- 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.
Posts tagged “dailydavid”
- 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.
2024-02-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
- General Stuff
- Oh, boy … This should be fun: Michael Moore on Wall Street.
- Andy took a great shot of some of the smoke from the current SoCal fires while driving yesterday.
- Durex has run some pretty damn funny advertising campaigns.
- If you just got a Twitter account and want to learn more than the absolute basics, you should read this excellent and comprehensive Twitter tutorial.
- Crazy light graffiti!
- Apparently the 100W light bulb is now illegal in Europe. Wow.
- Sure, you could eat a five-pound gummy bear. But why?
- Love science fiction? Take a cool road trip and see all sorts of cool stuff. (I’m going to have to go look for Doc Browne’s house now …)
- Techie Stuff
- Microsoft just doesn’t seem to understand mobile phones.
- PHPThumb, an image manipulation library for coders, is freaking awesome.
- How to Make a Cool Social Media Box for Thesis
- An Easy Way To Get Your Twitter Followers Count Using PHP .. smells like a new WP Plugin to me …
- General Stuff
My dad has posted more gorgeous shots of New England to his Flickr feed.- Nothing is over until we decide it is!
- Suck it, Michael. The Beatles are one notch above the King of Pop for most-viewed Wikipedia article.
- How the hell does a car’s differential work? I never understood it… and then I watched this General Motors 1930s tutorial which explains it wonderfully. (link via Kottke)
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK, Jr.
- Dooce is still writing the best stuff on the Internet. Seriously. If you haven’t yet read everything she’s ever written, take a few months off work and go do that right now. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll wonder why she doesn’t have her own television show.
- What did you think you were going to find at hiddenpassageway.com?
- What’s the business benefit of free bread at restaurants? (AskMeFi is just awesome, although some of the questions people ask can be quite depressing.)
- My wife is sure to be thrilled to see LA Weekly’s list of 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants.
- Yes, you could build your house with LEGO blocks. But why?
- Pizza Hut Fails Basic Grammar, another excellent post from the witty One Step Forward
- Techie Stuff
- Check out these cool grunge peeling sticker social media icons.
- Ten ways to stop spam in WordPress covers the basics and includes a few new tricks I didn’t know.
- Make your Mac prettier with a glossy dock.
- General Stuff
- If you’re taking any medicine for any reason at all, you should read this article.
- Abusive relationships like this one just suck.
- Perspective
- Wired has a great article all about craigslist, if you like that site.
- Whole Foods has crazy expensive groceries, but terrific thoughts on healthcare reform.
- I had no idea that the word avocado comes from the Nahuatl word ãhuacatl (“testicle”), a reference to the shape of the fruit.
- Think that we’re not living in the future yet? Read The bright side of sitting in traffic: Crowdsourcing road congestion data from Google. Or take a look at how you could use your iPhone as a restaurant HUD. And start saving up for that jetpack.
- Here’s your cute kitten fix for the day.
- You can convey quite a bit with just three frames. (The ones from Jaws, The Goonies, and Jurassic Park are my favorites.)
- Gator Stuff
- Bill Belichick presents a stone face to the world, but succeeds in part because he is open to change. For the past two years, the Patriots have run an offense that is all but identical to Urban Meyer‘s Florida spread.
- Stopping Tim Tebow isn’t easy, but it is possible.
- Kirk Herbstreit on Tebow
- Boom! – must-watch YouTube vid of big Gator hits
- “Tim Tebow’s proficiency as a passer and rusher have placed him among the all-time greats after only two seasons as a starter,” according to statistical analysis done by Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel.
- Techie Stuff
- Oh, hey! I didn’t realize you could create animated images with Photoshop!
- Apple did a very smart thing when it priced Snow Leopard below the cost of a typical family visit to the movies.
- Do you use any of the out-of-touch computer terms on this list at your office?
2024-01-15: Dead links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
- General Stuff
- Do you love Conan O’Brien’s Twitter Tracker segment? Of course you do. And now you can follow TW1TTERTRACKER!
- I’ve mentioned The Impossible Cool here already, but the site is worth another visit … even if it’s just to see Connery.
- It’s been at least seven years since I said it would be a good idea, but you can finally now add anything you want to your Amazon Wishlist. (Here’s mine.)
- A gaggle of geese. A pride of lions. Everyone knows those. But what about a conspiracy of theorists? Or a vacuum of bimbos? There are all sorts of collective nouns.
- Healthcare reform: lies, lies, and more lies.
- I love any joke with a very elaborate set-up.
- Electronic Yodeling Pickle
- Happy (belated) birthday, Ryan Tober!
Gator Stuff
- Percy Harvin’s Greatest Hits
- Going undefeated in the SEC is nearly impossible.
- Florida is No. 1 in the Associated Press poll released on Saturday morning, receiving 58 of 60 first place votes (96.7 percent) – the most overwhelming preseason No. 1 in the history of the AP poll, which dates back to 1950.
- “It took Osborne more than 20 years to win his first title. Urban Meyer is going for his third, in his fifth season at the school. … in the past three years the winner of the LSU-Florida game has gone on to win the national championship.”
- Could Tim Tebow be the Grover Cleveland of college football?
- Download the Gator Chomp!
- How to beat the champs as Gators seek repeat title
- Techie Stuff
- SSD vs. SATA on your mobile device
- hurl is a free web-based application which enables users to send custom HTTP requests and view the responses.
- Lifehacker’s Tips to Make Outlook Faster (than molasses)
Gator Stuff
- General Stuff
- And now you wanna be my friend on Facebook? Are you f#$@ing kidding me?
- Just when you thought you’d seen everything odd on the Internet, you stumble upon a website with the sole purpose of displaying people who have wrapped scotch tape around their heads. That moves the one featuring photos of cat buttholes into second place for Weirdest Site You’ve Seen This Week. (first link via mefi, second link via nutkitty)
- VH1 Reality Douchebag Wanted for Gruesome Murder of Stripper/Model Wife: Read all about it at F-Listed.
- Some are speculating that the Beatles library is going to start appearing in the iTunes store as early as next month.
- Flash frustration fun: Circle the Cat
- The 7 Levels of Tailgating: Are you a Champion TailGator?
- Techie Stuff
- Time is nicer when it’s relative. Here’s how to display time nicely in PHP.
- How to Write a PHP Script to Run Shell Commands from a Browser
- 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.
- 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.)
