People are made of some interesting stuff. We’ve seen that in shirt form before.
But if you want a shirt that takes the “label” concept to a whole new level then you should get a load of this…
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.
A weak title
Knowing the right button to push is half the battle. This handy chart helps you tackle everybody from Achilles to Satan.
It will be on sale as a poster somewhere, sometime. It’s from here.
Paper Pacman pecked a pack of pickled pinky
This paper Pac Man artwork will set you back a cool $300. Or you can just appreciate it online.
Did you know: the ghosts in Pacman were officially named Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde
Shirt of the Day: Anatomically Correct
If you’re studying anatomy and want to give your classmates an edge you could always wear this shirt along to the exam.
Otherwise you could just wear it to be awesome.
A fish, bowl, existence
If, like me, you risk hemorrhoids through excessive time spent reading on the throne, you may be interested in another way to pass the time while doing your business.
If toilet golf isn’t your thing you might like to try toilet fishing…
Muppethian Rhapsody
Speaking of Queen tributes – here’s one from the Muppets. Andrew beat me to it.
Atheists try to hack God
When the community of global atheists decided to meet in Melbourne next year they unleashed a horde of Christian hackers who attacked the convention’s website.
To retaliate a Facebook campaign was hatched to try to take God offline. DDoS attacks – Distributed Denial of Service – are a hacking favourite. They’re basically an internet flashmob. A bunch of people, and their computers, hit a server with an overwhelming load of requests and bang. It metaphorically explodes…
The atheists planned a day of prayer in a bid to shut down God.
“This is a call to all non-believers and advocates for freedom of speech to join us in a global co-ordinated minute of prayer with the aim of inundating God (in this context, the Christian god, God, as distinct from the Greek god, Zeus, the Egyptian god, Ra etc etc) with so many useless prayers that it causes his divineness to go offline as as result of our own DDOS (‘Divine’ Denial of Service).”
It would be incredibly funny if all their prayers (bar their intention) were answered in the affirmative.
Winefographic
Ever wondered how Australia stacks up as a consumer of wine – we all know Australia produces good stuff… Here’s an infographic.
There’s a “key” of sorts with the comparison between Luxembourg and Brazil. It’s calculated per capita.
Nice place, going cheap…
Anyone want to rent our Townhouse in January? It looks like the rent will be going up slightly.
Seems our real estate agent has decided that while they’ll make us stay until the end of our lease with the threat of financial penalties if we leave early, they won’t extend us the right to live in our dwelling unhassled until then.
I spoke to someone at the agency yesterday who inquired as to our intentions to renew (at the end of January). I said that at this stage we wouldn’t be renewing. She said “give us two weeks notice when you want out”, I said “fine”… and on the very same day they put a “For Rent” sign outside our place. Two months in advance.
They’ve listed our place online and just told me on the phone that they would appreciate the opportunity for our place to be open for inspection by would be renters.
They probably compulsively google themselves – so I won’t mention them by name until we leave – but for shame real estate agent… for shame.
I will never ever buy a property listed by this company.
Chickens not humans
There’s an article in the Townsville Bulletin today guilty of the same fallacy that Pamela Anderson’s PETA protest committed. It is never “humane” to eat another being. If, as I suggest, the word humane means to treat compassionately or to treat as human. Historically the word was used as an equivalent to “human”.
The soldiers in the story were given live chickens to turn into food – without instructions for how to appropriately end their feathery lives. They are in trouble for allegedly treating the chickens inhumanely.
“A Defence spokeswoman denied claims the chickens had been treated inhumanely.”
Well. They ate the chickens. Regardless of how they treated the chickens beforehand I’d say that’s a pretty long bow to draw. You can’t have your chicken, and eat it too. That is to say – it’s one or the other. Either chickens are a food source and killing them is killing them – or chickens are to be venerated like cows in India.
To use the word “humane” in the context of things we’re eating is kind of stupid.
To start with chickens aren’t human. I know that the current definition of “humane” is to show human qualities of kindness and compassion… I still think that’s wrong. How can you eat something compassionately? You’re ultimately saying “my life is worth more than yours” – and if, like me, you regularly eat meat, you’re saying “my life is worth hundreds or thousands of you” (and more if you eat lots of eggs).
Sure, you can kill them gently. But that’s still killing them to eat.
Thus ends my rant.
8 bit cakes: The Gameboy Edition
Yes friends. This cake Gameboy features a game of Tetris.
Mmm.
YouTube Tuesday: Side hug rap
I’m a little late posting this one…
“When I hug people I leave room for the Holy Spirit…”
Just in case you’re stupid enough to think this video is serious – “Christian Side Hugs” are one of the most popular topics put forward on the Stuff Christians Like blog…
Christians also like white boy rappers who have very little sense of rhythm.
Islamic creation science
It may fascinate you to learn this… it certainly fascinated me… but holding as they do to essentially the same creation account and belief about the origins of human society (up until Isaac v Ishmael) as the Judeo Christian world – Islam has its own “Answers in Genesis” type organisation.
Slate writes a profile piece on the most prominent Islamic young earther here.
Here’s a quote (complete with links).
It may be tempting to dismiss Yahya as a crackpot, but he runs a sophisticated media operation, with perhaps several hundred members, that distributes books, articles, videos, and Web sites around the Muslim world. Two years ago he mailed, unsolicited, a visually stunning 13-pound, 800-page Atlas of Creation to at least 10,000 scientists, doctors, museums, and research centers in Europe and the United States. The cost of this publicity stunt, if that’s what it was, had to be staggering.
This must present an interesting dilemma. I mentioned a few weeks back my reservations about siding with fellow “theists” in debates about God – simply because Jesus is the key to my belief in God.
Do those who wish to fight passionately for the scientific veracity of Genesis side with the Muslims? Or do we keep our distance.
How far does ecumenical spirit extend on other issues where we share common ground – like issues of sanctity of life, and certain areas of morality?
It’s a tricky minefield to navigate where we emphasise similarities without those becoming defining issues and allowing us all to be lumped in the same category.
Coffee and PC
If Blur were still around (and they may well be) then not only would their claims of superiority with regards to Oasis be borne out (on the basis of longevity alone) but this post title would be representative of the kind of song they’d write now…
That was a tangential segue worthy of Today Tonight. But tonight. In all its glory. I give you. The Coffee Casemod – a computer case with a built in, and working, software controlled drip filter coffee machine.
It is awesome. I commend it to you.
Here’s how to make your own.