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StumbleUpon web surfing

Awesome web-plugin!

I'm the last person to need another distraction to keep me from working, but I have a new obsession: StumbleUpon. It's a free toolbar that sends you to random sites once you've picked a few areas of interest like cyberculture or activism. You can then rate the sites as something you like or "not for me" so your recommended sites become more tailored for you as your results are matched against those of like-minded users.
I like this so much because I realized that I haven't actually played much on the web in years. I almost always jump right to Google or to my

Bloglines feeds and I sort of miss how I used to just find interesting things while sifting through the results of a dozen search engines. StumbleUpon is like channel surfing with your TV remote- great for when you want to see something new but you're just not sure what.

StumbleUpon is a

free download for Internet Explorer or Firefox.

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