Well, dive into mark is back after a three week hiatus (as I found out via blogdex), and has come out with a toy that's perfect for information junkies like me (or, I guess, it could be a bad thing).
http://diveintomark.org/newdoor/ checks out your blog home page, or links page, compares it with data from Blogging Ecosystem and makes a list of recommended readings for you.
Some of the recommended blogs based on links from Circadian Shift are ones I'm already reading (eg. Photojunkie, as well as dive into mark itself), but I was pleasantly surprised by one recommendation.
Oblomovka is a blog with various geek techie notes and linkage, which happens to derive its name from a novel called Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov. Oblomov is a man who spends his life lounging around in his pyjamas and rarely gets out of bed:
With Oblomov, lying in bed was neither a necessity (as in the case of an invalid or of a man who stands badly in need of sleep) nor an accident (as in the case of a man who is feeling worn out) nor a gratification (as in the case of a man who is purely lazy). Rather, it represented his normal condition. Whenever he was at home--and almost always he was at home--he would spend his time in lying on his back. Likewise he used but the one room--which was combined to serve both as bedroom, as study, and as reception-room--in which we have just discovered him. True, two other rooms lay at his disposal, but seldom did he look into them save on mornings (which did not comprise by any means every morning) when his old valet happened to be sweeping out the study. The furniture in them stood perennially covered over, and never were the blinds drawn up.Gee, does that sound a bit like anyone else we know?
I'm glad to have finally found the book, as I'd heard of it, but couldn't remember what it was called. There is, of course, a handy text file available for download, so I can then read (or ignore) it on my PDA.
Anyway, should you not have nearly enough to read in your copious spare time (and even if you do), go give newdoor a whirl.
[Addendum: OK, this is weird -- I went back to my page of recommended links, and the list had changed. No more Oblomovka, among other things.]
[Addendum 23 November 2002: Turns out that Oblomov is available in multiple formats (including a dramatic adaptation) at Blackmask.]