Welcome all. I'm Tem D'Mindu, and this is my blog. I'm young enough to care and old enough to not, so it'll be interesting to see how often I update. Given the title I've chosen, I can't keep doing it forever, unless I decide to feel like a twenty-something for the rest of my life. Which would be nice, and likely unnoticeable until the organs begin to fail and my long luxurious hair turns silvery white.
I want to note now that I'm creating this for a class at the University of Washington - class-related posts will be marked as "CLASS: insertscholarlytitlehereorsuffertheconsequences". I'm going to try to keep my personal life out of this (that's what livejournal, the internet equivalent of a tear-stained notebook filled with flowering penmanship, is for) unless it becomes relevant.
So. Right off the bat, I'm going to recommend some stuff. In this post and the next couple, to give you, the reader (all 0 of you so far), an idea of what I think is good.
First off, http://boingboing.net/. It's basically Cory Doctorow's stomping grounds, which ought to give some kind of indication as to its content. ...It doesn't? Okay, then... It's a news blog, I guess, and it's where I go to hear about anything regarding anything. The tag is "A Directory of Wonderful..." - before it gets cut off by the standard Firefox tab width, which I think describes it nicely. Generally, it's tech-oriented, with some egregious political (but not limited to it) news from time to time. Hell fears only the pissed-off blogger, and this is where people ought to go (first) to get their piss. There are enough readers that, if a web page gets boingboinged, it will need to find a bigger server.
Also: http://xkcd.com/ is the geekiest webcomic ever, and the best proof that good writing will always save lackadaisical art. This (http://xkcd.com/c54.html) and this (http://xkcd.com/c149.html) are probably the best examples, with the latter likely being the best-known.
That is all for now.
Imagine, once ten thousand people call you a friend, you can have your very own tumor, and people who pester you to be their friend in public (remember that recent Candorville?) will die off all the quicker.
And remember, as with smoking, drinking, and various other things that are fairly hazardous to your health, there are only two things that matter with the latest craze: approval (or lack of disapproval) from a government agency that ought to be watching it, and influential people who swear by it."