- These printable gratitude zines are a wonderful idea. There are kid versions, too! – via @austinkleon
- All children’s clothes should have a blank tag where you can write your kid’s name. How is this not a thing? – via me
- “[W]hat’s most needed is not new recycling technologies but stronger regulations on plastic producers.” – The False Promise of Plastic Recycling
- Annual tooth and gum cleaning may be the single most cost-effective therapy in all of medicine, and millions skip this, causing avoidable problems down the road. – via All Predictions Wrong
- Do yourself a favor. Get an Amazon Subscribe & Save subscription to a six-pack of comfy socks. It’s fairly inexpensive, and it’s a great way to stop hoarding old socks. (Set it to deliver them every six months. You’ll thank me in May.)
- The number of Italian same-sex civil unions rose to a six-year high, defying the country’s conservative government’s attempts to make it more difficult for same-sex couples to start families. – via @crookedmedia
- I had no idea the standard movie disclaimer — “Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” — is because of Rasputin! – via @kottke
- It’s unfair that Someone Like You (from Bang Tango’s 1989 album Psycho Café) isn’t more popular.
- Defeated Man Too Tired To Fight New $14.99 Fee On Phone Bill – via @theonion
- “In one hour alone, the sun pummels the earth with more power than the world uses in the span of an entire year.”
- “Look, nothing I can write in this letter could possibly prepare you for everything that is about to happen. I don’t even know where to start, to be honest with you. There’s just so much.” – via @playerstribune
- Big sports moments are when I miss my mom the most. Even little ones. I could text her at 2AM to ask if she was watching two unknown, unranked Hungarian tennis players locked in a tight match on ESPN3 and the answer would always be, “Of course.”
Posts tagged “marriage”
A Last Meal
I am increasingly convinced that a tremendous amount of yin and yang is important to a successful marriage. My wife and I have dramatically different opinions about dining, for example: She lives to eat. I eat to live. If you were to give each of us an hour to decide what we wanted for a
- News & Notes
- Couple married 72 years dies holding hands — from kottke.org
- Jason Kottke also published an epic round-up of all the best stories, comments, obituaries, collections, videos, etc. about Steve Jobs.
- Top Ten Misused English Words — from listverse.com
- 4 Personal Finance Principles That Would Make Your Grandfather Proud — from The Art of Manliness
- Stellar.io is just awesome. Seriously. Trust me on this one. (Let me know if you want an invitation.)
- Apps
- Amazing Breaker is a fun (free) breakout game.
- Can anyone explain the difference between the Starbucks app and the Starbucks Card Mobile app?
- Tech
- If you have an iPhone running iOS5, open the iTunes app on your phone. Click “More” in the lower right-hand corner. Choose “Tones”. You’ll see that there is now a new section of Star Wars ringtones. (I can’t understand how this wasn’t front page news.)
- See also: How to make custom tones for your iPhone — from macworld.com
- If I’m going to get a MacBook Air, then it looks like I’m also going to get a new Thunderbolt display. — via Shawn Blanc
- Incredible macro photographs taken with iPhone 4S camera — from campl.us
- Shit Siri Says Is, indeed, quite funny. (On Sunday I was upset when Siri couldn’t connect to the Internet and was unable to tell me the distance from Key West to Cuba. When I said, “Blow me!” in frustration, she said, “David! The language!”)
- Sports
- Quote of the day: “…it’s clear that marketing people underestimated [Tim Tebow’s] intangibles and popularity.” — Tebow’s Eye Black
- One thing this country has always enjoyed is a good drink. Whether it was rum on the Atlantic, bourbon at the races or that Bloody Mary at Sunday Brunch, alcohol is the American Drink.
Boom! Dexter returns at the end of September. (Don’t watch the trailer if you didn’t see season 4 yet!)- Don’t Eff With Fudgie the Whale, Lindsay!
- I cannot wait to see Bad Universe (featuring BadAstronomy).
- Mister Gunther makes horoscopes fun!
- Betty Goes Reno: A visit to the glamorous divorce ranches of the Mad Men era.
- He hasn’t taken a single snap in a real game yet, but Tim Tebow is already leading the league in jersey sales. (Nike has some cool Tebow sneakers, too.)
- Do you think you can identify who voices each character on The Simpsons?
- I didn’t know that there are ATMs in Antarctica.
- Being President of the United States is probably the loneliest job in the world.
Boom! Dexter returns at the end of September. (Don’t watch the trailer if you didn’t see season 4 yet!)2024-06-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
- Better Marriage Blanket: Contains the same type of fabric used by the military to protect against chemical weapons!
- I’ve been using Twitter since April 23, 2007. How about you?
- I’m not 100% sure, but I think the premise of this article is that superheroes seem to be getting less super, and that’s bad. If that’s what he’s saying, I agree. If that’s not what he’s saying, then I don’t get it.
- It’s been almost fifteen years and the Ike Hilliard Stop and Pop is still one of the most amazing plays I’ve ever seen.
- Nimoy Sunset Pie is a lot like Selleck Waterfall Sandwich.
- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
- “The Township will feature an ensemble cast, including actors Wendell Pierce and Dominic West from The Wire as a pair of successful, well-adjusted real estate agents who occasionally grab one quick drink after work before returning home to the families they love.”
- “When the worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers, trying to find [its] creators and defeat them. The cops are failing. And now the worm lies there, waiting …”
2024-07-26: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
dontcha think?
How embarrassing! If you’re on your way to get a hooker, and you run into your wife turning tricks, what do you do? Isn’t that from an Alanis Morissette song? link via Visual Distortion
Divorce Pending for Co-Author of Marriage book
Divorce Pending for Co-Author of Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work Well … just the headline should be funny enough to make you want to read the rest of the article. But! Good heavens! Did you read the ten tips? By the time I got to the third one I thought for sure it
Horrible Wedding
Brett Patrick and his new wife argued after they arrived home from their wedding, he told police. He had bruises and scratches — and icing — on his body, police said.