The power of the pen is nothing compared to the impact of the imagery at Innings blog. The messages are usually on the darker side, but the bottom line is, one visit will make you think, ponder and remember.

Rather than bumble through life taking hits on the chin time after time, you can contemplate and analyse and act accordingly to effect change. Peter at Necessary Skills gives you plenty of clues about how to think and make the best of the one shot at life we have.

If you like to gape in awe at the depth a writer can go into about tech stuff, check out Daring Fireball. It is no exaggeration to say that after 5000 words on which way a menu item should open, you have a fair idea, and then some, about the topic in question.

Jon Swift writes extensive posts too, and when he gets political he really lays it on thick and makes political illiterates like myself feel really stupid. I should respond positively to the revelation of my inadequacies, and go to university, or something like that. Instead I choose to limit my research to reading his blog posts at irregular intervals. The result of this approach is not good. He has not posted a politically-motivated article in a while and I remain eternally illiterate, politically speaking.

And number 5 blog to make my grey matter greyer than my hair, is ... a joint sect. If you ever read Lord likely or Ominous Comma, you will get a flavor for really flowery prose that says in a hunderd words what others say in 20. The difference however, is that after 100 words from these two, I am shaking my head in awe at the mental somersaults these guys must go through to come up with their material.

And there you have it. If you want to write about some blogs that think, write about them. Norman Roberts' 5 thinking blogs are listed here.