Thank you Failbook

So I've just set up for Amazon Associates. I think it means that I can link to products that I talk about and then you all can click on them and buy them and I get 15% of something.

I got it mainly because I want pretty links. But I figured I might make the most of the pretty links and see if I can make a dime. I've never made a cent off this blog. In fact I'm pretty sure it's cost me at least $20 over the past 9 years or however long I've been blogging. It's hard to keep a slick operation like this going.

I've always refused to stick ads on my blog because they're ugly and I'm not a blog pimp. But I figure this is just letting you buy the stuff that I'm talking about. All I'm doing is encouraging consumerism, not making my blog look ugly. Anyway so let me see what this looks like by showing you a little of my life:

What I'm Reading:

So currently I'm working through a thousand books. But here are the more prominent ones:



Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Tim Keller this was going to be one of the most important books of our generation for New Testament scholarship. Or something like that. Or maybe he just said I should read it. I'm not sure.

Anyway, it's good. It's a nice look at some of the ideas about the historical Jesus that are out there from a more conservative standpoint.





Planting Missional Churches

This is meant to be the book to read on church planting. And it's pretty darn nice. If only he wrote an Australian edition, it's all very North American-centric.





Tomorrow When the War Began

I'm reading this again because the movie is coming out and I'm reliving my childhood. It's fun but the action is pretty dull compared to almost every other war book I've read.



So there you go. There's my chance to make some money. And now that I look at it, it's a rather ugly way to make money and I feel like a dirty blog pimp. So unless I find a way to make it more pretty, I probably won't do that again.

Update: Actually I've fiddled with it and it's not very intrusive at all any more. It's kinda like the sort of linkage I would do back in the old days when I didn't worship money. So maybe I'll let it stay. But except every blog post from now on to be about a product you can buy. Probably an expensive one.

It's all here.

The Jesus: All About Life campaign has a website where you can upload a picture where you thank Jesus for things. It's pretty special.

This is cool. Some Somali pirates tried to take over a French frigate.

They didn't win.

People are questioning whether the destruction of the Death Star was an inside job.

I'm getting a little worried I've been fooled by the powers that be all these years.

Check it out.

Ok loyal readers, here is your chance to make Jem an internet celebrity!

Now that Tabitha is working on YouTube, watch the video, rate the video, and link to it on your blog, tell your friends, stick it on bulletin boards, do all the rest. Of course this is a shameless push to get Tabitha seen but it'd be way cool if she got famous I reckon!

If you do this I will love you forever. At least, I'll love you till I make a lot of money and then I'll forget you, because I plan on forgetting the little guys.

This Blog is cool. Most blogs are interesting because you know the person it's about. This one is just interesting. I'm hooked.

This website is cool.

Now this is a top notch story

I found this on Alfie's blog.

I don't know who Alfie, is but I like his blog.

I'm going to try and be in bed by 10pm tonight. I wonder if I'll make it.

I probably won't be able to sleep because I had a sleep this afternoon, but I'm going to give it a shot.

This is a good site.

www.sparklybee.com does not exist. Yay.

Neither does www.sonnywatkins.com.

I'm guessing that www.iammissingthresstoesbecauseofaterribleaccidentwithapapershreader.com isn't being used either, but that has no importance to me.

I read this story once and I liked it.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TherMan.shtml

I went looking for interesting webcams last night. I looked at men's, women's, tourist attractions, constuction sites, aquariums, lounge rooms. And I realised, webcams aren't very interesting.

I did find this one a while ago though. It's good.

http://www.avary.com/rogeravary/writercam/writercam.html

Yay for Miss Germany! When she says "World Peace", she means it.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/20/1045638399206.html

He He, The Virgin at Coogee.

The Hills ariticle that I was talking about is now on the web, here, for a short time only.

There are some website I go to often. Here they are:

1. Dark Horizons Gives me all me film news.
2. Sydney Morning Herald Good start up page, but I get the real paper in the morning so I only read a little bit of stuff there
3. Bible Gateway Good for looking up Bible passages.
4. St George Internet Banking I always need to know how little I own.
5. WebStat Tells me how many people have read my blog, not usually all that many people.
And who could for get:
6. Google You know what that's for.

"I helped hijack an airplane. I helped blow up a nightclub. So what if it gets 11 miles to the gallon. I gave money to a terrorist training camp in a foreign country. It makes me feel safe. I helped our enemies develop weapons of mass destruction. What if I need to go off-road? Everyone has one. I helped teach kids around the world to hate America. I like to sit up high. I sent our soldiers off to war. Everyone has one. My life, my SUV. I don't even know how many miles it gets to the gallon."

WHAT IS YOUR SUV DOING TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY?
DETROIT, AMERICA NEEDS HYBRID CARS NOW.

www.thedetroitproject.com

You can watch the ads too.

It didn't matter before when people bought petrol from dodgy countries because all they did was abuse the rights of their citizens. Now that those countries are planning to abuse the rights of American citizens, now we should worry.

I read that 27% of British Clergy privately rejected idea of the virgin birth (here). I thought "That's sad".