Interesting Sites to Cite: What's Yours? If You Give a Mouse Blogger a Cookie....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/ 2/16/2012

My favorite websites would, of course, be my own. This and Fangs, Wands and Fairy Dust.  After that I think my faves are Pinterest,  TheGraphicsFairy, IMDB.com, Flavor Wire, the Daily Beast, and Amazon.com. The Daily Beast is an arm of Newsweek and packages up the real news with snark usually associated with The Daily Show or The Colbert Report — for example, the screen lift at right. It is probably an attempt to attract fans of Stewart or Colbert to Newsweek.
What websites do you visit constantly or daily or most often.

Just Saying: 

I got to today's topic via a circuit misfiring in my brain; If I see a site cited I expect it to exist.

I am reading a book called the DEPARTMENT OF MAGIC by Rod Kierkegaard, Jr. from Curiosity Quills Press December 2011. I can't say whether I like it yet.  But at the top of each chapter they cite a website. www.magic.us.gov because that is the supposed governmental department  for which the characters work.  

Will it sound petty if I say that if you are going to cite a site over and over as the archive of a certain text, The Federal Bestiary, that you should find a way to make that site a reality? They haven't. Nor is the bestiary, which does not, of course, really exist, on either the author or publisher's website. But, it is extensively written and cited so why not make a fun site for the book that looks like a government site (but clearly isn't)?  I mean, Stephen Colbert has a PAC....

Synopsis

It’s hate at first sight.

Jasmine Farah and Rocco di Angelo are competing for the same job in a dusty office in a secret Federal agency run by the mysterious, menacing Jefferson Davis Crawley – “Creepy” Crawley, as he’s known.


When Crawley is murdered in front of them after their first day on the job, Jasmine and Rocco are left to figure out who killed their new boss, and exactly what a job in the so-called Department of Magic entails. And magic, it seems, is nothing like it seems in children’s books; it’s dark and bloody and sexual.


What follows is a nightmare gallop through a world of ghosts, spooks, vampires, demons, and the minions of South American and Voodoo gods hell-bent on destroying the world and subjugating all America in the year 2012.


Only Rock and Jazz, in the company of a ragtag team of urhobos – homeless guardians of the District of Columbia– can prevent it by resurrecting “Goddess America” in a mystical ceremony on the Fourth of July, as the story reaches its bittersweet and unforeseen climax. Kierkegaard's Website