I guess the problem is that both Cory and I really like Modern Mechanix and XKCD.

[qwantz]

Okay, so here's a first-world problem that I'm sure other people have. I like BoingBoing1, they have a lot of great posts and even if I don't share Cory's interest in Disneyland2, it's still a great site and a great feed. I also like the Modern Mechanix blog, in which they take old articles and advertisements from vintage Modern Mechanix

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[qwantz]

i'm ryan i complain about blogs on my blog

[no_relation]

*chorusing* HI RYAN

[qwantz]

HI NO RELATION

[ext_92296]

It seems like the internet is like a cow with four stomachs. Everything you post anywhere on the internet will end up being chewed as cud on someone else's site. Have you seen all the weird splog sites where they post other people's RSS as their own just to harvest hits? They weird me out.

[crasch]

Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools blog is great for find neat new tools and gadgets:

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/

And of course, Make magazine:

http://blog.makezine.com/

[no_relation]

Both of which suffer from the same problem he describes with Modern Mechanix. I unsubbed from MAKE for that very reason, I knew the cool stuff would carry over to Boing Boing thanks to Mark Frauenfelder.

[christopher575]

If Boing Boing is your only feed where you have this problem, you're lucky indeed. Pretty much everything I see in RSS, I'll see six times. Even local stuff, because the sites all feed off each other so much.

[wavingtoanimals]

Your icon is pretty much the greatest thing ever.

[christopher575]

Full size.

[wavingtoanimals]

YES. It kind of makes me want to move to Seattle.

[wigu]

Personally I think boing boing is crap! Self-absorbed priviledged child-adults blogging second-hand about expensive things that are utterly unnecessary.

I stopped not-taking CD seriously when at one point he referred to the US Constitution as "one of the most inspiring documents ever penned,"1 which for some reason sticks out in my mind as one of the douchiest things ever written. Now I sort of see him as an anomoly like a bean bag chair with a wire sticking out of it that can type.

[christopher575]

The douchiest thing ever written is his daughter's name, Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow.

[dagda_ollathir]

YES

[blasdelf]

Cory can write, I've read several of his books in print form, but all his main characters are obviously essentially him, without the filter provided by a blog or conference - paranoid schizoid asshats that piss everyone else off and don't know why.
So I've read all of Doctorow's fiction through like 2005.

All of it, especially the novels, has self-insertion main characters.

What baffles me is that the self inserted Corys are far more insufferable than even he is!. Why would you write a story with yourself as the main character, where the story centers around you being a humongous douchebag?

Read Eastern Standard Tribe, or worse, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. The Cory characters have massively over-inflated egos, are less than worthless to others, are extremely paranoid and delusional, and tend to dick over everyone close to them. Why would you write yourself like that?

Mark is the only 'best' contributor to bb, he's a good writer and illustrator all by himself, and the whole Rarotonga thing years back was great.

David was

[anashi]

Thank you for this link. I just read an article about men sprawling on planes and intruding on women's space because of their big ballz and how there should be an institutionalized 'Cock Punching Day'. LOL.

I'm currently reading about the Poisson Distribution of Chocolate Chips in cookies. Fascinating and delicious.