With the election over it’s a good time to rethink my reading list a little, but these days the danger of information overload is perpetual. My bookmarks list grew like a weed during the last twelve months or so and I wanted to put a little more thought into what was going to stay and what was going to get dropped. The problem now is going to be sticking with sites I respect and enjoy and not adding bookmarks willy-nilly like some internet harlot.
(Yeah, I said “bookmarks”. There are only so many hours in the day and RSS and its ilk are demon time suckers; they’re the needle drugs of on-line content. I’m willing to waste a lot of time on-line, but I’ve got my limits and I’m perfectly happy just snorting things. If there’s a site I enjoy, I’ll click on it myself thank you very much. Must resist . . . must resist . . . must resist . . .)
The updated post-election links are below. This is mostly additions, I had been hoping to drop a couple more but there really is a wonderful amount of content online these days and there’s no suppressing my unrealistic desire to read it all. The two that did get dropped out were Election Projection and Politico; they’re both useful sites, albeit for vastly different reasons, but this time of the season they just aren’t daily necessities.
I realize that there is a certain incestuous, circle-link quality to a lot of these; I’d like to break out of that a little in the future, but, for now, this is what I’m reading. The sites below, combined with what was already at right, are about the limit of what I have the time and attention span to follow.
ACLU Blog – Wow, we’re all fucked aren’t we?
Aguanomics – OPE, POE, in the end it’s always about water.
Armchair Generalist – I always knew the Defense Department was fucked up, but damns the Defense Department is really fucked up.
Cinematical – Movie news with a minimum of celebrity gossip.
The Edge of the American West – On this day in 18somethingsomething, this really interesting thing happened.
Environmental Economics – Economists can be football fans too.
Hockey Fights – I went to a hockey game and a . . . oh hell, you know the rest.
Matthew Yglesias – Big Media Matt was a much cooler nickname than Big Thinktank Matt.
Mike the Mad Biologist – I wouldn’t go so far as to call him “mad”.
Pandagon – How can that cute little bear write so many words every single day?
Pharyngula – Crackers for everyone! I’ll bring the vino.
Respectful Insolence – Surgeons are the Jocks of the high school that is a hospital, but they’re a lot smarter than most football players.
Schneier on Security – If it’s big and expensive it must be secure, right? Right?
Skepchick – A girl want to learn science? She’s a witch!
The Technology Liberation Front – Capitalist dogs. When the revolution comes . . .
Also, the About page has been updated; it is now more complete and slightly less stupid than it was before.
