While on holiday seven of us spent quite a lot of time on the road. To pass the time we played a lot of games. One of them was Desert Island Discs. The idea being to choose your all-time favourite music that you would take with you if you were going to be marooned on a desert island. Well, I've had an idea. What about Desert Island Websites? Here are some of mine:
What are yours?
Written by Jake Howlett on Thu 6 Mar 2003
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Easy:
Google
Codestore
Notestips
MSDN CSS Reference
Lastminute.com
Amazon
FriendsReunited
SportingLife
Classic FM
Capital FM
(The last 2 because I live outside the UK and like UK radio)
Wait. Your on a dessert island.. and you'd pick a notes development sites as one of your chosen? Thats madness!! nevermind two sites!
I'd pick BBCi much like jake for it's broadband tv thing. Some survival site, and some nice comedy sites to keep the mood high. TheOnion would do it.
prawnFresh:
"Wait. Your on a dessert island.."
Surely you'd want a recipe site? :)
Guys. Don't miss the point of the game. It's not about survival. It's just to name your favourites sites. Forget the desert island bit... pretend your locked in a room (with internet access) for 48 hours or something.
prawnfresh - who said that codestore and notestips were not "nice comedy sites to keep the mood high"?
Hee-hee.. Google was one response.
Is that like when you get one wish, and your one wish is that you had a million wishes? ;-)
I could poke around for hours at sites like:
Snopes.com (Urban Legends reference pages)
BBspot.com (comp. geek satire)
Good topic Jake!
Do we get these ones as a default?
http://www.biblegateway.com/
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
In true "Home Service" style :-)
ilovebacon.com - for a laugh
news.com.au - for an update
chaser.com.au - for a chuckle
amazon.com - to work on my wishlist
michaelmoore.com - to get me worked up
Hmmmm, I guess I would have to say...
Google (specifically Groups)
Hotmail
TSN (www.tsn.ca)
PenaltyBox.com
CodeStore
My Online Broker (www.tdwaterhouse.ca gotta lose my money somehow ;-) )
1. Google
2. Codestore
3. The Onion
4. Yahoo Mail (email to the U.S. Coast Guard: "Get me off this d*mn island!" =)
5. www.smirkingchimp.com -- even on a desert island, I'll still feel like griping about Bush. =)
yahoo mail
codestore
cnn
thehun.net
launch.com