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Here are a few sets of links, each long enough to deserve its own page -- people, online comics and music -- and a few others, guaranteed to shock and awe.

• Boston.com is the website of the Boston Globe, Boston's best newspaper.
  
• The Brunching Shuttlecocks is no longer active, but you can get your fill of Lore-isms at The Book of Ratings, The Self-Made Critic, and The Slumbering Lungfish Dybbuk Hostel and All-Night Boulangerie.
• Dave Barry is one of the funniest columnists in the whole world, and he maintains a blog. I am not making this up.
  
• Desolation MUD will rock your world, especially if you are a fan of the wonderful game Wasteland.
  
• Exploding Dog: Sam draws pictures. Take a look.
  
• Games Domain is my favorite gaming website.
  
• Google is the search engine I use most often. See also: Googlism.
  
• The Grey Labyrinth is puzzling.
  
• Memepool is a neat sort-of-portal.
  
• Metacritic averages the results of other publications' media reviews, giving you a balanced opinion on movies, games, and music.
  
• National Novel Writing Month's website could make just about anybody want to write.
  
• The Onion rocks my world.
  
• Planetarium rocked my world. Beholder still does.
  
• Trillian is a cool IM client that supports AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, and IRC. It's neat-o.
• Wunderland.com: it's like a soap opera that doesn't suck.