Miraculous Blogs

Have you ever tried clicking the "next blog" button on the top right of most blogspot sites? This is a great little trick if you ever have five minutes to spare and fancy some random web surfing. Very occasionally you come across a blog that is truly stunning (stunningly good, or stunningly bad, or a blog that really requires some other adjective that you can't quite put your finger on). Anyway, here are a few that I came across in a short ten-minute "Next Blog" journey last night....

Sheepworld is a great site run by Youssouf, a fluffy toy sheep from the Netherlands. It is all about....sheep. Really.

The Commuter is a new project by an Auckland commuter, "observations from a bus window". Given the state of traffic in our beautiful town, I imagine that they will have a lot of time to collect their thoughts.

Blogosauri - in all shapes and sizes

Cheryl-Cherry. This eye-watering effort is either a txt version of Finnegan's Wake, or was created by Jackson Pollock hovering over a rewired keyboard. I'm tempted to run it through Babelfish to see what it all means.

Dominion Road. OK, so I didn't find this via the "Next Blog" button, but the concept of a localised restaurant review blog seems pretty sound to me. A pity that Kelsey doesn't deign to eat north of Balmoral Road, since this would render the site more relevant to where I live.

And probably my favourite, if just for it's earnestness: Ajay Sethi's attempt to understand relationships between mobile internet requirements and knowledge management and information retrieval methods. Righto.

And if all this leave your brain hurting, the rather good Grace Pages offers some great practical advice on how to avoid the tempation of using your brain.