- General Stuff
- Journalistic integrity: R.I.P.
- Let’s talk about chicks, man.
- It’s not as exciting as the fact that college football is coming soon, but it is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. Set your DVRs.
- Techie Stuff
- Freelance Apple has posted a funny list of seven “deadly” client questions and how he answers them.
- How To Build an Animated Header in jQuery
- Microsoft details how to port iPhone apps to Windows Mobile. Good luck with that.
- Gator Stuff
- I didn’t realize that Olympic swimmer Dara Torres was a Gator. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, though.
- So Urban Meyer just signed a 6-year $24M contract, and LSU coach Les Miles just got a clause added to his contract stating that he will always be paid $1 more than the highest paid SEC coach. If Urban had that same clause in his contract, this could be some sort of end-of-the-universe infinite-loop catastrophe.
- Re-Tweet from @CoachUrbanMeyer: “My family and I are dedicated to Florida and are excited to be a Gator for another 6 years. Its great to be a Florida Gator!”
- “While other state universities like UCF and Florida State have seen their booster contributions and season-ticket sales plummet during this economic downturn, Gator football is printing money faster than the Obama administration.”
- General Stuff
- Ladies and gentlemen, I present the governor of California.
- And speaking of the governor … An analysis of the temporal anomalies in the Terminator series is pretty interesting.
- Dracula’s drycleaner must die! (link via mefi)
- Techie Stuff
- You must read John Gruber’s excellent essay on the long, slow decline of Microsoft.
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, and now … more spam.
- Gator Stuff
- Here are five reasons why this season won’t be easy for Florida.
#FridayFive: Silly Spammers
View the Friday Five from July 31st, 2009
- General Stuff
- Reading emails from crazy people is at least as much fun as reading psychotic letters from men.
- The iConcertCal app lets you know when the artists in your iTunes library are performing near you. That’s just a good idea.
- While I was on vacation, my coworkers wallpapered my office pink and plastered hundreds of Hannah Montana stickers and postcards all over the walls.
- If you haven’t done it yet, now is the perfect time to Mad Men Yourself.
- Techie Stuff
- WordPress Bits has lots of nifty tips for WordPress bloggers.
- Want to display a special maintenance message while you’re working on the guts of your WordPress site? There’s a plugin for that.
- General Stuff
- Personal urns are a new and exciting way to memorialize your loved one.
- How many people have been looking for unusual paintings of Obama naked with unicorns?
- Is it possible to cheat on the Rorschach test?
- Techie Stuff
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, and now … more spam.
- Although coverage in Los Angeles is generally pretty good, I agree: AT&T can’t handle the iPhone.
- There’s nothing quite like a banana billboard to liven up a cool Photoshop tutorial on the free transform tool.
iTunes Tuesday: iPhone Music Streaming
An app to stream your library
Summer Reading List
In which I list some of the books on my bedside table
Born Standing Up
In which I review Steve Martin’s memoir
#FridayFive: Classic Board Games
View the Friday Five from July 24th, 2009
iTunes Tuesday: How to Organize Playlists
If you’ve been creating new playlists left and right, eventually you are going to have a long and cluttered list of them running down the left side of your iTunes window. You do know you can group them into folders, right? Just click File and then New Playlist Folder. Now you can drag and drop