Madison
Wisconsin
Ann Arbor
Michigan Theatre (great old independent movie house)
The Ark (Local folk/blues/etc. music venue)
Overheard in A2 (Students say the darndest things!)
Cafe Zola (our favorite restaurant in Ann Arbor)
Zingerman's (foodie heaven)
Ann Arbor is Overrated (a dissenting view)
Gerald Ford Presidential Library
History of Ann Arbor (from the Ann Arbor District Library)
Concentrate (local economic development news)
Ann Arbor Chronicle (on-line local newspaper)
The Ann (new local paper / website)
Motte and Bailey Books (our favorite used bookstore)
A2 Modern (modern architecture in Ann Arbor)
Biercamp (artisinal sausage ... yum)
Satchel's (barbeque ... yum)
UM Museum of Art (great venue and great art)
Michigan and Northern Ohio
Reynolds Farley's Detroit History Page
Law
Health and Safety
Politics and Policy: Websites
Reason Magazine (where I was a summer intern in college)
The Memory Hole (Like the Smoking Gun, but serious)
Vice Squad (Blog about vice: a mix of law, economics and politics)
Reason papers (Academic journal filled with libertarian fun!)
Archive of Libertarian Review from the 70s and 80s (at CATO)
Kosmos Online (from the Institute for Humane Studies)
Love Gov (from the Independent Institute)
Politics and Policy: Weblogs
Instapundit (Is it possible to like a lawyer?)
Virginia Postrel (former reason editor who writes about fun stuff like design and glamour)
Fly Bottle (Eclectic blog)
The Agitator (personal blog of Radley Balko, now at Reason)
James Lilek's Bleat (good stuff and pop culture too!)
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor (where I worked in high school)
Roger Baker's history of Farrell's
Art and architecture
Artchive (Lots and lots of art)
Design Museum (London)
Museum of Bad Art (Wonderful stuff)
Tate Modern (London)
Galinsky (Only if you like modern architecture)
Brick Structures (Create famous buildings with Legos)
Popular Culture
Quisp (my favorite cereal when I was little)
What the Heck? (includes bizarre ebay offerings)
TV ads for presidential candidates (from 1952 to 2004 – very cool!)
Manolo's Shoe Blog (For those who love the shoes)
Viceland (Vice magazine – trendy stuff but not for the fainthearted)
Despair (Great posters)
Kristy McNichol (My heartthrob when I was about 12)
Science Fiction Museum (In Seattle)
Traffic Cone Preservation Society (All of our culture is worth preserving …)
Paul Lynde (He was in the center square on Hollywood Squares before Whoopi!)
The Awful German Language (By Mark Twain)
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (a famous computer science article)
Post Secret (Do you have a secret that you want to share?)
Pop versus Soda (Which word works where?)
Two Chinese Boys (Boy bands and licensed merchandise conquer the world)
Ebaum's World (Humorous fun)
Need a Maze? (This site is a-mazing!)
American Dialect Society's Word of the Year Page
Your Remember That (video clips from the past)
MTV Music (lots of free music videos)
Retrojunk (old video clips and the like)
27b/6 (very funny indeed!)
Manka Brothers (movie studio parody)
People of Walmart (a bit mean and surely classist, but still oddly compelling)
Experience Project (truth is different than fiction)
Big Think (people thinking big thoughts)
Airport Carpets reveal their hidden knowledge
Conelrad (all things Cold War)
Adoption
Academia
Weblogs by Friends
Nina Turns 40 (Life blog by an old friend)
Books
Bookslut (Fun reviews)
AbeBooks (Great source for used books)
Penguin Classics (Improve your mind)
Daedalus Books (Crack for bibliophiles)
Hathi Trust Digital Library (zillions of scanned out-of-print books)
Mencken
Mencken Society (Few writers make for more enjoyable reading than Mencken)
Music
Uncle Bonsai (the folk group I have followed since college – great fun and Ashley is so cute)
Doctor Demento (another amusement of my wasted youth)
Laurie Anderson (way weird but way fun)
Humor
History
Civil War Resources (Includes scans of Harper's magazine from the era)
Artificial Owl (Modern ruins)
Opacity (Urban ruins)
Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans
Food
British Content
Spiked Online (Lovely, just lovely)
Wargames (one of the hobbies of my wasted youth)
Multiman Publishing (ASL and other old Avalon Hill games)
Strategy Page (what Jim Dunnigan does now that he is not a game designer)
Greg Costikyan (another old SPI game designer on to new things)
Religion / Spirituality
International Assocation for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed (blog from the author of the book of the same name)
Useful stuff
FlyerTalk (frequent flyer and travel discussion boards)
Charity Navigator (rates charities)