Take your dog for a walk past PETA’s head office with this bad boy.
Still in the concept stage, I think, but worth keeping tabs on if you’ve got a canine and a sense of humour.
From Art Lebedev Studio.
Author: Nathan Campbell
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Puppets sing “I can see clearly now the sin has gone”
Church concerts should be kept behind closed doors and not posted on YouTube.
Robbed of context most things performed at such events look even stupider.
Via Christian Nightmares.
Predator: The Musical – If it bleeds we can kill it
A slight language warning in this video. Well. Not slight. It contains an f-bomb. But it also contains somebody singing like Arnie and footage from Predator.
Bacon Cologne: Smells like swine spirit
If you want to play the pied piper role for a city full of bacon lovers you need every possible bacony tool at your disposal. Including the subtle scent of bacon found in this cologne from fargginay.
A common question, does this fragrance really smell like bacon? The answer is yes & no. Our Gold formula offers a memorable sizzling citrus aroma with an ever so slight hint of bacon and the fun… is in finding it. This artisanal Gold formula is lovingly crafted with a pure essential oil blend of mandarin, bergamot, grapefruit, lemon, nutmeg, pimento berry, black pepper & a touch of sweet, a smidgen of savory, and one pinch of Bacon salty goodness. What are you waiting for?
Like every magical product it has a magical backstory.
The year was 1920 and quite by accident John Fargginay, a Parisian butcher discovered the ability to dramatically elevate his customers’ mood with a secret recipe blending 11 popular pure essential oils with the essence of…bacon. As the story goes, film stars & heads of state would frequent his shop to procure the magical elixir. With a wink of the eye and the secret code, “fargginay,” customers would be slipped a discreet pouch containing the formula said to trigger pleasant memories. After a massive fire on July 4, 1924, the business was lost and so was the formula…Until now. Ladies & gentlemen, behold, bacōn fragrances, by fargginay. The time has come to uncover a new level of awesome.
Via Uncrate.
A very sandy easter – incredible Easter videos drawn in sand
My very talented friend Tim, and his very talented brother, have put together these sand art Bible stories. You should get a hold of them if you’re looking for a bit of multimedia for your easter service.
Fun times in harbour town
Our weekend in Sydney is drawing to a close. We’ve had a great time, though only ticked off six of the seven things on my list of things to do, and only visiting three of the six cafes. Apparently Sydney still closes on a Sunday.
The wedding was fun, it was great to spend time with cousins who we’ve barely met. There’s something to be said for a family heritage that produces so many ministry minded people. I really love being part of the family I’m part of. What was even more fun was seeing people from Maclean (where I grew up), and Dalby (where Robyn grew up), at the wedding and having to explain why we were at this wedding of their friends. Fun times.
We skipped the Manly game, in favour of dinner with good friends. Which was great. I haven’t laughed as much as I have this weekend since I watched Four Lions two weeks ago.
Church By The Bridge on Sunday was a most enjoyable experience. So much singing. Never have I sung so much in an evangelical church service and enjoyed it. It was a refreshing change. And very friendly. Though it helped that I knew a bunch of people, including the guy on welcoming, from various AFES events and other bizarre quirks of Christianity’s two degrees of separation. It was fun meeting Ali in real life too. Meeting blog people is sometimes a little awkward because you know more about somebody than you should on first real life meeting. But this wasn’t.
I love the smells of Newtown, and we had two great dinners from the Sultan’s Table and Faheem’s Fast Food (a terrific sub-continental curry place).
You can read about our adventures in coffee on thebeanstalker.com.
Tumblrweed: Chicks with Steve Buscemeyes
Freaky. Steve Buscemi has notably freaky eyes. He looks like an ice addict. So sticking his eyes on lady faces is scary. But that’s what this single serving tumblog is all about.
First up we’ve got Pink, and then Angelina Jolie.
Damien recommend this one on Facebook – thanks Damien. I will never sleep again.
Today: Coffee, Zoo, Greek Food, Gould Books
Ahh Sydney.
