Digg.com - trending stuff (stuff does not trend on weekends, however)

LifeHacker is a site about dealing with life (mid to upper class life). It has a lot of gadgets and leading edge toys, also. I'm not a fan of the site's re-organization which minimizes the amount of info on the home page necessitating many clicks to get to something interesting.

MakeUseOf reports on new technology with a lot of how-to articles.

Fucking Homepage If you can get past the language, this site has a new bit of wisdom each day along with a few links to interesting sites or topics.

gHacks is a site about upgrades and changes to software. Currently, it is principally focused on the Windows and Linux operating software and the major browsers. It also contains reviews of useful browser add-ons. An email newsletter is available.

AskVG - site has some great tech info on useful tweaks for Windows, Firefox, Chrome, and other common software. Your VPN can get in the way, however. An email newsletter is available.

Reuters is a great news site.

TheInventory has a nice home page full of browseable articles like "What is the Best Space Heater" or "Movie Art Books That Deserve To Be On Your Shelf". The articles tend to be surface deep, however, with little actionable information.

BGR Boy Genius Report has trending tech news and info.

Mashable.com - whatever is buzzing at the time.

Pocket is a blogish site that will send you interesting and thought provoking stories if you sign up. You can read some of the stories on the site without giving them your email.

Mental Floss

Reddit is a huge collection of discussion forums.

Reddit Alternatives

You Should Know Subreddit - discussion group for know-it-alls.

Redditlist shows which subreddit groups are largest vs those who are growing according to the number of subscribers.

ChangeMyView is a subreddit discussion that challenges participants to state a view and let others respond. The challenge is measured by keeping track of how many posters change their positions (deltas). The group is very well moderated and well mannered.

LifeProTips Reddit - advice on how to live a little easier.

Trending YouTube Videos These YouTube videos are being viewed the most.

Techcrunch - tech blog.

MetaFilter - general blog with a lot of not so apparent gems.

Huffington Post

Upstract aggregates the most popular stories.

The Verge is full of trending technology news.

The Consumerist has news mostly about consumer abuse, recalls, advice, with some humor thrown in. It reads a lot better than that sounds but new articles have not appeared in many years.

Technical.ly/philly has news and rumor about what is happening in the technical areas of Philadelphia.

Five Sites That Give Two Sides of the News Story - from the MakeUseOf folks.

Tech Hive - sponsored by PC Computing, is a tech news and reviews site.

RealSimple - recipes, household tips, advice, etc. Help for simplifying life.

Brit & Co - recipes, household tips, advice, etc. Interesting ideas.

Today is a companion site for the TV show. Covers less serious news and media trends.

Straight Dope is a blog that attempts to uncover the straight dope on myths and urban lengends. "Fighting ignorance since 1973 - it's taking longer than we thought"

Internet Health Report is put together by the folks at Mozilla. This is an annual report that shows trends in the use of the Internet, degree of access to Internet resources, security issues, etc.

Interesting Newsletters This is an article (2019) about what the LifeHacker staff find interesting in email newsletters. The site has links to explore.

BoingBoing is a blog about unusual ideas and things.

DonationCoder Blog is a daily blog of interesting software and Web sites.

How to Geek is a troubleshooting blog that has evolved into reviews of just about everything interesting.

The Windows Club news and new stuff in the Windows world.

ILoveFreeSoftware is a nice freeware blog.

Huffington Post Tech

Online Tech Tips Free Software - short reviews of free software in a blog style.

Addictive Tips - software blog.

dottech.org is another software blog. Mostly very good how-to articles about issues with Windows. Updates seem to have stopped mid-2018.

Freeware Genius - reviews of free software although it does not look like the site has been updated since 2016.

Softpedia - news on freeware - shows a list of newly updated programs.

The Cheapskate is a blog from CNet that reports newly discovered bargains.

Gizmos Freeware has freeware and reviews, how-to's, support forums, etc. Nice comparative style shows top 3 or four programs in a category with brief but useful reviews. No recent updates.

DistroWatch - tracks the open source community, reports news, and reviews new software.

Random Good Stuff - a blog covering strange stuff.

Fark - weird, unusual, and funny sites.

TED This site is like YouTube for smart folks. It is a collection of ideas, lectures, performances, etc.

Best Ten TED Talks according to Lifehacker

Alternatives to TED Talks - list is reported by Lifehacker

Listverse is a collection of 'top ten' lists.

WMFU's Beware of the Blog - and now for something different. Very different. Not updated since 2015.

43 Folders is a blog aimed at increasing productivity and making life a little easier

Emailaddresses - collection of free Web-based services including email, reminders, calendars, to-do lists, etc.

US Mint Coin And Medal Programs has links to the 50 state quarters as well as the American Women Quarters and includes links to the new pennies, nickels, etc.

