January 2011
What Billy Graham Would Do Differently →
Billy Graham was just interviewed. Here is what he said to the question,
If you could, would you go back and do anything differently?
Yes, of course. I’d spend more time at home with…
Nintendo Entertainment Systems [Icons] →
Way too cool! And they are free! Download here.
[HT: 365psd]
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How not to teach children to give generously →
I’m not sure that stealing somebody’s money and giving it to the church is going to engender a spirit of generosity. What do you reckon.
GOD’S MUSCLE! from EIT! on Vimeo.
Apparently…
The problem of evil, naturally. →
I’ve written in the past about the problems of evil and suffering, noting in particular that it’s an emotional problem / argument rather than a logical disproof of God ( see also here and here). I recognise that it is indeed a weighty and troubling question, but in this post I want to point out how ‘the problem of evil’ is not one just for theists, but is also somewhat of a problem, albeit in a...
PROCLAIM – The New Church Presentation Software on... →
Bringing it to the “cloud”?
Whoa. That’s pretty sweet. Check it out: Proclaim.
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Preacher kids say the darndest things... →
Think it’s cool that Spurgeon started preaching when he was 16. Check out Elijah Kaneshiro. Possibly the world’s cutest child preacher. Much less shouty than that kid from last week. Here he is…
Lesson #865 - Ad Hominem →
Count how many times you hear this type of argument from a politician. If it was a drinking game, you’d need to have your stomach pumped several times. In other words, don’t create the ‘Ad…
Build your own horoscope →
It turns out writing horoscopes is really, really, easy. Information is Beautiful posted this great breakdown/wordcloud from 4,000 horoscopes.
It can’t be too hard to string a sentence…
An explanation of my ridiculous use of blogging,... →
Responding to an ultra-negative email
Recently, I got the most critical email about what I do online that I’ve ever gotten. It was so appallingly out of line that it’s not worth responding to in…
Typographic Portraits →
I like these typographic portraits, especially Mr T and Gandhi.
Image Credit: Captain Bone Daddy, Deviant Art
Image Credit: Dencii
I might even try to make one. There are some…
Censu(s/r)ing Religion – AFA Census Campaign →
The Atheist foundation of Australia has a campaign running:
Unfortunately, because of the wording, many people will select the religion of their baptism or initiation at youth, despite…
WWF Is A New Green File Format That’s Impossible... →
The rabble rousers at the World Wildlife Fund (they renamed fake wrestling!) have created a new, PDF-type file format called WWF. It’s a file format t…
Watching the flood →
At the moment I’m sitting on level five of a building in Southbank, overlooking the river. I’m watching a truck out the window, across the river, on the Riverside Expressway. It’s crawling. The…
Straight Talk: Another Christian guide to dating... →
On our college mission in 2010 we had the opportunity to sit through a presentation by Straight Talk Australia’s Jim and Faye Lyons. Perhaps Australia’s most seasoned abstinence campaigners. I…
Can Google Get Its Mojo Back? →
A spectre is haunting Mountain View. No, not bed bugs: bit rot. Google is in serious decline.
I don’t see how they can deny it. They have famously always been a data-driven organization, and…
Blogging Meet-up (of sorts) →
Our friends Izaac and Sarah are visiting us this week. So tonight we’re having dinner with Andrew and Simone. A chance to turn the virtual into the real. Should be fun. I told Simone she…
Dictapen →
Livescribe is my next Christmas present. Unless I change my mind in the 350 days or so between now and then. It would take all the pain out of lectures. Because you can scribble and draw little…
Guy named Dragan reinvents the term "jumping... →
When a television show channels its inner Happy Days and features something as ludicrous as the Fonz jumping over a pair of sharks on waterskis those in the media biz know its days are numbered. It…
Bruce Winter Interviewed By Mark Dever →
Bruce Winter is principal of the Queensland Theological College (Presbyterian). He is a world-class New Testament scholar, particularly in the area of studies on Corinthians.
