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Posted by: Matthew, February 2, 2008, 7:16am
While reading my RSS feeds in Google Reader, I share any items I find interesting. You can keep track of my shared items by subscribing to my shared feed. If you use Google Reader, post your shared feed as well.

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/04054241096464709526

You may find some of my feeds interesting (maybe interesting enough to subscribe to yourself), so I'm also going to post links to the feeds I'm currently subscribed to. I'm subscribed to quite a few feeds, so I'm going to break it up into categories over several posts. Google Reader allows you to create folders with several feeds. These categories are the folders I use in Google Reader.

Art

A Softer World - Dark webcomic made of usually blurry photos. Daniel introduced me to this feed.
Brand New - Compares and critiques corporate logo redesigns (talk about a niche blog).
Bunny - A funny webcomic all about bunnies.
Day by Day - Conservative, political webcomic.
Drawn! The Illustration & Cartooning Blog - A constant stream of mind-blowing eye candy and neat behind-the-scenes stuff.
Everybody Loves Eric Raymond - Geek webcomic. If you don't know who Eric Raymond is, it will probably be over your head.
Irregular Webcomic - Webcomic made entirely of Legos.
PartiallyClips - Webcomic made out of clip art.
The Art of Alex CF - Calls himself an assemblage artist. Creates and photographs werewolf hunting kits, time machines, and the like.
The Superest - A battle between two artists where each draws a superhero able to defeat the superhero drawn by the other.
The Watering Hole - Webcomic about the O'Reilly mascots. If you scratched your head at "O'Reilly mascots," it will probably be over your head.
Type for You - All about fonts.
User Friendly - An extremely funny and geeky webcomic that has been running since 1997. That's dedication.
We the Robots - A sometimes raunchy, occasionally funny webcomic about the secret lives of robots.
Wondermark - 2nd Favorite Webcomic (see below for 1st). Victorian art + side-splitting punchlines. You can't go wrong with that combination.
XKCD - 1st Favorite Webcomic. The greatest webcomic ever created.
Posted by: Pickle, February 2, 2008, 7:19pm; Reply: 1
Have you been following the recent developments of XKCD's Black Hat Man?
Posted by: Matthew, February 6, 2008, 6:43am; Reply: 2
Yes, I wonder if he'll ever get his hat back?

Celebrity

Lots of celebrities have "blogs," but most of them are rarely updated (if ever--sometimes it's like they did a first post thinking a blog was a good idea and never returned to it). Sometimes the only content is updates about appearances/events (probably updated by an assistant). Every once and a while you stumble upon a real gem: a celebrity who regularly updates with real, insightful, interesting content. Here are the gems I've found. If you know of others, please share!

From Where I Sit (Michael S. Hyatt) - President & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publisher. Posts several times a month about books, productivity, and the publishing industry.
Jonathan Coulton - His unique style of music gained him popularity via the internet. He publishes his new songs as he completes them to his blog for free.
Jonathan Schwartz - President & CEO of Sun Microsystems. Gives a unique, behind-the-scenes perspective on the computer industry.
Neil Gaiman - The one-and-only Neil Gaiman, comic book creator, screenwriter, and author! Probably one of the most prolific celebrity bloggers.
Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness - Doctor Who and comic book writer.
Stephen Fry - Famous British comedian who blogs knowledgeably about all things technology. He has an affinity for open source and often writes thoughtful posts about Linux (often about Ubuntu specifically), OpenOffice, and Firefox.
Posted by: Daniel, February 6, 2008, 10:06pm; Reply: 3
Comics

A Softer World. The world as seen through the lenses of cynicism and twisted humor. Usually features out of focus, oddly cropped photos. Standalone jokes

Bunny. Most the jokes are beyond me, but they're just so cute. The jokes I get, I like. Recurring bunnies.

Perry Bible Fellowship. Nothing to do with the Bible. Sometimes raunchy, frequently macabre. Uses traditional art mediums--inks, pencils, watercolors, etc. Standalone jokes.

XKCD. Romance, popular culture, unpopular culture, philosophy, science, philosophy, ninjas--a fine blend of unusual mixes.
Posted by: Daniel, March 7, 2008, 11:49pm; Reply: 4
xkcd and Bunny just crossed over.
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