Posts from September 2009

Breaking News: The Wisconsin Tourism Federation (WTF) decided to change its name to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin.

• Gisele who?
• So you think you can jump rope?
  Ed. This link to blip.tv/file/1816913 no longer works.
• Maxim’s list of 100 Twitter Accounts Every Guy Should Follow isn’t completely terrible.
• From the “I Could Have Told You That Department”: Flirting is good for your health.
• Tufts University: You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room.
• The woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds has died at the age of 46.
• Usain Bolt vs. ESPN employees, 100m (Spoiler? Bolt wins.)
• Dirpy is a website that allows you to convert YouTube videos to mp3.
• Wikipedia has a list of unrecovered black boxes.
• Who knew vacuum cleaners could make such lovely art?
• Snooth is a social networking site for wine lovers.
• Funny: How To Send Email
• I find it hard to believe that Sunset Blvd “hasn’t been repaved since LA County replaced the dirt road with concrete in the ’30s,” but I find it even harder to believe that we’re going to spend $7M to improve it. It’s just about the only road in Los Angeles that isn’t littered with potholes. I love cruising on Sunset right now, while almost any other road in the city is in deplorable condition.

• You must watch Mad Men: Boston.
• And it’s painful to watch, but some of the “creative” artists at my company mashed-up a French golfing tutorial video by someone else named David Gagné to mock me.
• Holy gullible women, Batman! Nine young ladies thought they were on a reality TV show, but were really being kidnapped, held against their will in a Turkish sex prison, and photographed. WTF?
• I can attest that the only valid measurement of code quality is the number of WTFs per minute you exclaim when reading someone else’s programming.
• Are there many things scarier or more disturbing than tongue-eating parasites? I didn’t think so. (via mefi, of course)
• Carrie Fisher apologizes well.
• Need some motivation? Check out the Badass of the Week.