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A friend of mine expressed an interest in my daily browsing, and it took me a little while to note down all the details of my daily newsfeed. It was something I should have done anyway, though, in case this machine crashes.

Anyway – here’s everything I’d need to re-create my daily newsfeed on another computer, only slightly edited to remove a couple of personal details. Note that the ‘**’ entries can be considered a ‘Worst of the Web’ – goatse.cx is only the beginning, and I have something of a horrified fascination with the topic that you probably don’t share.

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Software Installed:
Firefox
Extensions installed ( https://addons.mozilla.org/?application=firefox ):
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmenot/
BugMeNot – Generates login/passwords for online newspapers that require them
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/


Adblock – keeps most ads invisible
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=1136
Adblock Filterset.G Updater – auto-downloads a set of filters for adblock
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
NoScript – Keeps javascript from running, unless specifically whitelisted
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/139/
Image Zoom
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/743/
CustomizeGoogle
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1368/
Colorful Tabs
Additional filters installed into Filterset.G Updater: (copy following text block into a text file, then ‘import’ it. Or just enter each one manually.)
[Adblock]
sageanalyst.net
comics.com/images
comics.com/mycomics/images
seattlepi.nwsource.com/art
seattlepi.nwsource.com/mastheads
http://www.ucomics.com/network_right.phtml
fborfw.com/images
fborfw.com/strip_fix/images
keenspot.com/global/
www.gamingguardians.com/images/
extreme-dm.com/

Other software:
http://www.feedreader.com/
FeedReader 2.9 (3.0 seems buggy), see below
http://free.grisoft.com/
AVG Free, virus scanner
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareBlaster
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Ad-Aware
http://www.spybot.info/
Spybot

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DataPacRat’s Daily Newsfeed:
**: Adult content

Email (via a Gmail account):
Google News Alerts: News, Once per Day:
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en
“amateur radio” OR “ham radio”
“ancient egypt”
“canadian space agency”
“hudson bay company”
“james randi”
“lawrence seaway”
“oak island” AND (scotia OR ns)
“st. catharines” -lacrosse -hockey -basketball -baseball -football -soccer -sports -tennis -softball
** bestiality
boese -basketball
** brothel OR brothels OR bordello OR bordellos
burkhard heim
Dröscher gravity
gravitophoton OR gravito-photon OR gravitophotons
Heim-Dröscher
niagara -basketball -baseball -football -soccer -hockey -sports -tennis -lacrosse -softball
Nunalivut
possum OR possums OR opossum OR opossums
** prostitution
rattus
welland -peterborough
YahooGroups:
[numerous]
Other mailing lists:
[numerous]

Web (using Firefox):
Daily Part 1: Comics (placed in a Bookmark folder, and opened all at once by selecting ‘open in tabs’):
http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/index.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/animal.asp
http://www.comics.com/comics/arlonjanis/index.html
http://www.comics.com/creators/ballardst/index.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/beetlebailey.asp
http://www.ucomics.com/bigtop/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/bizarro.asp
http://www.ucomics.com/bobthesquirrel/
http://www.ucomics.com/brewsterrockit/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/buckles.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/cats.asp
http://www.ucomics.com/citizendog/
http://www.comics.com/comics/committed/index.html
http://www.comics.com/comics/cowandboy/index.html
http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/
http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/
http://www.comics.com/comics/franknernest/index.html
http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/
http://www.comics.com/comics/grizzwells/index.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/hagar.asp
http://www.ucomics.com/heartofthecity/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/loose.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mark.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mgg.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mutts.asp
http://www.uclick.com/client/spi/nq/
http://www.comics.com/comics/offthemark/index.html
http://www.comics.com/comics/hedge/
http://www.ucomics.com/overboard/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/ineedhelp.asp
http://www.comics.com/wash/redandrover/index.html
http://www.ucomics.com/reynoldsunwrapped/
http://www.comics.com/creators/rubes/index.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/shermans.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/speedbump.asp
http://www.comics.com/comics/spotthefrog/index.html
http://www.comics.com/comics/sunshineclub/index.html
http://www.ucomics.com/yenny/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zits.asp
Daily Part 2: WebComics:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/safehavens.asp
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/fasttrack.asp
http://www.kevinandkell.com/
http://www.gamingguardians.com/
http://www.littledee.net/index.html
http://dominic-deegan.com/
http://www.countyoursheep.com/
http://poisonedminds.com/
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/
http://www.sluggy.com/
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
Daily Part 3: Other:
http://www.woot.com/Default.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_events
http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/on-107_metric_e.html
**http://fchan.hentaiplanet.net/
**http://storiesonline.net/library/authors.php?let=L
https://mail.google.com/mail/
http://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1
Daily: Gaming
http://www.nationstates.net/
http://www.dragonstrove.com/catalog/products_new.php
http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.games.pbm?lnk=lr&hl=en
http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/login/discussion/index.html
http://www.herogames.com/forums/index.php
http://www.happytyme.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=19
http://vfte.cyberpunk.co.uk/index.php?act=idx
http://forum.rpg.net/forumdisplay.php?f=9
http://rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=645&gn=Offsite+Gaming
Other links (not necessarily Daily)
http://www.stcatharines.library.on.ca/content/cat
http://tvlistings2.zap2it.com/grid.asp?partner_id=national
http://www.belfry.com/comics/
http://www.belfry.com/comics/index.php?action=SetView&viewmode=3

