Author: Nathan Campbell
Wholesome fun
Would your youth group go to the beach if it wasn’t for issues of purity? Perhaps you should purchase a swag of wholesomewear swim suits for the ladies…
Because encouraging the wearing of board shorts and a sun shirt is just too much hassle.
If Picasso drew comics…
I’m not surprised that Picasso style comics haven’t taken off. You can’t cheer for a guy who looks like this…
…or this.
From this gallery here.
If you did want to try your hand at creating Picasso-esque comic characters you could do worse than use the “Mr Picasso Head” webapp… I’ll post my Picasso picture when it gets added to the gallery.
Avatar = plot avarice
Turns out that not only did James Cameron rip off Fern Gully, but Pocahontas as well. Perhaps there are only six unique plots in the world after all…
At the core of each of these stories is a greedy person trying to rip off the naive and innocent.
Here’s a reworking of a Pocahontas synopsis or script or something for the purpose of making the point.
Via boingboing.
Bacteria future
This little picture of Mario might look like any old picture of an old time game character…
But looks, as we know, can be deceiving.
This little Mario is made from bacteria.
My top five posts about ninjas
You probably didn’t see these first time around. But ninjas are sneaky – so that’s understandable.
The black parade
Shirt of the Day: Ninja Code
For people who know CSS and like ninjas… Buy it here.
Ninjitsuit
My first thought when reading about this new, controversial “Burquini” the Islamic bikini invented by an Australian and banned in France (two things that make something more likely to be awesome) was that it looks pretty much like a ninja suit.
Am I right? Yeah. Which got me thinking further – firstly, I didn’t know what a ninja suit was actually called – which was a bit of a gap in my ninja arsenal. For the record it’s a shinobi shozoko. But it’s always dangerous to put a ninja in a box.
Ninjafy your car
After you’ve got things in the kitchen to a dangerously ninjafied status it’s time to turn your car into a lean, mean, killing machine (figuratively not literally).
Pirates v Ninjas: Black and white issue
First there was ninja v ninja checkers – and now a chance to settle the age old question – pirates v ninjas.
My top five posts about bacon
Declaring a love for bacon is tantamount to declaring a love for oxygen.
But here are some posts about Bacon that I just want to relive.
Bacon jam helps you eat, like, a pig
Pig + Blender = Bacon Jam. That’s the equation celebrated by this shirt.
How to top Bacon Jam
Breadwinners
The perfect BLT.
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)…
BBB sandwich
This is what you should get if you order a BLT with no L, no T and extra B.
It hasn’t made it to “This is why you’re fat” yet – but it will.
And finally – a very useful flow chart…
There’s nothing wrong with this picture
Plenty of bacon to be found here in this “what to eat” decision making flow chart from geekologie.
How to choose what beer to drink
Do you know your lagers from your pilsners? If not, this chart will be really helpful – if so – you probably know what sort of beer you want to drink and may have even dabbled with matching different beers to different meals.
I am constantly appalled that Fosters is Australia’s most famous beer export. Does anybody actually drink it in Australia? And for those who think Jesus drank non-alcoholic wine – here’s a soft drink flow chart.
A list of posts from the Christmas period
While the rest of the blogosphere seemed to take the last couple of weeks off (Simone excluded), I ploughed on.
Here are some posts that I thought were a bit of alright from that period.
- The one about the books I read over Christmas
- The one about finding Jesus on Wikipedia (a fun Wikipedia link game).
- The one where Home Alone is presented in Tweets
- The one about Christmas sermons
- The one that features an open letter to people who have music playing on their websites
- The one about Christian computer games
- The one about the amazing complexity of human DNA v the amazing complexity of human technology
- The one with videos of things being made
- The one with the world’s best paper plane thrower
My Top Five "Christian" YouTube Videos from 2009
I’ve posted heaps of videos this year – and a lot of them had “Christian” connotations or content. I put “Christian” in inverted comments because at times they were more about cultural Christianity than about Christ.
Here are five that have had some sort of profound impact on my life this year…How to stop a pair of purse snatchers
If you happen to see two bag snatchers getting away with daylight robbery and all you have to stop them with is your pushbike – this is how you do it.
YouTube Tuesday: Guns don’t kill people, Australians do
Scarily enough – this guy is Australian.
By his stripes…
If you ever wanted a great piece of pictorial justification for not putting Christian status updates on Facebook – especially updates with jargon – then here you go.
