Blogachute #2

It’s lunchtime on Friday! – which means it’s blogachute day! Time to jump off the blogplane and freefall into cyberspace until I land on the ground.

8000 feet - http://www.blogtopsites.com/religion/

A blogspace for many religious blogs around the globe – today, I’m number 327 in the case files, but I want to look at some other sites around me. Let’s see where will all the fun begin?

7000 feet - http://dharmavision.typepad.com/

A Buddhist blogsite – written by Amadeus whose mantra is: in a world of suffering and pain, the best refuge can be found in the Dharma

Interesting graphics, eyecatching layout, and some cool fonts.

Today’s message:The Buddhist view on globalization – everything is connected

6000 feet - http://cyclingplatypus.com/wordpress/

Another Buddhist who calls himself the Cycling Platypus – some great photos here as well as a few worthwhile quotes. Check out Tom the Sea Monkey!

Today’s quote: As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.


5000 feet - http://www.bobdob.com/index.php

Bob Dob is an amazing cartoonist/ painter. Some of his paintings are really weird, but he connects with the dark side of the soul. His work make you laugh and think.

4000 feet - http://www.strangeco.com/index_home.php

Strangeco – purveyors of the peculiar! A lot of sci-fi and quirky stuff here. I guess this is where I’m beginning to feel the culture gap, but if the church wants to get out into the world, then this is where some of it is. Much of the art is heavily influenced by Japanese anime and computer games. It makes me wonder what Rembrandt, Monet, and Picasso would have thought about it. Salvador Dali would love this.


3000 feet - http://laughingsquid.com/

Art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond. I’m definitely way out of my comfort zone here. I seem to have spiraled into a world that I never knew existed. This reminds me a lot of what we called “Third Eye” culture back in Scotland. Some amazing graphics.

News of the day: Yahoo is closing down its photos site and focusing on Flickr – Flickr is a great website for storing and sharing photographs, drawings, etc

2000 feet - http://www.flickr.com/photos/traqair57/ - talking about quirky artwork and weird photos – this is my flickr site

and this is my brother Alan’s flickrsite http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrwegian/ and this is my other brother Andy’s

flickrsite - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaggystu71/ - They both have some stunning photographs of Scotland


1000 feet – back on course - http://www.themerlinshow.com/ - a podcast show about music and other stuff. In years to come, pastors will be podcasting their sermons from their own backyards, sitting on a deck chair, sipping iced tea – who needs a church building, anyway?

Zero feet – back to terra firma, as well as opus major