Firefox Facts is a great blog for all Firefox enthusiasts, containing all sorts of neat little tips and tweaks.
Lansing Photo is a nice photo blog created by an apparently recent implant to the Lansing area. We'll forgive him for having lived in cough Ann Arbor cough. While I'm not going to steal any of the pics from the blog, and instead insist that you visit it yourself, I will steal some of the words from the introductory post :
Circumstances (a wife in veterinary school at MSU) forced a change of location, and I found myself in the state capital. I quickly found much to photograph and much to remind me of Ypsilanti. The people, the decaying grand architecture, the surrounding farms. What I had, and still have, a hard time finding is a group of people, a community, to share my passion with. So I'm creating this space to try to bring together people in the area who love Lansing, and love photography. Heck, loving Lansing is optional. Let's just fill this void, and come together to create something new, something this area lacks and sorely needs.
Mash Blog is the official blog for yahoo mash, filling you in on updates, tips and tricks, secret settings and the latest modules for yahoo's new mash beta profiles. If you're not familiar with mash yet, back on September 30th I wrote an article about it on my Smoke Rings blog that you can check out. It was by invite only, and I assume it still is. If so, I'll give anyone an invite that desires one.
Mother Tongue Annoyances is a nice blog for those interested in linguistics and language (specifically, the English language). From the origin of the word honking as an adjectival intensifier to strange business names and construction signs with poor grammar, Mother Tongue Annoyances covers pretty much every kind of peculiarity there is in the regular usage of the English language by native speakers. It even touches on a few examples of one of my favorite linguistic phenomenon -- the eggcorn.
The Mahablog is an excellent left-wing political blog which declares itself to be the "Home blog of the American Resistance". It is written by Barbara O'Brien, who in addition to being a blogger is also a blogging advocate and the author of the book Blogging America: Political Discourse in a Digital Nation. If you consider yourself to be right-wing/ conservative/ fundamentalist/ part of the Moral "Majority"/ pro-war in Iraq, you won't like this blog. I encourage you to read it anyway.
The folks over at paintalicious have scoured the web and found some great art for their blog. And despite the name, it's not all paintings. It pretty much includes all visual arts, design and media -- paintings, illustrations, photography, sculptures, etc... some really beautiful stuff.
MaxBarry.com is a rather humorous blog by author Max Barry. If you're not familiar with Barry, he authored such books as Company, Jennifer Government and Syrup. I haven't actually read any of his books, so my knowledge of his work is limited to what I've been able to read online, but I do enjoy what I've read so far. Someday I plan on pulling myself away from this computer desk long enough to head to the bookstore and see if I can find some of his work. Yes... that's right... I said bookstore. You remember... kinda like the "real life" counterparts of Amazon and such. I don't do online shopping.
I first discovered Barry when I stumbled upon his NationStates website. NationStates is a free online nation simulation game inspired by Barry's book Jennifer Government. So after checking out MaxBarry.com, you may wanna bop on over and create yourself a corrupt government or two.
Dlisted is humorous celebrity gossip that is apparently in no way affiliated with Kathy Griffin or her show My Life on the D-List. It is updated at an amazingly fast rate. Like, you can pretty much finish the latest article, and refresh the page to find five new articles! OK... that's really only a slight exaggeration.
Dlisted's secret appears to be as follows: make a point of publishing all rumors before you make any attempt at verifying the information. Five minutes later, after quickly proving the information as false, you can then post an update discrediting your earlier post. Later on, you will always be able to post an article outlining how the subject of the previous false post is deeply upset and would sue you for slander if you were not cleverly covered by the following disclaimer:
Dlisted.com contains published rumors, speculation, assumptions, opinions as well as factual information. Information on this site may or may not be true and not meant to be taken as fact. Dlisted.com makes no warranty as to the validity of any claims.
Clever, no? By following this method, you get three posts where there otherwise would be none... and you're legally safe! OK... again... it's really only a slight exaggeration. Regardless, Dlisted is definitely worth checking out.
Towleroad describes itself as "a site with homosexual tendencies". It's basically in blog format, and it seemed worthy, although I haven't really checked it out much yet. It's content seems to be intended for gay men. I did read a couple of articles about pink (the color, not the singer). One article talked about the South Carolina penal system forcing inmates convicted of sex crimes to wear pink jumpsuits. The other is about a bunch of pink wearing high school boys in Nova Scotia.
