Random Internet Discovery of the Week

I’m late on this RID and I didn’t get any votes on the Da Blog Poll anyway, so I’m extending the poll another week. Here are the topics I’m currently subscribed to, and which I would tentatively remain subscribed to if the poll decides I should pick the topics myself (I don’t know what a lot of these entail). I tried to pick as broad a cross-section as possible while also appealing to my own interests and trying to stick to the topic poll on the front page of the web site.

Arts/History:

  • American History
  • Arts
  • Classical Studies
  • Dancing
  • Ethics
  • Fine Arts
  • History
  • Humanities
  • Live Theatre
  • Logic
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy

Commerce:

  • Business
  • Capitalism
  • Consumer Info

Computers:

  • Computer Hardware
  • Computers
  • Cyberculture
  • Internet
  • Internet Tools
  • Multimedia
  • Online Games
  • Software
  • StumbleUpon
  • Video Games
  • Web Development
  • Weblogs

Health:

  • Health/Fitness
  • Medical Science
  • Self Improvement

Hobbies:

  • Board Games
  • Card Games
  • Chess
  • Collecting
  • Humor
  • Poker
  • Roleplaying Games
  • Satire

Home/Living:

  • Family
  • Food/Cooking
  • Kids
  • Married Life
  • Parenting
  • Pregnancy/Birth
  • Teen Life

Media:

  • Alternative News
  • Animation
  • Books
  • Comic Books
  • Fantasy Books
  • Journalism
  • Poetry
  • Radio Broadcasts
  • Science Fiction
  • Shakespeare
  • Television
  • Writing

Music/Movies:

  • Classic Films
  • Music
  • Movies
Outdoors:
  • Agriculture
  • Animals
  • Nature
  • Outdoors

Regional:

  • USA

Religion:

  • Athiest-Agnostic
  • Religion
  • Spirituality

Sci/Tech:

  • Alternative Energy
  • Anthropology
  • Astronomy
  • Aviation/Aerospace
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Civil Engineering
  • Cognitive Science
  • Ecology
  • Economics
  • Environment
  • Gadgets
  • Geography
  • Geoscience
  • Linguistics
  • Mathematics
  • Meteorology
  • Physics
  • Physiology
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Science/Tech
  • Sociology
  • Space Exploration
  • Trains/Railroads
  • Transportation

Society:

  • Activism
  • Anarchism
  • Biographies
  • Career Planning
  • Communism
  • Conservative Politics
  • Counterculture
  • Culture/Ethnicity
  • Dating Tips
  • Feminism
  • Government
  • Hedonism
  • Int’l Development
  • Law
  • Liberal Politics
  • Liberties/Rights
  • Men’s Issues
  • Military
  • News (General)
  • Personal Sites
  • Politics
  • Socialism
  • University/College

Sports:

  • American Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Golf
  • Hockey
  • Martial Arts
  • Motor Sports
  • Soccer
  • Sports (General)
  • Tennis

This excludes a pretty significant number of topics that had been on before, despite the overall increase in topics, and most of them were not even considered for the new list. Just so you know how dire the situation was.

Of course, if the alternative is an ad-overloaded page trying to further or start an internet meme, I’m not sure it’s much of an improvement…

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