. . . these are a few of my favorite things.
--Maria von Trapp, The Sound of Music.
Treasure Troves of General Knowledge
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Books
Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
High Culture
WFMT (simply the best classical music station in the country)
News
The BBC (you can get it without tax on the Internet. For the moment, anyway . . .)
The Drudge Report (aggregation, aggregation, aggregation)
Memeorandum (aggregation . . . oh, you know the rest)
NPR (the center-right gives it a bad rap; it is, in fact, an excellent news service. Ignore the bias in some of the reports–it isn’t hard!–and you will consistently find National Public Radio to be tremendously valuable)
Chicago Public Radio (my beloved local NPR station)
The New York Times (here’s hoping that it will improve)
The Financial Times (simply the best newspaper out there, along with . . .)
The Economist (kudos both to it, and to the FT)
The Wall Street Journal (money, money, money)
The Washington Post (better than the NYT these days)
The Guardian (I guess I’m just kind of fond of it)
Stay in School
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Read Like A Snob
Foreign Policy
Foreign Affairs (I really need to read this more often)
Foreign Policy (Ditto)
My Sports Gods
The Chicago Bears (love that T-formation)
The Chicago Bulls (striving to bring back the hardware that Jordan & Co. won)
The Chicago Blackhawks (June 9, 2010: A date which will be long remembered)
The Chicago Cubs (please God, let them win one World Series before I die of old age)
Chelsea (battling the evil minions of Liverpool, Manchester United, and Arsenal)
Those Who Can’t Play Offer Commentary
Baseball Prospectus (telling the baseball future with stats and numbers)
Football Outsiders (introducing sabermetrics to football, and vice versa)
Links of Generally Awesome Awesomeness
A Dictionary of the English Language, by Samuel Johnson
McSweeney’s (these people are of the funny)
The Onion (now a classic)
Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson is a god)
Monty Python (is this the right link for a televised argument?)
The Far Side (“Then a miracle occurs!”)
XKCD (In which geeks show that they can be funny and profound)
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