Before I pay tribute to my favorite RSS feeds, I should mention that the reason I've been writing so often is I've been working on a project. One of my jobs is to record myself reading texts for a children's program (ITSS, which is a 3rd-6th grade computer tutorial to teach reading comprehension using the 'Structure Strategy'), and, if you can imagine recording around an hour of extended texts and grammatical errors all day, I tend to get distracted. So, there you go. My current 9-5 motivated me to write more in my blog.
It also prompted me to read more. Here's a few 'feeds' (of various forms) I've begun relishing in:
FormsMostBeautiful - Peter Buck, a graduate student in PSU's Educational Theory and Policy program, has an excellent blog detailing the battle against Intelligent Design and describing recent technological developments. It's his personal blog, and I find it very eye-opening and enjoyable.
Mark Morford: Notes & Errata - Mark Morford, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes a really contemplative and thought-provoking column. No matter what he writes about, or how, I always end up feeling somewhat brighter and more enlightened.
Married to the Sea - an absurdist comic, updated nightly, where old (or old-looking pictures) are topped with hysterically tounge-in-cheek captions. Awesome.
PostSecret - If you haven't heard of this, go be enlightened. Now. I'll wait.
Saturday Morning Breakfast - I stole this one from Dean Brady. Vulgar? Yes. Funny? You bet!
Point of Inquiry - A bi-weekly? podcast exploring modern naturalism and such. Great podcast.
Also, I'm not sure where it is (I found through the Zune program), but Barack Obama has a weekly podcast address to the American people. It's kind of a cool new take on the weekly address thing (although I heard that Bush had one, too). Hey, if he can't have a BlackBerry, at least he has his podcast...
Please feed me any recommendations!
And now: off to State College!
It also prompted me to read more. Here's a few 'feeds' (of various forms) I've begun relishing in:
FormsMostBeautiful - Peter Buck, a graduate student in PSU's Educational Theory and Policy program, has an excellent blog detailing the battle against Intelligent Design and describing recent technological developments. It's his personal blog, and I find it very eye-opening and enjoyable.
Mark Morford: Notes & Errata - Mark Morford, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes a really contemplative and thought-provoking column. No matter what he writes about, or how, I always end up feeling somewhat brighter and more enlightened.
Married to the Sea - an absurdist comic, updated nightly, where old (or old-looking pictures) are topped with hysterically tounge-in-cheek captions. Awesome.
PostSecret - If you haven't heard of this, go be enlightened. Now. I'll wait.
Saturday Morning Breakfast - I stole this one from Dean Brady. Vulgar? Yes. Funny? You bet!
Point of Inquiry - A bi-weekly? podcast exploring modern naturalism and such. Great podcast.
Also, I'm not sure where it is (I found through the Zune program), but Barack Obama has a weekly podcast address to the American people. It's kind of a cool new take on the weekly address thing (although I heard that Bush had one, too). Hey, if he can't have a BlackBerry, at least he has his podcast...
Please feed me any recommendations!
And now: off to State College!
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