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[livejournal.com profile] megaleena left a comment a few days ago on a post where I talked about my obsessive-compulsive reading list, suggesting it would be interesting if I shared it. Easily enough done!

So, between email, work, and writing, this is what I read daily.

"News" feeds:
Serious Eats (just the top page)
Kempt
The Lulu Blog, though I'm thinking of taking this one down to Mondays-only reading
BoingBoing (again, top page only or until I get tired of scrolling)
Futility Closet (I ignore the math)
Myths Retold
Free Things To Do In Chicago

Fannish stuff:
My LJ and DW friendslists
Geek Crafts
[livejournal.com profile] wcnewsletter, the White Collar daily newsletter
Twitter (Sometimes.)
My non-fannish Facebook (the only way R communicates anymore, I swear to god)
Delicious -- I have a Delicious slush file that has basically four categories: Deal with this, Archive this, Books to read, Origami websites. I also have a Delicious subscription to some fannish tags, so I always check that.

And finally, THE EARTH.

I didn't realise I have no webcomics on my reading list anymore. I sort of fall in and out of love with webcomics, so whatever. (Please don't suggest any :D )

For bonus points, this is my Monday additional reading list.

Career stuff:
Nonprofity, "our" Claire's professional website
The 99%, a very mixed bag
Alltop Career News
Leave It At The Reception Desk
Publisher's Weekly
The Self Publishing Review

Hobbies:
Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Blog
The Daily Coyote
Origamiancy and Origami Spirit
Urban Ghosts
The Incarcerated inkwell

Entertainment:
Racked Chicago
Siskel Film Centre
Upcoming Movies
TV By The Numbers

Man. Reading it all laid out like that, I do kind of look like a politically apathetic dilettante, don't I?

I also read Chicago Magazine and The New Yorker, and the Monday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, though I don't know if those are exactly points in my favour.

Date: 2011-05-03 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wellowned.livejournal.com
honestly, i wish i had either the time or the patience to do that. i subscribed to so many things via twitter and google reader that i just... i don't have the time for anymore. especially web comics. i was a big fan of xkcd and a few other naughty ones. now i can't be bothered.

i actually came upon you after you'd come out of your dead year, so i wonder now what the whole idea was behind it-- what you gave up and what it accomplished. i'm sure i could probably read back through your tags and maybe figure it out... but perhaps being straightforward? anyway....

i admire your reading list. i end up just checking the most recent maybe... 50 tweets on my feed, email, and my reading page on DW (which consists of a couple of friends and your stories).

Date: 2011-05-03 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
Well, the Dead Year was really just a way not to go insane while I was jobless. I decided to give myself a year and if I didn't get a job or accomplish anything or even feel very happy, that was okay. It was just permission not to be an overachiever, really.

Date: 2011-05-03 08:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firynze.livejournal.com
Gaaaaaah, Facebook. Half my friends have started communicating only through that damn thing, and it never fails to annoy me.

Serious Eats seriously takes up more of my feed reader than anything else, even the really prolific book blogs and even CNN. They post more than friggin CNN. Yow.

Date: 2011-05-03 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
They post like gangbusters. That's why I firmly limit myself to the top page. :D

Date: 2011-05-03 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firynze.livejournal.com
I skim through a lot of it - I don't have TV, so the TV posts are sort of pointless for me - but then I slow down and wind up reading all sorts of weird things about slaughtering pigs.

Date: 2011-05-03 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com
Hahahahaha, I am RECOMMENDING A WEBCOMEEK.

http://abaddoncomic.com/

Date: 2011-05-03 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
Okay I've been staring at this for like five minutes. I don't get it...

Date: 2011-05-03 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com
Well, you have to start at the "start". I couldn't link to a specific page.

Date: 2011-05-03 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
Ohhhh, it's sequential!

I'm...not quite sure it's my thing, tbh.

Date: 2011-05-03 08:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com
I'm not sure it's mine either, yet, but you specifically said no webcomics, and Digger (which was a good webcomic, really) is done now, so I was at a loss. I had to link to SOMETHING. :)

Date: 2011-05-03 08:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-05-03 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
OH MY GOD HE PUT THE CAT IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL D: D:

Date: 2011-05-03 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
Even so, I didn't need to see that D:

Date: 2011-05-03 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com
Yeah, it seems like this will not flinch away from the yuck. It was hard to go on after that page.

