December 2010
Three Words: Simple, Fun, Viral →
Making the rounds on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr right now is Three Words, a super simple but mighty fun application created by teen tinkerer Mark Bao. What does it do?
Well, it tells you…
Can you name these traffic optimised books? →
McSweeneys put together a list of classic books reworked for the Internet generation…
7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism
The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World
8…
Kinect-Controlled Humanoid Robot – Bring On The... →
Seriously, how long will it take before we have Robot Jox happening for real? Except in real life the robots will be tele-operated by guys with Kinects. Seriously. This will happen….
Font Funnies →
If fonts were people/super heroes.
From College Humo(u)r…
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How Did Atheism Become Plausible in America? →
Ken Myers on James Turner’s Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America:
This detailed and wide-ranging exercise in intellectual history is concerned with a single…
How Did Atheism Become Plausible in America? →
Ken Myers on James Turner’s Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America:
This detailed and wide-ranging exercise in intellectual history is concerned with a single…
2010 according to Google →
Nice video.
Containing some subliminal adverts for Google’s products. Related posts: Flattery…
My 13 Favourite YouTube Videos from 2010 →
A Monkey riding on a pig, with a catchy song
Creed Shreds (A slight written language warning on this one)
A bit of Remi Galliard
A…
When Preaching Becomes Plagiarism →
When has a preacher crossed the line into plagiarism in his sermon?
Matt Perman, senior director of strategy at DG, has posted his response today at The Gospel Coalition Blog. It follows in a…
NSFW: Hey, Assange’s Celeb Supporters, What Time’s... →
I think we can all agree that the one thing the world needs right now is another column about Julian Assange.
I’m sitting in a hotel bar about an hour north of London, and spread out on the…
Star Wars Family Portraits →
This would have been an awkward portrait to sit for.
More in the Flickr Set, via the Jailbreak. Related posts:
Pi-zza Cutter →
This will, doubtless, help you cut your pizza in even sized slices.
From here. Related posts: Cutting a…
Dropbox Hits 1.0, Adds Features →
I’d like to extend hearty congratulations to the Dropbox team for doing what many web-based companies might avoid for years on end: putting out a 1.0 product. It’s a bit arbitrary, of course…
A Facebook Christmas →
This is nice. The Christmas Story, social media style:
Via Communicate Jesus. Related posts: …
New Transformers: Product Placement goes too... →
The movies in the Transformers franchise are a car company’s dream, with the third installment due out soon, other companies are looking to get a piece of the produce placement pie. I give you,…
Best. Dissatisfied. Employee. Ever →
Dissatisfied with your job writing copy for a product you don’t care about. This guy who writes advertising for printer ink cartridges is too.
It’s here, and here’s a cached version in case it…
Chrysostom on Applause →
Way way back many centuries ago, not long after the Bible ended, there was a famous preacher called Chrysostom. I thought I’d share a bit of his thinking today. He’s reflecting on the tension…
Is your logo elegant and simple? →
While looking around the interwebs for a page of logos to flog for this post I found this little infographic. It’s nothing new. But it’s a reminder that logos seem to have devolved rather than…
Everyone at Le Web is Wrong: Wikileaks Should be... →
Le Web. I’m still unclear on the unique selling point of Europe’s “leading technology conference”, and yet here I am, for the third year in a row, hanging out in a snow-bound venue four…
Seuss Wars: Star Wars Cat in the Hat style →
What would it look like if Dr Seuss wrote and illustrated Star Wars? Something like this I guess.
More here. Via Twenty Two Words.
Save Christmas: Kill an elf →
Findo found this story about a minister so keen to defend the honour of Christmas that he’s executing a satanic elf to make the point.
Elves, of course, are servants of Satan. Just like…
Cancel meetings. Stop interrupting. Get work done. →
Interruptions are the enemy of getting things done. And often, our modern office set-ups aren’t conducive to doing good work, especially creative, thinking work.
In his TED presentation, Jason…
Game Theory: Understanding the mechanics of Pacman →
Well. I’ll never look at a game of Pacman in quite the same way again.
Its mysteries have been revealed by these two links — firstly the Pacman Dossier — basically a textbook on Pacman, and…
David and Jonathan →
“As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return…
Make it clear what you’re delegating →
A friend needed a brochure to promote a women’s event at her church.
One of the women on the committee volunteered – she’d done a design course, and was happy to help out.
