Cool RSS Feeds?

mgessner asks: "I'm searching for some new and interesting things to read related to geekdom, humor, the Internet, and all things technological. Normally, I'd search Google for this, but trying to find something like RSS feeds on Google would be like looking for a needle in a haystack: there's just too much to sift through. So, does anyone want to share their favorite RSS feeds (other than our own beloved /.) they'd like to recommend?"

thanks...

[bizpile]

Thanks for the two helpful links in the article ;)

Re:thanks...

[menscher]

Heh. I clicked on the /. one, and it took about 5 seconds to respond. I was thinking it was a pretty cool DoS to have slashdot link to itself....

Re:thanks...

[ahknight]

Events Leading to the Apocalypse
#4,223: Slashdot Slashdotting Slashdot ... check
#4,224: Fark Farking Fark ... waiting

Re:thanks...

[stevejsmith]

God, that pisses the shit out of me when people post links to things like that. And it also gets really confusing when someone writes something like, "CNN reports that x and y are fucking around with z" and there's a link under "CNN" that just takes you to CNN, not the article, with the actual link to the article under "x and y are fucking with z."

Thanks...but I think I'm quite capable of typing "cnn.com" into my web browser.

Re:thanks...

[dhakbar]

"God, that pisses the shit out of me..."

Dang, dude. If you're pissing shit, you should really see your physician.

Re:thanks...

[niteice]

That was the funniest thing I've read all week.
Thank you.

Re:thanks...

[ahknight]

Son, if you can't figure out how to hover your mouse, you deserve the frustration.

That is all...

Re:thanks...

[LordMyren]

if you havent mastered the keyboard and still have to use a mouse, you're moving way way too slow. thats like, pre-internet time yo.

Re:thanks...

[doctorfaustus]

uh.. that's DAILY ROTATION [dailyrotation.com]

Bloglines

[contrasutra]

Bloglines.com [bloglines.com] is actually a neat way to get new RSS feeds.

It's basically a web RSS viewer. Add or Import (OPML) all your feeds in, and you can view them from anywhere. But the cool thing is that it will recommend other RSS feeds based on what you (and others) are subscribed too. It's very good, and I've found lots of useful feeds from it.

It's free, no ads, has import/export (no lock in), etc.

Re:Bloglines

[BortQ]

> It's free, no ads, has import/export (no lock in), etc.

And with such a great business model you can be sure that it will last for a long time.

How about my own http://livid.3322.org ?

[lordliuxin]

How about my site? I wrote a really simple python robot (I called it Lividot) to track almost 100 geekdom, humor, technological sites. You can reach it at: http://livid.3322.org/ [3322.org]

Re:How about my own http://livid.3322.org ?

[lordliuxin]

Something just goest wrong,,,,But it's fixed now! Sorry for strange strings you may have seen :P http://livid.3322.org/ [3322.org]

Re:Bloglines

[Jamesie]

I use Bloglines too, very good.

Hmmmmmm

[Sevn]

HST feed [go.com]

Electoral Vote feed [electoral-vote.com]

weird news [reuters.com]

Distilled and actually interesting NPR [npr.org]

News from the world [reuters.com]

You may not want to press that last link at work..

[Anonymous Coward]

...it's not an RSS feed, but a 'humoristic' link in Sevn's sig.

Re:You may not want to press that last link at wor

[bhtooefr]

Here's what it does (I had my fingers on the mute button in case it was a sound thing - it was):

It shows a title saying "Top Ten Cute Kittens". It then shows a cute kitten. Next, when you think it'll show another kitten, it shows a message: "THE BOSS IS A CUNT!" It also screams that text. I don't know if it repeats, or not, though.

Re:You may not want to press that last link at wor

[Sevn]

I'm sorry my particular kind of sick sense of humor made you become one of the few "freaks" I have in my list despite how controversial my opinions are at times. I'll do what I always do, and make you a "friend". Peace.

Re:You may not want to press that last link at wor

[bhtooefr]

Second person that's done that...

I mark all who have shock sites in their sig or as their site as foes. That's why most of my foes are even there.

