Posts tagged “restaurants”

• Hugh Hefner: Teen Cartoonist
• Have you ever ordered any of these secret restaurant menu items?
• Congratulations to the Gators, who won their first NCAA Indoor Track Championship this weekend. (It’s nice when the football team has a running back who spends the offseason being one of the fastest sprinters in the nation.)
• A solar-powered iPhone charger is a pretty cool idea.
• Almost everyone I know uses a computer on a daily basis. Almost nobody I know understands the differences between files, applications, and websites. That’s why Apple is doing the smart thing by hiding all of that.
• “Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days, even if they are dummies.”
• The best way to learn about database design is to design databases. It sounds simple. It gets more complicated when you try to design a database to manage gay marriage.
• There are quite a few pearls of wisdom in the 2009 annual letter to shareholders from Warren Buffett.
• Somebody needs to buy me these boots. They are awesome. Size 11, please.
• This was a sort of depressing headline to see in my feed reader: Once-revered South Carolina lawmaker freezes to death alone.
• “Faced with a flood of headlines on an ever-increasing variety of topics, we shut off. We turn to news that doesn’t require much understanding — crime, traffic, weather — or we turn off the news altogether.”
• I’ve been looking for a way to run three displays from my MacBook Pro for over a year now and not found any that weren’t ridiculously expensive. And then I came across this guy running four displays!
• Geek out with this awesome CSS3 Generator.

• 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
  • Florida’s Tim Tebow routinely rejects all kinds of sex requests.
  • We had dinner at The Bazaar on Saturday night. It was tragically expensive — and I’m not really a “foodie” — but I can appreciate art. The LA Times review is spot-on.
  • I love these vintage sexist ads.
  • Yes, you must pick one.
  • Why should underdogs take more chances?
  • Cameron’s dad’s house is for sale!
  • If I’m going to own 70% of GM, why have my last five cars been Mercedes, Toyota, BMW, Toyota, Toyota? Oh, right. Because they don’t suck.
  • Here’s how to seduce a friend who has a boyfriend and otherwise wouldn’t sleep with you. (via Kottke)
  • I love that canyoucopyrightatweet.com is copyrighted.
• Techie Stuff
  • There is an excellent 30-minute screencast on using WordPress as a CMS at css-tricks.com.
  • SimplePie makes displaying RSS in WordPress a breeze.
  • Good systems send email as HTML and plain text.
  • Hashed passwords are good, but randomly salted hashed ones are better.
  • Custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8
  • Here’s how to configure a killer WordPress testing environment locally.

A few weeks ago I wrote about how annoying it is to get an “affirmation cookie” instead of one with an actual fortune. Well at lunch today one of my co-workers got what we thought was a horribly rude fortune cookie. Instead of the usual mindless drivel, instead of even a useless affirmation, the “directive” cookie he received at California Wok read, “Work on improving your exercise routine.” Ouch.