- Pastor laments, #39;My son won#39;t raise hell#39;
Pastor Sean Welch and his wife Eleanor are concerned that their 16-year-old son isn’t turning into the hellraiser they thought he’d be.br”We’ve always heard how much trouble PK’s are, so we spent years reading parenting books and attending seminars,” said Eleanor. “It looks like all that preparation is wasted.” - Fishing net calls when it#39;s full
Clever- “Engineering at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, developed an electronic device that ‘automates’ fishing. The trap employs amplification of the sound made by fish while feeding. The acoustic signals are radiated and attract other fish who head toward the direction of the source thinking there is food there.brOnce a good catch is detected by a net weighing mechanism, it triggers a GPRS/GSM device attached to the system and the fisherman gets a call/sms informing him that his catch is ready.” - How to Buy a Mattress: Advice from a Mattress Salesman [Household]
- Free Visual CSS Editor
- How To Track Your Favourite Author’s New Book Releases Online
- Create An iPhone Document Scanner From Cardboard
- Why the Manager’s Schedule Blows Creative Productivity
- The Perils of the Subheading
- The Times really really really regrets the error
- The Case For A Four-Day Workweek
- When something you read online really bothers you, do you try to let the author know?
- Does science have all the answers?
Tag: Google Reader
A bunch of links – July 29, 2009
A bunch of links – July 28, 2009
- Why I Baptize Babies
- Make Reverse-Engineered KFC at Home [Recipes]
Further to the KFC post the other day:br”So the Word of Mouth blog at the Guardian UK crowd-sourced a remix of Douglas’ seasoned flour coating, resulting in a version host Tim Hayward finds “very, very good.” It lacks the “facepunch” of mouth-filling flavor, known as umami, but it’s apparently quite agreeable—and Hayward lists both spice mixes, so you can give in to your overwhelming cravings if needed.” - On Twilight
Amy on Twilight – “Now, I could go into detail about the problems I have with the bad writing (way to regurgitate a thesaurus) and the Mary-Sueness, but we haven’t got the space.” - How to Color Correct RGB Images Quickly amp; Easily Using Photoshop
- Keep Your Social Media Life Organized with Skimmer
- Another Book Group? Are You Insane?
- There Is A Time For Everything, Except For Long Shoes
- Drumsticks
Ahh instructables – you’ve done it again. How to make Drumsticks – the icecream, not the musical implement. - Keep Your Resume Out Of The Circular File By Avoiding These Phrases
- Writing techniques for direct response ads
A bunch of links – July 26, 2009
- Staturday: Food and Gas
A $1 national increase in the price of gas results in a 10 percent decrease in national obesity rates.
A bunch of links – July 25, 2009
- Itty Bitty Weezer
- Time passes in an inking
- Wrist watch
- Don#39;t take notes in sermons
- How Five Gangsters Met Their Makers
- 5 foods you shouldn’t eat raw
- Crypo Encrypts Text on the Go [Encryption]
- 5 Online amp; Software Resources For Booksellers
- The Bookworm’s Guide to the Lifehacker Galaxy [Books]
- Pac Axe
- Shirt of the Day: Burger King
A bunch of links – July 24, 2009
- Rollerblade Rollercoaster is Really Radically Ridiculous
- Free
More on the “Free” book.br”In Denmark, a gym offers a membership program where you pay nothing as long as you show up at least once a week. But miss a week and you have to pay full price for the month. The psychology is brilliant. When you go every week, you feel great about yourself and the gym. But eventually you’ll get busy and miss a week. You’ll pay, but you’ll blame yourself alone. Unlike the usual situation where you pay for a gym you’re not going to, your instinct is not to cancel your membership; instead it’s to redouble your commitment.” - Music Royalties for Dummies
- Definitive Guide to Taming the IE6 Beast
- Card.ly Creates Attractive Online Business Cards In A Jiffy
- A place for everything
- Heads!
- mums and #39;oversharing#39;
- Pointless Post-it Notes – It#39;s about time
- Resources for pursuing sexual purity
- Mostly right
- Can dispensationalism ever accommodate pacifism?
