12:51 PM
Well, I'm fighting back the flu and deadlines, so I'm taking a two-week vacation from compulsively surfing the web. But as promised a few days ago, here are some of the places I surf on a regular basis; feel free to check them out until I come back:

• Metafilter
  
• boingboing
  
• Pop Culture Junk Mail
  
• robotwisdom
  
• Gawker
  
• Daypop
  
• Blogdex
  
• Slate
  
• AICN
  
• Newsarama
  
• Medianews
  
• defective yeti
  
• Buzzmachine
  
• The Bleat
  
• Electrolite and Making Light
  
• Sci Fi Wire
  
• Blue's News
  
• The Morning News

There are more, of course, but that should keep you busy. And feel free to discuss among yourselves whatever niftiness you uncover in this post's comments thread. I'd like to think there will still be a reason to come by despite my silence.

Posting will resume in two weeks, on January 16, 2003.