Linky Goodness
Your proverbial linkfarm. A curated list of stuff that tickles my fancy. No apologies.
Art, Science and Culture
- 3quarksdaily A one-stop intellectual surfing experience.
- A R T L▼R K An Alternative Cultural Daybook
- Amazing Women In History All the kick-ass women the history books left out.
- Business Insider: Architecture Ever since we worked with an architect to design our home, I’ve loved reading about architecture. Great photos.
- Classic FM – The World's Greatest Music The ultimate classical music website!
- Clothes on Film Examining costume and identity in movies. A fix for my one-time hobby of costume design.
- Cooks Without Borders Spectacular recipes steeped in culture.
- David Bordwell's Cinema Blog “The world’s best film blog” — Roger Ebert
- David Byrne
- Envisioning The American Dream A visual remix of the American Dream as pictured in Mid Century Media
- Grist Sustainability, environmental news, commentary, advice.
- Idyllopus Press A front for author/artist Juli Kearns
- kottke.org Home of fine hypertext products.
- Laughing Squid An online resource for art, culture & technology and independent web hosting company.
- OnlySky Media Protecting America’s secular democracy through reality-based journalism, storytelling, and commentary
- Quartz News, videos, ideas, and obsessions from the new global economy.
- TED: Ideas worth spreading Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.
- The School of Life Developing Emotional Intelligence. Practical philosophy for everyday living.
- The Unapologetic Traveler By Afzal Huda, who writes about his misadventures across cultures
- TrouserPress.com The “bible” of alternative rock since 1983
- zunguzungu “Harmonization [variant: harm minimization]”
Generalists
- Salon In-depth news, politics, business, technology
- Universal Hub All Boston, all the time
Good Reads
- A R T L▼R K An Alternative Cultural Daybook
- Charles P. Pierce’s Shorter Bòn Móts A delightful sampling of wordplay picked fresh from the selected works of Esquire columnist Charlie Pierce
- David Byrne
- From the Pen Cup Pen and writing tools blog. Gives me pen lust.
- Goblinbooks All things dark.
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction.
- Hugo Book Club Blog A blog about SF books that may be nominated for the prestigious Hugo Award.
- Idyllopus Press A front for author/artist Juli Kearns
- Letters of Note Real letters by real people with something to say.
- OnlySky Media
- Quartz News, videos, ideas, and obsessions from the new global economy.
- Rare Historical Photos A website/blog exclusively dedicated to historical and rare photographs.
- Roads and Kingdoms Travel meets journalism.
- Rubénerd by Rubennerd Schade Labour of love weblog of nerdish interests by a uni student in Sydney and Singapore! c.2004
- Sarah Kendzior Op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail.
- Stonekettle Station Don’t just embrace the crazy, sidle up next to it and lick its ear.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic Monthly Just good stuff, consistently posted.
- terribleminds Personal blog of Chuck Wendig, novelist, screenwriter, and game designer.
- The Flying Tortoise A selection of musings, often accompanied by gorgeous images.
- The Marginalian An inventory of the meaningful life.
- The Useless Web Resist the temptation.
- This About That My Thoughts, by Claudia Lamb
- Thought Catalog®
- thought maybe action against subservience and acquiescence
- Universal Hub All Boston, all the time
- Wait But Why My kind of writing. Deep, but endlessly entertaining.
- Whole Earth Catalog Devoted to the most unique reference book ever published. “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
- Wondermark Steampunk cartoons!
- Writing Class Radio I have a soft spot in my heart for memoir writing. This is one of the best resources for that.
- YES! Magazine Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions
Great Placeblogging
- And North A curated guide to upstate NY. Great rural and suburban blogging.
- CityLab Informing and inspiring the people who are creating the cities of the future–and those who want to live there
- Cyburbia Connecting planners, students, academics, urbanists, and others who are interested in or help shape the built environment.
- Eat This Poem Placeblogging the best bookstores, coffee shops, reading nooks and restaurants.
- Lower Dot A now-defunct blog about Dorchester. Still a great example of placeblogging.