A bunch of links – July 22, 2009
- Giant database of English medieval soldiers online
For anybody remotely interested in medieval times this is amazing…br”The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers – including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt – have gone online. brThe database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals salaries, sickness records and who was knighted. brbrThe full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers to piece together details of their lives.” - Tahu quits Tahs, returns to NRL
- Google Wave Opens To Non-Developers In September
- Binge and Purge
Ben takes a stand: “As of this day, I am going to begin a 30 day vow of abstinence from all manner of typed faces. Sort of like a bloggers’ detox. Anyone with me? You won’t regret it. You even have my blessing to use the comments page of this post as a last binge. I’ll go first. Look away. “ - status abuse
- The Socratic Method, Part 1
A bunch of links – July 21, 2009
- Status symbols
- On Swearing
- New Rules
- Avoid These Automobile-Destroying Foods [Safety]
- Position Your Tongue Properly to Look Good in Photos [Photography Tip]
- UTube Ripper Saves And Converts YouTube Videos
- Navigon Almost-Free GPS For Your iPhone
- Political theology on the radio
- Apologetic issues in preaching Exodus 5-10
- Order in the physical world reflects the faithfulness of its Creator
A bunch of links – July 20, 2009
- 5 (useful) links #13
- What I learned from the Mormons
An interesting piece of reflection on some interaction with Mormons in Utah… point 6 was insightful:br”While they say they are disciples of Jesus and recipients of his grace, clearly they are not. I read somewhere that Mormonism is like an American form of Islam. There is something in that; it is a religion of works, self-improvement and legalism (Col 2:20-23), as opposed to authentic Christianity (Eph 2:8-10). They believe that orthodox Christianity, as we know it, is deficient. “
Sharing is caring
I’m interested in the whole “social bookmarking” phenomena around the blogosphere – Simone said once that there are several link love languages – the click, the comment, the link, the email, and the discussion (in real life) – I’d add “the share”.
Which is like a link – but different.
You’ll notice that at the bottom of each post there’s a link to “share this” – on a number of sharing platforms. I haven’t decided which I like best – but they’re great for generating traffic.
I use Google Reader as my bookmarking platform of choice – having had dalliances with delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit. I like Google Reader because I use it to make my daily links posts. Pretty seemlessly.
I also like it because I can see things my actual friends are sharing right there in the browser window.
And I always feel pretty special when I score a “share”. Craig Schwarze is a much renowned (or at least widely read) Sydney Anglican blogger – every Christian I know who blogs subscribes to his blog or reads it regularly. It’s pretty good – he keeps on top of a wide range of issues and some of the comment threads there get comment counts that are the envy of even the die hard professionals. I must confess that I am trying to come up with the perfect recipe for having a post shared by Craig – links from his blog get almost as many hits as links from Facebook.
I’ve had 44 items shared by my friends (from my blog) – Google Reader lets me search that sort of thing, I haven’t kept a running tally – that would be a bit too narcissistic even for me.
But I’ve had a quick look through the items that have been shared and it’s hard to narrow down set criteria. I’ve had half serious posts and half trivial. Some of them have been regular features like t-shirts and videos, and a couple of the beginners guide to taking over the world made the list too. But sorry other bloggers – I am yet to narrow down the secret ingredient.
Feeding the masses
Wow. Today I have 43 feed subscribers. This number fluctuates pretty dramatically.
If you’re not a subscriber then maybe you should be if you don’t have a feed reader – try Google Reader on for size.
If you are a feed reader then maybe you should stop by the actual page sometime to see what’s happening in the comments.
Anyway, these are largely irrelevant observations tangential to the main purpose of this particular post.
I’m trying out FriendFeed today – it’s a social networking aggregator/platform/rival to Facebook or Twitter. It looks fun so far. It’s like Facebook without the bloat and Twitter with more content.
Is anyone else on it already? If you’re not and you want to see what FriendFeed looks like in action – here’s my page.
If you’re not it’s worth checking out – so far it’s got 57 sites that it appears to integrate with pretty seemlessly – and you can pull any custom RSS data into it too.
On the blacklist
I’m on a blacklist. The Education Queensland blacklist no less. Apparently…
Tim says:
“Just thought i’d let you know your site has been blocked by eq hierachy. Congratulations on making it to the level of facebook and my blog… the question is now what am i gonna do when i should be working…. hmmmm i wonder if stick cricket can be tracked”
Was it something I said?
Now I know a little of what all those nasty sites will feel once the clean feed begins in earnest.
My advice for Tim – and for others in the same boat – is just subscribe to my blog using Google Reader – no school in its right mind will block google. You may have to rename the feed.
Facebook is blocked at my work too – but I get my friend’s status updates via RSS.