First, I have to be upfront with the fact that I accepted a free promotional subscription to PC Magazine.  Although it's a good magazine with interesting editorials, there are other magazines I would buy subscriptions to first.

Like all the magazines I get, I read them then they become craft material.  I spent several hours today catching up on my magazine reading. I found a great article in the November 6, 2007 PC Magazine issue featuring 100 "under the radar" websites and 100 "classic" websites.

I attempted to find the lists at pcmag.com to link to, but the site doesn't have it anywhere. What the heck?

Are readers suppose to cut out the pages to keep by the computer for those moments when you remember that site review in that piece you read two months back. For a techie publication, I was surprised to see that utter lack of understanding the nature of web browsing.

That oversight compounds my complain that the "classic" list includes their own page. Along with the likes of Yahoo Mail and Ebay, can I just say wishful thinking? The "undiscovered" list includes two or three sites run by their editorial staff. No matter how good those sites are, it seems cheesy to plug them that way.

Still there are lots of goodies on the list. I would have rather have bookmarked the list, but I'll be leaving the issue on the computer table until I've had time to check out all the one's I'm interested in.

On the "unknown" sites, I've only visited one. Of all things, it's I Can Has Cheezburger?

For my Blogger friends, I have to mention The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is on the list. It's a blog hosted at fakesteve.blogspot.com that gets plenty of respect.

On the classic list, I was most surprised that the free email service highlighted is the Beta Version of Yahoo! Mail. Got to say, I've switched and switched back to the old version twice now. I've used Yahoo! email for years, but I don't think it's the hottest, most savvy web based mail service out there. That distinction is usually reserved for Gmail.

If the sites in this article live up to the reviews, you can be sure that I'll be covering them here eventually.