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Today’s Cool Site:

Memigo.

If you are a bit of a news junkie, as I am, you will find this site to be indispensible. It works sort of like Amazon’s Recommends feature. Based on the stories you read and rank, it gives you more stories that it thinks you’ll like, based on those ratings and the ratings of others.

Check it out!

Hey Twins fans,

During the offseason, it sure can get boring and cold in Minnesota. Luckily, there are many things going on in the baseball world worth thinking about. 40 man roster, Rule V drafts, winter meetings, and then we’re almost there!

One site I’ve been reading fairly regularily since finding it is Twins Geek. It fits well with my whole thing, since I am both (1) a Twins fan and (2) a geek.

Anyways, check it out if you’re looking for some Twins talk.

A site that I frequently go to when I want to read about a new movie, cd or videogame is Metacritic.

The wonderful thing about this site is they take a CD for example, Spoon’s Kill The Moonlight (a 2002 top 10 candidate) and they have a database of newspapers and online sources from which they gather the scores and excerpts from all the different reviews of this album. They then assign a meta-score, and provide links back to each individual review.

It does wonders for my research process when I’m going to buy a new disc (be it DVD, CD or GameCube game).

Note to the RIAA. I do actually do research before buying CDs, I don’t listen to the radio to find new music, and I’m not going to buy what you tell me to buy. I rarely buy a CD on impulse. I’m always going to try to have heard most of the album before purchasing it. I know you think filesharing is the problem, it’s not. The problem you have now, is that all of us (your customers) are becoming better informed. We don’t want to buy the crap you’re trying to feed us.