A quick note...

Dear readers, this is just a quick note (inserted ahead of a new post - don't miss it!) to alert you to a change to the blog you may otherwise miss. I decided to go back and update/edit my link list. The list you find now is the list of websites that I run through every night at work, in the order that I go through them. I really have no basis for my ordering of these sites, save for the fact that the Economist generally takes the longest to read so I try to save it for last. So, if you've ever wanted to emulate your favorite blogger, here's your chance. Read what I read, read what I write, and then write me comments to tell me how boring both were. I was going to keep this short, but I thought it might be nice if I wrote a brief description of the sites I linked to:

• Mouseprint - This website is updated every Monday with information on various items hidden in the fine print of credit card offers, airline vouchers, laundry detergent, etc. Sometimes it is useful, sometimes it is just frustrating.
• Gamespot - This website is generally updated every weekday with reviews and previews of video games.
• Snopes - Usually updated daily, Snopes is the source for the debunking urban legends. It also can be useful for determining if an unknown Nigerian is really going to send you money.
• The Indianapolis Star - The online version of the Indianapolis newspaper. I mainly read it to see how the new airport project is coming along as I imagine I might be a frequent visitor to the facility once I move even further west.
• ESPN - I'm a male. ESPN covers sports. I look at ESPN.
• Lawyers, Guns, and Money - This is the Wife's blog. Read it to find out about everything I've been lying to you about. Oh, and how glad you are that you're not in law school.
• Yellowbrick Road - This is my cousin-in-law Christine's blog. Always entertaining to read, and a good way to keep up with what is going on without appearing to be a stalker.
• The Blue-Gray Sky - The best Notre Dame football blog out there. If they don't discuss it, it's not worth talking about.
• The House Rock Built - Another Notre Dame football blog, but one that is high on the hilarity meter. Recruits are judged on a basis of "angry drunk Vikings" if that gives you an idea of what to expect.
• The Rakes of Mallow - A Notre Dame blog that covers a multitude of sports. Written by a couple of students, it can be spotty on updates when they have exams or a lot of classwork. Nerds.
• Irish Insights - A Notre Dame blog written by the Notre Dame beat writer of a Fort Wayne paper. Updated almost daily and good for getting info from practices (at least the portions open to the media).
• The Economist - I used to read Newsweek. Then I started reading the Economist and realized that I had been reading a slightly more acceptable form of the National Enquirer. Now I don't read Newsweek. While nearly all the articles are superb, keep in mind that the primary focus is on economics and the magazine can be a little light on current events at times.

There you are. Hopefully that helps you decide if you would like to start checking out any of these websites. I should note that I also check my e-mail (Hotmail) and use MSNBC as my homepage at work. Altogether, looking at all these sites can take anywhere from half an hour to two hours or more, depending upon how many have been updated since I last looked at them. Okay, that's enough explanation for the new link list - onward to the new post.