Posts in the category “Los Angeles”

Okay, riddle me this, kids: The local NBC affiliate’s nightly news keeps running items about how Los Angeles residents are not returning their census forms. The anchorman reports hyper-specific percentages each evening of how many of us have not responded. On Thursday night he said that less than 72% of the city had completed the census.

HOW DO THEY KNOW?!?!

• 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.