I know yours isn't as blatant as, oh, Last Measure (which is becoming MORE, not less, commmon), but that DID count as a shock site.

Hackers

[HRbnjR]

If you like to keep up with your favorite hackers in the FOSS world:
http://www.planetplanet.org/ [planetplanet.org] has a list of blog aggregators for various projects!

An article for plugs? Why, thank you. ;)

[jfisherwa]

Perhaps I'm a little biased, but NadaMucho [nadamucho.com] is my favorite RSS [nadamucho.com] feed. Perfect for the pop-culture/music-loving nerd.

sure

[Glog]

Beloved Slashdot? Pfeh. But seriously try Gizmodo [gizmodo.com] or Lawrence Lessig's blog [lessig.org].

Two good RSS directories of which I am aware

[Paul Bain]

Recently, on a mailing list ([e-mail]), NewsIsFree [newsisfree.com] was recommended as offering categorized RSS links, and Syndic8.com [syndic8.com] was also mentioned in this vein.

Keep in mind that it is increasingly likely that Atom will kick RSS's butt, at least as long as Dave "the Whiner" Winer continues to control RSS and to refuse to improve it. Indeed, the primarily reason that Atom exists is that Winer refused to allow any improvements to RSS. If I were you, I would investigate Atom (and Atom feeds) rather than spend time on that which is likely soon to become thrown into on the rubbish bin of history.

Re:Two good RSS directories of which I am aware

[BortQ]

Ha! You do not know much about history if you think that atom will replace RSS. Once a protocol hits critical mass it is almost impossible to replace it, even if the substitutes are technically better.

RSS has hit critical mass. It will be around for a long, long time yet.

Re:good RSS directories -- longevity of protocols

[Paul Bain]

Once a protocol hits critical mass, it is almost impossible to replace it, even if the substitutes are technically better.

Often, that is true. There a few reasons that this general rule does not apply in this case. First, RSS is far from having hit critical mass. Second, this inertia in the world of network protocols results from the difficulty in changing from an entrenched protocol to other, newer protocols. There will no such difficulty in changing from RSS to Atom. I cannot imagine why would it be

Re:good RSS directories -- longevity of protocols

[BortQ]

1. RSS has already hit critical mass. Mass media sites like the new york times, reuter's, etc all support it. These companies are not quick to change. 2. Atom vs RSS cannot be seen as an evolution, since atom is not backward compatible. If it had been then it would have been the clear successor to RSS. This was a huge mistake of atom's creators. It should have been backwards compatible. 3. Sorry dude, but gopher never hit critical mass. 4. I don't know the details of IPX. I assume that it was a propriety pr

Re:good RSS directories -- longevity of protocols

[Isofarro]

2. Atom vs RSS cannot be seen as an evolution, since atom is not backward compatible. If it had been then it would have been the clear successor to RSS. This was a huge mistake of atom's creators. It should have been backwards compatible.

Atom's main goal is to have a well specified unambigious specification [intertwingly.net]. The problem behind RSS is that it is ambigious - so leads to silent data loss - and it took the rather public failure at Reuters [intertwingly.net] for the point to sink in [harvard.edu]. As such, it is close to impossible for a sp

Re:Two good RSS directories of which I am aware

[ahknight]

It's not a protocol, it's a file format. And as XHTML is slowly replacing HTML (the largest holdout being, of all places, Slashdot) so will Atom replace RSS. Google already moved Blogger over to Atom (the largest single supplier of feeds, period) and most blogging software can make Atom feeds now. Most readers can handle it. In the next rev of bloging packages they just need to turn off RSS and then it's done. After that it's just about waiting for the commercial feeds to move, and once the software is

Re:Two good RSS directories of which I am aware

[BortQ]

XHTML is not really replacing HTML. Maybe at a few standards-conscious sites. The vast majority of the web is still HTML. It will stay like that for a long time.

