In the interest of mild self-revelation and keeping in the habit of journal updates, here are a few of my favorite places around the web (actually just links to the various RSS feeds that run across my Firefox address bar that I check daily).
WWdN: In Exile
xkcd
Neil Gaiman's Journal
The New York Times
Bill Moyers Journal
Slate Magazine
Mericale, Hughes, Scheheraz'Odd & Touchshriek, Inc.
In the way of brief commentary about this list:
Wil Wheaton is several varieties of awesome, as those who used to read his articles on the Newswire can attest.
Xkcd is, at its best, probably my favorite of all webcomics. Formally, it could hardly be more simple; while, substantially, it is often stunningly complex (and occasionally obscure).
Neil Gaiman's journals are witty, pleasant, and informative. His gifts as a writer are well-attested by his fantastic oeuvre of comics, novels, short stories, and screenplays; and he brings those authorial talents, in an enjoyable minor key, to his quasi-daily ramblings.
The NY Times is my go-to source for up to the minute news (regularly supplemented by the BBC, to prevent a too provincial perspective).
Bill Moyers's website provides the full substance of his weekly television program for re-viewing (often first viewing in my case, as the show is regularly preempted by absurdly inferior alternatives on GPTV). Moyers is defiantly partisan (in the ideological sense, rather than the vapid one of party) and often shames other media outlets by forcefully speaking truths generally kept off the air under the name of unbiased reporting (one might say Fox News ignores the stigma of bias as well, but I don't think they're in any immediate danger of speaking any truths).
Slate is clever and informative, always. In fairness, though, its relentlessly contrarian viewpoint can be wearying.
Finally, Caitlin R. Kiernan's blog is a delightful melding of the everyday and the transcendentally strange, much like her sadly under-appreciated fiction.
That's it. I'll be back tomorrow, when my age will be a slightly rounder number.
WWdN: In Exile
xkcd
Neil Gaiman's Journal
The New York Times
Bill Moyers Journal
Slate Magazine
Mericale, Hughes, Scheheraz'Odd & Touchshriek, Inc.
In the way of brief commentary about this list:
Wil Wheaton is several varieties of awesome, as those who used to read his articles on the Newswire can attest.
Xkcd is, at its best, probably my favorite of all webcomics. Formally, it could hardly be more simple; while, substantially, it is often stunningly complex (and occasionally obscure).
Neil Gaiman's journals are witty, pleasant, and informative. His gifts as a writer are well-attested by his fantastic oeuvre of comics, novels, short stories, and screenplays; and he brings those authorial talents, in an enjoyable minor key, to his quasi-daily ramblings.
The NY Times is my go-to source for up to the minute news (regularly supplemented by the BBC, to prevent a too provincial perspective).
Bill Moyers's website provides the full substance of his weekly television program for re-viewing (often first viewing in my case, as the show is regularly preempted by absurdly inferior alternatives on GPTV). Moyers is defiantly partisan (in the ideological sense, rather than the vapid one of party) and often shames other media outlets by forcefully speaking truths generally kept off the air under the name of unbiased reporting (one might say Fox News ignores the stigma of bias as well, but I don't think they're in any immediate danger of speaking any truths).
Slate is clever and informative, always. In fairness, though, its relentlessly contrarian viewpoint can be wearying.
Finally, Caitlin R. Kiernan's blog is a delightful melding of the everyday and the transcendentally strange, much like her sadly under-appreciated fiction.
That's it. I'll be back tomorrow, when my age will be a slightly rounder number.
Happy birthday, by the way.