Holy Blogs Batman

My blog reader has been inundated with new blogs lately. Here is a list of my favorites, some of which are new to the list some I've been following since I started reading blogs on regular basis

Music:
A Riot Of My Own: punkrock, straight edge and literature (Twitter- @xroldx)

Double Cross: We'll Have The Straight Edge They Can Have The Rest
How's Your Edge: Straight Edge.
WorldMovesFast: Hardcore Life
xilovebroccolix: Livejournal of Davin of xKINGDOMx (Kingdom myspace)


Photo/Design:
Gurus Unleashed: Scouring the Web 24/7 for the best creative pro news and how-to so you don't have to.
Layers Magazine: The How-to Magazine For Everything Adobe
Minervity: Tutorials, Freelance Tips, and Designer Information



Vegan:
A Vegan Ice Cream Paradise: All the vegan ice cream recipes you could want.
Eating Consciously: Always a Choice, Never a Chore
The Urban Housewife: Vegan Cooking
Vegan Dad: Vegan Cooking that even the kids will love.
Vegan Life Online: Vegan Recipes, Blogs, Videos, and More From Vegans Around The World

Travel:
Brave New Traveler: Exploring The Inner Journey, Through The Outer World
Backpacking Travel: Learn everything you need to know about backpacking travel and vagabonding around the world
Solo Traveler: A Blog For All Of Us Who Love (Or Struggle) To Travel On Our Own.
VagabondBible: Magazine for backpackers and travelers worldwide


Other:
Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment
Alternet: Independent Online News Magazine
b-listed: People building human rights culture
Brave New Films: Revolutionizing Traditional Grassroots Politics
Democracy Now!: National, Daily, Independent, Award-Winning News Program
GOOD: A Collaboration of Individuals, Businesses, and Nonprofits Pushing The World Forward
Mashable: The Social Media Guide
Submedia: Independent Media
Take Part: Social Action Network
Tree Hugger: We care about the environment. There. We said it.
Truthout: Devoted to the principles of equality, democracy, human rights, accountability and social justice.

Short and Sweet

If you've been following me on twitter you probably know how busy i've been these past few days, well these past two weeks really. Needless to say i'm pretty worn out and just want to quickly make this weeks recommendation. It's a really good one though so don't feel ripped off...

If you're into photoshop or illustrator i really really think you should check out the next two things.

Where are the Skaters at?

If you're a skateboarder and looking for new spots to skate around you or want to share spots with others iRecommend you check out SkateSpotter.com. As i said you can add spots or look up spots to skate that you might not have known about. Here are the latest spots that have been added. (As you can tell it was pretty much only a couple people just adding a bunch of spots at once.

List:

New Skate Spots

• Dallas Skate Park

La Mesa United States

• Exxon Mobile

Houston TX US

• Paul's House

Houston TX US

• D's-spot

Houston TX US

• 5-Stair

Houston TX US

• Leistman Elementary

Houston TX US

• Taylor High School

Houston TX US

• VSU

Ettrick VA US

• 4 or 5 step

Ettrick VA US

• Woodys Halfpipe

Norcross GA US

• South School

Reedsburg WI US

• The Construction Site

West Sacramento CA US

• West Sac Skate Park

West Sacramento CA US

• Old River City HS Campus

sacramento CA US

• The rest of Raymond Rimkus

San Antonio TX US

• Oakland Vert Skatepark

Sterling Heights MI US

• Eye Pharmacy 3 Stair

sterling heights MI US

• CVS 6 Stair

Sterling Heights MI US

• St Rene Stairs (3 Sets)

Sterling Heights MI US

• Goodman shipping co.

Houston TX CA

Spreading The Wealth

If you've been following along recently you may have noticed the things I've been adding, like The Watch Me Read series, The Watch Me Tweet series and also the iRecommend series. Well, starting tomorrow i will be adding a new series for each day of the week. That's right, not only are you getting a daily (Watch Me Read) but you're getting a different series for each day of the week. Here's the break down of what I will be putting out from now on...

Daily:

• Watch Me Read- I pick out something from the internet and share it with you. The things you see in the catagories on the side are most likely what I will pick for subjects to share with you.

Weekly:

• Sunday: Watch Me Rise- Keepin it Posi

• Monday: Watch Me Cook- Your once a week vegan recipe

• Tuesday: iRecommend- Just a recommendation by your favorite vegan, straight edge, photographer, blogger
  

• Wednesday: Watch Me Watch- I'm going to be posting some kind of video, be it documentary, show, tutorial, movie, or what-have-you

• Thursday: Watch Me Tweet- On wednesday I ask my twitter followers something and Blog about it the next day. (My first one was "Vegans, what is something you miss that you wish you knew how to make vegan?")

• Friday: Watch Me Take A Day Off- Yeah, watch me take a day off. There will still be posts but nothing scheduled.

• Saturday: Watch Me Teach: Tutorial Day

So, if these interest you, you should comment/follow/subscribe/share away.

Welcome to this weeks edition iRecommend. For the past few years i've been reading a magazine called Adbusters, who describe themselves as...




If you're into activism, reality, and cutting out the bullshit this is a magazine for you. Best of all, they don't have advertisements. So if you like what i'm about to show you support them by donating or subscribing (or both)...













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As I mentioned last week I'm going to do this once a week...

These days everyone has a million different accounts online, whether it's email or social networking. Wouldn't it be great if you could go to one place for it all? Well, you can have all that and more. Digsby is an instant messaging program that allows you to connect to all of your instant messaging programs including- AIM, MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Jabber, and Facebook Chat. It also allows you to connect to your email accounts with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, POP, IMAP, and AOL with up to the minute responces to when you have new mail. And for the grand finale, the social networking sites... you can get notifications nearly as soon as they happen with friend requests, messages, and news feeds from Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. So, this week I'm recommending that you get Digsby. Links are provided with my handy dandy new snap shot program for everything that I've mentioned.

Alright, "iRecommend" is something I used to do on my old LiveJournal and I'm bringing it back. Essentially it's just me recommending things on a weekly basis. I'm not going to promise that it will always be on the same day but I'm definitely going to shoot for once a week. To get it started i'm going to do some record recommending. Hope you like it....

(Limiting myself to 25, in no particular order)
1. Tom Gabel- Heart Burns
2. xLooking Forwardx- What This Means To Me
3. Good Clean Fun- Between Christian Rock And A Hard Place
4. Betrayed- Substance
5. Diehard Youth- Four Years The Hard Way
6. Harder The Fight- Might of The Merrimack
7. Have Heart- The Things We Carry
8. Wake Up Call- One Eye Open
9. Against Me!- Crime
10. The Riot Before- Horseshoes And Hand Grenades
11. Dead Hearts- No Love, No Hope
12. Energy- Punch The Clock
13. Street Dogs- Back To The World
14. The Geeks- Every Time We Fall
15. In Remembrance- We'll Always Have The Memories
16. Inside Out- No Spiritual Surrender
17. Insted- Proud Youth
18. Kingdom- EP
19. Judge- Bringin It Down
20. Resist- We Want Our World Back
21. Since The Flood- No Compromise
22. Kids Like Us- Outta Control
23. Sidewalk- Time Spent
24. Signs of Hope- First And Foremost
25. Verse- From Anger And Rage

These are the best prices that I could find for all of them that I actually could find