Posts tagged “dailydavid”

• If you are (a) a man or (b) a woman, you should read Kay S. Hymowitz’ Love in the Time of Darwinism: A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive.
• Fascinating facts can be found with a statistical analysis of graffiti found at the University of Chicago Library.
• I never knew there was a name specifically for the edges of uncut book pages.
• In 1959 the Santa Susana Field Laboratory suffered a partial radioactive meltdown, leading to the contamination of the neighboring hills in Canoga Park. Now a group of Oak Park tenth-graders — Teens Against Toxins — are trying to reverse that contamination with a bake sale. (The cities of Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, and Chatsworth all have extremely high rates of cancers similar to only one other place in the world: Chernobyl.)
• There are literally hundreds of t-shirts in my closet, and I swore I wouldn’t get any more. But I must have this one. (Maybe I will have one of my other ones turned into a sleeve for my MacBook Pro.)

• I’d like to see these foods do battle in some sort of Clogged Arteries Marathon: Deep Fried Butter and Krispy Kreme Cheeseburgers vs. KFC’s new Bacon and Cheese Wrapped in Fried Chicken Breasts sandwich
• Did you think the Super Bowl ads were too sexist? The Google Search was my favorite, but it’s tough to not love the Letterman/Oprah/Leno one, too. (The story behind it is great.)
• I happen to think it’s pretty sweet that the highest-paid employee in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a bus driver.
• Seeing a space shuttle launch in the night sky is truly epic. It’s much more awesome — and I mean that with the full force of the word — than a daytime launch. If you never got the chance, you probably won’t.
• Curious men could count soon count their sperm from home. Good times!

• Check out Slaughterhouse 90210, where erudite literary quotes meet TV screencaps!
• “There are more possible chess games than the number of atoms in the universe.” — from a fascinating article by Garry Kasparov on the topic of playing chess with computers
• If you’re addicted to Twitter, there are a bunch of tools you can use to monitor trends and (your own) statistics.
• Terri Carlson is 45 and was born with a genetic immune disorder C-4 complement deficiency. She’s currently on COBRA health insurance but it runs out in a year, so she says she will marry you for your health insurance.
• Probably Bad News is just like the Jay Leno “Headlines” bit. I saw a good one today: Homicide victims rarely talk to police.
• Psssst! You can buy ten ampersands for $9.99 if you’re into that sort of thing.

• Only XKCD could produce such an emotionally-charged comic strip about the Mars rover Spirit. (How can you not feel badly about that poor little robot?)
• Where do all my taxes go? The New York Times has a great infographic that displays the recently-proposed 2011 US budget.
• You’ll find bunches of (mostly technical) fascinating links if you subscribe to my delicious feed; but in case you don’t and it’s the sort of thing that interests you, check out:
  • All About Cron Jobs
  • A Complete Guide to Regular Expressions
  • The Official Facebook PHP Guide
  • Create Nice 3D Ribbons With Pure CSS3
• Why the iPad will fail and help Windows 7 to succeed is required reading for anyone that is just blindingly stupid. It’s perfect for brilliant minds who also think the government is secretly poisoning us with fluoride and there’s really no hard evidence linking cigarettes with lung cancer.

• You’ve got just about a week to enter The 2010 Lee Atwater Invitational Celebrity Dead Pool!
• Until recently I’d never heard of — or even imagined the possibility of — Sweden’s bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.
• “RENT is so awful that you want to punch every single person that was involved in the face, except for Rosario Dawson …” — from a great movie review
• I can’t decide if I like this article more as a lecture on how to create good video games or as one on how to motivate employees.
• Knitting your Christmas presents? Be aware that it is potentially illegal to make sweaters out of dog or cat hair in New Jersey.
• My company created a slick digital holiday greeting card. (I’m the one with the Florida Gators cap.)
• Heismanpundit.com ranks the Heisman winners of the decade. Guess who’s #1?
• And TeamSpeedKills ranks the 2008 Gator squad the best team of the decade.

