Mefi User Sites

Nufkin - Mark and his liver

2011-11-28T13:12:00.002-05:00

Nufkin (User #96163) is a self-proclaimed happy gay man who is also ill with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. He's been keeping a blog about that and other things. Reading through all the stuff that is required to be considered for a liver transplant [a necessary procedure for most people with PSC eventually] is fascinating.

dng - spiders, computers and throttles

2011-11-05T21:08:00.002-05:00

dng (User #76581) has a fun website with a lot of projects he's worked on including a children's book about spiders, an old scanned book about computers in the 70s and a website full of comic book throttles.

Devils Rancher - Art-wear

2011-11-03T11:42:00.001-05:00

Devil's Rancher (User #19026) has created a site that is nominally "A T-shirt and Screen Printing Blog" but really it's about the whole biz of scree-printing and the things that go along with it. I really enjoyed his latest post on how to make an optimal screenprinting set-up which he was recently able to do with the space he works out of in Austin TX.

SharkParty — ha ha yeah no.

2011-10-27T14:19:00.008-05:00

SharkParty (User #135749) contributes to ha ha yeah no, a tumblr blog that examines sci-fi ideas that we may wish for, but shows us that, really, we wouldn't want them. For example, cloning yourself may sound like fun, but it's not all it's cracked up to be, especially when you find out that your clone is "the kind of mirror reflection of you that you needed to realize you are an intolerable asshole, creating a social divide between you and your clone that makes this whole process a total bummer." Same with telepathy, flying cars, first contact, food pills, and more. Each entry comes with a funny illustration. The site hasn't been updated in almost a year (much like the site you are currently viewing), but the pool of potential ideas to build up and knock down is endless. More, please!

moochoo - Adapting to Going Blind

2010-12-17T15:32:00.001-05:00

moochoo (User #15955) has been writing a blog since 2005 called Adapting to Going Blind. The latest posts mostly concern jogging and parenting.

James Scott-Brown - student of science

2010-09-11T17:27:00.002-05:00

James Scott-Brown (User #95254) has created an entire XKCD index which is terrific.

I'm Doing the Dishes - Swaygo Gear

2010-04-12T11:41:00.001-05:00

I'm Doing the Dishes (User #88491) makes backpacks for caving. Simple gear for extraordinary needs.

The Devil Tesla - MeFi Tours

2010-01-27T19:11:00.001-05:00

The Devil Tesla (User #87892) has created MeFi Tours which decontextualizes particularly great MetaFilter comments and what makes them so great.

jammy - jammy

2009-10-07T20:43:00.005-05:00

I've really been enjoying the page about rounds on jammy's (user #59115) website, {homemadejam}.

ovvl - OVVLvverk

2009-09-08T20:44:00.001-05:00

ovvl (User #94077) has a great blog about owls called OVVLvverk

Thorzdad - Jim Draws

2009-07-14T22:10:00.002-05:00

Thorzdad (User #20558) does illustration and design and he's quite good at it. Also his daughter is a high school grad and was a straight A student. Way to go Dad!

ibwologist -- FishCrow

2009-07-08T21:25:00.003-05:00

ibwologist (User #94288) has been in Arkansas for years looking for the ivory-billed woodpecker and documenting his findings at his website fishcrow.com

The Whelk

2009-06-24T11:47:00.002-05:00

The Whelk (User #80649) is a cartoonist and has a personal site as well as a blog with more regular updates. Recent fun bloggy additions include 26 scarlet letters and the all-too-identifiable 11 outfits of the urban freelancer. In real life, besides being a real working cartoonist/illustrator, he is the co-host for Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School

glider -- zentastic

2009-06-01T10:24:00.003-05:00

glider (User #20964) has a small set of websites including his personal site zentastic. However, he has many other sites that are fun for a quick or a long look. For example, he is building a submarine. He's created a webzine for people who are living with and through chronic pain. He maintains a site for things that looks like ducks. And there is the tantalizing BodModSex claimed to be "coming soon."

63968 - pageslap

2009-05-13T18:19:00.005-05:00

User #63968 has a fun well-curated blog pointing to fun stuff on the web. Not totally different from other blogs but it seemed to point directly to my sensibilities and I enjoyed every post I read on the main page, except maybe the one about leotards.

Knappster - The Genealogue

2009-02-14T15:01:00.003-05:00

Knappster (User #77551) maintains a blog called The Genealogue which makes the usually staid topic of genealogy fun in a bloggy sort of way. Subtitled "Genealogy news you can't possibly use!" it's a fun read. The first page includes posts on topics like "the first possible use of the emoticon?" and someone cleaning out their mom's basement and finding a civil war discharge signed by Abraham Lincoln. You might also enjoy the collection of Top Ten Lists including Top Ten Banned Family History Books. Chris's Blogger profile lists his profession as "Unprofessional Genealogist" so you may want to take his Exclusives with a grain of salt.

emjaybee -- grabapple and smalltruethings

2009-02-11T16:12:00.002-05:00

emjaybee (User #18778) has a hopscotch of websites past and present. Her profile links to Grabapple with six years of posts and another few years of blogging before that. Then it takes a turn and becomes, briefly Grabapple on Wordpress with a few more posts and another redirect. Finally we touchdown at SmallTrueThings, longer posts same strong reflective voice and hey a Flickr sidebar. A nice meander through the personal blog of a longtime MeFite.

the_epicurean -- republique cricket

2009-01-22T17:11:00.002-05:00

the_epicurean (User #35809) does a blog about cricket. I don't know a darned thing about cricket except vaguely how to play it but you don't need to know much about cricket to enjoy the six word reviews, for example or FAILCRICKET.

