I’m playing around a little with the restrictions for Blog Day 2007 and going for a combination of blogs I’ve recently come across, blogs I’ve re-discovered and blogs that continue to delight with new content…admittedly that last is stretching the rules ever so slightly. Some of my interests of late have veered toward the esoteric and the obscure. So here are 5 blogs that have crossed my path:

• language hat - I’ve always had an interest in words and translations, nevermind changes across editions. I came across this blog in the blogroll of an old favourite that ceased a year or so back.
• Dark Roasted Blend - I’m a little undecided on this one at the moment, however I’ve linked to the post that attracted my attention rather than main page. This blog is picture intensive covering interesting quirks.
• The Presurfer - This is an old favourite that I’ve not read in a long, long time, a site for generalists. It’s been running since 2000.
• xkcd - one of my favourite cartoons, it appeals to the geek philosopher in me.
• Arts & Letters Daily - Another old favourite I’ve recently returned to. I used to cite articles from it regularly in my early blogging days. Somehow I overlooked it when populating my aggregator. Revisiting the blogroll of my old blog reminded me of its absence in my current reading.

One of the primary blog discovery tools I used, or used to use and now lament, is the humble blogroll. These days I read most blogs via an aggregator and rarely visit the actual blog. In doing so I miss the bits around the blog: the look and feel, the colour, the typesetting, and the blogroll. Some sites have extensive rolls and others keep it tight. It was always a delight to happen upon a long and interesting list, plenty of food to pick at, avenues to explore. I would jump from blogroll to blog to new roll and on, finding myself in faraway places, feeding on curiosities ranging from the mundane to the outlandish.