The 15 Best Websites, According to Redditors
Please note that the list may change as more people chime in with their opinions. Also, we've only included websites from comments replying directly to the original poster, not comments replying to other comments.
1. Wikipedia
If you don't know what Wikipedia is by now, perhaps you should check the Wikipedia page for it. Then, prepare for a trip down the rabbit hole of cross-linked, Internet-compiled knowledge.
2. Multiple Submissions
Redditor "kinkyroach" compiled a diverse list of nifty sites and provided a short description for each one.
Snapzu - Reddit competitor with good articles
The Oatmeal - Comics/Articles
GrooveShark - Music discovery
Wallbase – Wallpapers
WolframAlpha - Computational knowledge engine
How Stuff Works - Random articles about how things work
Sporcle - Geography quizzes and puzzles
Twitch.tv - Live gaming broadcasts
RetailMeNot - Coupons
ReadItLater - Save pages to read later
Tineye - Reverse image search
Wikivoyage - Travel guide
BugMeNot - Find/Share login/passwords to avoid signing up
Dropbox - File hosting
TheFinalCost - Calculate Shipping totals
Imgur - Best image hosting
DummyImage - Create dummy images of any format
VectorMagic - Create vectors from any image
Wikipedia - The web encyclopedia
Readability - Make articles easier to read
FaxZero – Send/Receive faxes through email
3. Wolfram|Alpha
Don't call it a search engine. WolframAlphadescribes itself as a "computational knowledge engine." Ask it a fact-based question, and it pores through its vast knowledge base for a fact-based answer.
4. Netflix
This streaming media and DVD-by-mail website has revolutionized the entertainment industry. It's the premier site if you're looking for on-demand movies, documentaries or a binge-watching marathon of that TV series you were always hoping to watch.
5. Pornhub
This is one of the most popular sites on the Internet for pornography. Pornhub even recently launched an "Insights" blog (safe for work) where it provides charts and graphics on how events such as the government shutdown, holidays and income level affect affect porn viewing.
6. Snopes.com
Check your assumptions at the door. The goal of this site is to debunk misinformation, quell rumors and set the record straight. Barbara and David Mikkelson, a couple from California, have owned and operated Snopes.com since 1995.
7. Zombo
A site for limitless possibilities or one of the web's most bizarre inside jokes? You decide.
8. PrimeWire.ag
A website that hosts pirated media, the commenter who posted about PrimeWire on Reddit described it as a site where you can watch "pretty much any movie or TV series you can think of streaming free." If you Google "PrimeWire," however, you'll find this copyright infringement notification against the site.
9. KickassTorrents
A site for peer-to-peer file sharing that one Redditor described as, "Seriously the best organised and the cleanest looking torrent site I can think of. My go to for any [movie]/TV show."
10. The Nicest Place on the Internet
If you're having a bad day, you might want to pay a visit to this site.
11. Kickstarter
Kickstarter is the king of crowdfunding. It's a site where any entrepreneur with a good idea can appeal to the masses for contributions large and small to help get that idea off the ground.
12. Kongregate
Proceed with extreme caution or watch your productivity evanesce. This site, by its own count, features nearly 80,000 free online games.
13: Find the Invisible Cow
This is a fun take on the "you're getting warmer/you're getting colder" genre with a bovine payoff. In the game, a voice shouts "cow" with increasing fervor as you move your cursor closer to the invisible cow.
14. Motherfuckingwebsite.com
A profanity-laced piece of satire for the digital age, this site is a must-read for anyone who has ever designed a website.
15. TV Tropes
This site describes itself as a "catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction." It started in 2004 aimed at covering TV but later expanded to cover other forms of media such as literature, video games, comic books, theater, music and more
Prince Harry has been Involved in a Car Crash
Prince Harry has been Involved in a Car Crash
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Prince Harry has been involved in a high-speed car crash whilst making his way to the Invictus Games.
Apple Store Crashes As iPhone 6 Goes On Sale
Apple Store Crashes As iPhone 6 Goes On Sale
Business Insider
James Cook 3 hours ago
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Apple's website collapsed under increased traffic early Friday morning after eager customers waited until midnight to order the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
Users logging onto the online Apple Store at midnight —when the new iPhones were scheduled to go on sale — reported slow load times and a long delay in the devices becoming available to purchase.
Some service appears to have been restored after about 30 minutes. But later Friday morning, the store was down for some users. Its availability appears to be intermittent.
Some customers reported that the iPhone was available on carrier websites and the Apple Store app, but not the desktop site. There were reports that the iPhone 6 had sold out through some carriers. Though, when we checked on Apple.com, the iPhone 6 was available. The iPhone 6 Plus is not shipping for 7-10 business days, or longer depending on the model you want.
