Posts tagged “dailydavid”

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.
  • The sketches on Funny Or Die keep getting better. This week Zachary Quinto (Sylar from Heroes / Spock from the new Star Trek) appears as a convenience store robber who manages to get his life on track… sorta.
  • Here’s the feel-good story of the day: A Portland couple — and their ’57 Chrysler — are still going strong after 50 years.
  • Slate has published an interesting article on how the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting, and why that’s dangerous.
  • I work with a developer in India who frequently complains that Outlook does not display messages from me correctly. He insists that it’s because my mail program — Apple’s Mail.app — doesn’t compose messages properly. I insist that it’s because Outlook sucks. (See also: Windows crashes displays at new Cowboys stadium during Oklahoma / BYU game.)
  • When is it not cool to see recently-declassified video of decades-old nuclear weapons tests?
  • Make sure to read TMQ’s all-haiku 2009 NFL preview.
  • Daring Fireball mentioned that he hasn’t actually ever seen a Palm Pre in the wild, which might explain why its sales numbers are well below their projections. A guy in my office has one. Every time I see it I wonder what would possess someone to get anything other than an iPhone.
  • AT&T says MMS for iPhones will launch on 9/25. I really don’t see why everyone is freaking about this. I don’t really like MMS. It’s simple enough to email something from an iPhone; why not just do that? Everyone was freaking about copy and paste and I didn’t understand that either. Sure C&P is a great feature, but I’ve probably used it ten times in the last 3 months… Three years ago I had a BlackBerry Pearl and before that a RAZR and I was always thrilled just to be able to actually receive telephone calls on them. As far as I’m concerned the iPhone is the best American invention since… well… the iPod.
  • I completely agree with Chris Coyier: It would be brilliant to invest in Red Boxif this was 1997.
  • DirecTV NFL Mobile: The most expensive free app in the world
  • It took forever, but there is finally an official Flickr app for the iPhone.
2024-02-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
  • General Stuff
  • Gator Stuff
    • Bill Belichick presents a stone face to the world, but succeeds in part because he is open to change. For the past two years, the Patriots have run an offense that is all but identical to Urban Meyer‘s Florida spread.
    • Stopping Tim Tebow isn’t easy, but it is possible.
    • Kirk Herbstreit on Tebow
    • Boom! – must-watch YouTube vid of big Gator hits
    • “Tim Tebow’s proficiency as a passer and rusher have placed him among the all-time greats after only two seasons as a starter,” according to statistical analysis done by Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel.
  • Techie Stuff
    • Oh, hey! I didn’t realize you could create animated images with Photoshop!
    • Apple did a very smart thing when it priced Snow Leopard below the cost of a typical family visit to the movies.
    • Do you use any of the out-of-touch computer terms on this list at your office?
2024-01-15: Dead links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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