If you want your kitchen running as efficiently as a Swatch watch – and as secure as a Swiss Bank – then perhaps you need one of these utensil holders.
Swiss Army Utensils
Ninjafy your wall
Shurikens make for awesome home decorating. They’re cooler if you throw them at the wall and they stick in – but these “coat hooks” are pretty cool.
“The Ninja Coat Hooks look will transform your hallway into the scene of a Shanghai back street stand-off. Each metal Ninja Coat Hook has one corner cleverly engineered into a screw, which allows you to fix securely to your wall or door, whilst making it look like it has been hurled from the hands of a deadly Ninjitsu assassin.”
Ninjafy your car
After you’ve got things in the kitchen to a dangerously ninjafied status it’s time to turn your car into a lean, mean, killing machine (figuratively not literally).
Ninjafy your dinner
All meals are better ninja flavoured. So these ninja salt and pepper shakers are just the ticket.
NES-SB
These are awesome. There are a number of Mario Characters available… the base and the drive are sold separately. You can get them here.
Drink coffee or bad things will happen
This is a series of actual ads from the 1950s. It is awesome. Here’s why they’re like they are…
“In 1957, Jim Henson was approached by a Washington, D.C. coffee company to produce ads for Wilkins Coffee. The local stations only had ten seconds for station identification, so the commercials had to be lightning-fast — essentially, eight seconds for the commercial pitch and a two-second shot of the product.”
Izaac thinks aloud…
Friend Izaac now has a blog. He has put a link to it in his gmail status so I assume that means it’s open for business.
He’s funnier than me. But he’s a St George supporter so there’s a trade off.
Reader Poll – Into the future
Hello Readers,
I’d like your advice – yes – particularly you lurkers who never comment.
It seems increasingly likely that my geographically specific domain name will become redundant – and it’s problematic even if our geographical location maintains its status quo – because it gets picked up in all sorts of Google Alerts that I don’t necessarily want it to…
So, I’m plotting and planning a change. And I have two current conceptual options (to be narrowed down to specific domains) that would move this away from being purely a site for my personal ramblings and in to something more defined. I don’t want to write my suggested domains down in case some enterprising reader snaps them up and holds them to ransom.
But here are my options:
1. I like to think that the one thing uniting all of my disparate postings and rambling musings is an overarching appreciation of “cleverness” – some things falling into the “too clever” category. I see this site as almost a repository of other people’s clever ideas. This domain would have something to do with the study of cleverness pertaining to stupid and needless gadgetry, coffee and the rest… it also begins with the letter “c” which works given my categorical nomenclature.
2. I also am entertaining a mild fascination with the Biblical character Eutychus. Eutychus is the guy who fell asleep during one of Paul’s rambling sermons and fell out a window to his death – only to be raised by Paul (no doubt through some sense of remorse for being so boring). I hope this changed Paul’s preaching. I like to think of Eutychus as the patron saint of not being boring.
3. I could go down a more boring avenue and pick some other word, or combination that would remove both my name, and location from the equation – I don’t intend to become anonymous, I like the sense of transparency and accountability that comes from using my name. I would just like it to be able to be more permanent and less tied to a state of flux.
So, your thoughts – option 1, 2 or 3…
Visions of the future
If, over the next forty years, you want to keep a running tally of how closely Hollywood’s vision of the future matches our own – your job is made easier by this chart…
From Dan Meth.
A bunch of links – June 16, 2009
- Post one of Australia’s banned links, get fined AU$11,000/day
- Apologetics and the university
- x Ways To Manipulate Websites In Firefox
- When’s the Right Time to Buy New Products? [Ask The Readers]
- Lifehacker’s Firefox Add-On Packs
- Why You Should Not Wait to Engage in International Church Planting, Part 1
Shirt of the day: Sesame Street Fighter
Awesome. Take that Cookie Monster.
PETA become PETDA
Ahh, PETA, you’ve outdone yourselves.
PETA continue to get great media coverage for being the dumbest group of activists around. It’s like they sat in a strategy meetings and decided that the only way to get people to take them seriously was to act like idiots.
Pike Place Fish at the Seattle Fish Markets is famous for flying fish – there’s a customer service training course that has become a global phenomenon because one day some of the workers there decided to improve life working with stinky fish by flinging them around.
According to PETA this is a no-no. Throwing dead fish around is undignified. Especially at a conference for vets (which raised the PETA hackles on the issue).
“Killing animals so you can toss their bodies around for amusement is just twisted,” said Ashley Byrne, senior campaigner for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Washington, D.C.
“And it particularly sends a terrible message to the public when vets call it fun to toss around the corpses of animals. If anyone should be promoting compassion and not callousness toward animals, it should be vets.”
Update: Sorry, I should have pointed out that PETA is objecting to having “sea kittens” (their attempted rebranding of aquatic life) tossed around.
Unserendipitous
Serendipity is a lucky coincidence, or making an accidentally fortunate decision. This must be the personification of its antithesis.
Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash.
“An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident, it has been reported.”
Bugger.
Candidacy update
Just in case any of you out there are actually wondering where we’re up to in terms of plans for the future…
I have an interview with representatives from the Presbytery of North Queensland this afternoon as the penultimate (I think) stage of enrolling at QTC as a candidate.
Exciting stuff. I hope they didn’t find my little betting sheet at church last night…
No rush
Ben (from Vanishing Point fame – not to be confused with occasional guest blogger Benny) says you shouldn’t see the movie “August Rush”. And with a review like this (in the comments of his post) who’d want to:
“This August Rush movie on the other hand thought it was so life-affirming and wonderful, but really was like the demonic love child of Hallmark and Anne Geddes.”
Perhaps a movie for the U2 fans amongst us…