A follow-up to the link-o-matic from months ago, "drag your woman around!", we now have Drag your Bush around! Go ahead, get your frustration out.

Here is a list of websites that I find to be best for these basic purposes. New tools are constantly coming out that are later and greater than what is currently out, so this is simply a current snapshot.

weather National Weather Service

maps/directions Google Maps

reference Wikipedia

news Google News

all-in-one homepage Google Personalized Home

sports Yahoo Sports

Do you think I am missing something? I generally give higher points to websites that don't have moving ads and are easy to use.

Original post found on fourmajor.com.

When I started using my own blog instead of this one for general day-to-day crap, the usefulness of this blog to me as far as being an author declined. It was then only useful to me for the amount of comments, as in if I required feedback to a post of mine. After several posts which received few or no comments (as all of the surrounding posts did), I realized that almost all of my content would generally be better suited to my own blog, rather than this one.

Well, this blog still does have a different audience than mine, and probably still at least a few more readers. So now my policy has generally been, if I think something that I write is particularly useful or of high quality, I will post it on my own blog and link to it here, or if it is short enough, simply copy/paste to this blog. Whereas before I was posting here for my own good most of the time, the concept now is that I post here when I think it will be useful for others (barring my recent podcast post).

So my question is: Is this a good policy? Or would you all rather I only posted "original" content here, rather than just linking to my own site, or copying/pasting what I just posted on my site? I don't want to feel like I am just whoring myself out to the EA crowd to get more traffic to my own site.

1. I have never seen an advertisement for Arrested Development either in print or on television. Word of mouth only gets you so far.
   
2. It is incredibly self-referential, so if you haven't been watching it from the beginning, you'll miss a lot of the jokes. But anyone I've watched it with who was coming to it in the middle still loved it.
   
3. And this is the biggest one. It's intelligent. Most of America isn't, so nobody gets it. "Huh? I thought this was that new reality show where they redecorate prison cells."

Well, I don't think this counts as an ad since I am not selling anything:

Advertising is an insult to the intelligence of all of us. We are expected to, and many of us do, buy products based on 30-second snippets that say very little about why a certain product is good.
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Corporate advertisements on public property are endorsements of whatever is being advertised. How can our government possibly endorse the practices of corporations such as McDonalds, which purchased advertising space on subway cars in Washington DC? Could we perhaps personify a corporation? McDonalds has unfair labor practices, and promotes unhealthy eating. Maybe we could replace the images on the subway with a slave owner eating red meat and cheese. Maybe then people viewing the ads would see what is really being shown to them.

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