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'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 (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.
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 proseis 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.
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 (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.
letourneau's (User #1208) website is simple and well-designed. It amounts to three lists, the predominant two are feeds from his Flickr and delicious accounts, with brief commentary on each entry. The third is a link to his Amazon wishlist. It all provides what I don't doubt is a deceptively complete picture of his interests and concerns.
The venerable chicobangs's (User #1010) Vox blog is mostly a place where he recaps the action at his weekly NYC trivia night, Drunken Smartass Olympics. There are enough little gems salted away on the pages here, however, to make it worth a trip through. Of particular note are this Randy Newman song, which I found quite affecting, and this strange comic of Emily Dickinson.
Sticherbeast's (User #17889) livejournal page has not been updated since the fall of 2006, which is shame, since the collection of links and commentary contained therein is worth reading. His post on Cabinet Magazine links to a load of fascinating articles. The link to his Flickr account is worth following, if for no other reason than to see his vaguely Gorey-esque sketches.
A transplant to the UK from LA, both Los Angeles and Louisiana, Katemonkey (User #17096) has a small personal site that's updated infrequently. There is evidence there of another site she's been working on, also a personal site, which includes more of her writing. She seems to have a good attitude and wide interests, even if her recipes don't always work out.
algreer's (User #35289) site is the portal to his photography business. As with all such businesses, the prosaic predominates. However, his music portfolio, and especially his breakdancing portfolio, are worth a look.
brundlefly (User #17897) @ blacksundae. A well-written, well-designed, reasonably standard collection of commentaries and links. I liked this post about movies a lot, it has just the amount of the wry humor I'm looking for. I love the feed from Wordie (which I didn't previously know about), and I can't believe I didn't know about Ninjawords before. And, y'know, I NEEDED to know about the vagina dentata movie.
The entries that really shine, like this one, tell the personal story of evacuating in the face of Katrina.
