i celebrate the workday winding down with you. i'm tired of looking at code...

i made a post last night so i don't have any rants today. instead i can tell you how i blow free time or something. that should be interesting, right?

i used to quickly bash my university's facebook [wiki entry] but it's actually pretty well done overall. unfortunately it got popular after i graduated so it's like 90% current students, not quite as useful for alumni. although somewhat ashamed i'd admit that i log into it a couple times a day to see if there's anything interesting to amble through. personally from what i've seen it beats the crap out of rubbish like myspace and friendster.

after initially not seeing the point, i've come to appreciate del.icio.us [wiki entry] for the offbeat stuff it can link you to. it's basically a social networking site with the intention of using tags to loosely categorize the content linked to. although it's more heavily used by techies, it's still a good place to find more information on one of your interests. more and more i've come to realize i prefer having bookmarks available anywhere in the world, so a lot of times i bookmark things through del.icio.us instead of locally at home or work.

there's a number of RSS feeds that i use pretty much daily at work and home. RSS feeds are basically a way of pushing data to you (such as when a webpage has been updated) instead of you traveling to the site over and over to see if anything's changed. some of my favorite random RSS feeds --

lost remote [tv/broadcast news]
TUAW [apple/mac news]
joystiq [gaming news]
tvgasm [tv recaps]
lifehacker [helpful everyday hints]
boingboing [random interesting stuff]


anyways, figured it was a good way to blow 20 minutes. ;)

--j