Although I’m trying to cut back on the unhealthy amount of time I spend on the internet, I thought I’d introduce a few websites I visit every day (or pretty often) If you’re ever looking for some fun sites to kill time on check these out.

Okay, hopefully everyone knows about Pandora by now. As a radio DJ hopeful this site is really fun for finding new music that match your tastes. You can basically create your own radio stations based on the artists you enter in the search box. I’ve got about 5 different stations I listen to depending on my mood. You can only skip something like 5 songs an hour I think- but it’s better than real radio where songs you hate are guaranteed to be played. You can always give a thumbs up or down to a song and they’ll try not to play anything like it again. Pretty swell. Pandora Radio.

Daytrotter is my new favorite music website. They basically have bands come in and play exclusive, re-worked, alternate versions of old songs and unreleased tracks. Lots of pretty well known bands are on the site, and it’s a great place to find new music as well. (Free downloading..) They’ve got a team of writers and illustrators to interview/draw the artists too. Daytrotter.

Maybe flickr only entertains me as a lover of photography, but it’s always cool to browse people’s photographs and see the range of talent. I’m on there too. The other really cool photo website is JPG mag where people submit and vote on each others photos to get published in a real live photo magazine! I should really submit something..

If you’re ever having a bad day it might make you feel better to visit Fmylife, where people submit little 1-2 sentence stories about a really terrible experience they’ve had. You might not want to read some of them while you’re eating though. You can agree/disagree as to whether the person’s life is indeed f-ed, or whether they deserved what they got.

Hulu is a great place to watch really funny SNL clips and catch up on any TV shows you may have missed. Really high quality videos, and limited commercial interruption! If I’m bored I also like to watch movie trailers on apple.

One of the most hilarious websites out there is definitely the best of craigslist. Simply because you realize how many witty/cynical/sardonic/pissed off people there are in the world who are willing to rant their hearts out to cyberspace…and how many idiots there are out there. My favorite has to be the guy who put up photos of a “cat” he found to find the owner. The creature is clearly an opossum. Wow.

Now for the sites I occasionally remember to visit. For awhile I was really into thefatmanwalking.com which documented this dude Steve’s journey across America to lose weight and regain his old life. He’s amazingly insightful and I still check up on how he’s doing every now and then. Postsecret is a website where people send in artistic postcards that reveal one of their secrets anonymously. New secrets are posted every sunday, and there are a few books out. Many of the funniest bumper stickers on facebook actually originate from someecards a site with tons of hilarious ecards for any occasion. 

This is all I could think of for now, but maybe there’ll be a second time-wasting blog up soon..