Faint of Butt -- MicroHorror

2008-12-25T22:31:00.003-05:00

Faint of Butt (User #18128) runs the MicroHorror website which is a repository for good horror microfiction, "stories no longer than 666 words." Of particular note are the contests (2007, 2008) and the microhorror pieces by Faint of Butt (aka Nathan Rosen) himself.

Vaike -- Alex in Welderland's Pet Urns

2008-12-16T20:49:00.001-05:00

Vaike (User #63027) is also known as Alex in Welderland who, with other artists, makes custom pet urns and a lot of other nifty looking metal stuff.

moxiedoll -- Ambitious Outsider

2008-12-13T09:54:00.002-05:00

moxiedoll (User #64952) watches movies, actually she specifically watches "documentaries about ambitious outsiders" When I first saw her blog, the top few reviewes were all about religion (1, 2, 3) making me wonder whether that was her theme (before I'd read the about page) but no, she also goes on to talk about Prince, Roman Polanski and this Herzog film I've been wanting to see.

Jeanne - Swarm of Beasts

2008-12-10T14:07:00.003-05:00

Jeanne (User #1941) on MeFi is also Emily Horner, Brooklyn librarian, in real life. Her website, Swarm of Beasts is a straightforward YA book review site. She reads a lot, and she's frank. She states "The only thing I have is my own ornery and honest reactions." which is a decent explanation for the last sentence to her One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest review (also appearing on Goodreads which ends "It's hard to like a book that expects me to seriously believe that the world is ruled by an evil matriarchy. At that point it's hard for me to have any response other than 'Aaaaaaaargh.'"

Allen Salkin -- AllenSalkin

2008-12-09T17:43:00.002-05:00

AllenSalkin (User #60254) has been a MeFite since 2007 and made his first comment today! His eponymous website has a cute photo of him, his mom's blog, some Salkin geneaology and links to all the stuff he's written for the New York Times.

Tim Walters -- doubtfulpalace

2008-12-09T08:24:00.004-05:00

doubtfulpalace (User #82680) came to my attention via this great song in the music challenge. Apparently Tim has a holiday music web site up year round with holiday songs going back to 1993 as well as a roundup of other talented artists.

Christopher L. Jorgensen—jackassletters.com

2008-11-05T16:08:00.004-05:00

cjorgensen (user #59453) follows in the same great tradition as Lazlo Toth, satirically typing and mailing actual letters in an enthusiastic, friendly persona. Who do these letters go to? Corporations, cultural icons, pills, the Care Bears... and many more. The site is intended to explore the ensuing correspondences, but it seems he gets way fewer replies than Lazlo Toth ever did. Still, cjorgensen's initial volleys are pretty funny.

Jesse James Garrett's Hidden Agenda

2008-09-26T14:42:00.005-05:00

So I decided I'd aim for the low MeFi user numbers. The lowest numbered user I could find who also has an associated webpage is jjg (user #16). And this is where he keeps his hidden agenda. It is a site that really works, fulfilling his strategic objectives while meeting the needs of his users. (OK, I just lifted that off the page that hawks his excellently-reviewed book, The Elements of User Experience.) But really, the "Hidden Agenda" isn't hidden too well; I found it, and it's full of useful aphorisms.

Eric Gjerde—Origami Tessellations

2008-08-05T22:34:00.004-05:00

EricGjerde (user #52280): Escher + papercraft = awesome.

Logan Ingalls—Plutor.org

2008-07-21T09:38:00.003-05:00

Plutor (user #17646) is MetaFilter's Greasemonkey Script Guru. Plutor.org's front page has a very MeFi-ish feel, chock full of links to interesting stuff, sprinkled with flickrs and twitters, sorted by date. Clicking on the "Photos" tab leads to... whaaaaat?! 404'd?! Oh Plutor... oh my... **shaking head sadly** Anyway, moving right along, there's a tiny fiction section that leads you to community-type fiction sites, a section on the history of Logan's web-presence, a place where he lists his computer hardware (circa 2006), his resumé, and finally, a brash statement on the contact page that Plutor does not fear spam!!

Mmmmm, steak.

Paul G. Hunt (revisited)—Electicker 2008

2008-07-10T12:51:00.005-05:00

goodnewsfortheinsane (user #20191) was last profiled on this blog about 16 months ago, but has since added a website to his arsenal, and it's a doozie. Electicker 2008 aggregates just about anything you can find on the web about the 2008 US presidential election into convenient categories (a poll-ticker, videos, metamedia, blogs, podcasts, twitters, flickrs, wingnuts, just to name a few), all in real time. It's pretty easily skimmed or scanned—still, it's mind-boggling, the amount of stuff there is.