Science Frontiers is the bimonthly newsletter providing digests of reports that describe scientific anomalies; that is, those observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms.

CarTalk is two guys (Tom and Ray) having fun with car stuff. There are car reviews and a community discussion section that does not have a lot of traffic. They also have a kind of podcast.

PhoneSpell lets you enter a phone number and it will give you all of the combinations of equivalent letters for those of us who need that kind of thing.

Internet Marketing Ninjas translates phone numbers into words.

History Channel includes historical events that occurred 'on this date in the past'.

Black and Decker has all kinds of tools.

Coastal Tools has all kinds of tools.

What Happened on This Date will tell you the things that happened on the date that you select.

E! Online is the companion to the E! (Entertainment) TV channel.

National Park Service ParkNet

Brain Pickings is a site that offers thoughts on life - very creative thoughts.

Ken Blackburn's Paper Airplanes - he holds the record for paper airplane flying.

Crayola

Putty World has all kinds of Silly Putty including stuff that changes colors with the temperature.

CNN has news.

Butterfly Website has a lot of very good quality photos from a variety of photographers.

The Jim Henson Company

Boeing Corporation has great pictures of the aircraft that they have produced and are planning to build.

Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey

Cirque du Soleil is the fantastic "Sun Circus". Site includes very short clips of the various shows.

Answering Machine Sound Files just in case you're low on imagination. But how do you get the sound from the computer into the answering machine?

Ball Parks - everything you wanted do know about ball parks and stadiums in the US. Includes sections on basketball, hockey, football, and baseball.

Baseball America covering baseball in high school up through the major leagues.

Baseball Primer has baseball for the thinking fan.

College Student is aimed at college students. Has goofy news stories, surveys, bookstore, etc.

Family.com is the Disney site for families. Information about parenting, education, chat, food, crafts, e-cards, etc.

Parent.net is about parenting.

Airliners You probably don't know how much you don't know about airplanes. This place has pictures of every mechanical flying machine, paint schemes, accident reports, cabin layouts, seating charts for commercial aircraft, a forum, and news.

Earthquakes has information on very recent earthquakes. This site is not meant for the casual surfer; terminology and graphics are presented without explanation.

Lionel has very expensive toy trains.

M&Ms

The Complete Grimm Fairy Tales

eHow is another how-to collection. Large variety of subjects including relationships, gardening, finance, auto, etc. - some how-to articles have links to additional material such as books.

New York Guerilla Kids' Childrens Film Festival

California State Railroad Museum

Eddy's Thimble SIB Pier - That's 'ship in a bottle' for the uninitiated. These are incredibly small model ships in very small containers. Check out the one in a movie projector bulb.

Experimental Balloon and Airship Association is about airships and blimps, including homemade jobs.

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II is a standard in psychological testing. You may find out something about yourself.

Time Capsule You enter your birthday and it tells you what happened on that date: news, politics, prices, songs, etc.

I Should Be Working is full of diversions from work. Entertaining.

Handspeak is all about sign language.

International Collection of Tongue Twisters

PCGS is all about rare coins and their evaluation.

Firehouse has all sorts of info on fire fighting and emergency helpers - news, forums, commercial products, gifts, etc.

SoundPortraits is a collection of sound recordings of various people in various stages of life.

Skeptic's Dictionary is a collection of material associated with dubious ideas such as Yeti, unicorns, questionable therapies, etc.

The Great Seal certainly has more information than you knew about the Great Seal of the USA.

History Wired is a Smithsonian site that is perfect for browsing. The site shows various objects that are more or less indicative of their times. Sadly, the site stopped development in 2016.

American Folklore covers a wide variety of folks tales.

Moon Trees This site tracks the trees grown from seeds taken on a moon mission.

The Big Cartoon Database has episode guides and synopses.

Prairie Home Companion

Coverups - for the paranoid among us.

World Mysteries

TerraFly unbelievable detail about neighborhoods along with an aerial view. Kind of cumbersome to use but only because of its wealth of data..

Cloud Appreciation Society has everything that you would want to know, and some things you would never imagine knowing about clouds.

Creative Commons - 'flexible copyright' - 'some rights reserved' (mostly free) material including audio, photos, art, movies, educational material, etc..

Gallery of Fluid Motion has super slow motion videos of fluids interacting with other substances. Topics include: Raindrop impact on a sandy surface, laser impact on a drop of water, submerged laminar jet impingement, etc. Good stuff.

Dreamies - Bill Holt's very short movies - good stuff.

Internet Archive is a nonprofit endeavor to archive text, images, books, video, software, etc. and allow free access to the material. You can spend a lot of time here. This is an actual archive of stuff that has been put on the Internet.

Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools - a collection of tools and art or tools that are art - not sure which.

50 Outrage Reducers or how to handle someone when you have to give them bad news.

Sheepfilms is a guy who does very creative, short, flash animation films.

The Most Important Thing My Father Taught Me is a collection of 'most important things' from ordinary folks.

DonationCoder Humor This is a collection of sites that are strange, funny, or unusual as submitted by the public. Great time waster.

IP-Address - enter an IP address and get a map of where the address is geographically located.

PaperToys.com has a variety of projects that show you how to make toys out of paper.

Reviewing the Evidence - thoughtful and thorough reviews of the evidence in various mysteries, strange stuff, etc.

Kako Ueda - cut paper art. The more you see of this stuff, the more you are amazed.

Ian's Shoelace Site - shows you how to tie shoelaces 'correctly'. The site has an amazing amount of detail about simple knots.

eBaum's World - has all of the viral videos that you could want.

SimplyNoise is just that - white noise - like the kind in the doctor's office. It drowns out other noise so you can meditate or concentrate.

MindHacks is a blog on psychology and neuroscience. Some interesting stuff.

Hack a Day is a blog about serious hacks.

Instructables is a collection of DIY videos that show you how to make things including food.

WonderHowTo is a DIY how-to site that may be the best site for actually useful how-to tips.

PsyBlog is a pretty intense blog about psychology and the workings of the mind.

Rules of Thumb is a collection of rules of thumb. Like how to build a museum, how to choose a pineapple, etc.

5 Sites to Recharge Your Mind is a collection of Web sites that collect design submissions for logos, business cards, letterhead, Web banners, etc. Something might strike a nerve and generate a new idea.

Microsoft Community Blogs Microsoft blogs written by their employees on various Microsoft technologies

Google Blog

Oracle Blog

Mashable.com - is a blog related to generally whatever is buzzing at the time.

Slashdot - is a blog by geeks for geeks.

CIO Blog - is a blog for CIO's.

BuzzFeed is full of stories that celebrate cuteness and weirdness.

UpWorthy is full of news stories that folks like to pass on to one another either because they are politically hot, cute, uplifting, touching, etc.

Quartz - business news digest that covers a lot of ground.

Endless Lift is a fascinating blog about making very simple things that fly like balsa wood gliders or flying disks.

GrowaBrain A great collection of very imaginative and entertaining sites but it hasn't been updated since 2010.

List of Common Misconceptions - from the Wikipedia, this is a list of commonly accepted untruths and misconceptions.

J Archive is a Jeopardy database that contains all of the questions in all of the TV game show boards. Put together and maintained by some people that just have too much time on their hands.

Bongo Cat Make music with the bongo cat.

Dreaming With Jeff Meditative music created by Jeff Bridges (yes, that one). Weird thing is you can't buy the album but you can hear the entire thing on this site.

BoredHumans is a collection of AI sites.

Reddit Thread of Most Useful Websites That You Might Not Know About (2021) Very useful suggestions for new sites to visit.

Beyond the Black Stump - similar to The BigList in that it is a collection of sites in various categories - generally excellent sites. Pretty well designed and well worth a bookmark.

The Webby Awards lets you vote for your favorite site as well as see who got the coveted Webby.

Best Web Sites is a collection of sites from MakeUseOf (2019).

WebAward.org picks the best Web site in a variety of categories.

Best Web Sites You Probably Haven't Heard Of (2017) is an excellent collection of sites from MakeUseOf.

CeoExpress is a great collection of links crammed into one page. The links are intended for upper level managers so the collection needs to be taken with salt.

The Best of Everything - is a collection of sites from Bob Rankin who brought us the Internet Tourbus. Some great sites.

Web Autopilot will do the surfing for you. It picks a random site at a time interval that you can set.

HotSheet is good surfing. The site has a bunch of links arranged in various categories without evaluation or description.

TopTenLinks lists 10 links in various categories. All users are encouraged to assign a 1 to 10 ranking (10 being best and 1 being worst) for any site. Based on users "votes" the sites in a top ten list are instantly resorted. This is a real time voting system so the results are always up to date. Very interesting idea but they rated Borders over Barnes & Noble even when there is no merchandise available on the Borders site.

American Library Association

Encyclopedia Britanica is sponsoring this free site with a lot of great links.

The Scout Report is a newsletter that reviews Internet resource sites. This is their home page. Sadly, they stopped updating in 2021.

Matthias Wandel's Page This guy is very creative. His page includes marble machines, ABS canons, photography, and other stuff. Interesting and creative.

Matthias Wandel's Woodworking Site

Random Good Stuff is/was a collection of stuff that is/was cute, funny, interesting, etc. Site has not been updated since 2018.