Here’s a novel protest against perennial protesters Westboro Baptist (the hateful “God Hates Fags” mob).
It’s pretty Biblically sound – but the Bible has a fair bit to say about homosexuality and sin.
laughometer
The funnyometer. I rate my own blog “haha”. Your thoughts?
Perspective
Further to the one trillion dollars visualisation I posted the other day Mint.com has produced a bunch of images putting a little perspective on the size of the bailout. Like this one.
Let them eat cake
If you want to resign in style perhaps take a leaf out of this guy’s book (from Flickr) and bake your notice of resignation into a cake.
The written message on the icing says:
“Dear Mr. Bowers,
During the past three years, my tenure at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been nothing short of pure excitement, joy and whim.
However, I have decided to spend more time with my family and attend to health issues that have recently arisen. I am proud to have been part of such an outstanding team and I wish this organization only the finest in future endeavors.
Please accept this cake as notification that I am leaving my position with NWT on March 27.
Sincerely,
W. Neil berrett”
Metrics Systems
Having spent all weekend worried that my site was dead today I decided to check out how much I would have lost had it been gone forever by having a look at some novel webmetrics platforms (I was also using this first, more serious, option for work related purposes).
Pageboss gives you all the details on your site – link backs, google page rating, when the google bot last scanned your page, number of times your site is linked to or bookmarked in popular platforms, and a host of other useful stuff.
$timator
Stimator calculates the dollar value of your site based on a logarithmic assessment of a number of factors. Lucky I didn’t lose my site, it’s worth about $US550 compared to Googles $US938,550,265 – I can’t even begin to try expressing that as a percentage… here’s the valuation of my site:
Knowledge of all font
Here’s a list of the 100 best fonts of all time – written in German – Helvetica takes out top spot. UPDATE: Here’s an English version of the 100 best fonts with a bit more info on how the list was compiled.
If lists aren’t your thing and you’re more a periodic table type here’s a periodic table of fontness (click it for the full sized version).
Atheist Hunting
Occasionally nasty parody site Landover Baptist has a great list of tips for how to spot them atheists that needs some converting (sic)…
Here’s a summary of their five tips so that you can dob your local atheist in to police:
Five Tips on How to Spot an Atheist
1. Usually Atheists are pale of skin.
They spend a lot of times indoors, because they are afraid to come outside. They believe the preposterous lie that Christians are trying to kill them, when in fact, all that we really want to do is force a quick conversion or to kindly place them in a maximum security prison for their own protection from devout Christians who may try to kill them.
2. Atheists are overweight.
The stereotypes of typical Atheists are the trim, granola cruncher who jogs and plays racquetball or the vain hedonist, party-goer who worships only her full-length mirror, Recent studies have shown, however, that Atheists have become aware of these signifiers of their lack of faith.
3. Atheists have too many university diplomas!
These folks are chock full of secular knowledge. They toss the Bible aside in favor of so-called, “research” and “theories.”
4. Atheists Deceive!
Atheists go under many different names, but they don’t have the common sense to align themselves yet! Use this to your advantage in reporting them to the police! They call themselves, “humanists, agnostics, secular-humanists, moral relativists, Catholics, free-thinkers, undecided, Unitarians, and more recently, Brights.” It is important to note that anyone who has a post-graduate degree or is interested in getting a post-graduate degree, is suspect! Also be warned, Wiccans , Vegans, Yogists, and readers of science fiction are either Atheists or on the road to becoming an Atheist.
5. Atheists are afraid!
Even though there are as many as 300 active Atheists in the United States, we can safely assume that if recent polls are correct, most Atheists are afraid to come out and say what they don’t believe.
Dog eat dog world
If you’d like to see your son develop a pugilistic bent it’s easy to realise that dream. Just eat his pet dog.
“Manny Pacquiao was driven to become a world champion boxer after his father fried and ate his pet dog, according to trainer Freddie Roach.”
“But it was the horrific act by his drunk dad, Rosalio, which finally pushed him out and on the path to fame and fortune.”Manny saw his dad eat his dog, and that is why he ran away from home and became a boxer,” Roach told the tabloid.”
What’s black, white and read all over
Yes, the humble newspaper. Thanks Peter Combe. If you want to track down the leading daily (or in fact any other dailies) from the 400 biggest cities in the world – here’s a nice aggregator.
