The Morning Read
A while back I thought it would be a good idea to list the sites I tend to look at every morning—my morning read. Then, or so the thought went, if I couldn’t think of a good description of why I read the site, I could take it out of my list and not have to worry about it. The sites aren’t out of the list (yet), but I have noted that some don’t have a good description. Maybe they will go someday.
First, I read the comics of the day for a bit of levity:
* [Questionable Content](http://www.questionablecontent.net/)
* [Daily Comics](http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/buildcp.mpl?v=3.0&quality=high&cpp=100&c=103&c=153&c=51&c=74&c=18&c=113&c=37&c=14&c=136&c=67&c=33&c=53&c=57&c=81) – An assortment of comics from the Houston Chronicle. I started with them back in the mid-nineties when they were about the only site that had the funny pages online.
And then take a look at some of the news and opinion out in the world:
* [Daring Fireball](http://daringfireball.net/) – All things macintosh and otherwise interesting
* [NSLog();](http://nslog.com/)
* [Greg in the Desert](http://greginthedesert.net/) – Since his site was named “For the H*ll of It”
* [The Unofficial Apple Weblog](http://www.tuaw.com/)
* [Consumerist](http://consumerist.com/)
* [LifeHacker](http://lifehacker.com/)
* [Unclutterer.com](http://unclutterer.com/)
And then there are the RSS feeds (courtesy of [My Yahoo!](http://my.yahoo.com/)). I keep thinking of switching to a better feed reader, but that always seems like too much work:
* [Rands in Repose](http://www.randsinrepose.com/) – Thoughts on Engineering Management.
* [SharkTank](http://blogs.computerworld.com/sharky) – Funny stories of IT with a bunch of crazies posting comments.
* [HawkWings](http://www.hawkwings.net/) – A site dedicated to Mail on the mac, which unfortunately has not been publishing in quite a while.
* [43 Folders](http://www.43folders.com/) – All things Merlin
* [Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes](http://dougscripts.com/itunes/) – A reminder that I need to gte back to editing my AppleScripts. Unfortunately, they got to the point where they were “good enough” and I have mostly given up on them.
* [Mac OSX Hints](http://www.macosxhints.com/) – Full of hints that I never have the time to implement, but I still try to scan the headlines occasionally.
And, on Sunday I check out the new cards at [Post Secret](http://www.postsecret.com/), to make me feel a little better and help me realize my life isn’t nearly as screwed up as it could be.