These Chinese pickpocketers could teach Oliver a thing or two. About dining with chopsticks, and about picking pockets.
Via BoingBoing.
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.
Messi, aged 5
Lionel Messi is a freak. In ten years we’ll probably be talking about how his work on the global stage is unlikely ever to be repeated. Just like people did with Pele, Maradona, and like I say about Eric Cantona.
Anyway. Here’s Messi as a five year old. The ball is almost half his size, and it’s still on a string.
Here he is ripping Bayer Leverkusen apart in the Champions League 19 years later.
Duelling duelling banjos: Sleepy Man Banjo Boys v Tesla Coils
The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys took the world by storm when they appeared on Letterman (video at the bottom of this post). Here are the three (probably home schooled) prodigious brothers putting Duelling Banjos through its paces. Watch past the minute mark. They start slow.
Sparks really fly in this second version though. Two Tesla Coils.
Here are the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys on Letterman – they explain their name at the end.
God hates Radiohead
I am a pretty big Radiohead fan. I am thrilled to be going to see them in Brisbane at the end of this year. But I can understand the substance of Westboro Baptist’s assessment, which they put forward when justifying a protest at one of their shows this week.
“freak monkeys with mediocre tunes”
This is actually a pretty culturally engaged assessment. For many years Radiohead have used this little critter as their emblem. Unfortunately for Westboro it’s a bear, not a monkey.
Image Credit: Wikimedia
Anyway.
Here’s some more that is wrong with Radiohead. Or at least, more that Radiohead’s continued success in their post-melodic era.
“Meanwhile, God is undoing this nation and effecting all of your lives, with the moth that quietly eats the very fabric of your national garment. Radiohead is just such an event.”
And so, here is the Phelps family, with hangers on, outside Radiohead’s show in Kansas (via Pitchfork).
Happy Pi Day
It is, in the mmdd date form 3.14 today.
So everybody should eat pie and do circular stuff.
Liveblogging QTC Preaching Week at Venn Theology
Venntheology.com is where I put college related stuff. Over the next three days QTC is hosting preaching week, featuring stuff from:
- David Jones
- Luke Tattersall
- Phil Campbell
- Gary Millar
- Mike O’Connor
- David Mansfield
- Steve Cree
That’s a pretty good line up. In no particular order. Registrations for the event have closed – but if you feel like you’re missing out – or you’re here at preaching week and don’t want to take notes then I’ll be putting mine online. The talks are also being recorded, and I’m sure they’ll be added to QTC’s treasure trove of online resources.
That is all.
Something about not working with animals springs to mind…
For some reason Robyn and I just spend too much time watching Karl Stefanovic clips on YouTube. The enfant terrible of Australian breakfast TV has a special sort of charm. Both of these made us laugh.
Scary turtle eats scared pigeon
This is why our pet budgies don’t live near our pet turtles (you won’t find videos like this at heysoph.com).
Snowboarding Opossum wants you to visit heysoph.com
This, and other cute animal videos, available for your “awwing” pleasure at heysoph.com (a website updated for my daughter’s viewing pleasure).
To be honest, I’m having lots of fun finding cute videos to post there. Maybe I should start using Pinterest.
Ultimate Tak Ball – Sport with Tasers
Ultimate Tak Ball is possibly the craziest sport in the world, sans the Fluorescent Light Bulb Fighting League.
Don’t tase me bro.
Trike Drifting combines stupidity with remedial cycling
But it looks pretty awesome. There’s a possible language warning on the soundtrack, but I couldn’t really tell what words they were singing.
How to get more dropbox space in a slightly tricky fashion
So my recent Dropbox ad giveaway was pretty popular, and while I was scrounging around to see if I could get more free advertising dollars I came across this offer from Google. Because I work as a web and social media consultant (and I do), I could sign up to become a Google Engage Partner.
They give me a bunch of $75 vouchers. You set up a google adwords account (using a gmail address, and registering at google.com/adwords). I send you a voucher code. You build your own $75 ad campaign with your dropbox referral link.
We all win. Except me. But I get to give something away. First ten people who meet these criteria can have a code:
- Vouchers can only be used on new accounts opened in the last 14 days with a new billing address located in Australia or New Zealand.
- An AdWords account can use only one voucher.
PS email me to get the code, my address is floating around on the site somewhere. If you want to hire me as a consultant you can use that email address too. Though I’m currently fairly flat out.