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#FridayFive – Tourist Edition (Part 2)

View the Friday Five from June 12th, 2009

Flight Control

The absolute best iPhone app on the market right now has got to be Firemint’s FlightControl. You are an air-traffic controller tasked with routing planes (and helicopters) to the correct landing strip at one of three different airports. It sounds simple — and it is easy to learn and play — but after you’ve gotten

#FridayFive – Tourist Edition

View the Friday Five from June 5th, 2009

General Stuff
- Crush the Castle is an awesome Flash game. You will become addicted. (Luckily you’ll also quickly finish the whole game, so it’s not that bad.)
- The vendor/client relationship is often quite funny.
- I need to get about two dozen of these kick-ass CableDrops. (Or you could buy me some for my birthday!)
- The black Crocs Santa Cruz loafer is quite possibly the most comfortable shoe I’ve ever owned. I bought a pair in Maui to wear on the beach, but I’ve been wearing them to work lately because they’re so great. I like them so much I might just buy another pair in a different color.
- I’m GatorDavid on the World Golf Tour if anyone wants to challenge me. That game is like crack.
- Sure, sure… explosionsandboobs.com is a lot of fun. But have you seen explosionsandbobs.com?
- Anything is possible at zombo.com!
Techie Stuff
- jqPlot: Pure Javascript plotting
- WPTouch is a WordPress plugin that will easily skin your blog for the iPhone. It’s pretty sweet.

2025-02-19: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

iTunes Tuesday: Show Minibrowser

You know that cool minibrowser that you see at the top of your Music library? You can use it to see all the genres, artists, and albums in the current group of tracks. It’s a pretty handy way to “drill down” into your collection. By default it does not display when you’re viewing one of

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

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