If only the words of songs were bet­ter tied to what was going on in the film clips.

I’m sure you’ve often thought that too… well there are plenty of these on YouTube to sat­isfy your lit­eral desires.

Com­ing soon to a Fail Blog near you… two guys thought this dis­guise would help them get away with robbery.

From CNN.

“Police received a call Fri­day night that two men with hooded sweat­shirts and painted faces had tried to break into a man’s home in Car­roll, Iowa.

When police stopped a vehi­cle match­ing the caller’s descrip­tion blocks away, they were stunned by the men’s disguises.

There were no ski masks or stock­ings pulled over their heads; instead, Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20, streaked their faces with per­ma­nent black marker.”

Nin­jas are sneaky…

An athe­ist sci­en­tist takes up the case from Eagle­ton, crit­i­cis­ing Dawkins for his approach to the dis­cus­sion with Christians.

The trou­ble with Richard Dawkins from CPX on Vimeo.

This will help you get your bet­ters and let hers right…

Accord­ing to wikipedia, it’s prob­a­ble that two in three of you are just like me. I’m not sure that pleases many of you. I’m talk­ing about those who are sus­cep­ti­ble to kine­to­sis. Oth­er­wise known as motion sickness.

This wiki arti­cle claims that 66% of peo­ple are sus­cep­ti­ble to motion sick­ness in severe con­di­tions. Only 33% are sus­cep­ti­ble in mild con­di­tions. I’m not entirely sure which cat­e­gory I fit into, but I’d say it’s likely to be the first. I get air sick, sea sick, sim­u­la­tion sick, car and bus sick and I don’t really know about space sick. I’ve never been there but chances are I’d feel ill.

Every Fri­day after­noon I take my two soft­ball teams to play inter­school sport. This involves a ten minute bus ride each way. Usu­ally I try and sit by myself so I can look out of the bus but today one of my shy, newish boys asked if I could sit with him. Not want­ing to be rude, I accepted his offer and he pro­ceeded to talk the entire way, pre­vent­ing me from watch­ing out the front of the bus con­tin­u­ously. I began to feel excep­tion­ally ill and, since ask­ing him to stop talk­ing would only be a lit­tle less offen­sive than throw­ing up on him, I let him con­tinue. It’s very dif­fi­cult to seem inter­ested and engaged in a con­ver­sa­tion with a small child whilst want­ing to throw up. Once we got back to school the nau­sea did not sub­side. Again, it’s almost impos­si­ble to teach 29 hyper­ac­tive chil­dren while want­ing to throw up. Fur­ther­more I have the unfor­tu­nate ten­dency to not ask for help when needed so I sol­diered* on.

I’m sick of get­ting motion sick­ness. Are there any reme­dies out there that actu­ally work? I tried sea sick­ness tablets once but I was so drowsy that I slept through the entire cruise. When I awoke, I was too drowsy to talk with­out sound­ing drunk. The tablets would have made me unfit to drive had I been required to do so.

My only other rem­edy so far has been to go to sleep. There’s a catch with this one but I’m afraid telling you would be over­shar­ing. And we know how Nathan feels about that. Unfor­tu­nately this rem­edy doesn’t really work if you’re sup­pose to be the one in charge.

*I actu­ally told my kids I had some “very impor­tant” work to do on the com­puter and would let them play some quite games so long as they didn’t dis­turb me. Tech­ni­cally super­vi­sion rather than teach­ing but that’s all I could manage.

Boing­Bo­ing has a series of tips from a Japan­ese pro pho­tog­ra­pher who takes amaz­ing iPhone pic­tures in his spare time.

“Always be on the look­out for change, whether that’s light­ing, or the move­ment of peo­ple, or just a slight dif­fer­ence in some­thing ordinary.”

“Walk a lot. The iPhone cam­era has a fixed focal length. Whether you enliven or kill this fea­ture is up to your foot­work. If you need a close up, get real close. If you need dis­tance, you exag­ger­ate that dis­tance. You use your feet to find angles. It’s also impor­tant to ven­ture far away from your com­fort zone to find good sub­jects to shoot.”

This is a new expe­ri­ence for me… I’m still young enough to con­sider the prospect of play­ing cricket for Aus­tralia (and only cricket because you can be a late bloomer), but I’m now old enough that mur­der­ers whose high pro­file cases that I remem­ber can be released hav­ing served their prison sentences.

It is weird.

The guy who killed Dr Vic­tor Chang is being released on parole. I remem­ber dri­ving past the police tape in Syd­ney the day he was killed.

I’m not a big fruit eater. There are many days where my rec­om­mended daily healthy food intake is all veg­etable no fruit. There are many days where it’s neither.

When I do eat fruit I go on fruit binges. A month or so ago it was bananas. I ate about six in one day. I didn’t feel very well.

This week it’s water­melon. We had just water­melon for din­ner one night. And I’ve had water­melon (and only water­melon) for lunch four days this week.

I’m wor­ried I’ll end up look­ing like this pre­vi­ously fea­tured water­melon head.

Are there seri­ous health con­cerns that come from eat­ing too much watermelon?

Comic book mashups are fun. These, by Ryan Dunlavey, are great… and there are more at that link.