As in, stuff you’ve asked people to send you via emails automatically every day or week.
Word-a-Day aka Wordsmith, been getting this one for years, since before the interwebs were invented, no, really. Definitions, etymology, examples of usage that are often quite snotty/amusing. Its founder, Anu Garg, is the pleasant gentleman pictured to the left.
A booksellers’ listserv. Several rare-books catalogues. A couple of auction houses that do book-auctions. Weekly book reviews from the New York Times. Publishers Weekly news, a daily service. News-alerts from the Economist. I got the Guardian’s fashion articles for a while, but then decided I didn’t like people telling me what to wear.
I receive quarterly pay-your-sales-tax notices from the state. To be specific, the California Board of Equalization, … no, wait that’s not the sort of thing I meant. (Why the hell is the state sales tax bureau called the Board of Equalization?!)
The local Chamber of Commerce, which really should be canceled, it’s pretty tin-pot.
I’ve received Groupon a couple of times, but what they offered was dumb, i.e., not to my own personal, extremely picky tastes.
What do you guys get?
