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[cblj_backup]

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
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.

Comments

[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).

[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.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha, I am RECOMMENDING A WEBCOMEEK.

http://abaddoncomic.com/

[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

[never-ender.livejournal.com]

...how... do you... there isn't... you are a time lord!

Followed your link to Futility Closet :)

[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:

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

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Futility Closet looks intriguing enough for closer examination, ta :)

[(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.