Author: Nathan Campbell

Nathan runs St Eutychus. He loves Jesus. His wife. His daughter. His son. His other daughter. His dog. Coffee. And the Internet. He is the pastor of City South Presbyterian Church, a church in Brisbane, a graduate of Queensland Theological College (M. Div) and the Queensland University of Technology (B. Journ). He spent a significant portion of his pre-ministry-as-a-full-time-job life working in Public Relations, and now loves promoting Jesus in Brisbane and online. He can't believe how great it is that people pay him to talk and think about Jesus. If you'd like to support his writing financially you can do that by giving to his church.

That’s not a banjo. This is a banjo…

A base banjo, to be precise.

It is huge. Huge enough to hide under during an airstrike.

““It was in a banjo band that went to the First World War to entertain the troops.

“The bloke who was playing it was called Wally Ogden and it actually got buried after the bunker got hit by a shell and they thought the banjo was lost.

“When they dug it all out again they found the tunnel was still there and they managed to get the banjo back, so it’s been through the wars.””

That makes my pun make sense now (I didn’t post the quote first time around…).

May 31, 2011

A stich in time: the knitting clock

This is quite brilliant. Every year produces a knitted 2 metre scarf. Designed by Siren Elise Wilhelmsen.

It goes through one ball of yarn a year, so it’s both clock and calendar. In a way. But the downside is you’re always wearing last year’s fashion.

May 31, 2011

Tumblrweed: Awesome people hanging out together

Awesome people hanging out together is a collection of exactly what it sounds like. Though the definition of “awesome” is broad.

Charlie Chaplin and Albert Einstein.

The Beatles and Muhammad Ali

Plenty more there.

May 31, 2011

Look Around You: Weird Retro Science Videos

These are crazy. Some details about the “Look Around You” TV show here.

The aesthetic is almost perfect.

May 31, 2011

A little White Noise

Reader, and blogger on things Calvinistic and other stuff, Lee Shelton IV, doesn’t just have a numerically cool last name. He has skills of an artist (if you think that sentence is grammatically incorrect go here).

He has started a whiteboard cartoon blog called “White Noise”. And I’ll be following along.

 
So far he has zombies, politics, venn diagrams, and pacman. How could I resist?

The best thing is the lack of comic sans.

May 31, 2011

Atheist wins lotto, converts to Christianity

Lotteries will go broke if this craze catches on and God keeps answering said prayers the same way…

A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win the lottery. However, his joke prayer was amazingly answered as the next day his mother won $1 million on the New York Lottery Sweet Million game.

Better than a wet fleece.

May 28, 2011

Evolution: The root of all evils?

I’m writing an essay today. It’s about Genesis 1 and what Genesis 1 is about (who and why v what and when: how helpful is this distinction).

I think this cartoon from Answers In Genesis will form the backbone of my argument because it is very scholarly.

I love how they equate evolution with our sinful nature. You can kind of, sort of, if you squint a bit, see where their thinking is coming from.

It’s a bit anachronistic to suggest all the stuff in the balloons on the left is due to evolution isn’t it? As though they all came into being post Darwin.

It’s sad that a necessary Christian corrective of empirical naturalism looks like this.

May 28, 2011

Powerpoint horror stories: some of the world’s worst slides

Urgh. There’s no greater design faux pas than an overloaded powerpoint. Especially an overloaded powerpoint with wordart.

Do your powerpoint slides look like this? I hope not. I tell everybody that the people who read my blog have class and intelligence. Not to mention taste. So lets all laugh at these people together. It’s the only way they’ll learn.

Infocus ran this competition to find the world’s worst slides, and provided these tips for not finding yourself on that list.

May 28, 2011

Tumblrweed: Literally Unbelievable

The Onion has been around for ages. It’s older than Facebook. Older than YouTube. Almost older than the internet. And yet. Some people still don’t understand that it’s satire.

There’s a great online law – Poe’s Law – that says good satire will be indistinguishable from truth. Literally Unbelievable is a demonstration of the power of Poe’s Law. Capturing Facebookers who don’t know the difference between the Onion and real news.

May 28, 2011

What are you listening to?

There’s something nice about the way this guy pops the personal bubble people create when they plug their ipods into their heads while walking around in public. And people respond.

It’s also an interesting demographic study, matching music with typical listeners, or atypical listeners.

But what are you listening to?

I’ve been listening to Architecture in Helsinki’s new album Moment Bends a bit lately. It’s so cheery.

May 28, 2011

The wool bone is connected to the… other wool bone

This woolen skeleton puts a new spin on broken bones being “knit” together.

More photos here, it is quite amazingly detailed.

May 27, 2011

The Pancake Project: celebrating the magic of pancakes

Have you ever pondered the almost limitless options available for things to add to pancakes in the cooking process, let alone the toppings to put on them afterwards? It boggles the mind. The Pancake Project exists for such purposes.

May 27, 2011

Big brown bear bean bag

This bean bag would serve more purpose if I lived somewhere that big brown bears lived. It could keep big brown bears in the yard and out of the house by acting as a decoy. Oh well.

For sale on Etsy. It’s like a scarebear (as opposed to a scarecrow, not as opposed to a carebear).

May 27, 2011

Star Wars Crayons

If only I’d spent more time playing with crayons as a kid and less time trying to eat them or whatever it was I did.

From Flickr.

May 27, 2011

How to scare your friend with a peephole in their door

Brilliant.

 

It’s an ad, apparently. Via adsoftheworld.

May 27, 2011