Our friends over at Soho the Dog have handed us the distinguished and no doubt highly coveted "Premios Dardo" award. The rules seem simple even for my coffee-starved brain: pass the award on to five other sites.

So here they are:

Ralph Maughan’s Wildlife News
I came upon Ralph's blog via panoramio. I sometimes use google earth when planning trips and I kept seeing the little panoramio icons indicating photos in the damnedest, hard to reach places and they all turned out to be Ralph's. The guy gets around and he's great at keeping up with all the political/environmental news from the Rocky Mountain West.

The n-Category Café
Seriously, who doesn't like a little extended topological field theory with their morning coffee. Honestly, I really wanted to single out John Baez's journal, who contributes to n-Category, but he doesn't have an rss feed so it's a little hard for me to follow. He says he has no idea how RSS feeds work—fine with me, one day I'll explain to him how RSS works and he can explain to me how gravity works.

The Landscapist
I almost always disagree with Mark Hobson, but almost always in interesting ways. Photography blogs can be such a boor because they tend to obsess over gear; Mark obsesses over the meaning of photographs. Also, I find myself leaving the grumpiest comments on his postings which he handles very gracefully. His son makes terrific photographs too.

Moon River Photography
Andy Williams is the COO at Smugmug and, honestly, I don't really follow the blog very closely (see above about photography blogs), but he did recently clear something up for me: I've always misunderstood what the "Really Right" in Really Right Stuff meant.

Rands in Repose
I know, Rands is already very popular, and if you are the kind of person who likes this sort of thing, you are probably already well acquainted with his writing. But really, when was the last time the Grammy Awards introduced you to an artist? Rands is one of the few blogs that breaks the rule that you must update often to keep an audience. He writes a couple pieces here and there, more of a collection of essays than a blog, but I always jitter with delight when his icon lights up in my news reader. I can only attribute it to his genius that he somehow makes being a software manager cool. Here's a classic: The Nerd Handbook