This video just goes to show that peas and cues matter.
The Ring Call: Wrestling for the Gospel
I posted something about Christian Wrestling somewhere before (the “Christian Wrestling” tag below will take you there). There’s a documentary about the industry coming out, a little too late to capture the zeitgeist inspired by Mickey O’Rourke’s The Wrestler.
Wrestling For Jesus Trailer from Nathan Clarke on Vimeo.
Interesting. And slightly oddway. You can follow the story of Wrestling For Jesus: The Tale of T-Money here.
I guess God wrestled. In Genesis. So it must be ok. And it was pretty “fake” too – so far as the outcome being scripted and the in ring storytelling being the most significant part.
Jacob Wrestles With God
22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”
But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
“Jacob,” he answered.
28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
The Force: Coming soon to a church near you
This is doing the rounds of the blogosphere, but is too good not to post:
Benny Hinn and the Force.
Almost as funny as Benny Hinn and the song “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor”…
Tagxedo: A shapely Wordle
Steve at Communicate Jesus dug this up. Tagxedo. It makes shaped tag clouds. Beautiful.
Here is a dove shaped cloud from the sermon I preached on the Beatitudes for my “trials for license” in Townsville.
Brewtiful toys
Amongst the really awesome presents I received this year were two most bits of coffee paraphernalia – a syphon with its own little butane burner thing, and an aeropress. Both are great. Both use filters. A solution for the constant necessity of buying filter papers for the aeropress comes in the form of these chemically etched filter disks from Coava…
They used the same method to make a filter cone (which they’ve called a “Kone”).
Kones are used in filter coffee makers like the Chemex. Which will be my next coffee frontier.
Also on the Internet, here’s a comprehensive repository of different methods of preparing your morning cup of coffee.
Check it out.
Should you “friend” your parents on Facebook: Flowchart
My parents are on Facebook. Are yours? I had no problem friending mine. My theory on privacy is “don’t do anything in public you don’t want God/your parents finding out about”…
But for those of you not so comfortable with your parents tracking your every escapade, I give you:
From Cool Material.
Kinect: making dreams come true
I don’t have an X-Box, so I don’t have Kinect.
But. That could all change. Just so I can be like Tom Cruise.
DepthJS from Fluid Interfaces on Vimeo.
So cool. From here. This has been doing the rounds – I even saw it on the Herald website.
Work tomorrow…
Not sure how I feel about that yet.
Modelling the city: with maths
This is pretty cool, a feature in the New York Times about a guy who has “solved the city” – or rather, come up with mathematical expressions for certain inevitable urban constants.
“After two years of analysis, West and Bettencourt discovered that all of these urban variables could be described by a few exquisitely simple equations. For example, if they know the population of a metropolitan area in a given country, they can estimate, with approximately 85 percent accuracy, its average income and the dimensions of its sewer system. These are the laws, they say, that automatically emerge whenever people “agglomerate,” cramming themselves into apartment buildings and subway cars…
“What we found are the constants that describe every city,” he says. “I can take these laws and make precise predictions about the number of violent crimes and the surface area of roads in a city in Japan with 200,000 people. I don’t know anything about this city or even where it is or its history, but I can tell you all about it. And the reason I can do that is because every city is really the same.”
Daily Mail Fail: Interesting flood coverage
When I want to know what’s going on in regional Queensland I turn to that bastion of quality reportage – England’s Daily Mail. Because they have all the bases covered. Reporting not just on Queensland but the separatist state of Capricornia – there will be some in North Queensland who think this is a good thing indeed.
From the Daily Mail, via Findo.
Gingerbread Cities: The only way to celebrate Christmas
You know that Chrisco mob who start advertising for next year’s Christmas hampers in November, just when you realise that you have to do all your shopping for Christmas. Well. This is not like that. Really.
But if you’re into impressing people with gingerbread architecture – then you need to check out these 15 Gingerbread cities/landmarks.
Here’s Sydney.
How to survive the Rapture (if not raptured)
There are plenty of services for pet care post rapture that you can google. But what do we do about people? Well. For posterity’s sake – this guy recorded a survival guide for the dirt/paper eaters who want to survive post rapture.
How to stop the atheists
Every time you sing this song/prayer an atheist loses his wings. And his Dawkins library.