From Eric:

It’s said that the best way to find out what’s important to someone is to look in his or her checkbook register (although an updated variation would refer to credit card receipts).

While I’m not nosy enough to ask about your check register (well, I am that nosy, but I also know that you wouldn’t tell me), I would propose that another way to learn about someone else is by a review of his or her browser bookmarks. And in pursuit of such knowledge I hereby propose this simple meme:

1. Open the bookmarks list in your favorite web browser and note the bottommost entry (which may or may not be the last one you added), even if it’s inside a folder. Copy the bookmark title, along with the URL, into a post or comment.

2. Count up your list from there, and select every fourth bookmark, until you’ve picked another four. Add them to your post or comment.

3. Publish the list of five bookmarks and wait for the world to marvel at your eclectic and sophisticated interests!

My bookmarks are listed in folders, so I used the first folder listed - blog stuff. My answers:

1. All Consuming - Book lover’s portal.

2. Tickie’s Web Page Themes - Lilacs Theme - from when I was researching skins for this site or my mother’s webpage.

3. Sitemeter - from when I used them for my stats.

4. The link to my webhost email control panel. You don’t need that.

5. Junk Science - a page that debunks junk science in the news.

Ok, it’s your turn.

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1. Interesting list Jen, but I really wanted the URL to your email control panel!

   Posted by Eric  on  02/14/05  at  10:37 PM

2. I’m at work at the moment, so I’ll use my blogroll instead of browser bookmarks:

   Wikipedia
   Samizdata Blogging Glossary
   Education Intelligence Agency
   King Features Comics
   Snopes

   Posted by Alan K. Henderson  on  02/15/05  at  04:12 AM

3. Yeah, Eric, that’s a no-go.

   Alan, I love Wikipedia and use it a lot. I should add that link to my infotainment section. And I forget that Samizdata is there. Need to add that one too.

   Posted by  on  02/15/05  at  10:26 AM

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