- General Stuff
My dad has posted more gorgeous shots of New England to his Flickr feed.- Nothing is over until we decide it is!
- Suck it, Michael. The Beatles are one notch above the King of Pop for most-viewed Wikipedia article.
- How the hell does a car’s differential work? I never understood it… and then I watched this General Motors 1930s tutorial which explains it wonderfully. (link via Kottke)
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK, Jr.
- Dooce is still writing the best stuff on the Internet. Seriously. If you haven’t yet read everything she’s ever written, take a few months off work and go do that right now. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll wonder why she doesn’t have her own television show.
- What did you think you were going to find at hiddenpassageway.com?
- What’s the business benefit of free bread at restaurants? (AskMeFi is just awesome, although some of the questions people ask can be quite depressing.)
- My wife is sure to be thrilled to see LA Weekly’s list of 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants.
- Yes, you could build your house with LEGO blocks. But why?
- Pizza Hut Fails Basic Grammar, another excellent post from the witty One Step Forward
- Techie Stuff
- Check out these cool grunge peeling sticker social media icons.
- Ten ways to stop spam in WordPress covers the basics and includes a few new tricks I didn’t know.
- Make your Mac prettier with a glossy dock.
Posts from August 2009
GatorNotes
The Casual Fan’s Guide to College Football in 2009 The Greatest Gators, by jersey number There is no rivalry between Florida and Ohio State, and there (probably) never will be. The Gators are so thin at tight end, DE Justin Trattou has been taking first-team snaps in the goal-line package — a la former New
Men’s Health Subscription Customer Service
Look, I love Men’s Health magazine, and not just because at least once each issue for the last five years — I’ve been keeping track! — an article has mentioned the University of Florida. I had my subscription set to automatically renew every year. But when I switched banks from Washington Mutual to Bank of
#FridayFive: Things to Take to the Beach
View the Friday Five from August 28th, 2009
- General Stuff
- If you’re taking any medicine for any reason at all, you should read this article.
- Abusive relationships like this one just suck.
- Perspective
- Wired has a great article all about craigslist, if you like that site.
- Whole Foods has crazy expensive groceries, but terrific thoughts on healthcare reform.
- I had no idea that the word avocado comes from the Nahuatl word ãhuacatl (“testicle”), a reference to the shape of the fruit.
- Think that we’re not living in the future yet? Read The bright side of sitting in traffic: Crowdsourcing road congestion data from Google. Or take a look at how you could use your iPhone as a restaurant HUD. And start saving up for that jetpack.
- Here’s your cute kitten fix for the day.
- You can convey quite a bit with just three frames. (The ones from Jaws, The Goonies, and Jurassic Park are my favorites.)
- Gator Stuff
- Bill Belichick presents a stone face to the world, but succeeds in part because he is open to change. For the past two years, the Patriots have run an offense that is all but identical to Urban Meyer‘s Florida spread.
- Stopping Tim Tebow isn’t easy, but it is possible.
- Kirk Herbstreit on Tebow
- Boom! – must-watch YouTube vid of big Gator hits
- “Tim Tebow’s proficiency as a passer and rusher have placed him among the all-time greats after only two seasons as a starter,” according to statistical analysis done by Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel.
- Techie Stuff
- Oh, hey! I didn’t realize you could create animated images with Photoshop!
- Apple did a very smart thing when it priced Snow Leopard below the cost of a typical family visit to the movies.
- Do you use any of the out-of-touch computer terms on this list at your office?
2024-01-15: Dead links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
NCAA Football 10: Review
A review of the latest EA Sports NCAA College Football video game
- General Stuff
- Do you love Conan O’Brien’s Twitter Tracker segment? Of course you do. And now you can follow TW1TTERTRACKER!
- I’ve mentioned The Impossible Cool here already, but the site is worth another visit … even if it’s just to see Connery.
- It’s been at least seven years since I said it would be a good idea, but you can finally now add anything you want to your Amazon Wishlist. (Here’s mine.)
- A gaggle of geese. A pride of lions. Everyone knows those. But what about a conspiracy of theorists? Or a vacuum of bimbos? There are all sorts of collective nouns.
- Healthcare reform: lies, lies, and more lies.
- I love any joke with a very elaborate set-up.
- Electronic Yodeling Pickle
- Happy (belated) birthday, Ryan Tober!
Gator Stuff
- Percy Harvin’s Greatest Hits
- Going undefeated in the SEC is nearly impossible.
- Florida is No. 1 in the Associated Press poll released on Saturday morning, receiving 58 of 60 first place votes (96.7 percent) – the most overwhelming preseason No. 1 in the history of the AP poll, which dates back to 1950.
- “It took Osborne more than 20 years to win his first title. Urban Meyer is going for his third, in his fifth season at the school. … in the past three years the winner of the LSU-Florida game has gone on to win the national championship.”
- Could Tim Tebow be the Grover Cleveland of college football?
- Download the Gator Chomp!
- How to beat the champs as Gators seek repeat title
- Techie Stuff
- SSD vs. SATA on your mobile device
- hurl is a free web-based application which enables users to send custom HTTP requests and view the responses.
- Lifehacker’s Tips to Make Outlook Faster (than molasses)
Gator Stuff
So a Frog Walks into a Bank …
Possibly my favorite joke ever
Star Wars Design Flaws
Note to the Emperor: Someone on your Death Star design staff is in the pay of Rebel forces. Oh, right, you can’t get the memo because someone threw you down a huge exposed shaft in your Death Star throne room. from John Scalzi’s Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design
#FridayFive: Gator News Sites
View the Friday Five from August 21st, 2009