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August 6th, 2009 @ 3:29 pm PDT

Daily David

  • General Stuff
    • Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates is fascinating.
    • If you go through life free of bad habits, you won’t live forever, but it will feel like it.
    • Top Ten Favorite Numbers
    • I guess if hanging out with beautiful women, on the beach, in Spain, drinking, on a Tuesday afternoon, while being ridiculously rich is your definition of “cool”, then… yeah, being Leonardo diCaprio is probably fun.
    • When you’re old, you have to have something to give you pleasure.
    • So what does all this mean if you’re ambidextrous?
    • I read Men’s Health and Sports Illustrated all the time. I never read Time or Newsweek. This is why.
    • I can’t see any special effects, but I find it hard to believe that this amazing waterslide jump real.
    • Coke vs. Pepsi: The truth about the logos.
    • About a decade ago I worked for a company that did “every-other-Friday-off” and I thought it was extraordinary.
  • Techie Stuff
    • The Smoking Gun catches a loser.
    • Apple releases Mac OSX 10.5.8 update. If you have a Mac, click the little Apple logo in the top left and choose “Software Update…” to update your system. (This means you, mom.)
    • To keep the Google Analytics code from interfering with page rendering you can use jQuery to load and execute the ga.js file.
    • PHP comes with a bunch of functions designed to help you manage URLs.
    • And speaking of URLs… Comcast will now send you to a crap spam page if you type an URL incorrectly.
  • Gator Stuff
    • Urban Meyer: This is it.
    • The University of Tennessee has some serious issues.
    • Welcome back, Riley!
    • College Football Preseason Top 25 Power Rankings: Cheerleader Edition

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