Scarily enough – this guy is Australian.
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.
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.
Avatar v Fern Gully
I haven’t seen Avatar yet. I know it’ll be worthwhile when I eventually do.
But a few people – davemiers.com included – have been saying it’s just a pretty version of Fern Gully.
Here’s a YouTube mashup.
A deadly game of cat and mouse
Life has a funny habit of imitating art. For years cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Itchy and Scratchy had rodents winning over felines with unrealistic frequency and methodology. But it hasn’t been like that in the real world. Until now.
Mice may be responsible for a blaze that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter near the Canadian city of Toronto, officials say.
There’s more than one way to cook a cat…
Tattooth
Tattoos used to be a sign of purposeful rebellion. A way to stand out from the crowd. Now everybody has them. So they’re not cool. To be really cool you need to think outside the square – or perhaps – inside the mouth.
Put your tattoo where nobody will see it – because everybody knows that coolness is a state of being, not a state of seeing.
These may or may not be the teeth collected after Tiger Woods’ infamous “accident”…
Normally this artwork is created on the back teeth, the molars or bicuspids. Most people prefer having it on the cheek side of the tooth, some on the tongue side. Most considered these as some what a white collar tattoo. They are seen only when the person that has one wants to share what they have, by pulling their cheek out so it could be seen. The other advantage to these tattoos is that they can easily be removed in five minutes in the dentist’s office with just a little grinding with a rubber wheel. We show the artwork on the front teeth so people can see our artistic abilities.
You can have custom Artwork Hand Painted tooth tattoos on your teeth (crowns). There are many options for Gold Crowns as well.