3quarksdaily

3quarksdaily is one of my favorite blogs. It promises “an ecclectic digest of science, art and literature” and delivers, every day, several times a day. Google Reader in fact tells me that I read more posts from 3QD—as it’s also called—than from any other blog save Make Magazine’s.

A few months ago however, 3quarksdaily started including ads in their RSS feed. Sadly, instead of going with tolerable text ads, they chose to run large Flash ads. To make matters worse, the content of those ads can be surprising and unpleasant. For instance, I’ve recently seen one ad for some Ann Coulter event or book and another for the “church” of Scientology. Not good.

While I won’t unsubscribe from 3QD and will just have to keep ignoring their ads, I won’t be sharing any more of their posts. I don’t want to have to put up with Flash surprises popping up on my Google Reader shared items. Instead, anything I would normally share I will now repost on “mus in pice.”

And so it begins…