strange radiation: exit pathways

If you must leave: points of interest and/or significance.

Individuals

lowmirror.com: Sari Pessah
Longtime friend and gifted amateur photographer. This is the International Year of Sari Pessah, so you should check it out.

Blogs of Note

BoingBoing
A directory of wonderful things.
Defective Yeti
The musings of Michael Baldwin, contributing writer for The Morning News and pretty okay guy. Favored topics include board games, politics, science, movies. Frequently quite funny.
Electrolite
Patrick Nielsen Hayden, also a writer and editor. Tends to be far more political in focus than his wife Teresa's (q.v.), but just as smart.
Eschaton
Home of Atrios, mysterious liberal muckraker. A good source of outrage.
Everyday Matters
Danny Gregory, Brooklyn-based illustrator and journal-keeper.
Fafblog!
The whole world's only source for Fafblog. Also starring Giblets!
Making Light
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, writer and editor of all kinds of things. The blog that the pool of radiance wants to be when it grows up.
Neil Gaiman / Journal
Neil Gaiman, writer of all sorts of wonderful things. Nice guy, too.
Pharyngula
Paul Z. Myers, associate professor of biology at UMM. (That's the University of Minnesota, Morris.) Favored topics: cellular and/or molecular biology; stupid anti-evolution crusaders; politics; random moments of geekitude and/or humor. I don't always follow the biology, but I enjoy his writing.
Political Animal
Kevin Drum (formerly of Calpundit) is now writing the official blog for Washington Monthly: Political Animal. Well worth reading.
Pure Land Mountain
An American poet living in rural Japan. Grandchildren, dry leaves, nighttime festivals. Lovely stuff.
Sensitive Light
Photoblog maintained by a photographer in England. Lovely stuff.

Organizations

Team New York Aquatics
New York's gay and lesbian swim team. And their webmaster is clearly a genius.
The Straight Dope
Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought).
The Straight Dope Message Board
A better online community of fun-loving, articulate hooligans you'll never find.

Strange / Charming

How to Talk to a Human For future reference.

Glamorous Tech

Tiger Technologies
Our Esteemed Hosts.
Cascading Style Sheets at W3C
CSS is elegant, simple, powerful, and fun. It let me build this whole site without a single <table>. Learn more.
Apple Computer
Needless to say, any site featuring both the Avenging Virgo and praise for CSS was built on a Mac. See also the iPod, which is the coolest birthday present any boy could want.