Fat chance
This is a bus shelter. You might think it’s a normal, everyday, run-of-the-mill public transport hailing vestibule. But no. It’s more awesome. It tells you how fat you are. With a built in scale. Currently it’s advertising Fitness First. It would be extra handy if it was near a post box so you could weigh your oversized mail. From Neatorama.
Back in business
Well, I thought I was gone for a while. But I’m back. Cause for celebration? Perhaps.
Here’s a brief summary of what happened which may be particularly useful if you’ve googled “What happened to Dedicatedhost.net.au” or dedicatedhost.net.au in order to find this post.
My previous host – the aforementioned dedicatedhost.net.au appears to have collapsed – taking client’s money and running, not returning phone calls, having emails bounce and having their own site go down in the process. And leading to a Whirpool thread and Webhostingtalk.com.au thread speculating about the reasons behind the demise.
After spending a fair bit of Friday and Saturday worrying about the hours of work I’d poured down the drain by not backing up my content regularly I had resigned myself to losing all of my content (except the stuff in Google Reader – who’s laughing at me for subscribing to my own blog now hey…). Then, a glimmer of hope, DedicatedHost.net.au shared server space with another hosting provider in Melbourne (HighTek hosting – who have been absolutely fantastic through this “ordeal”) who could access content on the box and transfer it to their plans.
Unfortunately my site wasn’t on the Melbourne servers – but HighTek Hosting were able to initiate a transfer of the content using cpanel. That’s all technical language (not completely but it’s not English either) for saying I have my site back thanks to HighTek Hosting. At a discounted rate on the basis of dedicatedhost.net.au’s stuff ups.
So I’m back. And ready to fill your feed readers or internet browsing time with all the coffee, stupid gadgets and pseudo political commentary I can produce in my spare moments at work.
Fun stuff from spoon sisters
Here’s a site full of useful, intriguing and stupid gadgets.
Click the images for links to the product.
Pick your nose party cups
The Wally - wallet sized bottle opener
Give your Brownies an edge
Posts you might have missed
Too many posts to handle? Here’s a quick list of the posts you might have missed this week:
- A bunch of links – March 12, 2009
Posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 in webHow To Make Any Firefox Add-on Compatible With All VersionsFree Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo SansPortions Calculator Cuts Down on Waste, Makes Just What You Need [Cooking]The difference between PR and publicityThousands of foreigners splurge stimulus overseas | smh.com.auWhoops.Crabb on K-Rudd, the toxic boreDear GodLetters to God from young children.Why committing suicide doesn’t change a Christian’s standing before God.
- A bunch of links – March 9, 2009
Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 in webExcellent public speaking adviceCreate Flash Content with WidgetMeScrewed … in anyone#39;s language | smh.com.aunm.campbell – Crabb on Economic obfuscation. A nice comparison between Rudd’s ability to explain the economic situation and Obama’s ability to do the same.Which animal did we domesticate first?
- Ad value
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in ChurchTim Challies is one of the world’s preeminent Christian bloggers. Today he wrote about advertising and the church – mostly advertising but this was a great quote about his approach to ads:”I guard against this because I’ve seen what happens to churches when they adopt a marketing mindset. Every church markets; the moment a church places a sign outside or puts an advertisement in the phone book or the local newspaper, it is marketing.
- Apologetics accepted
Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 in ChurchOne of the things I do in order to increase my levels of frustration is read annoying things written by atheists who feel intellectually superior to us “unenlightened Christians”.I spend a lot of time arguing with three of my friends – two of whom are declared atheists – one is a notorious fence sitter. I often ask myself why I bother.
- Driscollisms
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in ChurchI’m about to break an unofficial rule – and post something about Mark Driscoll. If you’ve never heard of him – look him up on wikipedia – or check out his blog at his church’s website.I’ve mentioned him a couple of times – but I know that he doesn’t really like bloggers. Unless they’re flattering. I also don’t want to appear to be a fan boy.
- Election Scorecard: Candidates in Townsville
Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 in PoliticsThe campaign proper has been underway for two weeks now. Here’s part one of my take on the candidates for Townsville’s three seats:Townsville:Mandy Johnstone – Labor’s factional darling somehow got the nod to replace Mike Reynolds, the seat’s former member. It says a lot about Mandy Johnstone’s campaign that her campaign website features a prominent photo of Anna Bligh and a tiny photo of Mandy Johnstone.
- Election Scorecard: Change, can we believe it?
