- I can’t really imagine Tom Cruise in Footloose. But I guess I can see Johnny Depp as Ferris Bueller.
- The University of Florida Gators won yet another national title— in bass fishing.
- The Football FAQ should be required reading for just about everyone.
- UCLA crushed everyone to win a NCAA National Championship in Gymnastics at a competition held at the University of Florida O’Connell Center last Friday night.
- This year marks the first time since 1974 that the Patriots have had a draft with three players from the same school selected, as they’ve picked outside linebacker Jermaine Cunningham (second round, No. 53), inside linebacker Brandon Spikes (second round, No. 62) and tight end Aaron Hernandez (fourth round, No. 113) — all from the University of Florida. The NFL Draft is approaching the end of the fifth round and no team has more draftees than Florida’s nine.
- I have been a Patriots fan since at least ’83, but Thursday night, like Dan, I was instantly converted into a Broncos fan.
Posts tagged “WebLinks”
- Not many things are cooler than Johnny Depp reading a letter from Hunter S. Thompson.
- The Zodiac Killer! Grey goo! There are all sorts of creepy Wikipedia articles.
- The team @Flip has done it again. They are just killing in the video recorder market. Their new product — the Flip SlideHD — is incredible. It shoots 4 hours of HD video and has a touchscreen. (via The Awesomer)
- Phil Mickelson visited Krispy Kreme, wearing his spiffy new green jacket.
- The best Twitter exchange of the year has got to go to Aimee Mann and Ice T.
- I don’t subscribe to Scientific American, but I always grab it in airport bookstores. My favorite recurring feature is the one that details an interesting article from 50, 100, and 150 years ago. So it was with some pleasure that I discovered that the author of one of my favorite blogs, Ironic Sans, has recently started publishing Sunday Magazine. Every Friday he posts the most interesting articles from the New York Times Sunday Magazine from 100 years ago that weekend. Trés cool.
- The towel-folding robot is just more proof that I am going to get to meet C-3PO (or at least R2-D2) in my lifetime.
- Drop everything and go watch Teenage Zombies right now.
- The Green Day rock opera album American Idiot is now a Broadway show.
- After a grueling 58 hours of continuous play, John McAllister of Seattle, Washington officially became the best Asteroids player on the planet.
- I also spend a fair amount of my life trying to determine what went wrong, so I can appreciate a stroke of luck.
- Well this is pretty crazy: There are a bunch of functioning oil wells hidden around Los Angeles. The first one they feature is about two miles from my house; it’s covered by giant paintings of flowers right next to a high school football field. (I always thought it was some funky art project!)
- A few drinks and a little idle curiosity have led to the discovery of a hidden chapel under a family home.
- This is what I keep wondering about Dancing with the Stars: “Oh you mean world champions like Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith and Ocho Cinco, who make millions because of their brilliant hand-eye coordination and ability to move in a rhythm with exact timing and precision? How will that translate to dancing?”
- It has a double penis, is as long as a tall human, and lives in a heavily populated area of the Philippines. Yet somehow the giant lizard Varanus bitatawa has gone undetected by science until now.
- I’ve been skeptical of solar power for a long time. There are simply too many cloudy days. (Not here in LA, but certainly in Florida.) But I’ve always been a fan of wind. [ed: I have since changed my stance! Solar power is awesome!]
- The reason why Apple is going to win — again — with the iPad, is because the overwhelming majority of people don’t care about Flash, software, files, directories, RAM, or whether their machine has a CD-ROM drive. They just want stuff that works.
- Potholes are a serious and dangerous road hazard in Los Angeles. Designers in Italy are promoting the idea of a brightly-colored second layer of asphalt which would turn roads into a sort of skin, so you can easily tell when there’s a pothole to avoid.
- It’s so very hard these days — but so very important — to remember that the email address on the other side of the screen is a real person, a lot like you.
- There is much to be learned from analyzing photos of Michael Bublé being stalked by a velociraptor. But you might have more fun looking at a few dozen movie posters recreated to feature Garry Shandling.
- There are only a few single English word domain names still available to register.
- Grab the Airplane and Go: True Tales from the Airplane Repossession Business
- The Los Angeles Department of City Planning audited itself and learned that it does a very poor job of planning.
- Looking for free WiFi access? There is, of course, an app for that.
- Great idea: Are You An Asshole? (.com)
- I really need to get my tickets for the 10th Annual Kickspit Underground Rock Festival!
- You’ve seen the Periodic Table of Candy and the Periodic Table of Booze, of course. There are lots of periodic tables of things on the ‘net. That’s why someone made a Periodic Table of Periodic Tables.
