- General Stuff
- Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates is fascinating.
- If you go through life free of bad habits, you won’t live forever, but it will feel like it.
- Top Ten Favorite Numbers
- I guess if hanging out with beautiful women, on the beach, in Spain, drinking, on a Tuesday afternoon, while being ridiculously rich is your definition of “cool”, then… yeah, being Leonardo diCaprio is probably fun.
- When you’re old, you have to have something to give you pleasure.
- So what does all this mean if you’re ambidextrous?
- I read Men’s Health and Sports Illustrated all the time. I never read Time or Newsweek. This is why.
- I can’t see any special effects, but I find it hard to believe that this amazing waterslide jump real.
- Coke vs. Pepsi: The truth about the logos.
- About a decade ago I worked for a company that did “every-other-Friday-off” and I thought it was extraordinary.
- Techie Stuff
- The Smoking Gun catches a loser.
- Apple releases Mac OSX 10.5.8 update. If you have a Mac, click the little Apple logo in the top left and choose “Software Update…” to update your system. (This means you, mom.)
- To keep the Google Analytics code from interfering with page rendering you can use jQuery to load and execute the ga.js file.
- PHP comes with a bunch of functions designed to help you manage URLs.
- And speaking of URLs… Comcast will now send you to a crap spam page if you type an URL incorrectly.
- Gator Stuff
- Urban Meyer: This is it.
- The University of Tennessee has some serious issues.
- Welcome back, Riley!
- College Football Preseason Top 25 Power Rankings: Cheerleader Edition
Posts from August 2009
The Google Segway
Remember the Segway? It was supposed to revolutionize human transportation. Remember the hype? It was everywhere. It was amazing. And now years later it’s nowhere. The day we all finally got to see a Segway I felt just about exactly the same way I felt when I finally got to see Google Wave: It’s nifty,
#FridayFive: Feeds to Follow
View the Friday Five from August 7th, 2009
iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials
If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit your music
- General Stuff
- Journalistic integrity: R.I.P.
- Let’s talk about chicks, man.
- It’s not as exciting as the fact that college football is coming soon, but it is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. Set your DVRs.
- Techie Stuff
- Freelance Apple has posted a funny list of seven “deadly” client questions and how he answers them.
- How To Build an Animated Header in jQuery
- Microsoft details how to port iPhone apps to Windows Mobile. Good luck with that.
- Gator Stuff
- I didn’t realize that Olympic swimmer Dara Torres was a Gator. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, though.
- So Urban Meyer just signed a 6-year $24M contract, and LSU coach Les Miles just got a clause added to his contract stating that he will always be paid $1 more than the highest paid SEC coach. If Urban had that same clause in his contract, this could be some sort of end-of-the-universe infinite-loop catastrophe.
- Re-Tweet from @CoachUrbanMeyer: “My family and I are dedicated to Florida and are excited to be a Gator for another 6 years. Its great to be a Florida Gator!”
- “While other state universities like UCF and Florida State have seen their booster contributions and season-ticket sales plummet during this economic downturn, Gator football is printing money faster than the Obama administration.”