Goodshirt were a cool Kiwi band that Australia never managed to claim. They had this cool song called “Sophie” that had a very cool acoustic version.
But I digress. Glennz.com is my current favourite shirt site (I haven’t bought any yet – but I’d like to. Thanks mostly to these:
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Evolution
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If anyone buying me Christmas or birthday presents hasn’t done so yet – you can’t go wrong with a good novelty T-Shirt.
How many of these have you used? Are designs getting clunkier and more complex? Or more intuitive?
Really, it’s just a cool pic.
Here’s the original post – complete with family tree
Lesson in PR from this week:
If you can dodge a journalist’s questions with consumate ease – you
should be expected to be able to dodge their shoe with the same, if
not more, ease. George Bush has obviously learned that lesson early.
He handled that situation with grace and composure. The reporter
probably deserved a tongue lashing – he’ll be lucky to be spared a
literal lashing in Iraq. Ironically, if Saddam was still in power he
probably would have been executed. That’s the best shoe pun I could
come up with because the Facebook George Bush already used “sole
searching.” The Facebook George Bush is not me.
Wikipedia has some interesting things to say about shoe tossing. Including an
interesting look at “shoefiti” the act of throwing shoes onto a
telegraph wire. Which I was always told was to indicate drugs could be
bought nearby.
Whoops. Make sure you’re keeping those safety straps on. There have been photos of wiimote damage posted – and funny videos of wiimote tragedies. But to Gizmodo’s knowledge this is the first video of said carnage.
I’m almost ready to pull the switch to my very own wordpress.org blog at nathanintownsville.com. Check it out – and let me know what you think of the very clean template. I am thinking about including some colour – but haven’t really figured out where yet – or what I’d change.
December 15, 2008 – I’d add coffeesnobs.com.au to this list for help with coffee related problems…
December 15, 2008 – “Headlines effect your bottom line” would have been a better title on this Seth post on the value of headlines.
December 15, 2008 – To exposit or not to exposit? Listened to some Mark Driscoll and John Piper in the car on the weekend. I’m leaning towards systematics as the best model of preaching to contemporary (or young) audiences – but believe expository preaching has its place. The comments from our car were that Driscoll took lots of liberties with the text – but provided good Godly wisdom. It was one of his Song of Songs talks.
I just booked flights for the return leg of our Christmas holidays with Virgin Blue. Their stupid booking system screwed me out of $50. If you search for tickets for 2 passengers and they’ve only got one flight available at the cheap rate of $89 they’ll return a search result requiring you to pay $150 for both. That’s extortion. So I went to make simultaneous bookings at $89*. Much more reasonable. Things were looking good. I managed to complete booking one at the $89 level (plus booking fee and baggage so $100 in total). Then when I went to complete the second booking at the $89 dollar level it told me someone else (me obviously) had booked that seat. Retards. What happened to the contract principle of offer and acceptance. I had to book again at $150. Plus extra costs for baggage and credit card fees. I hate airlines. At least I didn’t pay $300 plus taxes. Stupid VirginBlue – I hope their media monitoring services pick up this rant and they act accordingly. But they’ll probably cancel my flight.
End of rant.
*without baggage, credit card fees and optional carbon offsets… oh and the fee you can pay for the legroom available in an emergency exit row.
December 15, 2008 – A Christian case for no “clean feed”.
December 15, 2008 – Another angry Atheist.
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I’m cutting back on my GReader subscriptions – far too many for me to handle.
Joe the Plumber became a national hero for the Republicans for having a go at Obama while he was on the campaign trail. He became a Republican icon, joining McCain on the campaign trail to provide an “everyman” touch. He got himself a nice little book deal in the process.
Apparently he’s not overly impressed with the republicans – that’s the problem with loose cannons. Friendly fire hurts.
“The Republicans didn’t put out a candidate for us to really vote for. It’s the lesser of two evils. When you get to that level, you’ve compromised your principles, you’ve compromised your values so often and you owe your soul to whatever special interest group or lobbyist has padded your campaign finances and everything else that you no longer are your own man. So you can no longer stand on your own feet because they’ve been cut out from underneath you years ago.”
That came from this radio interview – where he talks up Palin, plans to start a watchdog group, and gets into some nitty gritty political science.
Well, you know, it really depends on the other 2/3 of Americans that didn’t vote, Glenn. They are so disenfranchised with the political system currently, they don’t feel they have a voice or that their vote even counts. So they stay home on election day. It really depends on them people, if they are going to actually get off their duff and become educated and get involved.
Two thirds of Americans didn’t vote? I can only assume he’s talking about registered voters. And two thirds of them voted – by all estimates – the compilation of results doesn’t actually get released officially until the 15th.
I guess there’s a PR lesson in here – if you’re going to spruik an ally for their harranguing of the opposition you better make sure they’re actually on your side. Your enemy’s enemy is not necessarily your friend afterall.
I registered nathanintownsville.com yesterday with Dedicated Host. Thanks to an awesome coupon deal through Oz Bargain offering 90% off forever on hosting and domain registration.
Stay tuned for news on my movement to that domain – but in the meantime, $2 a month for 5GB and 15GB of data transfer seems like a good deal to me. The deal finishes tomorrow.
Tokyo Raiders is a very good bad Hong Kong Kung Fu movie. With an umbrella wielding protagonist. As featured below.
He also competently wields a vacuum cleaner in this scene…
Effective. One can only imagine he’d have been more effective with this custom made umbrella weapon. The Umbuster .
I can’t get enough of these pointless gadgets people are inventing. Here’s a new take on the piggy bank – complete with motion sensors. It will eat your money. Buy it here for $22US. Watch it in action below.