- General Stuff
- President Obama was recently interviewed about his policies regarding education by a very good reporter. He loves mangoes.
- Anil writes about another good reason to like the Obama administration.
- It’s been more than four months since Merlin has posted a new 5ive. Where could he be?!
- A new study suggests that the amount of sleep you need may be written in your genes.
- Poor Jessica: “Saying your drinking was offending the Dallas Cowboys is like saying your anti-semitism was bothering the other guys in the SS.”
- But what are you going to do with one million giraffes?
- I love baby seals as much as the next guy, but I don’t think I could ever get tired of watching great white sharks eat them in high-def and slow-motion.
- “Until the early 20th century, holding a mortgage came with a stigma. You were a debtor, and chronic indebtedness was a problem to be avoided like too much drinking or gambling. … During the wild late 1990s and the first years of the new century, the dream of home ownership turned hallucinogenic.”
Gator Stuff
- Sad news: Gator receiver Paul Wilson’s career has come to an abrupt end.
- You gotta see these Tim Tebow parody SI covers. (See also: the greatest photo of Tebow ever.)
- Techie Stuff
- This week I’m probably going to install MAMP.
- Got stripes?
- Digging into WordPress gives us a list of great plugins for any site.
- General Stuff
- Help fix Zoe’s ears.
- F-Listed has posted a very thorough examination of the “tramp stamp”.
- My dad has once again posted a few dozen amazing photographs.
- Rhode Island “spas” are well known and largely untouchable by police and prosecutors because state law permits prostitution so long as it takes place discreetly, outside public view. (via OS&RR)
- What’s cooler than Teenage Zombies? Not much.
- Gator Stuff
- Every Gator fan should check out the GatorHighlights YouTube channel.
- Every Day Should Be Saturday, on Tim Tebow’s summer beard: “It’s not a beard, it’s a cowcatcher mounted on the front of a pain train.”
- Techie Stuff
- Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about your Mac’s menu bar. (I’m posting these for you, mom!)
- Twitter is going to implement “official” retweets. This is good news.
- 30 PHP Best Practices for Beginners
- Looking for a great tutorial on CSS sprites?
- Here’s the official word from Apple on how to create an iPhone / iPod Touch icon.
- And every good site should have a nice favicon.
- Chipin is a widget you can place on a site to get donations, payments, etc. Very nifty.
#FridayFive: Twitter Feeds to Follow
View the Friday Five from August 14th, 2009
Cool Mystery Gift
When I got home from work last night, there was a mysterious package waiting for me. I wasn’t expecting anything and the return address was nothing I recognized. Inside was a small silver and black box and a note saying that it was a late birthday present from my friend Bob. Bob is an arms
- General Stuff
This is the definition of cool. View them all.- I love that Julianne Moore makes a cameo in Funny or Die’s The Ballad of G.I. Joe. (See also: John Hamm as Lex Luthor)
- Pornstar or Potato? — exactly what it says
- Eating seafood gave us the edge on the Neanderthals.
- Models without makeup are still pretty hot.
- What the hell have you done with Harrison Ford’s wife?
- Beware of flying fish.
- People with an angrier temperament are more likely to think of themselves as moving through time than to think of time as moving towards them.
- Gator Stuff
- “With all due respect to the other college programs and NFL franchises in [Florida] right now, there’s only one team that is nationally relevant: Urban’s Gators.”
- Florida returns 11 starters from a defense that ranked ninth in the country overall in 2008.
- Techie Stuff
- Really Useful Classes And Libraries for PHP Developers
- All about your Mac’s Dock.
- Apple released another Mac OSX 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.)
Classic Gator Highlights
A collection of great Gator football highlights
The Google Segway
Remember the Segway? It was supposed to revolutionize human transportation. Remember the hype? It was everywhere. It was amazing. And now years later it’s nowhere. The day we all finally got to see a Segway I felt just about exactly the same way I felt when I finally got to see Google Wave: It’s nifty,
#FridayFive: Feeds to Follow
View the Friday Five from August 7th, 2009
- 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
iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials
If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit your music