Scattered Thoughts

As I was frantically trying to catch up on all the blogging I've missed reading over the last week or two or three today I had this horrible thought - what if at some point there are just too many blogs I like to read? Already, there are some I just never get to or only read if the post is a short one (and I'm totally ashamed to admit that) but I try to cull my blogroll and I just ... can't... Once I take things off that page, they're pretty much gone forever and sometimes I just can't bear that last cutting of the link.

I can't even think how terrible it will be while I travel to keep up. Do you guys feel that way? Will we invent a little screen for our eyeglasses that scrolls blogs all day for us? That would help. What else? It's an information world and there's too many talented bloggers. We should vote some off the island or something. Of course, since I just said that - it means you can't vote me off. ha!

Which makes me think of the books I read this weekend - for anyone into sort of near future speculative fiction-y kind of stuff - I totally recommend PopCo by Scarlett Thomas, and, although I found the science a bit more than I wanted in a novel (there's really not a lot of it, but it hurt my little brain), Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio. Excellent reads and unique ideas, both of them.

I've mentioned before that I always used to write things down when I read / heard about them so I could look them up in the library but that I love the internet because now I can look them up right away - so here's a couple of the interesting things I looked up lately that various books have referenced...

The girl in PopCo drank Gunpowder Tea and now I really want to try it.

Some of the women in Darwin's Radio were using Quinacrine to sterilize themselves.

And, from Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, his reference to the controversy caused by the look on Theresa's face in The Ecstasy of St Theresa was interesting to look into.

Oh, and ONLY NINE MORE DAYS OF WORK! Wahoooooo!

Comments

[Jen, also]

My bloglines is up to nearly 130 blogs. And I can't cut any of them. There are some I read every day without fail, others I peek in on monthly or so. Others I never look at, but like you said, just can't cut the link.

What really sucks is that I keep finding more to add. I'm a blog pack rat.

[Chris]

I liked Darwin's Radio, too. The next book is Darwin's Children, and it's good as well.

[Blue Witch]

Gunpowder tea is absolutely foul.
Just to save you the expense/effort :)

I'm like that with blogroll too.

[Claire]

I'm totally with you, I really struggle to keep up with all of the blogs I like to read. I tend to prioritise people who comment and then hope I have time to visit a few from my blog list....not always easy!

[james]

i've got about 75 blogs bookmarked in my browser. and *that's* why i don't have a blogroll list on my blog. it's too many, and i don't -- can't -- get to all of them, all of the time. er, despite the fact that i don't have a life.

i sometimes think of adding a list of my favourite-favourite favourites. maybe sometime.

[Lisa]

I totally hear you on the massive blogroll problem. I can only remain truly faithful to about 5 or 6 blogs these days. All the others I have on a sort of rotation ... I know that she writes good entries every Saturday and that he never writes entries on the weekend. This blog writes all short entries so I save it for Fridays and then read his whole week at once ... I dunno. It's my own quirky method. But I know what you mean about permanently cutting off the link ... I did that to one blog and then of course it's been the one that's stuck in my head more than any other. And it's lost, into the internet abyss somewhere. *sigh* I won't be doing that again any time soon, to say the least!