====== What's in Brendan's Google Reader? ======

[[http://www.google.com/reader/|Google Reader]] is a web application that allows you to collate new posts from all your favorite web sites into one place and view it on your desktop or PDA/mobile phone.

Here's a sample of some of my favorite feeds that I read:

===== Blogs =====

[[http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog.rss|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.bennadel.com/|Ben Nadel ColdFusion and Web Development Blog]]\\
Ben Nadel's ongoing journey to become a ColdFusion guru.

[[http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/index.xml|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.codinghorror.com/ | Coding Horror ]]\\
Jeff Attwood's excellent blog about the practice of programming.

[[http://blog.dreamhost.com/feed/atom/|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://blog.dreamhost.com/|Dreamhost Blog]]\\
The irreverent and amusing official blog of my web hosting provider.

[[http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/feed/|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/|Strange Maps]]\\

[[http://syndication.thedailywtf.com/TheDailyWtf|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://thedailywtf.com/|The Daily WTF]]\\
"Curious perversions of Information Technology."

===== Comics =====

[[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/rss/rss.xml|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php|Ctrl+Alt+Del]]\\
Gamers. (No, personally I'm not a gamer, but this comic is amusing.)

[[http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.dilbert.com/fast/|Dilbert]]

[[http://www.questionablecontent.net/QCRSS.xml|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.questionablecontent.net/|Questionable Content]]\\
A bunch of 20-somethings in a college town, and two personified computers.

[[http://www.smbc-comics.com/rss.php|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.smbc-comics.com/|Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]\\
Surreal and ironic.

[[http://www.userfriendly.org/rss/uf.rss|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.userfriendly.org/|User Friendly]]\\
About workers at an ISP, and more personified computers. What is it walking, talking, thinking computers in comics?

[[http://syndicated.livejournal.com/xkcd_rss/data/rss|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://xkcd.com/|XKCD]]\\
"A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."

===== Magazines =====

[[http://www.alistapart.com/feed/rss.xml|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.alistapart.com/|A List Apart]]\\
A magazine "for people who make web sites."

===== News =====

[[http://www.consumerist.com/index.xml|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://www.consumerist.com/|The Consumerist]]\\
News about consumer issues; public shaming of bad companies.

[[http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://slashdot.org/|Slashdot]]\\
Technology and nerd news.

===== Pic of the Day =====

[[http://www.acme.com/jef/apod/rss.xml|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html|Astronomy Picture of the Day]]

===== Software =====

[[http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm-releases-unix.xml|{{:feed14.png}}]]
[[http://freshmeat.net/|Freshmeat software releases]]\\
Freshmeat is a catalog of mostly free and open-source software. It's a great resource for finding out about new free applications and tools.