{"id":252,"date":"2011-02-03T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T05:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?page_id=252"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:41:08","slug":"blogroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?page_id=252","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read near-continuously, and to keep my habit fed I have a rather large number of blogs I hit on a semi-regular basis (some much more than others).  A few of them are high profile, a few of them I suspect I make up a nontrivial fraction of the readership, but since I keep coming back they are all probably worth sharing.  I&#8217;m fairly arbitrarily drawing the &#8220;professional&#8221; line at BoingBoing, which excludes the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/\">gadget<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\">blogs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a>, but not much else.   Ordered loosely alphabetically by name in each section.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all my web-reading of late is via google reader, a not-necessarily-up-to-date copy of my OPML subscription list is stored <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ReaderSubscriptions20130206.xml\">here<\/a>.  In pre-Plus reader my shared items could be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/PAPPPmAc\">here<\/a>, they are now mixed in to my <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105985840914607790913\/posts\">plus stream<\/a>&#8230; apparently that is better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Famous&#8221; People:<\/strong><br \/>\nBlogs by notable people.  Most of these people are only &#8220;Internet famous&#8221;, if even that; they are more classified by the fact that I don&#8217;t know them personally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/blog\">Adafruit Industries Blog <\/a> &#8211;  A blog by Limor &#8220;ladyada&#8221; Fried and employees of her hobbyist technology company Adafruit, and hobby tech in general.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vonahn.blogspot.com\/\">Luis von Blog<\/a> &#8211; An occasionally updated blog by CMU Computer Science professor Luis von Ahn.  He has been involved in some fairly high profile social computing sorts of things (<a href=\"http:\/\/recaptcha.net\/\">recapcha<\/a> for example) which I enjoy, aside from it just being interesting as a young academic in the computing field.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">boingboing<\/a> &#8211; The mother of all ephemera blogs, curated by a bunch of high profile &#8220;Internet People&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephpalmer.com\/\">Joseph Palmer<\/a> &#8211; An electrical engineer\/industrial designer involved heavily in the design of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_Quadra_660AV\"> Macintosh Centris 660AV<\/a>(my formative computer), the BeBox, and the early revisions of the Hiptop\/Sidekick.  Lots of good posts about nifty non-engineering topics like musical instruments and peak oil.  He is also the owner of a number of gorgeous Birman Cats, of which he regularly posts pictures.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/starburst.hackerfriendly.com\/\">Star Simpson<\/a> &#8211; Remember when the Boston police made asses of themselves by reacting to a harmless LED display like it was a terrorist threat?  (No, not <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2007\/01\/updated_aqua_teen_hunger.html\">that time<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/city_region\/breaking_news\/2007\/09\/mit_student_arr.html\">second time<\/a>).  That was her.  She later started bogging about life as a student hacker, and it&#8217;s a pretty good read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/torvalds-family.blogspot.com\/\">Linus Torvalds<\/a> &#8211; An intermittently updated blog by the original author and chief herd-rider of the Linux kernel.  He always has an interesting perspective on things, and, as an interesting aside, is responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/article\/3655\">one of my favorite quotes on religion<\/a> (search &#8220;religion&#8221; in the interview).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/\">Danah Boyd<\/a> &#8211; Both personal and professional web presence of an &#8220;internet person&#8221; who is also one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on computer-mediated culture and identity. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.regehr.org\/\">Embedded in Academia<\/a> &#8211; The mostly-professional blog of John Regehr, a CS professor interested in compilers and embedded systems at the University of Utah.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>People I Know:<\/strong><br \/>\nBlogs by people I am personally acquainted with.  A wide variety of friends&#8217; defunct (or at least currently inactive) projects are excluded.  It turns out that restriction kills off a substantial portion of the potential links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stephanie-lee.blogspot.com\/\">free rad!cals<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/stef-lee.tumblr.com\/\">Here<\/a>) &#8211; Stephanie Lee is an old classmate from middle and highschool who spent several years recently proving herself braver and\/or more foolhardy than I by getting involved with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teach_For_America\">Teach for America<\/a> (an organization about which I have very mixed feelings).  The first link is a personal blog, which is amazingly open at times, and the second is a tumblr page which consists almost entirely of awesome found images and quips.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3till7.net\/\">3till7<\/a> &#8211; A reliably amusing and occasionally technical personal blog by former CS classmate Sarah Vessels.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jafrro.net\/\">Jafrro.net<\/a> &#8211; The personal page of my lab-mate Frank Roberts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Topic Blogs:<\/strong><br \/>\nBlogs about particular themes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofortified.org\/\">biofortified<\/a> &#8211; I recently ran into this blog via SBM (below), it is another &#8220;blog about a field by people who are actually qualified in that field&#8221;, this time about GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms).  The writing isn&#8217;t anything special, but it aggregates information on the topic without any obvious unfounded hysteria or commercial bias, which is a pretty scarce resource.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.briansews.com\/\">Brian Sews<\/a> &#8211; A blog mostly about vintage sewing equipment.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/\">Dark Roasted Blend<\/a> &#8211; Another ephemera-blog, this one often features gorgeous photo sets organized around some improbable topic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edcforums.com\/\">EDCForums<\/a> &#8211; A site\/forum dedicated to stuff people &#8220;Every Day Carry&#8221;.  The tone tends toward the paranoid-delusional, but the equipment (Multitools, bags, etc.) reviews in the forum are great.<\/li>\n<li> I occasionally go into a clicktrance at the (frequently NSFW) geek girl photoblogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahgeekgirls.com\/\">Fuck Yeah Geek Girls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdygirllove.tumblr.com\/\">Men Seldom Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/\">Hackaday<\/a> &#8211; An electronic hobbyist blog, mostly featuring individual projects, but sometimes also delving into tools and techniques.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/\">make blog<\/a> &#8211; The big maker hobbyist blog.  Art, Electronics, Artisan Fabrication, if it&#8217;s a neat thing individuals make it can be found here (except for crafts that get their own sister blog).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/postsecret.blogspot.com\/\">PostSecret<\/a> &#8211; An incredible art project by Frank Warren consisting of anonymous secrets mailed in on postcards.  It has become quite high profile and spawned several books, but there is still a batch of secrets posted online every Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scanlime.org\/\">Scanlime<\/a> &#8211; Micah Elizabeth Scott&#8217;s ( engineer at VMWare, Hacker) project blog, full of wonderful hacks like <a href=\"http:\/\/scanlime.org\/2011\/05\/duct-tape-rfid-tag-1\/\">using an ATTiny as a programmable RFID<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scanlime.org\/2010\/01\/diy-sewing-machine-retrofit\/\">using an IR reflectance sensor to encode motion from a toothed belt<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencebasedmedicine.org\/\">Science-Based Medicine<\/a> &#8211; A communal blog by a number of real medical professionals about, as one might guess, science based medicine.  They mostly take on the weird pseudoscience that gets pumped up in the Internet echo-chamber then foisted on the public by media outlets who think they&#8217;re being &#8220;balanced&#8221; by giving the crackpots attention.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/toolmonger.com\/\">ToolMonger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/toolguyd.com\/\">Toolguyd<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/\">CoolTools<\/a> &#8211; All about&#8230; tools.  Hand tools, power tools, whatever devices for extending human capacity catch their fancy.  I also lurk the hell out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/garagejournal.com\/forum\/forumdisplay.php?f=4&amp;order=desc\">General Tool Discussion<\/a> forum at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garagejournal.com\/\">garagejournal<\/a>, even though I don&#8217;t like cars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read near-continuously, and to keep my habit fed I have a rather large number of blogs I hit on a semi-regular basis (some much more than others). 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