This is a nice bit of anti-Comic Sans propaganda – comicsanscriminal.com – that you should be aware of. Especially if you are a church. Please delete that font from your computers. There is no good reason to be using it in 2011.
Keep this in mind:
Although, apparently it is good for dyslexics.
You can even sign this pledge at the end.
This is an amazing photo of lightning. Taken by a camera that can capture images at one-sixth the speed of light.
Pretty cool. Because they also fired rockets into storm clouds with some wires to trigger the lightning.
“The rockets trailed wires behind them to direct the lightning through the camera’s field of view. Artificially triggering the lightning strike likely didn’t alter the natural workings of the thunderstorm, Dwyer noted. And, he said, “the advantage of triggered lightning is that we can repeat it.”
Wow. More details here.
Nice video.
Containing some subliminal adverts for Google’s products.
We haven’t had to watch the weather radar at the Bureau of Meteorology this week. It has been pretty obvious that it has been raining, and that the rain was going to stick around.
But this XKCD comic was too timely not to post.
From XKCD.
XKCD tackles the big issues. As you can see, from this little examination of the possible moves in a game of noughts and crosses.
From xkcd.
If fonts were people/super heroes.
From College Humo(u)r…
I’m filing this for “response letters I’d like to send one day”… there’s a slight language warning. Via DeadSpin.
Here’s the transcript of the original letter:
“Gentlemen:
I am one of your season ticket holders who attends or tries to attend every game. It appears one of the pastimes of several fans has become the sailing of paper airplanes generally made out of the game program. As you know, there is the risk of serious eye injury and perhaps an ear injury as a result of such airplanes. I am sure that this has been called to your attention and that several of your ushers and policemen witnessed the same.
Please be advised that since you are in a position to control or terminate such action on the part of fans, I will hold you responsible for any injury sustained by any person in my party attending one of your sporting events. It is hoped that this disrespectful and possibly dangerous activity will be terminated.
Very truly yours,
Roetzel & Andress
By Dale O. Cox”
Here’s the response the team sent:
“Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some a*&#&$ is signing your name to stupid letters”
This is, in order, who I’d get rid of from the Australian cricket scene if I could.
1. Ricky Ponting. Can’t bat (anymore). Can’t captain.
2. Bill Lawry. The most annoying commentator in the world.
3. Mark Taylor. Only just beaten by Bill Lawry. These two have ruined my summer almost more than Ponting.
4. The selectors. Seriously. Get some new material.
5. Mitchell Johnson. Bowls well sometimes. Doesn’t know what he’s bowling the rest of the time.
6. Michael Clarke. Doesn’t seem to be able to see the ball most of the time.
7. Phillip Hughes. Needs some time to get his head right.
8. Peter Siddle. Hard worker, gets wickets eventually, but seems to lull opposition batsmen into form with his boringness and stupid goatee.
9. Ben Hilfenhaus. How long can we carry this guy? Has done so little that I almost forgot that he was in the team.
I’m sure some people could find some use for this commercial for a non-existent Jesus action figure (there are real ones out there).
Check it. It’s about having children. Surely a sign that the end times aren’t happening just yet…
Boo Boo always struck me as slightly repressed. And because he’s short this was always going to happen. You can never really trust your shorter friends.
This is a nice little visualisation of Facebook connections around the planet. All the lines on the map are created by connections between people (the brighter the line the more friendships exist along that axis.).
Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto recently gave a tell all (almost) interview about the character Mario. The guys at ChurchCreate put some bits of the interview into nice graphics that you should totally check out.
You’ll learn all sorts of intereting bits and pieces about the mustachioed plumber.
Miyamoto made an interesting point about Mario’s development alongside the Nintendo platform from pre-NES days to the Wii.
“When we create games, the gamer really is the main character. In that regard it may not really matter who the main character is onscreen. But you know, Mario is someone who has become very familiar and I think it is that people are comfortable with becoming Mario.”
Mario really has grown and changed and evolved with the evolution of digital technology. The new technology is fresh and exciting and the next thing you know it becomes familiar and Mario follows that. He’s a familiar character, but he is also fresh because he is always doing new things based on what the technology allows him to do.”
Via ChurchCreate.
If Helvetica were a Mexican wrestler it would be called El Vetica. Or luchador (for those who know about these things).
Buy here.
This is cool. Some guy named Johnny Selman is turning news headlines into posters hoping to encourage more people to follow the comings and goings on the global stage.
Some samples:
“ANARCHISTS BLAMED FOR ROME EMBASSY BOMB ATTACKS”
“NUCLEAR SUBMARINE HMS ASTUTE RUNS AGROUND OFF SKYE”
