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New Day – Tamar Kaprelian

My friend’s single was just released on iTunes today! Check out New Day, by Tamar, and keep your eyes peeled for the rest of the album. You can also follow her on Twitter for updates.

#FridayFive – Harrison Ford Movies

View the Friday Five from May 29th, 2009

General Stuff
- Florida’s Tim Tebow routinely rejects all kinds of sex requests.
- We had dinner at The Bazaar on Saturday night. It was tragically expensive — and I’m not really a “foodie” — but I can appreciate art. The LA Times review is spot-on.
- I love these vintage sexist ads.
- Yes, you must pick one.
- Why should underdogs take more chances?
- Cameron’s dad’s house is for sale!
- If I’m going to own 70% of GM, why have my last five cars been Mercedes, Toyota, BMW, Toyota, Toyota? Oh, right. Because they don’t suck.
- Here’s how to seduce a friend who has a boyfriend and otherwise wouldn’t sleep with you. (via Kottke)
- I love that canyoucopyrightatweet.com is copyrighted.
Techie Stuff
- There is an excellent 30-minute screencast on using WordPress as a CMS at css-tricks.com.
- SimplePie makes displaying RSS in WordPress a breeze.
- Good systems send email as HTML and plain text.
- Hashed passwords are good, but randomly salted hashed ones are better.
- Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
- Here’s how to configure a killer WordPress testing environment locally.

iTunes Tuesday: Beatles and Bob

If you put a gun to my head and forced me to pick my favorite band, I’d have to go with The Beatles. (You could just ask me, though. What’s with the gun? Chill out, psycho.) I have — as far as I know — every track they ever recorded, and it’s not a stretch

A Tremendous Number of T-Shirts

On dealing with voracious consumerism

T-Shirt Hell Rules

Last week Kelly told me to start following Sunshine Megatron — the founder of T-Shirt Hell — on Twitter, so I did. The first tweet I saw from @smegatron was a #followfriday request, so I posted a tweet saying that T-Shirt Hell is cool. (And that’s true. If I didn’t already have a closet full

#FridayFive: May 22nd

View the Friday Five from May 22nd, 2009

iTunes Tuesday: Unranked Songs

Smart playlist tutorial

General Stuff
- Play it again, Sam: Often Misquoted Movie Lines
- Coffee: looking better every day.
- Old Spock v. New Spock (warning: Trek spoilers)
- If you liked FML, you’ll love MLIA.
- two great blogs about being a consumer: maybeyoushouldntbuythat.com and CuriousShopper (“Public or Private?” is a particularly interesting post at CS.)
- Horribly Photoshopped Squirrels
- I’ve been flying quite a bit lately; I don’t know if I could do it, but these hubwear airport code t-shirts are crazy cool.
- A baffling checkbox at Orbitz: “I prefer flights without screaming babies.”
Techie Stuff
- Lifestream: easily embed mp3s in WP blogs
- 9 Signs You Shouldnâ€™t Hire THAT Web Guy
- tweetname.com: register domain names via Twitter
- How to Implement Email Verification for New Members
- A cool Photoshop PSD for creating iPhone demonstration examples.

#FridayFive: Favorite Green Day

My favorite tracks from American Idiot

Posts from May 2009