Mash Blog

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 › Tim’s weblog on English communication

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

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.

paintalicious

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.

Max Barry | he writes things

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 | Be Very Afraid

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.

Gay News Daily: Towleroad, a premium site for modern gay men.

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.