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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.
Stop Bible Bashing, use a Witness Stick
This Trademarked Stick will help you convince your friends that Jesus is Lord. Just like Moses used a staff to convince Pharaoh that God is God.
It’s a real thing, but it doesn’t have an official website. Just the trademark registration page which includes this description:
“The WITNESS STICK trademark is filed in the category of Furniture Products . The description provided to the USPTO for WITNESS STICK is Non-metal poles that have been carved and painted and used for educational purposes.”
Via Scotteriology.
A Taxonomy of Wrestling Names
My enduring love of WWE is not something that gets a lot of air time here. Because I feel like it’s a decomposing skeleton lodged firmly in the back of my closet. But this Pop Chart Labs chart is useful next time you want to come up with a wrestling name when you’re creating a character on your wrestling game…
Click it for a bigger version. Though if you want a legible version you probably have to buy it as a poster.
Pizza Cutting: Shear awesomeness
You’ve got no excuse for unevenly sliced pizza with these bad boys.
That is cool. But cutting pizza with lasers is, well, cooler.
More on Real Life Superheroes
I continue my fascination with the sort of psychological make up that leads people to don spandex, leather, and bulletproof vests to patrol the streets as super heroes. This article has done nothing to convince me to put an end to such fascination, but nor does it make me think the heroes in question are even remotely sane.
Here is Phoenix Jones. I’ve posted about him before. He’s still alive, which is possibly miraculous.
This story covers a meeting of Real Life Superheroes in Washington around Comic Con. It is pretty amazing stuff.
Social Media Propaganda: Because the Internet needs you
The social media war is heating up. Soon Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter will be doing just about anything to get you on board. I’m on all three. And I’ve got to say, for the record, that the number of conversations on each platform about the other platforms is getting a little out of hand.
Anyway. These posters might help you decide.
Arrested Development: Now in Lego…
This is a Lego set I’d buy. If it were real. It’s not.
More in artist Pepa Quin’s Flickr. These are going to be displayed at Brickworld 2011. The coolest Lego show this year.
10 stupid things (for others) to do with your ashes
I’ve posted some of these before. But the discovery of a service that turns your ashes into bullets was enough for me to put together a little bit of a digest post. I’m not suggesting you digest your ashes. That would be a little bit too Keith Richards (he snorted his dad).
No. Friends. These are quality tacky. Not your regulation celebrity style tacky.
Holy Smoke will convert you to ordinance for the low, low price of $1,250. A small price to pay – especially if somehow the bullets can be used to avenge you.
What you get for the standard price of $1250.00 –
For the shotgunner:
250 shotshells (with your loved ones ashes loaded per shell) shipped in fifty-round, labeled, plastic shotshell carriers with handles.
For the rifle shooter:
100 cartridges in standard calibers (with your loved ones ashes loaded in each cartridge) shipped in labeled, plastic cartridge carriers.
For the pistol shooter:
250 cartridges in standard calibers (with your loved ones ashes loaded per cartridge) shipped in labeled, plastic cartridge carriers.
2. Become a tattoo.
Apparently it’s feasible, though finding a tattoo artist who is keen on the idea might prove difficult.
3. Become an Hourglass.
Like ashes through the hourglass, these are the days of your life. At least for your relatives.
4. Become a diamond.
If you want people to remember that you rocked… LifeGem. They’ve got you covered.
6. Become fireworks.
Heavens Above Fireworks exist to make your space dream a reality. So long as your dream involved being blown up before leaving the earth’s atmosphere.
“We arrange special fireworks displays which include a number of unique fireworks designed or modified to incorporate cremation ashes, allowing for a spectacular memorial event and happier farewell.”
7. Become a glass sculpture.
Orbs are in this year.
8. Get stuffed. In a teddy bear…
This. Friends. Is a “Huggable Urn”…
9. Become the paint in some modern art
Famous, well, almost famous, artists are standing by to turn your ashes into a masterpiece to adorn the wall of your nearest and dearest.
10. Become a record.
Most countries will put your name somewhere in a registry. If you want a real record though, the previously featuredAnd Vynyly will turn you into a meaningful mixtape for your friends. If you pick the right songs they can enjoy some special backmasking messages too.
So there you have it. There was somebody who at one stage looked at turning ashes into pencils – but their site is now down. And there are plenty of people who’ll send you into space.
Possibly the coolest sport in the world: Sepak Takraw
Volleyball + Soccer = Sepak Takraw. That’s an equation of awesomeness. Watch this. It’s the gold medal round of the 2006 Asian Games.
Here’s the first bit of the 2010 Gold Medal match. It kicks off at about 2:55.
Fashion advice from Mr T
Yes. 80s Fashion. Mr T. Kitsch music. YouTube perfection.
“Mustard socks and a ketchup sash: she’s a real hotdog”
Wow.
Zombie Bowling Balls (Can not be unseen)
Wow. These are part disturbing part, well, disturbing. Zombie themed ten pin bowling balls. Smash some heads with pins. Perfect practice for the Zompocalypse.
More pictures here. Some of them are a little disturbing.
Possible explanation for the slaying of Goliath
Archeologists may or may not have discovered something important about events in pre-Davidic Israel.
Via Ragamuffin Soul
Paranoid Pianoid
Ahh. Another week. Another Paranoid Android cover. This must surely be one of YouTube’s favourite songs.
This time it’s on duelling pianos. My friend Adam shared it on Facebook. And he knows his pianos.
Trojan T-Shirts: Marketing by subterfuge
What do you get the German skinhead who has everything? Especially if you want them to reform form their Skinhead ways? You get them a nice skull and cross bone t-shirt. And you give it to them. For free. But you make it so that after one wash the shirt changes completely.
Brilliant.
“With a skull-and-crossbones logo and the message “Hardcore Rebels – National and Free,” some 250 black T-shirts given away at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival were quickly snapped up. But there was more to the tough-looking image than met the eye.
Once the rightist rockers washed their new shirts, they were dismayed to find an entirely different message: “If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We’ll help to free you from right-wing extremism.” The offer, complete with contact information, came from a group called Exit Deutschland, which helps people get out of the neo-Nazi scene.”
More here.
Solving drinking water problems one iceberg at a time…
This could be the future.
That’s a mock up of a tugboat towing an iceberg. The plan is to stop letting fresh water melt into the ocean and start shipping it to places where there isn’t much water. Seems clever. Though pretty inefficient.
Here’s how it “might” work.
This is just a concept – but it is, to use the obvious pun/metaphor – the tip of the iceberg. You can read more about the pie in the sky plan here.
“The cost of iceberg transport have not been made public yet, but pilot programs–initially just try to tow a mini-iceberg a short distance, says Simard–are underway. And there is talk, at least, of a real-world trial in 2012 or 2013.”
I’m sure there’s some sort of sermon illustration here. And it’s less ecumenically problematic than talking about bringing the mountain to Mohammad.