http://thisishell.net

http://www.the-amazing.com Nice collection of pretty amazing photos. The current collection of oddities at Google Maps is worth the trip.

http://www.damninteresting.com A very appropriate website name for This Is Hell, DamnInteresting isa great collection of science and science history articles on the typesof wackiness us hellions relish, you know the kind… Tesla’s failed(or foiled) plan for free energy for the entire planet involving giantDeath Ray towers, tiny extremeophiles being used to clean up a giantpit [...]

http://io9.com My favorite new hilarious snarky sci-fi blog.

http://www.scirus.com Past winner of multiple Webby Awards, Scirus (pronounced Cyrus… I think)is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on theInternet. Scirus kicks general search engines… like Google’s, arse.

http://mydamnchannel.com They’ve been accused of being a rip of funnyordie.com,which is kinda true, except here all the shared content is produced byprofessionals and known artists, so they’re usually funnier… and thename definitely reflects the TIH zeitgeist. Check out “You Suck at Photoshop“, and the hilarious send up of virtual worlds, “Sn4tchbuckl3r’s Second Chance“.

http://galaxyzoo.org Use your delicious brains to help scientists do what no computer cando today – sort through millions of sometime stunningly beuatifulastonomical images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and help classify them. Maybe you’ll even discover something unique and they’ll name it after you like “Hanny’s Voorwerp“

http://pot.tv One of those URLs that’s pretty self-explanatory. Think YouTube forstoners, and you are there my friend. And although some of it isactually informative, cringe-filled hilarity abounds. Be sure to catchat least a tiny portion of an episode of “Harry Pothead and theMarijuana Stone”… wow man. Or perhaps the Jodie, Marc and Tommy Chong show. [...]

http://scroogle.org/ From the site: “Since 2000, Google has recorded your search terms,the date-time of each search, the globally-unique ID in your cookie (itexpires in 2038), and your IP address. This information is available togovernments on request.” Created by an ex-Google employee and owned and operated by PublicInformation Research, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that also operates [...]

http://snagfilms.com/ Big thanks to TIH irregular correspondent Kevin Harris for this one.A great new beta site (even if it’s play thing of ex-AOL execs likeSteve Case) that’s offering hundreds full length docummentaries like”Super Size Me” for free. And no registration… for now. And they makeit easy for you to spread ‘em around and plop them [...]

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org If you have any interest in particle physics (and who doesn’t)here’s the best darn online particle physics magazine on Earth. It’spublised by Fermi Lab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, andyet I still found it’s articles readable, dare I say… engaging. Gothere and learn the facts about that scary new large hadron collider.

http://www.filmjunk.com A sweet little movie info site run by a small gang of Canadian filmjunkies, including a fellow alumnus of Sheridan College, where I got myanimation training a million years ago. The site offers podcasts,trailers, archives, and reviews featuring smart writing with a Canadianaccent.

http://yb2normal.com Indeed. Garage geek site big on the RC, aerial video and such.