So you have a stack of left over jelly. You don’t know what to do with it. You’re stuck watching TV reruns. Lightbulb moment…
Because everybody needs a party with Bill Cosby jelly cups as a centre piece.
Pacman meets the flintstone
Quite literally. So long as zippos ignite the fuel using flint. I’m really not sure about that, but I’m running out of Pacman headlines. This is cool…
Bloody tea party
I still don’t know why I’m fascinated with bloodstained stuff. I’d never buy it. Unless I was directing a horror movie. Then I’d buy it all. Except this tea set. Which costs hundreds of dollars.
From here.
iBlog 2.0
A similar nomenclature was enough to sink the latest Vegemite flavour – so perhaps I should expect too much from this. But I’m fiddling with some new Facebook connect options that have recently been developed before I unleash it on our work websites.
To do this I’ve had to make a fan page on Facebook – you should join up. I’m hoping people will use it to give me ideas for things to blog – like Ali has been doing lately via her comments.
Here’s the link to the fan page, and feel free to add me as a friend (I may ignore you if you look weird).
Eventually you’ll be able to do all sorts of funky interactive stuff between here and Facebook – if I can get it working. I love being a technological guinea pig. You can keep tabs in the sidebar – where I’ve also added a live traffic feed. Interesting times.
If Facebook isn’t your thing but you’ve got a google account why not join the Google Friend Connect thing also on the sidebar… it’ll even add my blog google reader automatically if I’m in the “blogs you follow” category.
Finally, while I’m talking technical stuff and appealing for online friendship – check out my link list in the sidebar too. If you think you should be on it (or would like to be) let me know… and if you’ve got one, well, you could always add me too…
Ten of their best
Here are my ten favourite assumptions, insults, and accusations thrown at me by PZ Myer’s angry horde.
- That I chose to use the word “seem” in the title because I don’t think atheists are capable of being nice.
- That the “curiosities” column creates revenue for me/is advertising and I wrote this post in order to receive the attention I did.
- That I would censor comments, or that I was doing so, because I was scared of criticism.
- That I would hatch a conspiracy theory regarding my site’s demise and blame atheist hackers.
- That no Christian has ever read anything about the formation of the Bible or church history and that we are completely unaware of criticism of that process.
- That noise = victory and silence = an admission of defeat.
- That if God exists human morality should still trump morality as ordained by God.
- That just because they’ve given a name to a school of thought… and their philosophical leaders have rebutted it… everyone should fall into line and stop using arguments they disagree with.
- That no Christian knows how to use the Old Testament, or deal with difficult philosophical positions created by a God society does not agree with.
- That atheist scholarship regarding the Bible and Christianity is more objective than Christian or independent scholarship.
Pacmanwich
A manwich is apparently a sloppy joe sandwich. So a Pacmanwich is one of those shaped like Pacman. Read about it and other insane sandwiches at insanewiches.com.
Monster Mash
You’ve always wondered where to stab Godzilla right? Well thanks to bookofjoe – and whoever came up with these – you’ll now know what to do when faced with a building sized Japanese monster.
Orwell on Writing
A while back I quoted George Orwell on writing clearly. The link to that article is now broken – but the ABC’s Mark Colvin has taken a stab at some problems with modern English – and included Orwell’s tips in a handy list form… it’s worth repeating.
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
Timeless.
Teens like Wikipedia too
If the 100 most read wikipedia articles of 2009 teach us anything it’s that teenage boys use the online encyclopedia just like teenage boys have always used dictionaries… to look up rude words. You’ll notice that various articles about sex and genitalia made it in.
Of course it also features dead celebrities, living politicians, and some movies.
Too Pac? Not in this hood
That title right there folks is a hip hop reference. It’s just for Ben.
The rest of this post is simply to inform you that if you truly love me you should buy me this for Christmas – or my birthday – it is the same day so I’ll even let you get away with combining the presents…
The lights are on
In America the furthest point between two McDonalds restaurants is 145 miles by road. If you plotted every golden arch on a map it would look like this…
And we know this thanks to this guy, via Strange Maps.
Design through the ages
Designs change slowly. Incrementally. In every field – from breakfast cereal to book covers. Even the Queen’s hat has slowly evolved… Check out this progression from the Guardian…
Killer coffee
Coffee withdrawal headaches hurt. Mikey reports that ibuprofen will fix them…
But you’ve got to wonder – if you’re getting coffee headaches are you at the stage where your addiction is harmful? Possibly. So just how much coffee can you drink before it kills you? This site can answer your query. And it’s not limited to coffee, any caffeinated beverage will do.
Banana art – do do, do do do
If your an artist the world is your oyster and bananas are your pearls… or something. Here’s a bunch of banana art.
Spammers get philosophical
My latest off beat spam raises an interesting (well not really) question completely unrelated to the post.
Let’s give the guy some answers…
October 1, 2009