The Guardian names NewsLite essential website

This one really does barely count as news… but NewsLite has been named as one of the Top 100 Essential Websites by The Guardian.

In the newspaper's annual roundup of the "indispensable web" were all the names you would expect to find, sites like Amazon, Google, Twitter, Digg and Flickr.

But then, in the Offbeat section was… little old us. "NewsLite: Great source of news that's much too trivial to print." Other sites selected in the category included The Onion, B3TA, Lolcats and Oddee.

While we could be rude and say that if NewsLite is an essential site, then the good folks at The Guardian have got too much time on their hands, we won't -- unless we just did.

If you are just arriving here for the first time having read about us, please click through to see links to the sort of offbeat 'news' you can expect.