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Here are some links (provided to you via Arts and Letters Daily):

The Associated Press
Sci Am
Discover
James Randy
Roger Kimball

The Man's last essay. It's titeled Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire.

I'll leave out really common feeds and a few that won't interest many people, but here are the top 25% or so of my feeds:

A Gentleman's C http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/rss.xml
An Angry Professor gripes about stuff

Armchair Generalist http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf
Blog by a moderate-left military analyst

Arts & Letters Daily http://aldaily.com/rss/rss.xml
Three interesting links every day (actually usually one or two INTERESTING ones)

Breaking News (History News Network) http://hnn.us/roundup/rss_full/41.xml
Stories about History with a slight conservative bias

Consumerist http://consumerist.com/excerpts.xml
Shoppers bite back.

indexed http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
Note card humor, usually featuring Venn diagrams

Inside Higher Ed http://feeds.feedburner.com/insidehighered/OxmP
Stories from academe, with fairly grumpy comments

Junk Charts http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/rss.xml
Redraws charts to make data analysis easier

Obscure Store and Reading Room http://obscurestore.typepad.com/obscure_store_and_reading/index.rdf
Well-known wierd news site with comments

PostSecret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Secrets on postcards, every Sunday. Fascinating.

ReelViews New Reviews http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReelviewsNewReviews
My favorite currently-active film reviewer

SCOTUSblog http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/index.xml
Get the skinny on the latest Supreme Court actions

Slashfood http://www.slashfood.com/rss.xml
Because I love food

Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/rss/
The best of the online political mags; lefty bias

Spluch http://spluch.blogspot.com/rss.xml
Always something interesting. Similar material to the extremely popular Boing Boing, but with fewer posts per day.

The Monkey Cage http://www.themonkeycage.org/atom.xml
Analysis from political scientists. Much better than the usual partisan approach.

The Onion http://feeds.theonion.com/theonion/daily
Most of the humor is usually contained in the headlines, so I seldom read more

This story was link'd off http://aldaily.com/ and is not a very good read as the point is mainly philosophical in nature and not hard in science. The V-2 example could also be applied to the current mess with the ISS though - no time for science because we have to fix the damn Russian computer.

Mainly philosophical.

http://www.scitechdaily.com/

This site links to a huge cornucopia of science articles. Check it out.

There is a similar site for arts: Arts & Letters Daily at http://www.aldaily.com/

Bad Writing Contest

My fafourite is from D.G. Leahy's book Foundation: Matter the Body Itself:
Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity, while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the reality of the self). This is the real exteriority of the absolute outside: the reality of the absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the darkness: the shining of the light univocally predicated of the limit of the darkness: actuality univocally predicated of the other of self-identity: existence univocally predicated of the absolutely unconditioned other of the self. The precision of the shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity of the light. The precision of the absolutely minimum transcendence of the dark is the light itself/the absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence for the first time/the absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the dark itself equivocally, in "self-alienation," not "self-identity, itself in self-alienation" "released" in and by "otherness," and "actual other," "itself," not the abysmal inversion of the light, the reality of the darkness equivocally, absolute identity equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the other-self-covering of identity which is the identification person-self).

For a leftist bent: agonist and
for a nutty kind of libertarian bent : Arts and Letters Daily.

It's a "best of the web" site that links to what, in the editors' opinions are some of the best current journal or magazine articles online. They only post a few links a day, but there're inevitably to the Washington Post, New York Times, The Spectator, the Economist, Atalantic Monthly, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Affiars, Foreign Policy, The New Atlantis (you get the picture)

Have a look down the left hand side of their web site for links to some fantastic reading. Can't recommend this site highly enough. Aside from the fact that they're moving ever so slowly to the right...

I found the article referenced by Arts & Letters Daily.

I'm not from the US, I'm from Britain and, as I've said before, I prefer to look for news sources that give me unbiased facts.

For example, your claim that "millions" died b/c of the bombing of a Sudanese pharma plant comes straight from Chomsky, whether you know it or not, and is complete b*llsh*t speculation.

But now that you've mentioned the Balkans let's talk about them. How many troops did the US commit in Bosnia, Croatia or elsewhere in the former Yougoslavia? None. US involvement in that horrific civil war was at a distance and token at best when compared to the efforts of its NATO allies.

Clinton didn't intervene until he had no choice, but the fact remains that once the US started bombing in Bosnia and then Kosovo the fighting soon stopped. Better than the Eurotrash record, no?, which was to act as concentration camp kapos for the Serbs: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica

Why is it that you put freedom on such a pedestal but are so quick to attack others for execising free speech? Are you really that afraid of what they have to say?

This point and counter-point IS free speech, my friend. You have the right to post your opinions and I have the right to tell you, vehemently if I so feel, why I think they're wrong. So please drop this martyr pose of yours.

One of the news articles on the HT front page prompted me to look at the UN page which is worth looking at for a good example of how not to build a page : the UN english page . All the text on the page is in the form of images - usually a sign that the designer has not a clue. (The source says it was done with Adobe GoLive.)

For a good page I'd suggest Arts and Letters Daily which presents a lot of information in a nicely usable format. I would prefer that their banner image be just a tad smaller though. The stuff at the foot is also a bit annoying (expecially the hitbox crap) and not well laid out - but I rarely get that far down.

And if I might indulge my own amusement for a bit I'd recommend my personal webpage as being almost completely unusable. Odd javascript. No navigation. Big (oddly unusable and quite awful) image of me. General overboard hackiness. Serious dependencies on browsers. Here Ya Go

• Smart-ass commentary where the writer ridicules some less than optimal decision by (the President, Congress, CEO's, investors, Major League Baseball, whatever) thanks to his perfect 20/20 hind-sight, yet never has to own up to his own mispredictions, no matter how gross.
• Brain dead coverage of foreign events, particularly the Middle East. And by that I don't mean coverage I ideologically disagree with, I really mean _brain dead_, completely clueless, too stupid to live. Like a cover article they ran hailing the Saudi "peace plan" (remember that?) as the solution to all the Middle East's ills yet never bothering to read its actual text and see that it did nothing to address the Palestianian "right of return" issue that lead to the blow up at Camp David. There's also its moronic attempt to project domestic politics onto it so that if Republicans and Christian evangelicals support Israel (never mind that the country is more socialistic than France) it must be bad, and if the Palesitians are brown, poor, and miserable they must be good, never mind how many school buses or seder dinners they blow up in their nihilistic, barbarian rage.

So in short, I won't be shedding too many tears over their demise, as there are a lot more online journals out-there, including some meta ones that have always been better anyway.