And here's the GoogleTranslation portal into his personal Dutch-language website. It seems to be about music, mostly.

Alison Conard—Voodoo Economics

2008-07-07T10:27:00.007-05:00

nosila (user #60765) has a website that... that... well, what does it do? Nothing that I can control, it seems, but it's a screenfull of spooky, shifting imagery and random echoey bleats of musical snippets. The figures and the sounds seem to respond to mouse motion, and clicking on the absurdist words and sentences in the upper left corner only exacerbate the situation. It's quite disorienting; I feel sorta dizzy and oogy. The only meaningful words on the screen are "Download Album." So I click on that, and the site spits out a .zipped album, by her band Voodoo Economics, which turns out to be actually quite interesting and quirky and snakey--and Alison has a cool voice! To think I almost missed this music due to frustration at the artsiness/incomprehensibility of the containing website. Afterward, I notice further down on nosila's mefi profile page that there is a warning: "creepy, uncanny sounds play automatically." d'oh!

Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD—Blogborygmi

2008-07-01T16:17:00.009-05:00

borborygmi's (user #19030) Blogborygmi is subtitled, "A digest of developments in the life of an emergency medical resident." Which is funny because borborygmus (n. pl. -i) is the SAT word for stomach-growling-sound. Hence, a "digest." ahem. It's also apt that his latest entry has to do with the physiological side of competitive eating. The rest of the blog does what it says on the bottle, and more.

Bård Edlund—edlundart

2008-06-30T20:39:00.008-05:00

edlundart (User #10322) hangs out in the MeFiMusic backwaters a lot, and Bård's website showcases his music alongside his other artistic outlets--photography and poetry included. But it's his digital images and illustrations that stand out--mostly very tactile-looking, geometric, featureless bendy people, posed in various ways among simple, stark backdrops. There are also a few wordless comix featuring these people. The miscellaneous section of the site also yields a couple of gems: Bård has designed a double-heeled stiletto and a thong with f-holes! (F-holes as in like what's on a violin.) In his bio, we learn that Bård is "pronounced 'Board,' or yes, 'Bored.'" [Insert your own pun about boredom leading to creativity here.]

The design is pretty no-nonsense, sans bells-n-whistles, sometimes mildly frustrating as options for navigation are found in tiny fonts at the bottoms of some pages; but that was easy to spot after a few clicks.

Danae Shell -- Knickersblog

2007-11-23T21:13:00.000-05:00

ukdanae (User #38639) is the editor of Knickers, a lingerie weblog. I have actually never seen a lingerie weblog before. This one has great photos -- yes, of women in their underwear -- and a crisp clean design. The writing is informative, a little funny but not always-on-ribald. There's even a subsection of the site called "Ask Knickers" with questions about bra sizing and tracking down tough to find underwear. While the photos may be strictly speaking NSFW, Knickers is full of solid information on good underwear.

Joshua McFadden - Mindsound

2007-11-23T21:08:00.001-05:00

mindsound (User #63168) is pretty new. Actually he's been a member since... Monday of this week. But I just peeked at his eponymous blog which seems to have posts from April and November of this year and saw that he and his wife are pregnant. Congrats mindsound and welcome to MetaFilter!

mimi—Dynagirl 5.0

2007-10-05T14:55:00.000-05:00

mimi (User #1174) has a great blog called Dynagirl 5.0. Her archives are a lot of fun, I particularly like her entries about cooking Julia Child recipes (and her cassoulet has me salivating), but all the cooking stuff is great. The little essay she wrote to get Henry Rollins tickets is fun. I really wish the pictures were still working in the Squirrel Car project. Oh, and this entry is AWESOME.

Greg Nog -- gregnog.com

2007-09-30T11:31:00.000-05:00

Greg Nog (User #36852) draw comics. I heard about his site during the podcast where the thread about his comics about him being a host at Olive Garden were discussed. If you like the powersuit comic, you'll love this page where you can dress Greg Nog. He does other comics too.

Bazman—They Should Die

2007-09-28T14:41:00.000-05:00

Bazman (User #5926) has made no comments and no posts at MetaFilter, and his site is a link farm. But I'm desperately curious about what it once was since the title They Should Die has me hooked. Ah ha, apparently it was a place where you could vote about wanting certain celebrities to die. The banner is a Great Leap Forward style propoganda poster. Meh.

bigdumbHoosier—big eastern

2007-09-28T14:36:00.000-05:00

bigdumbHoosier (User #2792) has a very comprehensive blog about Indiana environmental issues called big eastern. The reporting is good and the writing is also decent. He only ever made one comment at MetaFilter, that closes a thread about the bursting of the dot com bubble.

seawallrunner—seawallrunner

2007-09-28T14:26:00.000-05:00

seawallrunner (User #18854) is a mefite I first became aware of because she sent me a cd I liked during a cd swap. I looked at her website and discovered that she does the same kind of running I do. Her photo blog is filled with gorgeous landscape shots of backcountry vistas. It's well worth spending some time looking at what she's posted (I particularly like this snowy shot of dawn).