I don't know about you, but I hate pink (again, the color, not the singer), and I don't blame those inmates for not wanting to wear pink jumpsuits -- ESPECIALLY since it labels them as sex offenders and makes them a target of assault. But tough shit -- they committed a crime, they pay the price. But as far as those high school boys are concerned, they're right. Students should be able to wear whatever color they want without fear of assault. So kudos to the boys for thinking about bringing in all those pink t-shirts... as well as to everyone in the high school who donned a pink tee and stood up for the original pink tee wearing lad! Confused? Read the article. Read more articles while you're there. I didn't... but don't let that stop you.
haha.nu has a lot of cool pictures like the one you see to your left, which is part of a series of surrealistic paintings titled Seamless pictures by Jim Warren. haha.nu also has photos, videos and standard text posts. AND I should mention that haha.nu has been nominated for Blogger’s Choice Awards in four categories: Best Geek Blog, Best Entertainment Blog, Best Humor Blog and Best Video Blogger. It's definitely worth your time to check it out.
At first glance, you'd expect The Daily Galaxy to be predominately about space. Not so. As the blog's description states:
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond, is an eclectic text and video presentation of fascinating news and original insights on science, space exploration, technology, and their reflections in popular culture (film, books, events).
The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right, in addition to being a book, is also a blog which professes to be "The Internet's Home For Sinners Destined To Be Left Behind". It's an informational blog keeping us up to date on the doings and sayings of the religious right... from the perspective of someone... ummm... a little more left leaning, I'd say.
Eatnineghost.com is an interesting blog with a lot of photos of various interesting things -- from penis shaped ice cream, to the girl with two heads. Ok... so the blog's author's English isn't perfect... but whose is, really?
Girl with a one-track mind is a... ummm... fun blog... read it. I'll give you a little "sampling" of it...
We drank our tea in silence and shortly afterwards I made my way home. It was only when I looked through the camera later, that I realised that even though I was embarrassed by her finding those pictures, I had got off lightly: also stored on the memory card were other, more compromising photographs, specifically the ones I snapped of various erect penises from my trip to the Museum of Sex. It's one thing to have your mum see you dressed up in sexy gear, but it's another thing entirely for her to view the material you use to masturbate with. Ugh. -- excerpt from the blog Girl with a one-track mind
The All-Grain Evangelist: A Beer Brewer's Blog
A blog about beer!.. ummm... and wine... and travel, bicycles and... ummm... medieval reenactment.
Though Oddee claims to be "a blog of the oddities of our world", I wouldn't actually describe most of its content as "odd". I think "a blog of the funny, silly, amazing or otherwise interesting of our world" would have been more accurate. But what would I know... I'm odd. In any case, from poor "Engrish transration" and stupid signs to ugly celebs and amazing extinct animals, Oddee did get at least one thing right... it is "Quality Entertainment". Actually, now that I think about it... I'm not sure they got that right either. Maybe Quality and/or Entertainment, since the content tends to be either quality or entertaining, but seldom both. However, it's still a worthy blog to check out.
You've probably seen those little hand Held 20Q games, right? Well, the "brains" for those things actually developed from the online 20 questions game found at 20Q.net. Over the past 19 years, 20Q has been absorbing the input of all of its online players -- and now 20Q has its own blog to keep us updated on the latest stats, "facts" and figures that's it's learned from all of us!
An example from the 20Q Blog:
20: the number of names that start with “Jen” in the name game (Jen, Jena, Jenae, Jenai, Jenalyn, Jenay, Jenea, Jeni, Jenica, Jenine, Jenna, Jennasie, Jenni, Jennie, Jennifer, Jenniqua, Jenny, Jeno, Jens, and Jensa).
74.13: the percent of time that I can correctly guess Satan in 20Q Old Testament.
24: the 70th most popular object thought of in 20Q TV.
Griff's Notes: "...An entertaining, often-illogical daily blog of FOX News Talks first intrepid talk radio reporter."
I normally wouldn't be one to endorse anything FOX News related, but I do admit to enjoying this blog.
The Uber-Review is "An Eclectic Mix Of Gadgets and Wired Madness". But don't let that description fool you into thinking it's yet another techy blog. The key word there is eclectic. The first page alone (as of august 25th, 2007) shows us a chain mail t-shirt, Romulan senate stools, interactive wallpaper, real-life transformers and a Das Kapital bank.
Wise Bread is made up of a collection of bloggers devoted to helping their readers make the most of living on a small budget. Tips include everything from finding the $40 hidden inside a 12v battery, to finding a dutch wife for your resume. Check it out!
I haven't posted anything on here in a while, but I felt the need to let all of my non-readers know about this wonderful Yahoo Messenger Blog, where they won't keep you informed of what they're not doing to remedy their many chat issues.
I love yahoo, I love yahoo messenger, and I love yahoo chat. So it's very important to me when there's a yahoo problem that I have a place, like the Yahoo Messenger Blog, to go to and confirm that I'm 1) not the only person experiencing the problem, and 2) not the only person that has no clue wtf is going on.
Also of note: Yahoo maintains blogs pertaining to most, if not all, of their other services as well. If you go to their messenger blog, you will see the links to their other blogs on the right hand side, under "Other Yahoo! Blogs" (clever how they try to hide them from us by giving them such a random heading).
