- 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.)
Posts tagged “dailydavid”
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- General Stuff
- 4th of July Fireworks over the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Front Street in historic Lahaina Town in Maui, Hawaii, recorded with my iPhone 3GS
- It took a lot of dedication to spend nineteen years building the world’s best model aircraft carrier.
- Is there really such a thing as a rock star accountant?
- Classic advertising is often quite funny.
- Who says money can’t buy happiness?
- A surprising number of people have survived falling from an airplane.
- The University of Florida announced that students enrolling in the College of Pharmacy this Fall will be required to own either an iPhone or iPod touch.
- New research shows that boys with stupid names are more likely to become criminals.
- Techie Stuff
- Freeware Genius contains tons of reviews of great free software.
- If you want to know what tech articles I’m reading, you should subscribe to my delicious feed.
- There are a ton of free Twitter icons, logos, and badges available.
- iWebKit lets you easily create websites formatted for the iPhone.
- What exactly is a WordPress Theme Framework?
- There is no such thing as “dolphin-safe tuna”.
- I can’t decide which is more fun: The Lyttle Lytton Contest or the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
- Fans of conspiracy theories will absolutely love the MeFi thread on pharmaceutical companies, the WHO, UN officials, the Russians, Barack Obama, and the recently-deceased, single-white-gloved whistle-blower … Michael Jackson.
- Swedish civil rights heroes win freedom of toplessness at public pools.
- I have to assume that the guy in Tallahassee that accidentally sent coke and weed through the bank tube with his deposit is an FSU grad.
- General Stuff
- My dad continues to regularly post some of his amazing photographs from Portsmouth, Bristol, and Newport, Rhode Island.
- When browsing Craigslist you will often find items that are not (quite) as advertised.
- The International Space Station took some awesome pictures of an erupting Russian volcano.
- Trusting your eyes is just silly. This optical illusion should help prove that.
- Some things are just too cool for words. The Illustrated LEGO Bible is one of them. (See also: The Art of the Brick.)
- I think Google Voice could be awesome … if I didn’t already have an iPhone 3Gs.
- CNN’s Cost of Living Calculator is pretty slick. It looks like Manhattan is the only place in America that is more expensive than LA.
- Megan Fox certainly does seem to lick her lips and teeth frequently.
- Techie Stuff
- The Mimo Mini USB Monitor is a great idea. I want one.
- Google has several trillion reasons to want to help you make the web faster. And they’re giving you some cool tools to help get the job done.
- I Use This tracks your software and lets you know when updates are available.
- General Stuff
- I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city in the world.)
- If you post a classified ad, think twice before replying to Mike.
- “I thought he wanted to kill us,” Heard said. “He was so angry and upset.” — Perhaps he wasn’t asked if he wanted to spend the rest of his life in captivity. I’m just sayin’.
They’re a bit expensive, but these trash compactor bookends are sweet.- Fun: Check out the size of these balls! [Ed. note: Local copy of image for posterity saved here.]
- Techie Stuff
- It’s great to hear that the first ever entirely volunteer-run open source conference was a huge success. My good friend Thomas had a big hand in that.
- When you’re designing websites, it’s handy to have a test template to check what your stylesheets will look like.
- WordPress 2.8 makes it even easier to code widgets.
- If you want to target links to open in a new window while still having valid code, it can be done with jQuery.
- Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my iPhone support?
