Here are a few places we like to play on the Internet - if you want us to add you, please let us know.
Bookish
- Bookshelves of Doom - mainly reviews of YA fiction, but a genuinely interesting, amusing and well-written blog.
- Smart Bitches Trashy Books - notorious, hilarious romance novel blog.
- Bookslut - a monthly web magazine about books, I like the columns best.
- Eve's Alexandria - hardcore book blog, these people are waaaay to erudite for me most of the time, but always eloquent and insightful.
- Strange Horizons - awesome speculative fiction webzine, I mainly visit for the reviews.
- A site for people who are looking for something a little more highbrow from their web browsing.
Gameish
- Twenty Sided - Shamus Young's blog, I usually only read his commentary on games, although his webcomic DM of the Rings is still a classic.
- The Brainy Gamer - despite the annoying name, often quite interesting posts on videogames and a very listenable-to regular podcast as well.
- Sexy Videogameland - cute female games journalist, I just like the way she writes and thinks about games.
- Rock Paper Shotgun - PC gaming blog written by English people, yay.
- Gamasutra - often quite pretentious / annoying but occasionally interesting, development-tilted site.
- Kotaku - obviously.
- RPG Watch - RPG gaming news, for RPG obsessives like me.
- WoW Insider - a very splendid blog for enormous WoW nerds like me.
- Unskippable - Kyra's latest favourite thing on the internet, videogame cutscenes delightfully MST-ed by some dudes.
Harry Potterish
- Deathtocapslock - Harry Potter recap community, much loved by Dan.
- Overanalysing the Text - interesting archive of Potter analysis / speculation, kind of outdated now, sadly.
Miscellanyish
- Pop Matters - popular culture webzine, of variable interest, but easy on the mind for idle browsing.
- Wrong Questions - genuinely fascinating blog, usually with a sci/fi fantasy slant.
- Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad - nukes terrible webcomics from orbit and shows you the bits that are left.
- NaNoWriMo - It ate all our Novembers, the least we can do is link to the thing.
- PoeTV - Compiles all the best, worst, strangest and most awesome videos that appear on Youtube, LiveLeak, and other such sites for your entertainment. Features user comments which aren't completely moronic, which makes it vastly superior to Youtube straight off the bat.
Techish
- Ars Technica - big, wide-ranging news and views on the world of technology.
- The Register - snarky, very British take on tech news.
- The Daily WTF - frequently-updated disaster stories of IT, some quite technical.