Pimp My Blogroll

By Lev Grossman | @leverus | March 11, 2009 | +

An ongoing source of shame in my life is my pathetic blogroll. I did it in like 6 minutes the day the blog went up, because 6 minutes was all I had. And now I can’t change it without the aid of an engineer who has a Ph.D. in astrophysics and mind powers. But I’m going to do it this week. Help? Gimme links: what’s your essential daily reading?

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I’m blanking on others that you (a) don’t already follow, or (b) haven’t at least heard about (in these comments, anyways.)
timothytjones

Here are my favorites:
Super Punch
Hobotopia
Drawn.ca
Cartoon Brew
Kottke
TooMuchNick
Neatorama
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
OffWorld
Ironic Sans.
And many more. Any of these can be found by googling them. Obviously.
1000codemonkeys

Every nerd needs his xkcd
1000codemonkeys

And even though it isn’t animated, you can’t play it, and there’s no associated merchandizing, you could still definately get your ass kicked in school for being a fan of apod (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html). But there’s like a decade’s worth of archives, with an entry for every day in between. You could lose multiple jobs back to back going through it all.
Barbara Kiviat

I’ve always been pretty impressed by those folks over at the Curious Capitalist.
Lev Grossman

The Curious Capitalist people are way too cool to be linked to from Nerd World. It’ll just ruin their image.
Lev Grossman

Thanks guys. I’m fixing it now. This time for reals.