My favourites as a sci/tech geek & newshound

[Ianoo]

Anandtech [anandtech.com]
Ars Technica [arstechnica.com]
BBC Science/Nature [bbc.co.uk]
BBC Technology [bbc.co.uk]
CNET News [com.com]
Nature Science Update [nature.com]
Slashdot [slashdot.org]
Space.com [space.com]
SpaceWire [spacewire.net]
Wired News [wired.com]

Several feeds

[wka]

• The Daily WTF - A daily look at source code that can make one cringe, laugh, and/or cry (site [thedailywtf.com], feed [thedailywtf.com])
• Astronomy Picture of the Day (site [nasa.gov], feed [jwz.org])
• Stupid Security (site [stupidsecurity.com], feed [stupidsecurity.com])
• Cool Tools - "A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true." (site [kk.org], feed [kk.org]
• EFF's minilinks - see tomorrow's Your Rights Online posts today (site [eff.org], feed [eff.org]
• Your Gmail inbox (atom feed [google.com])

how about asking slashdot

[Danny Rathjens]

There are some decent choices amongst all of those slashboxes:
http://ask.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome [slashdot.org]

Gadgetry

[Apreche]

gizmodo and engadget are two blogs that look at all sorts of electronic goodness daily. A lot of times they dupe each other, but mostly not. Reading both of them is far from redundant. And if you read them you start to laugh at how often slashdot gets the same news so much later.

In other words, if you read these two sites, you can turn off the matching topics on /.

Re:Gadgetry

[gt384u]

Another site that invariably seems to propagate days later into slashdot is BoingBoing [boingboing.net].

Cheap-to-Free Ogg Vorbis Audibooks

[xanderwilson]

I run an audiobook project called Telltale Weekly. Cheap now in Ogg Vorbis, AAC, and MP3 formats via Bitpass. Free later with a Creative Commons License after five years or 100,000 sales, whichever comes first. RSS 2.0 feed [telltaleweekly.org]. You set 'em up, I'll at least bunt.

Not tech, but my favorite

[ted_nugent]

For commentary on world news, I really like this one: http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/index.xml

All of the others I use tend to get rotated as I change clients.

Can anyone recommend...

[dhakbar]

... a decent RSS reader for Windows?

Re:Can anyone recommend...

[herulach]

Thunderbird. [mozilla.org] Top class email client, with a nice and simple rss reader in there. Was introduced in 0.8 IIRC.

Re:Can anyone recommend...

[Syris]

I use the Sage plugin [mozdev.org] for Firefox [mozilla.org] and I like it quite a bit.

Re:Can anyone recommend...

[duplicate-nickname]

The new version of Avant Browser [avantbrowser.com] includes support for RSS feeds. Avant is a pretty cool "wrapper" for IE.

Awasu!

[poopie]

I love Awasu - wish they had it for Linux.

http://www.awasu.com

Here's some funky RSS (and atom) for you

[BortQ]

Steve Pavlina talks about personal growth, time management and other useful stuff:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/wp-rss2.php [stevepavlina.com]

Thomas Warfield about the life of a successful shareware author:
http://www.asharewarelife.com/atom.xml [asharewarelife.com]

Weather

[priceb]

The National Weather Service [weather.gov] has quite a few interesting and useful feeds. Including Hurricane Info [noaa.gov] and Current Observations [weather.gov].

Wikinerds RSS feeds

[wikinerd]

I have a site [wikinerds.org] which contains some interesting RSS feeds. Here I give you a list of the most interesting feeds of my site together with direct links to the RSS file (note some of them are dynamically generated via php but probably will work on any rss reader):

• JnanaBase What's New RSS feed [wikinerds.org]: This is a general knowledge base wiki, a website where everyone can write anything they want. The feed contains links to the newest articles, that may be about anything, such as music, computers, etc. A section of the

Re:Wikinerds RSS feeds

[ahknight]

Note: Please do not read the RSS feeds more than 4-6 times per day because I want to keep the server utilisation low.

And you posted it to Slashdot. Talk about counter-productive.

My Own Blogroll

[WCityMike]

At this point, this has become almost as vague a question as asking the Slashdot population if they know of any cool weblogs or cool websites. That slight snark having been made, here's my own blogroll.

