The Darkgate Comic Slurper

I believe I found out about The Darkgate Comic Slurper from Andy Ihnatko on the MacBreak Weekly podcast (months or maybe even years back). It is now my daily comics page.

Like Instapaper, there's nothing to install on my MacBook Air, but it does need to be configured for each now browser one uses it with. (I assume one's configuration for each browser is stored on the server but identified by a cookie.) Configuring is simply a matter of clicking on the red buttons beside the comics you wish to be automatically displayed in the web page in the future.

Here's the ones I read:

• Basic Instructions
• Big Nate
• Calvin and Hobbes (a new classic daily)
• Cul de Sac
• Dilbert
• Doonesbury
• Foxtrot
• Frazz
• The Joy of Tech
• Not Invented Here
• Peanuts (a new classic daily)
• Pearls Before Swine
• PVP
• Questionable Content
• XKCD

The Darkgate Comic Slurper allows me to read all these without going to each respective web page. (Unfortunately that means they don't get advertising revenue from me.) I do go to xkcd.com every time I see a new XKCD comic though, because I like to read the tool-tip.

The one comic that I'd like to see included in The Darkgate Comic Slurper is Tom Tomorrow's This Modern Life. I've suggested it (by pressing the Suggest button), but I guess I should take "It can take days/weeks/months or even years for new comics to appear here, so please be patient." to heart.

Are there any comics on The Darkgate Comic Slurper that I don't read that you recommend?

The awesome Instapaper is next (though there is nothing to install)

Instapaper was the next thing I setup on my new Mac. There is nothing to install, but I did drag the Read Later bookmarklet to the first slot in my Safari Bookmarks Bar, so ⌘1 will mark a page for reading later on Instapaper. (I noticed accidentally that if I run the bookmarklet on http://www.instapaper.com/, instead of dumbly marking that page, a dialog pops up saying "The bookmarklet is correctly installed." Nice touch.)

Instapaper allows me to note pages I don't have time to read (typically as I find out about them while reading Twitter while taking a break at work). I usually end up reading them in bed on the excellent Instapaper iPad app.

BTW, the second bookmarklet in my Bookmarks Bar is bit.ly, which allows me to shorten the URL for any page with ⌘2, and then tweet about it if I wish.