Glenn Beck is a bizarro Christian shock jock in the US. Atheists hate him.
He praised Muse on his show this week. A representative from Muse apparently emailed him asking him to retract. He was going on about how Muse are libertarians who don’t want a one world government.
Beck retracts his endorsement at four minutes and twenty six seconds into the story.
This made me laugh more than it should have.
Minifigs are great. Especially knitted ones. But if you don’t want to order a customised minifig from brickarms for your A-Team Lego movie you may have to build Mr T piece by piece…
Like this…
There are heaps of these on Flickr.
Including ninja turtles…
Comic book characters…
And transformers…
These are a couple of cool stocking ads – for stockings so dark you’ll be holding up inanimate objects.
Hat tip to Daily Vowel Movements – which continues to be excellent. You should subscribe. You won’t regret it.
I love Lego. If you ask me why I want to have children one of the reasons high on the list is that I’ll get to play with Lego again.
The worst thing about Lego is that it hurts when you tread on it. It hurts a lot. Someone should invent cuddly Lego…
Oh wait, they have. You can even buy a knitting pattern.
And look, he comes apart…
Found here.
Sandwiches are great. Bread + Filling = Great idea. They’re great. They’re the reason the expression “the best thing since sliced bread” was coined. Why else (other than toast) would you slice bread?
Well. Now you can figure out if you’re being ripped off by that cafe that wants you to pay $14 for a BLT with this sandwich calculator.
From BoingBoing.
And then, since we’re in the mood, why don’t you check out the winner of a recent “BLT from scratch” competition… here’s the post that set the rules…
“From scratch means: You grow your tomato, you grow your lettuce, you cure your own bacon or pancetta, you bake your own bread (wild yeast preferred and gets higher marks but is not required), you make your own mayo. All other embellishments, creative interpretations of the BLT welcome.”
The winner was an American chef living in Sydney… here’s the concluding post from the competition.
Here’s his winning sandwich – but the best bit is the photographic flow chart he made (and the fact that he harvested his own salt from the ocean)…
Given that (thanks to PZ Myers) 90% of my current visitors are atheists, I’m going to keep writing about atheism.
Here you go, a nice dialogue, between two people, about God… both are smug.
Everybody wants to claim Colbert as one of their own – either he’s a Christian satire, a conservative satire, an actual conservative, or a Christian… He’s probably a mix of all of those. He certainly has a track record of active involvement in church. And he looks like Will Bailey from the West Wing…
Anyway. This made me laugh. If only atheists were really like Richard Dawkins. Online, anyway.
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The pinnacle of Rube Goldberg machine technology is the breakfast machine. That’s what we’re all aiming for. Here’s one that delivers a complete breakfast – courtesy of a Gizmodo feature…
And here’s a video of the thing in action.
What would happen if aliens took over all our picture perfect holiday destinations?
Something like this. Franco Brambilla took a series of postcards of popular spots and inserted aliens.
What’s worth more – the aliens you slaughter in computer games or the files on your computer?
I guess you can find out if you want. By playing this game. That deletes a random file on your computer for every alien you kill.
“Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted. Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the player’s mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics. Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land? Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon an awarded for using it, that doing so is right?”
You can, if you’re game, try it here… if I wanted to wipe a hard drive this would be pretty fun…
I don’t recommend it. Watch it in action below.
Another day, another thought provoking iMonk post.
I don’t know if I mentioned this at the time… but during our Westminster Confession/doctrine classes at church a while back (so long ago I don’t remember the exact chapter we were discussing) I asked a question about whether non-Christian Alzheimer’s patients can be evangelised.
There’s a whole theology of disability that’s a little bit anemic. The post I’m referring to by iMonk is a question about how the Baptist Church handles the baptism of people with mental disabilities. It’s profound. Read it.
Then tell me what your thoughts are on the issue…
Also, if you’re an atheist and you want to hijack this post for your own snide purposes – I’m going to delete the comments. Feel free to comment constructively, but we’re working on the assumption that evangelism is a good thing and not a form of brainwashing or abuse.
One take videos are impressive. This one has the best elements of one take direction and “flashmob” audience participation.
It’s not quite Forrest Gump in one minute. But it’s impressive.
So, I’m sitting at home, watching Spicks and Specks, writing our work Annual Report… and this awesome ukulele player named Jake Shimabukuro did a segment. I looked him up on YouTube. Here he is in a duet with Tommy Emmanuel. It’s times like this I wished I kept at the ukulele lessons… and only times like this…
PS – I did, briefly, learn the ukulele as a child. Our church didn’t have tambourines, we had a ukulele group…
The Guardian’s atheist journalist who attended Alpha has finished. His experience makes for fascinating reading. It’s honest. Critical. And engaging.
He ends up deciding that atheists are far better off hanging out with Christians than yelling at them. Which is refreshing. And has some great insights into the good, the bad, and the ugly of evangelism.
Check it out.
He’s also got an insightful interview with the head of the Alpha movement, Nicky Gumbel, about all sorts of things to do with the course. It’s worth a read.
One of the criticisms I’ve heard of Alpha (I haven’t done it) is its focus on tongues – here’s what Gumbel says…
“Yes, I think it’s one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It’s not the only gift and it’s not right at the heart of the New Testament, but it is there, and I think we don’t give it much more emphasis than the New Testament gives it, which is not very much. If you came to our weekend and heard it I don’t think you would feel this is something that is weird.”
Interesting. He has a longer treatise on tongues that is also pretty on the money. I won’t reproduce it all here.
My favourite quote in the whole Alpha Male series was this one – describing the low point of the experience for journalist, Adam Rutherford:
“The low point followed, when Barbara, with whom I had had fun, explained that following my sturdy but polite defence of science and attack on healing (the most galling session), she became convinced that with regards to the supernatural, there was “something rather than nothing”. I had managed to reinforce her latent suspicion of science towards a more faithful position. Christ alive, how disappointing is that? She is thoughtful and intelligent. She listened and argued with me, and chose an emotional and visceral position instead. As I do this for a living, I will certainly modify my rhetoric as a result.”
Yeah. Cop that atheists who think being smug is the way to change minds.