The next weekend, the…
The Andrew Show →
This kid is going to grow up to be a racist Third Eagle of the Apocalypse. The puppet only gets a say about 3 minutes in.
He’s a junior KKK member. No kidding.
Driscoll on engaging culture →
Following on from the excellent video about politics, Driscoll just posted this on his blog regarding a Christian approach to culture. It is, in my opinion, a thoroughly Pauline approach, in the…
Venn Theology: Stuff you might be missing →
I’m still trying to figure out exactly what goes here and what goes there. But in the last few days you might have missed these posts at Venn Theology (my new serious blog)…
1. Reasons you…
Muse's Matt Bellamy on corporate songwriting →
Muse were pretty epic last night. They have a beautifully crafted stage presence that makes the songs you don’t like on their albums make a bit of sense. It’s almost as though they write their…
Reimagining paid church work: serve where you are →
There has been an assumption underlying the principles of growing elders and paying for what you need: we should serve in the church and community where we are. That is, I don’t think there’s an…
The Daily Show Tears Into Sarah Palin’s Tweets... →
Last time we checked in Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was using Twitter to contest Gawker over the leak of her book America By Heart, bypassing the “lamestream” media. And…
Speaking of Radiohead →
This time tomorrow Robyn and I will be on our way home from a Muse concert. Awesome. I’m hoping for some of this.
Not this.
Or this.
Paranoid Androids →
Paranoid Android is one of my favourite Radiohead songs. Here’s Thom Yorke singing it with an acoustic guitar.
And here are Australian comedy band Tripod singing it a capella….
Shredded Creed →
There’s a series of videos on YouTube of “popular” bands being redubbed with badly played instruments. This Creed one made me laugh until I cried.
Bad Christian Music #74 →
YouTube’s supply of bad Christian music seems bottomless. I can’t remember if I’ve seen this before. But it made me laugh.
Can That Be Right? The New Testament’s Use of Old... →
It’s Christmas season and that means renewed attention on Messianic prophecy. Ah, the familiar sounds of “a virgin shall give birth,” “the government shall be upon his shoulders,” and good ole…
The Hacker’s Guide To Tea | Lifehacker Australia →
Coffee gets a lot of attention, but if tea’s more your style, tea guru Tony Gebely offers this guide to understanding and brewing better tea—dis…
Five Ways To Not Suck At PowerPoint | Lifehacker... →
If You’re Not Paying For It, You’re The Product |... →
Everybody wants stuff for free but we seldom question what it means to get something for free. Today’s quotable moment is a reflection on what it mean…
Prime Ice →
If I were an ice sculptor, a talented ice sculptor, I don’t know how high on the list I’d put “carve a giant autobot” — but having seen this, it’d be up there.
From here.
On a brighter note: How Abraham Lincoln got his... →
So this morning’s letter was pretty sad. I thought I’d balance it with this one — a letter from a little girl to a then clean faced Abraham Lincoln who was just embarking on his presidential…
Infographic: A new world order →
What would happen if we redistributed nations around the countries of the world based on population? Well. The world map would look something like this.
I’m not actually sure where this came…
Give the gift of coffee this Christmas →
People regularly ask me what coffee stuff they should buy for their loved ones. I like coffee. And I know a fair bit about coffee. But I hate getting coffee presents from people — because usually…
Driscoll on Christianity in public →
Say what you will about Mark Driscoll — but the man is sharpest (I think) when he’s talking about how the church should interact with the surrounding culture. I like this video because we are…
NBA Jam: Jordan meets James →
Last year this basketball player named LeBron James sent shockwaves through his home city because he turned his back on the team who had nurtured and created him. He moved. He changed teams. He…
Great Scott: Because it's always fun crying... →
You know a letter addressed “To My Widow” is going to be a tear jerker — and this one didn’t fail to hit that mark. I’m as tough and manly as the next guy, but this letter from Captain Robert…
Mmm. Smells like bacon. →
Scented candles have never really excited me. Until now. Set the mood for your next breakfast shin dig with these…
From ThinkGeek.
Steampunk Prime →
What if Optimus Prime hit earth before the combustion engine was invented. He’d be a steam train of course.
This guy from Encline Designs makes custom Transformers and other toys. Pretty…
A Badd take on Christianese →
Badd make funny videos. Related posts: (Almost) YouTube Tuesday: The theodicy of Tetris
No…