The peak of art? I’m more like the "pique" of art
July 19th, 2008 5:01:58 pm pst by Sterling Camden
Teeni, in her infinite generosity, has awarded me the Arte y Pico award, which roughly translates to “the peak of art”.
Here’s da rules:
- 1) Choose 5 blogs that you consider deserving of this award based on creativity, design, interesting material, and overall contribution to the blogger community, regardless of the language.
2) Post the name of the author and a link to his or her blog so everyone can view it.
3) Each award-winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award.
4) The award-winner and the presenter should post the link of the “Arte y pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5) Please post these rules.
I don’t really think of my blog as artistic except in a utilitarian way, but heck — I’ll take any award anyone wants to lavish upon it.
Now to choose five blogs that meet the criteria in rule 1 (in no particular order):
- Eric, of // Internet Duct Tape. Besides sporting a clean WordPress Template Design, Eric provides tons of free software tools. My favorite is the Auntie Spam plugin for WordPress, which makes Akismet manageable even when you have thousands of spam messages to review.
- Cooper, of Wonderland or Not. Whether or not you agree with her “left of most lines” stance, she always makes you think — and her writing style is quite engaging. You’re also guaranteed to see some change to her WordPress theme every few weeks. She helps out the blogging community with her site Should be Famous, which promotes bloggers who are relatively unknown but deserve better.
- Pisces Iscariot, of The Far Queue. Thought-provoking poetry and essays for the 21st century, complemented by well-chosen photos and artwork.
- Paul Raven, of Velcro City Tourist Board. Flash science fiction stories, Friday photo blogging, and some of the most interesting links on the web. Paul also writes for Futurismic, a blog about “Near-future science fiction and fact”.
- Yvonne Tran, of nektros. Site design is her strong suit, and her writing is witty and pointed.
Thanks for the award, Teeni!
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Aww, your very welcome and most deserving, Chip. As I’ve said, I think you fit the bill in the description of the first rule and I’m sure your readers will agree with me. I am going to try to visit all the people you are passing it on to as I’m interested in your choices.
Thanks, teeni! I’m sure you’ll find something to pique your interest in each one.
Congrats on the win, Sterling. (:
Thanks, Joseph!
This is awesome, thank you. I will have to consdier my option in passing this one out.
I was just thinking you as I was reading “Freestate Politics”(http://www.freestatepolitics.us/showDiary.do?diaryId=1533) ( I am from the Free State, and there was an article on Michael Savage calling autism a fraud and ranking the ire of a lot of people.
Thanks, cooper. I have yet to meet an autistic child that didn’t have real problems, though there may be some scammers out there.
Granted, sometimes I think to myself, “I know how my father would have dealt with this behavior, and it would have involved bruises.” But I don’t think that approach would be effective on a truly autistic child. Heck, it’s not even that effective on a normal child.
I just looked at netkro, that design is killer and the post I loved. This is why in my opinion it is much easiest to find good blogs to read from links and people you already have on your list….
I already read the duct tape guy.
Glad you found a keeper, cooper! I agree — a recommendation from someone you enjoy reading us already weighted for your favor.