Hello chappies, Facebook has stolen my blog or at least my internet time, more about that later, (hopefully). Anyway this blog is about other blogs. I use Google Reader to read blogs, this is a feed reader and basically it looks a bit like your email inbox but instead of emails you have the posts from the blogs you subscribe to. I've been meaning to write a list of all my favourites for a while. I'm rather optimistically hoping you'll still come back after you've seen what you've been missing, so to remind you of the shit what I've got I will first spice up my blog with some really sensitive information about my work life.

Google Reader has a feature which tracks how many posts you read and when you read them. Here is the secret bit: I usually read the blogs when I’m slacking off at work, so what these stats actually represent is a graph of my slacking! Check it out.

Results:

Analysis:

Weekly

Well well, I’m pretty lazy aren’t I and as you can see I’m at my laziest on a Wednesday, I think I already knew this. Wednesdays are shit. You’re already fucked off with working and you’ve got it all to do again like cresting that hill just to see another one rise in front of you, fuck off Wednesdays.

Daily

The first blip is at home before work then nothing while I commute for an hour. The day starts well with low usage, start as you mean to go on and all that, but by ten O'clock the good intentions are starting to slip, I get a second wind at 11 and the hits actually go down. At twelve I lose all motivation and now I’m killing time waiting for lunch. One O'clock is the lowest bar as I’m not in the office, that’s lunchtime I'm most likely in the pub or the park.

2 O'clock back from lunch, am I refreshed do I have a new vigour? Not really it takes a while to get back in the swing of it, but then it happens 4 o’clock occurs and the hits go to rock bottom, their lowest point for the working day. What’s going on? This is easily the most intriguing figure and I have two explanations. First in this hour I always have my coffee, this is because if I don’t I will actually fall asleep, this has happened. I’ve fallen asleep in meetings before I’ve even had a disciplinary for nodding off in a previous job. Taking this into account the two theories are that I’m either asleep and therefore not reading blogs, or the coffee has done its magic and flung me to an unprecedented level of productivity and therefore I’m not reading blogs. The second option looks better on the C.V. so let’s opt for that. Whatever it is the effects are short lived because we’re soon back up too pre lunch levels and then it’s the commute home again.

O.K. so that's the insight now what you've been missing: as promised, from the cold stats and in no particular order are my favourite blogs. Don’t forget to pop back from time to time.

Scribblin’s and dribblin’s – mwah mwah baby, she’s great and at 0.4 posts a day she keeps you interested without overloading.

Scaryduck – this guy is frickin funny, just today he thought up the following simile while decribing a massive shit that a bird had done on his car “. . . is there a bird flying around the Home Counties of England with an arse like a wizard's sleeve?” Laugh I almost shat myself from my enormous arse on his car.

Time Killing Kid – another .co.uk blogger and work slacker, this chap regales you with tales of an office dunce so retarded that she could only work for the NHS plus his adventures in London with dirty girls. (0.2 blogs a day).

The Show With Zefrank – a very thought provoking video blog by a famous pro blogger, but we kind of missed the boat on this one it's over, still good stuff here.

Bt3a – it means better to geeks. Its not a blogger as such more like a collective, the contributors produce the kind of Photoshop stuff you get sent in fwds and they have a weekly newsletter with funny links. (a lot of my links on the side bar come from here, but they are yet to have a whole section devoted to masturbating animals.)

Xkcd – I like these funny, very geeky cartoons a new one roughly every other day.

Postsecret – every Sunday see a load of heart wrenching secrets, we all got them.

The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely – a very funny ongoing story about a rampant Victorian gentleman, his semi permanent hard on and his man servant. This should really be a book. You get it for free in instalments, Dickens started this way you know.

Flip Flop Flying – very intermittent, but good when it comes. I think he’s a scouser. I first came across him for his graphs, an interest that we share.

Adam Buxton – He is a comedian off the telly so of course he’s funny. (You get to see some of the insecurities that comedians are notorious for too.)

Atomic Sex Kitten & The Reverse Cowgirl – I shouldn’t lump these two together but I have because they both often show tits and fall into the same large single-track part of my brain. The first is more tits and ass than the second which is more arty and philosophical about tits. She seems to have been deeply affected by what she saw on the set of American Bukkake 13, intriguing. Good for finding the links to stuff so weird you didn’t think it was possible like the latex foot with a fake vagina in it. (no proper porn on the blogs themselves if you’re worried about that kind of thing).

Girl Solo in Arabia – a great travel blog about, you guessed it, a girl travelling around Arabia. She is currently in Iran, long but very good.

Of course there are millions of others would love to hear your must reads. I will put them on the reader and see if they make the grade.

I've just thought the number next to the blurb might look like a rating, they're not, they are the stats from Google Reader of the average number of blogs they write per day.