Posts tagged “Jaws”

• Five Quick and Easy Habits Suggested by Sports Psychologists is a phenomenal resource. Read it.
• The DMARC Guide from Global Cyber Alliance is an invaluable tool for anyone who manages email servers.
• An endurance swimmer aims to become the first person to swim around Martha’s Vineyard, getting in the water during the start of white shark migration season, in a bid to change perception of the predators shaped by Jaws. See also: Jaws Turns 50
• I still can’t get over the serendipity of Harvard not realizing they had an original copy of the Magna Carta. It would be very convenient if someone could find a copy of Constitution somewhere soon. It seems like almost everyone currently in Washington, D.C. hasn’t read it lately.
• Long-distance relationships are always difficult, even for KGB spies.
• A Hazy Shade of Winter:
  • Moderna pulls application for COVID–flu combination shot. – via carlbergstrom.com
  • Majority of US states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more to follow. [Maybe parents wouldn’t be so desperate for a way to contact kids during school if we weren’t always terrified of them getting shot.]
  • An AI-generated summer reading list was published in major newspapers. [Tip of the iceberg. Canary in a coalmine. Whatever you want to call it. It’s going to get worse.] – via boghuma.bsky.social
  • Diseases are still spreading, but the CDC is no longer warning the public about them.
  • The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.
  • This might be the dumbest thing he’s ever said, and he’s said some of the dumbest things anyone has ever heard in human history. (And that I don’t even need to tell you who he is because you already know supports this claim.)

• 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?

Jason just linked to an article at The New Yorker with a list of the five scariest movies of all time. I’ve only seen one of the films on the list — The Silence of the Lambs — which I thought was a great thriller, but it didn’t particularly scare me. Cannibals and serial killers are simply not high on my list of Things Which Frighten.

I just don’t see how anyone could make a list like this and not include Jaws. I’m 35 years old and I still think of that damn shark any time I’m in the ocean. Is there anyone in the world that doesn’t? Hell, I think it wasn’t until I was out of my twenties that I could swim in a $#&* pool without being scared.