Bookmarks

[cosmolinguist]

I'm reassembling the bookmarks on my new computer, and I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask what blogs you read, what things on the internet you think I'd like.

This is not only because I can't remember a lot of the stuff I had in my old bookmarks, but that helps.

So far I've got Pharyngula, Stephen Fry, Andrew's blog, and Babelfish. You see I need the help.

Also:

In 2008, minnesattva resolves to...

Buy new hackers.
Keep my narrativium clean.
Take evening classes in hedonism.
Get back in contact with some old koans.
Eat more chaos.
Stop cuddling with princemuchao.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

Comments

[idiomagic.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend Fugly Horse of the Day...she is a hilarious writer who publicly shames people who are breeding inferior horses that end up going to slaughter...grim topic, but funny as hell.
http://www.fuglyhorseoftheday.blogspot.com/

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

http://www.xkcd.com
http://www.cuteoverload.com
http://www.b3ta.com

[cosmolinguist]

I used to have a few comics bookmarked, xkcd being one of them (Dinosaur Comics is another), that I ended up giving up on because so often Andrew would giggle at them and enjoy himself so much that he insisted on sharing them to me, reading them out to me, despite whatever protestations I made (usually either "Yes I saw that one already" or "I haven't read it but having you read it to me is just confusing because I can't keep it all in my head and by the time you get to the end I've probably forgotten the beginning!" (especially true for Dinosaur Comics)).

But it's been a while since that happened, so I think I'll go out on a limb and add xkcd again.

Of course now that he's read this, he'll start reading them to me again just to be contrary. :)

[ulffriend.livejournal.com]

Obviously Neil Gaiman's blog is a must-read, and if you have never checked out Lisa Snellings' blog (http://slaughterhousestudios.blogspot.com/) I can HIGHLY recommend it. She's a lovely mix of deep thoughts, insight into a working artist, and homey touches of motherhood, wifehood, and friendship. I just discovered this site as well (through Lisa's blog) and I've been pretty blown away. Not a quick or a soft read, but I have the sneaking suspicion that I'll be spending time here regularly: http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html

[cosmolinguist]

Coincidentally, I actually just read about the latter when I was catching up with Pharyngula, who is apparently a contributor.

[ulffriend.livejournal.com]

And forgot to mention: if you find any hedonism continuing ed, please let me know ASAP!

[cosmolinguist]

It sounds like great fun to me! As does eating more chaos. I'm still not sure how to prepare it, so I just eat mine raw. Makes a good snack.

[ulffriend.livejournal.com]

I was thinking something about eating chaos myself, and decided that I'd gorged a bit this past year. A side of mayhem would be nice, though. :)

[conformer.livejournal.com]

NotCot (http://www.notcot.org/) and FFFFound! (http://ffffound.com/) for design and image randomness.

Tastespotting (http://www.tastespotting.com/) and Megnut (http://www.megnut.com/) for food porn and quasi-foodie goodness.

Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/) for cooler-than-thou retro-futurism and Kottke (http://www.kottke.org/) for more mindful links.

=]'

[cosmolinguist]

Ah, BoingBoing's an old friend of mine. But it seems, a bit like the webcomics, when a good one comes along I can rely on my friends to let me know. Still, I'll stick it in the list; thanks for reminding me. I haven't heard of most of the rest, and they (especially Kottke, if only because it catches my eye as I like fingerpicking guitarists) look interesting.

[conformer.livejournal.com]

Boing Boing fell out of favor with me a while back, if only because everything posted came with a terminally opinionated commentary, i.e., "this is awesome because we say so."

And I thot the same thing when I was redirected to kottke.org.

=]'

[chaptal.livejournal.com]

What does chaos taste like?

Very spiky. But delicious.

[cosmolinguist]

Like the socks that the dryer eats, leaving their unpaired mates mourning, like quantum uncertainty, like the important piece of paper that isn't where you are sure you remember putting it, like a Microsoft operating system, like the heat death of the universe.

[nameandnature]

My Bloglines subscriptions. Particularly recommended: Andrew Rilstone, Charlie Stross, and Cosmic Variance.

Of my LJ-friends who use their LJs as blogs as well as social networking tools, livredor in particular writes good stuff.

[cosmolinguist]

Ah yes, Andrew Rilstone is someone who my Andrew speaks of very highly, and quotes from often. I've heard about Charles Stross for years from everywhere and really should look into that. And I actually think Cosmic Variance might have been one of the recent additions to my old set of bookmarks.

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

The only blogs I regularly read that aren't pretty personal ones where you probably need to know the person are elephantfeed and loveandliberty.blogspot.com both of which are very Lib Dem / gay / Dr Who / James Bond in their focus. They might tickle you, especially young Millennium, though it helps to read him from the start if you find the time so you're quite clear who Mr Balloon is and such.

Otherwise most of my bookmarks are my own profiles and the homepages of things I run here and there - facebook, myspace, the B*R*A and so on - not much use to anyone but me. Oh, and there are things in my LJ linklist, like the bus timetables for Manchester and Radio 4 listen again.

[cosmolinguist]

Yes, the Millennium was on my list too; thanks for the sadly-necessary reminder. :)

[rainmerlot.livejournal.com]

why? he's a good cuddler.

[cosmolinguist]

Well at least it's one I'll probably be able to keep. :) It's sadly easy to not cuddle people who are so far away.

[rainmerlot.livejournal.com]

You'll just have to ask him for virtual cuddles then. :-)

[princemuchao.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's not fair... you barely even STARTED!

I follow painfully mainstream blogs for the most part, but no life is complete without lolcats in your feed. http://icanhascheezburger.com

[cosmolinguist]

I wasn't even aware that I HAD started! Must pay more attention in future...