jurczyk—joe jurczyk

2007-09-28T14:19:00.000-05:00

jurczyk (User #51113) has a simple website where he posts brief links and descriptions to things which interest him. Most of the items are tech items. I came across his user name randomly, and was excited because I recognized his name from running stuff. He's the RD for a race I almost did in August, and which several of my friends did. There's one other MeFi ultrarunner that I know of, seawallrunner. That makes at least three.

ewagoner—Kestrel's Nest

2007-09-18T13:35:00.000-05:00

ewagoner's (User #1387) blog Kestrel's Nest is infrequently updated these days, but it's worth spending at least the three minutes there that it would take to watch his delicious video on making North Georgia Beef Stroganoff. The video is a demo for The Next Food Network Star, and I really hope he gets onto the show. He manages to be both engaging about local food, and informative enough that I could imagine making the recipe.

TheLastPsychiatrist—The Last Psychiatrist

2007-09-14T10:55:00.000-05:00

TheLastPsychiatrist (User #46425) publishes a refreshing website called The Last Psychiatrist. I like many of the small essays he writes. Psychiatry, at least the many psychiatrists that I work with regularly (at a very well respected teaching hospital which prides itself on its Department of Psychiatry), suffers from both an inferiority complex and an undeserved self-assurance. Many psychiatrists don't seem to take the time to read or understand the literature central to their field; and, much worse, they frequently don't take the time to understand patients, relying on fuzzy and unproven notions about the biology of mental illness. In general, the epistemology of psychiatry is so muddled that psychiatrists don't even seem to have the conceptual tools necessary to seriously think about mental illness and mental health treatment. (There are many reasons for this muddle, and I don't think it's ill-intentioned, but that's a discussion for a different sort of blog.)

TheLastPsychiatrist's website, is quite good, even if I don't agree with everything that he writes. Sometimes his tone is a bit reductive and dismissive, but that seems to be mostly a symptom of his general frustration. His essay from July about Seroquel does a great job of describing why failing to understand a medication's mode of action means that doctors prescribe it incorrectly. His essay on what the Number Needed to Treat is and why it's important is great (here's a similar essay from Slate last year), and I quite like his longer essay on the future of psychiatry "The Massacre of the Unicorns." Although most things on the site are worth reading, his analyses of medication studies and trends in psychiatric diagnosis and prescribing are very strong.

(I saved this in draft as I was writing it, to see an actual patient for actual psychotherapy, and an essay on his site got posted to the front page.)

jscalzi—Whatever

2007-09-06T08:45:00.001-05:00

jscalzi (User #15351), another MeFi SF author, John Scalzi, has a long, long standing personal website called, Whatever. It's a good site, filled with everything from discussions of his books, to pictures of his dogs. It's hard to pin it down, and it certainly deserves a visit.

I only went to Whatever after spending a lot of August reading several of Scalzi's novels. I loved them, I thought they were great, and I can't wait to read more. I wrote him to say so, and he never wrote back.

cstross—Charlie's Diary

2007-09-06T08:19:00.000-05:00

cstross (User #20966) is the username of the SF writer Charlie Stross. His mefi page points to a blog that hasn't been updated in a year, but that's just because he forgot to update his profile to point to his new blog url. His Published Fiction page points to a lot of free stories on the web, and if you poke around you can get to the site for his novel Accelerando!, where you can download that whole novel for free.

I've read a bunch of Stross stories, and two of his novels. The first (Singularity Sky) I picked up off a sale rack in Brussels on a whim, and I loved reading such an excellent book about which I had known nothing.

jennydiski—Jenny Diski

2007-09-06T08:06:00.001-05:00

jennydiski (User #56747) is a British author who has a pretty standard author's website. It's well designed and shows the many praises she has received for her eight novels and several books of non-fiction. The Recent Journalism section has a couple of book reviews to read, including one of a biography of Martha Freud, and there are a few interviews, too. It's neat that she's a Mefite.

(She also happens to live with Ian Patterson, whose translation of Finding Time Again is fabulous, and made my last reading of Proust more fun.)

stavrosthewonderchicken -- wonderchicken.com

2007-09-04T18:52:00.001-05:00

stavrosthewonderchicken (User #2238) seems like he'd be a hardass, but he's mostly an expat softie with a keen design sense and a tendency towards good writing. His profile URL is wonderchicken.com but that's just a portal page to his main blog at EmptyBottle.org his Korea clearinghouse at OutsideInKorea and this site which is a great URL but with very little content at the moment and this which is mysterious but great. Those of us who were around the site in 2002 remember his site acutely for his reporting on the Bali bombing that killed his friend Rick and his poignant remembrance of that event a year later.

woodblock100 -- woodblock.com

2007-08-12T10:49:00.000-05:00

woodblock100 (User #53371) has one of the nicest looking user sites I've seen since I started this blog. David Bull is a woodblock printmaker living in Tokyo. His blog shows off his work (too many examples to list, but I like the scroll project and the Hanga Treasure Chest). David also has a woodblock webcam and a lengthy subsite about the progression of his work.