So, today, we walked down King St, visited Moore College (where we stood in a corner and people watched and my wife was shocked by how young and cool Con Campbell looked, she had pictured him as a 60 year old englishman), walked to Redfern, caught a train going in the wrong direction, so we caught a different train. Then, finally, we arrived at our destination – Mecca Espresso on King St in the CBD (not to be confused with the aforementioned King St).
I’ll be reviewing Mecca on thebeanstalker.com, but I tried my first ever Clover brew. The Clover, when released, was a $15,000 piece of technology. It’s the black box in the middle on this bench:
It was nice. Smelt like fruity tea. Tasted like coffee.
We spent the morning with my friend Paul. Which was tops. Then walked to Circular Quay, caught the ferry to Taronga, and walked around the zoo for the afternoon. Which Robyn loved and I enjoyed.
There were turtles.
And rabbit-eating dragons…
And primates.
And giraffes.
And other animals.
Though, some were missing…
Then it was a reversal of the morning, though we added dinner at a cheap Greek place, and about 45 minutes poring through the shelves at Gould Books.
A good day.
1 pixel clock: counting down the hours in slow-mo
Nice idea. Get it as an iPhone app, or a webapp, it doesn’t really matter. If you’re into incremental displays of the changing time then it doesn’t get much smaller than this… The 1 Pixel Clock.
Life imitating computer game: Pizza Tycoon
I used to play a really fun game on the ‘puter called Pizza Tycoon (if you believe in abandonware you can download it here (I have no idea if that link is safe). The purpose of the game was to design and build pizzas and pizza restaurants that you then managed. You had to buy shop fronts. Hire staff. Set prices. You could also be a criminal. Where you could join the mafia and rise in the ranks, or just stick to sabotaging your competitor’s shops with bombs and rodents.
There’s a whole website dedicated to tips and tricks (and pizza recipes) here.
Well. Somebody obviously played that game and thought that it was representative of the real world.
An Upper Darby pizza shop owner has been charged with putting mice in the shops of several competitors.
In what Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood called a case of “food terrorism by mice,” the owner of Nina’s Bella Pizza is charged with trying to sabotage his competitors by setting mice loose in their shops.
Nikolas Galiatsatos, 47, now faces charges of disorderly conduct, harassment and animal cruelty.
Chitwood said two of his officers happened to be eating lunch in Verona Pizza on West Chester when Galiatsatos, 47, entered the business carrying a bag and then asked to use the bathroom.
When the owner of the shop inspected the bathroom, he found footprints on the toilet. The owner checked it out and discovered a bag stashed in the ceiling of the bathroom.
Officers suspected a possible drug deal and checked it out. But instead of drugs in the bag they found a bag containing several mice.
Seven Things I’m Looking Forward to in Sydney
In no particular order…
1. Catching up with friends (including Izaac and Sarah whose blogs I can’t be bothered linking to but you all read them anyway. Right.)
2. Taronga Zoo.
3. Manly play the Sharks on Saturday night
4. Church by the Bridge (5pm service on Sunday is my plan)
5. Coffee at AIR, Alchemy, Bean Drinking and Mecca. Those are my plans.
6. Gould Books..
7. The wedding we’re actually coming down for.
Sunday: Two days after Friday – a Christian parody video
Well. Call me (and Gary) a prophet.
It’s finally here. The day song you’ve been waiting for. Sunday. Better than Friday
I must warn you, I haven’t watched this. It popped up in my feed just now, and I’m in a lecture. But I promise you it will be bad.
A musical infographic: A beginner’s guide to Radiohead
Radiohead. They’re a complicated band. So I’m sure you’ll appreciate this visual guide.
Via Stereogum.
Hitman: The Barcode Edition
Codename 47. The Hitman of the legendary Hitman stealth game series. Has a barcode on the back of his neck. So it’s appropriate that the Hitman movie is the movie I use to point you to this “movies as barcodes” thing.
You can get the source code to make movie barcodes here.
Here’s The Godfather.
There’s a tumblog here with a billion different movie barcodes (perhaps a slight exaggeration).
Via Kottke.org.