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in PoliticsThe latest roundof election ads are out – the ALP has gone negative. They’re telling us that despite poll results the other guy – Lawrence Springborg – is not ready to lead us. Labor seems concerned. Government media releases (still being sent via Government distribution lists despite “caretaker mode” being in full swing) are consistently refering to the LNP as the Nationals.
- Election Scorecard: Poll
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in PoliticsYour thoughts in the comments – is the scarcity of political talent around an indication of market failure and a justification for closing down State Governments?I think so. The Labor Party is so desparate to fill out all the seats around Queensland they’ve picked a Brisbane uni student to run in Hinchinbrook who won’t do recorded interviews with the ABC – the Premier had to chastise him via the media.
- Foetal position
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in ChurchBen just sent me a link to this ABC story where Tony Abbott attacked Kevin Rudd for allowing changes to Australia’s aid policy and aid money being used to fund abortions.The comments thread is telling. These discussions always bring out the rabid atheists who want to accuse Christianity of “holding back society”… I do like it when they put together a coherent argument.
- Get write on it
Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 in LinksThe things I create using these online web tools that I keep posting are never that funny. Maybe I should spend more time thinking before I post – but WriteOnIt has so many cool features that you should check out that I just couldn’t wait.
- I dare you
Posted on Friday, March 13th, 2009 in Links
- I’m a generator
Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 in LinksA while back I posted another online comic strip generator – perfect for re-envisaging airline safety cards. Here’s a different, better, platform that does the same thing. You can even “stripblog” which would be cool. If I had anything funny to say.
- Manlyness
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in MediaIt’s obviously a pretty difficult time to be a Manly supporter – what with guys who punch fathers of attractive girls who dare to interfere in their advances and alleged sexual assaulters named to turn out for the team on Friday.The NRL has just suspended Stewart for five rounds.It makes me feel sick.I don’t even want to trot out the “innocent until proven guilty” line in their defense.
- Ninjaroo
Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 in MediaTurns out I was wrong. The platypus may not be the ninja of the animal world after all. I feel like I’m a little behind the times only posting this now – I saw it on the Today Show this morning. A kangaroo broke into a house in Canberra and the owner had to take it down wrasslin’ style in just his undies.
- Periodic table for nerdy nerds
Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 in ComputersRobyn and I had a fairly long discussion last night over whether or not I’m a nerd. I think I’m a geek, but not a nerd. She thinks I’m a nerd. This post may well decide it. I give you the periodic table of video game characters. Which I think is clever. Nerd? Maybe.
- Question Mark: persuasion, influence and manipulation
Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 in MediaIn the comments of a previous post Mark asked: “when it comes to presenting a message, how clear are the boundaries between persuasion, influence and manipulation?” As I’m a renowned “PR Spin Twit” (according to the local paper’s nasty “Magpie” column) I feel I’m qualified to tackle that question.The organisation I work for is a “marketing” and “economic development” body – by our very nature we engage in all three of the above.
- Sans serif
Posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 in LifeI just swapped the font on our website from Verdana to Helvetica. It looks nicer already. I don’t know why it was in Verdana to begin with.Speaking of our website – if you’re from North Queensland and haven’t spammed your local candidates and the party leaders to tell them to fix the Flinders Street Mall – you totally should. Here.
- Shout Out Townsville
Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 in LifeThis one’s for Townsville locals – but those of you who don’t live here should check it out too. We’ve launched a new campaign with the Townsville Airport – and you can win prizes by chucking your photos and videos of North Queensland on the website. Then using them to lure your friends and family up here. It’s called “Shout Out Townsville” – and you’ll find a few of my pics up there as placeholders.
- Watching Watchmen
Posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 in ChurchOn Saturday afternoon I caught the Watchmen with a bunch of guys from church. Having not read the Graphic Novel I wasn’t sure what to expect. Having caught the movie I now want to catch the graphic novel.The movie was violent. Graphically violent. And had a fair bit of sex – so it’s hard to “recommend” to Christians if that’s likely to cause you to stumble.
- Written by man…
Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 in webAccording to GenderAnalyzer my blog is written by a man. You probably knew that already.I guess my predilection for toilet humour probably gives it away. The uncertainty in the result probably comes from my deep, emotionally charged insights. Thanks to Simone and Ben (Vanishing Point) for the link.”We think http://nathanintownsville.com is written by a man (62%).
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