- What Happened To The Analog Coffee Grinder?
- Videos: HOWTO Make Latte Art
- 7 Attention-Getting, No-Frills Coffee Mugs For Work
- HOWTO quot;Stir + Scoopquot; w/Your French Press
- Hands-On With A Whippit-Powered Travel Espresso Maker
- Magical Wolf Shirt Receives Rave Reviews
- Review: Two Days w/the Santos Vac Pot [Verdict: Good Sucker]
- Conservative Radio Host Has Himself Waterboard to Prove It’s Not Torture, Realizes He Was Wrong
- #39;Conversational#39; #39;Dead#39; Languages, III
- #39;Conversational#39; #39;Dead#39; Languages, II
- #39;Conversational#39; #39;Dead#39; Languages, I
- Top 10 Skills to Master Your Grill [Lifehacker Top 10]
- Pulpiteering with Integrity
- This Week in Calvinism – May 22, 2009
- Sweattin’ with the Fundies
- the SM Forum is up
- SuperCook Turns Your Kitchen Contents Into Yummy Recipes
- Nine Affordable Steaks and How to Grill Them Anywhere [Memorial Day]
- Web Design Industry Jargon: Glossary and Resources
- Streamy Gets More Social, Instantly Becomes My New Start Page
A bunch of links – May 23, 2009
Peripheral vision
Turns out when it comes to Transformers peripherals there’s more than initially meets the eye. Not only can you get the awesome transformers thumb drive I put up the other day – you can get a matching USB hub – or a mouse… from here.
The Hub goes from this:
… to this
Then there are two mice to choose from:
And this one:
Calendar with stigmata attached
It’s 2009 AD – that’s Anno Domini – the year of our Lord. You probably know this, others may need constant reminding – which is why you should install this calendar in your office cubicle. It’ll no doubt be a great tool for office evangelism – or for ruling right angles/architectural drawings.
Sticky marketing
Human Rights activists spend far too much time sitting in cages in public spaces and doing things that are too easy to ignore. Largely because they’re so obnoxiously offensive that we immediately shield ourselves from the horrors they describe. Their campaigns aren’t generally “sticky” for this reason.
Stickiness is an important part of any marketing campaign – finding a message that is memorable is vital if your product isn’t something that involves an immediate and spontaneous purchasing decision (like a bottle of Coke).
Stickiness was particularly important to this UNICEF anti-landmine campaign, in a more literal sense.
Adhesive stickers with bottom side simulating a detonator for explosive were placed on the pavements in Zurich. When the passers by checked their shoes, they saw the message from Unicef: In many other countries you would now be mutilated! Help the victims of landmines!
Unclutter your cutter
Lif e is full of redundancies – nowhere moreso than the humble cutlery drawer. I grew up with splayds (and other cutlery too) – and regret not receiving any as wedding presents.
For those not familiar with splayds or the myriad other food consuming implements I present this Venn Diagram…
Flautless performance
Welcome to an all new high in cultural sophistication – a beat boxing flautist…
Super Mario Bros Theme
Sesame Street Theme
Inspector Gadget Theme (with Axel F thrown in for good measure)
A bunch of links – May 22, 2009
- Wridea Is an Online Organizer for Your Ideas [Ideas]
- Make Invisible Speakers By Sacrificing Six Books
- RunPee.com Suggests The Best Movie Bathroom Breaks
- 5 Applications for Extreme Time-Saving
- Why are paleontologists always finding the “missing link”?
- Wolfram Alpha Google Adds Computational Answers To Google Results
- Typewriter Forces You To Focus While You Write
- Chartle.net Creates Venn Diagrams, Interactive Maps And More
- Google Chrome 2 Brings New Features and Serious Speed [Downloads]
- Christendom, Not Christianity, Is Declining
- Atheist says, read the New Testament!
- Preaching in Brisvegas
Creatures of the swamp
My employer has committed to raising funds to save an iconic North Queensland wetland. Until recently I thought wetland meant swamp. I was apparently mistaken.
I went there yesterday with some film crews. And took some photos. Check them out here… or if you’re too lazy, here are some highlights…
Operator… Get me Sweden
That’s the name of a Darren Hanlon song – and after a bit of news today I feel like picking up the phone and saying just that.
I like Sweden. And I like the Swedish. But this is ridiculous…
“Swedish women will be permitted to abort their children based on the sex of the fetus, according to a ruling by Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare.”
According to this article.
Nasty.
I’ve run out of atheism headings
It seems to me that any time Christians (or theists) are critical of the nasty side of atheism we get shouted down as hypocrites. How can we pick on Dawkins, for how can we caricature them all on account of his vitriol when we had George W Bush as the public face of Christianity justifying unpopular wars with terribly out of context Bible passages? Or indeed or the televangelists et al who are a public bastardisation of the Christian message.
Is this a log v speck issue? Should we be trying to clear up the Christian brand (ie what the public think Christianity is) before we go charging at the bastion of angry atheism – namely Richard Dawkins and co.
Probably. Those loony fringes of Christianity are much better at garnering publicity than the mainstream evangelical orthodoxy. Like the woman in the US who kidnapped her kid because he has cancer and the State wanted to force him to undergo life saving medical treatment.
So long as that’s the public understanding of “Christianity” pushed by the media we’re going to have troubles criticising atheism because the public understanding of atheism is angry intellectual criticism of religious belief.
I actually started writing this post because there’s been a pretty angry response to that article in the LA Times the other day – and I wanted to talk about how angry atheists are, and how Dawkins seems to epitomise atheism, rather than being at its fringe.
That is all. For now.
According to google
It occurs to me that introducing any piece of communication with “if you google…” or “according to google…” – it’s as big a no-no as introducing anything by saying “the Oxford English Dictionary defines… as…”.
If you don’t know why this is a problematic way to enter dialogue (or indeed a monologue) – then please, begin your comment with either a dictionary definition or a reference to google search results on the matter.
Little trophy of bunny homicide
Little sister number 2 also suggested I post this. Again, from etsy, another piece of macabre crochet work.
Ninja Checkers
When your little sister (number 2), who is topping her course at uni (Business) tells you to do something. You do it. Because you know it’s good business. She wants me to post this Ninja Checkers Set from Etsy.
So I did. Also, it’s got ninjas. So it’s pretty much natural blog fodder round these parts anyway.
Cross promotions
Wil Anderson just made this bold claim on the Gruen Transfer:
“The McDonalds Golden Arches are now more recognisable than the Christian Cross.”
True or false?
It kind of fails to take into account the historical brand recognition and needs to be more specifically defined.
A little bit of googling suggests that this was either a piece of corporate indoctrination fostered by McDonalds that has now become fact – or that there is an obscure survey that I can’t find from the late 90s conducted in Australia…
Your thoughts?