Bloggers: 43 Folders [blogs.com], Kris Dresden [livejournal.com], Diane Duane [blogspot.com], Paul Ford [ftrain.com], Neil Gaiman [neilgaiman.com], Michael Hanscom [michaelhanscom.com], Jason Kottke [kottke.org], Anne Murphy [livejournal.com], Jessamyn North [blogspot.com], Alia Phibes [livejournal.com], Quentin Tarantino [blogspot.com], and Wil Wheaton [wilwheaton.net].

Linklogs: Anil Dash [dashes.com], Best of Craigslist [craigslist.org], Boing Boing [boingboing.net], CoolGov [coolgov.com], Daze Reader [dazereader.com], Fazed [fazed.net], Kottke Remainders [kottke.org], LinkMachineGo [timemachinego.com], MetaJournal [livejournal.com], Michael Hanscom's Linklog [michaelhanscom.com], Museum of Hoaxes [museumofhoaxes.com], NewYorkish [newyorkish.com], Paul Ford's Linklog [ftrain.com], Snopes: New [snopes.com], SubText [blogs.com], and UFies.org [ufies.org].

Chicago: Chicagoist [chicagoist.com], jamas.org [jamas.org], CHICAGO.Metroblogging [metblogs.com], Chicago Snapshot [chicagosnapshot.com], CTA Tattler [typepad.com], Gapers' Block [gapersblock.com], and L or El [livejournal.com].

Miscellaneous: Ask Slashdot [slashdot.org], Citying [citying.com], Cult of the One-Eyed Cat [oneeyedcult.com], Good Plastic Surgery [goodplasticsurgery.com], I Work With Fools [iworkwithfools.com], Schmo Blog [spiketv.com], TeeVee [teevee.org], This Is Broken [typepad.com], Today In Alternate History [blogspot.com], and x-entertainment [weblogs.com].

Apple Bloggers: Buzz Andersen [scifihifi.com], Bill Bumgarner [pycs.net], Todd Dominey [whatdoiknow.org], Folklore [folklore.org], Steven Frank [stevenf.com], John Gruber [daringfireball.net], Dave Hyatt [mozillazine.org], Brent Simmons [inessential.com],

Can't help but promote my own site

[Guspaz]

TekNews.net [teknews.net], a site which aggregates the news from various tech sites (Currently Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Xbit, and Slashdot, with more on the way)

TekNews sports an RSS feed generator which allows you to generate an RSS feed containing news from any of it's sources.

Not technically an RSS feed...

[dealsites]

I have to say this is the coolest example of RSS feeds in action. [dealsites.net]

Top hundred

[samael]

Livejournal can act as an RSS reader, and lists their most popular feeds here:
http://www.livejournal.com/syn/list.bml

Calvin & Hobbes, Neil Gaiman, The Onion, Wil Wheaton and the BBC should start you off...

Good Linux RSS Applets?

[bottlerocket]

While we're on the subject, does anyone know of a good RSS applet for Linux (preferably for KDE) that displays feeds? I'm aware of Liferea and KNewsTicker, but they either user a browser to display the news or take up half of the taskbar with a scrolling message. I'd prefer something that has a small window popup in the corner, a la Trillian.

comics!

[josath]

If you like comics, here are a few in RSS form:

Dilbert [dwlt.net]
Penny Arcade [dwlt.net]
Foxtrot [ieatpaint.com]

Search around for your favorites.
Syndic8.com [syndic8.com] is a good place to search for feeds.

del.icio.us

[patelbhavesh]

I like feeds of http://del.icio.us/ [del.icio.us] where anyone can submit their bookmarks and the most popular bookmarks can be seen.
There is also an extension for our favourite broowser Firefox at http://delicious.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org]

feedster.com

[major.morgan]

Check out their many different options for finding feeds.

I usually use:
http://www.feedster.com/feedfinder.php/ [feedster.com]

You can also put in any domain and see what feeds they offer (since not everyone puts and obvious links on their main page).

They are new and not all-inclusive, but a valuable resource that keeps improving.

National Weather Service

[astrojetsonjr]

Information from the National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index-at.xml - a must during the hurricane season.

Their feed of local weather is also good.

warez the warez?