wallstreet1929 - john taylor ships

2007-08-12T10:41:00.000-05:00

wallstreet1929 (User #30785) - in his own words, John Taylor "obsessively resurrects forgotten vessels of America's maritime fleet." He's got a one-post blog, but his main site has great photos inlcuding my personal favorites, the penguins and Ark 3.

snofoam -- everyone loves free stuff

2007-07-19T21:08:00.000-05:00

snofoam (User #29097) came to my attention via his amusing entry in the snake music challenge. I went to his blog Everyone Loves Free Stuff (hey, I sure do) and found it much more fun than your usual marketing and schwag linkfarm. In fact, Mark's been at it two years as of this week and posted 600 entries which is damned near one a day. Lots of neat stuff in here, dig around.

tking—kinghamilton

2007-06-27T10:55:00.000-05:00

tking's (User #6426) kinghamilton is a slideshow of fashion photos. It's nice.

obedo—XTEZE

2007-06-27T10:43:00.000-05:00

obedo (User #11588) has a link blog called XTEZE that he updates fairly frequently with interesting stuff mostly centered around the sciences. There are also some decent programming resources. It's all pretty transparent. And check out his cool, texture-centric, Flickr stream.

gregorg—greg.org

2007-06-27T10:23:00.000-05:00

gregorg's (User #18194) greg.org is a great site about (mostly) modern art and film and video. His reviews and observations are well-presented and interesting, and he's got some real gems (like an interview with Errol Morris). I like that today when I came across the site the lead article was about the Richard Serra show at MOMA, as I've been sending out a series of postcards commemorating Tilted Arc lately. This is a website worth spending some time reading, but it isn't light or quickly digested.

christine—maganda.org

2007-06-27T10:08:00.000-05:00

christine (User #639) has a sweet little website called maganda. I like the design, which isn't a surprise, as she also runs Darling design & illustration. The nicest parts of her website are her link to her Flickr stream, and her intermittent and brief blog.

AccordionGuy -- the Adventures of AccordionGuy

2007-06-12T20:04:00.000-05:00

Joey deVilla (User #15623) got a little famous this week for his Craiglist wedding post and follow-ups (here) but he's been around and blogging since November 2001, practically the blogging stone ages. You can browse by categories such as accordion instrument of the gods or possibly just the accordion category which has one post with this excellent photo. With 5,000 posts, you might need the Best Of page to help you find some more good stuff.

coldmarble—ColdMarblePhoto

2007-05-30T09:48:00.000-05:00

coldmarble (User #8458) is a photographer who lives in Baltimore. Precisely the kind of serendipitous find that I was hoping for. His website is predominantly pictures of the cemeteries of Charm City, which is just fine with me. I've run a lot through the Baltimore Cemetery, and I love the William Tell statue there. In the nature of these things, his IR photos of the Druid Ridge cemetery (which, unfortunately, does not seem to be the cemetery I run past in Druid Hill Park), are pretty goth. The blog hasn't been updated in a while, but scrolling down produces a nice list of Baltimore bloggers.

jasonlatshaw—the Look Machine

2007-05-30T09:20:00.000-05:00

jasonlatshaw's (User #26695) site is for the band for which he is the lead singer, The Look Machine. There are links to merchandise and an mp3 version of their new album. There are several songs available for download. They're all very earnest and heartfelt.

punkrockrat -- fed-up.com

2007-05-20T08:02:00.000-05:00

punkrockrat (User #3008) shut down fed-up.com after ten years, just this month. Seems he's no longer fed up. You can still look at some kitten pictures ripe for lolcatting and a photo of him with G.G. Allin. He's got some great photos of the Buffalo Central Terminal up on Flickr.

noloveforned -- noloveforned

2007-05-18T16:27:00.000-05:00

noloveforned (User #39526) is an internet radio sensation. The noloveforned website is a treasure trove of five years of archived radio shows and in-studio performances.

YoBananaBoy--patrick

2007-05-14T21:26:00.000-05:00

YoBananaBoy (User #42191) has a website that claims that "every bit is fiction". It's split into categories that make this seem true: reading, memorize, fiveminutequickhit &c, but the presence of the people in the writing is so real, so true-seeming, that I was sure it was a personal blog until I got to the tagline.

"Don’t tell someone to fuck off if you can’t live with the consequences," it tells me, and that seems pretty true to me.

Gideon - MythicCulture

2007-05-12T21:18:00.000-05:00

Gideon (User #45056) has a very 2.0-ish looking site at religionism.net about religious topics generaly, but more about how people search for meaning. It's a deep site, covering topics ranging from Wittgenstein to the philosophy of intelligent design and even some GTD stuff like 5 steps to exercising your academic brains…. He's also a new contrinbutor to BlogCritics. His first post A Theistic Dfense of Atheism, deserves a close read.

geekyguy -- drunkenass

2007-05-11T21:11:00.000-05:00

geekyguy (User #14813) Olen Sanders is in China. His main website is a portal to other smaller part of his site, but his blog talking about being in China is elsewhere. His Naked in China photos are elsewhere still, but this photo of his is my favorite.

