A list of 7 list-sites to help you avoid finals homework
Published: March 1, 2010
Updated: March 1, 2010
With midterms now behind us, and finals still far enough in the future to ignore for another week, it’s easy to forget that one of the most difficult periods for a student on the quarter system is nearly upon us. As term-papers pile up and due dates approach, we’ll all soon find ourselves in the library, resolving to crack down and make up for lost time. We’ll open our laptops, start a new internet browser window, and log on to whatever service- Angel, ProQuest, or Wikipedia- holds the promise of a passing grade… and then, through the escapism of tabbed browsing, we’ll open another one for Facebook, one for Hulu, and one for whatever other distraction we can rationalize to allot ourselves- I mean, come on! You already Googled “cartesian dualism in contemporary epistemological theory;” the work is half done!
As a student pursuing, among other things, what feels like a degree in screwing around the internet with a minor in childish self-distraction, I’ve come to fancy myself an expert on this subject, so here’s a list of seven list sites, all guaranteed to counteract some of the intellectual expansion you’ve gained from all that studying with the mind-numbing goodness of crude sexual humor and testosterone-laden random-facts; good luck on that term paper!
Once a failed knockoff version of Mad Magazine, then a failed men’s periodical a-la-Maxim, now a successful online mecca for all things middle-brow and amusing. I personally recommend anything that Daniel O’Brien has written about Kanye West.
With syndicated links to Savage Love and legitimate advice columns in between the usual 8th-grade humor, this site clearly makes a bid to be more mature. But while Nerve may go beyond the puerile, it’s still the kind of mind-candy we crave in our study breaks. (Check out the list of lists or the “Ten Revelations on the Road to Love“)
Everything on this site, from articles about emergency shipments of condoms to the Vancouver winter games to an Avatar-dubbed Pocahontas. The best page, however, is the list of things that look like Joe Jackson.
I haven’t had a chance to check this one out much, but this article was fairly amusing…
Fun facts on everything you didn’t know was so interesting in the field of cultural literacy. Check out the 15 Reasons why Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever
Completely asinine- more, please… or maybe not. (OK, this one’s kind of scraping the barrel, but “seven sites” sounded better than “six sites”)
Raging liberal diatribes on raging liberal issues- always factual, and either amusing or tragic. You’ll either be entertained to action, or just get really depressed about the country and start stress-eating…. on second thought, you should probably just cut to the comedy section.
Good list! I love Cracked.