RSS (using FeedReader, http://www.feedreader.com/download ):
Top News:
http://boingboing.net/rss.xml
http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml
http://slashdot.org/index.rss
http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GLNewsPicks.rdf
http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews
http://www.kuro5hin.org/backend.rdf
Political:
http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GrokLaw.rdf
http://michaelgeist.ca/rssf_gist.php
http://www.indymedia.org/en/main-features-content.rss
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Truthdig
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/backend/news.rdf
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/index.rdf
http://www.eff.org/minilinks/index.rdf
Hackery:
http://thedailywtf.com/Rss.aspx
http://www.thinkgeek.com/thinkgeek.rss
http://www.hackaday.com/rss.xml
http://www.mozilla.org/news.rdf
http://google.blogspace.com/index.xml
Odd:
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.xml
http://today.reuters.com/rss/oddlyEnoughNews
http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/4429950/device/rss/default.xml
http://tomburka.com/index.xml
http://fafblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Comics:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/someposifeed/data/rss
http://www.tapestrycomics.com/dilbert.xml
http://www.tapestrycomics.com/getfuzzy.xml
http://www.tapestrycomics.com/sheldon.xml
http://www.tapestrycomics.com/roseisrose.xml
http://www.tapestrycomics.com/pvp.xml
** http://www.ghastlycomic.com/rss.xml
** http://ghastlycomic.blogspot.com/atom.xml
** http://www.livejournal.com/users/ghastlycomic/data/atom
http://go-girly.com/girly.xml
http://www.goats.com/index.xml
http://gravyboy.com/fanboyalmanac/FanboyAlmanacFeed.xml
http://www.megatokyo.com/rss/megatokyo.xml
http://www.jaynaylor.com/betterdays/atom.xml
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyoftech.xml
http://interglacial.com/rss/shabot6000.rss
http://www.drinkatwork.com/ml_atom.xml
http://www.livejournal.com/users/howardtayler/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/schlocktroops/data/rss
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/feed/
http://www.evil-comic.com/evilincrss.xml
http://community.livejournal.com/bad_rabbit/data/rss
Furry:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/index.rdf
** http://www.livejournal.com/community/vcl_horrors/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/users/eselgeist/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/users/elfs/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/users/shockwave77598/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/vclpickoftheday/data/rss
** http://www.livejournal.com/community/furryvore/data/rss
** http://www.livejournal.com/community/zetatoys/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/canadianfurs/data/rss
** http://www.livejournal.com/community/erotic_equine/data/rss
** http://www.livejournal.com/community/gryphonerotica/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/toronto_furry/data/rss
** http://www.livejournal.com/community/xenofetish/data/rss
** http://www.livejournal.com/community/positive_zoo/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/furryreaders/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/radiofurs/data/rss
Localish:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/secord_students/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/niagararegion/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/brocku/data/rss
http://community.livejournal.com/niagara_college/data/rss
Gaming:
http://www.rpglibrary.org/news/rss.php
http://e23.sjgames.com/rss.xml
http://www.atlas-games.com/atom.xml
http://wunderland.com/feed.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Flog
http://www.livejournal.com/users/rabbitvalley/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jackwalker/data/rss
Canucky:
http://rss.cbc.ca/canadiannews.xml
