- There is no such thing as “dolphin-safe tuna”.
- I can’t decide which is more fun: The Lyttle Lytton Contest or the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
- Fans of conspiracy theories will absolutely love the MeFi thread on pharmaceutical companies, the WHO, UN officials, the Russians, Barack Obama, and the recently-deceased, single-white-gloved whistle-blower … Michael Jackson.
- Swedish civil rights heroes win freedom of toplessness at public pools.
- I have to assume that the guy in Tallahassee that accidentally sent coke and weed through the bank tube with his deposit is an FSU grad.
Posts tagged “dailydavid”
- General Stuff
- My dad continues to regularly post some of his amazing photographs from Portsmouth, Bristol, and Newport, Rhode Island.
- When browsing Craigslist you will often find items that are not (quite) as advertised.
- The International Space Station took some awesome pictures of an erupting Russian volcano.
- Trusting your eyes is just silly. This optical illusion should help prove that.
- Some things are just too cool for words. The Illustrated LEGO Bible is one of them. (See also: The Art of the Brick.)
- I think Google Voice could be awesome … if I didn’t already have an iPhone 3Gs.
- CNN’s Cost of Living Calculator is pretty slick. It looks like Manhattan is the only place in America that is more expensive than LA.
- Megan Fox certainly does seem to lick her lips and teeth frequently.
- Techie Stuff
- The Mimo Mini USB Monitor is a great idea. I want one.
- Google has several trillion reasons to want to help you make the web faster. And they’re giving you some cool tools to help get the job done.
- I Use This tracks your software and lets you know when updates are available.
- General Stuff
- I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city in the world.)
- If you post a classified ad, think twice before replying to Mike.
- “I thought he wanted to kill us,” Heard said. “He was so angry and upset.” — Perhaps he wasn’t asked if he wanted to spend the rest of his life in captivity. I’m just sayin’.
They’re a bit expensive, but these trash compactor bookends are sweet.- Fun: Check out the size of these balls! [Ed. note: Local copy of image for posterity saved here.]
- Techie Stuff
- It’s great to hear that the first ever entirely volunteer-run open source conference was a huge success. My good friend Thomas had a big hand in that.
- When you’re designing websites, it’s handy to have a test template to check what your stylesheets will look like.
- WordPress 2.8 makes it even easier to code widgets.
- If you want to target links to open in a new window while still having valid code, it can be done with jQuery.
- Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my iPhone support?
- General Stuff
- My dad has recently posted some awe-inspiring photos. You should subscribe to his Flickr feed.
- Moderate drinking is probably not really all that good for you. I try to explain this to people all the time. Shark attacks and ice cream sales always peak at about the same time, but neither one causes the other!
- Little Wheel is a Flash game that will drive you crazy.
- If you’re worried about the potential for killing your spouse in a fit of rage, perhaps you should invest in an anti-stab knife.
- This sounds like a pretty sweet job: We want to hire a social media whiz (your title will be “Murphy-Goode Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondentâ€) who will report on the cool lifestyle of Sonoma County Wine Country and, of course, tell people what you’re learning about winemaking.
- Techie Stuff
- Font Replacement Using Cufón
- You can configure your WordPress blog to send SMS (text) messages to your readers.
- Any web developer worth his (or her) salt should know these Javascript best practices.
- General Stuff
- Hunch launches Monday!
- Digg this: Give Dick Cheney a Wedgie!
- Interesting news: Antioxidants and exercise don’t mix?
- Now … Go Break The Windows
- What makes us happy?
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Batman’s ride can be found at batmobilehistory.com.
- The Future of Facebook Usernames
- I never knew that anesthesia was first used at Massachusetts General Hospital.
- 30 Rock vs. The Muppet Show
- Christian Bale vs. Kermit the Frog
- Techie Stuff
- How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress
- General Stuff
- Tom Swifties are awesome.
- The Boston Public Library has posted a huge collection of vintage travel posters.
- Simple Marriage has posted a primer on social media that’s worth a read if you can’t seem to understand the difference between — or reason for — Facebook and Twitter.
- Captain Crunch in court: Reasonable Consumers Know That Crunchberries Aren’t Real, Rules Judge
- The funniest thing I have seen on the Internet in a long time is the literal translation of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart video.
- How Listening to a Waiter can Jack your Profits up 33%
- Waste some time watching all the best clips from Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- Superheroes have to go to the bathroom, too.
- Frodo’s Twitter posts make my laugh.
- Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar is pretty much exactly what it says.
- Han Solo, P.I.
- Techie Stuff
- Check the performance of your pages with Google PageSpeed.
- Tired of carrying a bunch of store club cards in your wallet or on your keychain? Use your iPhone instead!
- General Stuff
- Crush the Castle is an awesome Flash game. You will become addicted. (Luckily you’ll also quickly finish the whole game, so it’s not that bad.)
- The vendor/client relationship is often quite funny.
- I need to get about two dozen of these kick-ass CableDrops. (Or you could buy me some for my birthday!)
- The black Crocs Santa Cruz loafer is quite possibly the most comfortable shoe I’ve ever owned. I bought a pair in Maui to wear on the beach, but I’ve been wearing them to work lately because they’re so great. I like them so much I might just buy another pair in a different color.
- I’m GatorDavid on the World Golf Tour if anyone wants to challenge me. That game is like crack.
- Sure, sure… explosionsandboobs.com is a lot of fun. But have you seen explosionsandbobs.com?
- Anything is possible at zombo.com!
- Techie Stuff
2025-02-19: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
- 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.
- General Stuff
- Play it again, Sam: Often Misquoted Movie Lines
- Coffee: looking better every day.
- Old Spock v. New Spock (warning: Trek spoilers)
- If you liked FML, you’ll love MLIA.
- two great blogs about being a consumer: maybeyoushouldntbuythat.com and CuriousShopper (“Public or Private?” is a particularly interesting post at CS.)
- Horribly Photoshopped Squirrels
- I’ve been flying quite a bit lately; I don’t know if I could do it, but these hubwear airport code t-shirts are crazy cool.
- A baffling checkbox at Orbitz: “I prefer flights without screaming babies.”
- Techie Stuff
- Lifestream: easily embed mp3s in WP blogs
- 9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy
- tweetname.com: register domain names via Twitter
- How to Implement Email Verification for New Members
- A cool Photoshop PSD for creating iPhone demonstration examples.
- General Stuff
- Real Life Twitter!
- “Puke in My Mouth” (video response to “Jizz in My Pants”)
- Chart your life with daytum.
- Days with My Father will surely bring a tear to your eye.
2024-01-14: This link is now dead.
- But a bunch of puppies as Agent Smith attacking a kitty as Neo will make you smile …
- Government Once Again Gets In the Way as Jack Bauer Fights to Save America
- Creepy LA
- Techie Stuff
- CrossLoop for Mac means that I can now (easily) help my mom with her Windows issues.