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…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.
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.
Ducking for cover
Anatidaephobia is the fear of being watched by a duck. It exists. There is a page for it, at a reputable site.
A hilarious site that highlights the dangers of placing ads on a page based on the content of the page.
“We’ve got you under our wing” is a slogan hardly likely to inspire confidence in the fledgling anatidaephobic who is seeking to learn more about their condition on the internet. Especially accompanied by a beady eyed mascot with such a sinister beak.
The case of the missing cases
The packing and moving process brought me to the point of epiphany. CD cases, or “Jewel cases” as I think they are called, are a waste of space.
I spent the last couple of days moving my CD collection from cases to a big CD wallet. I kept the liner notes. I tossed the plastic. I probably should have offered to give them away. But now they’re gone.
The question now, is what to do about the DVD cases. If ever I’m so poor that I want to flog off my collection on eBay they’ll probably need cases right?
The Oatmeal on oversharing
The Oatmeal has a little cartoon featuring ten things not to Twitter about. There, in cartoon glory, is a reminder about oversharing. Don’t do it people.
It’s a good list. Familiarise yourself with it. Submit to its authority.
How to come up with a ministry job title
Mark Driscoll just wants to be a pastor. No. Wait. A preaching pastor. His executive pastor can do the other stuff…
Ministry titles are dumb. The title “pastor” is pretty dumb too. It’s a role not a title. Mikey ranted about this the other day. I agree.
But back to Driscoll – who is sick of people not wanting to be a pastor. So he put together this little tool for selecting a hip and relevant title so that you can “shepherd” your merry band of “Christ followers”…
Tuper Tario
I have written a lot about Tetris. I have written a lot about Mario. This site went one better. It combined the two into an online flash game. You build the level for Mario using Tetris. Awesome.
How World Cup balls are made
I can’t get enough of those “how stuff get made” videos. The World Cup is this year. Here’s how they make the balls.
Man v machine
Ignore all the comments on this Reddit thread and just be completely blown away by the complexity of our genetics against the complexity of our best technology.
A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it.
An adult male produces 170 million a day.
That’s 6375 terrabytes of data. If my maths is correct.
Wow.
The punning computer
Some computer scientists have spent their time, and dedicated their expertise, to creating a punning monster. Puns, after all, are jokes by numbers – and computers speak a language of 1s and 0s.
Here’s how it works.
Here are some of the results.
How is an unclean tinned meat different from a pampered sacred writing?
One is a soiled spam the other is a spoiled psalm.What kind of pre-school has wine?
A play-grape.What do you call a washing machine with a September?
An Autumn-natic Washer
Get in touch with your inner sewer
You could, given the right balance of acuity and resources, sew one of these hoodies yourself. Or you could just buy one. All four turtles are represented.
Pack to the future
The packing has started. We’ve only got three weeks left in Townsville and we’re destined to spend those days surrounded by boxes, packing tape and piles of stuff.
I went to bed last night thinking that today was the day I’d be back at work – but I woke up, dressed, and then remembered that I had booked today off as part of my Christmas break.
Blogging is likely to be sporadic both in work hours and after work as I tie up loose ends here and there.
Robyn has set herself the rather ambitious challenge of packing one room per day while I’m at work.