I mentioned earlier today that I’m not really comfortable giving parenting advice. But whipping up one of these little practical costumes seems like a reasonable idea to me. Put your kiddy’s crawling to good use. It’s much cheaper than a roomba.
Also spotted at bookofjoe.
This is the greatest invention since sliced cake. Seriously. Ever tried being obsessive compulsive and cutting a cake for a wide range of size preferences? No? Me neither.
But I imagine this cake tin that does the distributing for you is the answer. Found at bookofjoe.
$US36 seems a small price to pay for party parity. Ok, not really parity in the mathematical sense, more parity in the sense of being satisfied with your portion size – I just liked the alliteration.
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Facts about Beer. Including a 4000 year old recipe.
Leah on a story doing the rounds that Australian weddings cost more than $50,000. I think, after doing a rough countback, that we did ours for just under $15,000 including our honeymoon. And that “we” includes our very generous parents.
“Instead of the standard “org chart” with a CEO at the top and employees growing down like roots, turn the whole thing upside down. Employees are at the top — they’re the ones who actually get stuff done — and managers are underneath them, helping them to be more effective. (The CEO, who really does nothing, is of course at the bottom.)”
I really have nothing more to say. Except that it’s from here. And I saw it first here. And they’re 9.95 Euros. I think for one. But I’m not sure. The sale page is in German and I haven’t translated it.
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I like icons. The NES ones in this set are particularly cool.
This Paul Frank inspired mobile makes me want to gouge out my eyes.
How much will you get paid to carry around this garish piece of kitsch? You’ll actually have to pay for the privilege. $US140 in fact. The thing was so popular after Gizmodo posted it today that the vendor’s site is down.
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More stuff Christians like.
Breakdown on different religions and their statistical acceptance of Darwinism from a study by “The Pew Forum”.
This is so incredibly useful. I will now spend the rest of my day creating superawesome palettes.
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OzBargain has a habit of coming up with the goods for me at just the right time. I was contemplating spending $30 on one of these exorbitant cables in store somewhere.
With new technology come new frivolous lawsuits. Like this one.
This is a joke people.
Well, almost. My blog was down for a while today. My hosting provider – dedicated host – had some issues switching over to a new payment system. They lost payment details and suspended my account. Apologies to anybody who has been trying to get on today…
Dedicated Host have the best customer service I’ve experienced from an online company. I emailed today at about 4.00pm notifying them of the problem and I had a response in minutes and the problem fixed very shortly thereafter. And a free month’s hosting as a sweetener. They get an A+ for customer service.
As do Coffee Dominion. My coffee machine issues were not as simply fixed as I thought last weekend. There was a leaking seal spraying water all over the control panel’s circuitry. Water and electricity don’t mix. I normally order parts online through coffeeparts.com.au – who are good. But postage for a small o-ring is expensive and the Coffee Dominion team pointed me to their local seal supplier. Who were also helpful. My machine is now up and running safely.
I isolated the power issues in my computer – my video card died a painful death at the hands of either the tropical heat or humidity. I’m not sure which. But it’s working now too. Thanks to the onboard video card.
So, now it’s just the breadmaker. Which has been almost completely dismantled. In fact, everytime I overcome one problem with it and get a little excited, I break something else in my haste. There aren’t many more pieces left to break. And I now know exactly what goes into a breadmaker. I guess that could be exciting for some people.
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There’s a lot of stuff about Darwin circulating the interwebs at the moment because it was his 200th birthday on the 12th – along with Abraham Lincoln. This is an interesting run down of Darwin’s impact on history and science. Worth having some idea of regardless of your thoughts on the man.
Alternative title – why you should probably get around to working out twitter. Or, at the very least, claiming a username that doesn’t suck. Just in case.
All these Darwin tributes are a pretty interesting revisiting of technology from the past – and the evolution of gadgetry. All the links – though they have the same title – are to a different series.
I’ve always wanted to do this, but I’m told it’s very dangerous. And given my track record with electrical equipment, probably not a good idea.
I hope this is true and Starbucks dies a long slow death.
Dan knows about philosophy and stuff – so this idea probably has merit. Invest the $42 billion into Australian cricket. The graph in this post demonstrates the undeniable relationship between the world of finance and the Australian cricket team’s form.
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Quite funny. I guess since we’re celebrating Darwin’s 200th birthday, and 150th anniversary of some important book he wrote we should all have a go at this site.
Interesting article on the Creation v Evolution debate in the light of Darwin’s birthday.
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Interesting little piece on how moral atheists are a step closer to Christianity than they think. Given that they ask the same questions that Christians do… salient point from the piece:brthere is a protest atheism which wrestles with God as Job did, and for the sake of the suffering of created beings which cries out to high heaven denies that there is a just God who rules the world in love. This atheism is profoundly theological, for the theodicy question — “If there is a good God, why all this evil?” — is also the fundamental question of every Christian theology which takes seriously the dying Christ’s question to God: “My God, why have you forsaken me?
Interesting, but pretty long, piece on the Amish.
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Pretty cool. Especially the fruit one.
Just in case anyone was wondering…
Last week I posted David After Dentist – the YouTube video of a drug addled child taking the world by storm. I questioned whether David will grow up to resent his father for posting this video online at the time… it seems he’ll have company in the parent hating club from the stars of these other four YouTube hits. There’s a language warning on this page though folks.
Ultimate convergence device? No. Stupid. Yes.
Last week we learned what it would cost to build the Death Star (or was it something from Star Trek?). Now we learn what it would cost to run. And you say I’ve got too much time on my hands…
Nothing you can’t do yourself with Photoshop or GIMP – but still a useful webapp.
I guess that’s why it’s called fiction is it not?
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Harpers Magazine reviews Charles Spurgeon – 1858
Harpers Magazine reviews Charles Spurgeon – 1858
“The trouble with neo-liberalism is that it hopes that a human vice – namely, greed – will produce much virtue.” – Interesting review of a K-Rudd essay in the monthly.
Interesting breakdown of a preaching schedule. Or Breakdown of a preaching breakdown. Or something.
Interesting comparison on the cost of coffee (using US dollars). I could work out the costs based on home roasting. And I will later. Just not now.
I’m with 3. I like 3 (except that they don’t sell iPhones). This could be painful. I was just talking to Lyle, an unhappy vodafone customer, last night about how much Vodafone is the suck. Oh well. I think vodafone might have iPhones. I’ll check that out.