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Recommended Reading

Post author:HFM
Post published:June 23, 2006
Post category:GLBT Issues Media Politics Recently Read Religion

One of my very favorite sites is Good As You — it’s a website that keeps up with GLBT news and provides analysis and witty commentary on same. They keep track of what the religious right is saying about us and provide hilarious and logically directed commentary about why they’re wrong.
Every day I find myself thinking “yeah, what they said” to some post on Good As You — and I’m always tempted to link to them with further commentary, but I’d just end up being a shadow blog of their site, which is silly, and pointless when I can just tell you to go check them out and add them to your feed reader or regular reading list. You won’t be disappointed, and you will be vastly enlightened and entertained.

Homestarrunner Wiki

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 24, 2006
Post category:Recently Read

Homestarrunner has a wiki. Now instead of linking to the main site and urging people to go there, over and over and over again, I can just explain the various viral memes from HR by pointing at the wiki instead.

Cute Overload

Post author:HFM
Post published:December 16, 2005
Post category:Recently Read

Cute Overload is a site devoted entirely to posting pictures of cute animals. Like this, for example:

I’m thinking of sending them the movies of my dog humping his favorite pillow. That’ll show ’em.

Invisible libraries, fake band names, and gardens of forking paths

Post author:HFM
Post published:October 15, 2002
Post category:Books Brain Food Funny Websites Recently Read

Funny and/or cool websites I’ve noticed lately:

Garden of Forking Paths
Welcome to the Garden of Forking Paths, one of the most intriguing areas of the Libyrinth of Allexamina. Here you will find access to the garden planted by J.L. Borges, the Argentine writer, poet and philosopher. Although I tend the garden as well as I can, beware: among these sprawling labyrinths you will find illusions most seductive and truths most elusive. Let me show you around.

The Invisible Library [link updated in 2013]
a catalog of “imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished and unfound.”
2011 Update: a Salon article on the idea of an “Invisible Library”

Rocklopedia Fakebandica
T h e U l t i m a t e F a k e B a n d L i s t

The Lipstick Librarian

You’ve seen her darting into the stacks in search of Moody’swearing Chanel knock-offs and Kenneth Cole shoes. You’ve glanced at her from the corner of your eye during conferences wolfing down free scones while decked in what you’d swear was last year’s Mizrahi. Or you’ve seen her with that Linda Evangelista-like pout and Oliver Peoples frames as the umpteenth person has asked her where the bathroom is. And you wonder, “who is that exquisitely attired woman and are my tax dollars paying for it?” Who is she? She’s a Lipstick Librarian!

Things I Will Do If I’m Ever A Vampire

Post author:HFM
Post published:August 6, 2002
Post category:Recently Read

Totally unrelated to monkeys: Things I Will Do If I’m Ever A Vampire.
Not sure how I ended up on this site, but it sure is fun: Cheesygraphics.com.