Has anybody out there tried this?
Via That’s Nerdalicious.
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.
Jandles for Jesus
I thought about calling this post “thongs for Jesus” or “flip flops for Jesus” but both of those were open to misinterpretation and lacked the alliterative quality of using the kiwi term for this particular item of footwear. But I digress. Nothing helps you walk a mile in the shoes of Jesus like walking a mile in Jesus themed shoes. Right? So I give you: Walk the Walk Flip Flops.
They even have a poorly sourced scriptural proof text.
*If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25
The Life and Deaths of Jack Bauer
24’s Jack Bauer is a particularly deadly adversary. In just eight days he managed to kill 266 people.
This website collated the kills using the following criteria:
- Jack must be the one who causes the death.
- The death must be confirmed with video evidence.
- Jack must cause death, not just serious injury.
- The death must have occurred on the TV show; kills from novels, comics and games are not included.
And also recorded the following statistics:
- Jack has killed 266 people on screen. Of these deaths, 210 were the direct result of gunshot wounds (79%).
- Jack killed, on average, 1.4 people per hour over the whole run of the show, or 1 person every 44 minutes.
- Jack killed the fewest people on Day 1 (10).
- Jack killed the most people on Day 6 (50).
- Jack killed the most people in a single episode in “Day 6: 5:00am-6:00am” (14).
- Jack has killed more people between 10:00pm and 11:00pm than he has in any other hour (29).
- Jack has killed fewer people between 8:00am and 9:00am than he has in any other hour
- Jack has killed at least one person in each of the 24 hours in a day.
Rectifying a sin of omission
I have been somewhat remiss in not including a link to Arthur and Tamie’s most excellent blog in my footer. That has been fixed today. If you don’t already check it out from time to time you really should. They’re from South Australia but they live in Melbourne. Arthur is famous for once running a particularly awesome Christian forum called Logos that sprung out of the murky waters of AFES.
Here are a few recent posts that I think make a compelling case, on their lonesome, for reading regularly.
- Notes from Ben Witherington III’s introduction to rhetoric from a visit to Arthur’s Bible College (in Melbourne)
- A feminist comparitive analysis of Buffy (the Vampire Slayer) and Bella (the Twilight object who graduates to powerful vampire)
- A how to vote card
Check them out.
Start them young…
Proverbs 22:6 says “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. “
That must have been what the people who designed this toy had in mind.
From Flickr.
My Christian Values Election Scorecard
Simone posted her scorecard yesterday. Here’s mine. I hope it brings a little perspective to what can be an overly manipulative procedure. I probably should have included a column for Jesus. Click the image to see a bigger version.
Men at work: would you like to punch your colleagues in the face?
Apparently that’s normal. 60% of men who took part in a global survey said they would. If they could.
Via here.
Could these be the two best movies I’ve never seen?
Ninja Terminator
…and Revenge of the Ninja
How Would Jesus Exercise
While you’re waiting for my next installment of “Help Lord — the Devil wants me Fat” you should get into spiritual and physical shape with this workout – Christian style.
Why the King James 1611 Bible is the one true version…
It’s apparently all to do with copyright. I don’t think this guy understands the copyright laws.
The Vegetable Commandments
The ten commandments made easy for the visual thinkers… and for those who have only ever been frustrated by the Veggie Tales characters and wanted them to get their comeuppance.
The 10 Commandments: No. 5 Thou Shalt Not Kill from Global Mechanic on Vimeo.
The Ten Commandments: No.7 – Thou Shalt Not Steal from Global Mechanic on Vimeo.
About Jeremy
I drive to college with Jeremy Wales three days a week. You might remember him from such driving to college adventures as “crossing a raging torrent“… So, after posting about wikipedia editing just then I was inspired to create a Wikipedia entry for him. Apparently it has been done before but he was considered “not noteworthy.” I’m hoping that will have changed.
Here’s what I’ve said:
Jeremy Nicholas Wales (born July 24, 1978) is an intellectual polymath from Brisbane, Australia. After completing his studies in Information Technology at the University of Queensland, Jeremy enjoyed a short but distinguished career with one of Queensland’s leading financial institutions[1].
He changed career path in 2009, enrolling in theological education at the Queensland Theological College at Emmanuel College, located at the University of Queensland, in St. Lucia, Brisbane.
Jeremy is famous for having read every theological book and idea in existence. He has become a notable figure on the Brisbane evangelical preaching scene – sharing the pulpit at Mitchelton Presbyterian Church on more than one occasion[2][3]. The audio of his sermons reveal him to be a bold and daring speaker destined for great things. Some have called him the Australian Stephen Fry others have compared his exploits to those of fictional wizard Harry Potter.
He is also a bold and experienced on-road rally car driver – videos of his exploits behind the wheel in the streets of Brisbane have become a phenomenon on YouTube[4].
Feel free to contribute. I made his birthday up.
Wikipatrol with Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker wrote the Mezzanine (the book I reviewed yesterday). He also wrote this article about Wikipedia, where he details time spent protecting obscure articles from deletion. A worthy cause.
He thinks Wikipedia is worth protecting because its checks and balances work well…
“Some articles are vandalised a lot. On January 11 this year, the entire fascinating entry on the aardvark [7] was replaced with “one ugly animal”; in February the aardvark was briefly described as a “medium-sized inflatable banana”.
This sounds chaotic, but most of the time the “unhelpful” or “inappropriate” changes are quickly fixed by human stompers and algorithmicised helper bots. Without the kooks and the insulters and the spray-can taggers, Wikipedia would just be the most useful encyclopedia ever made. Instead, it is a fast-paced game of paintball.”
Except sometimes these bots and human stompers want to stamp out whole articles. That’s where Baker and a team of anti-deleters step in…
“At the same time as I engaged in these tiny, fascinating (to me) “keep” tussles, hundreds of others were going on, all over Wikipedia. I signed up for the Article Rescue Squadron, a small group that opposes “extremist deletion, having seen it mentioned in John Broughton’s invaluable guide, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. And I found out about a project called WPPDP (for “WikiProject Proposed Deletion Patrolling”) in which people look over the PROD lists for articles that should not be made to vanish. Since about 1,500 articles are deleted a day, this kind of work can easily become life-consuming. I was swept right out to the Isles of Shoals [13]. I stopped hearing what my family was saying to me – for about two weeks I all but disappeared into my screen, trying to salvage brief, sometimes overly promotional but nevertheless worthy biographies by recasting them in neutral language, and by hastily scouring newspaper databases and Google Books for references that would bulk up their notability quotient. I had become an “inclusionist”.”
It’s a tremendous article. Read it.
“Still, a lot of good work – verifiable, informative, brain-leapingly strange – is being cast out of this paperless, infinitely expandable accordion folder by people who have a narrow notion of what sort of curiosity an online encyclopedia should be able to satisfy in the years to come.”
Logo Redesign Flow Chart
Does your logo feature clipart? Or wordart? Maybe you need an update…
Via FlowingData.
UPDATE: This picture was created in response to Mikey’s comment. If your logo looks like this you might need a redesign…
