designs
Tweakers - find the best and cheapest tech
Vergelijk.nl – product information, reviews and price comparison
TRAVELLING/ACTIVITIES
9292OV - lets you plan a trip by public transport
ANWB Routeplanner – explains how to get from A tot B
AUB Amsterdams Uit Buro – cultural agenda and ticket sales
GVB – public transport in Amsterdam
Leuke Dingen Doen – suggestions for a nice day out
Nederlandse Spoorwegen– train information and planner
Routenet – explains how to get from A tot B
VVV – toeristische informatie binnen Nederland
WRITING/DRAWING
Armistead Maupin - writer of the Tales of the City books
Bulwer-Lytton Schrijfwedstrijd- competition to write the worst first line for a novel
Comic House - for illustration and animation
Douglas Adams - writer of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books
Do You Know Flo? - illustrator Floor de Goede
Erik Larsen - writer and cartoonist Erik Larsen, creator of Savage Dragon
Fokke & Sukke - two Dutch ducks online
Funpx - illustrator Peter Welleman
Joss Whedon - writer/director/creator of Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse
Least I Could Do - webcomic
Penny Arcade - cartoons about gamers
Peter David - writer of a great many scifi and fantasy comics and books
Strangers in Paradise - a site dedicated to the comic series created by Terry Moore
Stripster - site for and by cartoonists
XKCD - webcomic for science-nerds: 'A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.'
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