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http://bigthink.com for long, focused interviews with smart people
http://longform.org for good magazine pieces
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php for phenomenally good magazine pieces
http://reason.com if you suspect yourself of having libertarian tendencies
Since you are looking -- http://quippd.com Disclaimer, it is my project ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454934 ) but I'm trying to stock it with good stuff. Hope you browse.
Hmm, site looks down- http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quippd.com .
But in all seriousness, I find myself here a lot, along with:
http://mediaite.com/ http://reuters.com/ Also a big fan of http://longform.org, which is ironic because of my own site's name.
http://apple.copydesk.org/ http://www.theatlanticwire.com/ <-- An always-interesting aggregator of political opinion. The bloggers on The Atlantic proper, esp. Andrew Sullivan, I'm a huge fan of.
http://www.charlierose.com/ Intelligent one hour long interviews with interesting people. Charlie Rose is a great interviewer, and actually lets people express their full opinion on a subject without cutting them off. I don't know how he does it but he gets to interview all sorts of famous intellectuals, artists and business leaders. From Paul Krugman and Jeff Bezos to Michael Caine and Dennis hopper. There are sever…
"I don't know how he does it" I think you've answered your own question there: "Charlie Rose is a great interviewer, and actually lets people express their full opinion on a subject without cutting them off." Everyone loves being really listened to.
That's interesting. Tell me why you think that is? ;)
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Hmm, site looks down- http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quippd.com .
Yeah -- not really sure why we had the outage, and we may go down again tomorrow to figure out what went wrong -- we are running in debug mode right now, so it might be slower than it should be.
I hope you fixed the code injection bug I had informed you of back then ;).
http://www.aldaily.com/ | for random goodness.
http://lifehacker.com | for me.
I often find myself in need of an answer to the question: what are the most popular sites that have to do with x, y, and z? If you're looking for high quality websites about something, just type in a few keywords and have a go. Sorting by popularity (# times bookmarked on delicious) has turned out to incredibly useful, as it's highly correlated with quality. Also, I suggest that if you find any website that you like a lot you query it and see what comes up. Often times there'll be something even better... Or worse. (Did you know there are like 10 urbandictionary clones that all suck yet somehow manage to sustain themselves?)
To answer your original question:
wikipedia, urban dictionary, metafilter, news, pg essays, past and present Harper's indexes, tech/startup/entrepreneur blogs, TED and fora, and once inawhile popurls.