Kottke credits Neil Patrick Harris (of TV’s Doogie Howser, M.D.) with the beginning stages of blogging here.

Not only does NPH deserve credit for the first generation of weblogs but he’s also a very underrated comedic actor, as shown in both Undercover Brother and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. There is nothing like seeing a former child actor that has the balls to poke fun at himself and do it in a super funny way. Granted, both movies did poorly at the box office but he still deserves HUGE props for playing the roles nicely. There are some movies that are made okay solely on the basis of a few roles in the movie, Anchorman and Napoleon Dynamite come directly to mind.