Rachel Singer-Gordon has started a welcome meme: name five of your favorite non-library blogs. I did a post like that early last year, called a non-library blogroll. I’ll try not to repeat myself (though I will take a moment to say that the Waxy links miniblog is still my favorite place to find nifty stuff from the wider web).

• ASCII by Jason Scott. Scott is the guy behind Textfiles.com and the BBS Documentary, and is hell-bent on preserving early personal computing culture. He can be cranky, irascible, opinionated, and profane, but he also strikes me as something of a romantic idealist. Suggested posts: A Sysop, Forever and You’ve Ruined Everything
• Ironic Sans by David Friedman. Posts about art and design and web stuff, often in the form of “Ideas,” or brief sketches of things that would be cool if he had the time to do them. Some ideas do get played out in full, like Every ad in Times Square. Suggested post: The Astoria Notes about his former downstairs neighbor with scans of the strange notes she would leave for him.
• Metafilter, AskMeFi, and MetaTalk. Sprawling, maddening, wonderful. Not really a blog, but whatever. No suggested posts, just dive in. Pay the five bucks and join up.
• Subtraction, by designer Khoi Vinh. A blog that I almost always click through from the feed because I love the site design. Suggested post: Oh Yeeaahh!, about his presentation at SXSWi this year on grid-based design. Download the slides while you are there.
• Benjamin’s blog. I’m not going to link to it right now, because I’m not sure he wants the traffic, but a guy who was a student at Colorado College and is now doing a one-year paraprofessional job in the Math and Computer Science department here has a blog that is more of an online social site with user profiles, internal email messages, and the like. He wrote the code for the site himself. Most of the participants are real-life friends; I’m just an interloper there.