Top Five

1. deviantART - This website is one I've mentioned before. The main page displays recent contributions ('deviations' as they are called on the site), the most popular deviations, and prints for sale (options for prints include: canvas prints, photo prints, mouse pads, coffee mugs, coasters, postcards, refrigerator magnets, jigsaw puzzles, and calendars). I encourage you to take a look at it when you have a spare minute or when you're just trying to avoid doing homework.

2. IMDB - This is a great place to look up information about box office hits, upcoming movies (through the year 2010), classic films, your favorite actors and characters, and films-in-progress. You can also watch trailers and clips. However, this site is not exclusive to the film industry; you can also find pages dedicated to your favorite tv shows and actors, and even some philosophers, authors, poets, et cetera.

3. Brainy Quotes - This site is an endless source of insight in the form of thousands of quotes from authors, poets, comedians, actors, artists, philosophers, religious figures, scientists, athletes, professionals, and musicians. You can browse through the plethora of quotations by the first letter of the author's surname, the subject of the quote, or the author's occupation or livelihood. At the bottom of the main page there is a list of the most visited authors among whom are: Aristotle, C. S. Lewis, Nietzsche, JFK, Emerson, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, Einstein, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Shakespeare, Martin Luther King Jr., Lord Byron, Virgil, and Mohandas Gandhi. One can also find the quote of the day on the home page. Today's is "Faith is spiritualized imagination." - Henry Ward Beecher. The site is not very aesthetically exciting, but it is easy to navigate through and it is a good source of information and entertainment.

4. Reference.com - Exactly what it sounds like. Users can browse through entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses. Most of the entries come from the Random House Dictionary or The American Heritage Dictionary. Great for when you're doing a research paper and you're looking for a synonym for a certain word. Very easy to use.

5. TIME - A good news website that is easy to navigate and provides information about the latest news in politics, religion, health, science, business, technology, and entertainment. The site also provides an opinions page that displays the opinions ordinarily seen in the magazine. It also features a page dedicated to blogs authored by TIME magazine employees, and multiple pages for TIME's famous lists (e.g. People of the Year, Pictures of the Year, Best Websites, Cartoons of the Week, Crimes of the Century, etc.)