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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.
NEStar
The guy who made this actually starts playing it about 2 minutes in to the video.
Awesome.
Remarkable bookmark
This is a cool bookmark. It doesn’t just remember your page – it even marks where you’re up to on the page.
First Person Tetris
Creating a new and challenging version of Tetris seems to be all the rage. First Person Tetris will make you dizzy and nostalgic at the same time.
Instead of pieces rotating when you spin them the screen rotates.
Wears ya bean(ie)
If you wear this beanie don’t go near any Italian plumbers. They’ll want to climb nearby piping and jump on your head. Be warned.
Corrugated tie
If you’ve ever been in a situation where you’ve wanted to join a bit of a bluegrass jam but haven’t had the requisite instrument – buy this washboard (complete with thimbles) tie and wear it everywhere.
Just a spoon full of pain
This movie contains some language and the contents may be disturbing. But I watched the whole thing. And it made me laugh.
Weapons of mosquito destruction
Mosquitoes are dangerous. They carry all sorts of nasty tropical diseases. You should kill them. You should overkill them.
Here’s a nifty little mosquito killing contraption made from common household items.
From here.
A wee bit of physics
I spent a couple of days trying to decide whether to post this picture. My mum said it was ok.
Via Reddit.
We’re thru
While being technically acceptable the use of the word “thru” really annoys me. And this sign vandal.
Virtual billboards
Streetview is cool right? For the luddites (who are unlikely to be reading a blog) it’s Google map’s feature where you can actually experience moving along certain streets because they sent a car that looks like this out into the wild to take photographs.
These photographs have been built into maps. Making it much easier to stalk people or check out the neighbourhood you are thinking about living in.
Google is great at turning things like this into money. So Make is reporting that Google has patented technology that will allow them to turn billboards in their street view photographs into spaces for adwords. If these adwords are location based this will be a fantastic tool for geographically specific advertising.
Hell’s bells
My friend Mike is a minister in Rockhampton. He made the local news today for being generally awesome. You can read the story here.
Hell, the pizza chain, created a stir in Brisbane this week which led to a story in the Rockhampton paper, which Mike commented on online, this comment led to an interview, and a great story. Featuring this little gospel presentation that simultaneously showed that Christians are a bit normal.
This is a great example of how churches should be using the media. I thought I had written a post on that before, but I can’t find it. So I’ll write it today.
Ordained eight years ago, Reverend O’Connor said he did not find Hell Pizza offensive, irreligious or blasphemous.
“I find it amusing and would probably use it for sermon illustration,” he said.
“Christianity is not about rules and regulations, it’s about having a relationship with Jesus.”
Reverend O’Connor said St Andrews was a growing church with a number of young adults among the congregation.
“It’s important to interact with cultures that surround us, not standing back and labelling everything as evil.
“I’m just a normal bloke who likes having a beer, watching the footy and who loves Jesus,” he said.
“Hell is a real place, but it’s unhelpful for Christians to be jumping up and down about a pizza shop. We’re on about Jesus, not about being anti-everything,” he said.