Your discretion, please. Worth a look if you're over eighteen. And you like cake.
And then there was this couple who obviously took the date a little too seriously.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Puppy Craft
Here at the Oblong Craft Collective, we're really more cat kinda people.
We will make an exception for transparent glow-in-the-dark puppies though.
We will make an exception for transparent glow-in-the-dark puppies though.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Fiji Craft
Here at the Oblong Craft Collective, we believe in freedom of the press, be it in the form of a seldom updated craft blog, or the daily paper of a struggling island nation.
I don't know how widely reported this has been elsewhere, but the short story is that Fiji's gone a little balls-up in recent times. You can read more about that here. That latest thing that we've been invited to hand wring over in this neck of the woods is that the oppressive regime has been censoring news, going so far as to place government guards in the news rooms to remove anything offensive from the papers.
Harsh. Images from the Breakfast News.
Happily, the brave reporters at the Fiji Daily Post ("The News That Matters") are fighting back. They've taken their craft to a new, sarcastic level.
"Paint Dry" they reported on Wednesday.
Paint has apparently dried on his old couch, Max reports.
Given the job of painting the couch, Max was excited at the prospect of the paint drying.
But when asked how it dried, he was nonplussed.
“It just went on wet, but after about four hours, it started to dry”.
“That was when I realised, paint dries,” the young scholar observed.
Fiji Daily Post asked Max if he intended to do more painting.
“Oh yes,” he replied, “I like watching paint dry.”
Brilliant. But why was he painting a couch? It must be some quaint custom.
Read more here, including the latest developments of "Man Gets on Bus".
...What happened next was a remarkable feat – the man actually got on the bus, we believe.
Students from a local school who had been waiting for two hours in the rain for the bus also confirmed that they saw the man board.
“We are happy for him”, one student remarked in terms reminiscent of Neil Armstrong (the first man to step onto the moon): “it may be one small step for him, but it is one giant step for the people of Fiji”.
I don't know how widely reported this has been elsewhere, but the short story is that Fiji's gone a little balls-up in recent times. You can read more about that here. That latest thing that we've been invited to hand wring over in this neck of the woods is that the oppressive regime has been censoring news, going so far as to place government guards in the news rooms to remove anything offensive from the papers.
Harsh. Images from the Breakfast News.
Happily, the brave reporters at the Fiji Daily Post ("The News That Matters") are fighting back. They've taken their craft to a new, sarcastic level.
"Paint Dry" they reported on Wednesday.
Paint has apparently dried on his old couch, Max reports.
Given the job of painting the couch, Max was excited at the prospect of the paint drying.
But when asked how it dried, he was nonplussed.
“It just went on wet, but after about four hours, it started to dry”.
“That was when I realised, paint dries,” the young scholar observed.
Fiji Daily Post asked Max if he intended to do more painting.
“Oh yes,” he replied, “I like watching paint dry.”
Brilliant. But why was he painting a couch? It must be some quaint custom.
Read more here, including the latest developments of "Man Gets on Bus".
...What happened next was a remarkable feat – the man actually got on the bus, we believe.
Students from a local school who had been waiting for two hours in the rain for the bus also confirmed that they saw the man board.
“We are happy for him”, one student remarked in terms reminiscent of Neil Armstrong (the first man to step onto the moon): “it may be one small step for him, but it is one giant step for the people of Fiji”.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Ham Fail
See what I did there? I compared a way more awesome blog to a photo I took of a spekkung mistake.
Yeah.
Proper updates soon!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Force is with us.
"There are exactly 20,262 of the Jedi faith in NZ, and more than 75% of those are males. (16635 males)
"Half of all Jedi are aged 15-29 years old, and 54 Jedi are over the age of 65. 1980 are children or padewan as the Jedi church prefers to call them.
"Distribution around NZ regions compares fairly to their populations."
Friday, February 27, 2009
What Are You Doing, Google?
"No, no," said Google gently, patting my hand, "it's okay. Listen. Now with Google FriendConnect,
Google paused. "We thought that 'Followers' had a Jonestown connations which we wanted to avoid. Now you just sit back and enjoy the Google Experience."
"I -- I guess so. This doesn't look so bad."
"Shh. Shhhhhh."
More.
- Visitors can evangelize for your site by inviting their friends and publishing their activities to their social networks.
- Social gadgets will keep these visitors more deeply engaged with your site, and with each other."
Google paused. "We thought that 'Followers' had a Jonestown connations which we wanted to avoid. Now you just sit back and enjoy the Google Experience."
"I -- I guess so. This doesn't look so bad."
"Shh. Shhhhhh."
More.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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