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.