FAIR WARNING: Links not guaranteed. I don’t maintain this list very often.
Also, there are blogs here with which I do not necessarily agree. Because everyone, including you, could use a view of what others are thinking.
Daily: PvP :: Chaos Manor :: Slashdot :: BoingBoing :: Uncrate :: Gizmodo :: OS News
Friends: My LiveJournal :: My LJ Friends :: Nancy Freeman :: Tom Tuerff
News, Traffic, Time: Phoenix Freeways :: The Official US Time :: Wikipedia :: Google News: USA ::
World News Tonight: NZ Herald ::
Weather: Weather Channel :: NOAA: Phoenix – Seattle – Aviation – Tropical – Hurricanes :: USGS Earthquakes :: Weather Underground ::
In Case of Emergency: NRC UEs ::
Blogistan: Backup Brain :: dangerousmeta :: Making Light :: Gallimaufry :: Greenspun :: Have Browser, Will Travel :: Looka! :: Memepool :: Meerkat :: Charlie’s Diary :: MetaFilter :: Scripting News ::
Useful/Cool: Cool Tools ::
Search: Google ::
Geekery: alt.folklore.computers :: Element Owners Club ::
Road Trips:
Ocean Voyages:
The Final Frontier: APOD :: Spaceflight Now :: Heavens Above :: Space Access Society ::
Web Design: Identifont :: A List Apart ::
Computer Stuff: Wotsit.org ::
Oracle: Newsgroups: Server :: Misc :: Reference: Ask Tom :: Oracle Docs ::
Fandom: Locus :: Plokta News :: RASSEFF ::
Music: Home Recording :: rec.music.filk :: Scottish Mandolin Pages :: ABC :: Add: Dr Demento
My So-Called Life: Portland Pattern Repository (the original Wiki) – Main – Recent :: My LiveJournal :: My LJ Friends :: Filk Archive ::
Performing and Film: Wil Wheaton :: Backstage :: Shakespeare :: Roger Ebert ::
Humor: Onion :: I Can Haz Cheezburger
Lists and Links: Bifurcated Rivets ::
When Possible: Barista :: Kuro5hin :: Looking Glass :: McSweeney’s :: Pop Culture Junk Mail :: rc3.org :: Research Buzz :: Screenshot ::
Web Designers, Present And Ex: Daring Fireball :: Hack the Planet :: Inessential :: kottke.org :: MegNut :: MetaGrrrl :: Tog ::
Travel:
Seattle: Washington State Ferries :: BC Ferries :: Alpine Adventures (Rafting) :: Victoria Clipper
Vancouver:
New Zealand: Wise’s Maps :: Wellington Govt Portal
England:
Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Ren Fair ::
General: Airline Quality :: Michael Palin
Tech: Emacs Wiki :: PHPCon :: Simple DirectMedia Layer :: Free Tech Books Online :: IPod batteries!
3D: Space Graphics :: UK Film Locs :: Stars within 50 light years
Geek Resources: DEMScape :: US Terrain Data :: Comp Geeks
SCA: Society for Creative Anachronism
Resources: Tessa the Huntress :: Making Endless Bowstrings :: Stefan’s Florilegium
Vendors: North Star Archery :: White Wolf
Events: Official Gulf Wars :: Official Pennsic Site :: Useful Pennsic Info
Check out later (co. firewall): BBC Swimming Advice :: Lemmings! :: The Hacker’s Diet ::
Selected Wisdom:
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
? Dr. Seuss
Like Popeye before me, I am what I am.
– Seanan McGuire
It actually takes remarkably little to make something look like an ancient tradition.
– Nancy Lebovitz
We need Bogarty sorts of men: men of the world, who are somewhat outsiders and unconventional, but contemporary, and who struggle for a higher ethical path. There are some, but they get drowned out in all the garbage. And we need more. You can never have enough of them.
– Lucy Kemnitzer
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
–Unknown
Medieval Europe was full of gifted techies.
It’s just that most of them weren’t real big about writing it down.
–Teresa Nielsen Hayden
This isn’t the future. This is some fake plastic future. This is a soy-based future substitute.
– Fafnir
There is not actually a penguin on top of your monitor; lay off the caffeine
– Seanan McGuire