So, what are your must read blogs? There are a few blogs on the Internet that I particularly enjoy reading*. Among them are the following sites:-
Bad Astronomy. Phil Plait takes on the loonies while keeping us up to date on the latest in the astronomy field in a high-octane, informative way.
Strange Maps. A collection of weird and wonderful maps from across the interwebs.
Word Spy. The latest additions to the English Language.
Unreasonable Faith / Friendly Atheist. For the heathen in me. Daniel Florien and Hemant Mehta share their thoughts on life without God.
Presentation Zen. Garr Reynolds has oodles of ideas about jazzing up your presentations.
Boing Boing. Cory Doctorow presents clippings and odd news stories from around the Internet. It is indeed a crazy world.
Techdirt: Mike Masnick does a regular deep dive into the Intellectual Property wars. There are a lot of people out there that don’t really “get” the Internet.
Erk. I feel naked having shared all this stuff with you, now that I have revealed myself to you as a quirky, pedantic, godless, astro-geek! Which blogs should I consider adding to my “must read” list?
* Friends’ blogs not included here. Trust me, your writings are much cherished by me!
Passive Impressions 
I love:
http://xkcd.com/
a webcomic of sarcasm, humour, romance and maths
http://davidrochester.wordpress.com/
the inimitable Mr Rochester’s Quotidien Vicissitudes
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/index.html
National Geographic news – astronomy, palaeontology, history, archaeology, biology, zooology etc etc
Enjoy!
Well I’ve sort of given up on reading to compensate with listening to podcasts while commuting to/from work.
A good variety of podcasts is: http://podcast.insightcruises.com/
And for the geek in you: http://www.twit.tv
http://flowingdata.com/blog/ – my current favourite – like Strange Maps but about data visualisations. Enjoy.
Thanks a lot guys! Some fine additions to my list here.
The xkcd link is superb woo, thanks!
Pirlam, I’m the same. Radio these mornings is far too depressing. You can’t beat a good podcast on the drive into work.
Hi Ben, I am driven these days by an abiding hatred of bullet point PowerPoints, so this is an excellent link. Thanks for sharing.
This one’s my weekly Must Read.
It’s well written and I like her format.
From the title, it may sound like another domestic life type blog, but’s it’s much more than that and is thought provoking and always interesting.
http://the-3rs—reading-ranting–recipes.blogspot.com/
Oooh I have a couple of new ones to add to my list now, I especially like Wordspy 🙂
And the wave photos of Clark Little on BoingBoing are stunning. I think I might have to do a blog post on those, they are jaw-droppingly good!
Thanks 🙂
Here’s another one I found quite by accident. It’s excellent.
Paleo-Future (http://www.paleofuture.com/) – recounting how people in the past imagined the future to be.
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