- Fun Stuff
- Nick Holmes posts cute and funny things.
I’ve always wondered exactly how potholes are formed. Now I know.- Need some cool wrapping paper? Try rapping paper.
- Thinking about the Monty Hall Paradox always makes my head hurt.
- Do you feel like you’re too old to start getting into shape? Listen to Charles Eugster, who is a champion weightlifter: “I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn’t seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.”
- I, for one, am very happy to get to go to Mars. You can go, too.
- Sports
- I love this photograph of a guy painting the hash marks on Florida Field.
- Agree +1 with this tweet from @drsaturday: “I like Tim Tebow but I don’t think I can convey in 140 characters the visceral hate I have for this commercial.”
- Parenting
- The British newspaper The Independent has published a list of 50 books every child should read. YMMV.
- The website PoshTots has a section devoted to luxury playhouses, which cost upwards of $10,500. Comment unnecessary.
- Don’t Touch the Screen is a podcast for webnerds with kids. (iTunes)
- Ten Jaw-Droppingly Awesome Infographics on Education is exactly what it says on the tin.
Posts tagged “books”
Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Books
“In a 1935 piece for Esquire magazine … Ernest Hemingway listed seventeen books that were among his favorites.” — via kottke.org
- I think it’s safe to say that bluntcard.com is my new favorite ecard site.
- Ferris Club
- Few things are as cool as Batman riding a robotic unicorn over a rainbow full of dolphins.
- There was once a woman who had immortal cells.
- True fact.
- I live in Los Angeles, so I am almost always “near” the ocean. There’s nothing like being in Hawaii, though. I need to be near a big body of water on a regular basis. I need it to reset my psychic metronome.
- To promote his new novel, Doubles, author Nic Brown challenged pro tennis player Tripp Phillips to a tournament. The story of the match is terrific.
- Fantastic feline fun for the whole family!
- Is anything sadder than a sad bear?
2024-06-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
How does a bill become a law? A lovely infographic from Mike Wirth Art is a swell way to learn the answer… but nothing beats the original (YouTube).- Make your hidden self a little bit cooler with better Facebook default profile images.
- “These are their stories.” RIP L&O.
- “You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand.” — from an interview with Leroy Stick, the man behind @bpglobalpr
- On June 5, 1910 there were only nine mothers of U.S. Senators still alive.
- Book owners have smarter kids.
- Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (I honestly don’t know which one I am.)
- This is the sort of stuff I love: Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites. I need the History or Discovery Channel to do a special on this!
- Derek thinks he’s finally figured out why everything sucks. And it’s actually kind of awesome.
- @sbnation presents an explanation of the recent and confusing NCAA conference realignments.
2024-01-21: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
Small Vices
Reading a book for the second time
Globalization at Mach Speed
A quick book review
#FridayFive: Favorite Magazines
View the Friday Five from February 5th, 2010
Living Under a Rock
With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet,
Spenser: For Hire
On the death of my favorite author