Lists of old things and others' things
Old things
Others' things
Amusement
A Good Movie to Watch. A quick look suggests I’ll like the sort of thing they recommend.
Alice Grove. Another strange-world web comic
Basic instructions. Hipsters being snarky – consistently funny comic
Bizarro. Pretty good for a newspaper comic
Colossal photography. I’m not photographing much these days, but it’s nice to sometimes see some good examples
Cyanide & Happiness. Humor comic, sometimes off-color
Derelict. Interesting web comic but prone to delays between updates
Dinosaur Comics. Clip-art dinosaurs talking
Doctor Grumpy in the house. Mocking the medical industry
Drive. Often whimisical comic but actually a good sci-fi story
Fowl Language. Angsty ducks
Great job, Internet!. Procrastination without end
Gunnerkrigg Court. Lovely web comic about a fantastic boarding school
Happle tea. Infrequently-updated sarcasm
I work at a public library. Making fun of what goes on in the library
Lunar Baboon. Pencil drawings about fatherhood
McSweeney's internet tendency. To be honest, most of it is too wordy for me
Moviepooper!. Just the endings of the movie plots
Nimona. A sweet little knights-and-monsters story comic. It ended some time ago, but the last time I looked (December 2015) it was all still there
Questionable Content. Long-running web comic about hipsters at their coffeeshop
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Another daily absurd-humor comic strip
Savage Chickens. Daily chickens
The Bright Side. Clever (if sometimes kind of emo) comic about having Death as a buddy
The Specialists. Only slightly super heroes in WWII
Witchy. Nice story about a world of witches
Zen Pencils. Lovely illustrations of thoughtful quotations
Food
Minnesota
Heavy Table. Minnesota dining, mostly Twin Cities
MinnPost Politics & Policy. Good source of Minnesota political news
MN Progressive Project. Political opinion
MPR News. Minnesota Public radio puts their news stories onine
NOLA
Ashley Morris. My late friend Ashley’s blog, run for a while by his wife Hana, and now mostly silent except for the occasional comment spam
Gambit. The Gambit Weekly Online
LaPolitics. John Maginnis is gone, but his site lives on
Louisiana subreddit. Usually a good roundup
New Orleans Advocate. The new daily paper in New Orleans. They’ve picked up alot of the great writers and staff from the Times-Picayune when the Pic’s new out-of-town owners decided to gut that paper because they thought that would go as profitably as it had elsewhere.
NOLA Defender. Serious news, irreverent presentation
The Lens. Investigative journalism
The New Orleans Food Cooperative. I ran their website for a year or two when they ran a buying club. Now, years later, they’ve opened a their own store in the Bywater.
Times-Picayune. The New Orleans Times-Picayune online. They used to be a great daily newspaper, and then a new owner decided to go cheap and glossy.
Uptown Messenger. Neighborhood news
People
A sushi site I've maintained for some years. In the past it was a directory of restaurants; now it’s mostly just links
Budd Hirons. My brother-in-law tweets.
Fascination Place. Michael Rawdon, from the undergraduate CS program. We keep in occasional email contact but haven’t been in the same place at the same time in about 20 years.
I Drew This. Photographs and writing from an old Australian friend. He hasn’t updated it regularly for several years, but it was all still there the last time I looked
Longfellow Fellow. Our neighbor tweets.
Martin Odersky on Twitter. My advisor tweets, mostly about Scala
Tom Marble. An interesting tech-friend and sometimes-colleague here in Minneapolis.
Towards Independence. A second blog by Phil Wadler in favor of an independent Scotland
Wadler's Blog. Phil Wadler on science, policy and sometimes his research
Tech
Lambda the Ultimate. Programming languages blog
Martin Odersky on Twitter. My advisor tweets, mostly about Scala
Planet Haskell. Aggregation of Haskell-related blogs. Stuff I wish I understood.
Planet Lisp. Aggregation of Lisp blogs.
Programming in the twenty-first century. Interesting but infrequent
TeXample. Aggregation of TeX/LaTeX-oriented sites.