Tag, I'm it

My great and good blog friend Barbara tagged me with a new to me meme.  The rule of this meme is to link five websites you like and visit frequently, write about why you like them so much and then tag five more people to do the same.  Strap in then, here we go:

1)  Flickr.  I'm on this website all the time.  I have about 10 different Flickr identities and at the rate I scan stuff and put it online I'll probably have 10 more before the spring is done.  What can I say though?  I love looking at everyones photo sets and one set usually leads to another, especially if someones photos are in a group pool.  Oh how I love you Flickr.

2) Think Progress and Crooks and Liars.  Ok, I cheated a bit but to me these sites will always be one.  I check one and then after I get done I click over to the other one.  I get lots of blog post ideas from what I read on both sites and I've been a fan of both of these fine sites since before I started blogging.  In the interest of full disclosure, I've been linked a few times on Crooks and Liars and I've gained a few readers as a result of it.  I owe Blue Gal more than I can ever repay her for all the times she's linked me on C & L.  If I never said so before BG let me say it now, thanks for all your link love on C & L.  

3)  BBC radio.  One day after I first got high speed internet I somehow found myself on the BBC radio website and I was happier than a pig in shit.  Growing up I always heard about how great the BBC radio programming was but I resigned myself to never hearing it since I did not have a world band radio, thank goodness that the internet changed all that.  I love that I can not only hear better news than I get in this country, I love that I can hear programs about science, history, literature, and my favorite, the comedy shows.  I've discovered The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (which is a talk show parody done by two of the funniest women ever) the radio versions of Little Britain and Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, The Consultants (a great sketch comedy show), Ectoplasm, and many many many more great funny shows.

4)  Gamescene.  This is a great time waster website.  It's got a ton of games on it and one or more of them might get you hooked, so be careful if you check it out.  My favorites are this one and this one.  Before I became addicted to blogging, writing mine and reading yours, I spent entirely too much time each day playing those two games.

5)  Organic Consumers.  This website is not only a great clearing house for all kinds of information about organic food, it's also got links to local farms and other related organic and green businesses in what ever area of the USA you live in.  As I learn more about the horrible shit that big business puts in our food and the horrible unsustainable way they grow and raise food, this website helps me find other sources of food and it helps educate me on just what is and is not organic.  

Ok then, now for the dreaded tagging of others.  Since I got tagged by a C Cubed babe (Cute Canadian Chick), I'll start by tagging three comely lasses from north of the border Wandering Coyote, Captain Karen, and Jane Austen Jr.  And I'll finish up by tagging a couple of hot babes from the frozen north of the upper midwest, MNMom and Suzy.  Have fun ladies, I look forward to seeing what five websites you gals like.