Date: 2011-05-03 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
Yeah, that page was the tab-closer, I'm afraid.

Date: 2011-05-03 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bare-bear.livejournal.com
I've just bookmarked your list of bookmarks for later perusal on how to organize my daily (and weekly) reading bookmarks...

...my brain doesn't want to think about this too hard. :D

Date: 2011-05-04 12:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
Yo dawg I heard you like some bookmarks of my bookmarks so I put some bookmarks in your bookmarks.....

:D

Date: 2011-05-03 11:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] never-ender.livejournal.com
...how... do you... there isn't... you are a time lord!

Date: 2011-05-04 12:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
A time management lord, anyway. :D

Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

Date: 2011-05-04 11:58 am (UTC)
ext_14419: the mouse that wants Arthur's brain (Default)
From: [identity profile] derien.livejournal.com
I pretty much love this idea...(from Futility Closet (http://www.futilitycloset.com/)):

Architect Stedman Whitwell thought it illogical and confusing that different towns sometimes have the same name. He suggested assigning a unique name to each location based on its latitude and longitude. He published this table in the New Harmony, Ind., Gazette in 1826:

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Insert an S to indicate south latitude and a V for west longitude; omit them for north and east. Thus New Harmony (38°11′N, 87°55′W) would be rechristened Ipba Veinul; New York would be Otke Notive, Washington D.C. Feili Neivul, and Pittsburgh Otfu Veitoup.

What these names lack in poetry they make up in utility: a traveler given the name of a town can immediately infer its location. Unfortunately, Whitwell’s scheme never caught on — and today the United States has 28 Springfields, 29 Clintons, and 30 Franklins.



These names lack poetry? Not quite as cool as the tongue twister native names in Maine (http://people.maine.com/publius/almanac/encycweb/htm/glossary.htm), I suppose (most of which have to do with the characteristics of areas of water, like where it's best to spear fish), but the latitude/longitude naming system generates exotic sounding names.

For added fun, here's a Latitude and Longitude finder site (though it does give popups, so if you know a less annoying site to use let me know):
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/latitude-longitude.html

Re: Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

Date: 2011-05-04 12:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
*grins* Thank you, yes, but I do actually read Futility Closet myself. :D

Re: Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

Date: 2011-05-04 10:13 pm (UTC)
ext_14419: the mouse that wants Arthur's brain (Default)
From: [identity profile] derien.livejournal.com
So, you didn't really bother to read what I posted, then.

Re: Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

Date: 2011-05-04 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
I just don't find latitude and longitude that fascinating?

Re: Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

Date: 2011-05-04 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
Ah, re-reading, you put links at the bottom. Sorry I missed those; in the past week there have been multiple times when people have linked me to thinks I've linked in the same post, or quoted posts I've linked at me, so my eyes tend to glaze over a bit when it happens.

Re: Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

Date: 2011-05-04 10:48 pm (UTC)
ext_14419: the mouse that wants Arthur's brain (Default)
From: [identity profile] derien.livejournal.com
Yeah, I'm having fun using that link and trying to figure out what the rules really ARE with this plan, because it's not really using all the top row letters for Latitude (obviously, since they're all vowels) - what seems to be happening is a jump up and down, but it's not just up and down alternating, either.

Re: Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

Date: 2011-05-04 11:21 pm (UTC)
ext_14419: the mouse that wants Arthur's brain (Default)
From: [identity profile] derien.livejournal.com
And I'm thinking people are either just grabbing whatever lat/long sounds 'close...ish' to them or whatever letters they like. DISTRESSINGLY IMPRECISE. The method is cool, but the write-ups are not good.

Date: 2011-05-04 12:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annemjw.livejournal.com
Futility Closet looks intriguing enough for closer examination, ta :)

Date: 2011-05-05 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twirlynoodle.livejournal.com
It's the only timewasting miscellany website I still allow myself ... LOLcats and WTF pics have been overcome, but Futility Closet will reign forever!

Date: 2011-05-04 08:02 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
it makes me so happy you read Better Myths. XD a friend of mine writes it, so I'm glad he's getting more and more exposure! he totally deserves it, because it's great.

Date: 2011-05-05 02:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com
I love it :D Every time a new one goes up I find bits I want to copy and paste to everyone I know, but they all read it too...

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