Here are some end-of-Tuesday links for you:

An open letter to Subway about their cheese, from ‘Left handed toons by right handed people’. (Scroll down the page to see the September 10th blog entry too).

Man in Kenya draws his cartoons on a bus stop shelter. Not dissimilar to the way I started, though mine were on a door at Bible College.

Rev. Gerald Ambulance is now on Facebook. Rev. Gerald is an example to us all.

The top 10 religious blogs, according to Iain Dale, one of the UK’s top politics bloggers. The list is totally unrelated to the top 10 that I would choose, but interesting nevertheless. I suspect most of the religion-related blogs that I would see as being good ones are more or less unnoticed by the mainstream blogging world.

Lastly, I am proud to hit the Google top spot for ‘Rubbish Christian Blog‘. Somebody has to be there.

John Davies has now begun his two month walk along the approximate route of the M62 motorway. You can follow his travels on his M62 walk blog here. I have mentioned this before, but thought I’d mention it again as a reminder now he has started.

This post explains why he is doing it. Do add the blog to your feed reader and send him an encouraging comment every now and then.

The above diagram is not to scale so do not use it for navigational purposes.

Stately Moans
Really good blog by someone working in the stately home industry. Found this via Farli.

Group Games
For the times you need a game to play with a group. A bit over-adsensed, but useful.

The LA Fire Department Flickr photos
Fires and rescues and all sorts. Contains a few pictures that some might find upsetting, but not many.

Man who posts his art on his front door
He sells it to passers-by.

Church to honor turkey hit by car
It was a loyal congregation member apparently:

The turkey, which died last week after being hit by a car, regularly attended Sunday services and greeted people as they arrived

• Poetry in motion, from velorution
  Video of cyclists speeded up in Cambridge. I’ve been meaning to link to the Velorution blog for ages. It is a shop in central London that has the coolest of bicycles. Have a click around the site and you will see what I mean.

• Heaven in Ordinary, a talk by John Davies
  John doing another talk on the Greenbelt Festival theme for this year. Sit down and read it with a cup of tea.

• Conference Of Interestingness from the blog of russell davies

  I’m hoping to find fascinating people and to just ask them to speak about something they care about. I want to replicate the experience of clicking from one really good blog to another, ranging across sciences, arts, musics, jokes and whatever. There will be 20 minute slots and 3 minute slots. Some people will play music or sing. And some people who can’t be there will be asked to send three minute videos. Perhaps. I reckon we can squeeze a lot of interestingness into a day. And then have a party afterwards.

• A rant from The ad lib school of parenting
  Involves hospitals not passing on records etc. I’d be angry too.

• Rummaging In Your Rubbish (from Echo)
  They are emplying people to poke around in our garbage. They won’t find anything interesting in our rubbish. Most of ours is just stuff we throw away.

Shaggy Blog Stories: a collection of amusing tales from the UK blogosphere.
“Next Friday (March 16) is Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day day in the UK. What I’m proposing is to assemble and publish – in the space of just seven days – a paperback anthology of blog writing, that can be sold to raise funds for the charity.”

The Complex Christ | Signs of Emergence: Comic Relief | It’s [not] All For Charity
Kester: We can’t buy our way out of world poverty

Is your church fit for worship? | the Door
Examples of ways to reorder your church from the Oxford Diocese

Convenient Truths – a Green Video Contest
‘Inspired pragmatic videos to help us get out of this mess’

Friends and Heroes
Animated Bible stories shortly to be shown on TV in the UK (found via Tractor Girl)

The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus
Pictures from Jon Birch

Cross about Hot Cross Buns / Fairtrade – can’t be bothered
Some posts from Clare from her ‘What’s for Afters’ blog this week

Little Red Boat (link)
Today’s entry: Colour me blindd
Anna arranges her books in colour order.

This book next to that book, poetry cheek by jowl with travel writing, etiquette rubbing up hard against po-faced textbook. This was exciting! And revolutionary! And new! How incredible an idea!

Tales of Variable Yayness (link)
Today’s entry: Staircam
Yay analyses a hospital stairwell.

“Hey! That guy just walked from the third floor to the 9th floor and then back down to the 4th and back up to the 10th! What is he thinking??”

Diamond Geezer (link)
Today’s entry: The Count (2007)
DG takes his yearly look at his statistics.

At one point earlier in the month I thought that the legendary diamond geezer Mystery Count was most definitely going to reach 2 by the end of February.

All of these blogs are favourites in this household and would be good choices for someone seeking some feeds to populate their feed reader.

So, in reverse order of numbers of visitors clicking through here:

10 Drell’s Descants
Conservative blog from the classical anglican site. Not to be confused with ‘Drell’s discounts’, the people who sell second hand cars and washing machines.

