Blog Day 08

"One long moment on August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new blogs, preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers". Instructions:

• Find the 5 blogs
• Notify the 5 bloggers
• Write a post with links and a description
• Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st)
• Add the BlogDay tag (by linking to http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008) and a link to the BlogDay web site.

My 5 (not all are new, some are relatively new to me or a bit off topic from what I blog about):

1. Markets in Everything -- a great chronicle of unusual products from Second Life tutors to tourists feeding a sheep to a Siberian tiger for $75 a pop.
2. Kafir Girl -- ok not really from an alternate viewpoint but still, something from a culture I'm not 100 familiar with -- she's taking a hilarious journey through the Quran's many quirks and cruelties.
3. Elder of Ziyon -- he's way more right wing than me and (probably) way more right wing than you -- but I find many of his posts interesting, especially when he brings in tidbits from Hamas/Hezbollah/Ahmadinejad/Egypt etc that you wouldn't otherwise get.
4. Dispatches from the Culture Wars -- with a caustic tongue and a die-hard libertarianism Ed Brayton brings daily nuggets of the that goes on in the mad intersection of science, religion & conservative politics.
5. Strange Maps -- catalogues weird and wonderful maps based on some principle other than geography (eg. this gem)