- Melting Butter Curated NYC travel hotspots for the aesthetically inclined, cultivated traveler.
- Petite Passport Your daily shot of design, hotspots and travel
- Sprudge – Coffee News Highlighting coffee culture, news, and events.
- The Unapologetic Traveler By Afzal Huda, who writes about his misadventures across cultures
- Urban3 Simplifying complex information for real conversations about community growth
Media and media culture
- About Editing and Writing A blog by Jack Limpert, Editor of The Washingtonian for more than 40 years
- Clothes on Film Examining costume and identity in movies. A fix for my one-time hobby of costume design.
- Envisioning The American Dream A visual remix of the American Dream as pictured in Mid Century Media
- Media Nation Northeastern U journalism professor Dan Kennedy’s blog on the press, politics, technology, culture and other passions
- New Media Expo New Media & Social Media Education, News & Events
- Radio Survivor News, views and tough love for radio.
- Rare Historical Photos A website/blog exclusively dedicated to historical and rare photographs.
- Reading the Pictures Visual politics and the analysis of news images
- Snopes.com Your basic urban legend reference, debunking bunk since 1995. Use this site before you send me yet another sappy or inflammatory email that’s somehow supposed to prove a point.
- The Daily Cartoonist The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist
- The Lever
- The Old Newsman A blog about news and life
Personal Blogs
- 100 Acts of Sewing A personal challenge to make 100 dresses in a year.
- A Pain in the Neck My Experience With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- A Walker in LA Terrific blog that mixes the personal with the professional.
- David Byrne
- dooce® I’m Heather B. Armstrong. This is my website.
- Exit Only Because all traffic moves in one direction.
- Gerda Saunders Telling Who I Am Before I Forget: My Dementia
- Just Curious She has questions.
- Linear A Memoranda from the Department of Redundancy Department
- Lisa McColgan Writer. Editor/Screener for Mortified Boston. Data jockey for a theatre company. Recovering alcoholic since 2002. Nerd.
- outfrontpolitics Cogent analysis from a gal who’s definitely been there, done that, and done it well.
- Patric Juillet
- ScarfAid by Busy Bee Blogger A scarf a week keeps coronovirus away
- Stonekettle Station Don’t just embrace the crazy, sidle up next to it and lick its ear.
- The Bloggess Like Mother Teresa, only better.
- The Flying Tortoise A selection of musings, often accompanied by gorgeous images.
- The Gospel of the God of Prairie Biscuits
- The Plutonium Café The personal blog of Page van der Linden, an erudite woman with an unusual CV. The name is a big, fat hint.
- The Sheila Variations An outstanding, eclectic personal blog by actress and writer Sheila O’Malley.
- The Unapologetic Traveler By Afzal Huda, who writes about his misadventures across cultures
- This About That My Thoughts, by Claudia Lamb
- Throw Another Bear in the Canoe Personal blog of local SF writer and tea lover Elizabeth Bear.
- When I Come To Be Old Thinking About Aging, Literature, and Life
Politics and Current Events
Shopping
- Nanami Paper.com Notebooks, journals, paper pads, letter sets, envelopes, pens and pencils from Japan
Sustainability, Environment
- CityLab Informing and inspiring the people who are creating the cities of the future–and those who want to live there
- Cyburbia Connecting planners, students, academics, urbanists, and others who are interested in or help shape the built environment.
- Mike the Chicken Vet A chicken vet’s perspective on the world.
- Natural Homes The world of Natural Building and Natural Living
- Old House, New Garden One of the best gardening/landscaping blogs around, by a LOCAL master garden designer.
- Punk Domestics Preserving • Culture • Community
- Small House Society Supporting the Small House Movement
- The Archdruid Report Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society
- The Image of Worcester A blog about economic development in Worcester, MA through the lens of the built environment.
- Tiny House Blog Living simply in small spaces.
- Whole Earth Catalog Devoted to the most unique reference book ever published. “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
- YES! Magazine Powerful Ideas, Practical Actions