I spend a fair amount of time here. A lot of places I find by drifting from link to link, clicking through a kind of passive choose your own adventure of information. I rarely remember to bookmark the interesting pages I find, but I do recognise that the same pages keep popping up that are of interest to me. Here are some.
At the moment, I am obsessed with Hyperbole and a Half. It is a hilarious blog with deliberately badly drawn pictures that I relate to incredibly. While the content doesn’t have much to do with the unit per se, I thought it worth mentioning that the author was recently offered a chance to be filmed, a kind of reality show based on her blog. She put it to her readership and a significant number of people said she should not do it because to them she is a squiggly stick figure girl in a pink dress, and a real person representation might interfere with the way the stories are perceived. Very interesting example of the relationship between bodies and “cyberspace”.
Jezebel – it is nice to know that such shallow and trivial things as “celebrity, sex, fashion” can be reported on with a critical female viewpoint. An indulgent alternative to the tripe of mainstream media and it’s barely concealed white heteronormative patriarchy.
Racialicious – according to their about blurb, “Racialicious is a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture.” It is also the home of the now famous and oft-quoted article The Not-Rape Epidemic.
XKCD – another webcomic I like. Hard to describe, although they say it is about “romance, sarcasm, math and language”. Bring your brain.
There’s more, so much more. I have been blogging since about 2002 and have come across so much witty, funny, terrifying and thought-provoking stuff that I could spend every day for the rest of the year in here and not get bored. You all probably have lives though, so I’ll leave it at that.
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