Other than Survey Central, what is the first site you visit when you get on the Internet that is not work related? What is so special about that site?

horoscope site

http://www.stpt.com (Starting Point) -- It's a great place to go to start looking for most any resource, from news to shopping.

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/ ... its basically a entertainment
gossip site, but with a a geeky edge and a pretty extensive network
of spies....I can not go on the Web and not go there

By 'my library,' I mean the public library where I work. What I really need is cool sites that aren't obscene. Anything you think is great, might be something the people who look at our site would like to see, also. I like the ones so far & as many years as I have been on the Internet & as much time as I spend on it at home & work, so far you have found some I never knew about. And it certainly is not important that they be 'literary' sites.

I keep my stock portfolio on line so that's the first thing I check.
This is a good place to start to check on the market: http://quote.yahoo.com/?u Then when I really need
great research help on stocks, I go to: http://www.sjgames.com/svtarot/
to see what's in the cards.

C*E*A (Center for the easily amused...http://www.amused.com)
this site has a lot of interesting links and other stuff

I have a webcrawler "Lisa's News" page that I've customized with news I'm interested in. I also check my personal pages - wine.miningco.com, my various homepages - to make sure they're still up and consider what I want to add to them next. After those I'll cycle through boston.com and telegram.com for local news.

Dilbert and cnn.

I visit the Dilbert web site ( http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert ) so that I can read today's Dilbert cartoon. That and Survey Central are the first 2 I visit in the mornings at work.

quote.yahoo.com provides stock quotes - that's the first site I open. I check to see how my company is doing.Other sides I use regularly when I need info include people.yahoo.com, which lets you find people and their email addresses. www.potter.net/mediasite/newspaper.html provides access to newspapers in the US and canada. www.facade.com provides biorhythms, tarot and rune readings, and the like. www.mapquest.com can provide directions and maps. www.monster.com takes you to the monster board for job information. www.hilink.com.au/times tells you what time it is anywhere in the world (if you want to call someone on another continent it's helpful to know what the current time difference is).

www.etrade.com. I like to see how much money I've lost.

www.davesclassics.com, it is my source for MAME news. (make sure you have all the s's, otherwise you get to a porn site. *grumble*)

Yahoo is listed as the homepage when I first boot my browser. That's about it. I don't do much with the internet on a regular basis.

The only other sites that I visit with any regularity are the This Modern World homepage, because Tom Tomorrow is a genius, and Slate, which I subscribe to in order to get Today's Papers, a fairly good overview of what the major US dailies are leading with and how they're playing various major stories.

News sites: Boston Globe and CNN; occasionally New York Times and there are enough others to put any library's paper newspaper collection to shame.

Fun sites: sixdegrees, ebay, mapquest or similar (there are lots of these), occasionally random other sites which I usually find using a search engine (another thing to have a good list of).

First I check out my e-mail, then I usually go to the ABC site to see what is happening with the soaps. I also really like Majority Rules and Quizland.

davesclassics.com for Emulated computers and games
slashdot.org for geeky news

I usually check the currency rates on Yahoo: as a Canuck living abroad, I've been watching the slide of the loonie with a certain sick fascination. Fortunately, the thing's starting to recover now.

My morning ritual also includes the Toronto Star online, theforce.net, Ain't It Cool News and Mr. Showbiz.

Thanks for the context... I visit most sites less frequently than this one, but my top site for "general consumption" would be the recent earthquakes site run by the USGS: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/index.html I think because of the way you asked the question, the answers are (mine certainly is) biased towards sites that have dynamic content that changes from day to day or hour to hour.

My online email is usually the first thing I check. Recently, I have been quite into exploring y0ni, a feminist site. Here are some other favorite sites. What do you mean by your library? Do you want links to literary stuff? Here's a database of poetry. I usually use this search engine to find stuff. jen: those are beautiful kittens :)

Yahoo.

wow my first site I couldn't tell you but I have seen many great ines no in particular favorite though

The first site I visit each morning is Dilbert. Then usually CNN.

chat pages

the daily tao

email.

Survey central and sixdegrees are the only two I visit "all the time".

I now often visit my own page, in order to verify that something I've put in is formatted correctly.

hey steve: "Chocolate Wisdom" is also a good name for a band

Here's A Decent List:

http://members.tripod.com/~Brian_Webber/main.htm
http://www.comedycentral.com
http://www.wildcity.com/
http://www.uselessknowledge.com/
http://tnt.turner.com/monstervision/
http://AFI.100movies.com/
http://www.celebrityemail.com/
http://www.imponderables.com/
http://drdemento.com/

Modblog.