The delays in the iPhone 6 becoming available in the online store frustrated many customers, as they had waited until the early hours of the morning to order the new phone.
Kris Jenner Suffers a Wardrobe Malfunction: Flashes Butt in Minidress
Kris Jenner Suffers a Wardrobe Malfunction: Flashes Butt in Minidress
ET Online
Antoinette Bueno 18 hours ago
Oops.
Kris Jenner might want to rethink her futureNew York Fashion Week choices.
The 58-year-old Kardashian matriarch joined her model daughter Kendall Jenner, 18, at theVFiles Magazine Cover Party for Miley Cyrus Thursday night in New York City, where her embroidered gold minidress proved to be a little too short.
Giving Miley's mom Tish a big hug, the dress rode up to reveal a little bit of her derriere.
VIDEO: Kris Jenner Clears Up Family Rumors
But not to be outdone, Kendall also showed a lot of leg Thursday night, rocking a long-sleeved black top and a super-short skort.
Forget "Keeping up with the Kardashians," is Kris just trying to keep up with Kenidall?!
Steve Jobs Turned Out To Be Completely Wrong About Why People Really Like The iPhone
Steve Jobs Turned Out To Be Completely Wrong About Why People Really Like The iPhone
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Jim Edwards 1 hour 9 minutes ago
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The launch of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus — and the latter's massive 5.5 inch screen — appear to prove that Apple founder Steve Jobs was completely wrong when he said in 2010 that "no one" would want to buy a phone with a big screen.
And while this sort of hindsight wisdom feels a little bit tawdry, it actually cuts to the heart of what is driving the $276 billion smartphone market right now: screen size.
Apple launched its new phone with 4.7 and 5.5 inch screens for a reason: Rival companies, particularly Samsung, have spent the last two years building a market in a space that Apple ignored — the market forpeople who want big, bright screens that are great for consuming media and doing work.
To recap: Jobs launched iPhone and its initial updates with a 3.5 inch screen. When the iPhone 4 ran into trouble because it appeared to drop calls when users held it the "wrong" way, Jobs held a press conference. He was asked, why not just make the phone bigger, so that the antenna might have more space within the device and thus get better reception?
He replied that he disliked the new crop of bigger phones from Samsung et al. "You can't get your hand around it," he said, "no one's going to buy that." He also derided big phones as "Hummers."
By 2013, however, executives within Apple began to realize that Jobs was completely wrong. Internal documents from that time show that iPhone sales growth was slowing, even though the market as a whole was growing. All the growth was in the sub $300, price range, and among phones with screens bigger than 4 inches. "Consumers want what we don't have," was the title of one slide in the documents.
Another document showed that Apple's own customers placed the small screen size of the iPhone 5, 5C and 5S among their top complaints about the devices. iPhone's small screen size was actually a liability for Apple, not — as Jobs argued three years earlier — an advantage.
Apple
Steve Jobs at the 2010 press conference where he addressed the iPhone 4's antenna problems and said "no one" would want to buy a big phone.
(The leading big screen devices in this market were, of course, Samsung's Galaxy S and Note phones, with their 5-inch-plus screens. The Note 4 now comes in a 5.7 inch size. It's an interesting exercise to ask Note owners how they like their big screens and whether they'd ever consider going back to an iPhone-sized 4 inch model. You will find the answer is always "no" — consumers love big screens.)
So it is notable that both the new iPhone 6 models are big-screen phones, 4.7 and 5.5 inches.
There is no "iPhone 6 Mini," giving people the option of a Jobsian 3.5 inch screen.
Samsung
Samsung highlighted Steve Jobs' error this week.
Samsung poured scorn on Jobs in a piece of marketing fluff released to counter the iPhone 6 launch. It produced this graphic, which actually misquotes Jobs as saying "No one is going to buy a big phone."
And while kicking a dead man is not the classiest move, it does underline one of the strangest things about Jobs' big-screen error. The reason the iPhone became a huge hit at its launch in 2007, with a 3.5 inch screen, is because that screen at the time was itself one of the biggest displays on the market.
Consumers were used to candy bar phones from Nokia, on which the majority of the device was given over to the keypad and the screen had room for little more than a name and a number. BlackBerry was still huge at the time, and one of the reasons that was so was because it had a screen that was a little larger than a Nokia candy bar, and you could type emails onto it.
The original iPhone provided even more real estate than that, and let people consume real media and apps.
In hindsight, it's not weird that Jobs might have been wrong about consumer preference for screen sizes in the four years following his death. Rather, it's weird that he didn't understand that the iPhone's (relatively) big screen size was actually driving its popularity while he was alive.
