Category: Blogging

Read Roger Simon. He’s a blogger. He writes mystery novels. He wears a hat.

There’s nothing about this man not to like!

Kim du Toit has a point.

My site, in French.

Who would do such a thing?

He has a capital idea for you:

The Girls of Afghanistan

Go see what Michele from A Small Victory has to say.

I assume she’s not kidding, and she knows.

Anger Management gives to you:

The Fusking.

Porphyrohenitus provides a litmus test you can use to determine if you’re liberal (acidic, I presume) or conservative (basic).

I am a Member of the Dreaded NeoCon Cabal. Do we have magic in a cabal, or is that a coven?

Darn. At the next cabal committee meeting, I am going to move we reorganize into a NeoConCov.

Robert Prather quotes P.J. O’Rourke. One more reason to visit Insults Unpunished.

Go read some short fiction. It’s good for you.

Undoubtedly, some of you have noticed how I have often linked, often gratuitously, to Instapundit in my posts. For no apparent reason, some posts include the www.instapundit.com URL in them.

I admit I was trying to use you, dear reader, in my own foolish drive for recognition, or at least a perfunctory glance from Professor Reynolds. You see, I hoped you might see that link and click it, which would put my own URL briefly in the referrer logs at Instapundit.

If enough you visited that site, perhaps He would see my URL in the referrer logs and would pop by. Maybe He would link to me, or maybe The Professor and I would become fast friends. Maybe He would let me drive his Mazda, and I would let him play Arkanoid.

But my ruse has become transparent to you, discriminating reader, for the frequency of links to Instapundit are almost as frequent as links to Amazon, Internet Movie Database, and my beautiful wife. I won’t bother you any more with the gratuitous links to Instapundit anymore, because I know you’ll see through them, and I don’t want to lose any more of your respect.

Besides, I realize that those of you who frequent blogs have already read Instapundit before you show up here.

However, I hope you will forgive me if I link to something The Professor says, perhaps excerpted and followed by a simple “Heh.” or “Indeed.” Please understand this is not gratuitous linking or even pale imitating, but rather homage and fair use.

Thank you.

Were I not so discouraged, I would try to follow some of Wizbang’s advice for triggering an Instalanche. But I am too discouraged.

Hey, thanks for the link, Jared of Strategic Intelligence, a clearinghouse for his conservative Christian viewpoint, some significant silliness, and serious discussions of a militarily strategic nature.

Are you higher in the blogosystem than me? If you are, I don’t know if I want to talk to you. I’m pretty petty, you know.

Michael Williams at Master of None announces the first ever Spherewide Short Story Symposium (with an exclamation point, no less).

I have submitted my entry, “To a Good Home“.

Man, I hope I win some of those exciting cash prizes.

Everyone’s always talking about Truth Laid Bear’s blog ecosystem which ranks blogs by their popularities. Where am I, you ask?

#1581 currently, thanks.

Lower than Instapundit.
Lower than Musings from Domenico Bettinelli.
Lower than both BRIAN’s Culture Blog and BRIAN’s Education Blog.
Lower even than RatBastard.org.

Only people I am not lower than are people who have started their blogs in the last fifteen minutes, werd. I ain’t gonna link to them because that would put them above me.

Ay, me. Whatever will I do?

I think I will post some more.

The Patriette is an instructional design specialist. I wonder if she, too, thinks Computers and their myriad and non-intuitive interfaces sux.

She hasn’t mentioned it specifically, but her blog contains a bunch of what she thinks. You should click that link.