• I love The Octonauts, although I do sometimes worry it’s giving my son an unrealistic perception of the coffee consumption rate of the average undersea exploration headquarters polar bear captain. – via @gatordavid
• How The Netherlands Built a Biking Utopia – via distilled
• Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky (aside from following me, of course).
• There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI – via @rking_618
• This is your annual reminder that the album Sugar & Booze by SNL alum Ana Gasteyer is chock full of fantastic holiday music and you can stream it on Alexa.
• In part he cried because he knew what lay ahead. The families of the dead, the people who were shot, had now been in war, like he had. They would struggle like he and so many of his combat buddies had.
• I joined Mastadon seven years ago — a full decade after I started using Twitter, by the way — and still have absolutely no idea how it works. (Note that I’ve spent the last thirty years building web and mobile applications.)
• This kid’s reaction to Lamar Jackson‘s scramble last weekend is the best (via Ravens). – via @randderuiter

#baltimore ravens #cars #dailydavid #hollywood #music #saturday night live #traffic

• Everything designed for children should be dishwasher safe. Everything. Lunch boxes. Water bottles. T-shirts. Nintendo controllers. Nikes. Backpacks. All of it. – via @gatordavid
• “Only a twisted type of fantasy can see [pornography] in a biblical figure, in a statue that is also an icon of the Renaissance and the most famous statue in the world. It’s not only absurd, it’s a worrying sign of sheer ignorance, in its most literal sense: a lack of knowledge of history – religious history, of Christianity and Judaism, and art history.” – via @italo.americano
• Transitioning to clean energy would reduce the volume and harm of mining dramatically, because a fossil fuel economy requires 535× more mining than a clean energy economy. – via distilled
• The research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.
• The curious case of two Scott Stallings and one Masters invitation – via TheAthletic
• Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs.
• Beyoncé to perform halftime show at Ravens-Texans on Christmas on Netflix

#alcohol #baltimore ravens #cancer #christmas #dailydavid #education #golf #netflix #nfl #parenthood #pollution #religion #the masters

• Street drug deaths in the U.S. are dropping at the fastest rate ever seen, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. – via @npr
• Every time he scores a touchdown, Philadelphia Eagles QB Jalen Hurts donates $5,000.00 to purchase air conditioning units for Philadelphia schools. – via @urphillypal
• I found out this week that I am qualified for so many cabinet positions. – via @msfrancesma
• I didn’t expect a Marvel supervillain reference in this surprisingly interesting article about microwave ovens, but I certainly appreciated it. – via @theatlantic
• Using an innovative laser scanning technique, researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have successfully 3D-printed a robotic hand equipped with synthetic bones, ligaments and tendons. – via @reuters
• Never Have I Ever on Netflix is a scary good under-the-radar laugh-out-loud YA show about grief and families somehow narrated by tennis great John McEnroe. Watch it now.

#dailydavid #marvel #netflix #quarterbacks #villains

• I created a Bluesky account back in April, but then fell into Threads. I think I’m going to try using the former more than the latter. I very much appreciate that you can get verified there without paying for it, and their verification process is excellent.
• Whether he’s writing a television pilot, a comic book, or one of the greatest superhero movies of all time, Sam Hamm always has Virginia basketball on the brain. I loved this story about the Batman writer who hides UVA basketball Easter eggs in his work. – via David Betancourt @ The Athletic
• After a Montana man illegally cloned and bred an endangered giant sheep species, government agencies must now contend with the illicit offspring.
• I’m very happy to report that my cocktail guide iOS app, bartender.live, is still chugging along. If you’re a fan, please leave a review and/or spread the word. (Thanks!)
• The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame: This is the story of how an army of artisans turned back centuries to restore the crown jewel of France by hand, and wound up reviving something even greater than the cathedral itself. – via Curious About Everything
• Ok, NOW I’m thinking a lot about the fall of the Roman Empire. – via @chrisjbrinkman
• “Billionaires” puts the focus on an arbitrary number. Bring back “robber barons,” or at the very least, “tycoons” – via @king_mattking

