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What's in Brendan's Google 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

Ben Nadel ColdFusion and Web Development Blog
Ben Nadel's ongoing journey to become a ColdFusion guru.

Coding Horror
Jeff Attwood's excellent blog about the practice of programming.

Dreamhost Blog
The irreverent and amusing official blog of my web hosting provider.

Strange Maps

The Daily WTF
“Curious perversions of Information Technology.”

Comics

Ctrl+Alt+Del
Gamers. (No, personally I'm not a gamer, but this comic is amusing.)

Dilbert

Questionable Content
A bunch of 20-somethings in a college town, and two personified computers.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Surreal and ironic.

User Friendly
About workers at an ISP, and more personified computers. What is it walking, talking, thinking computers in comics?

XKCD
“A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”

Magazines

A List Apart
A magazine “for people who make web sites.”

News

The Consumerist
News about consumer issues; public shaming of bad companies.

Slashdot
Technology and nerd news.

Pic of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Software

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.