AndrewStephens--sandfly

2007-04-24T09:15:00.000-05:00

AndrewStephens (User #30980) has a website where he makes some of his projects available including a Windows version of Snake a java jigsaw puzzle and WordMap, a totally fun little word game which was posted to Projects a while back. I also like the big wooden clock. He has a blog too.

pamccf—splagkhna

2007-04-19T10:46:00.000-05:00

pamccf (User #33823) has a weblog called splagkhna. The sacrificial guts. It's a series of dense but elliptical posts about living. I'd like to describe it more fully, but I think that would do it a disservice. It's good, but not at all light. This post on Anxiety Performance is perhaps indicative. It's well worth scrolling down to find her lists of books read and movies watched, they're impressive.

More soon

2007-04-19T08:15:00.001-05:00

seriously.

buriednexttoyou -- Dave Makes Music

2007-04-09T20:01:00.000-05:00

buriednexttoyou (User #19848) came to my attention on MeFi Music where he performed HI I'M ON METAFILTER AND I COULD OVERTHINK A PLATE OF BEANS. Turns out he really makes music. His website is Dave Makes Music. It's funny, it's attractive, and the songs are enjoyable. If you have a limited amount of time, check out Arboretum and the catchy but a little annoying Untitled in 5.

headspace -- Making Stuff Up for a Living

2007-03-30T19:16:00.000-05:00

headspace (user#8924) is a published author and screenwriter who has written a story that was nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize. She has an attractive blog with short pithy posts and long serious posts. I like her opinions on fair use and her list of books she has checked out from the library.

Spatch—spatch.net

2007-03-30T09:00:00.000-05:00

Ok, so Spatch's (User #30183) site seems kind of defunct, and the front page blog posts are of limited interest, but there is brilliance here. Minor brilliance in Martha the Pirate Cat, minor brilliance and black comedy in Oh Die Menschlichkeit, minor brilliance in the love song (mp3) I Do To, and MAJOR brilliance in Cattown! (Ok, the first episode you see will be the best, but it's very funny.) There are also interactive text games, writing, in short, a lot of good stuff.

jarrodtrainque—Jarrod Trainque

2007-03-30T08:01:00.000-05:00

jarrodtrainque (User #19939) has his site over at Jarrod Trainque. I like the front page a lot, for it's simplicity, mostly. That's the best thing about the site, though. There are some links which are pretty interesting, and directions to all the other places jarrodtrainque spends time on the web.

quibx—CollectionDX

2007-03-30T07:48:00.000-05:00

quibx (User #15338) collects Japanese robot toys. He's got a site reviewing them, and while it isn't all that pretty, it has a ton of reviews. He's now able to incorporate clips from anime's showing the character that the figure represents. That's pretty cool. The power animals are also cool. It isn't all anime figures, though, there's also stuff like the Playmobile Scary Ghost.

Sites like this, which demonstrate such sustained attention and knowledge are always impressive to me. I think they are one of the best things about the internet, no matter their subject matter, because they expose those of us not, say, obsessed with Japanese robot toys, to a whole new world.

kokogiak—KOKOGIAK

2007-03-30T07:25:00.000-05:00

kokogiak (User #1747) has a cool site that was linked on the MeFi front page today. His picture of all the known bodies in the solar system larger than 200 miles in diameter, ranked by size, is stunning. But that's just the tip of the iceberg! He's made a bunch of stuff, from a way to overlay two Google maps, to this awesome list of mega-fauna, to a visualizer for huge amounts of pennies. This is just a sampling of the neat hacks and projects on his page, for instance, be sure to go searching for the MegaMoo.

paxton--radioball dot net

2007-03-24T18:18:00.000-05:00

paxton (user #29772) came to my attention for mentioning that he bought a clawfoot tub for $100 on craigslist. He lives near where I grew up, in Worcester Mass, or as we all liked to call it: wuh-STA! His blog, RadioBall (what does the name mean? nothing much.) is full of all things Worcester (and non-) from talk about the incoming Wal-Mart to an odd observation concerning censorship of ... well you read it. He's also veep to the Vice-Chair of the Worcester Cultural Commission and, according to his "who is this jerk" page, handsome.

carsonb--ne parle

2007-03-23T22:06:00.000-05:00

carsonb (User #7721) has a little blog with a bunch of mixes and little stories, but he hasn't updated it in quite a while. He's still bopping around on MySpace though.

dobbs—Wrestle the Future to the Fucking Ground

2007-03-23T09:17:00.000-05:00

dobbs's (User #13877) site is great. The splash page is a bit intimidating, demanding an email address, but the links at the top (check WTF? to figure out WTF) lead to an explanation and some archived writings from what turns out to be a splendid email list. After reading bits from the archives (I liked I'm on Fire, and check out Untitled #6) I signed up for the list. The writing from his Victory Shag project is also quite good: I don't want to know if this is truth or fiction, but it's a hell of a story. And, to top it all off, the music link has a great set of songs available. I hadn't heard The Handsome Family before, but after reading the Sally Timms story, I had to hear, and they're great!

solistrato—kineticmuse.com

2007-03-23T09:11:00.000-05:00

Unfortunately, there's nothing at solistrato's (User #850) site yet. It's too bad, 850 is a low user number, especially for someone still active.