- It’s Literally, A Web Log: An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word “literally”.
- The big, unspoken problem with immortality is that eventually we’ll run out of room on the planet for any species that doesn’t die. Luckily (?) for us, there’s lots of room in the world’s oceans, because scientists have recently discovered a jellyfish that lives forever. I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords.
- That’s What Bea Said!
- Avoid customer service prompts and long hold times with GetHuman.com. (And, of course, there’s an iPhone app for that.)
- The graphic Jish found depicting a Visual Explanation of Family Relationships is the first I’ve ever seen that made sense.
- If you live here, you already know this: Los Angeles is a lonely city.
- “If you believe what you read in scientific literature, you shouldn’t believe what you read in the scientific literature.” This is (probably) why everything you think we know might be wrong.
Behold! The Periodic Table of Science Fiction!
- Chris Coyier explains the genius of asking for the hard part first.
And if you care about football and the NFL Draft at all, ignore what all the pundits are predicting and make sure to read what Cold, Hard, Football Facts says in A Tale of Six Quarterbacks:
Tebow not only passed the ball far more effectively than any of these No. 1 overall picks (Peyton Manning, Tim Couch, Eli Manning, JaMarcus Russell, and Matt Stafford). It pays to remember that, in his spare time, he set the SEC career record for rushing touchdowns. Oh, and he won a Heisman Trophy and two National Titles. Other than that, he didn’t do much.
But Tebow didn’t just put up big stats … he put up supremely efficient stats. He was more accurate, and produced more big passing plays, and was more likely to put the ball in the end zone, and more likely to keep it out of the hands of opposing defenders, than any of the recent collection of No. 1 passing phenoms to come out of the SEC.
- What kind of drug are you?
- If you have an iPhone and a guitar, you simply must get the Gibson Learn & Master Guitar app.
- James Dean was seriously one badass dude.
- The Japanese apparently have a game show for every conceivable challenge. I never realized that the old “yank a tablecloth” trick was something you could turn into a competition.
- “The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that once emails have been received by a third party, no Fourth Amendment protection applies to any copies.” Maybe this will be the first step in getting people to stop adding those absolutely ridiculous and pointless signatures to their messages.
- Let’s just say that — for whatever reason — you’re the first human ever to make contact with an alien civilization. Are you prepared to handle it? Make sure to read this handy tip sheet so you won’t make us look like idiots.
- Tons of terrific tales can be found at the Illinois Poison Control Center blog. There’s the story of the woman who accidentally grabbed toothpaste instead of lube when having sex; and don’t miss the episode about the boy who super-glued his fingers into his nose!
- 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.
- It’s still early, but I think I’ve found a winner for Best Site of 2010:
Nelson HaHa. - Without a Single Throw, Tebow Rules the Combine
Unrelated Captions are what you get when the pictures have nothing to do with their captions.
- Put your flight jacket on one of these really cool airplane hangers.
- “Inspection showed multiple lacerations and puncture wounds all over the body which could not have been caused by any other attacker than a bottle-nosed dolphin.”
- Matthew David Lopez, 18, was taken to jail on charges of wearing a mask or hood on a public road after the age of 16 years old and resisting arrest without violence.
- The Boneyard
- Apple has a new great section on their site that teaches people how to switch from PC to Mac.
- “Jenny McCarthy is back in Time magazine this week to warn more parents about vaccines and blaming medicine for giving her son autism, even though there’s no scientific evidence of any kind to support those statements, and mountains of data proving she is 100 percent wrong. … [D]octors must shake their head and think, ‘I can’t believe I’m arguing with a chick who is only here because she sold pictures of her vagina to a magazine.'”
- Babies with Laser Eyes is a website featuring exactly what you think it does.
- Someone with plenty of free time on his hands compiled a list of the thirty most important cats of 2009.
- The Mariana Trench is very, very, very deep.
- Do you remember life before Google?
- Make sure to view Greg Rutter’s Definitive List of the 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced on the Internet Unless You’re a Loser or Old or Something. And then take a look at Greg Rutter’s Second Definitive List of the 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced on the Internet Unless You’re A Loser or Old or Something.
- URL-shorteners have become quite popular lately. You’ve probably heard of (or used) TinyURL, a service that lets you convert really long web addresses into shorter ones for use in Twitter posts or email messages. ShadyURL is sort of — but not quite — totally unlike that. It’s a service that takes a web address and converts it into one that looks suspiciously like spam or a virus link. Why anyone would ever want to do that is a mystery.