Every toilet should have one of these vinyl stickers just to remind unwary guests of the dangers of careless toileting.
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 zit
This is from possibly the most disturbing website I’ve ever come across. It’s a site dedicated to the art of popping zits. Because it is an art.
It’s quite disturbing.
What’s more disturbing is that there’s a confectionery product designed for people who pop their zits, and want to eat them too…
You can pick up some boogers too…
Literal music videos
If only the words of songs were better tied to what was going on in the film clips.
I’m sure you’ve often thought that too… well there are plenty of these on YouTube to satisfy your literal desires.
Worst disguise ever
Coming soon to a Fail Blog near you… two guys thought this disguise would help them get away with robbery.
From CNN.
“Police received a call Friday night that two men with hooded sweatshirts and painted faces had tried to break into a man’s home in Carroll, Iowa.
When police stopped a vehicle matching the caller’s description blocks away, they were stunned by the men’s disguises.
There were no ski masks or stockings pulled over their heads; instead, Matthew Allan McNelly, 23, and Joey Lee Miller, 20, streaked their faces with permanent black marker.”
The black parade
Ninjas are sneaky…
The problem with Dawkins
An atheist scientist takes up the case from Eagleton, criticising Dawkins for his approach to the discussion with Christians.
The trouble with Richard Dawkins from CPX on Vimeo.
Beatles Flow Chart
This will help you get your betters and let hers right…
Tips for the iPhone photographer
BoingBoing has a series of tips from a Japanese pro photographer who takes amazing iPhone pictures in his spare time.
“Always be on the lookout for change, whether that’s lighting, or the movement of people, or just a slight difference in something ordinary.”
“Walk a lot. The iPhone camera has a fixed focal length. Whether you enliven or kill this feature is up to your footwork. If you need a close up, get real close. If you need distance, you exaggerate that distance. You use your feet to find angles. It’s also important to venture far away from your comfort zone to find good subjects to shoot.”
Killer milestone
This is a new experience for me… I’m still young enough to consider the prospect of playing cricket for Australia (and only cricket because you can be a late bloomer), but I’m now old enough that murderers whose high profile cases that I remember can be released having served their prison sentences.
It is weird.
The guy who killed Dr Victor Chang is being released on parole. I remember driving past the police tape in Sydney the day he was killed.
Binge fruit eating
I’m not a big fruit eater. There are many days where my recommended daily healthy food intake is all vegetable no fruit. There are many days where it’s neither.
When I do eat fruit I go on fruit binges. A month or so ago it was bananas. I ate about six in one day. I didn’t feel very well.
This week it’s watermelon. We had just watermelon for dinner one night. And I’ve had watermelon (and only watermelon) for lunch four days this week.
I’m worried I’ll end up looking like this previously featured watermelon head.
Are there serious health concerns that come from eating too much watermelon?
Inviting debate
This post was dumb. I’ve decided to delete it all and replace it with two lists.
Five things not to do if you don’t get invited to something
- Feel sorry for yourself.
- Act like a jackass.
- Use the particular function as a dipping stick to assess the rest of your friendships and relationships.
- Assume that you should have been invited to begin with.
- Assume that everyone else has the same approach to things that you do.
What you should do instead
- If they’re your friend you should be happy for them even if you’re not going to be at their event, if they’re not then why do you care?
- Send a card.
- Invite them to your next thing.
- Invest more time and effort into the relationships you value.
- Don’t act like a jackass.
Shirts of the Day: Playable Guitar (and drums)
These are the best shirts ever. I’m serious. It’s cooler than having a Lego base plate stitched into your shirt.
You play the guitar shirt using a magnetic pick – and actual guitar sounds come out. Buy it here. Now.
You play the drum shirt with your fingers. Buy it here. Now. Start a band.
The Electronic Guitar Shirt is incredibly easy to play because each button on the neck is a major chord. She went on to mention how you can play dozens of classic rock songs with very little skill.
Product Features
* Belt out your favorite rock tunes on this t-shirt based real playable electric guitar
* Great real rock sound
* Play all major chords
* Strum by waving the included magnetic pick over the strings
* Mini guitar amp speaker clips to your belt
* Volume goes to 11
* Adjustable tone knob
* Electronic components are easily removed from the shirt for washing
* Includes two magnetic picks
* Picks stick to speaker grill for easy storage
* Requires 4 x AAA Batteries. Not included
Defining issues
I think the way we, as people, choose to define ourselves is telling. So I often look at people’s profiles online with interest.
I, for example, put “A Christian” as first on the list. I am many more things, but I primarily self identify as a Christian, not a husband, son, brother, or blogger.
Atheists, upon occasion, have expressed their displeasure that Christians want them to define themselves by their non belief – and yet in the blogosphere they proudly identify that way with a big red A.
Some gay people I’ve spoken to prefer not to be identified by their sexual preferences, while others join together to form lobby groups.
I think Christians should, when defining their beliefs and identities, start off talking about Jesus. And this, more than anything else, is the problem I have with “Answers in Genesis”. They should be called “Answers in Jesus”, or “Answers from Jesus”… and they’re not.
After trying to explain why I think it’s a problem that AIG evangelise using pseudo science I conducted a little experiment. I went to the AIG homepage and searched it for “Jesus”… the little search box on Firefox came back “Phrase not found”… Here is a screenshot…
UPDATE: In case you, like a commenter below, think my little search trick is misleading – I give you one other piece of evidence that Answers in Genesis overplay the significance of their understanding of Genesis when it comes to the gospel…
Passive Aggressive veto
Some people might think that a veto, in itself, is an act of political aggression rather than passive aggression.
But when you embed a rude, coded, message in your letter to the legislative body you are turning down, it’s classic passive aggression.
It’s so rude I won’t post the picture. But if you’re not offended by the F-bomb – and want to see why the Governator is awesome (other than the fact he keeps his Conan sword in his office)… check it out.
Here’s a news story that shows it’s legit…