#batman #cocktails #dailydavid #notre dame #rome #social networks #threads

Disney Music in the 1930s

An old college essay

#disney #essays #hollywood #music #soundtracks

• If you’re bored with the standard New York Times puzzles — or looking for more ways to avoid thinking about the impending collapse of society — Alphaguess and Wordiply are two other fun word games. Worldle is a fun geography game and Framed is a fun movie game. Or see if you can beat my streak of 19 at WikiTrivia. There’s also a sports version of Connections.
• Being a “safe space for both sides” means you’re not a safe space for one side. – via @lingeringperception
• Art Garfunkel describes tearful reunion with Paul Simon: “I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him.” – via @timcarmody
• “I know that you have what it takes to start healing.” – via Coach Bennett’s Newsletter
• “It’s 91 degrees in November… no idea why I’m saving for retirement. At no point did Mad Max check his 401k.” – via @rpgregory87
• The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece – via @mariapopova
• This lovely Martha Wainwright track (from the absolutely fantastic Big Little Lies soundtrack) might resonate with some of you lately.
• See also: “The point of winning was not to make themselves happy, it was to make everyone else miserable.” – via @duckswithpants
• These 10 CSS Code Snippets Every UI Developer Should Know and 10 Bootstrap Tricks Every UI Developer Should Know are both handy. – via Niraj Narkhede

#bootstrap #css #dailydavid #dylan thomas #games #new york times #paul simon #poetry #simon and garfunkel #web design

• “Don’t let your dreams give up on you.” – via @austinkleon
• “The supplement industry is a multi-billion dollar industry built on hype and deception. Here’s an inside look at what works, what doesn’t, and how to ensure you only use products you can trust.” – super informative, well-researched notes on everything from Vitamin D and collagen to fish oil and creatine, – via Arnold’s Pump Club
• “Personally, I’m making a choice to not be fearful.” – via Starship Casual
• “America’s collective decision in the 20th century to make cars and the roads serving them the bedrock of all urban and regional planning will go down in history as just another of our nation’s awful, ruinous ideas that we nevertheless clung to for generations, like slavery or lead paint.” – via kottke
• “If you must read one post-election assessment of what went wrong, [The Daily] Kos’s “What went wrong: Part 1” is worth your time.” – via @zeldman
• “If things really go south, expect MAGA Republicans to devour each other as hungrily as the worm who feasted on RFK Jr.’s brain.” – via @heidiyounggrasshopper
• “You know things are really bad when you’re Kübler-Rossing completely out of order.” – via @gatordavid
• I’ve been a fan of Daring Fireball for more than twenty years, and his How It Went essay might just be the best thing he’s ever published. If you’re looking for a tiny sliver of hope after the election, I highly recommend reading it. (Maybe grab a box of tissues first.)
• And remember, “This is the same country that elected Barack Obama… twice.” – via @geoffbaron

#barack obama #cars #dailydavid #election #fitness #health

I wish I could think of something uplifting or witty to say by now, but I don’t. I’m sure that day will come soon, but today I’m just … tired. Hopefully these links will brighten your day a little.

• Meet Armando Villarreal, the man behind college football’s coolest helmets. – via @theathletichq
• Choose your decade and channel-surf the past on virtual TV sets. – via Laura Olin, who has a fantastic newsletter
• Allegedly, you can now scrub your personal information from Google searches. Here’s how to do it.
• JSON Crack is a free, open-source data visualization app capable of transforming JSON (and several other structured formats) into interactive graphs. – via @sung.kim.mw
• “1500+ free HTML templates for websites, landing pages, blogs, portfolios, ecommerce and admin dashboards” – via @devluc
• Great news for people who love bad news: This year won’t just be the hottest on record — it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accord. – via @scientific_american
• “Vanity Fair hits it on the nail.” via @deirdre.assenza
• Related: “Unfriendly reminder that good people don’t support rapists.” – via @iamayortrightkay
• Apropos of nothing: It’s nearly impossible to be a depressed ball of rage-filled anxiety while listening to Clair de lune. – via @gatordavid
• Please tell me Taylor is working on a “The White House” version of “The Black Dog”. And if she’s not, maybe Weird Al can get on it. I hope it’s shitty / in the White House… – via @gatordavid

#college football #dailydavid #development #google #html #music #taylor swift #television #templates #vanity fair #web design