Friday Five: Favorite States That Don’t End with the Letter A

February 12, 2010

Hawaii
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maine

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Daily David

February 11, 2010

If you are (a) a man or (b) a woman, you should read Kay S. Hymowitz’ Love in the Time of Darwinism: A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive.
Fascinating facts can be found with a statistical analysis of graffiti found at the University of Chicago Library.
I never knew there [...]

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Daily David

February 8, 2010

I’d like to see these foods do battle in some sort of Clogged Arteries Marathon: Deep Fried Butter and Krispy Kreme Cheeseburgers vs. KFC’s new Bacon and Cheese Wrapped in Fried Chicken Breasts sandwich
Did you think the Super Bowl ads were too sexist? The Google Search was my favorite, but it’s tough to [...]

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Friday Five: Favorite Magazines

February 5, 2010

Sports Illustrated
Men’s Health
Popular Mechanics
Esquire
Vanity Fair

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Daily David

February 3, 2010

Check out Slaughterhouse 90210, where erudite literary quotes meet TV screencaps!
“Read carefully you kayaking school teacher from Deland, because what I’m going to tell you in this post will serve you for the rest of your life. The only reason he dated you at all was because his male friends prefer him to date overweight [...]

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Password Schmassword

February 2, 2010

Are you using the same password for everything? You probably are, aren’t you? “That’s okay,” you’re thinking, “It’s a really, really hard password. Nobody will ever get it.”
Not so fast, fish-breath.
A recent post on the Twitter Status blog details a new way that some crafty crackers are stealing passwords. It basically [...]

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Daily David

February 2, 2010

Only XKCD could produce such an emotionally-charged comic strip about the Mars rover Spirit. (How can you not feel badly about that poor little robot?)
Where do all my taxes go? The New York Times has a great infographic that displays the recently-proposed 2011 US budget.
You’ll find bunches of (mostly technical) fascinating links if [...]

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Living Under a Rock

January 30, 2010

With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love [...]

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Friday Five: Favorite Places in Maui

January 29, 2010

 

Black Rock, Ka’anapali
Front Street, Lahaina
Whaler’s Village, Ka’anapali
Valley Isle Resort, Kahana
Paia

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Adventures with Microsoft Support

January 27, 2010

My XBox 360 broke near the end of December. I was playing EA Sports NCAA Football 10 at around 3 o’clock in the morning — with the Gators leading 45 – 10 against an unbeaten #2 TCU late in the 3rd quarter of the 2014 BCS Championship Game — when the screen suddenly went [...]

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