A bunch of links - March 31, 2009

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 21:27 | Category : Curiosities
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Blood Bath

This is the per­fect foil for your evi­dence knife and blood stained bath­mat — par­tic­u­larly if you want to be arrested for a crime you didn’t com­mit. It’s Only 8.99GBP. All the more rea­son to embrace your inner psycho.

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 18:27 | Category : Curiosities
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No no offence

They make for a strange trio of bed­fel­lows, Peter Jensen, the Angli­can Arch­bishop of Syd­ney, David Marr, the jour­nal­ist, and Janet Albrecht­sen, the colum­nist — pub­lic fig­ures whose views on pol­i­tics, soci­ety and reli­gion could not be more different.”

There’s an inter­est­ing debate tak­ing place tonight. It’ll be online. It’s about free­dom to offend (pro­tect­ing free­dom of speech). The above is the team for the affir­ma­tive… details are here.

It’ll screen here.

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Miracle cure

Give your athe­ist friends a spray with this mir­a­cle cure (pep­per­mint breath fresh­ener) and watch their smug supe­ri­or­ity melt away…

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 16:45 | Category : Christianity, Curiosities
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YouTube Twosday - wherefore art though Mario

Here are two Super Mario inspired videos along a sim­i­lar theme — what would hap­pen if Mario appeared in real life (and not in a ter­ri­ble, ter­ri­ble, movie ver­sion…)

The first takes a real life Mario (played by a human) into an 8 bit soci­ety (made from cardboard).

While the sec­ond takes the real Mario onto the streets. It’s worth a watch — espe­cially from about a minute in.


Warp Whis­tle
by Matthew­Do­minick
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 16:27 | Category : Curiosities
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YouTube Tuesday: Wiimote controlled coffee

I was sure I’d posted this before. But it appears not. I searched for all the log­i­cal com­bi­na­tions of words.

If I were a bit nerdier — or geekier — I would try to fig­ure out how to do this to my machine — which is essen­tially a super­sized Sil­via (but slightly dif­fer­ent in struc­ture). Total tem­per­a­ture con­trol is pretty much the holy grail of cof­fee preparation.

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 16:22 | Category : Coffee
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Pac to the rafters

Ahh Pac­man, where would I be with­out you… about four posts down per day I reckon.

Pacman’s grav­i­ta­tional struc­ture has always puz­zled me. It has some bear­ing on his actual shape — are we get­ting a topo­graph­i­cal view — or a view from the side? Who knows? Well, some­one. And now you can explore Pac­man with grav­ity as a fac­tor thanks to the mar­vels of mod­ern pro­gram­ming technology…

Down­load it here.

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 15:58 | Category : Curiosities
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Here's one for the folders

Scrunch­ers are no doubt less sophis­ti­cated and should be ostracised with much point­ing and name call­ing. Fold­ers are the supe­rior breed. As demon­strated by this new line of toi­let paper

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 15:17 | Category : Curiosities
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Glass bottomed kayak

Noth­ing gives you an appre­ci­a­tion of your impend­ing con­sump­tion by a shark like a see through kayak. see through kayak.

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 14:50 | Category : Curiosities
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Mirror, mirror on the wall...

…who is the tallest of them all?

I am post­ing a lot of rub­bish today — and am thor­oughly enjoy­ing the “press this” Word­Press link. It makes post­ing even quicker…

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Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 14:49 | Category : Curiosities
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Jeff K : I ask people how their Bible reading is going if I get into an awkward convo at church. works a treat.
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Ben McLaughlin : Heh! That's cool that they were such good sports about it.
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Al Bain : It was your comment that all actions should tick at least one that got me wondering. I think the three categories we have been talking about are helpful. And probably the easiest way to thi
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