Dawdle

Dawdle is a great alternative to the usual eBay and Funcoland video game trading businesses. Dawdle is a gamer matchmaking site, matching a buyer with a seller based on system, game, and pricing.

Hop Stop

Subway systems always confuse me – no matter where I am. The only subway that was easy to understand and did not leave me completely turned around was the London Underground. Anyone who is familiar with New York City knows that the subway can be a convoluted web of transfers and unclear intercom announcements. HopStop eases this difficulty with door-to-door subway directions and delay alerts. Currently they have information for various areas including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.

AlterNet

AlterNet is another option for Internet users who like their world news a little less filtered than the usual CNN or MSNBC media outlets. No matter where you fall in the political spectrum, there are some interesting stories in there. What other online news outlet features stories like “How I Survived Men’s Prison as a Woman” describing the plight of transgendered women in men’s prisons and “The Health Industry’s Secret History of Delaying the Fight Against Cancer”?

Shitty Habitats

The New York City real estate market is just as bad as you think. You fight to acquire your dream apartment; agree to give your iPod and all of its music up to the landlord (the equivalent of first born to many young professionals) only to have roaches you will probably hear breathing under furniture, mighty mice, and leaking toilets from the tenant above. Shitty Habitats advocates proper and effective building management and crucifies faulty brokers, landlords, and building management companies while always remaining honest about its reporting.

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