A bunch of links – March 15, 2009

March 15, 2009

A bunch of links – March 14, 2009

March 14, 2009

I dare you

To read this headline and not click on the link:

Horse bites off man’s testicle

March 13, 2009

A bunch of links – March 13, 2009

March 13, 2009

Rock’n’Pol

Whether or not you think Peter Garrett is a sell out or not is irrelevant – there’s no doubt he’s the rockingest Australian politician ever.

I suspect more of these performances would enhance his political stocks.

March 13, 2009

It’s Time

Time Magazine has just published a list of the 10 ideas changing the world right now. Number 3. New Calvinism.

There’ll be a bunch of links to some reactions in my link post today. But here’s the actual article.

And here’s a quote:

“Calvinism, cousin to the Reformation’s other pillar, Lutheranism, is a bit less dour than its critics claim: it offers a rock-steady deity who orchestrates absolutely everything, including illness (or home foreclosure!), by a logic we may not understand but don’t have to second-guess. Our satisfaction — and our purpose — is fulfilled simply by “glorifying” him.”

The article names John Piper, Mark Driscoll and Albert Mohler as leaders of this pack.

March 13, 2009

Unsuggester: find the books you don’t want to read

LibraryThing (my profile) is a web cataloging platform for books. It can pull data from Amazon purchases – and you can manually enter in all the books you own. If you can be bothered.

It will make suggestions for you based on those books. It will now also “unsuggest” books for you based on what people who have a particular book are least likely to have on their shelves. The following is telling:

unsuggester

March 12, 2009

Digital workout

If thumb wrestling has worn out your thumb – and you need a work for a different digit but in the same vein perhaps this finger controlled arm wrestling game will fill that very specific gap in your exercise regime. But why not just play XBox? It’s yours for just $US24.95.

March 12, 2009

GraphJam

March 12, 2009

Sans serif

I 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. Now.

March 12, 2009

Pillow talk: Gooba

Back in the 90s there was a spreadable product called “Gooba” which was simply premixed peanut butter and jam. By extension these sandwhich pillows are gooba pillows – but only if bought together. They’re sold separately. I don’t think they contain nuts so you don’t need a pillow epi pen.

Little sister number two is a big gooba fan. She even owns this shirt.

March 12, 2009

Shirt of the day: Nintendo wheeze

This one comes from a site called NerdyShirts – so I’m not sure what it does for my campaign not to be considered a nerd. Anyone who ever played the original Nintendo Entertainment System will appreciate this. Otherwise you need to know that to get the pesky things to work sometimes you had to blow in the cartridge.

Here are some others that I almost liked as much from the same site.

March 12, 2009

One trillion dollars

Being a supervillain and making demands for ransom ala Dr Evil is much easier now thanks to Google. You’ll be able to make realistic cash demands in proportion to your schemes knowing how much space you’ll need to store the payment just by using Google Sketchup. Google’s 3D modelling software doesn’t look quite as cool as Lego’s – but only because it’s not defaulted to using lego. I’m sure you could. You can provide a visualisation of one trillion dollars with ease (the little speck on the bottom left is a person). I haven’t used it yet, but it looks cool.

March 12, 2009

How to win at Jenga every time

Tired of your precariously positioned Jenga tower collapsing as you carefully slide a block out of place. Well – blast those fears away with this Jenga cannon found here and with a making of guide here. And possibly take out your competitor’s eye in the process – helping you win every time.

The Campbells, fairly or unfairly, have a reputation for cheating to win so this will be a popular stocking filler next Christmas.

March 12, 2009

A bunch of links – March 12, 2009

March 12, 2009