The iPhone (at launch) was the biggest screen on the market. Jobs didn't seem to see that as the key.
Ray Donovan' Star Steven Bauer, 57, Steps Out With 18-Year-Old Girlfriend
Seriously?!
Age ain't nothing but a number?
Ray Donovan star Steven Bauer, 57, confirmed it's still very much on with 18-year-old girlfriend Lyda Loudon, taking out the much younger gal to lunch at vegan eatery SunCafe in Studio City, Calif. on Wednesday.
The pair made their public debut at the Magic in the Moonlight premiere in July, when they walked the red carpet together. The movie perhaps mirrored real-life, as the Woody Allen film features a romantic relationship between Emma Stone, 25, and a much older Colin Firth, 54.
According to her Twitter, Loudon is a "part-time nightmare-inspirer, journalist, host of Sarcasm Overdose, ceo, film/music/cigar/espresso addict." She's also the daughter of former Missouri State Senator John Loudon and his wife, conservative radio show host Dr. Gina.
Bauer, who also starred in 1983's Scarfaceopposite Al Pacino, was previously married to Melanie Griffith but divorced in 1987 after five years of marriage. The two have a son together, Alexander, who's 10 years older than Loudon. He later married another two times, both relationships eventually ending up in divorce.
With their 39-year age difference, is this the most surprising couple in Hollywood?!
Facebook Announces New Graph Search
Think of Graph Search as a way to navigate the Internet through the data Facebook owns.
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ABC News describes Graph Search as, "turning some of the personal information people have shared on Facebook into a powerful searchable database."
A potential graph query would look like, "Who are my friends that live in San Francisco?" Graph Search will scan all your Facebook friend's pages and spit back the relevant information about friends who live in San Francisco.
Another potential search term could be, show me "friends who like Star Wars and Harry Potter" for a big movie night.
Graph Search is Facebook's way of searching for objects on
the Internet by how they are mapped out in likes, not links. Metadata
and connections are also factored in. Facebook is using Graph Search as a
way to get back to its roots and allow people to use the graph to make
new connections.
Graph Search is currently in beta but people, photos,
places, and interests are at the foundation of the beta. If the data
from your Graph Search is too general, you can refine the search to get
specifically what you want.
Zuckerberg told an audience of journalists and Facebook engineers
that, "every piece of content on Facebook has its own audience, making
Graph Search very challenging to build."Here's some more information on exactly what Graph Search is via ABC News :
Until now, the search bar you saw when you logged in to your Facebook page wasn't very powerful. You could only search for Timelines -- your friends' pages, other people's public pages and business or product pages.
But now, after close to a year and a half of development, the new "Graph Search" will allow you to search and discover more about your friends and other information that's been put on the world's largest social site.
In case you were wondering, Graph Search is privacy aware too, every piece of content has its own audience, most content is not public, and you can only search for content that has been shared with you.
Graph Search is rolling out slowly, it will only be available to a limited set of U.S. users at first. Users can sign up for the wait list here: https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch.
Bing search results are integrated into Graph Search too.
20 years on, Katie Beers says kidnapping saved her
OLD WESTBURY, N.Y.
(AP) — Being chained as a 10-year-old for more than two weeks in a
coffin-size box in a suburban New York dungeon was, Katie Beers says 20 years later, "the best thing that happened to me" because it allowed her to escape a life of abuse.
On the 20th anniversary of her
ordeal, Beers has co-written a book with a television reporter who
covered her kidnapping. "Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story" (Title
Town Publishing) has a happy ending.
Beers is now a 30-year-old
married mother of two who earned a degree in business management and
works in insurance sales near her home in rural Pennsylvania.
Her kidnapping attracted
nationwide attention in early 1993, when revelations surfaced while she
was still missing that she had suffered years of neglect from her mother
and had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by her godmother's husband
since she was a toddler.
Beers was described in Dickensian
terms back then — a louse-infested, filthy waif who had no friends and
often was forced to lug the family's laundry down the block or fetch
cigarettes and junk food for her elders.
After kidnapper John Esposito, a
family acquaintance, admitted to detectives on Jan. 13, 1993, that he
had kidnapped Beers and showed them the dungeon where she was hidden for
17 days under his Bay Shore, N.Y., home, the little girl was placed in
foster care and raised in a comfortable East Hampton home with four
siblings.
Her foster parents not only
imposed newfound discipline into her life, making her go to school
regularly and do small chores around the house, but they also shielded
Beers from intense media interest. And reporters largely complied with a
parent-like plea from a prosecutor to leave her alone.
"We as a society must protect
this child, or our professed love for own children is just a fraud, and
our so-called compassion for each other is just a mockery," said James
Catterson, at the time the Suffolk County district attorney.
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