- Beyond Apu — Why are there suddenly so many Indians on television?
- Want to save the Gulf of Mexico? Learn how to boom properly.
- The leading web property for yuletide holiday determination is now on your mobile phone. Never be at a loss again. Get the Is It Christmas? iPhone app!
- I got 99 problems but breathing ain’t one.
- It is a little-known fact that you can perform (almost) every pop song ever recorded using just four chords.
- A real-life Batman: This blind man “sees” using echolocation.
- It would be pretty rad to ride an elephant to work where your pet orangutan plays with his dog.
- New Scientist details the eight most amazing commutes in the animal kingdom. (Did you know that the Pacific leatherback turtle swims from Indonesia to Oregon and back every year?)
Posts tagged “dailydavid”
- You would think that a prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson sticker would be hard to miss, or at the very least hard to forget about and leave behind.
- The shortest possible game of Monopoly requires only four turns, nine rolls of the dice, and twenty-one seconds.
- Fuck Yeah Cats! is cute. But FUCK YEAH SHARKS is cool.
- “The economic slave never realizes he is kept in a cage going round and round basically nowhere with millions of others,” said the totalitarian Buddhist who beat SimCity3000.
- I have got to agree that putting an awesome costume on your observatory is the greatest astronomy-related college prank ever.
- Web developers should always be mindful of the commander’s intent.
- It looks like the AT&T tethering plan for the new iPhone is going to suck and be absurdly expensive. I’m shocked. Shocked.
- And, finally, I love this quote from an article about the murder of porn actor Tom Dong: “That’s why I have a gun in my office. Weird things happen all the time. We’re in the Valley.”
2024-07-12: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
- If you like our football team, you’ll love our chem labs full of Asian students!
- People sometimes ask me why I never wanted to be a bullfighter. It’s simple, really. I tremendously dislike getting gored through the throat with a horn.
- I am ashamed to admit that I knew only four of these 10 Facts Every Westerner Should Know about the Middle East.
- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water: Invisible Sharks!
- Dedicated games should review this handy guide to Pac-Man ghosts.
- @BPGlobalPR is some seriously black humor.
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- There are many, many good reasons why First Citywide should be your change bank, and Old Glory should be your insurance company. (These are two of the best commercials ever.)
- Not many people are going to get this one, but… “Be Like Han” is damn great advice.
The moodINQ Programmable Tattoo System is simply mind-blowing. Getting a “sub-dermal” implant seems a little extreme, but it might be worth it to occasionally rock my favorite tattoo.- Twitter vs. The Pony Express
- A guy got mugged in Australia… right in front of a Ninja school.
- In Finland there are 5.2 million people and nearly two million saunas. That’s why the Sauna World Championship is a nationally televised event.
- Lane Kiffin is Supercoach!
- The Bullies of the 80s were quite cruel.
- Should we impose term limits on Supreme Court justices? Consider: “When the Framers wrote the Constitution, life expectancy was less than 40 years; today, life expectancy is 77 years.”
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- Literary Tattoos
The Periodic Table Of Super-Powers- Dale Peterson is not screwing around. (He’s got my vote.)
- If you like The Big Picture, you’ll love The Big Caption.
- Apple, Inc. v. Apple Corps: Why The Beatles Are Not in the iTunes Store
- Never Punt with Tebow: A Mathematical Analysis of 4th Down
- The fastest man in college football is University of Florida running back Jeff Demps, who helped the Gators win the SEC outdoor track championships by running the 100m dash in 10.06 seconds. (That’s just a half-second “slower” than world record holder Usain Bolt.)
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- Better Marriage Blanket: Contains the same type of fabric used by the military to protect against chemical weapons!
- I’ve been using Twitter since April 23, 2007. How about you?
- I’m not 100% sure, but I think the premise of this article is that superheroes seem to be getting less super, and that’s bad. If that’s what he’s saying, I agree. If that’s not what he’s saying, then I don’t get it.
- It’s been almost fifteen years and the Ike Hilliard Stop and Pop is still one of the most amazing plays I’ve ever seen.
- Nimoy Sunset Pie is a lot like Selleck Waterfall Sandwich.
- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
- “The Township will feature an ensemble cast, including actors Wendell Pierce and Dominic West from The Wire as a pair of successful, well-adjusted real estate agents who occasionally grab one quick drink after work before returning home to the families they love.”
- “When the worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers, trying to find [its] creators and defeat them. The cops are failing. And now the worm lies there, waiting …”
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- Fun With Secret Questions & Answers
- CrabRevenge.com: “Yes we sell pubic lice and yes we are proud of it.”
- Life is beautiful.
- The Boston Globe has the best coverage (as usual) of an extraordinary event. This time The Big Picture details the oil spill.
- If you are in any way involved with building things on the web, you should read A Brief History of Markup.
- Looking for literary superheroes? Behold the awesome power of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne!
- Have you ever wondered if there is video of an enormously pregnant woman and her skinny friend doing a very disturbing dance to the theme song from Law & Order: SVU? You’re in luck!
- Bonus: The 50 Worst Video Game Names Ever
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- Building an airplane looks like fun.
- When the biggest problem in personal technology is that the leading company is getting a little too exceptional, it’s a good problem to have.
- Mouth-to-snout resuscitation saves lives!
- The “happy” version of The Shining is still one of my all-time Internet favorites.
- The Best Bob Dylan Album Calculator
- One of the cool things about Tebow being drafted by the Broncos is that he’ll still be rockin’ the orange and blue.
- R.I.P. one of my heroes: Dick Giordano
2024-07-27: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
- Bacon and Games is a new blog for video game developers. It’s full of great articles on how to make games better (and not only by adding bacon). See also: Bacon floss
- The Alot is better than you at everything.
- The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”.
- It really bothers me when people argue that marijuana is a completely harmless drug. It’s not.
- “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.” That’s usually the first thing I think when someone explains to me (yet another) brilliant idea for a website. My first question is always, and I mean always, “How are you going to make money?” Eyeballs don’t pay the bills.
- I suppose on some level it’s pretty cool that Microsoft has created a FixItCenter website that lets you troubleshoot and resolve problems with Windows. My opinion, though, is that it sure would be much better for their image if they’d simply sell a product that didn’t constantly require fixing.
- If you’re a gambler, check out the odds on Tebow.
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- I can’t really imagine Tom Cruise in Footloose. But I guess I can see Johnny Depp as Ferris Bueller.
- The University of Florida Gators won yet another national title— in bass fishing.
- The Football FAQ should be required reading for just about everyone.
- UCLA crushed everyone to win a NCAA National Championship in Gymnastics at a competition held at the University of Florida O’Connell Center last Friday night.
- This year marks the first time since 1974 that the Patriots have had a draft with three players from the same school selected, as they’ve picked outside linebacker Jermaine Cunningham (second round, No. 53), inside linebacker Brandon Spikes (second round, No. 62) and tight end Aaron Hernandez (fourth round, No. 113) — all from the University of Florida. The NFL Draft is approaching the end of the fifth round and no team has more draftees than Florida’s nine.
- I have been a Patriots fan since at least ’83, but Thursday night, like Dan, I was instantly converted into a Broncos fan.
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