Cool Blogs You Might Not Be Reading

Pajiba: Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
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The writers at Pajiba take glee at lambasting all the crappy shows and movies that come out of Hollywood and point you in the direction of movies that won't waste your time. Scathing/bitchy and well written. Bonus! One of the editors is from Fayetteville, AR.

Newsweek's Level Up Blog by N'Gai Croal
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The smartest gaming blog ever? Maybe. N'Gai is more interested in the social impact of gaming rather than the actual technical achievements. He's intersted in the human machine interface of gaming, hates backtracking, and I generally agree with what he has to say. Plus I love his email correspondence with the guy who runs the next blog.

MTV's Multiplayer Blog by Stephen Totilo
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Smart and funny and an incredible navel gazer (he regularly posts his own chats about games with other bloggers.) Great posts from last year included his defense of Desktop Tower Defense as the best game of 2007. N'Gai and Stephen recently teamed up with Slate's gaming editor Chris Suellentrop and NYT gaming writer Seth Shiesel to talk about why 2007 was one of the best years for gaming ever. Read it here (LINK)

BoingBoing Gadgets by Joel Johnson
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All of you who know me know that I worship at the temple of BoingBoing. Well the newish gadget section is no exception. This guy might be the funniest tech writer ever. Sort of reminds me from Joel from MST3K. Examples of writing include:

"Random Thoughts on the Wii Remote and Sex:
Why hasn't someone combined the 3d positional Wiimote controller from the Nintendo Wii and a—excuse me for being crass but I believe this is now the parlance—fucking machine? You've got three axis control plus rotational sensitivity. Seems possible. Once you had a one-to-one mapping of the Wiimote and the machine, you should be able to broadcast the positional data over the net without much problem. You might even be able to wire vibration feedback from the machine to be sent to the Wiimote."

And a post on an automatic donut maker that, in a perfect world, would win a Pulitzer. Link.
Plus, his litmus test for whether you will like his writing is the excellent Overdrift, which I have mentioned here and forced my friends to watch incessantly.