So, after an Internet-less week in St. John, USVI, I come back to find over 1600 articles in the RSS feeds of blogs that I follow regularly. And if you think I'm going to wade through all of that, well, you need to work on your thinking skills a bit.
So what, if anything, do I need to read out of all that? Leave pointers in the comments to any real gems from the blogosphere since last Friday.
(I also avoided all newspapers, tv, and radio on the trip because, really, all they're likely to do on a typical day is piss me off. I'll catch up on the major stories from that stuff-- I've heard about the bridge collapse, which is horrible-- but blogdom is just not a high priority given that broad information deficit.)
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