May 27th, 2009 @ 5:20 pm PDT

Daily David

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.

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