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My friend in Montreal, Bob Hunt of Way Down Here, dropped everything he was doing and played this elegant little applet the other day. Taking his advice, I did the same, and was rewarded by an amazing little game. What is it that makes this so appealing? The music? The whimsy? The simple animation? Play it and then leave me a comment with your opinion. I want everything in my life to work this well.

That link is why Way Down Here is one of my favourite Canadian blogs. In the spirit of lists, and inspired by Pollard, here are some more:

• Reinvented from my old friend and fellow ex-Peterborough resident Peter Rukavina, which is a blog full of reflections of life on PEI
• Riley Dog, by Steve Laidlaw out of Kamloops, BC, being and electic survey of a couple of pieces of cool writing a day, with images
• Dave Pollard’s aforementioned How To Save The World, from near Toronto
• Fellow Bowen Islander John Dumbrille’s new blog Bowen…Bowen…Bon, which captures perfectly his sense of humour and place
• The standard setting wood s lot from Mark Woods of Perth Ontario. One of the best known and most-read arts and culture blogs on the web.
• Rob Patterson’s blog, documenting his engagement with knowledge management and contributing to a healthy overrepresentation of PEI webloggers on this list.
• Vancouver-based tea and lit blog at Caterina.net from Caterina Fake.
• Seb’s Open Research, from Sebastien Paquet who is now in New Brunswick I think.
• Another Bowen Islander, Marian Bantjes, who blogs on her renovations and her design work and many other things besides.
• Saskatoon-based hockey fan Jordon Cooper, who’s blog runs the gamut but sticks close to it’s Christian and social justice roots. It’s one of the few Christian blogs I read regularyly, mostly becasue Jordon is ENGAGED. With capitals.
• Tony Tross in Whitehorse, Yukon represents North of 60 with his weird and amazing abuddha’s memes
• Hockey Pundits, a group blog about the NHL written by a bunch of fans, including yours truly.

I’d really like to have a representative smaple from accross the country. So which are the best blogs from Alberta, NWT, Nunavut, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Eh?