Kelly Felix's blog is a good resource Ryan and hey it's been awhile!. Thanks for posting that.

Lot's of good posts here but most of the article sites doesn't "stick" too long on Google since there's this
"Google Dance"

I'd like to add that there are free press release / ad sites that get ranked well as well.

Here are just some that I like most:

http://free-press-release.com (Use the $1 version or pay a little more for best results.)
if you write a good one, they will syndicate another release for you for free.

http://prlog.org

http://usfreeads.com (use paid version is good too)

and finally a good paid service such as http://prweb.com

Also, remember VBulletin boards that are highly indexed on Google, a popular one like the Warrior Forum just gets updated on Google instantly.

And to some extent the freeadvertisingforum dot com by Michael R seems to work.