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National Public Radio - If everyone just becomes a damned member, then perhaps good dues-paying members like us won’t have to sit through the pledge drives.

Snopes.com - Got a nagging urban legand burning a hole in your inbox? Go find the debunking authority you need right here.

Eric Bogosian - Writer, Performer, Stalwart.

This American Life - NPR’s friday tradition of oral history and excellence in story telling.

Ipecac Recordings - Mike Patton’s illustrious record label. Home to any number of enjoyable recording artists.

Sam Harris - Author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. Along with Richard Dawkins, he’s one of the most important voices of today.

Homestarrunner.com - We live for Strong Bad.

El Ten Eleven - Post-Rock instrumental stylings.

Why Won’t God Heal Amputees - Add this to your glut of secularist rhetoric.

Richard Dawkins - He’s a renowned evolutionary biologist, author of The God Delusion and The Blind Watchmaker, and pretty much a big hero of ours.

McSweeneys - Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and the online adventures of a Dave Eggers empire.

Tree Hugger - A great resource if you’re at all interested in hugging trees.

Fossil Museum - God is so awesome that he put all these crazy fossils in the ground so we’d have stuff to find when we went digging, and so we could have a lively debate about his very existence.

Helvetica: A Documentary - …with music by El Ten Eleven.

Paperback Swap - We can’t endorse this site enough! In the true spirit of community, you can freely use these guys to trade old paperbacks with other folks around the country all for the cost of postage. Awesome.

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading - 18 minutes with an agile mind. In fact, many agile minds.

Freakonomics @ The New York Times - This is a terrific extension of the Levitt/Dubner book.

Gladwell.com - Malcolm Gladwell, New York columnist, esteemed author, and all around thinking man.

Daily Candy - A great local resource, particularly if you’re very bad at finding fun things to eat/drink/do. LA and NYC local editions available amongst others.

Monitor Mix Blog - Carrie Brownstein, formerly of Sleater-Kinney, and her splendid blog for NPR.

Metro Blogging Los Angeles - We don’t write enough about LA, but given that it’s perfectly worthy subject matter, thankfully there are those who do.

The Atwater Village Newbie - A totally local, and imminently readable local LA blog.