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    Comics
      A Softer World | http://www.rsspect.com/rss/asw.xml | http://www.asofterworld.com 
      Chart Porn | http://chartporn.org/feed/ | http://chartporn.org 
      Dr. McNinja | http://www.rauros.net/drmcnrss2.php | http://drmcninja.com 
      Dresden Codak | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/rsspect/fJur | http://dresdencodak.com 
      ErfWorld | http://www.erfworld.com/feed/ | http://www.erfworld.com 
      Errant Story | http://www.errantstory.com/feed | http://www.errantstory.com 
      FoxTrot | http://feeds.feedburner.com/Foxtrotcom | http://www.foxtrot.com 
      Girl Genius | http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain.rss | http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ 
      Goats | http://goats.com/index.xml | http://www.goats.com/ 
      Gunnerkrigg Court | http://feed43.com/4503041127548424.xml | http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php 
      Indexed | http://indexed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default | http://thisisindexed.com 
      Order of the Stick | http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.rss | http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html 
      Penny Arcade | http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/pa-mainsite | http://www.penny-arcade.com/ 
      PS238 | http://feed43.com/ps238-link-only.xml | http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/index.php 
      PvPonline | http://www.pvponline.com/rss/?section=article | http://www.pvponline.com 
      Ratfist | http://ratfist.com/feed/ | http://ratfist.com 
      Sluggy Freelance | http://feeds.feedburner.com/sluggy_freelance | http://www.sluggy.com 
      Wapsi Square | http://wapsisquare.com/feed/ | http://wapsisquare.com 
      xkcd | http://xkcd.com/rss.xml | http://xkcd.com/ 
  
    Development
      Paul Graham essays | http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss | http://www.paulgraham.com/ 
      Woodgears.ca | http://woodgears.ca/rss.xml | http://woodgears.ca/ 
  
    Misc
      Ask Metafilter, Recent best answers | http://feed43.com/2602451534003772.xml | http://ask.metafilter.com/bestanswers.cfm 
      Last Psychiatrist | http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/index.xml | http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ 
      lesswrong | http://lesswrong.com/.rss | http://lesswrong.com/ 
      Lifehacker: Top | http://lifehacker.com/tag/top/index.xml | http://lifehacker.com/tag/top 
      Mostly Maths | http://www.mostlymaths.net/feeds/posts/default | http://www.mostlymaths.net/ 
      OkTrends | http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/feed/ | http://blog.okcupid.com 
      Poetic Home | http://feeds.feedburner.com/PoeticHomephLivingInVintagePoetry | http://www.poetichome.com 
      Steampunk Home | http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSteampunkHome | http://thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com/ 
      Steampunk Workshop | http://steampunkworkshop.com/steam.xml | http://steampunkworkshop.com 
  
    Money + Business
      A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blogspot/smartbear | http://blog.asmartbear.com 
      I Will Teach You To Be Rich | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/IWillTeachYouToBeRich | http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com 
      Len Penzo dot Com | http://feeds.feedburner.com/LenPenzo | http://lenpenzo.com/blog 
      MicroISV on a Shoestring | http://www.kalzumeus.com/feed/ | http://www.kalzumeus.com 
      Millionaire Mommy Next Door | http://feeds.feedburner.com/MillionaireMommyNextDoor | http://millionairemommynextdoor.com 
      Simple Dollar | http://feeds.feedburner.com/thesimpledollar | http://www.thesimpledollar.com 
      Steve Blank | http://steveblank.com/feed/ | http://steveblank.com 
      Unicornfree | http://feeds.feedburner.com/unicornfree | http://unicornfree.com 
  
    Opinion
      Cool Tools | http://www.kk.org/cooltools/index.xml | http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ 
      Joel on Software | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/rss.xml | http://www.joelonsoftware.com 
      PawPrint.net | http://www.pawprint.net/news/rss/news.xml | http://www.pawprint.net 
      Schneier on Security | http://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml | http://www.schneier.com/blog/ 
      Slight Paranoia (Chris Soghoian) | http://paranoia.dubfire.net/rss.xml | http://paranoia.dubfire.net/ 
  
    Parenting:
      Game Theorist | http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default | http://gametheorist.blogspot.com/ 
      Parent Hacks | http://feeds.feedburner.com/parenthacks | http://www.parenthacks.com/ 
      Thingamababy | http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/atom.xml | http://www.thingamababy.com 
  