[l0rd]

If you check out google you can get some pretty good (unofficial) bittorrent rss feeds (*cough* suprnova *cough*).

Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.

Two other feeds I check out regularly that aren't mentioned here are Packet storm & Tomshardware.

Re:warez the warez?

[WCityMike]

Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.

Any you can share?

Re:warez the warez?

[l0rd]

Unfortunately I live in Holland. However a good feed for dutch channels is http://madcat.student.utwente.nl/rss/. This also includes BBC1 & 2.

If you're interested in tv listings you should also check out the xmltv project (http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/). It grabs tv listings over the internet and parses them into xml format. Processing these xml files into rss is trivial if you can code a bit.

Re:warez the warez?

[bedessen]

for those too retarded to search for themselves here are some:

nforce: site [nforce.nl] feed selection page [nforce.nl]
#bt on EFNet: site [btefnet.com] feed [btefnet.com]
#tvtorrents on EFNet: site [tvtorrents.net] feed [tvtorrents.net]
youceff: site [youceff.com] feed selection page [youceff.com]
torrentbits: site [torrentbits.org] feed [torrentbits.org]
torrentmind: site [torrentmind.com] feed [torrentmind.com] (there are other feeds for individual categories)

tech feeds by topic

[technopinion]

http://www.technologyowl.com/ [technologyowl.com] has tech-related feeds organized by topic.
Similarly, http://www.securityowl.com/ [securityowl.com] has security-related feeds

Comic feeds

[Qwegrpt]

White Ninja [nreynolds.me.uk]
Spamusement [spamusement.com]

syndic8

[ehmdjii]

i believe syndic8 [syndic8.com] has about the most complete collection of feeds.

A little bit of advise about political feeds

[ShatteredDream]

Avoid the average political blog because they will either be ra ra Bush or Kerry. They won't be entertaining or insightful, just full of annoying and shrill rhetoric in favor of one of the two major parties.

Re:A little bit of advise about political feeds

[skadus]

Actually, Spinsanity [spinsanity.org]'s RSS feed [spinsanity.org] is pretty good. They tend to bash both sides. :)

If only factcheck.org [factcheck.org] would make a feed...

content...not features

[majid_aldo]

what is the concern about 'cool' rss feeds? i would find the appropriate CONTENT first, regardless of if it had a feed of not. if it did, all the better.

rss is supposed to be for the TIMELY distribution of information..not giving out snippets of an already established website.

Daily Rotation

[shr1n1]

I think this is what you are looking for. It is customizable with new feeds being added continuosly. It does not require you to sign or register. Your feed preferences are stored in a cookie.

Daily Rotation [dailyrotation.com]

I wish Slashdot had a this so that when I am done with slashdot, I can go to another tab where I can get a list of new headlines based on my subscriptions. I don't like the boxes, it clutters up the manin page.

The Register

[sec_14]

The Register [theregister.co.uk] has a good RSS feed.

I'm using Firefox - the RSS Live Bookmarks in a sidebar are quite useful.

The Filthy Monkey...It Plans...

[Shadwell]

Check out Warren Ellis' [warrenellis.com] myriad of feeds. I've yet to see a day where something posted didn't pique my interest.

• Warrenellis.com [warrenellis.com]
• Die Puny Humans [diepunyhumans.com]
• Flickr [flickr.com]
• del.icio.us [del.icio.us]

Ellis is definitely one of the coolest authors ever. You'd do well to check out his Transmetropolitan series and anything else he's written.

Mathforge RSS

[aaron240]

Plugging my own site: Mathforge math news feed [mathforge.net]

The ones I can't wait to check:

[$Mr_Pippy_X]

Autoblog http://www.autoblog.com/ [autoblog.com]

Crazy Apple Rumors Site http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/ [crazyapplerumors.com]

Hackaday http://www.hackaday.com/ [hackaday.com]

Cool RSS Feeds

[notepage]

You may want to search the RSS directories at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-directory.ht m/ [rss-specifications.com] for feeds of interest. As for humorous techie feeds that I'm partial to: http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/blog-feed .xml/ [softwarema...source.com]