Various and Sundries for Saturday

Skylines To Adore
Here's a link to a site that has a series of great pictures of the great skylines of the world. No, New York isn't #1, and Chicago is even ahead of it. When you see them you may very well agree.

Ten Signs
Daily Kos posted David Letterman's Top 10 Signs the Government is Spying on You. Here are two of them:

9. Your houseplant occasionally sneezes

8. Domino's keeps delivering to unmarked van parked across the street

Christianity and Sunday
Back in January, Jordon Cooper posted this quote about Christianity. I found it intriguing and saved the link. For some reason it seemed like a good time to post it.

I'd also like to argue that the mainstream of Christianity throughout the last 1,500 years, and particularly evident in the last 200 years, has been for the majority of practitioners, not a practice-oriented religion, but a Sunday religion, a religion of "do what you want as long as you subscribe to the right things and you show up on Sunday to keep the institution going." It has fostered an extraordinarily limited view of human capacity. It has, in a sense, been co-opted by its own attitude and approach, by materialism. I know this is not necessarily a nice thing to say, and as I said in the beginning, I'm not asking you to agree with it. I'm just asking you to consider it."

Peter Senge, author of the Fifth Discipline