    People
      AnnaTheRed's Bento Factory | http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnnaTheRedsBentoFactory | http://www.annathered.com 
      Derek Sivers | http://sivers.org/en.atom | http://sivers.org/ 
      dive into mark | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/diveintomark/all | http://diveintomark.org/ 
      Jonathan Coulton | http://feeds.feedburner.com/jonathancoulton | http://www.jonathancoulton.com 
      Patrick Rothfuss - Blog | http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/feed/ | http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com 
      Telstar Logistics | http://feeds.feedburner.com/TelstarLogistics | http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/ 
      This Tiny House | http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThisTinyHouse | http://thistinyhouse.com 
      WIL WHEATON dot NET: in exile | http://feeds.feedburner.com/wwdn | http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/ 
      xkcd | http://blag.xkcd.com/feed/ | http://blog.xkcd.com 
  
    Personal Development
      Ask The Headhunter | http://corcodilos.com/blog/feed/atom/ | http://corcodilos.com/blog 
      Cooking For Engineers | http://www.cookingforengineers.com/atom.xml | http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ 
      Lazy Way to Success | http://lazyway.blogs.com/lazy_way/index.rdf | http://lazyway.blogs.com/lazy_way/ 
      Study Hacks | http://feeds.feedburner.com/StudyHacks | http://calnewport.com/blog 
      Unclutterer | http://feedproxy.google.com/unclutterer | http://unclutterer.com 
      Zen Habits | http://zenhabits.net/feed/ | http://zenhabits.net 
  
    Video, music
      Armin van Buuren's Youtube feed | http://www.youtube.com/ut_rss?type=username&arg=arminvanbuuren | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=arminvanbuuren 
      Ronald Jenkees' YouTube feed | http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/ronaldjenkees/videos.rss | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ronaldjenkees 
      Sungha Jung's YouTube feed | http://www.youtube.com/ut_rss?type=username&arg=jwcfree | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=jwcfree 
      Tiesto's Youtube feed | http://www.youtube.com/ut_rss?type=username&arg=officialtiesto | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=officialtiesto 
      Weird Al's YouTube feed | http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/alyankovic/videos.rss | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=alyankovic 
  
    Video, spoken
      Eric Stromer's DIY | http://home.aol.com/rss/home_feed_eric-stromer.rss | http://home.aol.com/rss/home_feed_eric-stromer.rss 
      Google Developers | http://www.youtube.com/ut_rss?type=username&arg=GoogleDevelopers | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=GoogleDevelopers 
      Google Tech Talks | http://www.youtube.com/ut_rss?type=username&arg=googletechtalks | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=googletechtalks 
      Happy Tree Friends | http://podcast.happytreefriends.com/htfrss.xml | http://podcast.happytreefriends.com 
      RSA | http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/theRSAorg/uploads?orderby=updated&alt=rss&v=2&client=ytapi-youtube-rss-redirect | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=theRSAorg 
      TED talks on Youtube | http://www.youtube.com/ut_rss?type=username&arg=TEDtalksDirector | http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=TEDtalksDirector


So, your day job is "reading RSS feeds"?


The only high volume ones are AskMetafilter and thesimpledollar. Right now I just skim the headlines/summaries and only look at the most interesting ones. I'm seriously considering dropping them though.


you should drop them.


Are you still finding I Will Teach You To Be Rich worth reading? I read it several years ago when it first started, but stopped when it turned into mostly fluffy articles and promotions of his ridiculous $800 program to make people more money. The spamminess of it kind of became a turn off.


I Agree, I read it when it first started, now it is totally spammy/scammy/sleazy. He is just preying on 'self help' types.


How did you produce such a well-formatted list? By hand, or do you have some kind of script?


I use Google Reader which allows you to export everything.

  1 - click "Manage subscriptions", bottom left of the reader
      which opens the "settings" page
  2 - click "Import/Export" 
  3 - click "Export your subscriptions as an OPML file"
Now you have a nice XML representation which you can massage inside your editor of choice.

When you're done, prepend 2 spaces to the start of each line so HN will treat it like code.


Excellent, thanks. I'll have to try that and see what kind of RSS mess I have.


I absolutely loved the first book in that series you're reading from, "The Shadow of the Lion", and would strongly recommend it to anyone who thinks the words "historical fantasy" could appeal to them.


If you liked that series and want to check out some other good historical fiction, you might also like:

- the Belisarius series (starting with "An Oblique Approach") by Eric Flint and David Drake which is an alternate history / military science fiction series chronicling Belisarius' (one f the all time great Roman generals) war of survival against a being from our far future. My description doesn't really do it justice... it's a great read.

- the Ring of Fire series (starting with "1632"), also by Eric Flint, in which a small West Virgina mining town is suddenly moved to somewhere in Germany during the 30 Year's War. The first book is a little too pro-union for my taste, but it's still a good read. The series really blossoms a couple of books in when Flint opens things up into a shared universe and invites a lot of other authors to come and play


Wow this is serious good collection , adding my reading list




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