9 daily episcopalian
Liberal blog from Jim Naughton in the diocese of Washington, USA.

8 Inclusive Church blog
A new blog by Scott Gunn of the liberal UK group Inclusive Church. Scott has been posting from Tanzania and takes pictures too.

7 Stand Firm
A good place to keep up with the conservative side of things, though the contributors do tend to get a little bit overexcited sometimes. I have found that the comments aren’t always a good advert for the conservative stance, though perhaps that isn’t a fair thing to say.

6 Times Online – Ruth Gledhill – WBLG
The blog of the newspaper. Ruth would have been a lot higher in this list (top 3 I’d guess) except that the link from there to here was in the middle of a lot of others not in a separate post like some of the others.

5 Pontifications
Site written by Catholics who used to be Anglicans.

4 Thinking Anglicans
Thinking Anglicans is the site I recommend if you just want one ‘Anglican goings-on’ news blog. Simon does tend to do a better job of filtering out the nonsense than some of the other links blogs and doesn’t post lots of extracts making it easier to find things.

3 epiScope
New blog from the Episcopal church in the USA. Official and everything. Coming from the more liberal side of things.

2 Father Jake Stops the World
Father Jake writes commentary from a liberal point of view. Eclectic and eccentric.

1 titusonenine
Kendal Harmon’s TirusOneNine site was the only one in this list to send four figures-worth of visitors. Kendall posts so many links that it is difficult to keep up – I don’t know how he manages to do his washing and ironing.
[Titusonenine often breaks under the strain when something interesting is happening in Anglican circles - the backup blog is here]

• Insecula.com: Take a 360 degrees look around various museums and galleries of the world. In French.
• Cartoons I have Known and Loved » stillbreathing.co.uk Chris is far too kind.
• the open office (found via The Complex Christ | Signs of Emergence: The Open Office ¦ Liturgy Share)
  A new project by the people at Vaux:
  “What we’re hoping to achieve is simple: an open-source, online space to resource a liturgical rhythm of life. A monastic office… but for the emerging city.”
• Heresy Monopoly (found via jonnybaker: heresy game)
  Click on ‘all sizes’ to see it close up.

The Body of Christ could use some sleep (Or what the Church can learn from iTunes.)
Again from emergingchurch.info, a piece by Kester Brewin. He is always good value.

Greenbelt – New church art-space launches with Damien Hirst exhibition
“Britain’s leading contemporary artist invited to show works inspired by religious images to generate debate about belief.”

Drive a white van « Mike Hill
Bishop Mike talks about whether people doing innovative church projects should be paid or not.

jonnybaker: EntrepreneurShip
Interesting-looking day conference on emerging church and being an entrepreneur. Think I might be on holiday though. Not sure.

maggi dawn: SLOW priesthood
Post following on from the Rev. Sam / MadPriest discussion about being a vicar I posted last week. The comments are good, especially the one by John Davies. He is always good value.

staring into the distance::as far as our eyes can see
Paul (always good value) has three four posts on the same aforementioned topics:
1. Clergy stress
2. “If you meet George Herbert on the road, kill him”
3. Visiting
3.1 You get the priests you plan for

Church To Defy NFL, Show Super Bowl With Projector
How churches are being naughty.

1. ‘UNUSUAL SUSPECTS’… PROOST looking to find young creatives! « jon birch [creative journal]
If you’re under 25 and looking for an outlet for your creative work (paid) this could be for you.

2. A Secret Sculpture
This sounds brilliant, and it is happening just up the road from me in Rochford. I like eccentric art projects.

‘A Secret Sculpture’ is a public art-work in which a sculpture is designed, disassembled, put into Rochford Reservoir, retrieved by divers and then reassembled before being installed on the small island in the middle of the Reservoir.

The sculpture will be designed in secret by one group of Rochford Residents and be assembled by another, not privy to the original design.

The blog tells the full story.

3. wannabepriest / I’m a published author!! Ridley publish their Lent book
David is giving away some free Lent books.

4. The Fat Badger – Food & Drink – Times Online
Giles Coren convinces me never to buy bottled water again. Not that I do very often.

Mineral water is a preposterous vanity. It is flown and shipped around the world, from France and Norway at best, from Japan and Fiji at worst. It is bottled in glass that is mostly thrown away and is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic which never, ever, decomposes and just goes to landfill or ends up in one of the “plastic patches” the size of Texas currently gyring in our oceans.

5. Association of Church Editors – Church Magazine Workshops
This might be interesting for readers who look after their church magazines.

Have a good weekend everyone. Possibly see some of you in London later or (We didn’t go in the end) in Wokingham tomorrow.