• Everybody knows a random creepy guy. Try not to be that guy. (Or just watch out for photo bombs!)
• It would be extremely difficult to not include “cheerleader masseuse” on any list of the ten best jobs in football.
• The Killers have two great Christmas songs: A Great Big Sled and Don’t Shoot Me, Santa. (hat-tip: rogueplanet)
• Speaking of music: It is nearly inconceivable that next month marks the twentieth anniversary of the first Nirvana album, Bleach.
• By storing files outside of iPhoto’s database, you can stay in control and share with other programs.
• Using your iPhone as a boarding pass sounds like a pain in the ass.

• If you thought you wouldn’t be able to make it one more day without seeing Christopher Walken performing Lady Gaga’s song “Poker Face”, I have some good news for you.
• I am completely addicted to Zynga’s Word Scramble2 iPhone game.
• Bank Notes is a collection of bank robbery notes. “Don’t put any exploding dye in the bag,” seems to be a popular theme.
• Here’s one for the 4:20 crowd: The Random Weed Name Generator is a free public service, providing the cannabis community with more than 45,000 unique hemp handles.
• The fact that it is, y’know, home to the Yankees is surprisingly not listed as one of the many, many reasons why the new Yankee Stadium sucks.
• The Bleacher Report has compiled a fascinating list of the Top 10 Reality Show Concepts for College Cheerleaders. They also have a (much less sexy) list of the 50 Greatest College Football Stadiums in the Country, but since Florida Field is ranked only second it’s safe to say that it’s blasphemous.
• Everyone is ready to hang Brandon Spikes for his alleged “eye-gouging” of a Georgia player in the middle of a pile-up. Why aren’t more people up in arms about this blatant cheap shot Nick Williams laid on Tebow? Please.
• SmartFootball has an excellent article concerning the biomechanics of a quarterback’s throwing motion.
• Chris has written a great tutorial / explanation regarding how to effectively use sprites in web development.
• Thesis, the best WordPress Theme, upgraded to version 1.6 last week. If you’re not using Thesis to manage your WordPress blog, you’re living in the dark ages.
• There is no letter O in the middle of the word recurring. It is not reoccurring. It’s recurring. Get it straight, people. See also: “How to pronounce the word height.”

Breaking News: The Wisconsin Tourism Federation (WTF) decided to change its name to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin.

• Gisele who?
• So you think you can jump rope?
  Ed. This link to blip.tv/file/1816913 no longer works.
• Maxim’s list of 100 Twitter Accounts Every Guy Should Follow isn’t completely terrible.
• From the “I Could Have Told You That Department”: Flirting is good for your health.
• Tufts University: You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room.
• The woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds has died at the age of 46.
• Usain Bolt vs. ESPN employees, 100m (Spoiler? Bolt wins.)
• Dirpy is a website that allows you to convert YouTube videos to mp3.
• Wikipedia has a list of unrecovered black boxes.
• Who knew vacuum cleaners could make such lovely art?
• Snooth is a social networking site for wine lovers.
• Funny: How To Send Email
• I find it hard to believe that Sunset Blvd “hasn’t been repaved since LA County replaced the dirt road with concrete in the ’30s,” but I find it even harder to believe that we’re going to spend $7M to improve it. It’s just about the only road in Los Angeles that isn’t littered with potholes. I love cruising on Sunset right now, while almost any other road in the city is in deplorable condition.

• You must watch Mad Men: Boston.
• And it’s painful to watch, but some of the “creative” artists at my company mashed-up a French golfing tutorial video by someone else named David Gagné to mock me.
• Holy gullible women, Batman! Nine young ladies thought they were on a reality TV show, but were really being kidnapped, held against their will in a Turkish sex prison, and photographed. WTF?
• I can attest that the only valid measurement of code quality is the number of WTFs per minute you exclaim when reading someone else’s programming.
• Are there many things scarier or more disturbing than tongue-eating parasites? I didn’t think so. (via mefi, of course)
• Carrie Fisher apologizes well.
• Need some motivation? Check out the Badass of the Week.

• 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.