UrbanTrend: Beerdometer
Ever wanted to track how many beers you’ve had. Ever. And how many you’ve doled out to others. Perhaps you’ll need two of these. One for you, and one for your friends.
Our daily Fred: Ice is nice
Some ice is nicer. Like ice made in these – click the image for the link.
And if you want an ice cold shot – but don’t want to cram your shot into a shot glass larger than 30mL you might want to try this:
A bunch of links – March 27, 2009
- Evangelistic Preaching (06)
- Crazy 5 Day Sale for 1.5M HDMI Cable
- Who Made God?
- Zamzar Converts Powerpoint Into Easy-To-Share Images
- Password Lessons and Tips from Our Readers [What You Said]
- Look! DIY Speakers Hidden in Real Books!
- The Hidden Costs of Your Job
- Hey kids, Tweet-a-Watt kits!
- Spurgeon on Bible Teaching
- Sen. Conroy on Qamp;A
- Debate Video Posted Online
- The Death of Print and What it Means for Christians
- Man wrongly jailed for 27 years walks free … and is hit by a taxi
- Hackers Deface Aussie Censorship Board’s Website
Adjusting to life on the outside proves difficult.
Invention fail
Being an inventor is such a glamourous career path. Coming up with new and exciting things seems so noble – every one of the products I post here as an inventor or designer.
Sometimes inventions go bad. Sometimes they kill their creator. Here’s a list of people killed by their inventions courtesy of list repository “Listables“…
A couple of my favourite dead inventors…
Franz Reichelt
He invented a parasuit – a parachute in a suit. It didn’t work.
William Bullock
In a bizarre accident, Bullock was killed by his own invention. On April 3, 1867, he was making adjustments to one of his new presses that was being installed for the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper. Bullock tried to kick a driving belt onto a pulley. His leg was crushed when it became caught in the machine. After a few days, gangrene set in. On April 12, 1867, Bullock died during an operation to amputate the leg.
And now, some of my favourite lists from listables:
List of words you should never, ever say.
I believe I can fly
If you’re a mad keen Asterix fan you’ll no doubt want a set of these head phones designed for a Nokia competition. A competition to design Headphones inspired by your favourite song. This guy’s favourite song was I believe I can fly.
Other winning entries are photographed here.
Hot plate
Little sister number two suggested I should check out designbloom. I did, but didn’t think much of it. Until another site sent me to these awesome plates that aims to do away with any other cooking appliance. Except perhaps a weather forecasting toaster…
Shirt of the day: Invisibility cloak
Anyone who uses Photoshop regularly will no doubt appreciate this novel approach to removing unsightly stains…
The Invisibility Shirt – get yours today – you won’t see them tomorrow…
UrbanTrend: Let the word dwell in you
This post will no doubt see me excommunicated by the Southern Baptists. Oh well. I’ll drink to that. From my awesome bible flask.
Our daily Fred: eye want candy
If you’re not convinced that Fred and Friends are the producers of the coolest range of product range available on the interwebs then maybe you should take a lolly from this bag jar, and sit back. They just get cooler from here.
But all that lolly munching will be costly to your teeth – so you’ll need to go to the dentist. Who’ll no doubt be storing their own stash in something as innocuous as this… sweet tooth.
A bunch of links – March 26, 2009
- Coversation with an Athiest Friend 02
- The Difference Between I.E. and E.G.
- $19 fares kick off new regional flights out of Townsville
- Faking it with books
- How to freak out your church treasurer
- Man Confessed Murder on “Deathbed,” then Got Better …
- Reason for the season fail
- Scrabble points inflation
- Where the Wild Things Are trailer
- How to become Jason Bourne
Mr DEEDs
The Bligh Government has just released its new public service structure. They’re “streamlining” 23 departments. One super department is the Department of Employment and Economic Development. Which will no doubt become DEED. Andrew Fraser as minister for that department will from now on, in these here parts, be referred to as Mr DEEDs.
That is all.
You can take the girl out of the country
But as it turns out – you can’t take the “ladette” out of the girl. Despite what TV might attempt to teach you.
We watch Ladette to Lady. It continues to be one of my wife’s favourite programs… so we watched the reunion special the other night. What we didn’t see – but what those staying at the hotel the girls were reunited to did – was this:
“A hotel source confirms the ladettes drew at least a dozen complaints after having a topless romp in the hotel swimming pool at 1.30am, throwing objects from windows and trashing a hotel room, resulting in a cleaning bill worth several hundred dollars. “
The SMH story also demonstrates that the Herald’s sub editing department has an issue captioning people with just their first names… see below
The Australian Ladettes ... students (from left to right) Nicole Skye, Emily Krisyn, Bianca Maria, Sarah Zoe, in class with teacher Mrs Liz Brewer.
Adventures in TV
We caught Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure last night on the ABC (post Gruen Transfer). It made me laugh until I cried. It’s Safranesque – and produced by the Chaser team.
If you missed it you can watch it here thanks to the magic of iView.
Very funny. I’ll never be able to pick up a copy of the Queensland Presbyterian newspaper, New Directions, again without catching subliminal messages.
One of my favourite bits was when his mum told him what he was doing (trying to track down the object of his grade 3 affections) was creepy.
Here’s the trailer. It uses lego. He’s also a Rubiks Cube master. And used that to get a girl’s phone number. Chicks dig guys with skillz.
An ode to one
Channel Ten is launching a new. Free. 24 hour dedicated digital sports channel today. That’s pretty exciting. I’ve been waiting for this for a while – and Craig kindly reminded me with his post.
But. It seems we may not be immediately getting it in the regions…
“Network Ten broadcasts ONE in our markets of Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. For viewers outside those areas, our programs are carried by local affiliates.
We understand our affiliates are progressing well towards carrying ONE in their markets but for further information please contact:
– If your station is a Southern Cross station, please call Southern Cross TV on (02) 6242 2400
– If not, please contact WIN’s head office on (02) 4223 4199.”
But not to worry readers – I’ve contacted my contact at Macquarie Southern Cross and will let you know as soon as I find out.
I hope this isn’t one of those examples of regional areas losing out through the tyranny of distance.