These are a few spots I've come across lately that might be of use to someone.

IconBuffet is a social design-related site. There are many free icon sets up for grabs. You are awarded "tokens" to receive icons and "stamps" to send them out. Different sets cost different stamps and tokens. You can also earn badges and points, but these don't seem to do much. Tokens come in lots of 10 a month for free members, and 30 a month for VIP members ($6/month or $48/year, which also gives you $25 off all their pay-for icon sets). As with most social sites, there's friend adding, comments, and message boards (called "blog forums"), but there's the bonus of being able to trade icons until all your friends have all the sets, and receive icons until you've collected them all as well (or at least the sets you want).

RSS-to-Email sites: I've tried a few of these lately. I started out with RMail. It was... okay. Quick, easy to subscribe via OPML, and easy to find everything you're subscribed to. The bad is no grouping. RssFwd has daily grouping... IF you have gMail. It's also slower for those not grouped than RMail and there's no obvious way to see all your feeds (only a link at the bottom of the emails you receive). Currently I've landed on xFruits thanks to Sarah. Their RSS to Mail feature could use an OPML to Email equivalent, but their service is pretty nifty in its variety (including RSS/OPML to Mobile features). The main downside is sometimes their group emails (you can group by hour or day) don't include a link to the original article.

What I really want in RSS-to-Email? A way to see all my subscriptions, and a way to mass edit them. Import AND export of OPML. Links to the articles. A way to group by hour, day, week, or individually.

Money-Making sites: domystuff is a site where some users post things they need done (oil changes, dry cleaning picked up, pets watched, a trip to the grocery store, etc), and others bid on those tasks. It's a great concept, but poorly executed in that you can't search by city. There is a Google map for "new tasks", but since it says "new", I'm not sure if it includes everything. If it does, the only person in the Tampa Bay area needing something done is someone in New Port Richey wanting their lawn mowed. Hopefully with time it'll grow into something more useful.

Etsy is a place to post things you've done rather than things you want to do. If you're an artist or artisan and want a place online other than eBay or your own webstorefront to market your wares, etsy is "it" from what I've heard. I haven't created a shop yet since I've nothing to post (yet). I'm still in the "need a pattern to make stuff" stage of my current arts, and too lazy to go through my old ones to post anything. I did reserve ambertides as a username, though, in hopes of motivation.

Food journals: For many people I think these are highly destructive, and this is really only directed at people who use a journal anyway, or use them for experimental reasons rather than weight loss reasons. Lately I've been using the Daily Plate to try and gauge my metabolism and how well my medications are working, while ignoring all the weight loss junk on the site. It hasn't changed my eating habits, only created a record of them, which is a pretty amazing thing for me. In the past I've used FitDay. My main complaint about FitDay was that it didn't allow for users to add to the foods database, only to their own personal account. I spent so much time adding in my foods to make sure of accuracy that it drove me batty. The Daily Plate allows user content (including personal recipes), meaning usually someone else has put in my exact food. On the other hand, unless you're a paying member, you lose a lot of functionality that comes with FitDay -- custom nutrition goals, seeing what nutrients you're getting enough of, and which ones you aren't, etc. It also doesn't allow for conversion of serving sizes (amongst things like cups, ounces, tablespoons, etc), so if, for example, you have two tablespoons of walnuts, you have to calculate how much that equals in quarter cups -- FitDay does that for you, where Daily Plate does not. If FitDay would allow for user content, it'd be the much better service, but until it does, The Daily Plate trumps because you spend much less time on the site, especially if you eat a widely varied diet, use their "meals" function, and skip putting in when you ate whatever.

A couple others, briefly:

• Manga Takeout: Akin to the Netflix model, only for manga rentals. You can rent anime DVDs in place of one of your manga if you'd like. It's a bit pricey, especially as I doubt they have many distribution centers.
• Give Away of the Day: A software give-away site. From their front page -- "Every day we offer licensed software you'd have to buy otherwise, for free!" You have to be careful of adware/spyware but you might snag something nice.