Here’s the plan: every Friday, let’s recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That’s it. No complicated rules, no “pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die”. Just introduce us to some new things to read.

(Your cat will, in fact, eventually, die. I just thought I’d put that out there. Sorry.)

mrcreek doesn’t post often, but when he does, it is almost entirely awesome sci-fi. Completed novels! With real science!

bigbangindex is a necessity for people in fandom who like to stretch out on the couch and put their laptops on their stomachs and read for a few hours straight without any of that pesky “searching.” This is the best resource I have found yet for discovering completed, current, and future Big Bang ficathons.

intro_to_cs is a community for people following along with MIT 6.00: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, which is part of their OpenCourseWare project; the lectures, reading assignments and problem sets are all free and available online. The goal is to do a first run-through from November 2009 – February 2010. Totally worth doing if you are interested in learning computer science with a great, supportive bunch of people.