dong_resin—dong resin's joint

2007-03-21T07:50:00.000-05:00

dong_resin (User #8895) has an infrequently updated joint. It's a shame, because what's here is good. I laughed out loud at this post about why Steve Irwin was right to hold his baby while feeding that croc, and I think Dong Resin vs. Altoids Cinnamon Chewing Gum shows flashes of brilliance. In general, the archives are worth trolling through. The links in the side bar and along the bottom of the page are almost all excellent.

mmhaffie—Mike's Musings

2007-03-21T07:45:00.000-05:00

mmhaffie (User #17538) has a personal site where he records thoughts and displays photographs. His pictures, many of which are of natural scenes, are charming. I particularly liked this one of some snow hiding out under a bench.

miss lynster—The Patron Saints of Graphic Design

2007-03-21T07:35:00.000-05:00

miss lynster's (User #20640) site is a cute send-up of the notion of the patron saint. There are six saints represented here: Anxiete, Concepta, Exacto, Pantone, Pixela and, my favorite, Typo. The stories and pictures are well-done, and there's a cafepress store for your reliquary needs. You can even get the saints as a desktop icons for a free download.

amyms—MSN World of Rock and Roll

2007-03-21T07:31:00.000-05:00

amyms' (User #47328) site is the home page for MSN's The World of Rock and Roll group. Apparently you can join it. There's some information here, but the design is so poor that it makes my head hurt.

grapefruitmoon -- nervousmotion

2007-03-20T22:44:00.000-05:00

grapefruitmoon (user #19856) is an artist who likes cold places. She's been to some of the same places as me, including Vermont and Hampshire College. She has an art site up called nervousmotion with the Projekt30 people and she's been showing her work at AS220 in Providence this month. She does collage work including two sets of Iceland-inspired pieces.

Wendell - WendellWit

2007-03-20T00:34:00.000-05:00

Wendell (user #206) is one of those rare people who has a humor site that is actually very funny. He had a tripod site back in ancient blogger days and now he's got an empire. Great satire, awesome repartee, and the odd gross graphic or two add up to a funny site by a funny (funny ha ha, mostly) man.

TonyRobots - so-sad & manwithatan

2007-03-20T00:20:00.000-05:00

TonyRobots (user #20429) had an old website with a broken poetry machine and a functional bunny machine. I like playing the number stumper game with single digit numbers. He's got a blog now which sings Aaron Neville at you. He also has a CitrusFortress, but I don't know what it does; looks fun though.

younggreenanne—YOUNGGREENANNE.COM

2007-03-19T09:38:00.000-05:00

younggreenanne (User #26312) has a short, pithy site that reads like a personal ad.

freudianslipper—Joey Trimmer.com

2007-03-19T09:28:00.000-05:00

freudianslipper's (User #20325) site chronicles his travails as a working actor. He does a good job of describing the joys and pains of trying to get acting gigs, from getting a call to perform in an Arthur Miller read-through, to flubbing a line at an audition.

jonson—jonsonblog

2007-03-19T09:26:00.000-05:00

jonson (User #14271) should need little introduction, he's one of MetaFilter's best posters. His posts display range and depth, but, most of all, wit. His blog is no different. While his presentation in 'Cory Doctorow should be punched in the nuts' might be a bit abrasive, it's hard to argue with his reasoning, or with the conclusions he comes to. His memories of growing up are worth reading (who wasn't similarly underwhelmed by the square egg machine), and his interspersed links are always great.

GreenTentacle—Test Page

2007-03-19T09:08:00.000-05:00

GreenTentacle's (User #23519) site is a test page for Apache. Classy.

Crushinator—Hi, My Name Is Sarah...

2007-03-16T09:19:00.000-05:00

Crushinator's (User #22693) site is a link to her livejournal page, which is mostly made up of snapshots of her and her friends. They aren't bad snapshots.

susanbeeswax—Hip Mama

2007-03-16T08:29:00.000-05:00

Hip Mama appears to be a website started by susanbeeswax (User #18123) (I get confused by possible changing pseudonyms). It's a cool idea, but a bit frenetic. It's pretty much about being, well, a hip mama, in the procreating sense. Not something I'm likely to achieve, despite being told I can be anything I want to be while I was growing up. I found this post (Where's the Love?) quite affecting.

owhydididoit—steben's blog

2007-03-16T08:23:00.000-05:00

owhydididoit (User #41046) has a small vox blog that artfully combines photographs and descriptions of his wandering. This truck full of shoes is compelling, but the nature shots are the best part of the site.

mygothlaundry—The Hangover Journals

2007-03-16T08:20:00.000-05:00

mygothlaundry (User #17735) has, in addition to a great username, a very personal site filled with writings about her life. She writes well, her insights are almost always worth reading, and her daily photographs are often very good. (See this shot of daffodils at night.) One of the best things about the site is the wry way that she talks about her kids: there's plenty of love, but little awe. It's refreshing.

thomas j wise—The Little Professor

2007-03-16T07:55:00.000-05:00

I may be in love. thomas j wise's (User #1296) site, The Little Professor, is excellent and far exceeds the diminutive. Much of the blog is outside of my expertise, but it's still well-written and interesting to read. The personal touches (blogging about cats, turning me on to another great crime writer) are judiciously spaced and worth searching out. Check out this cool Victorian Halloween post; and this advice to grad student book buyers is commonsensical but good. I'm charmed by the whole extensive project. The side-bar is also fabulous.

