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The sketches on Funny Or Die keep getting better. This week Zachary Quinto (Sylar from Heroes / Spock from the new Star Trek) appears as a convenience store robber who manages to get his life on track… sorta.
Here’s the feel-good story of the day: A Portland couple — and their ’57 Chrysler — are still going strong after 50 years.
Slate has published an interesting article on how the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting, and why that’s dangerous.
I work with a developer in India who frequently complains that Outlook does not display messages from me correctly. He insists that it’s because my mail program — Apple’s Mail.app — doesn’t compose messages properly. I insist that it’s because Outlook sucks. (See also: Windows crashes displays at new Cowboys stadium during Oklahoma / BYU game.)
When is it not cool to see recently-declassified video of decades-old nuclear weapons tests?
Make sure to read TMQ’s all-haiku 2009 NFL preview.
Daring Fireball mentioned that he hasn’t actually ever seen a Palm Pre in the wild, which might explain why its sales numbers are well below their projections. A guy in my office has one. Every time I see it I wonder what would possess someone to get anything other than an iPhone.
AT&T says MMS for iPhones will launch on 9/25. I really don’t see why everyone is freaking about this. I don’t really like MMS. It’s simple enough to email something from an iPhone; why not just do that? Everyone was freaking about copy and paste and I didn’t understand that either. Sure C&P is a great feature, but I’ve probably used it ten times in the last 3 months… Three years ago I had a BlackBerry Pearl and before that a RAZR and I was always thrilled just to be able to actually receive telephone calls on them. As far as I’m concerned the iPhone is the best American invention since… well… the iPod.
I completely agree with Chris Coyier: It would be brilliant to invest in Red Box… if this was 1997.
DirecTV NFL Mobile: The most expensive free app in the world
It took forever, but there is finally an official Flickr app for the iPhone.

2024-02-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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It’s kickoff Saturday! To say that I am as giddy as a schoolgirl would be a gross understatement. I am much, much giddier than a schoolgirl. I scoff at the weak attempts of giddiness displayed by the average schoolgirls. Our long national nightmare — the preposterous abundance of months without college football — is finally

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Saurian Sagacity has done an excellent statistical analysis of college football to produce a list of the top ten teams of the decade. Miami’s 2001 squad ranks first, but Florida’s 06 and 08 teams both make the list. “New rule; if I have to look up your mascot, youâ€™re not beating Florida in Gainesville. (In

General Stuff
- Oh, boy … This should be fun: Michael Moore on Wall Street.
- Andy took a great shot of some of the smoke from the current SoCal fires while driving yesterday.
- Durex has run some pretty damn funny advertising campaigns.
- If you just got a Twitter account and want to learn more than the absolute basics, you should read this excellent and comprehensive Twitter tutorial.
- Crazy light graffiti!
- Apparently the 100W light bulb is now illegal in Europe. Wow.
- Sure, you could eat a five-pound gummy bear. But why?
- Love science fiction? Take a cool road trip and see all sorts of cool stuff. (I’m going to have to go look for Doc Browne’s house now …)
Techie Stuff
- Microsoft just doesn’t seem to understand mobile phones.
- PHPThumb, an image manipulation library for coders, is freaking awesome.
- How to Make a Cool Social Media Box for Thesis
- An Easy Way To Get Your Twitter Followers Count Using PHP .. smells like a new WP Plugin to me …

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The main difference between college ball and the NFL is that in college, every game matters. Somewhat lost in the news [of Urban Meyer’s $4M annual salary contract negotiations] was his commitment to give $1M over the course of the deal to the Florida Opportunity Scholars program. Did you know you could win two tickets

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.

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

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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

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