Here he is…
Halo-ween: Real Life Red v Blue →
This could possible be the most intricately designed set of Halloween costumes known to man. The guy didn’t just make one of these Halo MasterChief costumes for himself — he helped out his friends…
The Dos and Don'ts of Facebook Photo Albums →
My friend Steve Tran is a pretty top photographer, bloke, and coffee drinker. He wrote this post about Facebook photo albums that is worth thinking about if you’re the type of person who puts…
In Social Media, Failing to Plan is Planning to... →
I’ve received many inbound requests for comments based on a report from Gartner, an IT analyst firm, that estimates as many as 70-percent of social media campaigns will fail in 2011. There…
Twitter For Mac Is Like Massively Multiplayer IM —... →
Back in August, I first got to try out the Twitter Streaming API via the User Streams feature which was being beta tested on a new version on popular third-party client TweetDeck. “Twitter…
Brewtiful toys →
Amongst the really awesome presents I received this year were two most bits of coffee paraphernalia — a syphon with its own little butane burner thing, and an aeropress. Both are great. Both use…
All About the Ads →
Kyle Baxter on Google’s motivations for Android: Google isn’t a web application company—they’re an advertising company. That’s what they do best, and that’s what drives their company. Of Google’s…
If You Didn't Blog It, It Didn't Happen →
Clive Thompson’s newest Wired piece argues that the flow of short-form messages as we see on Twitter and Facebook is encouraging longer meditations in other media. I’ve been thinking about this…
The Religious Write →
Posted for the pun. Which I stole from somewhere else.
You can get them from here if you want. Related posts:
Floody Floody →
Robyn spent the earlier days of this week on her parent’s farm starting the clean up after serious flooding in Dalby. Most farmers out there have insurance coverage that doesn’t include flood…
Tagxedo – build a word cloud in creative custom... →
Word clouds provide an interesting way of seeing what words are most frequently used in a document or website. In my social media role, we create word clouds to show our clients the types of…
Art-key-type: Archetypal Keyboard Art →
Remember ASCII art? No. Well. You’re not a nerd then. But this collection of typed art leaves most of that ASCII stuff for dead — because it’s produced Old Skool. On a Typewriter.
More here,…
Mohler on the Fort Worth atheist bus win →
Some great stuff from Al Mohler:
Are Christians so insecure that we fear a weakly-worded advertisement on a public bus? These bus ads represent just how weak the atheists’ arguments really are,…
How to survive the Rapture (if not raptured) →
There are plenty of services for pet care post rapture that you can google. But what do we do about people? Well. For posterity’s sake — this guy recorded a survival guide for the dirt/paper eaters…
Daily Mail Fail: Interesting flood coverage →
When I want to know what’s going on in regional Queensland I turn to that bastion of quality reportage — England’s Daily Mail. Because they have all the bases covered. Reporting not just on…
Don’t Waste Your Sports →
If you play or watch sports, or if you’re a parent or coach, consider picking up C.J. Mahaney’s new booklet, Don’t Waste Your Sports, published by Crossway. (WTS Books has them for 10%…
Work tomorrow... →
Not sure how I feel about that yet. Related posts: Commentary
Passive aggressive registry
Mail from strangers
Don’t Waste Your Sports →
If you play or watch sports, or if you’re a parent or coach, consider picking up C.J. Mahaney’s new booklet, Don’t Waste Your Sports, published by Crossway. (WTS Books has them for 10%…
Don't Fret: Mystery Guitar man is here to... →
This guy is impressive. Probably the most impressive thing I’ve seen on YouTube today…
Bohemian Rhapsody slide whistle style…
Flight of the Bumblebee:
Bottle Mozart
How to stop the atheists →
Every time you sing this song/prayer an atheist loses his wings. And his Dawkins library. Related…
A new candidate for "worst Christian song... →
Ouch. Related posts: Coffee idolatry
How to take a kick to the groin
That which divides
Moralism’s Cruel Stick and Carrot →
Jesus’ command to “be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect,” (Matthew 5:48), is not a statement meant to be an eschatalogical finish line because one slip-up equates total failure….
December 2010
2010 on St. Eutychus →
I missed my end of year wrap up yesterday because I was reading a book. Sorry. But here are some facts, figures and highlights from the year that was.
Stats
In 2009, 31,705 Absolute Unique…
The Top 10 Posts of 2010 →
All week long we’ve been looking back at 2010. We’ve covered the most hotly debated posts, your picks for the top posts (all 13 of you who bothered to vote), the top CFCC news and the top…
Each sold separately: Pocket Canon →
As a couple of commenters have already pointed out — it turns out my idea was “nothing new” (cf Ecclesiastes). Enter the Pocket Canon series:
Pretty much what I described, only using the…