Faint of Butt—MicroHorror

2007-03-14T11:59:00.000-05:00

The excellent Faint of Butt (User #18128) has an excellent site dedicated to publishing short short horror stories. "Short stories. Endless nightmares." There are about 200 stories here, but they're all quick reads, many of which send a little chill up the spine. I like Fun Fun Fun, particularly, and also Death by Needlepoint. I have to admit that Bad Santa was the story that gave me the biggest frission of horror.

(The whole site reminds me of the extremely excellent, defunct website, Plots with Guns.)

Ufez Jones—ufez's bookmarks

2007-03-14T08:40:00.000-05:00

Ufez Jones (User #12849) just lists his delicious page as his site. It's got some good links on it, but then so do most delicious pages.

Alex Handcoding—Handcoding

2007-03-14T08:39:00.000-05:00

Any website where the tag line is "Refenestration Daily" is alright by me. (Although, actually, if I see it on another site I'll be really disappointed.) Alex Handcoding (User #20487) has a nice, personal blog that contains well-written comments on his daily life, and the news, as well as links to his photographs. His design is clean and smooth, the writing is decent, and the archives go on forever. A good sort of personal site.

chasing—Auscillate.com

2007-03-14T08:37:00.000-05:00

chasing's (user #20052) Auscillate.com is filled with insightful and interesting posts, like this recent one on the DPRK, with cool stuff hidden away in the archives, like this Tufte Jersey Generator. Check out the gloryhole tapes for all the, well, glory, of a three day ride to Burning Man. His photo galleries are good, as well.

willc—willchatham.com

2007-03-14T07:48:00.000-05:00

A personal site with a bit of everything, from programming CSS to music musings, willc's (User #18114) site seems innocuous on its face. There is a dark underbelly, however. On the sidebar are links to his other sites: the incisive magazine reviews at Dumpworthy, the fabulous mp3s at his music site, and the very disturbing pictures at My Nail Collection. The latter is essential viewing.

moonbird—bird on the moon

2007-03-14T07:40:00.000-05:00

moonbird's (User #16767) blog is a collection of personal musings, links to songs and videos, commentary on politics and science, and some interesting synopses of the latest brain science. I particularly like this breakdown of some of the problems, including explicit homophobia, with the movie '300', which I haven't seen yet, but which strikes me as the most blatant race-baiting going.

cortex—Josh Millard Speaks!

2007-03-07T15:45:00.000-05:00

cortex (User #7418) Josh Millard Speaks! WTF can I say? I've been avoiding reviewing his site, I've had this post in draft for two weeks, but now he's a mod and I guess I can't avoid the matter anymore.

I mean, certainly you must pay attention to cortex's RPM Challenge album (the David Bowie song is a masterpiece!), and what MeFite doesn't know about 88 lines (here is where I say how disappointed I was not to get a mention). The problem is that this page is just the tip of the cortex media empire, and it's all great! Check his side bar for his other sites, although my current favorite, Pen and Inklings, isn't yet listed.

What I'm trying to say, without being coy, and with too many words, is that JM's website is the model for project driven quality websites. Absolutely fabulous.

goodnewsfortheinsane—Wolkenvelden

2007-03-07T13:59:00.000-05:00

gnfti (User #20191) a self-described Child of the Eternal November has several websites. I can't review his Dutch blog, as I don't speak dutch, and his music recording blog seems a bit stalled, but Wolkenvelden looks like it's still going strong. (The index page is really quite nice.)

I'll admit that I've been dreading reviewing it, precisely because I like the songs and the attitude so well. Any bio page that begins

If 2006 were 1920, and Holland were Ireland, Paul Hunt would be drunkenly strolling along the banks of the Liffey, taking off his hat for beautiful women and turning his Dublin encounters into brilliant, unintelligible prose

is alright by me, even if it smacks a bit of heresy. This website is one that I always wish were updated more frequently, because I like it so well.

I'm not sure if my favorite gnfti song is on his site, but you can catch it at Aural Times, it's about a letter, and the Swedes, and serendipity and redemption. But it's better than that.

gloege—fractalmind.org

2007-03-07T13:27:00.000-05:00

gloege's (User #10472) minimal site is nothing but a pretty cool picture. The page title is nice, though: "Life is a journey. Fuck the destination." I don't particularly agree with the sentiment, except in the sly sense that death is the destination, but I like the boldness of that as a page title.

dsaint—gnumatt.org

2007-03-06T11:55:00.000-05:00

dsaint (User #12740) has been a member since 2001, but has never made a comment or post. There isn't a lot on the front page of his website, but what's there is interesting. The small side-bar has some good stuff. His projects page looks like it could produce some promising stuff, sometime.