- There is no such thing as “dolphin-safe tuna”.
- I can’t decide which is more fun: The Lyttle Lytton Contest or the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
- Fans of conspiracy theories will absolutely love the MeFi thread on pharmaceutical companies, the WHO, UN officials, the Russians, Barack Obama, and the recently-deceased, single-white-gloved whistle-blower … Michael Jackson.
- Swedish civil rights heroes win freedom of toplessness at public pools.
- I have to assume that the guy in Tallahassee that accidentally sent coke and weed through the bank tube with his deposit is an FSU grad.
Posts from June 2009
iTunes Tuesday: New This Month
Sometimes you just want to be able to quickly get to the new stuff. That’s why I have a Smart Playlist called “New This Month”. This playlist contains all the tracks I’ve added in the last month, and I keep it synchronized with both my iPhone and with my iPod Nano. I always have all
- General Stuff
- My dad continues to regularly post some of his amazing photographs from Portsmouth, Bristol, and Newport, Rhode Island.
- When browsing Craigslist you will often find items that are not (quite) as advertised.
- The International Space Station took some awesome pictures of an erupting Russian volcano.
- Trusting your eyes is just silly. This optical illusion should help prove that.
- Some things are just too cool for words. The Illustrated LEGO Bible is one of them. (See also: The Art of the Brick.)
- I think Google Voice could be awesome … if I didn’t already have an iPhone 3Gs.
- CNN’s Cost of Living Calculator is pretty slick. It looks like Manhattan is the only place in America that is more expensive than LA.
- Megan Fox certainly does seem to lick her lips and teeth frequently.
- Techie Stuff
- The Mimo Mini USB Monitor is a great idea. I want one.
- Google has several trillion reasons to want to help you make the web faster. And they’re giving you some cool tools to help get the job done.
- I Use This tracks your software and lets you know when updates are available.
#FridayFive: Periods of My Life
View the Friday Five from June 26th, 2009
Only Old Men Wear Colored Socks
Black cashmere socks are a sort of gateway drug into other colored socks.
There Are Places I Remember
There are places I remember In my life … though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments … I miss my grandmother’s house sometimes. It’s interesting (to me, at least) because I’m not normally one to “miss” anything or anyone. People come,
WordPress Wednesday: Pithy Quotes Plugin
If you look at the top of this page you’ll see that there is a short quip displayed in my header. Every time you visit any page, it changes. I have about fifteen little quotes in my database and they’re set to display randomly with each refresh of the page. I wrote a plugin which
iTunes Tuesday: Groupings
In which I explain how to easily tag tracks in iTunes
- General Stuff
- I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city in the world.)
- If you post a classified ad, think twice before replying to Mike.
- “I thought he wanted to kill us,” Heard said. “He was so angry and upset.” — Perhaps he wasn’t asked if he wanted to spend the rest of his life in captivity. I’m just sayin’.
They’re a bit expensive, but these trash compactor bookends are sweet.- Fun: Check out the size of these balls! [Ed. note: Local copy of image for posterity saved here.]
- Techie Stuff
- It’s great to hear that the first ever entirely volunteer-run open source conference was a huge success. My good friend Thomas had a big hand in that.
- When you’re designing websites, it’s handy to have a test template to check what your stylesheets will look like.
- WordPress 2.8 makes it even easier to code widgets.
- If you want to target links to open in a new window while still having valid code, it can be done with jQuery.
- Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my iPhone support?
How to Delete a Recurring iCal Event
I have finally resolved an issue with my Mac OS X 10.5.7 iCal calendar that has been annoying me since I converted from PC to Mac almost exactly one year ago. For some reason I could not delete my birthday! Because I’m now using Address Book birthdays — instead of having unique iCal “events” for