Random website thread

[Jimmy Glass is an Alien]

I don't know about you but when online I search the same websites in a loop, BBC, sky, TEF etc. what I need is a list of recommended websites I can visit.

I've recently stumbled across:

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/

Can any other TEF'ers recommend any thing I can browse.

[BruceChatwin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/

Is a great website to dip in and out of from the master of political paranoia Adam Curtis, albeit pretty much the total opposite of the one you posted.

Posts like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/hes_behind_you

Are the kind of things he does fantastically: you go in thinking you are going to read about a story you know well and come out with a completely different perspective on it questioning everything you'd previously been told.

[leefer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2013

I learn more about people after there deaths...i look at this site everyday...you find people on here you have never heard of.

My other favourite is Pathe when i am at a bit of a loss.

http://www.britishpathe.com/

A brilliant website this.

http://www.britishpathe.com/gallery/ten-tragedies-caught-on-film/0

[Barry Scott]

http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://www.straightdope.com/

The first site I've barely used, but love the idea. The second I used to live on while at work.

[jonny72]

I don't use their website as there videos are available elsewhere, but worth a look if you've never heard of them;

http://www.ted.com