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/freeheadlines/rdf/Canada.xml
http://rss.cbc.ca/torontonews.xml
http://www.thestar.com/images/xml/969483202845.xml
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/canada
Adult:
** http://www.fleshbot.com/index.xml
** http://www.tinynibbles.com/atom.xml
** http://www.sexwrecks.com/atom.xml
Rats:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ratties/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rat_health/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rattielovers/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rateyourratty/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rattielove/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rattiepix/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rat_luv/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ratlove/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/newbies_ratties/data/rss
http://www.ratinabox.com/ratablog/index.rdf
http://www.livejournal.com/community/rat_photography/data/rss
http://community.livejournal.com/theratcommunity/data/rss
http://community.livejournal.com/ratsnospos/data/rss
http://community.livejournal.com/rat_photography/data/rss
Space:
http://www.universetoday.com/universetoday.xml
http://www.spacetoday.net/summaries.rdf
http://www.space.com/syn/space.xml
http://www.astrobio.net/news/backend.php
http://www.livejournal.com/community/astronomy/data/rss
http://www.livejournal.com/community/saganliveson/data/rss
http://qs197.pair.com/sfn/rss_cms/sfn.xml
Disastery:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/catalogs/eqs7day-M5.xml
http://www.rss.noaa.gov/noaarss.xml
http://www.rss.noaa.gov/noaa-gov.xml
http://isc.sans.org/rssfeed.xml
http://avianflu.typepad.com/avianflu/index.rdf
Big Sci:
http://rss.cbc.ca/healthsciencenews.xml
http://today.reuters.com/rss/scienceNews
http://today.reuters.com/rss/internetNews
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/science/nature/rss.xml
http://www.theregister.co.uk/science/excerpts.rss
http://www.cbsnews.com/feeds/rss/scitech.rss
http://www.newscientist.com/feed.ns?index=online-news&type=atom
http://www.newscientist.com/feed.ns?index=fundamentals&type=atom
Big Tech:
http://today.reuters.com/rss/technologyNews
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/technology/rss.xml
http://www.upi.com/rss/feedhome/upi_Hi-Tech.rss
http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032117/device/rss/rss.xml
Misc (not in folders):
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/feed/
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?feed=rss2
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?feed=rss2
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BadAstronomyBlog
http://catdynamics.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/blogger_rss.xml
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/rss.xml
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/index.rdf
http://www.arrl.org/arrl.rss
http://mathforge.net/jsp/mathforgeRSS.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/preshrunk-rss2
http://feeds.feedburner.com/JalopyJunktown
http://sherilaugh.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Google Calendar Subscribed Calendars:
UN Holidays: http://ical.mac.com/judsond/UN32Holidays.ics
Liturgical: http://www.newsfromgod.com/ologgio/liturgical.ics
Astronomy: http://ical.mac.com/wesley/Astronomy.ics
Canadian Holidays
Christian Holidays: http://ical.mac.com/ical/Christian32Holidays.ics
Contests: http://pages.infinit.net/va2ksh/Contests.ics
EarthSeasons: http://www.herskal.com/calendars/EarthSeasons.ics
Jewish Calendar
Nasa History: http://ical.mac.com/durban/Nasa32History.ics
Pagan Days: http://www.icalx.com/public/cusp/Pagan%20Days.ics
Space Calendar (JPL): http://ical.mac.com/wesley/Space%20Calendar%20(JPL).ics
SpaceMissions: http://ical.mac.com/tonyfarley/SpaceMissions.ics
Wiccan Calendar: http://www.icalx.com/public/xtianstone/Wiccan_Calendar.ics
World Holidays

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