Not sure if I can think of five websites that have not already found their way into Mouthshut. I'm typing as I think, and feeling too lazy to check. but I do like the ones below..
1. https://Youtube.com
a site where you can be your own TV channel and broadcast anything you want.
People carry around their cameras, and cell phones and live in the dream of capturing something that is so worldshaking, or nasty, or funny they just gotta tell everyone about it. sometimes that does happen, and it gets posted here for the rest of the wired universe.
how do you find a good one ? There's categories (Arts and Animation, Autos and Vehicles, Comedy, Entertainment, Music, News and Blogs, People, Pets and Animals, Science and Technology, Sports, Travel adn Places, Videogames), Ratings by other users (Most recent, most viewed, top rated, Most discussed, top favorites, most linked, recently featured, random), and searchable tags to find a specific topic.
what I really liked here is there is a high humor quotient in most of these videos. worth spending hours, but you'll need a broadband internet connection.
Watch Judson Laipply's Evolution of dance for the moves through the ages..hilarious.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&feature=MostReferred&page=1&t=t&f=b
And this one is a must...a fake trailer for Titanic II: (The Surface). "This summer, Jack is Back" says the voice-over. Jack is found frozen in an ice-cube at the bottom of the sea, and returns to life. https://youtube.com/watch?v=vD4OnHCRd_4&feature=MostReferred&page=2&t=t&f=b..
animal bloopers ...A dog with issues.... https://youtube.com/watch?v=4cSRpu7bI04&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b
Matt all over the globe - a guy dancing in different corners of the globe. this is a cool video to send ur friends from your round-the-world trip. https://youtube.com/watch?v=bNF_P281Uu4&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b
(AND, if you wanna know how to finance your next dancing expedition to planet earth, go https://wherethehellismatt.com/faq.html )
This summer.....Arnold Schwarzeneggar is ....Little Tortilla Boy! The comedian does an amazing impersonation of that rather excitable person who seems to do the voiceovers of all movie trailers.. https://youtube.com/watch?v=whGVaLoIvkw&feature=Favorites&page=2&t=t&f=b
I Will Survive (Jesus version)...(not for the religious easily-offended..u've been warned) https://youtube.com/watch?v=qAmljaj5stA&feature=Favorites&page=2&t=t&f=b
MAD-TV's Memoirs of a geisha...trailer... https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TSWaKWiAhY&feature=Favorites&page=3&t=t&f=b
Oh, Sayuri ...you know to stop a man in his tracks. And how to put on makeup ...
Broke-back to the future.... A sequel to both Brokeback Mountain and back to the future combined in one. https://youtube.com/watch?v=8uwuLxrv8jY&feature=Favorites&page=3&t=t&f=b
And of course, Indian traffic...watch out for that white car at top going against traffic...oddly, traffic never seems this chaotic when ur in it. Or does it? https://youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM&feature=Favorites&page=4&t=t&f=b
*2. https://guardian.co.uk
reeeeely like this newspaper's take on things. I like their analytical content, and I love their archives. forget the paper-roll on your doorstep, - if you read more than just the headline - you want to read a story with all the contextual information. most newspapers online merely repeat their articles online, with a search feature thrown in. guardian brings you the real deal. every article is collated to related articles, timeline showing articles covering the issue through the years, special reports with historical background, links to other media covering it, and interactive guides. your complete media guide to any burning issue. You never need to search and end up with a 10-page list of irrelevant entries. So if you suddenly decide to catch up on all the news related to say Palestine, for eg, which you've ignored so far and dont have a clue on....click !
*3. https://en.wikipedia.org
*a free encyclopedia that seems to be disproving the old saying that 'when you get something for free, you get what you paid for'. the great advantage over paper encyclopedias ie the inclusion of the latest topics in a timely fashion, including those topics of appeal to very small groups of people (eg specific regions, languages, technical topics) which the old encyclopedias turned their nose up at.
An enormous amount of information continues to accumulate, and lately I find myself going straight to old wiki, instead of Google, to find info on a topic. Wiki articles are composed and edited by volunteers - of which there are thousands - so they are something of a composite consensus view, which might lean to the safe rather than controversial. late last year, there was a little uproar when media reported that Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales had altered his own bio to delete some references to his co-founder. This is one of the dangers of a publicly edited encyclopedia, the potential for abuse, inaccuracy and sometimes vandalism is big, but so far, the world of the internet has proved more honest and self-policing than the real one.
Wikipedia has now expanding its scope as a reference site to include online textbooks (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page), news (https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page), and a dictionary/thesaurus (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page).
4. https://bartleby.com
Bartleby is an very good online reference to books, prose and poetry, and articles, quotations. It has the full text of a large number of classic books and poetry, only requirement is that you have to read them online, not download the whole thing like Gutenberg. Most people seem to know about the Gutenberg Project( http://www.gutenberg.org). Started in the late 70s to put classic books online, it has amassed a serious 2 million plus collection of titles.The one condition is that it has to be a book that is not copyrighted in the US, or an old book whose copyright has expired. Books are typed in, and proofread by a volunteer group. I've done a few as well. Oflate, another interesting place is http://www.bookbrowse.com, where you can read the first chapters of books.You can sample a lot more quickly that way, and they have the latest books, as well as reviews, excerpts, author bio, book jacket to give you the feel of really browsing. The reading guides offer a number of questions to help you think more.
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